Tchaikovsky - Album for the Youth Op.39

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Tchaikovsky wrote his Album for the Youth Op.39 in summer 1878, following the example set by Schumann in 1848 with his Album for the Young. These are attractive small pieces of modest scope and ambition, full of Russian atmosphere, and actually I like this set much better than Schumann's. I recorded these on april 4, 2015 on my Gaveau grand, using a Tascam DR-2D recorder.
The images are predominantly Russian, and as relevant to the piece in question as I could find.
Chris Breemer, piano
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00:15 1 : Morning Prayer --- Mykola Pymonenko - Easter morning prayer in Malorosia (1891)
01:37 2 : Winter Morning --- Alexei Savrasov - Winter (c.1870)
03:40 3 : The little Horseman --- Pazyryk felt artifact (Carpet Detail), 5th-4th century BC
04:28 4 : Mama --- Anatoly Sokolov - Peasant Women
06:00 5 : Soldier's March --- Glorious Little Soldiers
06:55 6 : The sick Doll --- William Powell Frith - The Sick Doll (1885)
08:34 7 : The Doll's Funeral --- Nikolai Yaroshenko - Burial of the newborn (1893)
10:12 8 : Waltz --- Mihály Zichy - Ball in the Winter Palace Concert Hall (1840)
11:29 9 : The new Doll --- Little girl and her doll in San Francisco
12:25 10 : Mazurka --- Edgar Degas - Russian Dancers, c.1899
13:39 11 : Russian Song --- Ilja Repin - The Zaporozhe Cossacks write a letter (1880-91)
14:24 12 : The Accordion Player --- Anatoly Sokolov - The Accordeon Player
15:17 13 : Kamarinskaya --- Alexei Ivanovich Korzukhin - Eve-of-the-Wedding Party (1889)
16:04 14 : Polka --- Akhmed Kitaev - Into a new life
17:01 15 : Italian Song -- William-Adolphe_Bouguereau Before The Bath (1900)
17:48 16 : Old French Song --- Watteau - The Love Song (c. 1717)
18:57 17 : German Song --- Adolf Eberle - ???
19:54 18 : Neapolitan Song --- Apollon Mokritsky - On the Terrace, Rome (1846)
21:02 19 : Nursery Tale --- Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky - New Fairy Tale (1831)
22:01 20 : The Sorcerer --- George Cattermole - Scene of the Three Witches from Shakespeare's Macbeth (1840)
22:50 21 : Sweet Dreams --- Albert Anker - Sleeping Boy in the Hay
25:17 22 : Lark Song --- Jules Breton - The End of the Working Day (1886-1887)
26:56 23 : The Organ-Grinder --- Konstantin Korovin - The Organ Grinder of Alexeev
27:48 24 : In Church --- Russian Icon - Three Saints: St. Nicholas, St. Spyridon, St. Anthony

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@cassianodurandpinheiro Год назад

Masterpiece. Who is genius, is genius both in simplicity and complexity, but in simplicity the heart speaks louder than the mind.

@ChrisBreemer Год назад

That is very true !

@franciscomunoz7366 6 лет назад

Wonderful Job! Thank you so much, I enjoyed as the music as the paints! Congratulations!

@ChrisBreemer 6 лет назад

Thank you Francisco. Glad you enjoyed them. Finding the pictures was a long task but they really add to the video.

@amitkuper84 5 лет назад

Great playing. Thank you for recording this.

@mariak.4317 5 лет назад

Thank you very much for uploading this!

@ChrisBreemer 5 лет назад

It was my pleasure :)

@k.s.6640 2 года назад

What an amazing pianist you are!! I would like to play piano with joy and happiness like you.

@ChrisBreemer 2 года назад

Thank you 🙂

@Taka-Musics-Labo 6 лет назад

Thank you so much for such nice complete video. I love this Tchaikovsky's piano suite. I am used to play this suite. Nice performances and very suitable pictures. Sincerely greetings, from Japan.

@ChrisBreemer 6 лет назад

Thanks, and you are welcome. Finding images relevant to each piece was quite a time consuming task. But it was worth it, made me appreciate the vast riches of Russian painted art.

@MrGer2295 6 лет назад

Beautiful ! Thank you for uploading :)

@thanhhuyentran386 2 года назад

love

@tomasmatar4434 8 лет назад

Thanks! I needed a video with the starts times.

@snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454 6 лет назад

Thanks for uploading!

@PianoGuy1990 8 лет назад

I love your interpretation of this gem of a compositionl I'm playing it at a recital after Scarlatti sonatas and before a Beethoven Rondo. It's refreshing music. Well played Chris.

@ChrisBreemer 8 лет назад

+PianoGuy1990 Thanks, glad you like it ! It is a wonderful set indeed, full of delectable tunes. Good luck with your recital !

@whatisheartscont2be645 2 года назад

Great pictures together with the music.

@ChrisBreemer 2 года назад

Thank you ! It took me a lot of time finding images relevant to each piece.

@AnnaKorzhavinaPiano 8 лет назад

Thanks for this album. Amaizing pictures !

@ChrisBreemer 8 лет назад

+Anna Korzhavina. Piano Thanks, I spent a lot of time to find the most appropriate images. Despite the vast riches of Russian art it was sometimes hard to find an image to fit with a particular. I'm glad the slide show is being enjoyed :)

@rachelesantaniello4051 7 лет назад

Anna Korzhavina. Piano 👖😉

@jansliacky2616 7 лет назад

Chris Breemer wow

@kiaramitchell7989 8 лет назад

This and Burgmuller's op. 100 is great for teaching beginning pianists.

@ruperttmls7985 7 лет назад

Y ambas en conjunto son mas accesibles a los que apenas empiezan, y son "mas melodiosas" (para mi) que el album de Schumann.

@lahkaahau 6 лет назад

Thank you very much

@estherandherlittleworld7821 4 года назад

I'm learning these! I'm happy to listen to it 😁

@ChrisBreemer 4 года назад

Great ! Good luck with these wonderful pieces !

@ClassicalJams 6 лет назад

I loved the idea of making an album for the youth and these scores are delightful and a great tool for teachers to introduce them to the world of classical music (better than Schumann's, although I do like some of them)! I don't like all the pieces in this particular repertoire, but there are some real gems here, even for adults, that I would love to tackle in an improvisational way and perhaps even expand upon them. My teachers did not make these available to me in my youth for recitals and practice, so great to see them now, all these years later (I am classically trained). Other passages are perfect in their own simplicity, requiring nothing more than a good performance, just as you have done here. Add a good dose of passion and voila! You play very well with perfect execution and dynamics and this was a wonderful post! Thank you for taking your precious time to do this! I have subscribed Chris and pleased to meet you :-) ~Jackie

@ChrisBreemer 6 лет назад

Thanks for your feedback Jackie ! And pleased to meet you too. Great you hear you appreciate my humble recordings of these lovely little pieces.

@anonymusum 3 года назад

Better than Schumann´s???????

@ninavackova7690 2 года назад

Nádherné výkony, skladby i interpreti. Gratuluji 🎉

@ChrisBreemer 2 года назад

Děkuji mnohokrát !

@harryandruschak2843 9 лет назад

Showing once again that "easy to play" is NOT the same as "not worth bothering with." Thank you for this upload.

@ChrisBreemer 9 лет назад

Harry Andruschak You are welcome Harry ! Glad you enjoyied them. For some reason your comment has been sitting here awaiting approval without me noticing. RU-vid was of the opinion it was likely spam. Can't think of a reason why, really.

@luigipati3815 5 лет назад

Harry Andruschak , 'easy' for whom ? Not for the majority of the population. If it were 'easy', why isn't everybody doing it? As for 'bothering with' or 'not bothering with'.....it is just like saying ': is it worth bothering with Tchaikovsky?'. That old dilemma, etc. Point is, if someone like Tchaikovsky or Schumann BOTHERED by writing this music, "bothering" with it goes without saying. Duh :) that it is easier to play than Chopin's etudes or Bach's fugues means nothing. It is like saying that a black and white sketch by Da Vinci is worth less than a colour painting, just because the latter has colours in it. The value lies in the substance, more technique does not necessarily add anything. To conclude : the argument :" it is easier, so is it worth BOTHERING with?" makes no sense. The question is: how good it is, not how difficult it gets. And again, there is nothing "easy" about these works, if they were easy, every fool would be buying a keyboard and play them, instead of playing videogames ....

@eliseantys2040 2 года назад

I love the way you played the waltz !!:) I want to learn it again thanks to you ;)

@ChrisBreemer 2 года назад

That is nice to hear. Go for it ! Nobody wrote waltzes like Tchaikovsky. Except Johann Strauss of course :)

@igorkovac4640 2 года назад

Good interpretation. I like it.

@ChrisBreemer 2 года назад

Thanks !

@ruperttmls7985 7 лет назад

Me agrado tu video; muy buen gusto combinar esas imagenes con tu genial interpretacion. Saludos

@ChrisBreemer 7 лет назад

Gracias ! Finding the right images, relevant to each piece, was a very time consuming task.

@doroteodobrincic7137 5 лет назад

beautiful

@RezaChitsaz 4 года назад

Bravo, I enjoyed your recording!

@ChrisBreemer 4 года назад

Thank you, I'm happy to hear that !

@elenagia7 8 лет назад

Thank you for the nice performance ! I agree that ,this work of Tchaikovsky is much better than Schumann's "Album for the youth" ,at least in a way of expressing of grade rage of feelings and emotions from the childhood and youth.I am a piano teacher in a school and you gave me such good ideas for the students of our school. Also I love your pictures that you put in ,nice work -painting and music the two languages of soul-Thanks !!!P.S.i love the last picture from the Cristian Orthodox religion,they are so majestic...

@ChrisBreemer 8 лет назад

+elenagia7 Thanks for your feedback ! It is much appreciated. I believe these are great pieces for beginner and intermediate piano students to work on - and I'm happy to have provided some ideas. I remember spending an awful long time searching for all these these images. It was time well spent though. I never knew such treasures existed. Music and paintings are indeed the perfect combination, and a balm for the soul.

@hansneusidler7988 4 года назад

I like Schumanns Album more. And the Range of emotions is not worse. And do not forget, he modelled the album after schumanns example.

@jorgelopez-pr6dr 4 года назад

I'll have to listen Schumannn's album.

@AntoineGarnier 3 года назад

@@hansneusidler7988 The fact that he modelled this album after Schumanns' example doesn't mean that it's not at least as good :)

@1pianolvr 7 лет назад

Treasures! I was not familiar with these. Thank you.

@ChrisBreemer 7 лет назад

You are welcome !

@maftum 7 лет назад

this is amazing, you play amazingly well, and it's so perfectly recorded. i'm learning the piano and will start studying this album since i liked it so much

@ChrisBreemer 7 лет назад

Thanks !! Yes by all means study this great collection, it's very much worth it.

@quimmoyalivepainting 4 года назад

great job!

@ChrisBreemer 4 года назад

Thank you !

@rharrington8669 5 лет назад

Favourite is definetly polka (played them after passing g5). Beautiful!

@ChrisBreemer 5 лет назад

Thank you ! There's so much more to these modest pieces than meets the eye.

@Tfrne 3 года назад

youth is just a state of mind.

@user-fc8nv2hn4d 2 года назад

チャイコフスキー、いきなり泣かしてきますねｗ感動です！私も今チャイコフスキー弾いていますが、色んな演出の曲を書かれているので、いつ、どの彼の曲を聴いても、天才だと思います。彼はゲイだったらしいですｗ

@ChrisBreemer 2 года назад

Tchaikovsky is a very emotional composer indeed, and one of the composers I love most. Whether he was "gay" in the sense we use it now, I'm not sure. I rather think he was a-sexual, and attracted to some male friends emotionally.

@BADRUBULDURA 3 года назад

🙂💕💕

@pablorubin9638 7 лет назад

tschaikowsky!!!!

@altonsaunders7572 7 лет назад

Absolutely beautiful! I have been ill for some time and this really lifted my spirits - thank you!

@ChrisBreemer 7 лет назад

That's great to hear. I hope you feel better now !

@sage4nowty129 4 года назад

Very interesting piano pieces for children!!

@ChrisBreemer 4 года назад

Yes !

@mikecipriani7495 6 лет назад

Very Nice..........I just bought this music......working on The Sick Doll trilogy.

@ChrisBreemer 6 лет назад

Thank you. Good luck with it !

@noemiflute8954 6 лет назад

I have studied The sick doll. I love that piece!!

@catacombaeleaks6683 8 лет назад

Super ! Music and performance. One of my favourites. Now I´m going to listen your Season´s (op.37) recording.

@ChrisBreemer 8 лет назад

+Catacombae Leaks Thanks, I'm glad you liked the performance !

@rachelesantaniello4051 7 лет назад

Catacombae Leaks a

@rachelesantaniello4051 7 лет назад

Jalousie

@pauljmeyer1 8 месяцев назад

I hear the influence of Robert Schumann, surely there was a connection.

@ChrisBreemer 8 месяцев назад

Definitely.

@marcogiaveri9130 3 года назад

Questi brani dell’Album für die Jugend op.39 di Tschaikowski mi danno un grande senso di pace, quiete e serenità. Nello stesso tempo sono pezzi, pur nella loro brevità e semplicità, che richiedono una certa capacità di espressione musicale e un buon tocco. Non si tratta affatto di banali brani scolastici per i ragazzini e le ragazzine che iniziano a studiare il pianoforte nei primi anni. Si tratta per me di vere e proprie opere d’arte, raffinate, ricche di gioia, voglia di vivere e allo stesso tempo pathos, tristezza e talvolta “ dolore”. A mio avviso non ha molto senso affermare che questa opera di Piotr Ilich è superiore o più bella dell’Album für die Jugend op. 68 di Robert Schumann. Si tratta infatti di due capolavori, che esprimono due sensibilità differenti, pur nutrendosi della stessa atmosfera, che è quella della musica intima dell‘ 800. Fantastica!! Certo non paragonabile ad opere più complesse, come ad esempio i pezzi op. 72 di Tschaikowski oppure, fra le tante opere, ad esempio gli Studi Sinfonici op. 13 di Schumann, che sono stratosferic! Buon ascolto a tutti! LA MUSICA È VITA, ...... E ANCHE SPERANZA. IL BELLO CI AIUTERÀ SEMPRE IN FUTURO!!! Buon ascolto!

@ChrisBreemer 3 года назад

Thank you for the feedback ! When I wrote that I preferred Tchaikovsky's Album for the Youth to Schumann's, I was largely ignorant of the latter. But even apart from that, the comparison makes little sense as you say. Since then, I have recorded Schumann's album as well, and come to appreciate and love it as much as Tchaikovsky's. We are lucky to have both.

@dandolo2a 5 лет назад

good promotion for russian music ) However I would like to hear more dynamics and more emotions . Russians are very emotional)

@ChrisBreemer 5 лет назад

I agree.

@alainhsu9019 7 лет назад

Originally, it's "Album pour enfants" (Album for children).

@EmanuelWecker 9 лет назад

Amazing work! sounds quite pro recording

@ChrisBreemer 9 лет назад

Emanuel Wecker Thank you ! It is lovely music, worth every pianist's attention.

@bach5861 8 лет назад

+Emanuel Wecker music is awesome; performing is so-so.

@EmanuelWecker 8 лет назад

bach5861 couldn't find your interpretation. By that comment I assume you can play it better.

@TheMightyFork_ 8 лет назад

+Emanuel Wecker he's Bach. He can play everything - Bach =God

@tituscaesar 6 лет назад

what is the painting at 6.55min 'the sick doll'? and by whom? the music and the performance are excellent. thanks for uploading?

@ChrisBreemer 6 лет назад

I did not write down the names of all the paintings, which took me a long time to find. But if you take a screenshot and feed that into Google image search you'll probably find it right away. And thanks for the compliment !

@tituscaesar 6 лет назад

thanks for your reply. i really do not know how to take screenshots...i'm not great with technology lol wouldn't it be a nice thing to have though (whenever you have time), a complete list of the paintings you very thoughtfully chosen to accompany this music on this page? it would then lead a youtuber to find out more about the individual paintings and painters. an all-inclusive page of celebration of the Arts through music and paintings. anyway, just an idea. :)

@ChrisBreemer 6 лет назад

It's a good idea actually and I've indeed seen some people do this. The paintings are certainly worth it. Will do !

@ChrisBreemer 6 лет назад

Well that was a bit of a job. I had the images but without any info so I had to redo all the searches. Some details I could not find. The image you were asking after is William Powell Frith - The Sick Doll (1885).

@tituscaesar 6 лет назад

excellent. thank you so much for making the search for me. most thoughtful of you.

@aphroditea1533 4 года назад

1:36 3:40 4:30 6:00 6:57 8:35 10:14 11:30

@ChrisBreemer 4 года назад

I never quite understand this type of comment. Are these moments of particular interest, or horror, or what ?

@Transcriptor 3 года назад

A lesson in how to compose by PIT

@vivvpprof 5 лет назад

Only 17 seconds of silence in the intro?

@ChrisBreemer 5 лет назад

Damn ! It's supposed to be 20 !!

@oktayyazici6841 5 лет назад

6ve7 no'lu parçalar beni çok duygulandırdı😢

@ChrisBreemer 5 лет назад

Duymak güzel !

@leaneferreira1882 4 года назад

22:50 sweet dream

@maggiem8996 7 лет назад

4:28

@legamature 7 лет назад

When you turn up the speed for play back, you should say so.

@ChrisBreemer 7 лет назад

@aleksandrajaszczuk7424 4 года назад

Ja to teraz gram na pianinie

@ChrisBreemer 4 года назад

Me too :)

@hanastrelska3639 5 лет назад

Where is waltz?

@karmelek6953 5 лет назад

0:18 start

@pablorubin9638 7 лет назад

very nice*

@aleksandrajaszczuk7424 4 года назад

😀

@aleksandrajaszczuk7424 4 года назад

Ekstra

@maggiem8996 7 лет назад

13:39

@maggiem8996 6 лет назад

15:17

@s1earle 2 года назад

Nice playing and ever so personal in the splendid interpretation - however in the last analysis lacking in the exciting interest given by say Igor Zhukov or better Michael Ponti in their performances; they excelled in faster tempi and managed to bring them off: A matter for the listener, maybe these pieces require restrained tempos for appreciation...

@ChrisBreemer 2 года назад

Thanks for the feedback ! I admit not having heard either of these two pianist's recording of this opus. No doubt they would be better than mine. I would not think music like this was Ponti's cup of tea - he was never the subtlest of pianists. Zhukov I greatly admire (his Tchaikovsky 2nd is unrivalled for me) but perhaps he was too big a player for this intimate music. In the end, as you say it's a matter of personal taste.

@s1earle 2 года назад

@@ChrisBreemer So true, Ponti excelled in fast tempos and always, like Julius Katchen, tried to show off his exceptional technique-however in the more reflective pieces (like certain Scriabin preludes, solo Tschaikovsky piano music etc. and in particular the Tausig Op 3) he shines and, same as when I met him late 1970s in Newtown Sydney, he showed an almost "Arrau" attitude of shyness and reservation...

@pablorubin9638 7 лет назад

tschaikowsky is better than schumann

@ChrisBreemer 7 лет назад

Bananas are better than avocados :)

@anonymusum 3 года назад

It´s ok, but - sorry to say - there are quite some fundamental flaws in your playing like the dynamic transformation of tension and relaxation - or some microtiming problems, to name a few. But recording your playing will help I guess.

@ChrisBreemer 3 года назад

Thanks. Yes, dynamics are always an issue in my recordings (as in most all non-professional recordings). It's partly the not too sophisticated playing, and partly the basic recording equipment which flattens any dynamic contrasts such as there may be. In my case, it's also the sluggish instrument which works against me - I'm doing much better since switching to a digital instrument. I'm not aware of any microtiming or other problems, though I'd be the first to agree that these are far from perfect, and that much more could be made of these pieces which are all too easy to underestimate.

@VirtuousPraiseworthy 2 года назад

Most of us are enjoying his playing and admiring how well he puts himself out there. By the way, I'm a trained pianist, and I have no idea what "microtiming" problems you'd be referring to. I hear a clear pulse and appropriate rubato. The playing is generally delightful. Nope, he doesn't record on a nine-foot German concert grand. I hope you find some recordings that are free from any possible criticism. I've never found any, personally, so I just enjoy the best of what I choose to spend my time on. Life's too short to do otherwise.

@anonymusum 2 года назад

@@VirtuousPraiseworthy "Most of us" - who is us? And how do you know that "most" of this undefined group are enjoying it? - So you are a pianist and at the same time you don´t know what microtiming is? Well .....

@ChrisBreemer 2 года назад

@@anonymusum I guess "most of us" would refer to the people commenting on this thread, who are generally positive. But it's anyone's prerogative to be more critical of course. Especially if you compare amateur recordings to professional ones. There will always be a difference.

@igorkovac4640 2 года назад

Teach us. What is microtiming and please give us some concrete examples in the recording.

@charlesdavis7087 6 лет назад

Oh Jesus; Take the whole thing out and burn it. Crap. Pure crap. This isn't music; it's a bother. Spare me... please. If Peter's name hadn't been attached to it, I wouldn't have listened. Then again, everything Bach wrote was worth starting a fire with. Long live Music and those who love music. Sing..... and don't suffer fools lightly. Da, te, te, da.

@josegeraldoferreira2601 6 лет назад

Mr. Charles Davis, Would you have any composition of yours that could be shared? I´d like to listen to one of your "songs" if there is any... Thank you.