Tchaikovsky: The Seasons Op.37a No.11 November (Troika) - wind quintet
Arranged standard wind quintet
Transposed onto F from E for a more comfortable key.
i have re written the piano arpeggios to give a fuller sound to the quintet - the horn sustains, or plays triplets on the same note.
The Seasons, Op. 37a (also seen as Op. 37b; Russian: Времена года; published with the French title Les Saisons), is a set of twelve short character pieces for solo piano by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Each piece is the characteristic of a different month of the year in Russia.
Following is a translation of the poetic epigraph for Novemeber, contained in the Russian edition (all chosen by the publisher Nikolay Bernard):
In your loneliness do not look at the road,
and do not rush out after the troika.
Suppress at once and forever
the fear of longing in your heart.
(Nikolay Nekrasov)
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