Tchaikovsky: Fate

The second of two films by Christopher Nupen about the music and the artistic preoccupations of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky explores the composer's fascination with his own fate in the composition of Manfred and the last three symphonies. There are no featured actors, just singers, dancers, musicians and an anonymous storyteller, whose strikingly poetic words frequently come from Tchaikovsky himself.