A collaboration of: “The Classic Music Mafia”
Anthony Aaron, 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.
Steve C.
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 in D minor op 47 Dir Valery Gergiev Orq Mariinsky theatre
VALERY GERGIEV – MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR
THE MARIINSKY ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
2° DE DICIEMBRE DEL 2013 – December 2nd, 2013
TEATRO SALLE PLEYEL IN PARIS
The Next Five Come To Us Thanks To ursel doran.
Yuja Wang – Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23
Heaven has once again helped us with you gents SUPERB efforts to supply the world with this most anticipated and marvelous venue for worshiping the Music. THANKS SO VERY MUCH.
Submittals:
The genius of 10 years ago!!!
Yuja Wang plays Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44 in Amsterdam
Second one.
Alice Sara Ott plays Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major
Sarah Ott, not as famous as Yuja, but just as talented, gives a sterling performance!
Arturo Márquez – Danzón No. 2 (Alondra de la Parra, L’Orchestre de Paris)
A favorite conductor here!!!
This really is a good piece. We featured it ourselves in 2021. I urge everyone to click on the link to YouTube and give it a listen. – Steve C.
Céline Dion – My Heart Will Go On (Live 1999 – 2020)
“My Heart will go on” reminded me of the performance by Celine Dion.
It is no wonder that the Vegas casino guy built her a huge $100 Million dollar stadium for her exclusive performances. Here she performs it and the video puts together her costume changes for the performances.
This Next Piece Comes To Us From difrangia.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Gonna be a great day predicated by the selections here. That last ‘Godfather’ performance is the icing-on-the-cake for me. BTW, contrary to popular belief, Fredo didn’t die in the row-boat; that’s darn sure him on the clarinet !!
We just recently watched the Paramount+ ten episode docu-series ‘The Offer’ and if you’re a ‘Godfather’ nut, do check it out; it sheds a new perspective on the making of the initial epic of the movie series.
The Ennio Morricone spaghetti-western themes were little rocket-boosters for me for later in the day. Here’s an interesting little performance to round those classic pieces out. The Ukulele; ‘The Mouse that Roared’ !!
I’ll be moving mountains and slaying dragons today.
This Last Piece Comes To Us Thanks To Anonymous.
Bach / David and Igor Oistrakh, 1961: Double Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 – Goossens, Malcolm
Anthony Aaron
Back to one of my favorite composers, Jean Sibelius … this his Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, Op. 63
Sibelius 4 Symphony Herbert Blomstedt Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 4 A Minor Op. 63
1. Tempo molto moderato, quasi adagio – Adagio – Tempo I – Adagio – Tempo I
2. Allegro molto vivace – Tranquillo – Doppio più lento
3. Il tempo largo
4. Allegro
Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps Esa-Pekka Salonen Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland
Another performance by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra but conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, this of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps
Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps
I L’adoration de la terre
II Le sacrifice
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland
This next piece is composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams …
Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”
The London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson, Conductor
One of my favorite jazz performers – Jan Garbarek …
Jan Garbarek – Rites
Jan Garbarek – Raga 1 – Ragas & Sagas (Jan Garbarek & Ustad Fateh Ali Khan)
Jan Garbarek – Saga – Ragas & Sagas (Jan Garbarek & Ustad Fateh Ali Khan)
Ustad Fateh Ali Khan: Voice
Jan Garbarek: Soprano and tenor saxophones
Ustad Shaukat Hussain: Tabla
Ustad Nazim Ali Khan: Sarangi
Deepika Thathaal: Voice
Manu Katché: Drums
Steve C.
This week we look at some basic lessons of classical music.
How to Listen to Classical Music: General Ideas
This is the first part of a short series of videos on how to listen to classical music.
While many people use classical music for studying, relaxing and relaxation, or sleeping, far fewer people actually enjoy listening actively. Due to the difficult state of music education, most people don’t know how to follow a symphony, or how the best composers wrote and structured their works.
While it has been proven that classical music can be beneficial to the mental development of babies and kids, I believe it has life enhancing qualities for all ages, and as an art form deserves to be shared, whether through outreach, or tutorials and lessons like these.
How to Listen to Classical Music: Expression and Emotion
This is the second part of a short series of videos on how to listen to classical music.
This video focuses on how we feel emotion when listening to music. It looks at different kinds of musical expression and emotional music, including what makes us dance, how lyrics affect us, and how performers such as Beyonce and Chester Bennington are so successfully expressive. It looks at how we perceive movement in music, as well as qualities, and forces such as musical tension and climax.
It also crucially reviews Roger Scruton’s idea of the Dance of Sympathy, which is key to feeling emotion when listening to classical music.
How to Listen to Classical Music: Motifs and Seeds
This is the third part of a short series of videos on how to listen to classical music.
This video focuses on how music is structured and built into forms such as Sonata Form, Rondo Form, and Preludes, using musical seeds, or motifs, and musical arguments to form a fully expressive piece of music from simple musical ideas.
How to Listen to Classical Music: Fugues
This video looks at Fugues, and how they work. It considers the great fugues of Bach, as well as surveying fugue from Britten to Bernstein, Handel to Beethoven.
It looks at fugal technique – the exposition, subject, answer (tonal and real answers), and also the countersubject and episodes, and the concept of fugato. It then considers a variety of techniques, including canon, augmentation, diminution, inversion, stretto, and double fugues. The video also teaches us what counterpoint it.
The background music in the beginning is the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and then the fugue looked at is from Book 2 of Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier.
How to Listen to Classical Music: The Concerto
0:00 – Introduction to the Concerto
1:50 – Handel’s Arias
2:59 – Balancing Unequal Forces
5:36 – Vivaldi’s Spring Concerto
6:55 – Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos
8:00 – The Classical Concerto
9:56 – Concerto Sonata Form
11:48 – The Other Movements
12:32 – Rule-Breakers
13:48 – Essential Concertos Playlist
How to Listen to Classical Music: Tonality
This video covers much of the crucial ground needed to understand tonality, tonal systems, tonal and modal music, major and minor keys, key relations, what it means to modulate or key change, what is the tonic, dominant, subdominant, relative major and minor chords, and more.
This information is crucial to absorb if you want to understand classical music at a higher level, because it permeates so much music, from J.S. Bach through Mozart and Beethoven, all the way to 20th Century composers such as Shostakovich and others.
How to Listen to Classical Music: Sonata Form
This video gives a thorough look into how Sonata Form works, using Mozart’s Symphony no. 40 in G minor as an example, as well as Beethoven’s Symphony no. 3 in Eb major – the Eroica.
It gives a full account of the typical Sonata Form structure, including its Introduction, Exposition, Development, Recapitulation, and Coda.
The Classic Music Mafia – Adding some class to this joint one Sunday at a time.
Heaven help us…
Gentlemen, thanks again ever so much for this temple you provide on a Sunday to enable us to worship the Music God. Here is a classic, HUGE piece for all to enjoy.
The three tenors’ performance is superb!
This version of my heart will go on has always sounded a bit better to me. No offense to Celine she is really nice and down to earth for a celebrity (met her delivering pizza of all things), Sarah turned this song into something far more grand.
O/T … but I noticed in an ad from Costco that today happens to be Father’s Day …
I got to be a ‘father’ for only 2 1/2 years … I was living with a magnificent woman and her daughter from her first marriage. Her daughter was the most extraordinary child I’ve ever seen — she got it from her mother — and those 2 1/2 years of being a father to her were the best times of my life. I’ve missed her and her mother for a long time now … especially since I was never permitted to have children due to the chemotherapy that destroyed so many parts of me while keeping me alive.
Anyway … here’s a tribute that I found that seems somehow fitting …
Ciao.
It is always exciting to find some music that is quite different from all the classical genius of long-gone composers, with the magnificence of the orchestras and solo performers. Once in a while, something exciting pops up like this flute orchestra.
Steve C. Thanks for introducing us to another channel. In addition to the lessons, he has other treats, such as comparing metal to classical. The below isn’t that, but is a snippet from a powerful piece.
Happy Father’s Day to the dads out there.
I’d like to add this piece to this Sunday Morning/Night classics…
Philip Glass is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass’s work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers.
Beautiful music that I hope you will enjoy…
Well played….beautiful…..