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.

STAR TREK CONCERT

And now for something completely different.

For all you ‘Trekes’ out there.

Filmova filharmonie

Pueri Gaudentes Boys Choir

Choirmaster Libor Sladek

Conductor Chuhei Iwasaki

Soprano Christina Johnston

0:33 Star Trek: The Original Series – Theme

4:34 Star Trek: The Motion Picture – Main Title + Klingon Theme + Ilia’s Theme

12:05 Star Trek: The Next Generation – Suite from “The Inner Light”

16:12 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – Main Title + End Title

28:03 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – Theme

30:20 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – Main Title

34:35 Star Trek: Generations – Main Title

38:38 Star Trek: Nemesis – Main Title + “Odds and Ends”

46:48 Star Trek: Voyager

49:18 Star Trek: The Motion Picture – “The Enterprise”

55:20 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock – “Stealing the Enterprise”

1:04:19 Star Trek: First Contact – Main Title

1:07:28 Star Trek Beyond – “Night on the Yorktown”

1:12:20 Star Trek Into Darkness – End Title

1:19:15 Star Trek: The Original Series – Theme

These two pieces come to us thanks to Stucky

Native American Flute with Symphony Orchestra

Flute would be by second or third favorite instrument. For me, flute is mysterious, mystical, dreamy, peaceful , joyful, and so very relaxing.

Jonny Lipford performs with his Native American style flute on October 19th, 2013 with the Panama City POPs Symphony.

This piece was composed by Gary Fry.

Two Native Americans Performing Unchained Melody

Anyone who doesn’t find this to be simply beautiful, relaxing, and a lifting up of your Spirit …. well, we can not be friends! Really.

I would love to see a Sunday Selection of just Native American music. Seriously. Just another dumb idea from yours truly.

Two Native Americans Performing Unchained Melody Pan flute and guitar version.

Arranged by Inka Gold.

Fantaisie Impromptu in C sharp minor, op 66

Frédéric François Chopin,born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849), was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose “poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation.”

This first piece is Chopin’s “Fantaisie Impromptu in C sharp minor, op 66. It is played by Russian born Austrian pianist, Anastasia Huppman, who, like Chopin, prefers to play for smaller, more intimate audiences.

Military Polonaise op 40 No.1 in A major

Next, Anastasia plays Chopin’s “Military Polonaise op 40 No.1 in A major

Chopin’s Nocturne No. 20

The movie “The Pianist” was about the life of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew during WWII.

This piece is actually the piece of music that saved his life. It is Chopin’s Nocturne No. 20 performed by Szpilman himself. He passed away July 6 2000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9oQEa-d5rU

Chopin’s Nocturne E Flat Major op.9 No.2 (second stage)

Next, we have Dmitry Shishkin performing Chopin’s Nocturne E Flat Major op.9 No.2 (second stage). Shishkin is a Russian pianist.

Nocturne E Flat Major Op.9 No.2

We’ll follow that with Ukranian pianist, Valentina Lisitsa performing Chopin’s “Nocturne E Flat Major Op.9 No.2.”

Funeral March from Piano Sonata No.2

Lastly, we hear one of Chopin’s more famous pieces titled “Funeral March from Piano Sonata No.2 by the Paradise Symphony Orchestra.

I hope you enjoy and have a great Sunday.


Hélène Grimaud: Bach – Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor,

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote of this recital by pianist Hélène Grimaud at the Kammer Musiksaal of the Berlin Philharmonie, “She doesn’t only play the piano – she feels it and she lives it. Every single note proves her devotion to perfection … her unconventional style captivates everyone in the audience.”

Arguably one of the very top pianists of her generation, her concert career took off in 1987 when she was in her early twenties and she now performs with major orchestras around the world as well as being in demand for recital appearances. The spontaneity of her playing is breath-taking. Not to be afraid of taking risks and always to play as though it is the first time is Hélène Grimaud’s maxim.

J.S.Bach Concerto no.1 in D Minor BWV 1052

J.S.Bach HARPSICHORD Concerto in D Minor BWV 1052 Polina Osetinskaya piano The Mariinsky String Orchestra

Conductor: Anton Gakkel

St.Petersburg, Mariinsky Theatre, Concert Hall 29.03.2015

The life of pianist Polina Osetinskaya can be divided into two stages.

The first – that of “wunderkind” (a word that Polina herself cannot abide) – was when Polina performed as a girl in huge halls filled with excited sensationalists.

The second, which has continued to the present day, is essentially her victory over the first. It is both a reference to serious performing and to exacting audiences.

Polina Osetinskaya began to perform at the age of five. At the age of seven she entered the Central School of Music of the Moscow Conservatoire. Polina gave her first concert at the age of six at the Great Hall of the Vilnius Conservatoire in Lithuania. Together with her father who accepted the role of manager, the young Polina began to undertake frequent tours throughout the former USSR to packed halls and ovations.

In her own country Polina was possibly the most famous child of her time and her relationship with her father was portrayed by the mass media as some kind of soap opera after the thirteen-year-old Polina decided to leave her father and study music seriously at the school of the Leningrad Conservatoire under the acclaimed teacher Marina Wolf. Polina began to tour once again while still a student at the St Petersburg Conservatoire. (The pianist subsequently completed a postgraduate course at the Moscow Conservatoire under Professor Vera Gornostayeva.)

She has appeared with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Weimar National Opera, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg Philharmonic (Honoured Ensemble of Russia), the State Academic Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Virtuosi and the New Russia orchestra among other ensembles.

Polina Osetinskaya’s onstage partners have included conductors Saulius Sondeckis, Vassily Sinaisky, Andrei Boreiko, Gerd Albrecht, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Thomas Sanderling. Polina Osetinskaya has performed at the Wallonie Festival in Brussels, the Mainly Mozart festival, the Frédéric Chopin Festival in Miami, the Stars of the White Nights festival and the December Evenings festival among numerous others.

The pianist has been awarded the Maly Triumph prize. In 2008 she wrote her autobiography Farewell, Sadness, which became a bestseller. Polina Osetinskaya generally creates unusual and frequently paradoxical solo programmes. She almost always includes works by contemporary composers, frequently justaposing them with traditional classical works: “Contemporary music is not just a continuation of older music. It also helps us discover ideas and beauty in older music that have been lost over decades of the blind museum generation and mechanical and often soulless performing.”

Polina Osetinskaya often performs works by post-avant-garde composers such as Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Desyatnikov, Vladimir Martynov, Georgs Pelēcis and Pavel Karmanov.

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

Heaven help us…

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