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Leif Halvorsen : Souvenir d'un Voyage en Russie, Op. 4 No. 4

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a tribute to Tchaikovsky by the Norwegian composer Leif Halvorsen (1887-1959)
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#4 from 'Hommage aux Grands Maîtres' (Homage to great masters): 4 morceaux caracteristiques, Op. 4 (1913)
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The Norwegian violinist, conductor and composer Leif Halvorsen (1887-1959) - who I believe studied with Leopold Auer - began his career as a violinist and conductor of theatre and other orchestras (he was briefly concertmaster for the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1910s), and later taught violin and conducted choirs.  He is credited with the first original Norwegian score for a silent movie (in 1921).  This piece comes from a set of four tributes to living (or recently deceased) composers of the time: Grieg, Sinding, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky.  It certainly captures the melancholy character of much of Tchaikovsky's piano music and songs, but I doubt if Tchaikovsky would have penned the rather surprising chord sequences in the lively middle section.
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