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.

Antonín Dvořák – Slovanské tance op. 46 a 72 / Slavonic Dances Op. 46 and 72

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK

Slovanské tance op. 46 a 72

Slavonic Dances Op. 46 and 72 1. 1. 2021 Obecní dům –

The Municipal House in Prague

SYMFONICKÝ ORCHESTR HL. M. PRAHY FOK
PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ŘADA I.
00:00:31 1. Furiant
00:04:56 2. Dumka
00:10:10 3. Polka
00:15:12 4. Sousedská
00:22:28 5. Skočná
00:26:02 6. Sousedská
00:32:08 7. Skočná

ŘADA II.
00:40:15 1. Odzemek
00:44:49 2. Dumka
00:50:44 3. Skočná
00:54:27 4. Dumka
00:59:44 5. Špacírka
01:02:35 6. Polonéza
01:06:33 7. Kolo
01:10:00 8. Sousedská

Tomáš BRAUNER – dirigent

conductor – Rita Čepurčenko

koncertní mistr – concert master

The Next One Comes To Us Thanks To ursel doran.

YUJA WANG – la Pianissime – the Marvellous Pianist

Yuja Wang as a child prodigy growing to an international super star talent.

The Next Collection Of Six Pieces Come To Us Thanks To ‘m’.

Yuja, 6 recent encores (?) from 4/22 in Paris:

Yuja Wang “Malaga -extrait d’Iberia, livre IV” d’Isaac Albéniz

Paris 2022

Yuja Wang “Lavapiés -extrait d’Ibéria, livre III” d’Isaac Albéniz

Paris 2022

Yuja Wang “Etude pour piano n°6” (1985), “Etude pour piano n°13” (1993) de György Ligeti

Paris 2022

Yuja Wang “Prélude n°11” & “Prélude n°10” de Nikolaï Kapoustine

Paris 2022

Yuja Wang “Intermezzo op.117 n°3” de Johannes Brahms

Paris 2022

My favorite:

Yuja Wang “Suite pour piano op.25” (1921-1923) d’Arnold Schönberg

Paris 2022

Modern and wild:

Silvestre Revueltas – La Noche de los mayas

Today, I want to re-visit the work of Alondra de la Parra and the Orchestre de Paris. I believe there was some confusion on her background the last time we offered her works. She was born to Mexican parents in New York City in 1980 technically making her an American. Her family moved back to Mexico City when she was three years old. It was there that she began her music studies with the piano at age seven and the cello at age thirteen. It was at the age of thirteen that she developed an interest in conducting. After a year of study at a local music school she studied composition at the Centre of Research and Musical Studies in Mexico City. At age nineteen, she returned to New York City to study piano and conducting at the Manhatten School of Music. She obtained a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance under the direction of Jeffrey Cohen and studied conducting with Michael Charry and Kennetyh Kiesler, receiving an MA in Conducting in 2008. Her other conducting mentors include Marin Alsop, Charles Dutoit, and Kurt Masur. She served as an apprentice conductor with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra.

She is most always referred to as a Mexican conductor, and Mexico calls her their own. Whether she is conducting the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra or the Orchestre de Paris, it is easy to pick out the Latin rhythm or beat in her work. Thus the comment fro weeks back that when she conducts the Orchestre de Paris she is said to weave musical bridges between Mexico and France.

It is especially easy to detect that Latin rhythm when the piece she is conducting is a Latin composition such as today’s piece.

Today’s piece is titled : La Noche de los mayas (the Night of the Mayans). It was written by Silvestre Revueltas (1899 – 1940) for a Mexican film by the same name. Revueltas was a Mexican composer of classical music, a violinist and a conductor. He died in Mexico City from pneumonia (complicated by alcoholism) at the age of forty.

So, let’s give a listen to this beautiful work.

0:24 I. Noche de los mayas
7:18 II. Noche de jaranas
12:46 III. Noche de Yucatán
19:25 IV. Noche de encantamiento

GIMME! GIMME! GIMME! Abba – Orkester Mandolina Ljubljana

For those that wish to spend a little less time and listen to something shorter, I’ll toss in a few shorts by the Orkester Mandolina Ljubljana from Slovenia.

The first piece should be recognizable to all of you ABBA lovers as they perform Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

Vangelis 1492 CONQUEST OF PARADISE

Next up is the Vengelis piece “1492 Conquest of Paradise” featured here a year or so ago.

A very pretty piece of music it is.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY

We’ll close out with “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly…RIP Ennio.

Thanks for lending an ear.

Have a fun Sunday.

See you next week.

MOZART Symphony No 40 in G minor KV550 LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Feb 23, 2014

Mozart Symphony No.40 in G minor KV550

Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

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

Heaven help us…