“I certainly regard it as easily the best—and especially the most ‘sincere’—of all my works,” wrote Tchaikovsky of his final masterpiece, the Pathétique Symphony. “Without exaggeration, I have put my whole soul into this work.” James Conlon conducts the San Francisco Symphony in this most emotionally charged of Tchaikovsky’s creations. The Pathétique is prefaced by two early twentieth-century pieces: Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, featuring soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet (“one of the best pianists in the world”–New York Sun) and SFS Principal Trumpet Mark Inouye; and the Scherzo from Erwin Schulhoff’s Fifth Symphony.