Tchaikovsky “Romeo and Juliet“ - Stokowski conducts

In 1968, during one of his European tours, Stokowski visited Lugano and recorded a studio concert for Swiss-Italian Television. One of the items was Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet“ Overture. This had run to three different versions due to the composer’s many revisions. In ’The Life and Letters of Tchaikovsky’ by his brother Modest, it was stated that Balakirev objected to the loud accentuated chords at the end of the work on the grounds that they “contradicted the meaning of the play“ and were “inartistic.