Description
The title "Memory of a dear place" is given to this collection of three enchanting violin and piano pieces. The "place" in question was the country estate of Brailov, which belonged to Tchaikovsky's patron and friend Nadezhda von Meck. Tchaikovsky stayed there in idyllic seclusion in May 1878 and completed this work. These pieces were composed very close in time to his Violin Concerto and likewise demonstrate his matchless gifts as a Romantic master of melody. For this edition, the Russian Tchaikovsky specialist Alexander Komarov offers the highest degree of editorial precision, drawing on all relevant sources from both Russian and international archives. Through his research, Komarov has conclusively disproven the previously held view that the title Souvenir d'un lieu cher was only added after Tchaikovsky's death.
