The LSO's magnificent string sound is world renowned and this recording marks the LSO Live debut of the LSO String Ensemble, led by LSO Leader Roman Simovic, who directs a performance of the much loved Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, together with Bartók's Divertimento. The Serenade has proved to be one of Tchaikovsky's most enduringly popular works, a piece he described as being "passionately in love with". Inspired in part by Mozart, its elegant music weaves Russian folk-song, and a fine example of the composer's beloved Waltz, with an elegiac musical centrepiece.