Great compositions/performances: Mendelssohn – Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 4 Classical Music Best Piano and Violin

Mendelssohn – Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 4 – Classical Music Best Piano and Violin

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Published on May 11, 2014

Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 4 by Felix Mendelssohn.

I. Adagio – Allegro moderato (0:00)
II. Poco adagio (7:15)
III. Allegro agitato (15:08)

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The Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 4, for violin and piano was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1825 and is the only one to carry an opus number. Mendelssohn composed two other violin sonatas, both in F major, that are without opus numbers.

Unlike his famous violin work, the Violin Concerto in E minor, the sonata lacks dramatic expositions, however still containing composer’s calm chamber music and early-onset brilliancy.

Saint of the Day for Saturday, May 30th, 2015: St. Joan of Arc

Saint of the Day for Saturday, May 30th, 2015

St. Joan of Arc

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today’s birthday: Miguel Hidalgo (1753)

Miguel Hidalgo (1753)

A national hero in Mexico, where the state of Hidalgo bears his name, Miguel Hidalgo was a priest and revolutionary leader who is regarded as the founder of the Mexican War of Independence movement. Influenced by the French Revolution, he launched a revolt against Spain in the early 19th century. Hidalgo led the rebels to several early victories but was captured, defrocked, and executed by firing squad along with other revolutionary leaders in 1811. What was done with their remains? More… Discuss

this day in the yesteryear: First Pasteurization Test Conducted (1862)

First Pasteurization Test Conducted (1862)

Pasteurization is the process of heating beverages or food, such as milk, beer, or cheese, to a specific temperature for a specific period of time in order to kill microorganisms that could cause disease, spoilage, or undesired fermentation. The process was named after its creator, French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who conducted the first pasteurization test with fellow French scientist Claude Bernard in 1862. Why is pasteurization not designed to kill all microorganisms in food? More… Discuss

Pasteurization is the process of heating beverages or food, such as milk, beer, or cheese, to a specific temperature for a specific period of time in order to kill microorganisms that could cause disease, spoilage, or undesired fermentation. The process was named after its creator, French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who conducted the first pasteurization test with fellow French scientist Claude Bernard in 1862. Why is pasteurization not designed to kill all microorganisms in food? More… Discuss

The Salic Law

The Salic law was the rule of succession in some royal and noble European families that forbid females to succeed to certain titles or offices in the family. It likely came from the Salian Franks, who prohibited women from succeeding to the throne. The rule was most prominently enforced by the house of Valois and the succeeding house of Bourbon in France and was involved in the rivalry of Stephen and Matilda for the English throne. What impact did it have when Victoria became queen of England? More… Discuss

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing (1926)

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JULES MASSENET.- EL CID – Ballet

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EL CID – Ballet

Castillane
Andalouse
Aragonaise
Aubade
Catalane
Madrilene
Navarraise

Radio Sinfonía Orquesta Czecho-Slovak

Director: Keith Clark

Le Cid, suite para orquesta.

Descripción de Robert Barefield

The ballet suite second act of Massenet‘s opera Le Cid is one of his best known and most respected orchestral works. The opera, set in Spain in the twelfth century, is a sweeping saga centers on the exploits of Don Rodrigue (Le Cid) in the battle against the Moors and fight for the woman he loves. In the same way that suggested Bizet sounds of Spain in his opera Carmen, Massenet uses colorful orchestration and dance rhythms on strike to evoke the unique flavor of the region. Composer inventive use of percussion instruments is particularly striking, and certainly reflects the fact that early in his career, Massenet was a percussionist himself. The seven picturesque movements are: Castilane, Andalouse, Aragonaise, Aubade, Catalan, Madrilène and Navarraise.

 

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‘Book lover’, 1933. Photo by Brassaï — ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo)

Book lover, 1933. Photo by Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) pic.twitter.com/xS1fKKKUq5

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Bizet – Carmen Suite No.2 – Danse Bohème , great compositions/performances

Bizet – Carmen Suite No.2 – Danse Bohème

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Published on Oct 20, 2012/3588 views

Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite No.2 – Danse Bohème

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This article is about the opera. For other uses, see Carmen (disambiguation).

Carmen
Opera by Georges Bizet
Illustration from Journal amusant, 1875
Librettist	Ludovic Halévy Henri Meilhac
Language	French
Premiere	3 March 1875 – Opéra-Comique, Paris

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on a novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, on 3 March 1875, and at first was not particularly successful. Its initial run extended to 36 performances, before the conclusion of which Bizet died suddenly, and thus knew nothing of the opera’s later celebrity.

Galli-Marié as Carmen

The opera, written in the genre of opéra comique with musical numbers separated by dialogue, tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery Gypsy, Carmen. José abandons his childhood sweetheart and deserts from his military duties, yet loses Carmen’s love to the glamorous toreador Escamillo, after which José kills her in a jealous rage. The depictions of proletarian life, immorality and lawlessness, and the tragic death of the main character on stage, broke new ground in French opera and were highly controversial. After the premiere, most reviews were critical, and the French public was generally indifferent. Carmen initially gained its reputation through a series of productions outside France, and was not revived in Paris until 1883; thereafter it rapidly acquired celebrity at home and abroad, and continues to be one of the most frequently performed operas; the “Habanera” from act 1 and the “Toreador Song” from act 2 are among the best known of all operatic arias. Later commentators have asserted that Carmen forms the bridge between the tradition of opéra comique and the realism or verismo that characterised late 19th-century Italian opera.

The music of Carmen has been widely acclaimed for its brilliance of melody, harmony, atmosphere and orchestration, and for the skill with which Bizet musically represented the emotions and suffering of his characters. After the composer’s death the score was subject to significant amendment, including the introduction of recitative in place of the original dialogue; there is no standard edition of the opera, and different views exist as to what versions best express Bizet’s intentions. The opera has been recorded many times since the first acoustical recording in 1908, and the story has been the subject of many screen and stage adaptations.

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Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz [Official Music Video], great songs/interpretations

Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz [Official Music Video]

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Promotional video clip for tribute LP “Poets In New York” (1986). Leonard Cohen performs Take This Waltz, his song based on his own translation of Garcia Lorca’s Pequeño vals vienés.

The Leonard Cohen Files says: “The video was filmed in Spain, in the city of Granada, famous for the Alhambra Castle. Leonard Cohen is shown in the house of Federico Garcia Lorca. 6 min, color.”

Note: This is 1986 version of the song, produced for the Spanish tribute album “Poets In New York”. Later, Cohen released the same track on his 1988 album I’m Your Man, adding Raffi Hakopian’s violin and Jennifer Warnes’ vocals in overlayers. So don’t be alarmed if you don’t hear Warnes’ duetting on some verses and no violin at all.

According to some sources, this wasn’t real video clip, but promotional clip which originally was the part of TV programme accompanying “Poets in New York” LP. Strangely enough, there’s another version at YouTube, recorded from TV Espana, two minutes longer, re-edited and re-cut – some extra shots show Cohen playing the piano, walking through Garcia Lorca’s house museum etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV97_R… My version is 4 minutes, while The Leonard Cohen Files says it should be six minutes. Nevertheless, my version is obviously also complete clip, and I took it from the home-made DVDR which was shown on Leonard Cohen Event organised by The LC Files, while the DVDR’s contents came from press kit tapes sent by Mr. Cohen, so…

Take This Waltz Lyrics

from Live In London

“Take This Waltz” is track #18 on the album Live In London. It was written by Cohen, Leonard / Lorca, Garcia.

Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women
There’s a shoulder where death comes to cry
There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows
There’s a tree where the doves go to die
There’s a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in theGallery of Frost

Aey, aey, aey, aey
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws

Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
On a chair with a dead magazine
In the cave at the tip of the lily
In some hallway where love’s never been
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand

Aey, aey, aey, aey
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take its broken waist in your hand
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Dragging its tail in the sea

There’s a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
There’s a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They’ve been sentenced to death by the blues
But who is it climbs to your picture
With a garland of freshly cut tears?

Aey, aey, aey, aey
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz it’s been dying for years

There’s an attic where children are playing
Where I’ve got to lie down with you soon
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
And I’ll see what you’ve chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your lilies of snow

Aey, aey, aey, aey
Take this waltz, take this waltz
With its, I’ll never forget you, you know
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Dragging its tail in the sea

And I’ll dance with you in Vienna
I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook
With the photographs there, and the moss

And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty
My cheap violin and my cross
And you’ll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist
Oh my love, oh my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz
It’s yours now, it’s all that there is

Aey, aey, aey, aey

Songwriters
COHEN, LEONARD / LORCA, GARCIA

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George Gershwin – An American in Paris, (performed in 1959 by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.), great compositions/performances

George Gershwin – An American in Paris

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Published on May 23, 2012/ 15,140 views

This was performed in 1959 by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928. Inspired by the time Gershwin had spent in Paris, it evokes the sights and energy of the French capital in the 1920s. It is one of Gershwin’s best-known compositions.
Gershwin composed the piece on commission from the New York Philharmonic. He also did the orchestration (he did not orchestrate his musicals). Gershwin scored An American in Paris for the standard instruments of the symphony orchestra plus celesta, saxophones, and automobile horns. Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Philharmonic.
Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: “My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.” When the tone poem moves into the blues, “our American friend … has succumbed to a spasm of homesickness.” But, “nostalgia is not a fatal disease.” The American visitor “once again is an alert spectator of Parisian life” and “the street noises and French atmosphere are triumphant.”

this pressed for your information: Obama and Cameron warn Congress over Iran sanctions vote | US news | The Guardian

President Barack Obama, right, and the British prime minister, David Cameron, presented a united front about Iran in their White House press conference on Friday. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Barack Obama and David Cameron have warned of possible military confrontation with Iran if Congress succeeds in passing new sanctions legislation rather than giving nuclear non-proliferation talks more time.

In a joint press conference characterised by unusually blunt pressure on US lawmakers, the president said he would veto their proposed legislation if it reached his desk. The British prime minister revealed he was making personal calls to senators during his visit to Washington to dissuade them from passing the bill in the first place.

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Chabrier – Fête polonaise, from the opera “Le Roi malgré lui” (Acte II), great compositions/performances

Chabrier – Fête polonaise, from the opera “Le Roi malgré lui” (Acte II)

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This is a thrilling excerpt from the beginning of Act II of the opera Le Roi malgré lui by Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894). The elegant, surging waltz rhythms of Chabrier’s music inspired Maurice Ravel‘s orchestral poem La valse.

Charles Dutoit conducts the Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir of Radio France.

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Claudio Abbado Conductor: “Haydn Variations” Brahms, great compositions/performances

Claudio Abbado “Haydn Variations” Brahms

Ulrich Dünnebach

Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, op 56a
by Johannes Brahms
Staatskapelle Dresden
Claudio Abbado, conductor

 

Guess what!!!: Judge won’t allow delay of Boston Marathon bombing trial due to the recent attacks in Paris — Newsweek (@Newsweek)|

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UKIP Nigel Farage on Fox News – Responding to the Paris attack?

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Published on Jan 8, 2015

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this pressed for your right to know: French police commissioner kills himself hours after Charlie Hebdo attack

A French police commissioner reportedly killed himself just hours after the bloody massacre at the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo that left 12 dead.

Helric Fredou, who co-workers claim had been battling depression, shot himself Wednesday night in his office in Limoges, France 3 reported.

The body of 45-year-old Fredou was found by a colleague at approximately 1 a.m. Thursday, according to French media reports, which stated the commissioner was suffering from depression and burnout. Colleagues told France 3 that Fredou, who was single with no children, was feeling overworked and overwhelmed by his job.

Fredou had reportedly met with a family member of one of the Charlie Hebdo victims before committing suicide.

via French police commissioner kills himself hours after Charlie Hebdo attack.

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this pressed for #jesuischarlie: World Leaders Head Paris March Honoring Terror Victims – ABC News

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PHOTO: The crowd gather at Republique square in Paris, France, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015.

The crowd gather at Republique square in Paris, France, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015.

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Roughly one million people – including leaders from around the world – today marched as part of “a cry for freedom” to honor those killed in this week’s terror attacks in Paris.

The march began Sunday afternoon at the Place de la Republique, near the Charlie Hebdo offices where 12 people were killed Wednesday.

People huddled in the windy streets – some appearing solemn, some upbeat – marching with French flags and “Je suis Charlie” signs. Portions of the crowd spontaneously burst into applause as they marched.

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BERLIN – German prosecutors say they have arrested a suspected member of the Islamic State group.

The federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement late Saturday that a 24-year-old man identified as Nils D. was arrested in Dinslaken in western Germany and his apartment was raided.

The suspect allegedly traveled to Syria in October in 2013 where he joined IS fighters. He returned to Germany in November 2014.

A local prosecutor in Duesseldorf had opened a separate terror investigation against the man in early 2014, but federal prosecutors said there was no indication that he was planning any concrete attacks. They also said his arrest was not related to the terror attacks in Paris.

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this pressed: Israeli premier Netanyahu offers French Jews to migrate to Israel following deadly attack

Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, stands next to French Ambassador to Israel, Patrick Maisonnave, as he presents his condolences following Wednesday’s deadly attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s offices, at the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem on Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. Brothers suspected in the newspaper terror attack were cornered with a hostage inside a printing house on Friday, after they hijacked a car and police followed them to a village near Paris’ main airport. (AP Photo/Thomas Coex, Pool) (The Associated Press)

JERUSALEM – Israel’s prime minister says he will try to increase immigration of French Jews and others in Europe suffering from a “rising tide of anti-Semitism.”

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From NPR (National Public News)News: From Threats Against Salman Rushdie To Attacks On ‘Charlie Hebdo’

From Threats Against Salman Rushdie To Attacks On ‘Charlie Hebdo‘
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When Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a 1989 fatwa calling for the killing of British writer Salman Rushdie, many in the West could scarcely believe a literary novel would prompt an international death threat.

We’ve come a long way since then.

Radical Islamists now issue threats against cartoonists, writers and filmmakers with such frequency that they barely cause a stir. Actual attacks have been carried out several times over the past decade, and French authorities suspect Muslim extremists in Wednesday’s slaughter of 12 people in Paris, including eight journalists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

To see how these threats and attacks have evolved over the past quarter-century, consider al-Qaida‘s most-wanted list, published in 2013 in its online magazine, Inspire.

A couple of things stand out in the article titled “Wanted: Dead or Alive for Crimes Against Islam.” First, it attracted little attention because it’s the kind of thing the group does regularly. Second, the group did not target Western political or military leaders — the people who have actually waged war against the group.

People Around the World Are Pouring Into the Streets to Support Charlie Hebdo After the Paris Massacre These maps and photos capture the defiant response. (Religion and terrorism don’t mix)

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Dozens of demonstrations have been developing around the world in the wake of Wednesday’s massacre in Paris at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, where masked gunmen murdered 12 and injured 10 others. French newspaper Le Monde is tracking the growing number of rallies, including those in Berlin, London, New York, and Montreal.

In Paris on Wednesday evening, a crowd reportedly numbering in the thousands gathered at Place de la Republique, rallying in solidarity around the phrase “Je Suis Charlie,” or “I am Charlie.” Some raised pens in tribute to the slain cartoonists.

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Exploding Beethoven: Tempest Sonata Live from Paris Valentina Lisitsa: great compositions/performances

Exploding Beethoven: Tempest Sonata Live from Paris Valentina Lisitsa

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Live from Paris, Salle Gaveau , May 21, 2014.
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Man Picks Stranger for World Trip

Canadian Jordan Axani plans to begin a trip around the world today with a traveling companion he chose based on an unusual criterion: she has the same name as his ex-girlfriend. Axani scheduled the three-week trip in May with his then-girlfriend. When the two broke up, he decided to avoid the hassle of changing airline tickets booked in her name by putting out a call for anyone with the same name and a valid Canadian passport. Axani said he received thousands of responses, including from many people who offered to legally change their names. He chose a woman after speaking with her on the phone. More… Discuss

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Haiku – La Tour Eiffel, poetic thought by George-B (the smudge and other poems

Haiku – La Tour Eiffel, poetic thought by George-B

It feels unreal 
La tour Eiffel top’s clouded:
black-in-white makes grays.

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The Champs-Élysées

This avenue in Paris, France, leads from the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe. It is divided in two by the Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées. The lower part, toward the Place de la Concorde, is surrounded by gardens, museums, theaters, and restaurants. The upper part, toward the Arc de Triomphe, was traditionally a luxury commercial district. Twelve avenues radiate to form a star at the avenue’s upper end, with the Arc de Triomphe at its center. To what does the avenue’s name refer? More… Discuss

Joe Dassin Champs Elysées Lyrics

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Les Champs-Élysées Video:

Paroles de Les Champs-Élysées Je m’baladais sur l’avenue
Le coeur ouvert à l’inconnu
J’avais envie de dire bonjour
À n’importe qui
N’importe qui ce fut toi
Je t’ai dit n’importe quoi
Il suffisait de te parler
Pour t’apprivoiser

Aux Champs-Élysées
Aux Champs-Élysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie
À midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez
Aux Champs-Élysées

Tu m’as dit “J’ai rendez-vous
Dans un sous-sol avec des fous
Qui vivent la guitare à la main
Du soir au matin”
Alors je t’ai accompagnée
On a chanté, on a dansé
Et l’on n’a même pas pensé
À s’embrasser

Aux Champs-Élysées
Aux Champs-Élysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie
À midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez
Aux Champs-Élysées

Hier soir deux inconnus
Et ce matin sur l’avenue
Deux amoureux tout étourdis
Par la longue nuit
Et de l’Étoile à la Concorde
Un orchestre à mille cordes
Tous les oiseaux du point du jour
Chantent l’amour

Aux Champs-Élysées
Aux Champs-Élysées
Au soleil, sous la pluie
À midi ou à minuit
Il y a tout ce que vous voulez
Aux Champs-Élysées

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Saint of the Day for Monday, December 1st, 2014: St. Eligius

Saint of the Day for Monday, December 1st, 2014

St. Eligius

Eligius (also known as Eloi) was born around 590 near Limoges in France. He became an extremely skillful metalsmith and was appointed master of the mint under King Clotaire II of Paris. Eligius … continue reading

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St. Edmund Campion St. Edmund Campion Bl. Edward Campion St. Evasius St. Grwst Bl. John Beche  St. Lucius St. Natalia of Nicomedia St. Olympiades Bl. Richard Langley St. Ursicinus of Brescia

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Mitsuko Uchida – W.A. Mozart Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat Major K. 271 “Jeunehomme”: great compositions/performances

Mitsuko Uchida – W.A. Mozart Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat Major K. 271 “Jeunehomme”

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Published on Jul 16, 2013

W.A. Mozart
Piano Concerto No.9 in E flat Major K. 271
“Jeunehomme”
Mitsuko Uchida – Piano
Jeffrey Tate – Conductor

Dame Mitsuko Uchida DBE (内田光子), born December 20, 1948, is a Japanese naturalized-British classical pianist generally regarded as one of the finest of her era. She has appeared with most of the world’s foremost orchestras, recorded a wide repertory with major labels, won numerous awards and honors (including Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2009), and serves as co-director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival. In recent years, she has also conducted major orchestras.

Born in Atami, a seaside town close to Tokyo, Japan, Uchida moved to Vienna, Austria, with her diplomat parents when she was 12 years old, after her father was named the Japanese ambassador to Austria. She enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Music to study with Richard Hauser, and later Wilhelm Kempff and Stefan Askenase, and remained in Vienna to study when her father was transferred back to Japan after five years. She gave her first Viennese recital at the age of 14 at the Vienna Musikverein. She also studied with Maria Curcio, the last and favourite pupil of Artur Schnabel.

In 1969 she won the first prize in the Beethoven Competition in Vienna and in 1970 the second prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition. In 1975, she won second prize in the Leeds Piano Competition.

In 1998 Uchida was the Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival in conjunction with conductor and violinist, David Zinman.

She is an acclaimed interpreter of the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy and Schoenberg. She has recorded all of Mozart’s piano sonatas (a project that won the Gramophone Award), and concerti, the latter with the English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Tate. Her recording of the Schoenberg Piano Concerto with Pierre Boulez won another Gramophone Award. She is further noted for her recordings of Beethoven’s complete piano concerti with Kurt Sanderling conducting, Beethoven’s late piano sonatas, and a Schubert piano cycle. She is distinguished as an interpreter of the works of the Second Viennese School. Her 2009 recording of the Mozart Piano Concertos nos. 23 and 24, in which she conducted the Cleveland Orchestra as well as playing the solo part, won the Grammy Award.

From 2002 to 2007 she served as artist-in-residence for the Cleveland Orchestra, where she led performances of all of Mozart’s solo piano concertos. She has also conducted the English Chamber Orchestra, among others, from the keyboard. In 2010, she was artist-in-residence for the Berlin Philharmonic. She is one two Artistic Directors of the Marlboro Music School and Festival, along with fellow pianist Richard Goode. She is also a trustee of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, an organization established to help young artists develop and sustain international careers.[5] In May 2012, the Royal Philharmonic Society announced that she would be honored with their Gold Medal (she received the society’s annual Music Award in 2003); previous recipients have included Johannes Brahms (1877), Frederick Delius and Sir Edward Elgar (1925), Richard Strauss (1936), Igor Stravinsky (1954), Benjamin Britten and Leonard Bernstein (1987).

Uchida currently resides in London. Her long-standing partner, Sir Robert Cooper, currently works for the European Union in Brussels.

Martha Argerich plays Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16: greaat compositions/performances

Martha Argerich plays Schumann: Kreisleriana, Op. 16

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Kreisleriana

Kreisleriana, Op. 16, is a composition in eight movements by Robert Schumann for solo piano, subtitled Phantasien für das Pianoforte. It was written in only four days in April 1838 and revised in 1852. The work was dedicated to Frédéric Chopin, but when a copy was sent to the Polish composer, “he commented favorably only on the design of the title page”.^[1] Kreisleriana is a very dramatic work and is considered to be one of Schumann’s finest compositions. Schumann himself often called it his favourite work.^[2]

	Kreisleriana, Op. 16 (1838) No. 1 “Äußerst bewegt“ No. 3 “Sehr aufgeregt“ No. 8 “Schnell und spielend“ All played by Giorgi Latso
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The work’s title, and possibly the basis for a depiction of psychological music-drama, was inspired by the character of Johannes Kreisler from works of E. T. A. Hoffmann. Like the kaleidoscopic Kreisler, each number has multiple contrasting sections, resembling the imaginary musician’s manic-depression, and recalling Florestan and Eusebius, the two imaginary characters of Schumann’s inner vision (representing his impulsive and dreamy sides, respectively). Johannes Kreisler appears in three books by Hoffmann, most notably in the Kreisleriana section of Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier, published in 1814.

today’s birthday: Emilio Pucci (1914)

Emilio Pucci (1914)

Born into an aristocratic Italian family, Pucci earned his doctorate in political science before a chance meeting on a Swiss ski slope changed the course of his career. In 1947, while on a ski holiday, he crossed paths with a Harper’s Bazaar photographer who was impressed with the skiwear Pucci had designed and got him a spread in the magazine. Within years, Pucci had become an internationally renowned fashion designer. How did his doctorate later come into play in his career? More… Discuss

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SAINT-SAËNS Violin Sonata No.1 – A.Pascal, I.Philipp, 1934 *vinyl remaster*: make music part of your life series

SAINT-SAËNS Violin Sonata No.1 – A.Pascal, I.Philipp, 1934 *vinyl remaster*

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Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Sonata No.1 in D minor, Op.75
0:05 / ❶ I. Allegro agitato –attacca: [6’08”]
6:12 / ❷ – Adagio [5’29”]
11:41 / ❸ II. Allegretto moderato -attacca: [3’58”]
15:39 / ❹ – Allegro molto [5’45”]
***André Pascal, violin
***Isidore Philipp, piano
***(rec: Paris, 28 June 1934 – 78rpm Columbia M-471)

***HQ audio remaster: Emilio Pessina, 2013

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today’s birthday: Auguste Rodin (1840)

Auguste Rodin (1840)

Rodin was a French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form. He spent 37 years working on The Gates of Hell, a monumental sculptural group commissioned for a proposed Musée des Arts Décoratifs and inspired by Dante’s Inferno. The project was never finished, but many of the 186 figures intended for it, including The Thinker, The Three Shades, and The Kiss, were later presented as individual works. Who was The Thinker intended to represent? More… Discuss

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top favororites and retweeted: Love in library, by Jim Rugg for the cover of the Foxing literary magazine— ✍ Bibliophilia

Love in library (by Jim Rugg @jimrugg) for the cover of the Foxing literary magazine. http://t.co/8EF3QGrtCq pic.twitter.com/5o4A7vISRD

— ✍ Bibliophilia (@Libroantiguo) October 27, 2014

It’s about books, bookstores, librarians and readers…It’s about the love of books and air conditioned!

word: whet

whet 

Definition:	(verb) To make more keen; stimulate.
Synonyms:	quicken, pique
Usage:	The aroma of frying bacon whetted my appetite. Discuss.

FOCUS – ‘These are children, not terrorists,’ say Belgian parents of Syria jihadists – France 24

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This week, two French teenagers were arrested trying to reach Syria to join fighting against President Bashar al-Assad. Three men from Paris went on trial on Thursday on similar charges. Now Belgian parents tell France 24 about losing their children to jihad.

It is a situation not unique to France. Young people from all across Europe have travelled to Syria to join the ‘Holy War’ against Assad, often leaving without warning, their parents unaware to their sons’ and daughters’ plans to become soldiers in a foreign land.

In Belgium, an estimated 300 citizens have left their country for the Syrian battlegrounds. Many parents believe their children, young and impressionable, have been manipulated into taking up the jihadist cause.

Gathered in front of the European Parliament in Brussels, a group of mothers with children in Syria have staged a protest to press the authorities into tackling the problem.

They are making a stand against what they claim is a lack of action by the authorities.

“We’re the parents of jihad fighters, of terrorists. People are afraid of them, of us. But we’re not the ones who’ve sent our children over there,” says Veronique, one of several protesters wearing masks they say symbolise “misunderstanding”.

“Our children were tricked into this,” says another. “They didn’t go to Syria of their own free will. I mean: it’s not normal, that a kid who had no problems finds himself over there, that’s not normal. These are children, Belgian children… They’re not terrorists!”

via FOCUS – ‘These are children, not terrorists,’ say Belgian parents of Syria jihadists – France 24.

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The Moulin Rouge

The Moulin Rouge

The Moulin Rouge, which means “red mill” in French and features a distinctive red windmill on its roof, is a traditional cabaret located in the area of Pigalle in Paris. After opening in 1889, the Moulin Rouge became known for its scandalous can-can dancers and appeared in many works by post-impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It later saw performances by Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf, and Frank Sinatra. The revues performed at Moulin Rouge must all adhere to what superstition? More… Discuss

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Ennio Morricone – The Mission Theme

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NYP: KURT MASUR Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: great compositions/performances

NYP: KURT MASUR Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

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CONDUCTOR: KURT MASUR

Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

RONDO in C – IGNACE PLEYEL: make music part of your life series

RONDO  in C- IGNACE PLEYEL

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MVT. 2 From Duo in C major
David Dillard- violin
Adam Crane – viola
Live performance DUO CONCERT MARCH 29, 2009

today’s birthday: Elsa Schiaparelli (1890)

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890)

After working in the US as a scriptwriter and translator, the Italian-born Schiaparelli settled in Paris and established a house of couture. A daring fashion innovator, she popularized brilliant colors, like “shocking pink,” and brought the padded shoulder, synthetic fabrics, and exposed zippers to high fashion. She was also the first couturier to open a boutique offering ready-to-wear clothing. Schiaparelli took much of her inspiration from contemporary art and even collaborated with whom? More… Discuss

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Madame de Pompadour

Madame de Pompadour became King Louis XV‘s mistress in 1745 and remained his confidante until her death. Of middle-class origin, she owed her success mainly to her intelligence and capabilities. She was a devoted patron of the arts and was a tastemaker in matters of art and culture. However, she was less astute in the political arena, as exemplified by her encouragement of the French alliance with Austria that involved her country in the disastrous Seven Years’ War. How did she die? More… Discuss

quotation: W. Somerset Maugham: “In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city…”

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) Discuss

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Lalo / Isaac Stern, 1956: Symphonie Espagnol in D minor, Op. 21 – Complete (Original Vinyl LP): great compositions/performances

Lalo / Isaac Stern, 1956: Symphonie Espagnol in D minor, Op. 21 – Complete (Original Vinyl LP)

   davidhertzbergIsaac Stern is soloist in this 1956 recording of Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnol in D minor, Op. 21. Eugene Ormandy leads the Philadelphia Orchestra. From the LP shown above, issued on 1956 on the Columbia Masterworks label.

Movements/Sections	5 movements: Allegro non troppo Scherzando. Allegro molto Intermezzo. Allegro non troppo Andante Rondo
Composition Year	1874

Édouard Lalo entra à l’âge de dix ans au conservatoire de Lille où il apprit le violon et peut-être le violoncelle, sous la direction des professeurs Müller et Baumann puis, à l’âge de seize ans, partit pour Paris afin de continuer ses études musicales, contre la volonté de son père. Il y eut comme professeur de violon Pierre Baillot, puis François-Antoine Habeneck. En 1843 le pianiste Julius Schulhoff l’initia à la composition. Il se perfectionna au contact de J.-E. Crèvecoeur (deuxième grand prix de Rome). Ses premières compositions connues, des chants accompagnés au piano, datent de 1848, année durant laquelle il soumit deux de ses partitions à Hector Berlioz. Il se lia d’amitié avec le violoniste Jules Armingaud, son seul confident, et avec le compositeur Pablo de Sarasate. Au nombre de ses amis on compte aussi le peintre Auguste Delacroix qu’il ne faut pas confondre, comme le voulut Pierre Lalo, avec l’illustre Eugène Delacroix. Lalo n’entra jamais au Conservatoire de Paris, ni comme élève, ni comme professeur. Il y participa seulement à deux jurys de concours en 1876. Bien qu’admirant l’orchestre wagnérien, Lalo s’astreignit à suivre sa propre personnalité. Il bénéficia à plusieurs reprises de l’appui de Charles Gounod qui appréciait ses musiques. Il fut l’alto, puis le second violon du Quatuor Armengaud à partir de la fondation de celui-ci en 1856. Edouard Lalo vécut pauvrement, notamment à Puteaux avec sa première épouse, jusqu’en 1865. Veuf en 1864, il épousa la mezzo-soprano Julie-Marie-Victoire Bernier de Maligny et vécut plus confortablement à Paris. Il faisait salon de musique chez lui chaque vendredi soir et fréquentait les autres salons musicaux privés de la capitale. Lalo était d’un caractère réservé et répugnait à parler de lui. Beaucoup des correspondances qu’il a écrites et reçues ont été détruites. Il composait avec ardeur des mélodies et des symphonies instrumentales qui furent plus appréciées à l’étranger qu’en France.

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Leonard Bernstein Conducting): great compositions/performances

Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Leonard Bernstein Conducting)

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Leonard Bernstein conducts Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – extract from “The Unanswered Question”, Boston Symphony Orchestra

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this pressed from VOA: Explosion Fells Building Outside Paris, Killing at Least 2

Explosion Fells Building Outside Paris, Killing at Least 2.

today’s birthday: Julio Cortázar (1914) “French: a culture of inclusion”

 

Français : Plaque commémorative, 4 rue Martel, Paris 10 e . « Ici vécut Julio Cortázar, 1914-1984, écrivain argentin naturalisé français, auteur de Marelle. » (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Julio Cortázar (1914)

Cortázar was an Argentinean novelist who gained recognition as one of the century’s major experimental writers. A permanent resident of France after 1951, his works reflect his interest in French Surrealism, psychoanalysis, photography, jazz, and revolutionary Latin American politics. His masterpiece, Rayuela—translated as Hopscotch—creates a world in which eroticism, humor, and play offer solace for life’s cruelty and despair. What is unique about the novel’s structure? More… Discuss

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Saint of the Day for Saturday, August 23rd, 2014: St. Philip Benizi

St. Philip Benizi

Servite cardinal and preacher. Born in Florence, Italy, to a noble family, he was educated in Paris and Padua where he earned a doctorate in medicine and philosophy. He practiced medicine for some … continue reading

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