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Éléonore Darmon et Éric Astoul jouent Tchaikovsky “Souvenir d’un Lieu Cher” op. 42 

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TCHAIKOVSKI : Souvenir d’un Lieu Cher op. 42
Méditation, Scherzo, Mélodie
avec Éléonore Darmon, violon
et Éric Astoul, piano

Concert du 9 novembre 2013 au Festival SenLiszt
Fondation Cziffra, Chapelle Royale Saint-Frambourg, Senlis, France

Captation vidéo : Vincent Bérczi.
Avec l’aimable autorisation de la Fondation Cziffra

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Souvenir d’un lieu cher

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Souvenir d’un lieu cher (Memory of a dear place; Russian: Воспоминание о дорогом месте), Op. 42, for violin and piano, was written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between March and May 1878. It consists of three movements:

• Méditation (D minor)
• Scherzo (C minor)
• Mélodie (E-flat major; Tchaikovsky also described it as a “chant sans paroles”).

The Méditation was written between 23 and 25 March 1878, in Clarens, Switzerland, where Tchaikovsky wrote his Violin Concerto. It was originally intended as the slow movement of the concerto, but he realised it was too slight for a concerto, so he discarded it and wrote a Canzonetta instead. On 16 May, back in Russia, he started on a work in three parts for violin and piano (the only time he ever originally wrote for that combination of instruments, although the Valse-Scherzo also exists in a violin and piano arrangement). On 22 May he told his brother Modest that it was going well. On 25 May he left for a two-week vacation on the Ukrainian country estate Brailovo (sometimes seen in English as “Brailov“), which belonged to his benefactress Nadezhda von Meck, where he finished the work by 31 May. For the first movement, he used the discarded Méditation, recasting it for violin and piano. The two additional movements, Scherzo and Mélodie, completed the Souvenir d’un lieu cher. While at Brailovo, he also completed the Six Romances, Op. 38, and sketched his entire setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.^[1]

Tchaikovsky had the original manuscript sent as a token of gratitude to Nadezhda von Meck, but he always intended to publish the work, so he asked her to arrange for a copy to be made, which was done by Władysław Pachulski, a member of von Meck’s household and later her son-in-law. This copy was sent to the publisher, P. Jurgenson. Tchaikovsky dedicated the work to “B*******”, which is understood to refer to Brailovo itself. It was published in May 1879, as Op. 42.

In 1880, the Méditation was published separately, and has since become well known as an independent piece. The Scherzo and Mélodie were published separately in 1884. In 1896 Jurgenson published the complete work in an arrangement by Alexander Glazunov for violin and orchestra, and in this form it has perhaps become better known than in its original form for violin and piano. There is also an arrangement for violin and strings by Alexandru Lascae.^[2]

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JOHANNES BRAHMS.- Serenade Nº2 A-Dur Op 16

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JOHANNES BRAHMS.-

Serenade Nº2 A-Dur Op 16

1. Allegro moderato (la mayor)
2. Scherzo. Vivace (do mayor) — Trio (fa mayor)
3. Adagio non troppo (la menor)
4. Quasi menuetto (re mayor) — Trio (si sostenido menor)
5. Rondo. Allegro (la mayor)

Orquesta de cámara Scottish
Director. Charles Mackerras

Serenade (Brahms)

The two serenades, opp. 11 and 16 represent two of the first attempts to Johannes Brahms orchestral writing. Both date from the 1850s, specifically the period when he worked at the court of Detmold. According to his biographers that period was quiet and restful, and yet at the same time composing diabolical first piano concerto, composed some choral pieces and the sextet for strings, op. 18.
Serenade No. 2 in A major, op. 16.

The second serenade was written between 1857 and 1860, and is dedicated to Clara Schumann. It is very striking orchestration: not timpani, trumpets, and violins. In this sense it is often associated with opera Uthal Etienne Mehul.
In 1875 Brahms revised the score for a new edition, usually used today. Some authors have suggested that the peculiar orchestration resulted from this review. Others deny it.
Serenade has five movements and lasts about thirty minutes.

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Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 – Blomstedt/RCO(2008Live): Great compositions/performances

Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 – Blomstedt/RCO(2008Live)

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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Symphony No.3 in A minor, op.56 “Schottische“
Herbert Blomstedt
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 17 10/2008
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, known as the Scottish, is a symphony by Felix Mendelssohn, composed between 1829 and 1842.

Form

It is in four movements, marked as follows:

1.  Andante con moto — Allegro un poco agitato
2.  Vivace non troppo (in F major)
3.  Adagio (in A major)
4.  Allegro vivacissimo — Allegro maestoso assai (A minor → A major)

The emotional scope of the work is wide, consisting of a grand first movement, a joyous and fairly brief second movement, a slow movement maintaining an apparent struggle between love and fate, and a finale that takes its components from Scottish folk dance. The lively second movement is melodically and rhythmically in the style of Scottish folk music, although no direct quotations have been identified. A peculiarity lies in the coda of the finale, where Mendelssohn introduces a complete new German majestic theme to close the work in a completely different manner from the rest of the finale.

History

Mendelssohn claimed to have been inspired to write the symphony during his first visit to Britain in 1829.^[1][2][3] After a series of successful performances in London, Mendelssohn embarked on a walking tour of Scotland with companion Karl Klingemann.^[3] On 30 July, Mendelssohn visited the ruins of a chapel at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, where he had his initial idea for the piece.^[1][2] He described the experience in a letter, in which he included a draft of the symphony’s opening theme.^[3] Mendelssohn and his companion later visited Staffa, which inspired the composer to write the Hebrides, a task which occupied him until its completion in 1830.^[3]

After completing the Hebrides, Mendelssohn continued to work on his initial sketches of what would become Symphony No. 3 while touring Italy.^[3] However, he struggled to make progress, and after 1831 set the piece aside.^[3]

Mendelssohn returned to the symphony in 1841 and completed it in Berlin on 20 January 1842.^[2][4] Although it was the fifth and final of Mendelssohn’s symphonies to be completed, it was the third to be published, and has subsequently been known as Symphony No. 3.^[3]

Premiere

The premiere took place on 3 March 1842 in Leipzig.
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