tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64645099062924962802024-03-13T00:49:32.021+01:00More Nice MusicDiscover & share interesting musicMore Moving Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01751776202283866921noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464509906292496280.post-48058461110150869142018-12-02T13:33:00.002+01:002019-01-05T21:12:23.859+01:00Piano concert in A - Grieg<h2>
Piano Concert in A - Grieg</h2>
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We went to hear Piano concert by Grieg performed by <span style="background-color: white; color: #1a242f; font-family: "santral w01 regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nikolai Tokarev, piano and the Russia Philharmonic Orchestra. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a242f; font-family: "santral w01 regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Very well played and re-opened my interest for this piece, which is so </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a242f; font-family: "santral w01 regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">beautiful</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a242f; font-family: "santral w01 regular" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. </span></div>
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The <b>Piano Concerto in A minor</b>, Op. 16, composed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Grieg" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Edvard Grieg">Edvard Grieg</a> in 1868, was the only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Concerto">concerto</a> Grieg completed. It is one of his most popular works<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-1" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup> and is among the most popular of all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_concerto" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Piano concerto">piano concerti</a>.</div>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">The main theme of the allegro molto moderato.</td></tr>
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The concerto is in three movements:<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Allegro molto moderato</i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_minor" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="A minor">A minor</a>)
<dl style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The first movement is in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonata_form" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sonata form">sonata form</a> and is noted for the timpani roll in its first bar that leads to a dramatic piano flourish, which leads to the main theme. Then the key changes to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="C major">C major</a>, for the secondary theme. Later, the secondary theme appears again in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_(music)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Recapitulation (music)">recapitulation</a>, but this time in the key of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_major" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="A major">A major</a>. The movement finishes with a virtuosic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadenza" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cadenza">cadenza</a> and a flourish similar to that at the start of the movement.</dd></dl>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Adagio</i> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-flat_major" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="D-flat major">D-flat major</a>)
<dl style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The second movement is a lyrical movement in D-flat major, which leads directly into the third movement. The movement is in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_form" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ternary form">ternary form</a> (A–B–A). The B section is in D-flat major and E major, then returns to D-flat major for the reprise of the piano.</dd></dl>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Allegro moderato molto e marcato – Quasi presto – Andante maestoso</i> (A minor → <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_major" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="F major">F major</a> → A minor → A major)
<dl style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em;"><dd style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;">The third movement opens in A minor <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , "lucida sans unicode";"><span style="font-family: "georgia pro" , "georgia" , "dejavu serif" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="display: inline-block; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 0.85em; margin-bottom: -0.3em; text-align: center; vertical-align: -0.4em;"><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>2</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>4</b></span></span></span></span> time with an energetic theme (Theme 1), which is followed by a lyrical theme in F major (Theme 2). The movement returns to Theme 1. Following this recapitulation is the <span class="music-symbol" style="font-family: "arial unicode ms" , "lucida sans unicode";"><span style="font-family: "georgia pro" , "georgia" , "dejavu serif" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="display: inline-block; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 0.85em; margin-bottom: -0.3em; text-align: center; vertical-align: -0.4em;"><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>3</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>4</b></span></span></span></span> A major <i>Quasi presto</i> section, which consists of a variation of Theme 1. The movement concludes with the <i>Andante maestoso</i> in A major, which consists of a dramatic rendition of Theme 2 (as opposed to the lyrical fashion with which Theme 2 is introduced).</dd></dl>
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The work is among Grieg's earliest important works, written by the 24-year-old composer in 1868 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ller%C3%B8d_Municipality" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Søllerød Municipality">Søllerød</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Denmark">Denmark</a>, during one of his visits there to benefit from the climate.</div>
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The concerto is often compared to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Schumann)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Piano Concerto (Schumann)">Piano Concerto</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Robert Schumann">Robert Schumann</a>: it is in the same <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_(music)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Key (music)">key</a>; the opening descending flourish on the piano is similar; and the overall style is considered to be closer to Schumann than any other single composer. Incidentally, both composers wrote only one concerto for piano. Grieg had heard Schumann's concerto played by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Schumann" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Clara Schumann">Clara Schumann</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leipzig" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a> in 1858, and was greatly influenced by Schumann's style generally, having been taught the piano by Schumann's friend Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel.</div>
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Grieg's concerto provides evidence of his interest in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_folk_music" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Norwegian folk music">Norwegian folk music</a>; the opening flourish is based on the motif of a falling minor second (<i>see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_(music)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Interval (music)">interval</a></i>) followed by a falling major third, which is typical of the folk music of Grieg's native country. This specific motif occurs in other works by Grieg, including the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_Quartet_No._1_(Grieg)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="String Quartet No. 1 (Grieg)">String Quartet No. 1</a>. In the last movement of the concerto, similarities to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halling_(dance)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Halling (dance)">halling</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></sup> (a Norwegian folk dance) and imitations of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_fiddle" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hardanger fiddle">Hardanger fiddle</a> (the Norwegian folk fiddle) have been detected.</div>
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The work was premiered by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Neupert" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Edmund Neupert">Edmund Neupert</a> on April 3, 1869 in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Copenhagen">Copenhagen</a>, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger_Simon_Paulli" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Holger Simon Paulli">Holger Simon Paulli</a> conducting. Some sources say that Grieg himself, an excellent pianist, was the intended soloist, but he was unable to attend the premiere owing to commitments with an orchestra in Christiania (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Oslo">Oslo</a>). Among those who did attend the premiere were the Danish composer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Gade" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Niels Gade">Niels Gade</a> and the Russian pianist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Rubinstein" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Anton Rubinstein">Anton Rubinstein</a>, who provided his own piano for the occasion.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></sup> Neupert was also the dedicatee of the second edition of the concerto (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikard_Nordraak" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Rikard Nordraak">Rikard Nordraak</a> was the original dedicatee), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Huneker" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="James Huneker">James Huneker</a>said that he himself composed the first movement cadenza.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></sup></div>
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The Norwegian premiere in Christiania followed on August 7, 1869, and the piece was later heard in Germany in 1872 and England in 1874. At Grieg's visit to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Liszt" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Franz Liszt">Franz Liszt</a> in Rome in 1870, Liszt played the notes <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_prima_vista" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="A prima vista">a prima vista</a></i> (by sight) before an audience of musicians and gave very good comments on Grieg's work which would later influence him. The work was first published in Leipzig in 1872, but only after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Svendsen" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Johan Svendsen">Johan Svendsen</a> intervened on Grieg's behalf.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-8" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a></sup></div>
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Grieg revised the work at least seven times, usually in subtle ways, but the revisions amounted to over 300 differences from the original orchestration. In one of these revisions, he undid Liszt's suggestion to give the second theme of the first movement (as well as the first theme of the second) to the trumpet rather than to the cello. The final version of the concerto was completed only a few weeks before Grieg's death, and it is this version that has achieved worldwide popularity. The original 1868 version has been recorded, by Love Derwinger, with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrk%C3%B6ping" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Norrköping">Norrköping</a> Symphony Orchestra under Jun'ichi Hirokami.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-10" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></sup></div>
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Grieg worked on a transcription of the concerto for two solo pianos, which was completed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1roly_Thern" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Károly Thern">Károly Thern</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-11" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></sup> The premiere recording of this version was by the British two-piano team of Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-12" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></sup> On April 2, 1951, the Russian-born American pianist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Barere" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Simon Barere">Simon Barere</a> collapsed while playing the first few bars of the concerto, in a performance with conductor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Ormandy" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Eugene Ormandy">Eugene Ormandy</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Orchestra" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Philadelphia Orchestra">Philadelphia Orchestra</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="New York City">New York</a>. He died backstage shortly afterwards.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-13" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a></sup> It was to have been Barere's first performance of the work.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Concerto_(Grieg)#cite_note-14" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></sup></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Listen to Shostakovich
8th quartet and you have heard half his other work as well. This work written
in 1960, seems to reflect the composer full emotional journey. Stories tell
that Shostakovich was suicidal at this point in time, struggling with his
health and with his decision to finally join the Communistic Party. His son
recalled that his decision brought Shostakovich in tears<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich#cite_note-50"><span style="color: #252525; text-decoration: none;">[50]</span></a> and
he later told his wife Irina that he had been blackmailed.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich#cite_note-51"><span style="color: #252525; text-decoration: none;">[51]</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Shostakovich's musical
response to these personal crises was the Eighth String Quartet, composed
in only three days. He subtitled the piece, "To the victims of fascism and
war",<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich#cite_note-54"><span style="color: #252525; text-decoration: none;">[54]</span></a> ostensibly
in memory of the Dresden fire-bombing that took place in 1945.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Like the Tenth
Symphony, this quartet incorporates quotations from his musical
monogram DSCH and work from the past: his symphonies 1 & 5, the Cello
Concerto and the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsenk). It shows the freedom of mind Shostakovich still had. The opera was the vehicle for
the general denunciation of Shostakovich's music by the Communist
Party in early 1936. Shostakovich also brings in a Jewish melody in
the second movement, which he had also used in the 2nd Piano Trio in 1944. He
was intrigued by Jewish music’s "ability to build a jolly melody on
sad intonations".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich#cite_note-76"><span style="color: #252525; text-decoration: none;">[76]</span></a>,
, but as you can picture, Jewish music was not so popular in the Stalin
days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Some modern composers
have been critical on the work of Shostakovich. Pierre Boulez dismissed
Shostakovich's music as "the second, or even third pressing of Mahler".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich#cite_note-86"><span style="color: #252525; text-decoration: none;">[86]</span></a> The
Romanian composer and Webern disciple <span style="color: #252525; text-decoration: none;">Philip Gershkovich</span> called Shostakovich
"a hack in a trance".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich#cite_note-87"><span style="color: #252525; text-decoration: none;">[87]</span></a> A
related complaint is that Shostakovich's style is vulgar and strident: Stravinsky wrote
of Lady Macbeth: "brutally hammering ... and monotonous".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich#cite_note-88"><span style="color: #252525; text-decoration: none;">[88]</span></a> English
composer and musicologist Robin Holloway described his music as
"battleship-grey in melody and harmony, factory-functional in structure;
in content all rhetoric and coercion."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Shostakovich#cite_note-89"><span style="color: #252525; text-decoration: none;">[89]</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Well listen for
yourself in this 8th Quartet, especially the recreation by Shostakovich pupil
Rudolf Barshai. Shostakovich declared that the arrangement was an improvement
of the original. I guess a comment like that for a re-work of this so personal
piece, can be considered a hugh compliment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The piece start with 5
minutes of such mournful music, clearly the componer carries the whole world on
his shoulders. The second piece is almost like the opposite and typical
Shostakovich: high energy, almost violent. The third piece seems inspired by
the Danse Macabre and he finishes with the Russian song “Exhausted by
Harsh Imprisonment”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">I like these emotional
expressions with deep dark music. You as well?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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About me</h4>
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My name is Sjang Ramaekers and I love to listen to music with an impact, music that moves me.I like to read and learn on those pieces which i find beautiful and then capture what i find out over that music. </div>
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I will use this blog for that, as my external memory. I do copy from others and will mention it if i do (if i dont forget)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">In the Netherlands, we had a time where youth choirs made it attractive for people
to go to the church for a ceremony. The churches were interested in having good
choirs to attract a new audience and the choirs were happy as they had a platform to perform. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In
the time of Vivaldi, we had a similar situation in the sense that churches were
competing against each other but also against concert halls to bring the best
possible music. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And
if you had to compete who better to have for writing the music than priest and
musician Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741). Vivaldi mind was certainly with music, perhaps
more then with being a priest. During masses, he simply stopped if a musical
thought had to be captured. Life is all about setting the right priorities. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He
may have gotten the assignment from the Ospedale della Pieta, where he was
working as a violin teacher in 1703, to compose the Nisi Dominus (RV 608). In
the Ospedale della Pieta, Vivaldi had excellent singers and very strong instrumentalists,
which you can hear in the way the piece is set up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">The
part for the viola d ‘amore for the Gloria was written down treating three of the four upper strings as
transposing ‘instruments’—the open strings of the viola d’amore are tuned to D,
F and D instead of the E, D and G familiar to a violinist—a procedure that
leads to bizarre visual effects. Fingered
as they would be on the violin, however, the notes make perfect harmonic and
melodic sense.</span> (Michael Talbot)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">“
The Nisi Dominus (Psalm 126) is a long and very ambitious piece whose nine
movements vary enormously in their style and scoring. It has two simple
continuo arias (´</span>'Vanum est
vobis' <span style="color: #444444;">and</span> 'Beatus vir'<span style="color: #444444;">), one with string accompaniment in unison
with the voice (</span>'Sicut sagittae'<span style="color: #444444;">), two lively concerto
church arias (</span>'Nisi Dominus'<span style="color: #444444;">, and its reprise '</span>Sicut erat in principio<span style="color: #444444;">') and one ('</span>Cum dederit<span style="color: #444444;">') that's written in the slow</span> siciliana <span style="color: #444444;">style with chromatically
ascending lines that Vivaldi often used to convey the idea of rest and sleep.
It's third movement (</span>'Surgite'<span style="color: #444444;">) is an accompanied
recitative in which Vivaldi juxtaposes rapid ascending figures with slow ones
at</span> 'panem doloris'. <span style="color: #444444;">At the words "Sicut
erat in principio" (As it was in the beginning), Vivaldi calls on the old
Baroque trick of returning to music heard at the very beginning of the work</span>.
The <span style="color: #444444;">'Gloria' which instead of
being the expected set of joyous exclamations is a marvelously dark and
solitary passage that leads us, suitably chastened, to the Alleluia-like Amen.”
(from markfromireland’s site Saterday
Chorale)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
part I like most is the fourth movement, an Andante, which begins by relating
how the Lord gave his beloved people both sleep and children. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">Cum
dederit dilectis suis somnum:</span> <span style="color: #444444;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">ecce haereditas Domini, filii: </span><span style="color: #444444;">merces, fructus ventris.</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="color: #444444;">For he brings rest</span> to those he has chosen</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>behold an inheritance from the Lord – sons:<br /><span style="color: #444444;">a reward, the fruit of the womb.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
‘Cum dederit’ is music of the greatest poise and delicacy, similar in mood to
some of the slow movements in <i>The Four Seasons</i>, except more
chromatic and suspenseful.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please
listen and sit back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">You will find lots of documents describing
the importance of Monteverdi´s masterpiece Orfeo (1607). It is being regarded as the
first real opera by many and seen as one of the very best and still performed regularly today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Monteverdi blends the ancient Greek
mythology with his highly innovative and expressive music style, going against
the strict rules of the contemporary style. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Monteverdi's work is regarded as
revolutionary, marking the change from the <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Renaissance</span> style
of music to that of the <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Baroque</span> period.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi#cite_note-2"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">[2]</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">He
developed two styles of composition: the prima practica </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">– the heritage of Renaissance </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">polyphony</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">and the new </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">basso continuo</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> technique
of the Baroque, the seconda practica.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi#cite_note-3" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">[3]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> In</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Prima pratica</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">the harmony controls the words.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi#cite_note-Schrade.2C_Leo_1950-10" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">[10]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">In</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Seconda pratica</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">the words should be in control of
the harmonies.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi#cite_note-Schrade.2C_Leo_1950-10" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">[10]</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Prima pratica was the ideal of the
sixteenth century, with flowing strict <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">counterpoint</span>, prepared <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">dissonance</span>, and equality of voices. Seconda
pratica uses much freer counterpoint with an
increasing hierarchy of voices, emphasizing <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">soprano</span> and <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">bass</span>, adding recitatives and basso continuo. This
represents a move towards the new style of <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">monody</span>, with a single solo line with musical
accompaniment, in opposition to <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">homophony</span> and <span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">polyphony</span>, in which groups of voices sang independently and
with a greater balance between parts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">For this major musical development, Monteverdi
selects the really powerful story of Orpheus & Eurydice. Just after their
marriage, Orpheus loses his wife Eurydice because of a bite of a snake. Orpheus is a
gifted singer and goes with his lyre to the world of the death and convinces
Hades to give him back his so beloved wife. Hades agrees but under one
condition. During the trip back to the world, Orpheus is not allowed to look
back to see if his wife is still following him. Of course agreeing, he then
walks with a joyful spirit back our earth. But slowly he starts to doubt if she
is following him. A sudden terrible noise makes him so concerned and doubtful that he does
look back. In a split second he sees the beautiful shining eyes of Eurydice
again but then she leaves for ever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Monteverdi follows the story in a beautiful
telling manner (act 4). The upbeat during the first part of the walk, then a
slow down with the questioning and doubting Orpheus. The sudden noise, music
stopping and then with Eurydice in sight, the harsh and cold harpsichord changes
for just a few bars into the soft organ sound before Eurydice vanishes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Lesson for all of us, you can’t win
from death but still you should not look back and focus on the future!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The piece I like perhaps most from this opera, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">depending on my own mood, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> is ‘Rosa del Ciel’, in which Orpheus sings about his happiness with his beloved wife. I like it maybe so much
as Rosa is also the name of my daughter, who is soon returning for a couple a days from far
away Canada, (although I would not compare that to the Underworld).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Look forward to hear this beautiful piece of music</span></span></div>
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El Canto de la Sibila</h4>
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Music and religion, it seems that they are very connected.
In an earlier blog, we saw religion being the source of inspiration for great
composers like Anton Bruckner. Also the first music captured on paper and so
surviving times was the Gregorian Chant, bringing the audience into a state of
devoutness.<o:p></o:p><br />
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In 2010 Unesco recognized `El Canto de la Sibila` as intangible
cultural heritage. The Song of the Sibyl is a liturgical drama and a Gregorian
chant which is performed in allmost all churches of Mallorca and in the Italian
city of Alghero at the evening church services on December 24th. <span title="Recientemente , ha sido recuperado en otras poblaciones como Barcelona y en las ciudades Valencianas de Onteniente, Jaraco y Gandía.
">Recently,
it has been recovered in other locations such as Barcelona and in the Valencian
cities of Onteniente, Jaraco and Gandia. </span><br />
<span title="Recientemente , ha sido recuperado en otras poblaciones como Barcelona y en las ciudades Valencianas de Onteniente, Jaraco y Gandía.
"><br /></span>
<span title="Recientemente , ha sido recuperado en otras poblaciones como Barcelona y en las ciudades Valencianas de Onteniente, Jaraco y Gandía.
">The chant was introduced all
around Europe in the Middle Ages and it reached Majorca with the Christian
conquest in 1229. The lyrics compose a prophecy describing the Apocalypse. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The figure of Sibil comes from the time of ancient Greece.
There are many persons who are referred to as Sibil and these women were oracles in, for
example Delphi. They were incorporated into the Christian Church as their apocalyptic
visions included the promise of the second coming of Jesus Christ <span title="para juzgar el mundo.">to judge the world. Michelangelo included Sibil
in his beautiful paintings in the Sistine Chapel, so confirming the importance
she and her messages had for the church as it leaves nothing to the imagination
of what will happen to unbelievers:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span title="para juzgar el mundo."><br /></span></div>
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<i>The Day of Judgement<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>will appear For those who have made service.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Jesus Christ, Universal King,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>eternal God and true man<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Heaven will come to pass judgment<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>and give to each their just reward.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Great fire will come down from Heaven;<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>springs and rivers will all burn.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Fish will scream loudly<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>losing the natural charms<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The sun will lose its brightness<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>becoming dark and veiled.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The moon will give no light<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>and the whole world will be full of sadness.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>To evil people I will say bitterly:<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>- Go, you damned, into the torment!<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Go, go to the eternal fire<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>With your Prince of Hell</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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In the present-day performance, a boy or girl sings, accompanied by two
or more Altar boys carrying candles. The singer holds a sword upright in front
of his or her face during the entire song. The verses are sung in a single voice
and without instrumental accompaniment, apart from when the organ plays between
the verses. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is fascinating to listen and look to the performance of this work,
it is as looking back 800 years and easy to imagine the impact it had and still
has on the audience in a dark and cold church in the middle of the winter: <i>Believe or Die</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Devote</div>
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<a href="http://www.dovesong.com/images/archives/bruckner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.dovesong.com/images/archives/bruckner.jpg" height="400" width="280" /></a>What kind of a person was Anton Bruckner?. Mahler describes
him as half an idiot, half a genius. Very devote, falling in love with teenage
girls even at higher age, keeping a photo of his dead mother (as he had no
photo from her still alive....). It indeed pictures a remarkable man. Also an
insecure man it looks like when it concerns his work. For most of his
symphonies we know of many re-writes as Bruckner wanted to please his critics
of whom there were many. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Max Kalbeck, a friend of Brahms wrote in the Wiener
Allgemeine Zeitung, February 13, 1883:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The tonal ghosts are altogether
too mad: it is as though a pack of wolves met on Walpurgis Night, such stamping
and roaring, raging and screaming goes wildly on. If the future can relish such
a chaotic piece of music, with sounds echoing from a hundred cliffs, we wish
that future to be far away from us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Where Bruckner had no struggle was with his devotion to God: he
believed. Where we see in Mahler searching for God in Nature and in himself and going from assurance to doubt, Bruckner sang of his
God and for his God. His 9th symphony was dedicated to God and he hoped He
would grant him the time to finish it. Which didn't happen as he had to leave the work unfinished.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bruckner studied intensively the music of Palestrina and
Bach and after working as an organist at the court of Vienna and taken over
from his teacher Sechter his professorship at the Vienna Conservatory, he spent
his final decades creating his nine symphonies. These symphonies are sometimes
refer to as "cathedrals of sound". Mahler expands the scope of the symphony even
further - he famously argued with Sibelius that a symphony should contain the
universe. - and he created an unmistakably modern musical language by including
sounds from the ‘outside world’, using cowbells, military band music, uncommon
wind instruments, mandolins and guitars, even vocal soloists and chorus<o:p></o:p></div>
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his motet Ave Maria. The work dates from 1861 and features three parts for
female and four for male voices. Witzenmann links Bruckner's Ave Maria to four
motets of Palestrina one being the Stabat Mater. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Walk in and out</h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An opera of 5 hours, too long to stay focused? Well, that is why you are allowed to walk in and out. That is the case with Einstein on the beach, created by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in 1976. <span style="line-height: 17px;">Einstein prepared the way for much of what has happened in music theater since its premiere. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60046000/jpg/_60046560_jex_1398355_de25-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60046000/jpg/_60046560_jex_1398355_de25-1.jpg" height="225" width="400" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Glass and Wilson decided to create an opera based around a historical persona. Einstein was selected after they could n</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">ot agree upon </span>Charlie Chaplin<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> or </span>Adolf Hitler. Albert Einstein<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> was the eventual compromise. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The work is one out of serie of three where Glass portraits </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">people whose personal vision transformed the thinking of their times through the power of ideas rather than by military force.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Although i appreciate minimal music for its capability to slow down time, 5 hours is a lot to handle. The little piece I like a lot is the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">music within the first of the opera's "Knee Plays" which features repeated numbers accompanied by an electric organ. Glass states that these numbers and solfège syllables were used as placeholders for texts by the singers to memorize their parts, and were kept instead of replacing them with texts.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252525;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> This numerical repetition offers an interpretation as a reference to the mathematical and scientific breakthroughs made by Einstein himself. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Messe de Nostre Dame</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> is a beautiful </span>polyphonic<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span>mass<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> composed before 1365 by </span>French<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span>poet<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> and </span>composer<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span>Guillaume de Machaut<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> (c. 1300–1377). It is one of the great masterpieces of </span>medieval music<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> and of all religious music. Opposite to the Tournai Mass, it is not a compilation from several composers but created by Guillaume as single composer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">It is possible that Machaut was familiar with the Tournai Mass</span><span style="background-color: white;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The Gloria and Credo of the Messe de Nostre Dame show similarities to the Tournai mass, such as textless musical interludes, simultaneous style, and long melismatic Amens. The other four movements of Machaut's mass are composed in motet style with mass text.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">For me, the Pater Nostre is one of the most lovely pieces, as it reminds me of being as a young kid in the </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">cloister of my uncle, who was a Benedictine monk. Their chant was filling the church the same time as the incense was filling it and the sun entering through the Rose window. Felt like a heavenly experience.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Please also listen to the Introitus with the beautiful bells joining the voices!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brahms achieves with his tempo and dynamics, a heavy emotional load i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">n ´Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mühseligen?´. The perfect balance between the motet contrapuntal technique and romantic
expression, makes this work one of the absolute highlights of choral
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<span style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This dramatic powerful music was written in 1877 during a peaceful summer holiday. </span></span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not sure how you are going to spend your next holiday?</span><br />
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beautiful Sunday over here and even if you are not religious, this music of
Henrich Bach expresses well how you can be grateful and not only for the
weather.</span></span><br />
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Bach (1615-1692) was the brother of Christoph Bach, who was the grandfather of
Johann Sebastian Bach. Heinrich, then on his turn was the grandfather of Maria
Barbara Bach, who was the first wife of Johann Sebastian. </span></span><br />
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in its beauty than the complexity i would assume in these relations. Upon his death, he was praised highly as
"an organist who touched the heart."</span></span><br />
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Bach's vocal concerto, or cantata,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>Ich danke dir</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Gott</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> is
the only vocal work by him which survived. It makes you wonder about the other pieces we do not know....</span></span><br />
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Lechner about the first movement of the Third Symphony:<br />
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<a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bpfKB18%2BL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bpfKB18%2BL.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a>That almost ceases to be music; it is practically the sounds of nature. It is eerie
how life gradually wrests itself free from the inanimate, rigid matter—I could
have named the movement “What the Craggy Mountains Tell Me.” . . . Again,
the atmosphere of a stifling heat on a summer midday hangs over the
introduction to this movement. Not a breath stirs. All life is suspended. The
sun-soaked air shimmers and flickers. I hear it in my mental ear, but how to find
the physical tones?s<br />
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The Adagietto of the Fifth Symphony, played at funerals, was written as a love letter- another instance of Mahler's writing music that points in opposite ways<br />
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