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Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto - Isaac Stern


Violin - Isaac Stern / Conductor - Eugene Ormandy / Philadelphia Orchestra /1958
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Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)
Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time. A typical performance lasts just under half an hour.
Mendelssohn originally proposed the idea of the violin concerto to Ferdinand David, a close friend and then concertmaster of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Although conceived in 1838, the work took another six years to complete and was not premiered until 1845. During this time, Mendelssohn maintained a regular correspondence with David, seeking his advice with the concerto. The work itself was one of the first violin concertos of the Romantic era and was influential to the compositions of many other composers. Although the concerto consists of three movements in a standard fast–slow–fast structure and each movement follows a traditional form, the concerto was innovative and included many novel features for its time. Distinctive aspects of the concerto include the immediate entrance of the violin at the beginning of the work and the linking of the three movements with each movement immediately following the previous one.
The concerto was initially well received and soon became regarded as one of the greatest violin concertos of all time. The concerto remains popular and has developed a reputation as an essential concerto for all aspiring concert violinists to master, and usually one of the first Romantic era concertos they learn. Many professional violinists have recorded the concerto and the work is regularly performed in concerts and classical music competitions.
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Wagner - Die Walküre - Extracts








I - Prelude to act 1 (The opening storm) / II - Prelude to act 2 / III - "Ride of the Valkyries"(Prelude and scene 1 ("Hojotoho! Heiaha") from act 3) / IV - Magic Fire Music (act 3)
I,II - Conductor - Daniel Barenboim /Scala / 2010
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Die Walküre
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is the second of the four operas that form the cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. Die Walküre's best-known excerpt is the "Ride of the Valkyries".
Wagner took his tale from the Norse mythology told in the Volsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda.
It received its premiere at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870 at the insistence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. It premiered in Wagner's Bayreuth Festival as part of the complete cycle on 14 August 1876. The opera made its United States premiere at the Academy of Music in New York on 2 April 1877.
Noted excerpts
  • Prelude to act 1 (The opening storm)
  • Siegmund Spring Song and duet with Sieglinde ("Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond") (act 1)
  • Prelude to act 2
  • Wotan's Monologue (act 2)
  • Brünnhilde's Announcement of Siegmund's Death (act 2)
  • "Ride of the Valkyries" (Prelude and scene 1 ("Hojotoho! Heiaha") from act 3)
  • Brünnhilde's pleading (War es so schmählich) (act 3)
  • Wotan's Farewell ("Leb' wohl") (act 3)
  • Magic Fire Music (act 3)
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Vivaldi - Gloria RV 589






I - Gloria in excelsis Deo (Chorus) / II - Et in terra pax (Chorus) / III - Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris (Contralto)
I&III - The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford / The Academy of Ancient Music / Simon Preston
II - Live recording of the Choir in concert with the Orchestra of St. Gaudenzio Assumption - Director Paul Time - choirmaster John Maestrone
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Gloria (Vivaldi)
Antonio Vivaldi wrote several settings of the Gloria. RV 589 is the most familiar and popular piece of sacred music by Vivaldi; however, he was known to have written at least three Gloria settings. Only two survive (RV 588 and RV 589) whilst the other (RV 590) is presumably lost and is only mentioned in the Kreuzherren catalogue. The two were written at about the same time (it is disputed which came first) in the early 18th century.
RV 589
This is the better known setting of the Gloria, simply known as the Vivaldi "Gloria" due to its outstanding popularity. This piece, along with its mother composition RV 588, was composed at the same time during Vivaldi's employment at the Pieta. Two introduzioni exist as explained in the aforementioned article.
RV 589 is more mature and original than its predecessor. However, evidence of obvious influence still exist. The first movement's chorus shares similar key modulations to that of the first movement of RV 588, only modified to fit a duple meter instead of the triple meter of RV 588. Motivic content present in in the orchestral parts of either piece are also shared, including octaval jumps in the opening motives of the piece. The second movement is much more dramatic in RV 589, but nevertheless shares with RV Anh. 23 in that the second movement of both employ the use of rhythmic repetition underneath choral progressions. The "Qui Tollis" movement of RV 589 is rhythmically similar to the first few measures of RV 588 (and ultimately RV Anh. 23). The last movement, "Cum Sancto Spiritu," is essentially an "updated" version of movement present in both RV Anh. 23 and RV 588, except extensively harmonically modified, becoming more chromatic than its predecessors, reflecting a maturity in Vivaldi's output and the emerging style of the late Italian Baroque.
Movements
1. Gloria in excelsis Deo (Chorus) / 2. Et in terra pax (Chorus) / 3. Laudamus te (Sopranos I and II) / 4. Gratias agimus tibi (Chorus) / 5. Propter magnam gloriam (Chorus) / 6. Domine Deus (Soprano) / 7. Domine, Fili unigenite (Chorus) / 8. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei (Contralto and Chorus) / 9. Qui tollis peccata mundi (Chorus) / 10. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris (Contralto) / 11. Quoniam tu solus sanctus (Chorus) / 12. Cum Sancto Spiritu (Chorus)
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