great compositions/performances: Claudio Abbado “Overture “The Fair Melusina” Mendelssohn

Claudio Abbado “Overture “The Fair Melusina” Mendelssohn

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Published on Jan 26, 2014

Overture “Zum Märchen von der schönen Melusine“,
op 32 by Felix Mendelssohn
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado, conductor

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Happy Birthday Mozart: Mozart piano sonata # 9 K.311 – DANIEL BARENBOIM , great compositions/perfoemances

DANIEL BARENBOIM ~ Mozart piano sonata # 9 ; K.311 1989

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Published on Jan 27, 2014

Daniel Barenboim plays Mozart’s piano sonata # 9 in D major, K.311 with wonderful vigor and delicacy as only he can do. These recordings were made in Germany in 1989 and are part of a full DVD set of all of Mozart’s piano sonatas. The idea of orchestral writing is evident in the K.311 sonata, especially the 3rd movement, because of the contrast in texture and tonal colour.However, it is the 2nd. movement that gives off a distinctly beautiful
sonata movement without a development. Its song-like eleven-bar theme, with a concluding note at the 12th measure, is followed by an episode and a wonderfully varied return of the theme in D major (measure 25) instead of a contrasting second subject. The recapitulation starts in measure 39. One of Mozart’s most memorable piano sonatas.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major, K. 311 (284c) was written on the composer’s stay in Augsburg and Mannheim in November-December 1777, and is contemporaneous with his Sonata K. 309 (Mozart wrote his Sonata K. 310 in the summer of the following year, in Paris). The three sonatas K. 309-311 were published as a set ‘Opus IV’ in about 1782, by Franz Joseph Heina in Paris.

The work has three movements:

1. Allegro con spirito
2. Andante con espressione
3. Rondeau (allegro)

A typical performance takes about 15 to 17 minutes.

The first movement is in sonata form. Its first subject has a quasi orchestral opening, and its second subject in the dominant key (A major) is quieter. The development section is almost entirely based on the last four bars of the exposition.

The second movement has an episodic structure A-B-A-B-A-coda. The second theme’s melody is gently decorated with syncopation, accompanied by broken chords in the left hand.

Lastly, the most technically demanding movement of the three is a sonata rondo, with a short central episode in F sharp minor (the main key’s relative minor). A slow cadenza-like passage containing a rapid ascending chromatic scale leads back to the first theme.

The piece displays mature thematic development.

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Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 – Barenboim, Celibidache, 1991, great compositions/performances

Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 – Barenboim, Celibidache, 1991

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Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
1. Maestoso
2. Adagio
3. Rondo: Allegro non troppo
Daniel Barenboim, piano, Münchner Philharmoniker conducted by Sergiu Celibidache
Recorded live at the Stadthalle Erlangen, 1991

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Beethoven – Trio for Piano, Flute and Bassoon in G, WoO 37: great compositions/performances

Beethoven – Trio for Piano, Flute and Bassoon in G, WoO 37

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Published on Nov 23, 2014

Trio for Piano, Flute and Bassoon in G, WoO 37. Composed by Beethoven in 1786.

Daniel Barenboim: Piano
Michel Debost: Flute
André Sennedat: Bassoon
Year of recording:1980

The Trio is in three movements:
0:00 Allegro
11:07 Adagio
17:07 Tema andante con variazioni

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Eric Kleiber – Dvořák: The Wild Dove (Holoubek), Op 110, Wedding Dance: great compositions/performances

Eric Kleiber – Dvořák: The Wild Dove (Holoubek), Op 110, Wedding Dance

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Recorded in 1931. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

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The Wild Dove (also known as The Wood Dove; Czech: Holoubek), Op. 110, B. 198 (1896), is the fourth orchestral poem composed by the Czech composer, Antonín Dvořák. Composed in October and November 1896, with a revision in January 1897, the premiere was given on 20 March 1898 in Brno under the baton of Leoš Janáček. The story is taken from the poem of the same name from Kytice, a collection of ballads by Karel Jaromír Erben. The four musical scenes describe the story of a woman who poisoned her husband and married another man shortly afterwards. A wild dove then sits on the grave of her dead husband and sings a sad song day after day. The wife feels guilty and commits suicide at the end by jumping and drowning in a river.

Erich Kleiber, 1890 — 1956.
The eminent Austrian conductor, Erich Kleiber (father of Carlos Kleiber), studied at the Prague Conservarory and the University of Prague.

Erich Kleiber made his debut at the Prague National Theater in 1911; Then he conducted opera in Darmstadt (1912-1919), Barmen-Elberfeld (1919-1921), Düsseldorf (1921-1922), and Mannheim (1922-1923). In 1923 he was appointed Generalmusikdirektor of the Berlin State Opera.

Erich Kleiber’s tenure was outstanding, both for the brilliant performances of the standard repertoire and for the exciting programming of contemporary works. In December 1925 he conducted the world premiere of Alban Berg‘s Wozzeck. In 1934, in protest against the Nazi government, he resigned his post and emigrated to South America. He conducted regularly at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires from 1936 to 1949. Having first conducted at London’s Covent Garden in 1937, he returned there from 1950 to 1953. He then was appointed Generalmusikdirektor once more of the Berlin State Opera in 1954, but resigned in March 1955, before the opening of the season, because of difficulties with the Communist regime.

Erich Kleiber was renowned for his performances of the music of Mozart and L.v. Beethoven. He also composed; among his works are a Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto, orchestral variations, Capriccio for Orchestra, numerous chamber music works, piano pieces, and songs.

Beethoven’s 5th Piano E-flat major, Op. 73 (Emperor) – Daniel Barenboim (whole concert): great compositions/performances

 Beethoven’s 5th Piano E-flat major, Op. 73 (Emperor) – Daniel Barenboim (whole concert)

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Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26 | Daniel Barenboim: great compositions/performances

Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26 | Daniel Barenboim

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Español: Sonata para Piano nº12 en La bemol Mayor, Op. 26

* 1st Movement (Andante con Variazioni)
* 2nd Movement (Scherzo, Allegro Molto)
* 3rd Movement (Marcia funebre sulla morte d’un Eroe)
* 4th Movement (Allegro)

Work: Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major, Op. 26
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Soloist: Daniel Barenhoim

Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110, Daniel Barenboim, great compositions/performances

Piano Sonata No. 31 – Beethoven

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Daniel Barenboim

Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110, by Ludwig van Beethoven was composed in 1821. It is the central piano sonata in the group of three opp. 109–111 which he wrote between 1820 and 1822, and the thirty-first of his published piano sonatas.

The sonata is in three movements. The moderato first movement in sonata form, marked con amabilità, is followed by a fast scherzo. The finale comprises a slow recitative and arioso dolente, a fugue, a return of the arioso lament, and a second fugue that builds to an affirmative conclusion.

I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
II. Scherzo: Allegro molto
III. Adagio ma non troppo. Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, op. 28, “Pastoral”- Daniel Barenboim: great compositions/performances

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, op. 28, “Pastoral”. Daniel Barenboim, piano

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata para piano Nº 15 en Re mayor, “Pastoral”
(Compuesta en 1801)
1. Allegro
2. Andante

3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
4. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
Daniel Barenboim, piano
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Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. It was named Pastoral or Pastorale by Beethoven’s publisher at the time, A. Cranz. While not as famous as its immediate predecessor, Piano Sonata No. 14, it is generally admired for its intricate technicality as well as for its beauty. The sonata takes roughly twenty-five minutes to play with its intended repeats.

Published in 1801, the work is dedicated to the Count Joseph von Sonnenfels.

Structure

The sonata is in D major, and follows the typical four-movement form of the classical sonata.

1. Allegro, 6/8
2. Andante, 2/4
3. Scherzo: Allegro vivace, 3/4
4. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo, 6/8

“Pastoral”

It has been debated whether the title ‘pastoral’ refers to the sense of countryside and nature (the 6th symphony pastoral sense), or to its sense of calm, simplicity and lightness. Beethoven’s publishers had a tendency to name his sonatas without consulting Beethoven himself. Beethoven wrote most of his works with greatly contrasting parts, and behaves no differently in this sonata. Though its first and last movements can well be described as “pastorale,” the inner two movements do not partake of those qualities at all.

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Cimarosa: “Il Matrimonio segreto” – Ouverture (Daniel Barenboim): make music part of you rlife series

Cimarosa: “The Secret Marriage” – Ouverture (Daniel Barenboim)

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The Secret Marriage is a comic opera in two acts written by Domenico Cimarosa between the end of 1791 and beginning of 1792 to a libretto by Giovanni Bertati.
was represented for the first time February 7, 1792 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

was l ‘ the only work of history that, at the behest of the Habsburg emperor of the time (ie Leopold II), was completely replicated in the same evening of the “first”.

Visit the blog http://operaomniablog.blogspot.com/ , in which the ‘ work is analyzed piece by piece. The site also presents other works, being devoted entirely to the world of opera.

, I propose a third version of this song that is in addition to those which I have already posted the overture; of course the aim is to foster the musical competence of users through the comparison between the different versions of individual songs.

Q Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone): Geronimo,
Julia Varady (Soprano): Elisetta;
Arleen Auger (soprano): Carolina,
Julia Hamari (Mezzo-soprano): Fidalma;
Alberto Rinaldi (Baritone): Earl Robinson,
Ryland Davies (tenor): Pauline.

Daniel Barenboim conducts here Inglese Chamber orchestra.

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Itzhak Perlman – Pablo de Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen Op.20: great compositions/performances

Itzhak Perlman – Pablo de Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen Op.20

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Pablo de Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen Op.20

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Jacqueline du Pre – Lalo cello concerto – part 1 (playlist of 4 videos): great compositions/performances

Jacqueline du Pre – Lalo cello concerto – part 1 (playlist of 4 videos)

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Itzhak Perlman – Pablo de Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen Op.20: great compositions/performances

Itzhak Perlman – Pablo de Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen Op.20

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Pablo de Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen Op.20

Brahms viola sonata op. 120 no. 2 in E flat major: great compositions/performances

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Brahms viola sonata op. 120 no. 2 in E flat major

Piano: Daniel Barenboim
Viola: Pinchas Zukerman
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The viola sonata is a sonata for viola, sometimes with other instruments, usually piano. The earliest viola sonatas are difficult to date for a number of reasons:

• in the Baroque era, there were many works written for the viola da gamba, including sonatas (the most famous being Johann Sebastian Bach‘s three, now most often played on the cello)
• in the Classical era and early Romantic, there were few works written with viola specifically in mind as solo instrument, and many of these, like those of the Stamitz family, may have been written for the viola d’amore, like most of their viola works – though it is now customary to play them on the viola; it was more typical to publish a work or set, like George Onslow‘s opus 16 cello sonatas, or Johannes Brahms‘s opus 120 clarinet sonatas in the late 19th century, that specified the viola as an alternate. Two early exceptions were the viola sonatas of Felix Mendelssohn (1824, posthumously published around 1981) and the opus 1 sonata of the composer Ernst Naumann (1832-1910), published in 1854.

Itzhak Perlman “Rèverie et caprice” Berlioz: Great compositions/performances

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Itzhak Perlman “Rèverie et caprice” Berlioz

Rèverie et caprice op 8 for violin and orchestra
by Hector Berlioz
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Orchestre de Paris
Daniel Barenboim, conductor

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Beethoven’s 5th Piano concert (Emperor) –
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Det kongelige kapel – Michael Schønvandt i Danmarks Radio Koncerthuset 2009
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great compositions/performances: Edward Elgar – Salut d’amour Op 12 Ion Marin conduction the Berliner Philharmoniker

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great compositions/performances: Beethoven, Sonata para piano Nº 15 en Re mayor Opus 28 Pastoral. Daniel Barenboim, piano

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Beethoven, Sonata para piano Nr. 15 en Re mayor Opus 28 Pastoral. Daniel Barenboim, piano

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Theme From Schindler’s List conducted by John Williams (featuring Itzhak Perlman)

Composer and Conductor : John Williams
Violin : Itzhak Perlman

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GREAT COMPOSITIONS/PERFORMANCES: Brahms Piano concerto N° 2 (Barenboim – Celibidache)

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Pianokonzer Nr. 2
Piano concerto N° 2

München Philharmoniker
Dirigent: Sergiu Celibidache
Piano: Daniel Barenboim

1st mov 00:30
2nd mov 20:00
3rd mov 29:55
4th mov 42:26

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms]; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer and pianist.

Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene. In his lifetime, Brahms’s popularity and influence were considerable; following a comment by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow, he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the “Three Bs“.

Brahms composed for piano, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, and for voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works; he worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinistJoseph Joachim. Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.^[1]

Brahms is often considered both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Baroque and Classical masters. He was a master of counterpoint, the complex and highly disciplined art for which Johann Sebastian Bach is famous, and of development, a compositional ethos pioneered by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and other composers. Brahms aimed to honour the “purity” of these venerable “German” structures and advance them into a Romantic idiom, in the process creating bold new approaches to harmony and melody. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms’s works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers.

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Great Compositions/Performances: Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto NO. 2 in B flat Op. 83 (Barenboim – Celibidache)

Johannes Bramhs (1833 – 1897)
Pianokonzer Nr. 2
Piano concerto N° 2

München Philharmoniker
Dirigent: Sergiu Celibidache
Piano: Daniel Barenboim

1st mov 00:30
2nd mov 20:00
3rd mov 29:55
4th mov 42:26

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Wagner -Make Music Part of Your Life Series: Prelude and Liebestod from ‘Tristan Und Isolde’ (Karajan-BPO-Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)

From  the Author-DjangoMan1963:  “This is my personal vote for the greatest piece of music ever.
The version here is by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by the late, great Herbert Von Karajan.

The jewish coductor Daniel Barenboim aptly said: “The music is bigger than the man”. Anyone who dismisses Wagner’s music on the basis of his views as a man, is missing something truly wonderful.

I’ve chosen Karajan’s version because he gets the tempo and the feel just right. Not too much vibratro here, which other conductors sometimes bring to the piece, making it sound too overwrought. He gets it spot on. A touch of vibrato, but he let’s the notes speak for themselves, whilst the languid tempo evokes a mystical atmosphere to the piece.

I hope you enjoy this wonderful music.”

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Richard Wagner

Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde, or Tristan and Isolda, or Tristran and Ysolt) is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting. Wagner referred to the work not as an opera, but called it “eine Handlung” (literally a drama. a plot or an action), which was the equivalent of the term used by the Spanish playwright Calderón for his dramas.
Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde was inspired by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer (particularly The World as Will and Representation) and his affair with Mathilde Wesendonck. Widely acknowledged as one of the peaks of the operatic repertory, Tristan was notable for Wagner’s unprecedented use of chromaticism, tonality, orchestral colour and harmonic suspension.
The opera was inexorably influential among Western classical composers and provided direct inspiration to composers such as Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Karol Szymanowski, Alban Berg, Arnold Schönberg and Benjamin Britten. Other composers like Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky formulated their styles in contrast to Wagner’s musical legacy. Many see Tristan as the beginning of the move away from common practice harmony and tonality and consider that it lays the groundwork for the direction of classical music in the 20th century.^[1] Both Wagner’s libretto style and music were also profoundly influential on the Symbolist poets of the late 19th Century and early 20th Century.^[2]

Composition history

Wagner was forced to abandon his position as conductor of the Dresden Opera in 1849, as there was a warrant posted for his arrest for his participation in the unsuccessfulMay Revolution. He left his wife, Minna, in Dresden, and fled to Zürich. There, in 1852, he met the wealthy silk trader Otto Wesendonck. Wesendonck became a supporter of Wagner and bankrolled the composer for several years. Wesendonck’s wife, Mathilde, became enamoured of the composer. Though Wagner was working on his epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, he found himself intrigued by the legend of Tristan and Iseult.

The re-discovery of mediæval Germanic poetry, including Gottfried von Strassburg‘s version of Tristan, the Nibelungenlied and Wolfram von Eschenbach‘s Parzival, left a large impact on the German Romantic movements during the mid-19th century. The story of Tristan and Isolde is a quintessential romance of the Middle Ages and theRenaissance. Several versions of the story exist, the earliest dating to the middle of the 12th century. Gottfried’s version, part of the “courtly” branch of the legend, had a huge influence on later German literature.^[3]

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Make music Part of Your Life Series: Mozart:Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 (Elvira Madigan) Pollini/Muti

Mozart:Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467

Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Riccardo Muti, conductor
(2004)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, was completed on March 9, 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, four weeks after the completion of the previous D minor concerto, K. 466.^[1][2]

The concerto has three movements:

 

1. Allegro maestoso; in common time. The tempo marking is in Mozart’s catalog of his own works, but not in the autograph manuscript.^[3]
2. Andante in F major. In both the autograph score and in his personal catalog, Mozart notated the meter as Alla breve. ^[4]
3. Allegro vivace assai

Recordings:  This work has been recorded numerous times by many famous pianists including Géza Anda, Piotr Anderszewski,Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, Malcolm Bilson, Alfred Brendel, Robert Casadesus, Ivan Drenikov, Annie Fischer, Walter Gieseking, Friedrich Gulda, Stephen Hough, Keith Jarrett, Wilhelm Kempff, Walter Klien, Alicia de Larrocha, Giorgi Latsabidze, Rosina Lhevinne, Dinu Lipatti, Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Maria João Pires,Maurizio Pollini, Arthur Rubinstein, Fazil Say, András Schiff, Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Serkin, Howard Shelley,Mitsuko Uchida, and Christian Zacharias.

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Great Performances: Barenboim plays Mendelssohn Songs Without Words Op.30 no.6 in F sharp Minor – Venetian Gondellied

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Mendelssohn aged 12 (1821) by Carl Joseph Begas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

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Great Performances: Herbert von Karajan conducts Richard Strauss’s – Don Juan Overture Op. 20 ( – Osaka 1984)

Richard Strauss:  Don Juan, Symphonic Poem Op. 20
Herbert von Karajan conducting
Osaka, Japan 1984

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Fabulous Composers/Compositions: Beethoven’s Symphony No 8 in F major – BBC Proms 2012 (Daniel Barenboim)

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim continues its Beethoven cycle with the compact Eighth in F major.
At the BBC PROMS – 2012 – Royal Albert Hall – LONDON

 

L’ÉTOILE – Oper von Emmanuel Chabrier | Staatsoper Berlin

Premiere: 16. Mai 2010 | Staatsoper Unter den Linden | Berlin

Wiederaufnahme: 04. Dezember 2011 | Staatsoper im Schiller Theater | Berlin

http://www.staatsoper-berlin.de

 

Cimarosa: “Il Matrimonio segreto” – Ouverture (Daniel Barenboim)

Cimarosa: “Il Matrimonio segreto” – Ouverture (Daniel Barenboim)

The Secret Marriage is an opera buffa in two acts written by Domenico Cimarosa between the end of 1791 and beginning of 1792 with a libretto by Giovanni Bertati .
Was performed for the first time February 7, 1792 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

It was the only work of history that , at the behest of the Habsburg emperor of the time ( ie Leopold II ) , was completely replicated in the same evening of the “first ” .

Visit the blog http://operaomniablog.blogspot.com/ , in which the work is analyzed piece by piece . The site also presents other works , being devoted entirely to the world of opera .
I propose a third version of this song which is in addition to those which I have already posted the overture , and of course the aim is to foster the musical competence of users through the comparison between the various versions of individual songs .

D. Fischer- Dieskau ( Baritone) : Geronimo ;
Julia Varady (Soprano) : Elisetta ;
Augér Arleen (Soprano) : Carolina;
Julia Hamari ( mezzo-soprano ) : Fidalma ;
Alberto Rinaldi ( Baritone) : Earl Robinson ;
Ryland Davies ( tenor): Pauline .

Daniel Barenboim conducts here Inglese Chamber orchestra.
I let you discover the plot!  >>>>>>HERE<<<<<<

 

Berlioz · Marche hongroise · Barenboim

Hector Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24 – Marche hongroise (Rákóczi March) · Orchestre de Paris · Daniel Barenboim, conductor

Georges Bizet L´ARLESIENNE SUITE No.1, Daniel Barenboim, Complete

Georges Bizet L´ARLESIENNE SUITE No.1 Complete

1. Prelude
2. Minuetto
3. Adagietto
4. Carillon

Orchestre de Paris
Daniel Barenboim Conductor

Recorded 1972, Paris

Jaqueline du Pré-Beethoven-Piano Trio op.70-part 1 of 3 (play entire playlist)

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Jaqueline du Pré-Cello
Daniel Barenboim-Piano
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Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Op.60: BBC Proms 2012 (Daniel Barenboim)

Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – Beethoven’s Symphony No.4 in B flat, Op.60 – BBC PROMS 2012From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (of course): 
The work is in four movements:

1. Adagio – Allegro vivace, 2/2
2. Adagio, 3/4 in E-flat major
3. Allegro vivace, 3/4
4. Allegro ma non troppo, 2/4

Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60, is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in the summer of 1806.^[1] It premièred in March 1807 at a private concert of the home of Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitz. The Coriolan Overture and the Piano Concerto No. 4 were premiered in that same concert.^[2]

Today’s Birthday: FRANZ LISZT (1811)

Franz Liszt (1811)

Liszt was a revolutionary figure of romantic music. Born in Hungary, he made his debut at age 9 and studied in Vienna with Salieri. After his father’s death and a disastrous love affair, he almost gave up music for the priesthood. Nevertheless, “Lisztomania” swept Europe in the 1840s, and Liszt enthralled audiences with his astounding technique and grand, dramatic style of playing. Thereafter, he taught and composed prolifically. In 1861, he nearly married a princess but was thwarted—by what? More… Discuss

Liszt’s Paganini Etude S.161 No.3 “La Campanella” (Vladimir Mischouk)

Daniel Barenboim plays the famous Liebestraume by Franz Liszt.

Danse Macabre 2010 ( Saint-Saëns ) @ 1:20AM, August 14, 2012

 

• Artist: Luben Yordanoff, Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim, Camille Saint-Saëns

  Danse Macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based in an old French superstition. In 1874, the composer expanded and reworked the piece into a tone poem, replacing the vocal line with a solo violin.

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