================================Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1 in D major ("Titan")1. Langsam. Schleppend. Wie ein Naturlaut. Im Anfang sehr gemächlich Parts1-6 &2-62. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell Part3-6 3. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen Part4-6 4. Stürmisch bewegt - Energisch Parts5-6 &6-6London Philharmonic Orchestra/Adrian BoultOriginal Recording.================================Related information:Gustav Mahler continued:In the case of Anton Webern, who, in his early professional life, had conducted performances of Mahler symphonies, one may detect a Mahlerian concern with total textural clarity, although the small scale and rhetorical sparseness of Webern's mature pieces means that the most overt 'Mahlerisms' are more identifiable in his youth. Parallels have also been drawn between Webern's and Mahler's love of nature, particularly the Carinthian countryside.[6]The earliest significant non-contemporaries to register the impact of Mahler were perhaps Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich, both of whom identified with elements of Mahler's personal and creative character as well as with aspects of his musical style. Britten, who had first come to know Mahler's Symphony No. 4 while still a student, produced a 'reduced orchestra' version of the second movement of Symphony No. 3 and during his life performed Mahler's music as both a piano-accompanist and conductor. Both Britten and Shostakovich came to hold Das Lied von der Erde in special regard, and undeniable references to it are found in such works as the former's Phaedra and the latter's Fourth and Tenth symphonies. In the United States, Aaron Copland's development of an authentically 'American' sound was influenced by Mahler, most notably in his Clarinet Concerto, written for Benny Goodman.As well as Shostakovich, Britten and Copland, Mahler's music also influenced Richard Strauss, Ernst Krenek, Feruccio Busoni, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, the early symphonies of Havergal Brian, the music of Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Luciano Berio and Alfred Schnittke. Alexander von Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony in particular seems to have been inspired by Das Lied von der Erde.Among other leading composers, an aversion to Mahler can often be attributed to radically incompatible creative goals rather than to any failure to recognise his technical skill: to Stravinsky, Mahler was "malheur" (French for "misfortune"), while Vaughan Williams described him as a "tolerable imitation of a composer". By the late 20th century, however, Mahler's kaleidoscopic scoring and motivically independent lines in intense contrapuntal combination had become staples of modernism, and formerly shocking features of his music such as his radical discontinuities, his penchant for parody and quotation (including self-quotation) and his blunt juxtaposition of 'high' and 'low' styles were prominent features of postmodernism.Ultimately, as commentators[7] have noted, Mahler has influenced virtually every significant strand in twentieth century music, with the notable exception of the impressionism of Debussy. Pierre Boulez, himself a renowned Mahler conductor, has said that a study of Mahler's music "is indispensable to anyone reflecting today on the future of music." [8]Mid and late 20th centuryMahler's difficulties in getting his works accepted led him to say, "My time will come". That time came in the mid 20th century, at a point when the development of the LP was allowing repeated hearings of the long and complex symphonies in competent and well-recorded performances. By 1956, every one of Mahler's symphonies (including Das Lied von der Erde and the opening Adagio movement of the unfinished Tenth Symphony) had been issued on LP -- as had Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Das Klagende Lied, the song cycles, and many individual songs.Advocated by both those who had known him (prominently among them the composers Alexander von Zemlinsky and Arnold Schoenberg), and by a generation of conductors including the American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, his works won over an audience hungry for the next wave of musical exploration. In the late twentieth century, new musicological methods led to the extensive editing of his scores, leading to various attempts to complete the tenth symphony, such as by Deryck Cooke, and improved versions of the others.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler================================ *Note:Support the artist, their families and their legacy by purchasing their music. [ More Detail ]
Maestro Tabachnik shows the world famous Swiss conductor Michel Tabachnik. He directed great orchestras like the Orchestre de Paris, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra, as well as composing contemporary classical pieces. Following a series of murders/suicides by members of the French/Swiss Order of the Solar Temple cult, Tabachnik is branded an accomplice by the authorities. In 2006 Michel Tabachnik was found completely innocent. The documentary shows Michel Tabachnik's relentless drive to realize his ambitions and fight his way back with the Orchestra of the Northern Netherlands to the musical top. The rehearsals for his Piano Concerto exemplify the fascinating relationship between an ambitious director / composer and his orchestra, while showing at the same time the personal spiritual quest which is expressed in his music.Jarenlang behoort de Zwitser Michel Tabachnik tot één van de meest getalenteerde hedendaagse dirigenten en componisten. Hij dirigeert onder andere grote orkesten als het Orchestre de Paris, de Berliner Philharmoniker en het Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest. Daarnaastcomponeert hij hedendaagse klassieke werken. De muzikale top is in zicht, als het noodlot toeslaat. Hij wordt begin jaren negentig beschuldigd van betrokkenheid bij de zelfmoorden van de Zonnetempelsekte. Pas eind 2006 wordt hij definitief vrijgesproken. In Meastro Tabachnik is te zien hoe hij zich probeert terug te vechten in de internationale concertwereld.Filmmaker: Carin GoeijersProducer: Pieter van Huystee Film / NPSwww.pvhfilm.nl [ More Detail ]
Jon's basic idea when he conceived of the Duo Bass Clarinet Concerto was Heavy Metal meets the German early nineteenth century composer Carl Maria von Weber. The first music he really fell in love with as a teenager was Guns N' Roses, Metallica, and other hard rock and heavy metal bands. More recently, for the past year and a half, he has been a member of the Edmund Welles bass clarinet quartet, which channels the spirit and power of heavy metal through the deep sonorities of four bass clarinets. Jon knows Weber's music largely from practicing his clarinet concertos extensively as in high school and college, and he has always enjoyed the over-the-top virtuosity and flashiness of these pieces. In pondering a duo bass clarinet concerto, it seemed logical to try to combine the heaviness and raw power of heavy metal with the dancing virtuosity and lyricism of Weber's concertos. The resulting piece doesn't necessarily borrow explicitly from either heavy metal or Weber, but the underlying spirit of the work comes from the combination of these two sources. The resulting piece is in one movement, but with three distinct sections roughly corresponding to the traditional fast-slow-fast three movements of a classical concerto. The first section, after a slow introduction, is groovy and dancey, with the bass clarinets establishing grooves and then taking off on virtuosic excursions as the orchestra takes on the grooves. The second, slower section features a soaring melody in sweet thirds in the bass clarinets over undulating chords in the strings. After a cadenza, the third section brings back the groove from the beginning, with much virtuosic ornamentation by the bass clarinets building into a climactic ending. [ More Detail ]
Yo-Yo Ma with Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago SO in this performance from 1997. This concerto will forever be associated with Jaqueline duPre, but YYM gives a performance that is beyond breathtaking. It is fitting that Barenboim is the conductor; I'm sure he feels this concerto is still in very good hands. [ More Detail ]
Soloist: Emil GilelsConductor: André CluytensOrchestre National de FrancePiano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor (Op. 23)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1st Movement - Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso.2nd Movement - Andante semplice:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXuwMxtJOUo3rd Movement - Allegro con fuoco:Not on YouTube. Please upload it if you find it! [ More Detail ]
Rachmaninov was of course the brilliant virtuoso we all know, but as a genious composer he has as well his place in the standard classical repertoire. Here we hear him play the moderato from his second piano concerto. This unique recording with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra directed by Leopold Stokowski was made for RCA in 1929. At request, I'm now uploading the first movement. [ More Detail ]
Mitsuko Uchida plays piano and Jeffrey Tate conducts the Mozarteum Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme", in E flat major, K. 271.A Saltzburg Festival performance, recorded in the Mozarteum, Saltzburg, 1989Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed this concerto in Salzburg, 1777. Though only 21 years old, he displayed great maturity and originality inwhat is regarded by many as his first great masterpiece. It was composed for a Mlle. Jeunehomme, of whom very little is known (such as--her first name!). But she must have been a veryfine pianist to be able to perform this! The mix of dramatic and intense emotions, some seemingly mad and anguished with parts ofjoy and happiness suggest (one romantically feels) that Mlle. Jeunehomme must have been quite a handful for the young Mozart.1. Allegro, in E flat major and common (C) time2. Andantino, in C minor and 3/4 time3. Rondo (Presto), in E flat major and 2/2 timeDawn Chan notes:Renowned pianist Alfred Brendel has referred to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9, known as the Jeunehomme, as a "wonder of the world," going so far as to assert that Mozart "did not surpass this piece in the later piano concertos."update--thanks to Laemmerhirt, I moved past my old sources and got some new info!Christopher H. Gibbs wrote in 2005:WHAT'S IN A NAME?Countless beloved pieces of so-called classical music have a nickname, often one not given by the composer. Mozart would have no idea what the "Jupiter" Symphony is, Beethoven the "Emperor" Concerto or "Moonlight" Sonata, or Schubert the "Unfinished" Symphony. The names sometimes come from savvy publishers who know they can improve sales, or from impresarios, critics, or performers. The case of the Concerto we hear today is particularly interesting, and only recently explained. Little is known of the genesis or first performance of the E-flat Concerto. Twentieth-century accounts usually stated that Mozart composed it for a French keyboard virtuoso named Mademoiselle Jeunehomme, who visited Salzburg in the winter of 1777. Nothing else was known, not even the woman's first name. Last year, the Viennese musicologist Michael Lorenz, a specialist in the music of Mozart's and Schubert's time and a brilliant archival detective, figured out the mystery. The nickname was coined by the French scholars Théodore de Wyzewa and Georges de Saint-Foix in their classic early-20th-century study of the composer. As Lorenz explains, "Since one of their favorite names for Mozart was 'jeune homme' (young man), they presented this person as 'Mademoiselle Jeunehomme.'"In a September 1778 letter Mozart wrote to his father, he referred to three recent concertos, "one for the jenomy [K. 271], litzau [K. 246], and one in B-flat [K. 238]" that he was selling to a publisher. Leopold later called the first pianist "Madame genomai." (Spellings were often variable and phonetic at the time.) Lorenz has identified her as Victoire Jenamy, born in Strasbourg in 1749 and married to a rich merchant, Joseph Jenamy, in 1768. Victoire was the daughter of the celebrated dancer and choreographer Jean Georges Noverre (1727-1810), who was a good friend of Mozart's. He had choreographed a 1772 Milan production of Mozart's opera Lucio Silla and later commissioned the ballet Les Petits Riens for Paris. Although we still know little about Victoire Jenamy—she does not appear to have been a professional musician, though clearly Mozart admired her playing—Mozart's first great piano concerto can now rightly be called by its proper name: "Jenamy." [ More Detail ]
Rachmaninov was of course the brilliant virtuoso we all know, but as a genious composer he has as well his place in the standard classical repertoire. Here we hear him play the adagio sostenuto from his second piano concerto. This unique recording with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra directed by Leopold Stokowski was made for RCA in 1929. [ More Detail ]
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Movement 1 Allegro, molto appassionato: PART 1 OF 2SARAH CHANG, NEW YORKPHILHARMONIC &KURT MASUR - AVERY FISHER HALL 1995PART2 HERE: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0_3PJf4lAj0***SPECIAL THANKS TO YOUTUBE USER belgradegeneve FOR THE VIDEOS!*** [ More Detail ]
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Concerto for Clarinet and Military Band. Special thanks to Chemistry Professor Oliver Seely at CSUDH for the arrangment. You can download the finale score at http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/clarmusi.htm [ More Detail ]
Concierto para Oboe de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart KV 314 interpretado por Heinz Holliger y la Orquesta de Cámara de Lausanne dirigido bajo la batuta de José Luis López Cobos.--Heinz Holliger-- Nace en Langenthal (Suiza) el 21 de mayo de 1939. Desde la juventud estudia oboe con Cassagnaud y composición con Sándor Veress, ampliando sus conocimientos del instrumento en París con Pierlot y los de la composición en la Academia de Basilea con Pierre Boulez, que le pone en contacto con la música dodecafonista de Schoenberg y Berg.. Su primer trabajo fue de oboe en la Orquesta Sinfónica de Basilea, que sirvió de trampolín para iniciar una brillante carrera internacional como solista de su instrumento. También ha impartido lecciones de oboe en la Staatliche Musikhoschule de Freiburgo. Como compositor su música ha evolucionado hacia un lenguaje caracterizado por la referencia simbólica a un texto -casi siempre poético- implícito en la obra, inclusive la puramente instrumental.Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe Oboe [ More Detail ]
Mitsuko Uchida talking about her experience with Arnold Schoenberg's piano music. Including a rehearsal of the Piano Concerto op. 42 (conducted by Jeffrey Tate). [ More Detail ]