Friday, December 16th, 2011
Lohengrin is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain. [...]
Friday, November 18th, 2011
In “The Enchanted Lake, Op.62″, written in 1906, Liadov takes up an episode from the finnish “Kalevala” saga, yet equally responds to the lonely beauty of the lakes of his Russian homeland. “How picturesque, how pure – all those stars and the secrets of the deep! But above all – no people, no entreaties and [...]
Friday, November 11th, 2011
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (23 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His best-known works include the March from Love for Three Oranges, the suite Lieutenant Kijé, the ballet Romeo and [...]
“Magnificat anima mea Dominum” from “in D Major”, BWV 243, Mov. I
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, 1728-1731
Scoring:
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Soloists: Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Alto, Tenor, Bass; 5-part Chorus (SSATB)
Orchestra: 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 transverse flutes, 2 oboes, 2 oboes damore, 2 violins, viola, continuo (+ violoncello, violone, bassoon)
The Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425, is a concerto written by Antonio Vivaldi in 1725.
The demands are considered higher than other concerti by Vivaldi, and the work is one of the most famous mandolin pieces.
Movements:
1. Allegro
2. Largo
3. Allegro
Check Vivaldi’s four seasons if you want a more suitable piece for this new season.
Enjoy :)
Custom built mandolin on top of mandolin blueprints. Credit
Mark Coggins
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum “Prelude”.
The music is popular at Europe and brief, so I have embeded 2 versions of the piece.
The badinerie is best known for its designation as the final movement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, the piece we are going to enjoy. The movement is light in mood, and is structured in a binary form; it is cast in a swift 2/4 metre beginning on the upbeat, [...]