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.

The Following Feature Comes To Us Thanks To Ooze the other one.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 | Celibidache & the Berlin Philharmonic

Thank you! I played bassoon and clarinet for several years and was responsible for 6 hours of pre-recorded classical “Overtures & Encores” at the student-run, 5000-watt radio station at a large religious university in Waco during the mid-80s. We also played jazz, gospel, rock and punk. That’s where I really learned to appreciate all forms of music.

But, to me, “classical music” is the ultimate musical expression. Thank you for posting these videos. I have been keeping myself in the dark when it comes to new additions for my classical playlist.

I’ve been wondering if there was a young conductor who could fill Sergiu Celibidache’s shoes. Boian Videnoff might surpass the superlative Romanian conductor… if he starts making audible, emotive utterances at unexpected moments.

The first time I heard somebody making a vocal sound during a concert recording, I was surprised. The second time it happened in the same recording, I was embarrassed for whoever released such a “tainted” performance.

By the time I heard the third, very emotional vocalization in that concert, I was mad!

Who dare interrupt such a marvelous orchestra at such inopportune moments?!

Sergiu Celibidache, the Romanian conductor, that’s who.

I’m not sure if this is that same recording, but it is definitely a good one:

A historical, superlative concert: The Berlin Philharmonic performs Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 in E major (WAB 107) under conductor Sergiu Celibidache in the Konzerthaus Berlin, in the spring of 1992. Rehearsals for the concert were documented in the film ‘The Triumphant Return’ (dir. Wolfgang Becker, 1992).

(00:00) Allegro moderato
(28:09) Adagio
(58:48) Scherzo
(1:11:15) Finale

Following the war, the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1922 to 1945, Wilhelm Furtwängler, was required to submit to the denazification process. The young Sergiu Celibidache thereby became the top orchestra’s interim conductor, from 1945 until 1952. Following that, Furtwängler was once again on the podium.

In 1954 the Philharmonic selected not the predestined Celibidache to be Furtwängler’s official successor – but rather Herbert von Karajan. Sergiu Celibidache was so incensed by being passed over that he vowed to never again conduct the famous orchestra. It took 38 years before a collaboration could once again take place: the concert of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 happened only at the instigation of the German president at the time, Richard von Weizsäcker. In the intervening years, Celibidache had become an internationally sought-after conductor.

Anton Bruckner’s seventh symphony premiered in 1884. The second movement is a piece of funereal music that Bruckner composed in 1883 in response to the death of Richard Wagner. In an homage to Wagner, Bruckner utilized the so-called ‘Wagner tuba’ for the first time, which Wagner had created for his own ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’ cycle.

Despite its length and the sprawling development of its thematic arcs, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 remains to this day one of his most regularly performed works, played in concert houses around the globe.

The Next Piece Comes To Us Thanks To Anthony Aaron.

Elgar Cello Concerto / Jacqueline Du Pré / Sir John Barbirolli, LSO (ASD 655) 1965

The du Pré/Barenboim recordings of the Dvorak cello concerto were the gold standard performance in the vinyl era … and the du Pré/Barbirolli recordings of the Elgar cello concerto were likewise the gold standard performance of that piece.

She died at the age of 42 from MS … which forced her to stop performing at age 28.

She was/is considered by some to be the greatest cellist of all time…

The Next Three Pieces Come To Us Thanks To ursel doran.

Yuja Wang – Prokofiev : Toccata in D minor Op 11S

Thanks, sirs for the Sunday temple for our worshiping you create so very well!!

A couple of submittals.

Yuja performing Prokofiev’s Toccata

“The faces of the orchestra watching in amazement is something to behold.”

Unforgettable Beginnings from 12 Great Piano Concertos

Beginnings of 12 piano concertos.

The old master composers had to get the audience going at the beginning!

Yuja Wang Inspiring Stories In Partnership with Rolex

Yuja has three fascinating and enlightening minutes discussing her beginnings and philosophy of being a performer.

The Following Piece Comes To Us Thanks To Sen. Cornynholio.

Sedaa at the Serenade! Choral Music Festival

Thanks again to the mafia, keep it up guys !!! Here’s my contribution:

From the video description,

Sedaa performs during the Serenade! Choral Music Festival Grand Finale, July 8, 2019.

Sedaa means “voice” in Persian, and it connects traditional Mongolian music with the Orient to create an extraordinary and fascinating sound. Master singers Nasaa Nasanjargal and Naraa Naranbaatar, who studied in their Mongolian homeland, join with the virtuosic Dulcimer player Ganzorig Davaakhuu and the Iranian multi-instrumentalist Omid Bahadori to bring you one genuinely exotic world between the Orient and Mongolian steppe.

The foundation of their modern composition is formed by the natural sounds of traditional instruments, as well as the use of the ancient vocal technique of their nomadic ancestors, with which a person produces several tones at the same time.

The Next Four Come To Us Thanks To Anonymous.

Hilary Hahn – V. Williams “The Lark Ascending”

In the Steppes of Central Asia – Borodin – Mongolia

RAVEL Mother Goose SuiteThe fairy garden) Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Orchestra

Smetana – Die Moldau (Karajan)

This Next Piece Comes To Us Thanks To m.

MIKE OLDFIELD – THE LAKE

And The Moldau will always be a favorite of mine…
And only just now did I make the connection to this, it’s almost like a tribute:

nkit

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Waltz from “Eugene Onegin” (1990)

Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer (5-7-1840 – 11-6-1893). We have played Tchaikovsky many times on Sunday Morning Classics, but I wish to add a bit more today.

We’ll begin with a waltz from Tchaikovsky’s three act play titled “Eugene Onegin.” It is performed by the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.

P.Tchaikovsky. Italian Capriccio

His next piece is known as one of his masterpieces titled “Italian Capriccio.

Tchaikovsky：Waltz of the Flowers

We’ll conclude with another of his more well known pieces titled “Waltz of the Flowers.”

It is performed by the Berlin Philharmoniker with Daniel Barenboim conducting.

I hope you have enjoyed Tchaikovsky today.

Have a great Sunday.


Steve C.

Gustav Mahler: Adagietto for Strings and Harp

Odysseus North Texas Chamber Orchestra.

Jason Lim, Conductor.

GUSTAV MAHLER – 5TH SYMPHONY, ADAGIETTO. W.O.P. BBC PROMS 2010

World Orchestra for Peace

Valery Gergiev conductor

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

Heaven help us…

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