Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ~ Romance in F minor, Op.5

Bohdan Warchal - Violin Slovak Chamber Orchestra ✩✩✩✩✩ When Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) composed his Romance for piano in F minor, Op. 5, in November 1868, he was already a seasoned composer with a cantata, an overture, a symphonic poem, a symphony, and two operas to his credit. That he later destroyed the symphonic poem and both operas and virtually disavowed the cantata, the overture, and the symphony demonstrates the extreme self-criticism that was to be the bane of his creative life. But whe