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[ihno]

 

[ihno]

Vienna Classic Goosebumps...



Michael Haydn - Incidental Music to Voltaire's 'Zaire' 1777

What a wonderful composer Michael Haydn was! I cannot await till they dig out more of his fantastic works, esp. his masses. Other than his brother (I might have said that before) he didn't have a good publisher. So there are merely a handful of recordings - even more reason to post them. All those little details... These theme and variations are so warm and taking... Also a wonderful example how the music has turned from the baroque strictness to the new polyphonic freedom. Reminds me a bit of "Voi che sapete"...

 

[gm1911]

Le Rossignol

This evening I have seen this opera from Stravinsky. I am still under impression from concert so enjoy in Stravinsky.

Opera is based on the tale The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen.
I will post 4 posts in english, german, french and spanish subtitles:

English subtitles:

 

[gm1911]

Le Rossignol

German subtitles:

 

[gm1911]

Le Rossignol

French subtitles:

 

[gm1911]

Le Rossignol

Spanish subtitles:

 

[sarissa]

If you like solo piano music you should get acquainted with the late Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter. Grace, precision, depth of feeling, lyric beauty, power. Everything you could want in a pianist.

 

[alexfot55]

Beautiful topic and highly aesthetic choices from everybody.Bravo!!!

 

[jjjack]

This was sung at Margaret Thatcher's funeral last week at St. Paul's Cathedral, but this version by the choir of Clare College Cambridge is better, though their get-ups are rather severe. Goes with the historical territory, I guess: "Hear my prayer, O Lord" by Henry Purcell. The line continues, "and let my crying come unto thee."



Purcell was organist at Westminster Abbey and is buried next to the organ there.

 

[ihno]

Vienna Classic Goosebumps2...



Leopold Kozeluh (1747-1818): Symphony in G Minor, 1st mov.

The czech composer Leopold Kozeluh was very sucessful. Mozart and Beethoven didn't like him (because of that?) but Haydn did (didn't matter to him).

Written a year earlier than Mozart's famous g-minor symphony No. 40 this very *effectful* movement somehow can be seen as a kind of essence of the Vienna Classic, even though he doesn't reach the later Mozart or Haydn. Reminds me of Haydn's "Maria Theresia" symphony.

 

[ihno]

Now to something compleeteely different:



Loved that from a very cheesy film with the austrian actor Peter Alexander from 1960, when I was a child (it came on TV, I'm a bit younger than that). Of course it was cheesed up.

I recentely checked it a bit, "Im weißen Rössl" ("The white horse") was originally a comedy (Lustspiel) from Berlin around 1909 and was turned into a modern operetta in 1930, including many modern dances like Foxtrott/Quickstep, Tango pp. It was forbidden in the "Third Reich".

Originally it was highly ironical, making fun both of the austrians and the "piefkes" (prussians), the version of 1960 had hardly anything left of it.

 

[jjjack]

That was fun, Ihno. Thanks. The music may have been parodic, but for a non-German, all that old architecture also seemed very beautiful, edifying, and quite sad to think of as no longer extant. Everyone was so provincial in those days. And we still have far to go to outgrow our old, destructive ways. I'm a Left Coast American but have a strong southern German, Swiss-German heritage, and plenty of Irish and English too, so I find most Euro cultural history fascinating, but especially Germany's, as so many of the greatest composers came from Germany and Austria. A recent DNA test showed I'm mostly Viking, in fact, which makes sense. My ancestors have been in America since 1850 on the Swiss-German side and since 1710 on the English side.

 

[peter123]

 

[ihno]

I guess this is my most fave piece of Tschaikowsky, the fourth movement of his fifth symphony. I can only imagine how personal this piece must be but I think it reflects his situation of life and I cannot avoid getting cheesy here: a suppressed gay inner-self, yearning to "come out". So powerful, so headstrong, so unstoppable, yet bitter sometimes. He quoted some muscial material in the last movement of the "Pathetique".

 

[pete123]

Anybody like Händels operas?

 

[ihno]

Anybody like Händels operas?

 

[Orcinus_Orcus]

Nice bit of of cello, Quite fond of the piano guys , also a bit of opera some Berlioz.

 

[BigBenni]

Bernstein - Serenade - Gidon Kremer

Lately I listen to many pieces of Lenny Bernstein and wanna share a very intimate piece of music making here.

This is "Serenade" a piece for violin, harp, percussion and string orchestra composed by Lenny in the 1950ies.

Gidon Kremer performing the slow movement together with Lenny and the London Symphony

 

[anteius]

 

[edkiko]

great