Symphony

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth

1 upcoming performance in New York

At David Geffen Hall, conductor Diego Matheuz leads a program that places Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 beside orchestral music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, with violinist Frank Huang featured on the bill. Tchaikovsky’s Fifth follows a recurring “fate” motto as it moves from private unease toward a hard-won, public conclusion. In New York, the symphony has long served as a repertory touchstone for the city’s major orchestras and audiences. Set against Korngold’s cinematic, narrating style, Tchaikovsky’s structural discipline can sound almost severe.