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Giuseppe Sammartini Oboe Concerto in E flat major: make music part of your life series

Giuseppe Sammartini Oboe Concerto in E flat major

  Volkan Işılay

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The only surviving portrait of Sammartini by Domenico Riccardi. Cattoretti, Anna, ed. Giovanni Battista Sammartini and His Musical Environment. Brepolis, 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini (also Gioseffo, S Martini, St Martini, San Martini, San Martino, Martini, Martino;^[1] 6 January 1695 – November 1750) was an Italian composer and oboist during the late Baroque and early Classical era. Although he was from Milan, most of his professional life was spent in London and with Frederick, the Prince of Wales.

Giuseppe Sammartini was born in Milan, Italy. He had a younger brother, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, who also became a particularly renown composer and oboist. Both brothers took oboe lessons from their French father Alexis Saint-Martin.^[2] Although he was born in Milan, Giuseppe found his success in other parts of Europe. His first trip was to Brussels, and from there he made his way to London where he would go on to spend the rest of his life. Giuseppe did return to Milan for his sister Madalena’s marriage on 13 February 1728.^[3] In July of 1728 Giuseppe also travelled to Brussels with his pupil Gaetano Parenti.^[4]

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Schubert – Piano sonata D.664 – Richter London 1979

  incontrario motu

Franz Schubert

Piano sonata D.664

I. Allegro moderato 0:00
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III. Allegro 18:35

Sviatoslav Richter
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Georges Bizet – Carmen suite No. 2: make music part of your life series

Georges Bizet – Carmen suite No. 2

  Akademia Filmu i Telewizji

00:34 Marche des contrebandiers
04:55 Habanera
07:03 Nocturne
11:35 Chanson du Toréador
14:19 La garde montante
18:09 Danse Boheme
Polish Nationwide Music Schools’ Symphonic Orchestras Competition.
Jury Award
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Andrzej Kucybała – conductor

Ogólnopolski Konkurs Orkiestr Szkolnych Szkół Muzycznych II stopnia 2013,
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Georges Bizet – Suita Carmen nr 2

Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Concerto in A Minor (13 year old Mendelssohn): make music part of your life series

Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Concerto in A Minor (13 year old Mendelssohn)

   bartje11

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (German born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (3 February 1809 — 4 November 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

Piano Concerto in A Minor (1822):

1. Allegro
2. Adagio (13:32)
3. Finale: Allegro ma non troppo (22:10)

Cyprien Katsarsis piano and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra conducted by Janos Rolla

paintings and drawings by Felix Mendelssohn (except his images and his wife’s)

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  Wolfgang Amadé Mozart

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  gerundive

I Amoroso
II Allegro e con spirito
III Minuetto, trio
IV Rondeau, andante

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Mussorgsky “Pictures at an Exhibition” arr: Stokowski: great compositions/performances

Mussorgsky “Pictures at an Exhibition” arr: Stokowski

  Addiobelpassato

“Pictures at an Exhibition”
for piano by Modest Mussorgsky
arranged for orchestra by Leopold Stokowski
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski, conductor
(1966)
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

This article is about the original suite by Modest Mussorgsky and its orchestral arrangements. For other uses, see Pictures at an Exhibition .

Mussorgsky in 1874

Mussorgsky’s letter to Stasov, June 1874, written while composing Pictures

Mussorgsky’s letter to Stasov, June 1874, written while composing Pictures

Pictures at an Exhibition (Russian: Картинки с выставки – Воспоминание о Викторе Гартмане, Kartínki s výstavki – Vospominániye o Víktore Gártmane, “Pictures from an Exhibition – A Remembrance of Viktor Hartmann”; French: Tableaux d’une exposition) is a suite in ten movements (plus a recurring, varied Promenade) composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.

The suite is Mussorgsky’s most famous piano composition and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become further known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other musicians and composers, with Maurice Ravel’s arrangement being the most recorded and performed.

Movements:

• 4.1 Promenade
• 4.2 No. 1 “The Gnome”
• 4.3 [Untitled] (Interlude, Promenade theme)
• 4.4 No. 2 “The Old Castle”
• 4.5 [Untitled] (Interlude, Promenade theme)
• 4.6 No. 3 “Tuileries”
• 4.7 No. 4 “Cattle”
• 4.8 [Untitled] (Interlude, Promenade theme)
• 4.9 No. 5 “The Ballet of Unhatched Chicks in their Shells”
• 4.10 No. 6 “Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle”
• 4.11 Promenade
• 4.12 No. 7 “The Market at Limoges (The Great News)
• 4.13 No. 8 “Catacombs”
• 4.14 No. 9 “The Hut on Fowl’s Legs”
• 4.15 No. 10 “The Great Gate of Kiev”
  

Gallery of Hartmann’s pictures

The surviving works by Hartmann that can be shown with any certainty to have been used by Mussorgsky in assembling his suite, along with their titles, are as follows:^[2]

• 

  No. 5
  Sketch of theatre costumes for the ballet Trilby

• 

  No. 6a
  Jew in a fur cap. Sandomierz

• 

  No. 6b
  Sandomierz Jew

• 

  No. 8
  Paris catacombs
  (with the figures of V. A. Hartmann, V. A. Kenel, and a guide, holding a lantern)

• 

  No. 9
  The hut of Baba-Yaga on hen’s legs–clock in the Russian Style

• 

  No. 10
  Project for a city gate in Kiev–main façade

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today’s birthday: Ben Chifley (1885)

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Ben Chifley (1885)

 

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“La Cathédrale engloutie” The sunken Cathedral”
for piano by Claude Debussy,
arranged for orchestra by Leopold Stokowski
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski, conductor
1968

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   Massimo Montanari

Franz SCHUBERT:   Symphony no. 8 in B minor D 759 “Unfinished”

I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante con moto

Philarmonia Orchestra with  Herbert Von KARAJAN, Conductor

(Recorded: 1955)

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Franz Schubert . Rosamunde, la princesse de Chypre

   Hadjout Marengo

Franz Schubert . Rosamunde ,la princesse de Chypre. Complète.
1. The Magic Harp.
2.Entr´act music nr.1
3.Ballet Music
4. entr´act music nr.2
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Rosamunde, D 797, est une musique de scène en une ouverture et dix parties (dont quatre chantées) composée par Franz Schubert en 1823 pour la pièce Rosamunde, princesse de Chypre de Helmina von Chézy. La pièce est tombée dans l’oubli mais la musique, en particulier celle de l’ouverture et du troisième entracte, reste une des plus populaires du compositeur et est régulièrement présente au répertoire des grands orchestres.Deux ouvertures sont associées à Rosamunde. Celle actuellement jouée est celle de Die Zauberharfe (« la Harpe enchantée », D 644), la seconde était initialement destinée par Schubert à son opéra Alfonso und Estrella (D 732).Le corps de l’œuvre est écrit pour soprano, chœur et orchestre et comporte dix parties :
Entracte n° 1 : Allegro molto moderato en si mineur
Musique de ballet n° 1 : Allegro moderato en si mineur, Andante un poco assai en sol majeur
Entracte n° 2 : Andante en ré majeur
Romance : « Der Vollmond strahlt auf Bergeshöh’n » : Andante con moto en fa mineur
Chœur des esprits : « In der Tiefe wohnt das Licht » : Adagio en ré majeur
Entracte n° 3 : Andantino en si bémol majeur
Mélodies des bergers : Andante, sextuor pour clarinettes, bassons et cors
Chœur des bergers : « Hier auf den Fluren » : Allegretto
Chœur des chasseurs : « Wie lebt sich’s so fröhlich im Grünen » : Allegro moderato
Musique de ballet n° 2 : Andantino en sol majeur
L’œuvre fut créée en 1823 au Theater an der Wien.Certains pensent que l’entracte n° 1 pourrait être le finale manquant de la Symphonie inachevée (Mackerras enregistra la symphonie en 1990 avec ce finale hypothétique).
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word: nullify

nullify 

Definition:	(verb) Declare invalid.
Synonyms:	annul, invalidate, void, quash, avoid
Usage:	He used his broad executive powers to nullify decisions by local government. Discuss.

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