SUNDAY MORNING CLASSICS ON TBP

A collaboration of: “The Classic Music Mafia”
nkit, 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.

And now by popular request:
This week’s feature comes to us thanks to Mygirl…maybe

W. A. Mozart – Requiem Kv 626 in D Minor [Arsys Bourgogne] HD

This is one of the best Requiem’s I have found…

This one comes to us from ursel doran

HAUSER – Benedictus

A separate post for a superbly well done piece for the enjoyment of all.

This one comes from our old friend SMC

Poet and Peasant Overture

IIRC,

This (like quite a few classical pieces) was featured in one of the Looney Tunes episodes of Bugs, many many years ago.

Give it a listen.

Have some patience, ‘cuz the recognizable tempo comes at just before the 4:00 minute mark.

Maybe someone can even ID the cartoon story where it was used.

The Poet and Peasant Overture.

Composer: Franz von Suppe

Enjoy.

Igor Stravinsky: Firebird (Finale)

I’m going to serve up an olio of great classical music this week.

We’ll start it out with the great Igor Stravinsky playing “Firebird” (the finale).

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.

The Firebird is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian-born composer, Stravinsky. Its premiere at the Opera de Paris on 25 June 1910 was an immediate success, catapulting Stravinsky to international fame.

Romeo and Juliet – Suite No. 1, Op. 64b

Next we will hear from another Russian composer. This time it is Sergei Prokofiev playing “Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1 Op 64 b at the Nobel Prize Concert in 2009.

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

His works include such widely heard pieces as the March from The Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kije, the ballet Romeo and Juliet – from which “Dance of the Knights” is taken – and Peter and the Wolf.

Of the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created – excluding juvenilia – seven completed operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, a cello concerto, a symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra, and nine completed piano sonatas.

This is The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra with the great Yuri Temirkanov conducting.

Festive Overture in A Major, Op. 96

We’ll finish this olio with a piece by yet another Russian composer by the name of Dmitri Shostakovich.

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist. He is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century, with a unique harmonic language and a historic importance due to his years of work under Stalin.

Here, Yuri Temirkanov and The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra play “Festive Overture in A Major Op96” at the 2009 Nobel Prize Concert.

I hope that you have enjoyed the works of these three great Russian composers.

Have a great Sunday.

Haydn: “Oxford”-Sinfonie Nr. 92 (SHMF 2016)

JOSEPH HAYDN

Sinfonie G-Dur Hob. I:92 “Oxford”

Thomas Hengelbrock, Dirigent

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Mitschitt des Konzerts vom

3. Juli 2016,

Musik- und Kongresshalle Lübeck

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

Heaven help us…

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