LISZT Orchestral Hungarian Rhapsody No 4, Herbert von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker

LISZT Orchestral Hungarian Rhapsody No 4

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Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.4 in D minor, S.359 No.4 (orchestral version)
Herbert von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker

Not the best known of the Hungarian Rhapsodies, this would certainly be recognizable as one on first hearing.

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  • “Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.4 In D Minor, S.359 No.4 (Corresponds Piano Version No. 12 In C Sharp Minor)” by Berliner Philharmoniker and Herbert von Karajan (AmazonMP3)

Robert Schumann- Romanze op. 94 no. 2

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Published on Nov 7, 2014

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Aram Khachaturian – Masquerade: Waltz , make music part of your life series

Aram Khachaturian – Masquerade: Waltz

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Aram Khachaturian – “Waltz” from the 1944 Masquerade Suite based on the Mikhail Lermontov play of the same name. André Anichanov conducts the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra in this performance on the 1997 Naxos album.

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  • “Waltz” by St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra (Google Play • AmazonMP3 • iTunes • eMusic)

best classical music: , Amilcare Ponchielli – La danza delle ore / La Danse des heures / Dance of the Hours , make music part of your life series

Amilcare Ponchielli – La danza delle ore / La Danse des heures / Dance of the Hours

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Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886), Italia

“La Gioconda”, opera, Act III: Dance of the Hours

Wiener Philharmoniker
Rudolf Kempe
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  • “La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda, Act III)” by Wiener Philharmoniker/Rudolf Kempe (Google Play • iTunes • AmazonMP3)

Henryk Górecki – Symphony Nº3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). Second Movement, make music part of your life series

Henryk Górecki – Symphony Nº3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). Second Movement.

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This is the second of three movements from the third symphony by Henryk Górecki.
Composer : Henryk Mikołaj Górecki – 1933 – 2010 (Polish)
Composition : Symphony nº3 – Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (1991)
Movement : II – Lento e Largo, Traquillissimo.

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  • “Symphony No. 3: II. Lento E Largo – Tranquillissimo” by London Sinfonietta (Google Play • iTunes • AmazonMP3)

Fifty Three-(‘Beautiful is thy wristlet,…’), Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali (from Collection of Indian Poems)

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Beautiful is thy wristlet, decked with stars and cunningly wrought in myriad-coloured jewels. But more beautiful to me thy sword with its curve of lightning like the outspread wings of the divine bird of Vishnu, perfectly poised in the angry red light of the sunset.
It quivers like the one last response of life in ecstasy of pain at the final stroke of death; it shines like the pure flame of being burning up earthly sense with one fierce flash.
Beautiful is thy wristlet, decked with starry gems; but thy sword, O lord of thunder, is wrought with uttermost beauty, terrible to behold or to think of.

Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali
(from Collection of Indian Poems)

Lazybones by Pablo Neruda (Selected Poems) (‘They will continue wandering,…I have no wish to change my planet…’)

Lazybones by Pablo Neruda

They will continue wandering,
these things of steel among the stars,
and weary men will still go up
to brutalize the placid moon.
There, they will found their pharmacies.

In this time of the swollen grape,
the wine begins to come to life
between the sea and the mountain ranges.

In Chile now, cherries are dancing,
the dark mysterious girls are singing,
and in guitars, water is shining.
The sun is touching every door
and making wonder of the wheat.

The first wine is pink in colour,
is sweet with the sweetness of a child,
the second wine is able-bodied,
strong like the voice of a sailor,
the third wine is a topaz, is
a poppy and a fire in one.

My house has both the sea and the earth,
my woman has great eyes
the colour of wild hazelnut,
when night comes down, the sea
puts on a dress of white and green,
and later the moon in the spindrift foam
dreams like a sea-green girl.

I have no wish to change my planet.

[A.R.]
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With Iraqi Christians besieged, these are the priests and nuns who choose to stay :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

With Iraqi Christians besieged, these are the priests and nuns who choose to stay

Sister Suhama in Alqosh, Iraq in April 2015. Credit: Aid to the Church in Need.

High-profile Rome exorcist: ‘ISIS is Satan’ (Click to access the article)

priests and nuns who choose to stay

Sister Suhama in Alqosh, Iraq in April 2015. Credit: Aid to the Church in Need.

Sister Suhama in Alqosh, Iraq in April 2015. Credit: Aid to the Church in Need.

By Oliver Maksan

Alqosh, Iraq, Apr 15, 2015 / 04:31 am (Aid to the Church in Need).- “At night we often hear gunfire,” says Father Steven, a priest in Alqosh, Iraq.

“But luckily we are quite a bit away from the fighting,” he adds. In fact, as the crow flies, the town of Alqosh is only 10 miles away from the front line, where the heavily armed Kurdish Peshmerga forces and ISIS fighters are facing off.

When the weather is good, you can see the Christian towns on the Nineveh Plane that are now under ISIS control.

“Back there is my village, Batnaya,” the Chaldean priest says, pointing in the direction of the once-Christian community. “I was the last to leave Batnaya. The jihadists arrived shortly thereafter.”

Dozens of priests and religious have become homeless in the past year as a result of the ISIS offensive. They have not only lost their convents, churches and monasteries, but also schools and children’s homes – the entire infrastructure of an apostolate built up over many years.

“We lost 23 of our monasteries and houses,” Sister Suhama tells international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. The Dominican nun now lives in a development of terraced houses near Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan.

“We were 26 nuns in Qaraqosh alone. We led a flourishing community life there. Some of our sisters are having trouble getting over the loss. At night they dream of soon being able to return.”

via With Iraqi Christians besieged, these are the priests and nuns who choose to stay :: Catholic News Agency (CNA).

With Iraqi Christians besieged, these are the priests and nuns who choose to stay :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)

priests and nuns who choose to stay

Sister Suhama in Alqosh, Iraq in April 2015. Credit: Aid to the Church in Need.

Sister Suhama in Alqosh, Iraq in April 2015. Credit: Aid to the Church in Need.

By Oliver Maksan

Alqosh, Iraq, Apr 15, 2015 / 04:31 am (Aid to the Church in Need).- “At night we often hear gunfire,” says Father Steven, a priest in Alqosh, Iraq.

“But luckily we are quite a bit away from the fighting,” he adds. In fact, as the crow flies, the town of Alqosh is only 10 miles away from the front line, where the heavily armed Kurdish Peshmerga forces and ISIS fighters are facing off.

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“Back there is my village, Batnaya,” the Chaldean priest says, pointing in the direction of the once-Christian community. “I was the last to leave Batnaya. The jihadists arrived shortly thereafter.”

Dozens of priests and religious have become homeless in the past year as a result of the ISIS offensive. They have not only lost their convents, churches and monasteries, but also schools and children’s homes – the entire infrastructure of an apostolate built up over many years.

“We lost 23 of our monasteries and houses,” Sister Suhama tells international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. The Dominican nun now lives in a development of terraced houses near Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan.

“We were 26 nuns in Qaraqosh alone. We led a flourishing community life there. Some of our sisters are having trouble getting over the loss. At night they dream of soon being able to return.”

via With Iraqi Christians besieged, these are the priests and nuns who choose to stay :: Catholic News Agency (CNA).

Best Classical Music:, “Debussy: La Mer – 2. Play of the Waves (Jeux de vagues)” by London Symphony Orchestra, make music part of your life series

Debussy – La Mer

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  • “Debussy: La Mer – 2. Play of the Waves (Jeux de vagues)” by London Symphony Orchestra

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Cover of the 1905 edition of La Mer. The illustration is based on Hokusai’s Wave.

La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (French for The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchestra), or simply La mer (i.e. The Sea), is an orchestral composition (L 109) by the French composer Claude Debussy.

Composed between 1903 and 1905, the piece was initially not well received, but soon became one of Debussy’s most admired and frequently performed orchestral works.

Composition

The work was started in 1903 in France and completed in 1905 at Grand Hotel Eastbourne on the English Channel coast. The premiere was given on 15 October 1905 in Paris, by the Orchestre Lamoureux under the direction of Camille Chevillard.

Eastbourne was also where Frank Bridge was to complete his suite The Sea in 1911.

Debussy arranged the piece for piano for four hands in 1905,^{[Grove Music Online 1]} and in 1909 his publisher Durand presented a second edition of La mer with the composer’s revisions.^[1]

Instrumentation

La mer is scored for 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 cornets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tamtam, glockenspiel, 2 harps and strings.

Movements

A typical performance of this piece lasts about 23 or 24 minutes. It is in three movements:

1. (~09:00) “De l’aube à midi sur la mer” – très lent – animez peu à peu (si mineur)
2. (~06:30) “Jeux de vagues” – allegro (dans un rythme très souple) – animé (do dièse mineur)
3. (~08:00) “Dialogue du vent et de la mer” – animé et tumultueux – cédez très légérement (do dièse mineur)

Usually translated as:

1. “From dawn to noon on the sea” or “From dawn to midday on the sea” – very slow – animate little by little (B minor)
2. “Play of the Waves” – allegro (with a very versatile rhythm) – animated (C sharp minor)
3. “Dialogue of the wind and the sea” or “Dialogue between wind and waves” – animated and tumultuous – give up very slightly (C sharp minor)

Interpretation

La mer is a masterpiece of suggestion and subtlety in its rich depiction of the ocean, which combines unusual orchestration with daring impressionistic harmonies. The work has proven very influential, and its use of sensuous tonal colours and its orchestration methods have influenced many later film scores. While the structure of the work places it outside of both absolute music and programme music (see below on the title “Three symphonic sketches”) as those terms were understood in the early 20th century, it obviously uses descriptive devices to suggest wind, waves and the ambience of the sea. But structuring a piece around a nature subject without any literary or human element to it – neither people, nor mythology, nor ships are suggested in the piece – also was highly unusual at the time.

As a young boy, Debussy’s parents had plans for him to join the navy. Debussy himself even commented on his fond childhood memories of the beauties of the sea. However, as an adult composing “La mer,” he rarely visited the sea, spending most of his time far away from large bodies of water. Debussy drew inspiration from art, “preferring the seascapes available in painting and literature…”^[2] to the physical sea. This influence lends the piece its unusual nature.

Debussy called La mer “three symphonic sketches,” avoiding the loaded term symphony.^[3] Yet the work is sometimes called a symphony; it consists of two powerful outer movements framing a lighter, faster piece which acts as a type of scherzo. But the author Jean Barraqué (in “La Mer de Debussy,” Analyse musicale 12/3, June 1988,) describes La mer as the first work to have an “open” form – a devenir sonore or “sonorous becoming… a developmental process in which the very notions of exposition and development coexist in an uninterrupted burst.” Simon Trezise, in his book Debussy: La Mer (Cambridge, 1994) notes, however, that “motifs are constantly propagated by derivation from earlier motifs” (p. 52).

Simon Trezise notes that “for much of La Mer, Debussy spurns the more obvious devices associated with the sea, wind, and concomitant storm in favor of his own, highly individual vocabulary” (p. 48–49). Caroline Potter (in “Debussy and Nature” in The Cambridge Companion to Debussy, p. 149) adds that Debussy’s depiction of the sea “avoids monotony by using a multitude of water figurations that could be classified as musical onomatopoeia: they evoke the sensation of swaying movement of waves and suggest the pitter-patter of falling droplets of spray” (and so forth), and — significantly — avoid the arpeggiated triads used by Wagner and Schubert to evoke the movement of water.

The author, musicologist and pianist Roy Howat has observed, in his book Debussy in Proportion, that the formal boundaries of La mer correspond exactly to the mathematical ratios called The Golden Section. Trezise (p. 53) finds the intrinsic evidence “remarkable,” but cautions that no written or reported evidence suggests that Debussy consciously sought such proportions.

Reception

The piece was initially not well received – partly because of inadequate rehearsal and partly because of Parisian outrage over Debussy’s having recently left his first wife for the singer Emma Bardac. But it soon became one of Debussy’s most admired and frequently performed orchestral works, and became more so in the ensuing century. The first recording was made by Piero Coppola in 1928.

 The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne where La mer was completed in 1905.

In a book of interviews,^[4] the great Ukrainian/Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter called La mer “A piece that I rank alongside the St Matthew Passion and the Ring cycle as one of my favorite works”. Richter said further, on listening to his favorite recording (by Roger Désormière), “La mer again; shall I ever tire of listening to it, of contemplating it and breathing its atmosphere? And each time is like the first time! An enigma, a miracle of natural reproduction; no, even more than that, sheer magic!”^[5] Richter also mentioned two other Soviet admirers of the work: “One day, after listening to this work, Anna Ivanovna exclaimed, ‘For me, it’s exactly the same miracle as the sea itself!'”.^[6] Richter also said that for his teacher, Heinrich Neuhaus, La mer was “the work by Debussy that he loved above all others (‘Slava, put on La mer,’ he almost always used to say whenever he came round here.)”.^[7] Of the Désormière recording, which he played for Neuhaus, Richter said it is “The most beautiful in the whole history of the gramophone.”^[8]

Influence, quotation and sampling

Generally speaking, La mer has been influential to many contemporary soundtrack composers because of its highly suggestive and moody atmosphere.

• Luciano Berio quotes the 3rd movement ^[9] in the third movement of his Sinfonia, premiered in 1968.
• Some passages (the 3rd movement, for example) of La mer may have inspired John Williams for the score he wrote for Jaws (1975).
• In 1991, the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, who referred to Debussy as being his “first teacher”, based a work, Quotation of Dream: Say Sea, Take Me! on a theme from La mer.
• The Nine Inch Nails song “La Mer” is influenced by Debussy´s “La Mer”^{[citation needed]}
• In 2002, Norwegian composer Biosphere loosely based his ambient album Shenzhou around looped samples of La mer.^[10]

Best Classical music: Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, Les Ruses d’amour, Op. 61, Introduction et Scene I, Iasi Moldova Philharmonic Orchestra, Horia Andreescu, make music part of your life series

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, Les Ruses d’amour, Op. 61, Introduction et Scene I

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Published on Mar 20, 2014

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Iasi Moldova Philharmonic Orchestra, Horia Andreescu,
Les Ruses d’amour, Op. 61
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Saint of the Day for Thursday, April 16th, 2015: St. Bernadette

Saint of the Day for Thursday, April 16th, 2015

St. Bernadette

On April 16, 1879, Bernadette — or Sister Marie-Bernard, as she was known within her order — died in the Sainte Croix (Holy Cross) Infirmary of the Convent of Saint-Gildard. She was … continue reading

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today’s picture: The Little Tramp

The Little Tramp

Producer, director, composer and silent movie comedian Charlie Chaplin was born in London on April 16, 1889, into a family of music hall performers. Visiting America with a touring company in 1913, Chaplin was cast in his first film, “Making a Living”. Although historians are not certain when the ‘little tramp’ was created, Chaplin remains most readily identified with that beloved character. This photo, showing Chaplin with child star Jackie Coogan, is from the sentimental 1921 film “The Kid”. Chaplin died in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, on December 25, 1977.

Image: National Archives

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today’s holiday: Emancipation Day (Washington, D.C.)

Emancipation Day (Washington, D.C.)

In Washington, DC, April 16th is celebrated as Emancipation Day, commemorating the day in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the District of Columbia Emancipation Act, nine months prior to the Emancipation Proclamation. More than 3,000 slaves were freed under this agreement. Since 2005, the date has been a legal holiday in the District. Events are scheduled throughout the preceding week, and the observance culminates on the 16th in a day of festivities and entertainment, beginning with a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in the morning. More… Discuss

quotation: Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)

Always desire to learn something useful.

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today’s birthday: Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755)

Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755)

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this day in the yesteryear: Masada Falls to the Romans, Ending Jewish Revolt (73 CE)

Masada Falls to the Romans, Ending Jewish Revolt (73 CE)

Masada is an ancient mountaintop fortress in Israel’s Judaean Desert. In 66 CE, with the outbreak of the Jewish war against Rome, the Zealots, an extremist Jewish sect, seized the fortress in a surprise attack and massacred its Roman garrison. After the fall of Jerusalem, Masada, the last remnant of Jewish rule, refused to surrender. Masada remained under Zealot control until 73 CE, when, after months of siege, the Romans finally breached the walls. What did they discover when they entered? More… Discuss

Foot Binding

Foot Binding

Foot binding originated during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in the wealthiest parts of China. By the end of the practice’s thousand-year history, it had spread to all classes and was viewed as a status symbol. Young girls’ feet were wrapped in tight bandages that restricted growth, causing breakage and deformity. Most often, the men that foot binding was intended to impress would never see the woman’s bare feet, as they were concealed within tiny “lotus shoes.” When and why did the practice end? More… Discuss

word: grovel

grovel

Definition:	(verb) To lie or creep in a prostrate position, as in subservience or humility.
Synonyms:	cower, cringe, fawn
Usage:	The prisoners groveled before the emperor, hoping that he would commute their sentences. Discuss.

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