Folk Dance painting Photo: Lebedev, Public Domain
Composed in 1872 during an idyllic vacation at Tchaikovsky's sister's villa in the Ukraine (then known, at least to Russians, as 'Little Russia'), much of the symphony's musical material comes from Ukrainian folksongs taught to him by the estate's butler.
Recorded on 20 June 2015 at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Concert
