· level of difficulties: medium · 3 pieces: two melancholy Russian movements frame a merry scherzo · first ever Urtext edition · edited by Tschaikowsky-expert Alexander Komarov · perfect readability of the solo parts on fold-out pages · for advanced students Alexander Komarov (Editor) Klaus Schilde (Fingering) Ingolf Turban (Fingering and bowing for Violin) Urtext Edition, paperbound Format: Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm “Memory of a dear place” is the title given to this collection of three enchanting pieces for violin and piano. The “place” in question was the country estate of Brailov that belonged to Tchaikovsky’s patron and friend Nadezhda von Meck. He 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 they too demonstrate Tchaikovsky’s matchless gifts as a Romantic master of melody. For this edition, the Russian Tchaikovsky specialist Alexander Komarov offers the highest degree of editorial precision, having drawn on all the relevant sources from both Russian and international archives. In the course of his work he has also been able to disprove beyond a doubt the view held up to now that the title Souvenir d’un lieu cher was only added after Tchaikovsky’s death.