Ljuba Kazarnovskaya: The complete "6 romances Op. 63" (Tchaikovsky)

6 romances (Op. 63):
I. Ya snachala tebya ne lyubil 00:00
II. Rastvoril ya okno 02:13
III. Ya vam ne nravlyus' 04:13
IV. Pervoye svidaniye 06:02
V. Uzh gasli v komnatakh ogni 09:31
VI. O, ditya! pod okoshkom tvoim 12:20

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-93) composer
Ljuba Kazarnovskaya -soprano
Ljuba Orfenova -piano

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Score:
http://petrucci.mus.auth.gr/imglnks/usimg/9/9b/IMSLP19075-PMLP45033-Tchaik_TH107.pdf

Writing to Konstantin Konstantinovich on 29 January/10 February 1887. Tchaikovsky declared his intention of begin work on the romances after he had completed the orchestration of the opera The Enchantress. On 15/27 December 1887. the composer told him: "I have recently written six romances on texts by the poet K. R., who is so appealing and full of lively poetic feeling. I wrote them in particularly unfavourable conditions, and I fear that the romances may not please you... The romances are presently being engraved". In another letter he wrote: "I fear only that you will consider them (as unfortunately seems to be the case) much weaker than my previous romances".

Six months later, Tchaikovsky wrote about the origins of the romances: "I recall that I wrote them after the production of The Enchantress, whose lack of success greatly upset me; besides this I had a big foreign tour ahead of me, which worried me terribly. In other words, I was not in the right frame of mind to work successfully. I did not want to put off composing music to your texts any longer because I had assured you I would do so considerably earlier. As a result the romances I produced were not particularly successful, when I wanted so much for them to turn out well".

Source and more information: http://wiki.tchaikovsky-research.net/wiki/Six_Romances,_Op._63

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