With the final volume of their pentalogy devoted to Tchaikovsky, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich complete their exploration of the Russian composer's symphonies. The Symphony no.3, also known as the ‘Polish’ (1875), opens the proceedings. The only symphony Tchaikovsky composed in the major mode, it was written at a steady pace. The composer did not wish to rush his work and regularly took walks in the Ukrainian and Russian countryside to think about it. It is followed here by another Polish-inspired piece, the Polonaise that opens the third act of Eugene Onegin (1879), his opera based on Alexander Pushkin’s eponymous novel in verse. This vast Tchaikovsky cycle ends with a work commissioned by the city of Moscow for the coronation of Tsar Alexander III, the Festival Coronation March (1883).