TCHAIKOWSKY NOCTURNE Op.19 Nº2 BORIS BEREZOVSKY piano & ALEXANDRE KNIAZEV cello LIVE 2004

The set was commissioned by the publisher Pyotr Jurgenson [2], but their exact dates of origin are uncertain. The completed manuscript is dated 27 October/8 November 1873, but rough sketches for the Nocturne (No. 4) and Capriccioso (No. 5) appear in the same copybook as sketches for the opera Vakula the Smith (1874), the String Quartet No. 2 (1874), and the Six Pieces on a Single Theme, Op. 21 (autumn 1873), suggesting that some of the Op. 19 pieces could have been written during the summer of 1873 at Kamenka.