There are few pieces as heart-meltingly lovely as Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings... whenever you feel a touch of melancholy coming on, just listen to this and remember that another human being, in another country and in another century, felt as you did and was reconciled to the world in all its bittersweet glory
I too feel as you do about this lovely piece. It is a true masterpiece. However, as a composer myself I have something to say. T. wrote this piece simultanously with the 1812 Overture: working a little on one and the other. Notice in the Overture extensive string passage. Much was exchanged between the two pieces. We can say that the apparrant emotional content is not from what T. was feeling at the moment he wrote it. T. was asked once about this issue and he said he didn't know why music seemed to express emotion. The most tragic passages of the Pathetique were written when he was probably the happiest of his life. Look at Barber's Adagio for Strings. This inspired tragic piece was also written at the happiest moment of his life. So we can say that the feelings you perceive in music as feelings recollected. Also it is the result of the composer setting himself a task and fulfilling it. Your ideas are a romantic notion not corresponding to reality. Perhaps to Hollywood notions of inspiration. This diatribe is not really meant to be as harsh as it seems. Your conclusions are quite natural and rather touching.
@@polenc7167 Didn't Tchaikovsky write the pathetique symphony the last year of his life after his divorce that he had because he was gay and just wanted people to shut up about it. I don't know about you but that doesn't sound like the happiest point in anyone's life.
I agree with you completely. This is one of the most perfect of Tchaikovsky's pieces and, without being profound in any way, its sheer beauty does have a tear rolling gently down my cheek sometimes.
In his diary Pyortor Illich said he felt every note of this work and so do I and you one by one moved by the completely beautiful elegie and the whole work as well. I love the slight peculiarities of the rhythms in serenade for strings and the gift of melody is a very rare gift as Stravinsky told Robert Craft in conversations with Igor Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky had that gift in droves time and time again.
Dvorak's Serenade for Strings: Light, airy, fun Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings: GOODBYE MOTHER I GO FORTH INTO THE WEST TO JOURNEY INTO THE BOUNDLESS ARMS OF NATURE
This was one of Tchaikovsky's favourite works he said he felt every note much more than the 1812 overture. op.48 and op.49 I think. Pyortor Illich is proof that talent does what it can and genius does what it must. I love the serenade for strings and the Polish symphony no 3 Tchaikovsky at his best in movements 2 and 3
I'm sure you wrote something beautiful but I am only an English speaker so if you don't know English then we have the language of music in common happily
@Giselle5253 No it's not. You can hear the bow hitting the strings and the fingers tapping the fingerboard in some quiet parts throughout. If that's not enough you can hear audible breaths from the performers... such as at 1:50, so nice try buddy.
@Giselle5253 No it's not. You can hear the bow hitting the strings and the fingers tapping the fingerboard in some quiet parts throughout. If that's not enough you can hear audible breaths from the performers... such as at 1:50, so nice try buddy.
Why in the world wouldn't you take 5 seconds to write down the orchestra and conductor? I don't mean to be an asshole, but it's so infuriating to have to deal with this again and again and again on youtube.
There are few pieces as heart-meltingly lovely as Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings... whenever you feel a touch of melancholy coming on, just listen to this and remember that another human being, in another country and in another century, felt as you did and was reconciled to the world in all its bittersweet glory
I too feel as you do about this lovely piece. It is a true masterpiece. However, as a composer myself I have something to say. T. wrote this piece simultanously with the 1812 Overture: working a little on one and the other. Notice in the Overture extensive string passage. Much was exchanged between the two pieces. We can say that the apparrant emotional content is not from what T. was feeling at the moment he wrote it. T. was asked once about this issue and he said he didn't know why music seemed to express emotion. The most tragic passages of the Pathetique were written when he was probably the happiest of his life. Look at Barber's Adagio for Strings. This inspired tragic piece was also written at the happiest moment of his life. So we can say that the feelings you perceive in music as feelings recollected. Also it is the result of the composer setting himself a task and fulfilling it. Your ideas are a romantic notion not corresponding to reality. Perhaps to Hollywood notions of inspiration. This diatribe is not really meant to be as harsh as it seems. Your conclusions are quite natural and rather touching.
@@polenc7167 Didn't Tchaikovsky write the pathetique symphony the last year of his life after his divorce that he had because he was gay and just wanted people to shut up about it. I don't know about you but that doesn't sound like the happiest point in anyone's life.
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I agree with you completely. This is one of the most perfect of Tchaikovsky's pieces and, without being profound in any way, its sheer beauty does have a tear rolling gently down my cheek sometimes.
@@nunyabusiness8498 He wrote the 4th symphony after his divorce.
"Art is in the eye of the beholder"
-Stefano Valentini
In his diary Pyortor Illich said he felt every note of this work and so do I and you one by one moved by the completely beautiful elegie and the whole work as well. I love the slight peculiarities of the rhythms in serenade for strings and the gift of melody is a very rare gift as Stravinsky told Robert Craft in conversations with Igor Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky had that gift in droves time and time again.
0:46 that chord was brighter than my future
Dvorak's Serenade for Strings: Light, airy, fun
Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings: GOODBYE MOTHER I GO FORTH INTO THE WEST TO JOURNEY INTO THE BOUNDLESS ARMS OF NATURE
@@charlietian2074 Up to interpretation. There are some bittersweet moments, but for the most part, I find it very whimsical and lighthearted.
"A big red X... Now that's art."
What a beauty and delicate song, it is a masterpiece
Uncommonly beautiful performance - this is going to be hard to beat. Many thanks for posting!
I love this wonderful piece of art😍
Una obra maestra. *Extraordinaria*. 🇲🇽
26:30 is the absolute best
Nope
@@TheTrispios yes
17:25
All state orchestra cello
チャイコフスキーは、この演奏のように、重くなく軽やかに弦が奏でているのが良い。自然の景色の一員のように、音を聴いている。清々しいと思います。もっと、モーツァルトのように、誇張なく演奏すべき物と感じます。
This was one of Tchaikovsky's favourite works he said he felt every note much more than the 1812 overture. op.48 and op.49 I think. Pyortor Illich is proof that talent does what it can and genius does what it must. I love the serenade for strings and the Polish symphony no 3 Tchaikovsky at his best in movements 2 and 3
I'm sure you wrote something beautiful but I am only an English speaker so if you don't know English then we have the language of music in common happily
I'm from Swindon Wiltshire England Earth 😄 (100km west of London)
8:27 - 9:11
I would also like to know who the orchestra and conductor are. Thanks
17:15 AllState 2020 violin
Zefiro, que ensemble è questo?
Meraviglia di finale!!!
This is very lovely! May I have the name of the ensemble? (possible the conductor as well?) Thank you!
6:45
What orchestra is this, and who is the conductor?
@Giselle5253 No it's not. You can hear the bow hitting the strings and the fingers tapping the fingerboard in some quiet parts throughout. If that's not enough you can hear audible breaths from the performers... such as at 1:50, so nice try buddy.
24:30 C
2:04
Can I buy this recording? Every recording I would purchase has terrible audio quality.
Who's playing?
@Giselle5253 No it's not. You can hear the bow hitting the strings and the fingers tapping the fingerboard in some quiet parts throughout. If that's not enough you can hear audible breaths from the performers... such as at 1:50, so nice try buddy.
@@alexalden24 Not to mention the audience applause at the end...
10:43
Anyone else counting 123, 456?
When played the beginning is counted in broken tuplets, and the rest mostly in 1.
Why in the world wouldn't you take 5 seconds to write down the orchestra and conductor? I don't mean to be an asshole, but it's so infuriating to have to deal with this again and again and again on youtube.
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