Ljuba Kazarnovskaya: The complete "6 romances Op. 73" (Tchaikovsky)
6 romances (Op. 73):
I. My sideli s toboy 00:00
II. Merknet slaby svet svechi 03:03
III. V etu lunnuyu noch' 07:20
IV. Zakatilos' solntse 09:20
V. Sred' mrachnykh dney 11:12
VI. Snova, kak prezhde 12:54
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-93) composer
Ljuba Kazarnovskaya -soprano
Ljuba Orfenova -piano
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Score:
http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/4/40/IMSLP19077-PMLP45038-Tchaik_TH109.pdf
Although Tchaikovsky later recalled that he had been "inflamed" with sympathetic feelings immediately after receiving Ratgauz's first letter and verses, it was not until the following year that he began composition, although a theme for We Sat Together (No. 4) is written on Ratgauz's letter of 26 September/8 October 1892, perhaps soon after it was received.
The composer expressed his intention to write the romances on 5/17 February 1893 in a letter to his brother Modest, but there is no further evidence to show exactly when the romances were begun.
On 22 April/4 May 1893, immediately after completing the Eighteen Pieces, Op. 72 for piano, Tchaikovsky wrote to Modest from Moscow about his plans: "I need to remain here for four days... then I want to go to Nizhny... so I will not be home before 30 April [O.S.]. And on 10 May [O.S.] I must, without fail, leave for abroad... probably, on the 3rd [O.S.] I shall be in Saint Petersburg. And manage to compose some romances as well".
After composing the Op. 72 pieces. Tchaikovsky embarked on a conducting tour. From 22 April/4 May he spent five days in Moscow. and on 27 April/9 May he attended the premiere of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s opera Aleko at the Bolshoi Theatre. On 28 April/10 May Tchaikovsky left for Nizhny Novgorod, where he spent two days before returning to Moscow on 2/14 May, and then Kiev, where he stayed from 3/15 to 5/17 May. He had intended to leave for Saint Petersburg on 4/16 May and then to travel abroad on 5/17 May, as soon as he had written the romances. On this day (5/17 May), Tchaikovsky wrote to Pyotr Jurgenson: "I purposely allowed myself some free days at home, so that I could manage to copy out one more opus, namely six romances. Aleksey will bring them to you in a few days". On the same day the composer informed Danyl Ratgauz that he had finished the romances: "I have just written six romances on your poems". Another letter to the same recipient contains Tchaikovsky's only judgement on his latest romances: "I don't know what the fate of ourromances will be, but I know that I wrote them with great pleasure". Ratgauz replied with warm thanks and sent the composer eight more verses, which the composer did not use.
Source and more information: http://wiki.tchaikovsky-research.net/wiki/Six_Romances,_Op._73
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