SUNDAY MORNING CLASSICS ON TBP

A collaboration of: “The Classic Music Mafia”

SMC, nkit, Austrian Peter, and Steve C.

Every Sunday morning we present selections for our TBP family to enjoy.

We present symphonies, ensembles, quartets, octets, etc.

Not all of our music is strictly ‘classical’. We may stray a little, but we strive to make all of our selections ‘classy’.

We offer tips on proper ‘symphony etiquette’ and even some selections that are a bit light-hearted and fun aimed at a younger audience. Those pieces will be so designated, and might be a good way to introduce kids to a world of music that they might not have been exposed to or think of as old and ‘stuffy’.

A full symphony will run as long as it will. We don’t want to cut a symphony short. However, we also include some shorter pieces that we try to keep under fifteen minutes in length. You can sample each and hopefully find one or more that pleases you.

We hope that you enjoy our Sunday selections.

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82

A revealing mixture of wonderful instruments:

Lahti Symphony Orchestra

Sibelius Festival 2015

Jukka-Pekka Saraste is a Finnish conductor and violinist.

Saraste was trained as a violinist. He later studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula.

Saraste became Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 1994.

Rossini – The Barber of Seville, Overture – Temirkanov

This version is by The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yuri Temirkanov.

The orchestra is Russia’s oldest Symphony Orchestra, having been founded in 1882. Temirkanov is, and has been, both the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Orchestra since 1988.

The Barber of Seville is a two act opera by Rossini that premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome of 2-20-1816. It is considered to be one of Rossini’s masterpieces and remains very popular over 200 years later.

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The typical Rossini style begins after a slight pause at 1:52.

Enjoy.

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048: Complete 4K UHD;

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Violin Concertos, and his six Brandenburg Concertos survive in their original instrumentation. His harpsichord concertos are mostly adaptations of concertos originally written for other solo instruments.

In his early career Bach transcribed concertos by other composers for organ and for harpsichord. His Italian Concerto, for two-manual harpsichord, was published in 1735.

Bach wrote most, if not all, of his concerto transcriptions for organ and for harpsichord from July 1713 to July 1714. Most of these transcriptions were based on concertos by Antonio Vivaldi.