Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings Op. 48 (Score)
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48, composed in 1880.
Tchaikovsky wrote in his own score ‘The larger number of players in the string orchestra, the more this shall be in accordance with the author’s wishes’, so maybe even without the huge reinforcements of his 1812 Overture, he did want as grand a sound as possible for his Serenade for Strings.
00:00 1. Pezzo in forma di Sonata
09:34 2. Valse
13:30 3. Élégie
22:09 4. Finale (Tema Russo)
Performed by 'A Far Cry' Ensemble
The score used in this video is in the public domain, and was downloaded from imslp.org. :)
The audio used was also downloaded from imslp.org, and has been kindly distributed by the ensemble under a Creative Commons 4.0 license.
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*Timecodes*
00:00 1. Pezzo in forma di Sonata
09:34 2. Valse
13:30 3. Élégie
22:09 4. Finale (Tema Russo)
Hope you enjoy! Thank you :)
Thanks.
1:50 Allegro moderato
15:03 Poco piu animato
23:24 Allegro con spirito
"so how many dynamic markings do you want?"
tchaik: да
I can't express how much this made me laugh, thank you, you made my day
@@Tribelia ahahaha you're welcome :)
I guess that means "da"?😂
Gloria R-M I don't get it. Do you think the number dynamic markings is excessive? I'd say not at all!!
@@davidsanderson5918 no one said it was excessive. i was just making a joke about the fact that it was a lot. and you just happened to get whooshed, mate.
One of Tchaikovsky's finest works
Oh hello there
@Shiro Yeah I'm waiting for it lol
I agree. I used to listen to this in college in my car for days straight, wherever I drove
Mashup
I hope you use this for a mashup lol
The opening theme from the first movement is one of my favorite passages in all of Western Classical music. It’s so glorious!
can you recommend me others like this please?
@@elohimx2 bach's orchestral suites
As a violist myself, hearing the violas playing the melody so warm, colourful and graceful in Élégie really struck a cord in my heart 🥺❤️ this piece as a whole is so beautiful and a work of art
Viola gang
Tchaikovsky seemed to love violas ♥️
Viola? Melody? Where?
We always get the spotlight in elegies. Its nice.
@@emilyberry360 W/ Cello from 15:31 to 15:57 and by ourselves starting from 16:54
My orchestra is gonna be playing this soon and I'm so excited!!!!
Same, I'm playing all of it T^T
sameeeeeeeeeee
It's the evil within 2
Same here :D! Let’s create a hashtag where orchestras can join in with new recordings:)! #tchaikovskystringserenade
Lucky all! Which country are you in? in Melbourne Australia we are still in stage 4 lockdown so no live ensemble music making until at least mid of next year, or later 😔
Keep well, keep safe, keep musical!
At 2:29 I guess Tchaikovsky decided that his piece didn't have a difficult enough cello part already, and added in these nightmare chords from hell.
Lol that's my chamber audition for high school
We have a week to prepare
those aren't actually hard the hard part about that passage is the string crossing, getting them clean and having every note speak. the double stops there aren't awkward or weird, they are actually nicely written for cello.
@@gracethompson3890 At Julliard we were expected to sight read it.
@@Chompchompyerded that's so cool! You guys must have incredible attention to detail,
This piece is known to be one of Tchaikovsky's favorite works, and it is easy to see why knowing his own musical taste. There are various, vague references to Mozart's style; its youthful exuberance and late 18th-century structure. After all, Mozart wrote many serenades, albeit very different in instrumentation and length (most were earlier symphonic works, others were for wind ensembles. The only serenade remotely similar to this one is Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.) However, Tchaikovsky doesn't just copy Mozart's style, he emulates it in a way where his own (accomplished) voice as a composer can shine brightly in this charming and heartfelt work. The élégie is one of the greatest movements he ever wrote.
Sir, you are correct about the elegie. It is his greatest slow movement and yes, one of his greatest creations...the gorgeous counterpoint and that haunting ending just gives me chills...in his best music there is this cool restraint not always on display in some of his later works. Thank you for saying it. It is so vastly underrated. I'm reminded of the two wonderful slow movements in his 3rd symphony that rescue an otherwise very ordinary score. I have such fondness and nostalgic soft spot for this work.
I dare to disagree. Yes, this is more in Viennese classicism style, but this is not his best work, because there's no beautiful melodies like in ballet music, in piano and violin concertos .
I'm actually working on this piece of music right now for my high school festival performance and might i say it is really complex but it's such a pretty work of art
I believe this intuitively, but not it's not convincing enough argument. More information needed.
Nobody:
1st Mvt: *_haha C Major scale go brrr_*
Tchaikovsky and Edvard Grieg were close friends. There is a clear influence of this work on Griegs work "Fra Holbergs tid", the famous suite written for string orchestra for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ludvig Holberg, a Norwegian/Danish writer, philosopher and history professor born in Griegs hometown Bergen in 1684.
So if i hear the anger in slayer
.........then what.
Isn't it originally a piano suite?
@@bennyksmusicalworld968 While it was indeed originally a piano suite, it was arranged for string orchestra by the composer a year later, and is thus best known and mostly performed as a suite for strings
3 years ago I listened to this song all the time.. hearing it now brings my mind to a relaxed tranqulity, I didnt know I needed again. Music can truly be stunning sometimes.
Frog Stranger totally agreeing with everything you’ve said. All but this not being a song.. this is a piece 🤷🏻♂️
@@adamchenadamov yeah, ok. I usually dont listen to classic. I didnt really know, that you use a different term for this type of music. Aight, thanks
@@rjdoroshewitz7651 icy
Ok it's a P I E C E not a song
This is one of my top ten songs.
This is my all time favourite Tchaikovsky work,and well performed.
Good choice. It was one of his favorites, too.
“Beautiful! Like a bouquet of flesh and blood!” - Stefano V
Yeah
Oh yeah
0:46 that chord was brighter than my future
i get so turnt up listening to this...i cry.....i'm a cellist and vocalist...i miss playing in orchestra...just so beautiful!
xD
Just C major, buddy
@@OlesSmaha oof level high
That chord was brighter than all of our futures
This and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence are some of my all time favorite pieces.
That’s a great piece too!
Incredible! Only at the age of 61 did I discover this piece!
But better late than never.
a million times have people now indulged in this masterpiece, tchaikovsky would surely be happy if he knew about this
The first time I heard this music was from my baptismal god-father in a church choir. I did not forget that music, and am now 68 and I'm still in love with it...forever! Everyone be blessed.
A mere child you are. I hope you have at least three more decades to listen to it! Unfortunately I am older and have a few less.
Thanks for uploading the full recording!💗✨
09:34 is beautiful
My favorite part of this great work is most definitely the opening few bars.
i played this with my orchestra during my junior year of hs for our all-state performance, easily one of my favorite pieces of all time 🥺
Were you in philharmonic?
Did you know this music is used in a game as a villain's theme?
@@alanmorris4896 come again?
These adagios and serenades are so moving--thank you so much for your work in uploading.
I danced to this in a ballet recital back in the 90s. It was a big deal because it was my first pointe number in a pancake tutu. When I heard it in Squid Game I was brought right back to that moment. I love moments like that! Such a gorgeous piece of music.
@Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Oops! Edited the misspelling. The valse is used several times in SG. 😊
I heard this on the radio today and was mesmerized by it yet also embarrassed that I never heard it before! It is so beautiful and I am grateful I didnt miss out on hearing it in this lifetime !! Thank you for sharing it!
I always come back to this piece, is a recharge to my soul.
By far my favorite Tchaikovsky work. It makes excellent road trip music.
If any of you fans out there have never seen the world famous neo-classical ballet masterpiece of George Balanchine, it is a must see. Balanchine’s choreographic treatment for this music changed the face of classical dance for the next 80 years and counting.
The ballet is known simply as Serenade. Look it up
Nobody could tell stories with his music like him! A truly magnificent work.
This composer just grabs at our heart all the time...and here in this totally heartfelt work....a genius.
One of my favorite pieces by Tchaikovsky!! Tcahikovsky is awesome!!
Utterly sublime. Tchaikovsky at his best. Not a wrong-foot anywhere. Glorious.
My orchestra used this as the entry piece for our Chamber orchestra. This video helped a lot.
It's a beautiful piece. Thanks for sharing.
This is such an exquisite performance. I love how sensitive and expressive this ensemble is- they know how and where to take their time and where to let the music flow. And ugh the waltz, it just sounds so graceful and nimble, like someone dancing on tip toes, as it should be! Love it!
....and easily detect the Giant's reverence for Mozart....the delicacy and restraint in the fact of overbrimming emotion. Greetings from San Agustiillo!
@@steveegallo3384 Love the way you put it - "delicacy and restraint in the fact of overbrimming emotion." Well-said! That way you get the moments of yearning and the gushes which satiate the soul
His Serenade makes me very relaxed. Especially the second mvt, Valse makes me very relaxed and also concentrate.
This is one of my favorite works Tchaikovsky has done
0:01
(3:23)
9:35
(11:26)
13:29
(15:29)
22:08
(24:23)
(26:14)
This piece just shows that Tchaikovsky is definitely my favorite composer
without a doubt this is the best work .. in the world for chamber orchestra! ...
Tchaikovsky compositions are literally singing out loud he made those instruments perform their utmost so passionate, so dynamic! Master of melodies none other than Tchaikovsky 💯👏🔥💥
Wonderful idea, this channel of videos like this! Great to be able to follow along with the music! (Denison University orchestra recently performed this and I wanted to hear it again and, wow, so cool to be able to see the music, too! Thank you for posting!! 😃
Thanks for uploading!
someone finally did it (posted the first movement, cause we only had 2, 3, and 4 online lmao)
Normal people hearing this masterpiece:
wow!
The Evil Within 2 Veterans hearing this masterpiece:
haha, i'm in danger
Lol
That's funny.
Yeah, very true.
Même dans des œuvres plus modestes, Tchaïkovsky demeure un très grand compositeur.
My first encounter with this piece was at age 10 or 12 when I picked it up on CBC Radio played by the London Symphony orchestra directed by Igor Markevitch. It stayed in my memory since then.
Ommgggg i'm so happy i can hear the bass part for this!!!!!!
The absolute best music for a peaceful morning with sunlight! :D
Or for a hit on a Mafia-owned bistro. : )
Chamber Orchestra + This piece + Online Learning = oh no
right there with you
My orchestra too lmao
That's why I stepped down from Chamber this year.
My violin teacher sent me here, he told me he got chills every time he listened to this piece
I am forever grateful, it is indeed a masterpiece 😁😍
Played this in college! (Viola) when I hear these songs I miss it so!
This is great addition for the string quintet (string quartet + bass) repertoire, thanks tchaikovsky
I'm facinated by the face that every song ever made can be covered into jazz and sound great.
Thank you so much! I have an audition coming up soon where I need to play a small excerpt of this and this video really helped me understand it more which made it easier to practice!!
I clocked on this video thinking, oh new music to feast on, joyous. Then I heard the first six notes && I was like IVE HEARD THIS BEFORE!!
SO beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who is here after listening to Stefano's Theme?
Hi :)
Lol me
Me too !
El mejor melodista de todos los tiempos. Thumbs uop. Hats off...
I'm going to be doing Balonchine's ballet to this beautiful piece. Truly a work of art.
Lol I just realized how difficult the cellos have it.
A beautiful and simple serenade, for strings, in C major. That simple and that sublime.
I am a violist in an amateur orchestra and have perfect pitch. There are challenging semiquaver runs and very high notes for the first violins. Some of the passages are divisi. I like the major first inversion chords at the beginning (C chord with the E in the bass - wow!)
This piece was once performed by Hannu Lintu, the Finnish conductor, conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 11, 2018. I remember because we were there :)
Anyone here playing The Within 2, This is Stefano Music :)
Yes👌😂🖤
Yes
So happy I got the opportunity to play this in 7th grade. Still one of my favorite concerts I've ever given.
00:00 Pezzo in forma di Sonata
09:34 Squid game
13:30 Élégie
22:09 Finale (Tema Russo)
;)
Only OG’s know that 09:34 is from GTA San Andreas
@@AlMazrahHostileSoldier hell yeah
@Fjishylol in the Saint marks bistro mission where you go to LC to take out Marco Forelli
09:34 Spider-Man 3 Kingpin boss battle
Kingpin: *I'll* *teach* *you* *some* *manners.*
Appreciate the art!
This is the MOST FUN I've had following a score with a piece in years!! The final movement especially.
It's pretty much perfect as a performance except I didn't think some of the bowed trems came through in the recording. At a couple of points it doesn't sound like they did them. On a compositional level, I wonder why Tchaikovsky only decided to have those triplet bowed trems in the violins. Why didn't he have them in rhythmic unison throughout the ensemble leading to the big finish? Just a query, sir!!
Super nice ensamble :)
oh my god, i love it !
I love the forth movement
ugh this piece fulfills me
26:30 is my fav line ever
it was fun to play too
@@PaperTowelRoll I remember. I had the first violin part. :)
@@Tysmizzy10 i played viola on this, my favorite parts had to be the notes after the descending notes at 26:33 because of how powerful it felt playing it and the molto meno moso because of how emotional and dramatic it can sound
@@PaperTowelRoll the viola? iNTeresTing!
@@PaperTowelRoll mine has got to be 26:41 because playing with the seconds and having a really cool melody.
a greatly-underrated work as it is not the usual Tchaikovsky work with rich orchestral coloration. For an analogue, think of Brahms' two string sextets
While he wrote more profound and emotional works later in life, this is, in my opinion, one of his most perfect pieces. Just fits together really well, with no issues at all. His later symphonies are amazing too, but (especially no. 5) are a bit rough around the edges sometimes, as with his concerti. This, on the other hand - I can't find any problems with it at all. Not that I'm looking :P
I absolutely love Serenade for Strings, but I’m partial to his string sextet Souvenir de Florence, especially the 2nd and 4th movements. Also, I think the reason I love the 5th symphony so much is because it’s imperfect, its character is human. It’s said Tchaikovsky himself was the “hero” of his own symphonies, which makes sense because he thoroughly poured his heart and soul into each one.
@@thesilvershining I absolutely agree. The Souvenir de Florence is another of the 'no-issues' pieces.
The fifth Symphony, I'll mostly agree with, too, but for me the beginning of the coda (the two bars of accompaniment before the big theme comes back) do somewhat ruin the piece for me. Without those two bars it's probably my favourite work by the man - though, again, admittedly, not in my opinion, his best. :P
Oh, my university's sinfonietta is going to rehearse this piece during the semester!
Peter Hawks it’s a really fun piece. I got to play it with my high school orchestra. I hope it goes well for you 🙂
Fantastic performance. I love you all. Thank you. X
9:36 used to fill me with such joy. Another waltz surprise surprise.
Un excelente serenade uno de los que más me a costado, y además de eso uno de los que mas me gustan , y e notado que lo han incluído en un juego como música de fondo para un ambiente de batalla/supervivencia, la verdad una excelente canción
Damn, no wonder why it seemed so familiar! This (the 1st movement) our secondary school orchestra tried to play but nope (totally beyond our level). Yet we played it for a long while, and the opening is simply glorious (the whole tune too!)
0:49 Ah, my favorite part about playing this song freshman year: the copious amounts of rests
love this piece
Nice piece!
Thank you!
One of my Favorites to play!
素晴らしい！！！！！！
Amazing！！！
素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます！😍😍😍😍😍😍
The pizzicato is beautiful
im playing this on my record player in my room and it sounds amazing
very tastefully performed!
Tchaikovsky the king melodist, beautiful.
I like the fact that it goes back to the 1st movement theme at the end of the 4th movement
I listen to this because of its beauty and because it is actually in tune
as a violist, this will forever be my favorite pieces i’ve ever played
Such beauty
Fantástico ! Me encanta , D.E.P. Jimmy Turner (5/8/59 - 3-3-2021)
Cellos at 2:30 ... it's hard but it's worth it - such great music! Doing the first movement in a school concert in a few weeks.
Thanks for this great upload! Nice to see the score, gives an insight into the other parts.
I hope the concert will go/went well! ...if it happened with all of this corona stuff that is:( (if it got cancelled, I am so sorry! There’s nothing like getting a musical performance taken away). Last semester some of the members of my orchestra volunteered to play the first movement. Our director really didn’t give us much time, so we weren’t as prepared as we had hoped :(. We ended up cutting out a bunch of the redundant parts to ease the burden. It was still tons of fun though!
Luckily this concert happened before the lockdown began, and it went pretty well, thanks, but several others have been postponed :( Definitely the right thing to do mind...
Glad your concert was fun too. It's always... interesting when you don't have enough preparation time!
"A big Red X... Now that's art"
so Hold X to Pay Respects
This video was uploaded on my birthday :D
Happy belated birthday!
a great piece to remind me of a person
Stefano Valentini 😏
13:04 is so simple yet beautiful
Extraordinaria composición
Simply a masterpiece