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.
VIVALDI – Four Seasons
Seeing as to how Stucky introduced us to this piece by an accordion player last week, I thought some people might like to hear it from this ensemble.
1st Movement – Spring
1. Spring – I. Allegro 0:08
2. Spring – II. Largo 3:30
3. Spring – III. Allegro 6:00
2nd Movement – Summer
4. Summer – I. Allegro non molto 10:20
5. Summer – II. Adagio-Presto-Adagio 15:45
6. Summer – III. Presto 17:55
3rd Movement – Autumn
7. Autumn – I. Allegro 20:55
8. Autumn – II. Adagio Molto 26:10
9. Autumn – III. Allegro Pastorale 29:00
4th Movement – Winter
10. Winter – I. Allegro non molto 32:25
11. Winter – II. Largo 35:40
12. Winter – III. Allegro 37:40
Alexandra Conunova – Violin
Orchestre International de Genève
The next two come to us thanks to ursel doran
Concierto de Aranjuez – Joaquín Rodrigo II. Adagio / Pablo Sáinz-Villegas – LIVE
A great classical guitar rendition of a very well known piece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzEFQW9CXGc&list=RDKzEFQW9CXGc
Piano Duel – Yuja Wang vs. Khatia Buniatishvili
A GREAT collection of both the Goddesses on one 38 minute tape. Wrongly called a duel?
The titles of the various pieces flash in the bottom right corner for us ignoramuses.
Paul Dukas – L’Apprenti Sorcier
I am going to start this week with a personal favorite.
Jean-Francois Zygel conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France playing Paul Dukas’s masterpiece titled “L’Apprenti Sorcier.” Dukas, (1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions.
His best-known work is the orchestral piece ‘The Socerer’s Apprentice (L’apprenti sorcier), the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works.
LApprenti Sorcier is a beautiful and intricate piece of music – from the violin pizzicato to the the strings of the harp. It is certainly worth twelve minutes of your time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNaNDXyXRFo
Arturo Márquez – Danzón No. 2 (Alondra de la Parra, L’Orchestre de Paris)
I’ll follow that with Alondra de la Parra conducting L’Orchestre de Paris in a concert that weaves musical bridges between Mexico and France. Alondra de la Parra is an accomplished pianist, cellist and conductor having started her music career at age seven in Mexico City.
She is a joy to watch as she puts her heart and soul into her work, hoping to extract the same from her musicians.
She also loves that Latin beat. The first piece that they will play is a piece written by Arturo Marquez titled “Danzon No.2”.
Arturo Márquez Navarro (born 20 December 1950) is a Mexican composer of orchestral music who uses musical forms and styles of his native Mexico and incorporates them into his compositions.
Moncayo – Huapango (Alondra de la Parra, Orchestre de Paris)
We’ll stay with Ms. de la Parra and the gang for a version of Jose Pablo Moncayo’s piece titled “Huapango ‘Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia’ (June 29, 1912 – June 16, 1958) was a Mexican pianist, percussionist, music teacher, composer, and conductor.
As composer, José Pablo Moncayo represents one of the most important legacies of the Mexican nationalism in art music, after Silvestre Revueltas and Carlos Chavez.
I hope that you have enjoyed these selections. Have a great Sunday
Oh Shenandoah – Across the Wide Missouri
(Part 2 of 2)
Six more from the lovely Ernestina Jošt.
solo sopran: Ernestina Jošt
slovenian translation: prof. Biba Kodek
arrangement: sister Diana Novak (Ursulines of the Roman Union Abbey Ljubljana)
Carmen manet
This is a LIVE recording from the “Vidim te” concert, which was held on 19th June 2018 in the Gallus Hall of the Cankar Centre, Slovenia.
Conductor: Primož Kerštanj
Music: Kim André Arnesen
Solo: Ernestina Jošt
Accompaniment: The Slovene Philharmonic String Chamber Orchestra
W.A.Mozart: Zeffiretti lusinghieri – from opera Idomeneo
Ernestina Jošt is an amazing talent. She was my ex-student. Currently, she is studying soprano at Ljubljana Academy of Music under the supervision of prof. Theresa Plut.
She sang in my other productions: Lehar, Shenandoah etc.
Enjoy this amazing performance.
Ernestina Jošt – soprano
Theresa Plut – piano (mentor)
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter – Lullaby by Magical
Ernestina Jošt
“In the Bleak Midwinter” is a Christmas carol based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti. The poem was published, under the title “A Christmas Carol”, in the January 1872 issue of Scribner’s Monthly] and was first collected in book form in Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress and Other Poems (Macmillan, 1875). The poem first appeared set to music in The English Hymnal in 1906 with a setting by Gustav Holst.
Solo sopran: Ernestina Jošt
Arrangement: sister Diana Novak
Members of Slovenian Philharmonics
Slovenska Glasbena Matica Choir
Matej Šarc, oboe
Aleš Kacjan, flute
Franci Krevh, percussion
Urška Rihtaršič, harp
Tilen Bajec, organ
chorus master: Sebastjan Vrhovnik
Lehár: Vilja Song from The Merry Widow Operetta
The Merry Widow (German: Die lustige Witwe) is an operetta by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár.
The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen’s attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play, L’attaché d’ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac.
Solo sopran: Ernestina Jošt
piano: Ivan Pernicki
This was Ernestina final concert for Ljubljana Academy of Music, where she graduated. She got suma cum laude grades for her singing. I hope you will enjoy this emotional performance.
You will hear accompanied voices in the distance.
Members of Carmen Manet Choir came to support Ernestina final concert for Ljubljana Academy of Music.
Tom Pillibi with Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra and Choirs
Gimnazija Kranj Great Christmas Concert 2014: Night in Paris
producer and director: Primož Zevnik
female soloist: Ernestina Jošt
arrangement: Jaka Pucihar
The Classic Music Mafia – Adding some class to this joint one Sunday at a time.
Heaven help us…
Consider: sometime around 1780 Anno Domino, the idea that, in the gathering and assembly of symphony orchestras, the largest of all the instruments to be played was the piano.
Certainly, nobles and kings were able to afford them, besides the successful composers of the day.
But only someone with an amazing ability to think outside the box would have the audacity to actually
write a composition for symphony featuring not one, but TWO pianos, and then somehow arrange to have them brought together for a performance.
On top of all that, the tune is a thoroughly enjoyable piece.
Who would DO something like that?
Only a mega genius would do that.
OMG … and he was a WHITE EUROPEAN MALE …
The horror … the horror …
This is a example of SMC’s meme:
You can safely bet that people were squawking about how miserable young punks like Mozart and Beethoven were destroying music with their damned noise!
So, Lood Vig, who do you think did it best? Chucky, The Fab Four, or E.L.O.?
“None of them! My 5th was tastefully done, back in the day.
All these whippersnappers did was make noise, after stealing my riffs!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_Over_Beethoven
Thanks for doing this, gentlemen. You say above “ We offer tips on proper ‘symphony etiquette’.
I figure if I refrain from farting, that is best I can do.
Recognizing the possible sinful issue of being repetitive…..herewith, Good sir.
Yuja – Rachmaninoff #3
This version of Rachmaninoff #2 is *special* for not only the performance, but for the camera work outdoors at sunset. Like a warm blanket on the shoulders in the morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD5pqlDPCHc
Vivaldi – Four Seasons; a choice that you never go wrong with.
And because it’s that time of year, and just cooly ( 🙂 ) different –
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One more that is a keeper.
This 1.5 hour concert has a SUPERB collection of choral backup, guitar pieces,
and a GREAT conductor!!