Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti - Tchaikovsky: Serenade and Andante Cantabile / Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony (2025) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti
- Title: Tchaikovsky: Serenade and Andante Cantabile / Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: ABC Classic
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 48.0kHz +Booklet
- Total Time: 00:56:54
- Total Size: 282 / 597 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48: I. Pezzo in forma di sonatina. Andante non troppo – Allegro moderato
02. Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48: II. Waltz. Moderato. Tempo di Valse
03. Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48: III. Elegy. Larghetto elegiaco
04. Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48: IV. Finale (Tema russo). Andante - Allegro con spirito
05. Andante Cantabile for Cello and String Orchestra
06. Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: I. Largo (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)
07. Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: II. Allegro molto (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)
08. Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: III. Allegretto (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)
09. Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: IV. Largo (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)
10. Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: V. Largo (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)
The Australian Chamber Orchestra, under its Artistic Director Richard Tognetti, is one of the world’s most daring and exciting ensembles, renowned globally for its inspired performances and individuality. Celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, with this album the Australian Chamber Orchestra brings their unique energy and excitement to this thrilling recording of two chamber orchestra masterpieces: the Romantic splendour of Tchaikovsky’s joyful Serenade for Strings, and Shostakovich’s dark, visceral Chamber Symphony – a pairing that underscores the breadth of Russia’s unique musical and cultural history.
Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for String Orchestra is one of the composer’s most heartfelt pieces, blending lush Romanticism with the clarity, wit and elegance of his hero Mozart. Tchaikovsky was one of music’s greatest melodists, and the opening movement, after its grand and stately opening, rollicks along with a tune that is filled with expressive beauty. A graceful Waltz follows, revealing a Mozartian lightness in Tchaikovsky’s subtle elaboration of its textures and melodies. In the third movement Elegy, Tchaikovsky reaches into something very deep and personal, without ever losing the charm and magic that characterise the Serenade as a whole. For the Finale, Tchaikovsky reimagines the treasures of Russian folksong to bring the Serenade to a dancing finish.
ACO Principal Cellist Timo-Veikko Valve then takes centre stage for a transcendent performance of Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile. Originally written as a string quartet, the music at its premiere so moved the great author Tolstoy that he dissolved in tears at its beauty and passion. Tchaikovsky, inspired by Tolstoy’s response, reworked the Andante Cantabile movement for larger forces, adding the colour, warmth and richness of orchestral strings to the poignant longing of the cello’s sublime song.
The Chamber Symphony in C minor is an arrangement for string orchestra by Russian conductor Rudolf Barshai of Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet, authorised by the composer himself. The quartet, composed in 1960 shortly after the composer had reluctantly joined the Communist Party, is one of Shostakovich’s most popular chamber works and is the only substantial work written outside of his native Russia. Shostakovich composed the Quartet while residing in East Germany, where he was working on the score to Five Days, Five Nights, a film about the ruin of Dresden during World War II. Overwhelmed with sadness for the bombed city and the recollections of those who lived through these horrors, Shostakovich dedicated the work ‘In memory of the victims of fascism and war’. Its five movements flow without a break, passing through both sombre and war-like musical landscapes before fading into a silence both rich and empty with grief.
01. Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48: I. Pezzo in forma di sonatina. Andante non troppo – Allegro moderato
02. Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48: II. Waltz. Moderato. Tempo di Valse
03. Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48: III. Elegy. Larghetto elegiaco
04. Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48: IV. Finale (Tema russo). Andante - Allegro con spirito
05. Andante Cantabile for Cello and String Orchestra
06. Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: I. Largo (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)
07. Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: II. Allegro molto (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)
08. Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: III. Allegretto (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)
09. Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: IV. Largo (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)
10. Chamber Symphony in C Minor, Op. 110a: V. Largo (Arr. Rudolf Barshai)
The Australian Chamber Orchestra, under its Artistic Director Richard Tognetti, is one of the world’s most daring and exciting ensembles, renowned globally for its inspired performances and individuality. Celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, with this album the Australian Chamber Orchestra brings their unique energy and excitement to this thrilling recording of two chamber orchestra masterpieces: the Romantic splendour of Tchaikovsky’s joyful Serenade for Strings, and Shostakovich’s dark, visceral Chamber Symphony – a pairing that underscores the breadth of Russia’s unique musical and cultural history.
Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for String Orchestra is one of the composer’s most heartfelt pieces, blending lush Romanticism with the clarity, wit and elegance of his hero Mozart. Tchaikovsky was one of music’s greatest melodists, and the opening movement, after its grand and stately opening, rollicks along with a tune that is filled with expressive beauty. A graceful Waltz follows, revealing a Mozartian lightness in Tchaikovsky’s subtle elaboration of its textures and melodies. In the third movement Elegy, Tchaikovsky reaches into something very deep and personal, without ever losing the charm and magic that characterise the Serenade as a whole. For the Finale, Tchaikovsky reimagines the treasures of Russian folksong to bring the Serenade to a dancing finish.
ACO Principal Cellist Timo-Veikko Valve then takes centre stage for a transcendent performance of Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile. Originally written as a string quartet, the music at its premiere so moved the great author Tolstoy that he dissolved in tears at its beauty and passion. Tchaikovsky, inspired by Tolstoy’s response, reworked the Andante Cantabile movement for larger forces, adding the colour, warmth and richness of orchestral strings to the poignant longing of the cello’s sublime song.
The Chamber Symphony in C minor is an arrangement for string orchestra by Russian conductor Rudolf Barshai of Shostakovich’s Eighth String Quartet, authorised by the composer himself. The quartet, composed in 1960 shortly after the composer had reluctantly joined the Communist Party, is one of Shostakovich’s most popular chamber works and is the only substantial work written outside of his native Russia. Shostakovich composed the Quartet while residing in East Germany, where he was working on the score to Five Days, Five Nights, a film about the ruin of Dresden during World War II. Overwhelmed with sadness for the bombed city and the recollections of those who lived through these horrors, Shostakovich dedicated the work ‘In memory of the victims of fascism and war’. Its five movements flow without a break, passing through both sombre and war-like musical landscapes before fading into a silence both rich and empty with grief.
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