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Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70

189036 min

This guide follows Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 (1890) in four parts: Allegro con spirito (sonata form), Adagio cantabile e con moto (sonata form), Allegretto moderato and Allegro vivace (sonata form).

Recording: Baiba Skride, Ilian Gârnetz (violins), Nils Mönkemeyer, Adrien La Marca (violas), Sol Gabetta, Astrig Siranossian (cellos) (2021)

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Follow all 20 sections as they play

  1. I · Sonata form
  2. II e · Sonata form
  3. III
  4. IV · Sonata form
I Sonata form0:15–11:20

There is no : the forceful in D minor starts at once, and Tchaikovsky asked for it to be played "with great fire and passion". The calmer is in A major and grows out of the first. The follows, then the first and after it the second. A quick ends the .

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II e Sonata form11:28–22:10
III 22:30–28:48
IVSonata form29:14–36:30

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Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyChamber musicRomantic periodSonata form

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