Hamlet Overture - Tchaikovsky - Op 67 - SYO Philharmonic - Sydney Youth Orchestra

Tchaikovsky - Hamlet Overture (fantasia) . Brian Buggy conducting the SYO Philharmonic Shakespeare’s Hamlet was the inspiration for two works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: the fantasy overture Hamlet, Op. 67a and incidental music for the play, Op. 67b. Tchaikovsky wrote the Hamlet overture-fantasia, Op. 67a, between June and 19 October 1888, overlapping the scoring of his Fifth Symphony. The idea of a Hamlet overture had first occurred to Tchaikovsky in 1876, as ou