Tchaikovsky: Mélodie from Souvenir d‘un lieu cher | Janine Jansen & the Verbier Festival Orchestra

Are you in the mood for a romantic melody? Then check out Tchaikovsky's Souvenir d'un lieu cher, No. 3: Mélodie. The evocative piece of music was Janine Jansen's encore at a concert on August 6, 2017 at the Verbier Festival. The Dutch violinist was accompanied by the Verbier Festival Orchestra under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev.

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) composed three pieces for violin and piano in the spring of 1878, which he named Souvenir d'un lieu cher (Memory of a Beloved Place). “Mélodie” is the third of these short chamber music pieces. The dedication under the Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 reads “B*******”. The cipher alludes to the small Ukrainian town of Brailov. The Russian composer stayed there on the estate of his patron Nadezhda von Meck. Von Meck not only generously financed Tchaikovsky, but also maintained a 14-year correspondence with him - without the two ever meeting in person. In gratitude for his stay in the idyllic province, Tchaikovsky bequeathed the manuscript of Souvenir d'un lieu cher to his patron, but had a copy made so that he could publish the pieces in 1879. In 1896, three years after Tchaikovsky’s death, the publisher released an orchestral version of Souvenir d’un lieu cher, arranged for violin and orchestra by Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936). It was this arrangement that made the work widely known and popular.

Tchaikovsky described the third piece, “Mélodie” in E-flat major, as a “song without words.” The term recalls the eight collections of piano pieces by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), published gradually in the mid-19th century. Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte (Songs Without Words) were character pieces in a song-like form—formally simple and melodically expressive. Tchaikovsky’s “Mélodie” would not be out of place among Mendelssohn’s works—were it not for the instrumentation. The fact that Tchaikovsky’s violin takes on the “song without words” role shows how Mendelssohn’s personal designation for piano works had by then evolved into a widely recognized genre.

Enjoy the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto played by Janine Jansen at this concert too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CtUNOW6Xtk&t=761s

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