TCHAIKOVSKY 柴可夫斯基 C大调弦乐小夜曲 op. 48 总谱 HN 1550
PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Serenade C major op. 48 for String Orchestra
Dominik Rahmer (Editor)
Alexander Komarov (Preface)
Score, Urtext Edition, paperbound
Chamber Orchestra
Pages 67 (VIII+59), Size 25,5 x 32,5 cm
Weight 320 g
HN 1550 · ISMN 979-0-2018-1550-3
Tchaikovsky spent the summer and autumn of 1880 at his sister’s country estate in Kam’ianka, Ukraine, where he sought peace and relaxation. But after a short time the desire to work took hold of him again. “I’m sketching a symphony or string quintet just now; I don’t know where it’s going yet,” he wrote to his friend and patroness Nadezhda von Meck. In the end it turned out to be a Serenade for String Orchestra, which numbers among his most beautiful inspirations and is today a central work in the genre. The four movements captivate with their diverse moods – be it the Mozartian first movement “in the form of a sonatina”, the elegant Waltz, the melancholy “Elegia” or the rousing Finale. For this new source-critical edition it was possible to consult the autograph in Moscow as well as the early printed editions into which Tchaikovsky sometimes entered a number of minor revisions. Clear the stage for the new reference edition of this indispensable work of the string-orchestra repertoire!
