Tchaikovsky: Serenade ... - Baltic Chamber Orchestra - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings Op.48 is an album by Baltic Chamber Orchestra / Emmanuel Leducq-Barome, released in 2022. The album is a classical CD.

The centerpiece of this Tchaikovsky program is the famous Serenade for Strings Op.48. It was composed in September and October 1880, freely and without commission, a response – so Tchaikovsky wrote to his patron, Nadezdha von Meck – to feeling ‘somewhat restless and unwell.’ He said that the Serenade arose from an innate impulse ‘having the freedom to think’, as he wrote, and to his publisher Jurgenson: ‘I love this Serenade terribly..’ The premiere was given at a surprise concert for Tchaikovsky at the end of 1880 at the Moscow Conservatoire – the orchestra made up of students and professionals – and was first heard publicly the following year, since when it has become arguably the most popular of all works for string orchestra. Especially the Waltz gained “Music for the Millions” fame.

The other works on this disc present some rarities: the Melodrama Snow Maiden Op.12, the String Quartet Op posth. in B-flat minor arranged by Nikolai Brucher, Elegy to the Memory of J. Samarin, and the String Quartet Op.30 - III. Andante Funebre e Doloroso, arranged by Alexander Glazunov.

The Baltic Chamber Orchestra is made up of soloists of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and was formed by the conductor Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme and the violinist Lev Klychkov early in the year 2000.

Label: Brilliant Classics | Origin: Holland

📌 .. For Strings Op.48