Tchaikovsky: Children's Album Quatuor Byron

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): Children's Album, Op. 39:
• 1 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 1, Morning Prayer (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:37
• 2 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 2, Winter Morning (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 00:53
• 3 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 3, Playing Hobby-Horse (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 00:42
• 4 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 4, Mama (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 02:03
• 5 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 5, March of the Wooden Soldiers (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:04
• 6 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 6, The Sick Doll (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 02:00
• 7 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 7, The Doll's Funeral (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:40
• 8 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 8, The New Doll (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 00:44
• 9 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 9, Old French Song (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:25
• 10 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 10, German Song (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:04
• 11 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 11, Italian Song (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:15
• 12 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 12, Neapolitan Song (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:11
• 13 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 13, Mazurka (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:05
• 14 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 14, Waltz (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:30
• 15 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 15, Polka (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 00:52
• 16 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 16, Russian Song (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 00:54
• 17 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 17, A Peasant Plays a Concertina (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 00:47
• 18 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 18, Kamarinskaja (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:23
• 19 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 19, Sweet Dreams (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 02:31
• 20 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 20, A Nanny's Fairy Tale (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:02
• 21 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 21, A Witch (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 00:36
• 22 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 22, The Song of the Lark (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:13
• 23 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 23, The Organgrinder Sings (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 01:00
• 24 Tchaikovsky: Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 24, Chorale (Arr. for String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) 02:30
• Total Runtime 31:01

Info for Tchaikovsky: Children's Album

Tchaikovsky's The Children's Album, Op. 39, is a set of twenty-four short pieces for piano solo, intended for performance by children. Inspired by Robert Schumann's children's works such as Kinderszenen and Album fur die Jugend, Tchaikovsky, composed these piano works in 1878.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) was a great Russian composer whose music is characterized by its magnificent melodies and sweeping orchestration. He wrote some of the most popular music in the classical repertoire, including the 1812 Overture, the first piano concerto, the violin concerto, the symphonies, the opera Eugene Onegin, and the ballets Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.

Quatuor Byron

Quatuor Byron
Native of different countries of Europe, the four musicians of the Byron Quartet have met around the Lemanic Basin, thanks to the impetus of Gábor Takács-Nagy. This is why they naturally have wanted to pay tribute to Lord Byron, who was, by his acts and writings, the first great modern European.

The Byron Quartet have started their training at the “Haute Ecole de Musique” in Geneva, in the class of Gábor Takács- Nagy. They obtained there the String Quartet Master Diploma in 2010. In parallel, the Byron Quartet studied in the class of the Ysaÿe Quartet in the “Conservatoire National de Région” of Paris from 2006 to 2008. They also continue their training within the “Proquartet-CEMC” European program. They have had the opportunity to take part to the master classes of members of the Berg, Hagen, Cleveland and Belcea Quartets, as well as the master classes of Eberhard Feltz and György Kurtág.

For several years, the Byron Quartet have been engaged in numerous concerts: Guildhall Ensemble Festival of London, “Promenades Musicales de Fontainebleau”, Festival of Bellerive, “Schubertiades”, “Salle Paderewski” in Lausanne, Tonhalle in Zürich, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam... They can regularly be heard on the French-speaking Swiss radio Espace 2, and the German-speaking Swiss radio DSR 2.

In parallel with their activity as performers, The Byron Quartet is actively involved in the musical pedagogy, by organizing numerous training courses.

In 2009, the Byron Quartet won the Audience Prize of the Chamber Music Contest of the “Pour-cent culturel Migros”, having thus the benefit of their support for two years. The Byron Quartet also benefits from the active support of Proquartet-CEMC, of the Sacem, of the Spedidam, as well as of the Swiss Global Artistic Foundation.

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