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Musical Musings: Schumann - Piano Concerto In A Minor
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Thursday, February 9, 2012. Schumann - Piano Concerto In A Minor. Schumann's compositional output in the beginning was for the piano exclusively until about 1840. In his early works he composed pieces that were some of the first examples of program music, music that was inspired and influenced by literary or other outside forces. He also became a music critic and was instrumental in promoting the music of Chopin, Brahms and other composers. The work is in three movements:. I Allegro affetuoso -. Brahms -...
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Musical Musings: Bortkiewicz - Piano Concerto No. 3 'Per aspera ad astra'
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Thursday, June 13, 2013. Bortkiewicz - Piano Concerto No. 3 'Per aspera ad astra'. Where he stayed on the family estate (his parents were of the Polish nobility) until the Red Army confiscated the estate after the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was while the composer was in Vienna that he wrote his Piano Concerto No. 3 in 1926. He had been through many hardships since the First World War, and this was a time of relative calm in his life. The concerto is subtitled per aspera ad astra,. Sees the piano take...
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Musical Musings: July 2015
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Shostakovich - Spanish Songs. The Spanish Civil War. Farewell Granada, my Granada,. I have to leave you forever! Farewell, dear place, so pleasing to my eye,. The memories of you will be my only consolation,. My dear place, my home place! I am forever pierced with sorrow,. All I care for is lost,. My love is gone into the darkness of the grave,. And my life is gone too.Ah! I am annoyed with what's around me, I can't live as before. In the place where my youth was so bright!
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Musical Musings: February 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Chopin - 17 Polish Songs, Opus 74. Perhaps if his health allowed him more vigor and a longer life, he may have grown in his ability, interest and confidence to write more for the voice. As it is, his songs have been mostly passed over as inferior to others. But his songs are interesting, and there a handful that are masterworks. Chopin used poems by six different Polish poets in the songs. Nos 1-5, 7, 10, 14, 15. Nos 6 and 12. Nos 8, 11 and 13. 1) Życzenie (The Maiden's Wish).
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Musical Musings: June 2015
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Sunday, June 28, 2015. Mozart - Concert Aria For Soprano "Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio! Let me explain, oh God! Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio! Was written to be inserted in an opera titled Il curioso indiscreto. The Curious, Indiscreet Man). By the composer Pasquale Anfossi. The libretto was based on the book Don Quixote. Let me explain, oh God,. What my grief is! But fate has condemned me. To weep and stay silent. My heart may not pine. For the one I would like to love. Making me seem hard-hearted. Who continued...
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Musical Musings: Keyboard
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Le festin d'Ésope (Aesop's Feast). Comme Le Vent (Like The Wind). Concerto For Solo Piano. Impromptu For Pedal Piano. Selections From 48 Esquisses For Piano. Farewell To My Silberman Clavichord. Württemberg Sonata No. 1 In A Minor. Keyboard Sonata Opus 5 No. 2. Keyboard Sonata Opus 5 No. 5. Passacaglia And Fugue In C Minor BWV 582. Bach - Fugue In G Minor (Little) BWV 578. Organ Concerto In A Minor, Based On Vivaldi Concerto For Two Violins BWV 593. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, Nos. 1-6. Piano Sonat...
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Musical Musings: Other Works For Orchestra
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Other Works For Orchestra. Tamara - Symphonic Poem. The Miraculous Mandarin Suite. In The Steppes Of Central Asia. Grohg - Ballet In One Act. Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 In D Major. Le Chasseur Maudit (The Accursed Hunter). Ballet - The Seasons. Psycho - A Suite For Strings. Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 1. Caucasian Sketches Suite No. 2 'Iveria'. In A Persian Market. Dance Of The Merry Mascots. Variations And March From Symphonic Suite No. 1. Symphonic Suite No. 7. Hunnenschlacht (Battle Of The Huns). Welcom...
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Musical Musings: Grieg - Song Cycle 'Haugtussa' Opus 67
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Sunday, July 19, 2015. Grieg - Song Cycle 'Haugtussa' Opus 67. Born in Norway, Edvard Grieg was educated at the Leipzig Conservatory and steeped in the German tradition of serious music, but came to use the folk music of his native country. His Piano Concerto In A Minor. Is one of the most well-known concertos in the literature, and although it has been compared to the Piano Concerto In A Minor. His use of folk melodies made him the first Norwegian composer of international reputation. Was the only song ...
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Musical Musings: Composer Index
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Le Festin d'Esope (Aesop's Feast). Comme Le Vent (Like The Wind). Concerto For Solo Piano. For Impromptu Piano Pedal. Selections From 48 Esquisses For Piano. Sonate de Concert For Cello And Piano. Piano Trio In G Minor Opus 30. Fantasia On Russian Folksongs for piano and orchestra. Piano Concerto in F Minor. Piano Trio No. 1 In D Minor. String Quartet No. 2 In A Minor, Op. 35. Symphony in D Major. Symphony For Strings In B Minor Wq. 182/5. Symphony in D Major Wq. 183/1. Symphony in F Major Wq. 183/3.
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Musical Musings: March 2015
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Friday, March 27, 2015. Gave his libretto of Messiah. Messiah has disappointed me, being set in great haste, tho’. Throughout Handel's lifetime. In England the proceeds were given to The Foundling Hospital. In London, and Handel bequeathed a copy of his score to the hospital upon his death. The 250-plus pages of the score to Messiah. But recent musical scholarship has allowed for accurate. Performances within the musical traditions and practices of the time. Can last two and a half hours, it certainly ta...
