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.

Trick & Alderighi Stride Spring Island

We’ll start this week off with another great concert by this husband and wife duo playing on one jazz piano on Spring Island. Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderhigi at their best!

The Next Three Come To Us Thanks To ursel doran.

Yuja Wang: Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

THANKS again much much for all your wonderful works all these many months!!

Gershwin absolutely needs more exposure, and this piece is a favorite.

Yuja Wang – Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83, III. Precipitato

The two rousing Prokofiew pieces should get your blood pumping. The hands on the keyboard are mesmerizing!

Yuja Wang “Toccata in D minor Op 11 – S.Prokofiew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5WvYY1zdi4

ALBINONI: ADAGIO – XAVER VARNUS’ HISTORIC INAUGURAL ORGAN RECITAL IN THE PALACE OF ARTS OF BUDAPEST

This morning I’ll mix it up a bit.

We’ll start with the talent of organist Xaver Varnus who we featured sometime back. He plays Tomaso Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor, which we also featured a while back.

This was a special appearance. Recorded live at the Organ Inauguration Concert in the Palace of Arts in Budapest on June 4, 2006.

The organ of the concert hall has 92 stops and 5 manuals as well as 470 wooden pipes, 5028 tin pipes and 1214 reed pipes. The extensive intonation period of the organ lasted 10 months. It is one of the largest organs in Europe. The instrument – built under the cooperation of Pécs Organ Manufaktúra and Mühleisen Orgelbau Stuttgart – was inaugurated at a ceremony attended by leading figures from Hungary’s art, economic and political scene.

Tickets for this concert sold out a year earlier, in less than thirty minutes. Filmed by Mate Vargha.

SAINT-SAENS “ORGAN” SYMPHONY – FINALE

Next up, Jonathan Scott performs his arrangement of the Finale from Saint-Saens “Organ” Symphony (No. 3) on the 1895 T.C. Lewis organ of Albion Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, UK.

Saint-Saëns – Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78

We’ll conclude this mix with Camille Saint-Saens’s Symphony No.3 in C Minor Op.78

“Organ.”
1 Adagio – Allegro moderato – Poco adagio
2 Allegro moderato – Presto – Maestoso – Allegro

Thierry Escaich, organ

Orchestre de Paris

Paavo Järvi, conductor

Live recording. London, Proms 2013

I hope that you have enjoyed these selections.

“JUST A CLOSER WALK”: STEPHANIE TRICK / PAOLO ALDERIGHI PLUS TWO at ROSSMOOR

Just one more from Trick and Alderighi…

Four special players create warm music at the Rossmoor Jazz Club in Walnut Creek, California, on March 11, 2014:
Stephanie Trick and Paolo Alderighi, piano; Marty Eggers, string bass; Danny Coots, drums.

Recorded by Michael Steinman for JAZZ LIVES

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

Heaven help us…

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