Serenade for Strings / Souvenir de Florence

Album by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Serenade for Strings and Souvenir de Florence are orchestral compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1880 and 1890 respectively. Both works exemplify Tchaikovsky's late-Romantic idiom, with the Serenade for Strings favouring homogenous, lyrical string textures and dance-like movements suited to an intimate ensemble, while Souvenir de Florence, written for string sextet, combines chamber sonorities with symphonic breadth and energetic, Slavic-inflected rhythms.

Serenade for Strings / Souvenir de Florence by Tchaikovsky - album cover

First released: 1969

Classical

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1.
Serenade for Strings in C, op. 48: I. Pezzo in forma di sonatina. Andante non troppo – Allegro moderato
9:16
2.
Serenade for Strings in C, op. 48: II. Waltzer. Moderato, tempo di valse
3:38
3.
Serenade for Strings in C, op. 48: III. Élegie. Larghetto elegiaco
9:57
4.
Serenade for Strings in C, op. 48: IV. Finale (tema russo). Andante – Allegro con spirito
7:37
5.
Souvenir de Florence, op. 70: I. Allegro con spirito
9:18
6.
Souvenir de Florence, op. 70: II. Adagio cantabile e con moto
7:56
7.
Souvenir de Florence, op. 70: III. Allegro moderato
4:34
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Souvenir de Florence, op. 70: IV. Allegro vivace
5:32