Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36, TH. 27

Shortly after its first release in 1975, it was already a classic: Claudio Abbado's interpretation of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic. "The pull and concision, the electrifying control of tension immediately (...) put it at the top of a long list," Gramophone judged many years later.