Violin Concerto / Souvenir d'un lieu cher

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Janine Jansen & Mahler Chamber Orchestra & Daniel Harding

The Violin Concerto and Souvenir d'un lieu cher are works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, both composed in 1878. The concerto is a large-scale Romantic violin work combining virtuosic solo writing with sweeping orchestral lyricism, while Souvenir d'un lieu cher comprises shorter, intimate pieces for violin and piano that draw on late‑19th century Russian Romantic idioms and reflect a period in Tchaikovsky's output balancing public virtuosity with more private chamber expression.