SUNDAY MORNING CLASSICS ON TBP

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.

Requiem – Mozart KV 626 Gregory Carreño Simon Bolivar Orchestra of Venezuela

Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela

Simon Bolivar National Youth Choir of Venezuela

Samia Ibrahim, Soprano

Katiuska Rodriguez, Mezzo-Soprano

Robert Giron, Tenor

Alvaro Carrillo, Bass-Baritone

Gregory Carreño, Conductor

Sala Simón Bolívar, Centro de Acción Social por la Música
03/11/2012

I. Introitus: Requiem aeternam (choir with soprano solo) (02:45)
II. Kyrie (choir) (09:41)
III. Sequentia: – Dies irae (choir) (12:33) – Tuba mirum (solo quartet) (14:42) – Rex tremendae majestatis (choir) (19:15) – Recordare, Jesu pie (solo quartet) (23:07) – Confutatis maledictis (choir) (29:55) – Lacrimosa dies illa (choir) (33:04)
IV. Offertorium: – Domine Jesu Christe (choir with solo quartet) (37:51) – Versus: Hostias et preces (choir) (42:07)
V. Sanctus & Benedictus: – Sanctus (choir) (47:18 ) – Benedictus (solo quartet and choir) (49:43)
VI. Agnus Dei (choir) (57:08)
VII. Communio: – Lux aeterna (soprano solo and choir) (01:02:30)

This Next Piece Comes To Us Thanks To Boogie (Now Known As Booger).

Violinist Caroline Campbell – “Skyfall” LIVE!

Steve had to add Karen Carpenter. Her music is timeless.

Not sure she fits with the line up. But hey, what the heck, why not?

The Next Three Come To Us Thanks To ursel doran.

Lang Lang – Last Night Proms 2011 – Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major

THANKS much much for all your gentlemen’s efforts to bring this temple of worship for the music!!

Some submittals:

Lang Lang plays it.

Yuja Wang & David Fung: Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals [HD]

Carnival of the animals!

Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra. op.80

One more old favorite to help promote the little-seen barefoot virtuoso, Saran Ott.

The Next Two Pieces Come To Us Thanks To Anonymous.

In the Steppes of Central Asia

Sorry – I’ve nearly certainly posted this here before, as it’s one of my top fifty or so pieces ever, and some other YouTubes of it are accompanied by nice films and stills:

Ravel- Mother Goose

This Next Piece Comes To Us Thanks To Russ.

Khatia Buniatishvili – Beethoven: Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15: III. Rondo

Thanks for this weeks selections.

Anthony Aaron

W. A. Mozart – Concerto in C Major, K. 299, for Flute, Harp and Orchestra

I. Allegro II. Andantino III. Rondeau (Allegro) IRENA GRAFENAUER, Flöte Maria Graf, Harfe Academy od St. Martin-in-the-Fields Sir Neville Marriner

Bach – Aria mit 30 Veränderungen ‘Goldberg Variations’ BWV 988 – Rondeau

Netherlands Bach Society

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Cello Concerto in A minor, Wq 170

David Adorján – cello

1:00 I. Allegro assai
10:38 II. Andante
18:26 III. Allegro assai

Hans Zimmer – Time (Inception – Live in Prague)

I just finished watching ‘Inception’ … hadn’t seen it in a few years … and I love the Hans Zimmer composition that is the title piece for the movie.

Steve C.

Vienna Philharmonic – Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op.11 (Summer Night Concert 2019)

This is a truly beautiful piece of music and a very pretty video.

The Summer Night Concert was performed on June 20th, 2019. It is an annual open-air event, which has been held since 2008. The park of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna/Austria is the magical setting for the concert, which is free of charge for all residents and visitors of the city.

Central to the programme of the Vienna Philharmonic’s 2019 Summer Night Concert was a musical history of the United States of America: the works that were heard in the 2019 set are composed in or for the USA, while also constituting links with the Viennese musical tradition.

Richard Wagner: Prelude to «Lohengrin», Simon Rattle

Another truly beautiful piece of music.

The Saddest Concerto of All Time

And now for one more lesson in classical music.

Concertos aren’t particularly well known for being sad, so in this video I talk about a piece I think is probably the Saddest Concerto ever written. I explain how it flips the norms of the concerto genre.

Jacqueline du Pre & Daniel Barenboim – Elgar Cello Concerto

And now here’s the piece in its entirety…

Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire.

Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, when his music had already gone out of fashion with the concert-going public. In contrast with Elgar’s earlier Violin Concerto, which is lyrical and passionate, the Cello Concerto is for the most part contemplative and elegiac.

The first performance was a debacle because Elgar and the performers had been deprived of adequate rehearsal time. The work did not achieve wide popularity until the 1960s, when a recording by Jacqueline du Pré caught the public imagination and became a classical best-seller.

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

Heaven help us…

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