As well as Tchaikovsky’s famous Piano Concerto, his extensive oeuvre for solo piano also makes an important contribution to romantic piano music. It includes “The Seasons” op. 37 – pleasant playable pieces that reflect a bygone bourgeois atmosphere and can therefore be assigned to the category of “domestic music”. These twelve intimate mood-pictures enable the pianist to plot the course of the twelve months of the year. No. 11, “Troika”, displays a Russian character particularly well, when in November the sleigh-bells and the cheerful singing of the passengers create an enchanting sound. Our edition is based on the autograph and the Russian first edition; moreover it contains Klaus Schilde’s highly regarded fingerings.
除了Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky著名的《鋼琴協奏曲》之外,他為鋼琴獨奏所創作的大量作品,也對浪漫派鋼琴音樂作出了重要貢獻。其中包括《四季》Op.37——這些優美且易於演奏的小品,洋溢著一種已然逝去的中產階級生活氛圍,因此可歸類為「家庭音樂(domestic music)」。
這十二首親密而富有情緒色彩的小品,使鋼琴家得以描繪一年十二個月的時序流轉。其中第11首〈三套馬車(Troika)〉尤其鮮明地展現了俄羅斯風格:在十一月的場景中,雪橇鈴聲與乘客愉快的歌唱交織,營造出迷人的聲響效果。
本版本以作曲家的親筆手稿與俄羅斯初版為依據,此外還收錄了Klaus Schilde備受推崇的指法編訂。