The concert began with the final movement of Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, to show off the instruments, played warmly, with a palpable fizz of excitement; one only wished for the whole piece rather than an excerpt.
Finally, the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings.
The work is set to Tchaikovsky's "Serenade for Strings".
NEWARK Tchaikovsky's "Serenade for Strings" and other works; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
That would be "Serenade" (1934), set to Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, the first ballet Balanchine made in America.
(The other encore was the Scherzo from Dvorak's Serenade for Strings).
If the program is not exactly adventurous, all the works to be played are winning pieces: Mozart's Serenade in C minor for Winds; Kodaly's Serenade for Two Violins and Viola; Strauss's Serenade in E flat for Winds; and Dvorak's Serenade in D minor for Winds, Cello and Double Bass.
"Serenades" features appealing works in the genre by Mozart (the Serenade in C Minor for Winds, K. 388), Kodály (the dulcet Serenade for Two Violins and Viola), Strauss, and Dvořák (the Serenade in D Minor); the impressive musicians include the violinists Benjamin Beilman and Ani Kavafian, the clarinettist David Shifrin, the bassoonist Peter Kolkay, and the hornist Jennifer Montone.
Its seemingly unimaginative title was an allusion to its music, Lou Harrison's "Serenade for Guitar," but it also recalled Balanchine's "Serenade".
Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings is one of the wonders of 20th-century vocal music.
