Music and Time Annotation << Back Some Peculiarities of Performance of P.I. Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony on the Example of N.S. Golovanov’s Interpretation A. Sobolev The paper covers some peculiarities of performance of P. Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony («Pathetique») on the example of N. Golovanov’s interpretation analysis. He was an outstanding conductor and the recording analyzed is the one made in 1948 with the Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Central Television. Also the author describes some episodes of the «Pathetique» symphony creation history to form the holistic impression about its contents and to place it among Tchaikovsky’s works. As a result of the analysis of Golovanov’s interpretation the author has defined individual peculiarities of his interpretation. Also in the paper peculiarities of the orchestration of P. Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony are covered. In the paper some characteristic features of «Pathetique» performance tradition are described on the example of its interpretation by Arthur Nikisch, Vasiliy Safonov and others. Keywords: P.I. Tchaikovsky, Sixth Symphony «Pathetique», Nikolai Golovanov, conductor’s interpretation, Russian symphonic music. Contacts: E-mail: alexeysobolev@hotmail.com Pp. 18-26.