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great compositions/performances: Der Barbier von Bagdad (The Barber of Bagdad) : Overture Conductor: Hanns-Martin Schneidt Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Der Barbier von Bagdad (The Barber of Bagdad) : Overture

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Der Barbier von Bagdad (The Barber of Bagdad) : Overture · Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Vocal and Orchestral Music – Reyer, E. / Symanowsky, K. / Cornelius, P. / Beethoven, L. Van / Gluck, C.W. / Hasse, J.A. / Mozart, W.A.

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Conductor: Hanns-Martin Schneidt
Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composer: Peter Cornelius

great compositions/performances: Martha Argerich plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor (cond. Pappano) – Rome, 19 Nov 2012

Martha Argerich plays Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor (cond. Pappano) – Rome, 19 Nov 2012

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Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

Martha Argerich, piano
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano, conductor
Rome, 19 November 2012
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Piano Concerto (Schumann)

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	Piano Concerto in A minor Op.54 – Allegro affettuoso (13:54)   Menu       0:00     Piano Concerto in A minor Op.54 – Andantino and Rondo (14:47)   Menu       0:00   Courtesy of Musopen
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The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, is a Romantic concerto by Robert Schumann, completed in 1845. The work premiered in Leipzig on 1 January 1846 with Clara Schumann playing the solo part. Ferdinand Hiller, the work’s dedicatee, conducted.

History

Schumann had earlier worked on several piano concerti: he began one in E-flat major in 1828, from 1829–31 he worked on one in F major, and in 1839, he wrote one movement of a concerto in D minor. None of these works were completed.

In 1841, Schumann wrote a fantasy for piano and orchestra, his Phantasie. His pianist wife Clara urged him to expand this piece into a full piano concerto. In 1845 he added the intermezzo and finale to complete the work. It was the only piano concerto that Schumann completed.

The work may have been used as a model by Edvard Grieg in composing his own Piano Concerto, also in A minor. Grieg’s concerto, like Schumann’s, employs a single powerful orchestral chord at its introduction before the piano’s entrance with a similar descending flourish. Rachmaninov also used the work as a model for his first Piano Concerto.

After this concerto, Schumann wrote two other pieces for piano and orchestra: the Introduction and Allegro Appassionato in G major (Op. 92), and the Introduction and Allegro Concertante in D minor (Op. 134).

Instrumentation

The concerto is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings, and solo piano.

Structure

The piece, as marked in the score, is in three movements:

1. Allegro affettuoso (A minor)
2. Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso (F major)
3. Allegro vivace (A major)

There is no break between these last two movements (attacca subito).

Schumann preferred that the movements be listed in concert programs as only two movements:^{[citation needed]}

1. Allegro affettuoso
2. Andantino and Rondo

The three movement listing is the more common form used.

Allegro affettuoso

The piece starts with an energetic strike by strings and timpani, followed by a fierce, descending attack by the piano. The first theme is introduced by the oboe along with wind instruments. The theme is then given to the soloist. Schumann provides great variety with this theme. He first offers it in the A minor key of the piece, then we hear it again in major, and we can also hear small snatches of the tune in a very slow, A flat section. The clarinet is often used against the piano in this movement. Toward the end of the movement, the piano plays a cadenza before the orchestra joins in with one more melody and builds for the exciting finish.

Intermezzo

This movement is keyed in F major. The piano and strings open up the piece with a small, delicate tune, which is heard throughout the movement before the cellos and later the other strings finally take the main theme, with the piano mainly used as accompaniment. The movement closes with small glimpses of the first movement’s theme before moving straight into the third movement.

Allegro vivace

The movement opens with a huge run up the strings while the piano takes the main, A major theme. Schumann shows great color and variety in this movement. The tune is regal, and the strings are noble. Though it is in 3/4 timing, Schumann manipulates it so that the time signature is often ambiguous. (See hemiola.)The piece finishes with a restating of the previous material before finally launching into an exciting finale, and ending with a long timpani roll and a huge chord from the orchestra.

historic musical bits: David Oistrach plays Bruch’s-Scottish Fantasy in E-flat Major Op. 46, London Symphony Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein, conducting, 1962.

Bruch-Scottish Fantasy in E-flat Major Op. 46

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great compositions/performances: Mozart – Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183

Mozart – Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183

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The Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in October 1773, shortly after the success of his opera seria Lucio Silla. It was supposedly completed October 5, a mere two days after the completion of his Symphony No. 24, although this remains unsubstantiated. Its first movement is widely known as the opening music in Miloš Forman’s film Amadeus. The symphony is laid out in standard classical form:
1. Allegro con brio, 4/4 in G minor
2. Andante, 2/4 in E-flat major
3. Menuetto & Trio, 3/4 in G minor, Trio in G major
4. Allegro, 4/4 in G minor.
With its wide-leap melodic lines and brisk musical subjects, this symphony is characteristic of the Sturm und Drang style. It shares certain features with other Sturm und Drang symphonies of this time, and is likely inspired from Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 39 which is likewise in G minor. The opening Mannheim rocket (a rising arpeggiated sequence) was quoted by Beethoven in his first Piano Sonata as the principal subject of the first movement.
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