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Thanks for sharing this peaceful Performance of ready to burst Bach-ian feelings!! _________________ The secret of not having worries, is to have ideas.
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Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:23 am Post subject:
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Trois mouvements perpétuels, for piano, FP 14 (1918)
I. Assez modéré
II. Très modéré
III. Alerte
When not yet 20, Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) composed his Trois mouvements perpétuels for piano in 1918. Written under the twin influences of Ravel and Stravinsky, the Trois mouvements perpétuels are difficult works whose difficulties never intrude on the lyrical lightness of the music. The first mouvement, Assez modere, features a charmingly gallic melody moving through right and wrong keys in the right hand over a relentless ostinato in the left hand. The second mouvement, Très modere, features an ostinato for both hands that eventually parts ways with the left hand keeping the ostinato more or less intact and the right hand moving it across the keyboard. The second mouvement ends with a quirky yet delightful run up to the top of the keyboard. The third mouvement, Alerte, is the least perpétuel of the three, with hardly an ostinato to disturb its flow of melody. Like the second mouvement, the third ends with a quirky yet charming final cadence in what sounds like the wrong key.
Gabriel Tacchino, piano
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Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Jerry Goldsmith (1929-2004), composer
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Great! Thanks, bp _________________ “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
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Also thank you for that _________________ “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:57 am Post subject:
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1996)
Variations on a Chord (1965)
According to Alexander Ivashkin:
"Elements of polystylism can be heard in the Variations on a Chord which were written for Irina Schnittke, the composer's wife; it was she who gave the first performance of them in Moscow in June 1966. The main structural idea of the work was borrowed from the second movement of Webern's Piano Variations, Op. 27; each note of the row can be used only in the same octave that was selected at the start. At the same time the idea of contrasting, almost polystylistic, variations belong to Schnittke.
The six variations are different in character. Sometimes they recall the ringing of bells (variation IV, Lento), a toccata in a Prokofiev-like style (variation III, Agitato), the impressionistic writing of Debussy (at the start of the piece), or the 'melodic cells' technique of Stravinsky in the spirit of his Les noces (variation II, Andante)."
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Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:22 am Post subject:
Richard Strauss
Vienna Philharmonic Fanfare
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Seiji Ozawa
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