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Verdi - Requiem - Karajan ( Complete Concert )
Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Coss0to, Luciano Pavarotti, Nikolai ghiaurov, Herbert von karajan, 1967
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- 1. Introit and Kyrie (chorus, soloists)
- 2. Dies irae / Dies irae (chorus) / Tuba mirum (chorus, bass) / Liber scriptus (mezzo-soprano, chorus) / Quid sum miser (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor) / Rex tremendae (soloists, chorus) / Recordare (soprano, mezzo-soprano) / Ingemisco (tenor) / Confutatis (bass, chorus) / Lacrimosa (soloists, chorus)
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- 4. Sanctus (double chorus)
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- 6. Lux aeterna (mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass)
- 7. Libera me (soprano, chorus)
Beethoven - Triple Concerto - Daniel Barenboim / Itzhak Perlman / Yo-Yo Ma
Piano - Daniel Barenboim / Violin - Itzhak Perlman / Cello - Yo-Yo Ma
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Barber - Adagio for Strings
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Adagio for Strings
Adagio for Strings is a work by Samuel Barber, arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11. Barber finished the arrangement in 1936, the same year as he wrote the quartet. It was performed for the first time in 1938, in a radio broadcast from a New York studio attended by an invited audience, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, who also took the piece on tour to Europe and South America. It is disputed whether the first performance in Europe was conducted by Toscanini or Henry Wood. Its reception was generally positive, with Alexander J. Morin writing that Adagio for Strings is "full of pathos and cathartic passion" and that it "rarely leaves a dry eye."
The piece begins with a B flat played by violins, leading to the lower strings' entrance. The rhythm is mainly compressed with sustained notes, and Barber uses some unusual time signatures including 4/2, 5/2, 6/4, and 3/2 . The piece can be heard in many TV shows and movies.
While Barber rejected many arrangements published by G. Schirmer, such as the organ arrangement by William Strickland, he did transcribe the piece in 1967 for eight-part choir, as a setting of the Agnus Dei ("Lamb of God").
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Conductor - Philip Gibson / London Symphony Orchestra / recorded in 1991
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Finlandia, Op. 26 is a symphonic poem by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. The first version was written in 1899, and it was revised in 1900. The piece was composed for the Press Celebrations of 1899, a covert protest against increasing censorship from the Russian Empire, as the last of seven pieces, each performed as an accompaniment to a tableau depicting episodes from Finnish history. (See Grand Duchy of Finland and Russification of Finland for further historical context).
The premiere was on 2 July 1900 in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus. A typical performance takes anywhere from 7½ to 9 minutes.
A recurrent joke within Finland at this time was the renaming of Finlandia at various musical concerts so as to avoid Russian censorship. Titles under which the piece masqueraded were numerous, a famously flippant example being Happy Feelings at the awakening of Finnish Spring.
Most of the piece is taken up with rousing and turbulent music, evoking the national struggle of the Finnish people. But towards the end, a calm comes over the orchestra, and the serenely melodic Finlandia Hymn is heard. Often incorrectly cited as a traditional folk melody, the Hymn section is of Sibelius's own creation.
Although initially composed for orchestra, in 1900 Sibelius arranged the entire work for solo piano.
Sibelius later reworked the Finlandia Hymn into a stand-alone piece. This hymn, with words written in 1941 by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi, is one of the most important national songs of Finland (though Maamme is the national anthem). With different words, it is also sung as a Christian hymn (Be Still, My Soul), and was the national anthem of the short-lived African state of Biafra (Land of the Rising Sun).
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The Bolt (Shostakovich)
The Bolt (Russian: Болт), Op. 27, is a ballet music score written by Dmitri Shostakovich between 1930 and 1931. The score is for a full-length ballet with three acts and seven scenes, with a libretto by Vladimir Smirnov. It was premiered on April 8, 1931, by the Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad, and choreographed by Fyodor Lopukhov.
Plot
The ballet is an ironic tale of slovenly work in a Soviet factory. The lazy Lyonka hates work, and together with a local priest and anti-Soviet plotter, he plans to sabotage the machinery by putting a bolt in it. Their plan is foiled by a group of Young Communists.
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"The waspish and delightfully colourful score bowls along like a children’s cartoon-film, every number full of drama and parody and fine take-offs of serious and popular music of every kind. Among the highlights are the opening scene when the workers gather in the morning for their physical fitness class before hitting the conveyor belts, the appearance of pompous and opinionated officials and bureaucrats, a ridiculous church-going episode, and the exciting scene when the sabotage-conspiracy nearly succeeds and is only foiled at the last moment. There are also plenty of numbers which mimic the whirling and hammering sounds of modern factory machinery."
Reception
The premiere was the only performance for 74 years, as the audience jeered it and the critics upbraided it for its un-Soviet intentions. Shostakovich subsequently put parts of it in his other music.
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Schubert - Six moments musicaux
I,IV,V - Pianist - Jenő Jandó / II - Claudio Arrau / III - pianist - David Fray / VI - Pianist - Yves Nat
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Debussy - Children's Corner Suite - Ivan Moravec
I - Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum / II - Jimbo's Lullaby / III - Serenade for the Doll / IV - The Snow is Dancing / V - The Little Shepherd / VI - Golliwogg's Cakewalk
Pianist - Ivan Moravec
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Children's Corner
Children's Corner (L. 113) is a six-movement suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It was published by Durand in 1908, and was given its world première in Paris by Harold Bauer on December 18 of that year. In 1911, an orchestration of the work by Debussy's friend André Caplet received its première and was subsequently published and there is a forthcoming version for organ by Michael Hey. A typical performance of the suite lasts roughly 15 minutes.
Dedication
It is dedicated to Debussy's daughter, Claude-Emma (known as "Chou-Chou"), who was three years old at the time. The pieces are not intended to be played by children; rather they are meant to be evocative of childhood and some of the toys in Claude-Emma's toy collection.
Claude-Emma was born on October 30, 1905 in Paris, and is described as a lively and friendly child who was adored by her father. She died of diphtheria on July 14, 1919, scarcely a year after her father's death.
Structure
There are six pieces in the suite, each with an English-language title. This choice of language is most likely Debussy's nod towards Chou-Chou's English governess. The pieces are:
1. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
2. Jimbo's Lullaby
3. Serenade for the Doll
4. The Snow is Dancing
5. The Little Shepherd
6. Golliwogg's Cakewalk
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Schubert - Impromptu No.3 in G flat major
Pianist - Krystian Zimerman
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 - Krystian Zimerman
Piano - Krystian Zimerman / Conductor - Leonard Bernstein
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Piano Concerto No. 4 (Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58, was composed in 1805–1806, although no autograph copy survives.
Musical forces and movements
The work is scored for solo piano and an orchestra consisting of a flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, and strings. As is standard for classical concertos, it is in three movements:
I. Allegro moderato (G major)
II. Andante con moto (E minor)
III. Rondo (Vivace) (G major)
Premiere and reception
It was premiered in March 1807 at a private concert of the home of Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz. The Coriolan Overture and the Fourth Symphony were premiered in that same concert. However, the public premiere was not until 22 December 1808 in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien. Beethoven again took the stage as soloist. This was part of a marathon concert which saw Beethoven's last appearance as a soloist with orchestra, as well as the premieres of the Choral Fantasy and the Fifth and Sixth symphonies. Beethoven dedicated the concerto to his friend, student, and patron, the Archduke Rudolph.
A review in the May 1809 edition of the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung states that "[this concerto] is the most admirable, singular, artistic and complex Beethoven concerto ever" [Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, May 1809]. However, after its first performance, the piece was neglected until 1836, when it was revived by Felix Mendelssohn. Today, the work is widely performed and recorded, and is considered to be one of the central works of the piano concerto literature.
Cadenzas
Cadenzas for the Fourth Piano Concerto have been written by a number of pianists and composers throughout its history; these include Clara Schumann, Ferruccio Busoni, Hans von Bülow, Ignaz Moscheles, Camille Saint-Saëns, Anton Rubinstein, Nikolai Medtner, Eugen d'Albert, Leopold Godowsky, and Samuil Feinberg.
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Beethoven - Violin Concerto - Itzhak Perlman
Violin - Itzhak Perlman / Conductor - Carlo Maria Giulini / Philharmonia Orchestra London 1981
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Liszt - Piano Concerto no.1 - Sviatoslav Richter
Pianist - Sviatoslav Richter
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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt)
Franz Liszt composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, S.124 over a 26-year period; the main themes date from 1830, while the final version dates 1849. The concerto consists of four movements, which are performed without breaks in between, and lasts approximately 20 minutes. It premiered in Weimar on February 17, 1855, with Liszt at the piano and Hector Berlioz conducting.
History
The main themes of Liszt's first piano concerto are written in a sketchbook dated 1830, when Liszt was nineteen years old. He seems to have completed the work in 1849, yet made further adjustments in 1853. It was first performed at Weimar in 1855, with the composer at the piano and Hector Berlioz conducting. Liszt made yet more changes before publication in 1856. Béla Bartók wrote of the work as being "the first perfect realisation of cyclic sonata form, with common themes being treated on the variation principle".The movements of the piano concerto are played without a break.
Form
The concerto consists of four relatively short movements:
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Quasi adagio
3. Allegretto vivace - Allegro animato
4. Allegro marziale animato
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Chopin - Grand Valse Brillante
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The Grande valse brillante in E-flat major (The Brilliant Grand Waltz), Op. 18, was composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1833 and published in 1834. This was his first published waltz composition for solo piano. However, prior to 1834 he had written at least sixteen waltzes that were either destroyed or eventually published posthumously.
Chopin also gave the title Grand valse brillante to the next three waltzes in the Op. 34 set, published in 1838.
In 1909, Russian composer Igor Stravinsky made an orchestral arrangement of this waltz for Serge Diaghilev's ballet Les Sylphides.
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Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 - Yevgeni Svetlanov
USSR Symphony Orchestra / Conductor - Yevgeni Svetlanov
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Beethoven - Fantasia In C Minor - Op. 80 ''Choral Fantasy''
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The Fantasy in C minor for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Op. 80, was composed in 1808 by Ludwig van Beethoven.
The Fantasia was first performed at the Akademie (benefit concert) of 22 December 1808, which also saw the premières of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies as well as a performance of portion of the C major Mass. To conclude this memorable concert program, Beethoven wanted a "brilliant Finale" that would unite in a single piece the different musical elements highlighted in the concert night: piano solo, chorus and orchestra. The Fantasia op. 80, written shortly prior, was thus written expressly to fulfill this role. Beethoven himself played the piano part and the opening solo offers an example of his improvisational style (at the première he did, in fact, improvise this section).
Beethoven wrote the piece during the second half of December, an unusually short time by his standards. He commissioned a poet—whose identity is disputed—to write the words shortly before the performance to fit the already written parts.
Form
The Choral Fantasy, which in most performances lasts about twenty minutes, is divided into two movements:
1. Adagio
2. Finale. Allegro – Meno allegro (Allegretto) – Allegro molto – Adagio ma non troppo – Marcia, assai vivace – Allegro – Allegretto ma non troppo quasi andante con moto »Schmeinchelnd hold und liebliech klingen« – Presto
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Mozart - Don Giovanni - La ci darem la mano
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Là ci darem la mano
"Là ci darem la mano" (Italian for "There we’ll be hand in hand") is an aria for the title character in Mozart's 1787 opera Don Giovanni.
Mozart's aria was the basis for several other works:
- Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" for two oboes and English horn, WoO 28 (1796) by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Fantasy on "Là ci darem la mano" for clarinet and orchestra by Franz Danzi (1763–1826)
- Variations on "Là ci darem la mano", Op. 2 (1827) by Frédéric Chopin
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Music Of The Night - Sarah Brightman
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I - Waltz-Scherzo (The Bolt) / II - Polka (The Limpid Stream) / III - Galop (The Limpid Stream) IV - Romance (The Limpid Stream) /V - Lyric Waltz (Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1) VI - Dance (The Limpid Stream) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
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