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Classical music [Youtube Clips]
- Thread starter ihno
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Try the second movement of Samuel Barber Piano Concerto Opus 38. Unfortunately the clips on youtube are not the best but the music shines through. It would be more popular if it received the kind of exposure that the composer's Adagio for Strings gets
http://youtu.be/lS2Q3sAjddc
http://youtu.be/lS2Q3sAjddc
John Cage
don't forget: the next change in the "As SLow aS Possible" will be October 5th, around 15:00 CET, you won't miss it, next change after that is 2020
isn't this fascinating? one composition that needs more than 600 years to play? what is this? music? art?
don't forget: the next change in the "As SLow aS Possible" will be October 5th, around 15:00 CET, you won't miss it, next change after that is 2020
isn't this fascinating? one composition that needs more than 600 years to play? what is this? music? art?
And yet another birthday to remember
One of the greatest sons of the czech people:
Oh, sorry, not this one.
Much better...
Jan Dismas Zelenka - 16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745
This is from one of his oldest works (supposedly), an exemplary cycle for the Good Friday etc. from around 1722, where he showed off his mastership of the baroque composition techniques: in this case the Musica sacra and Stilo antico.
I personally will celebrate with listening to a "new" mass I haven't heard yet, the CD is here for 3 month now, this one here:
ZWV 20, Missa dei Filii.
It's one of the four late masses (missae ultimae) he composed, when he neared the end of his life. He wrote them without an outer reason, just for himself. They were meant to be works of art, which was rather new for the times he lived in. They also give an insight into the religious person Zelenka was of course.
One of the greatest sons of the czech people:
Oh, sorry, not this one.
Much better...
Jan Dismas Zelenka - 16 October 1679 – 23 December 1745
This is from one of his oldest works (supposedly), an exemplary cycle for the Good Friday etc. from around 1722, where he showed off
his mastership of the baroque composition techniques: in this case the Musica sacra and Stilo antico. I personally will celebrate with listening to a "new" mass I haven't heard yet, the CD is here for 3 month now, this one here:
ZWV 20, Missa dei Filii.
It's one of the four late masses (missae ultimae) he composed, when he neared the end of his life. He wrote them without an outer reason, just for himself. They were meant to be works of art, which was rather new for the times he lived in. They also give an insight into the religious person Zelenka was of course.
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Music with cannons
Ludwig van Beethoven - Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria, Op, 91 - cannon, howitzer & muskets: US Military Academy, West Point - London Symphony Orchestra - Antal Doráti
Pyotr Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture, Op. 49 - cannons: Valley Forge Military Academy Band - The Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Ormandy - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Ludwig van Beethoven - Wellingtons Sieg oder die Schlacht bei Vittoria, Op, 91 - cannon, howitzer & muskets: US Military Academy, West Point - London Symphony Orchestra - Antal Doráti
Pyotr Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture, Op. 49 - cannons: Valley Forge Military Academy Band - The Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Ormandy - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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remembering Johann Strauss II on his birthday
(October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899)
some of my faves: Rosen aus dem Süden, Schatz-Walzer, Morgenblätter
and especially cool: "Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, was doch nicht zu ändern ist!" from the Fledermaus (the bat). - "Lucky is he, who forgets what cannot be changed"
(October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899)
some of my faves: Rosen aus dem Süden, Schatz-Walzer, Morgenblätter
and especially cool: "Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, was doch nicht zu ändern ist!" from the Fledermaus (the bat). - "Lucky is he, who forgets what cannot be changed"
Concert hall and countryside---enchanting video. Gorgeous settings. I'm referring to Rosen aus dem Süden. Thank you! Haven't had time to watch the others yet.
Regarding the Wiener Musikverein, found this on Wikipedia:
Regarding the Wiener Musikverein, found this on Wikipedia:
The "Great Hall" (Großer Saal) due to its highly regarded acoustics is considered one of the finest concert halls in the world, along with Berlin's Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Boston's Symphony Hall, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.[1] None of these halls were built in the modern era with the application of acoustics science, and, with the partial exception of the horseshoe-shaped Colón, all share a long, tall, and narrow shoebox shape.
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Thanks, jjjack. Glad you like them.
But I didn't choose the vids too carefully, the Schatzwalzer has even some shameless "please add my channel" ads. And personally: I would not put so many austrian and bavarian villages in my vids.
As for the Vienna Philharmonics, I guess their hall might be the most known in the world, since they've published so many vids in the 80s and usually do their New-Year's-Concert there. Seems to be redone though, it was in royal red.
But I didn't choose the vids too carefully, the Schatzwalzer has even some shameless "please add my channel" ads.
And personally: I would not put so many austrian and bavarian villages in my vids. As for the Vienna Philharmonics, I guess their hall might be the most known in the world, since they've published so many vids in the 80s and usually do their New-Year's-Concert there. Seems to be redone though, it was in royal red.
Title of the classical piece
Hi guys. Can anybody of you tell me what is the classical piece in this video? There are actually two, but I already know the second one (starting around 6:00) is Johann Sebastian Bach´s Musette. What I still don´t know is title and composer of the first one, starting around 1:30. Can you tell me?
Hi guys. Can anybody of you tell me what is the classical piece in this video? There are actually two, but I already know the second one (starting around 6:00) is Johann Sebastian Bach´s Musette. What I still don´t know is title and composer of the first one, starting around 1:30. Can you tell me?
remembering Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy on the anniversary of his death
(3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847)
Some things about Mendelssohn:
* he was a very religious protestant. His grandfather was the very famous german jew Moses Mendelssohn. Read his philosophy in Lessing's Nathan der Weise/Nathan the Wise.
* his sister Fanny was a composer too. She died shortly before him.
* Richard Wagner admired Mendelssohn, who didn't answer his affection. Next to Meyerbeer Mendelssohn became one of the main targets of the antisemtic article "Das Judenthum in der Music" (jews and music) of 1850. Among other things Wagner claimed that jews were not able to create something self-standing but that they could only repeat and mimik real culture like parrots. This was obviously based on the "baroque-renaissance" of the time:
Mendelssohn was the first to perform the Matthäus-Passion after Bach's death in 1829.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a genius and natural talent but also was self-critical one.
There were 121 works of him published: Op. 1 to Op. 121 (op = opus = means that a work was published). But he only authorized 72 of them, the rest was published after his early death. The works have recently received new numbers following a new system (MWV = Mendelssohn Werkverzeichnis).
Of the five symphonies he wrote he only liked three and dismissed two of them.
One of those was to become his most famous and well known piece of work - the symphony No 4 "italian"
Well, maybe this can be even more famous than his fourth:
The other one is Sym No 5 "reformation", the second symphony he wrote.
It was written in 1830 but was not a sucess. The fourth movement is based on the choral "Ein feste Burg ist unser God" by Martin Luther (beginning 19:47), here with Koopman.
My personal fave is his violinconcerto op. 64 in e minor, written in 1844:
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Goebbels forbid any more performances of his works. When in 1936 a statue in Leipzig was removed Carl Goerdeler, the Major, stepped back. He later joined the resistance and supposed to be chancellour after the assassination of Hitler. That failed in July 1944.
The Nazis tried to fill the vast gap the ban on his music left. In 1937 they firstly performed Robert Schumann's violinconcerto in d-minor, which Schumann has written shortly before his death and which had been banned by Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim (it was not supposed to be played before 1956). The performance was an attempt to replace the famous op.64.
http://www.gayheaven.org/showpost.php?p=1449579&postcount=476
But there was no antagonism between Schumann and Mendelssohn. Actually they were very much alike when it came to art and music. The Schumanns named one of their children after him. No, it was not a girl and the name was not Bartholdine, it was a son and his name was Felix. There is also a line from Mendelssohn to Hans Neubahn, erm, Johannes Brahms. Jjjack has posted it already, you can hear the choral "language" of the German Requiem already here in this work:
(3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847)
Some things about Mendelssohn:
* he was a very religious protestant. His grandfather was the very famous german jew Moses Mendelssohn. Read his philosophy in Lessing's Nathan der Weise/Nathan the Wise.
* his sister Fanny was a composer too. She died shortly before him.
* Richard Wagner admired Mendelssohn, who didn't answer his affection. Next to Meyerbeer Mendelssohn became one of the main targets of the antisemtic article "Das Judenthum in der Music" (jews and music) of 1850. Among other things Wagner claimed that jews were not able to create something self-standing but that they could only repeat and mimik real culture like parrots. This was obviously based on the "baroque-renaissance" of the time:
Mendelssohn was the first to perform the Matthäus-Passion after Bach's death in 1829.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a genius and natural talent but also was self-critical one.
There were 121 works of him published: Op. 1 to Op. 121 (op = opus = means that a work was published). But he only authorized 72 of them, the rest was published after his early death. The works have recently received new numbers following a new system (MWV = Mendelssohn Werkverzeichnis).
Of the five symphonies he wrote he only liked three and dismissed two of them.
One of those was to become his most famous and well known piece of work - the symphony No 4 "italian"
Well, maybe this can be even more famous than his fourth:
The other one is Sym No 5 "reformation", the second symphony he wrote.
It was written in 1830 but was not a sucess. The fourth movement is based on the choral "Ein feste Burg ist unser God" by Martin Luther (beginning 19:47), here with Koopman.
My personal fave is his violinconcerto op. 64 in e minor, written in 1844:
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Goebbels forbid any more performances of his works. When in 1936 a statue in Leipzig was removed Carl Goerdeler, the Major, stepped back. He later joined the resistance and supposed to be chancellour after the assassination of Hitler. That failed in July 1944.
The Nazis tried to fill the vast gap the ban on his music left. In 1937 they firstly performed Robert Schumann's violinconcerto in d-minor, which Schumann has written shortly before his death and which had been banned by Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim (it was not supposed to be played before 1956). The performance was an attempt to replace the famous op.64.
http://www.gayheaven.org/showpost.php?p=1449579&postcount=476
But there was no antagonism between Schumann and Mendelssohn. Actually they were very much alike when it came to art and music. The Schumanns named one of their children after him. No, it was not a girl and the name was not Bartholdine, it was a son and his name was Felix. There is also a line from Mendelssohn to Hans Neubahn, erm, Johannes Brahms. Jjjack has posted it already, you can hear the choral "language" of the German Requiem already here in this work:
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