SUNDAY MORNING CLASSICS ON TBP

A collaboration of: “The Classic Music Mafia”
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.

Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Wiener Philharmoniker)

0:56 – Un poco sostenuto – Allegro – Meno allegro
18:41 – Andante sostenuto
29:45 – Un poco allegretto e grazioso
35:26 – Adagio – Più andante – Allegro non troppo, ma con brio – Più allegro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGRqIGOAPcE

This One Comes To Us From Liu

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Peter sent me this. He got it from his friend Liu who is Chinese and living in China.

Liu says: “lying under the night sky, about 70 bright stars invisible, repeat the track, pure music popular in Chinese TV program”

He is a great supporter of TBP:

Welcome Liu. I hope that you will feel free to comment on your piece.

Can anyone here read Chinese or otherwise identify this piece.

It’s very peaceful…

This One Comes To Us From TS

Vanessa Mae – Classical Gas

She was 17 yrs old when she recorded this, she has since gone onto compete as an Olympic Skier.

Yes she is talented.

Now We are Free

Today, we’ll listen to a unique cello duo from Croatia consisting of classically trained cellists, Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser. They play instrumental arrangements of well-known pop and rock songs, as well as classical and film music.

Hauser is from Pula, Croatia, and Šulić is from Maribor, Slovenia (to Croatian father and Slovenian mother). They met at a master class in Pula while still in their teens.

They were both educated at the Academy of Music in Zagreb. Later on, Luka studied in Vienna and they both studied in the UK (Šulić at London’s Royal Academy of Music and Hauser at Trinity College of Music, now Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music in London and then at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

They have won many global awards.

Let’s start with some music that they played at the Sydney Opera House. The song is Hans Zimmer’s “Now We are Free.” Stunning.

Love Theme from The Godfather

Again, from The Sydney Opera House, they play the Love Theme from The Godfather by Nino Rota.

Cavatina

Staying with the Sydney Opera House, their next piece is “Cavatina” from The Deer Hunter.

The piece opens with Luka playing a style called “pizzicato.” Pizzicato is a style of played a stringed instrument by plucking the strings with the fingers, as opposed to bowing the instrument. I see it frequently with violins, but not as much with cellos, but perhaps I’m missing something.

I’m not missing the beauty of this piece though.

Cinema Paradisio

Well, everything seems kind of comfy at the Sydney Opera House, so we’ll stay in our seat a bit longer.

Next, they play Ennio Morricone’s “Cinema Paradisio”.

Rest in Peace Maestro Morricone.

Celloverse

Next, we’ll jet on over to The Suntory Hall in Tokyo to listen to them play their own song titled “Celloverse.”

This time, Stjepan opens with a bit of pizzicato.

Never seen these lads so clean shaven…

Theme from Schindlers List

Back again at The Sydney Opera House these young men play a beautiful rendition of John Williams Theme from Schindlers List.

Priceless.

Gabriel’s Oboe

We’ll finish this with Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser performing Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission by Ennio Morricone with the Zagreb Soloists at their classical “Back to the Roots” concert at the Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb, June 2015.

One of my favorites.

I hope this beautiful music removes you, if only for a few moments, from the evil which we are constantly facing. I know that this last piece in particular does for me.

Have a great Sunday.

AND – more Bach with wind this time.

This Concerto for Oboe in F major, performed by Emma Black and the Netherlands Bach Society for All of Bach, is a reconstruction of an oboe concerto, based on the keyboard concerto in E major, BWV 1053. Oboists did fairly well out of Bach, as his oeuvre contains more than two hundred oboe solos.

They often concern one or two oboes in opening choruses and arias in the cantatas. But the true solo repertoire is sparse.

For example, no solo concertos for oboe have survived. There are indications that Bach did indeed compose oboe concertos, whose manuscripts and parts have been lost over the years. For a complete oboe concerto, however, we have to rely on reconstructions, such as this Oboe Concerto in F major BWV 1053r.

Recorded for the project All of Bach on December 6th 2019 at Stadsgehoorzaal, Leiden.

Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra

Final of Prague Spring Competition 2014

Mathis Kaspar Stier – Bassoon
Komorní filharmonií Pardubice
Marko Ivanovič – Director

The Classic Music Mafia – Adding some class to this joint one Sunday at a time.

Heaven help us…

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