[youtube.com/watch?v=Voo2zH_DZdE]“I dedicate this music that fills my heart with joy to all my friends with all my love, appreciation and hope for a better tomorrow!”
The movements of the suite are:
- Praeludium (Allegro vivace) 00:00
- Sarabande (Andante) 03:01
- Gavotte (Allegretto) 08:27
- Air (Andante religioso) 12:31
- Rigaudon (Allegro con brio) 20:21
Nagoya Streichersolisten Summer Concert 2012 directed By Kato Akira
We are the amateur string orchestra playing in Nagoya Japan.
Summer concerts are held once a year.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Statue of Holberg in Bergen, Norway (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Holberg Suite, Op. 40, more properly “From Holberg’s Time” (Norwegian: Fra Holbergs tid, German: Aus Holbergs Zeit), subtitled “Suite in olden style” (Norwegian: Suite i gammel stil, German: Suite im alten Stil), is a suite of five movements based on eighteenth century dance forms, written by Edvard Grieg in 1884 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Danish-Norwegian humanist playwright Ludvig Holberg.
It exemplifies
Edvard Grieg, who was a strong influence on Delius’s earlier music (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
nineteenth century music which makes use of musical styles and forms from the preceding century. It can be compared with Franz Liszt‘s À la Chapelle Sixtine, S.360 (1862) and contrasted with later neoclassical works.
The Holberg Suite was originally composed for the piano, but a year later was adapted for string orchestra. The suite consists of an introduction and a set of dances. It is a charming, early essay in neo-classicism, an attempt to echo as much as was known in Grieg’s time of the music of Holberg’s era.[1]
Although it is not as famous as Grieg’s incidental music from Peer Gynt, which is itself usually performed as arranged in a pair of suites, many critics regard the works as of equal merit.[2
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