Anton Arensky - Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky (audio + sheet music)

Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a, a piece for string orchestra by Anton Arensky, started out as the slow movement of his String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 35. It was written in 1894, the year after the death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in a tribute to that composer. It was based on the theme from the song "Legend: Christ in His Garden", the fifth of Sixteen Children’s Songs, Op. 54.
Tchaikovsky's song was originally set to a Russian translation by Aleksey Pleshcheyev of an English poem called "Roses and Thorns" by the American poet Richard Henry Stoddard.
At the first performance of the quartet, the slow movement was so well received that Arensky soon arranged it as a separate piece for string orchestra, Op. 35a, in which form it has remained among the most popular of all Arensky’s works.
Arensky also made a version of the quartet for the unusual scoring of violin, viola and two cellos.
The Variations are set out in the following sequence:
Theme, Moderato
Variation I, Un poco più mosso
Variation II, Allegro non troppo
Variation III, Andantino tranquillo
Variation IV, Vivace
Variation V, Andante
Variation VI, Allegro con spirito
Variation VII, Andante con moto
Coda: Moderato.
(Wikipedia)
Please take note that the audio AND the sheet music IS NOT mine. Change the quality to 480p if the video is blurry.
Original audio: • Barbirolli - Arensky: ...

[@geneangelonucal234]

Theme - 0:09 Var 1 - 1:27 Var 2 - 3:07 Var 3 - 4:14 Var 4 - 6:09 Var 5 - 7:47 Var 6 - 10:49 Var 7 - 12:05 Coda - 13:35 Moderato - 14:53

[@aramkhachaturian8043]

Thank you

[@김수한무-u5k]

Thank you

[@faliray4889]

Thank you.

[@aradrn795]

Thank you

[@1LordisMine1]

Thank you

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

Thank you for the music! I played viola in our (very talented) Jr High School/HS orchestra in 1965 Spring Concert. We played this piece. It was a hit. I picked up the viola again after 35 years and got back into it. It was like I never put it down. I love playing this piece on my viola along with this orchestra. The music is so familiar. So Beautiful. Thank you.

[@coasterdragon155]

Genuinely heartbreaking and serene music, which also explores faster and rollicking music. i LOVE it

[@frahan3]

A simple work, yet genuine and full of love. A heartfelt ‘elegy with variations’ to Tchaikovsky.

[@seaotter4439]

14:08 ABBA

[@beatitbeatit100]

Прекрасное произведение. Такая прозрачная оркестровка. И до какой же степени Аренский - светлый композитор. Один из самых трагических романсов Чайковского сделал светлым и только слегка печальным, но оптимистичным. У них с Чайковским совсем разные мироощущения.

[@robinmoritz9163]

9:45 this is bold

[@aramkhachaturian8043]

I definitely wasn't expecting it. But who doesn't like a bit of spice to it?

[@FreakieFan]

Why? Sounds like a fairly normal suspension to me.

[@levicopp3224]

A beautiful work, touching the soul.

[@varsha911]

omg you are a lifesaver! I have an audition using an excerpt from this piece and I wasn't able to find a recording with a score until now. Thank you!! :)

[@thenameisgsarci]

You're welcome. Glad I helped you in that way. :)

[@ricardodel5201]

Is it for GCYS?? LMAO

[@RyanFamn]

+Alpha Axew IM AUDITIONING FOR GCYS TOO, HAHAHAH. I'm Ryan. A freshman at Parkview High School

[@ricardodel5201]

+TheAmazingGamerz1 KSKSKSKKS I'm a freshie at GSMST. Let's hope we can get in 😛

[@RyanFamn]

+Alpha Axew alright it's official, I'll see you there.

[@kniazigor2276]

Très beau morceau de ce compositeur si attachant qu'était Arensky. Mille mercis à thenameisgsarci !

[@chandermohinibhola7204]

Soul Touching Peaceful 💗😍 Music 🙏🕉️🙏

[@李睿謙-d7p]

John Barbirolli London Symphony Orchestra Recorded in 1947

[@66shashin]

Fantastic 😍

[@Eden_Rubin_Music]

Amazing piece of music!!!

[@TwiZoneInc]

This is definitely better than the Tchaikovsky Serenade for string orchestra!!

[@bakeryssoul]

I play this with my string ensemble and personally I think it sounds better with a smaller group. But thank you for uploading a lovely recording with sheet music!!

[@thenameisgsarci]

You're welcome. :)

[@klop4228]

So is it fair to say you prefer the original version for Violin, Viola, and two Celli? :P

[@FreakieFan]

More players in a string ensemble always sound better :)

[@d60944]

Very stylish playing from the LSO strings! Love the tone quality and all the idiomatic little swoops and glides.

[@sfaltrax]

Really nice

[@alistairchew7510]

Very beautiful

[@fuzzyfeet6502]

beautiful

[@paolofranceschi6874]

I ❤ arensky

[@justinxu6271]

Very helpful!

[@thenameisgsarci]

Thank you. :)

[@harryandruschak2843]

"Like" on 14 March 2017, just after today's upload of another Arensky work.

[@klop4228]

I really wish I'd clicked on this two days after I did, because today's March 12th

[@pekkavaisanen6941]

Thank You very much😂❤

[@levicopp3224]

This is the sort of music which the great choreographer Balanchine would have found eminently suited for dance creation. ( Cf Theme and Variations )

[@ellabilge4982]

9:22

[@musiclover148]

I can only suppose that "Christ in His Garden" refers to the Garden of Gethsemane. We are to imagine the mental anguish of the struggle between "Father, take this cup from me" and "Thy will be done." What else could it mean, unless there is some extra-biblical tale about a garden, dreamed up much later on? Modal theme, reminiscent of a medieval carol.

[@gilbertevans7586]

Very good. You're right it is an extra-biblical poem ("Roses and Thorns" by William Henry Stoddard), which was translated into Russian by Alexei Plescheyev, and then arranged by Tchaikovsky, first as a song for solo voice, then as an a capella choral arrangement. Geoffrey Dearmer translated it back into English under the title "The crown of roses", which these days is most often heard as a carol at Christmas or at Easter. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5ixfoRpe9mqeM0

[@natheniel]

nice parallel 5ths 3:03

[@rohanbandaru]

9:24 For future self

[@chloelee4255]

Benchmark 3:30 ayp audition

[@vladimirblagojevic5937]

could someone do a formal analysis of this stuff?

[@vladimirblagojevic5937]

by thursday? :-D

[@motthoos]

Ai too late i guess

[@FreakieFan]

@@vladimirblagojevic5937 How about you do your own homework

[@susanpower9265]

only discovered crown of roses today from Legenda while researching if a rose exists named after Tchaikovsky who someone on internet wrote was a gardener who especially tended his roses/ something i never knew about composer despite watching dozen documentaries and couple of films all obsessively concerned about his homosexuality/ Richard Chamberlain film version being one of the worst

[@tatertot9294]

6.11

[@chainreactionkid20]

I have to play the bass part to this and this is bullshit

[@JVenom_]

ayy my friends name is isac too but he playing violin 1 for lisfa this year

[@krissuckseggs2843]

Isaac you just gotta call it cowpoop and suck it up man, i know the pain

[@paolofranceschi6874]

In few notes, there is all Russia... ❤

[@paolofranceschi6874]

In few notes, there is all Russia... ❤