🎶 The first variation in Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations presents one of the greatest technical and musical challenges along the beginning journey of this piece... Its early placement in the set and sparse orchestration make it particularly fragile and exposed, requiring exceptional finesse and delicacy. The goal, of course, is to transcend these challenges entirely—to make the music sound effortless, as though it were a natural, flowing extension of the original theme, without any sense of str

Tonight: cellist Sterling Elliott performs Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme. See it tonight > https://bit.ly/3U9vHbm | Minnesota Orchestra

56K views · 964 reactions |  Virtuosité et romantisme, Jean-Guihen Queyras interprète les Variations sur un thème rococo de Tchaïkovski, ce soir et demain à la Philharmonie de Paris. Dernières places : https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/activite/concert-symphonique/27150-orchestre-de-paris-karina-canellakis?itemId=135209 | Orchestre de Paris | Facebook