Tchaikovsky's Symphony #5 - Hope Breaking into Sorrow!

At the end of fourth movement, Tchaikovsky resolves the music into a final victory over sorrowful Fate. Experiencing the release of musical deeply drawn tension helped me realize why someone would want to listen to it over and over again, as a way of feeling Gospel hope breaking into sorrow, during a times of trail as in WWII or as in the struggle against pervasive compulsions, the Original Sin.

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