#Eduard Tubin

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Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) - Piano Quartet (in one movement) ·

Love Derwinger, piano · Tallinn Quartet

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Alatskivi Castle in Alatskivi, Estonia Some 24 miles (40 km) north of the university town of Tartu is one of the hundreds of historic manor houses that dot the Estonian landscape. Built by Baltic German aristocrats until WWI in a variety of architectural styles, these stately homes stood on large estates and served as the country seat of ruling elites. What sets Alatskivi Castle apart is its unique architecture. The castle drew inspiration from a British royal residence in the Scottish Highlands. Set in a vast, wooded parkland, Alatskivi comes into view as one enters through a red brick arched gate. Facing a circular gravel driveway wide enough for carriages, the pristine white, fairy tale castle features several turrets, a slate roof, and an octahedral tower on the southeastern corner of the building. There is mention of a manor house in Alatskivi as early as 1601 when the Swedish king gifted it to a trusted retainer. In the centuries that followed, the property changed ownership repeatedly, before coming into the possession of the noble von Nolckens family. From 1885 to 1888, Baron Arved von Nolcken reconstructed the old manor house in a Scottish baronial style, bearing a close resemblance to Balmoral Castle, which he had visited in course of his travels. Upon completion, Alatskivi Castle became the home of the baron and his family for the next 20 years. The von Nolckens left for Germany in 1905 with the outbreak of the Peasant Revolution. They took with them all their valuables and even stripped the walls of their silk wallpaper. After it ceased to be a family home, Alatskivi was repurposed to serve as a school, barracks, and a collective farm. The house eventually became neglected falling into disrepair before being meticulously restored. Today, it is a museum, hotel, and restaurant.  The castle has an interesting asymmetrical plan, with single and double-storied wings. A massive, stone fireplace dominates the formal dining room, which features a carved timber ceiling. It is now a restaurant. The Baron’s study and reception rooms have ornate fireplaces, period furniture, rich carpets and draperies, and family portraits hung on the walls. In contrast to the dark and somewhat brooding elements of these interiors is the light and airy Lady’s Boudoir with elegant furniture, charming blue and white wallpaper, and matching upholstery. Today, the reception rooms host seminars, musical soirees, and more. The bedrooms of the von Nolcken family were situated to the right of an impressive, double-height entrance hall, which has a minstrel’s gallery above the main door. Above what used to be the nursery for the von Nolcken children is a low-ceilinged room designated for the nanny. The bedroom was situated so that the nanny could easily be alerted if her charges needed her care during the night. A set of steep and narrow stairs lead to the nanny's bedroom. The rooms on the second level of the west wing currently serve as the guestrooms of the castle's hotel. The rooms to the east are devoted to a museum, honoring the acclaimed Estonian conductor Eduard Tubin, who grew up in a village not far from the manor house. The rooms display music scores, manuscripts, books, records, films and photos, sketches of theatrical costumes, and musical instruments. The terrace in the east wing overlooks a rose garden. The grounds behind the castle open to a lawn and afford a stunning view of Lake Alatskivi, glistening at the bottom of a steep, grassy bank. The basement held the kitchens and living quarters of the servants. A manor house was home not only to the Baron and his family but also to the large retinue of servants required for running a grand mansion and estate. There is a wax museum in the basement of the castle with wax figures of family servants: a butler, a lady’s maid, a baker, a cook, a laundry maid, stable hands, and a groom, among others, are on display. Alatskivi Castle sits on 740 acres of woodlands, the largest in Tartu County. Trails running through the property are popular with hikers. There is also a cluster of ancillary buildings on the estate including coach houses, barns, a mill, a church, and a cemetery. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/alatskivi-castle

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A look at an underrated Estonian.

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Vox Satanae – Episode #517: 16th-21st Centuries – Week of May 10, 2021

Vox Satanae – Episode #517: 16th-21st Centuries – Week of May 10, 2021

Vox Satanae – Episode #517 16th-21st Centuries 146 Minutes – Week of May 10, 2021 This week we hear works by Orazio Vecchi, Michel Lambert, François Francœur, Franciszek Ścigalski, Joseph Rheinberger, Eduard Tubin, and Andrea Tarrodi. Stream Vox Satanae Episode 517. Download Vox Satanae Episode 517.

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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

On the Spectrum Classical channel, Eduard Tubin Symphony No 3.  I well remember playing it with Chris, who, I’ve mentioned before, was fearless.  Quick, how many Estonian composers can you name?  Arvo Paart...quite a contrast between the two.  

The insurrectionists, one hundred eighty or so arrested by now, are shown great leniency.  Had any of them been Black it would have been quite different.  One lady from Texas spoke with great pride about having been with a group that knocked down Nancy Pelosi’s door (so she says) and stolen the Speaker’s gavel.  She asked that prior to her hearing she be allowed to take a little trip to Mexico. 

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Melting snow.  Now a big mess. 

Miss QAnon recants.  Says 9/11 was real, after all.  Says the school shootings weren’t staged.  She is kicked off the committees (one of which was education) she was to serve on. 

Trump’s lawyers intend to make quick work of the impeachment.  In the meantime Trump is seething down in Florida, Twitterless...

Friday, February 5, 2021

Up early and off to the East Side for Covid test, in preparation for the big test that is coming next week.  

The QAnon lady gives a sarcastic, uh...something like a press conference.  She is the new face of the Republican Party.  Says the party belongs to Trump.  Gives reporters a hard time, especially the lady from CNN.  (”Who are you and who are you with?”)  Says not serving on any committees will give her more free time.  (For what, pray tell?)  One remembers Steve King...kicked off the committees because he said white supremacy wasn’t such a bad thing.  Miss QAnon is emboldened by all of this and loving the attention.  And, down in Florida, Trump is loving it too.. 

In having to take back some of her more outrageous statements Ms QAnon, now the face of the Republican party, said: “I was allowed to believe things that weren’t true.”  

Trump’s lawyers say they will make quick work of this second impeachment business..  

Pugnacious Lou Dobbs is taken off the air.  Maybe some other Fox Friends will be also.  This for continuing to promote the election tally hoax (Trump’s landslide victory.)

to be continued

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Eduard Tubin’s symphonies. They’re all exciting and romantic works that are under-performed. My orchestra here in NY has played several of them and our performances are usually the New York premieres of his music.

Bohuslav Martinu writes intricate, elegant harmonies in all of his music. I only know the symphonies and concertos but I enjoy them all. I’ve played a few of these works and they are difficult to play well, especially because the copyists must hate violists.

Ferrucio Busoni’s Piano Concerto is an insane, 70-minute piece that might as well be a symphony. It even has a mens’ chorus. I’d love to play it sometime (in the orchestra; I am not a pianist).

Hello. I am in the mood for boosting my classical music knowledge and you seem the right person to ask for help :D I am already familiar with most of the famous names but I am searching for some gem that isn't normally played during concerts because is less famous or known. Recently I discovered Moszkowsky piano concerto in E major (shame on me for being so late!) and spurred by this I would like to ask you if you could suggest some piece to listen that fits my previous description. Any number of pieces it's ok and the same goes for the period :)

Sure thing, especially because I’m a fan of romantic piano concertos. Here is a list of some that come to mind:

Medtner - wrote three piano concertos, all are great. The first is super dramatic. The second is fun and melodious with a beautiful ‘slow’ movement and a fun finale, and the third is the most majestic 

Bortkiewicz - Piano Concerto no. 2. Despite being for the left hand alone, it feels like a heavy-handed Rachmaninoff at times

Dohnanyi - Variations on a Nursery Theme. I won’t say the theme because when you listen to it, the dramatic build up before the theme’s intro will make you laugh. Fun and colorful, and playful.

Weber - Konzertstuck. One of the first truly “romantic” concertos, it is a program piece telling the story of a woman waiting for her knight boyfriend to return from the crusades.

Scharwenka - Piano concerto 4 in f minor. Very intense

Reger - Piano Concerto. A late work with gnarled modulations, feeling like if Brahms went to even more remote keys and wrote thicker chords than he already did.

Glazunov - Piano Concerto 2. A very bright work with beautiful orchestration

Hahn - Piano Concerto. Very “French” in that the main focus is on melody and on pretty sounds and colors, like Saint-Saens’ pcs

Lyapunov - Piano Concertos 1 and 2. If you love Russian music, you need to hear Lyapunov

Strauss - Burleske. Kind of a parody of Lisztian writing, but a sincere one, where he plays around with as many possible ways to resolve a diminished seventh as he can find.

Beach - Piano Concerto. Again uses “American”/folkish melodies and orchestration to create a lyrical work. Reminds me of Dvorak, but with more brilliant pianism 

Rheinberger - Piano Concerto in Ab. A very uplifting main theme.

And for fun, I’ll throw in an ABCs of lesser known works:

Arensky - Piano Quintet

Bridge - Piano Trio no. 2

Chabrier - Gwendoline Overture

Durufle - Requiem

Enescu - Chamber Symphony

Field - Piano Concerto no. 5 "L’Incendie par l’Orage"

Gombert - In Te Domine Speravi

Henze - Serenade for solo cello

d’Indy - Symphony no. 3 “Sinfonia Brevis de Bello Gallico”

Jongen - Symphonie concertante

Kabalevsky - Piano Concerto 3

Langaard - Music of the Spheres

Martinu - Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola

Norgard - Symphony no. 4

Ornstein - Piano Quintet

Price - Symphony no. 1

Ropartz - Prelude, Marine, et Chansons

Seeger -  String Quartet (1931)

Tailleferre - Harp Sonata

Ustvolskaya - Composition 2, “Dies Irae”

Varese - Octandre

Wranitzky - Symphony in c minor, op.11

Xenakis - Pleiades

Yoshimatsu - Symphony no. 4

Zemlinsky - Die Seejungrau

It would be really cool to see what other music people would want to add to the list!

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June 18 in Music History

1466 Birth of early music printer Ottaviano de Petrucci in Italy.

1677 Birth of Italian opera composer Antonio Maria Bononcini in Modena. 

1723 Birth of composer Giuseppe Scarlotti.

1726 Death of French composer Michel-Richard de Lalande in Versailles. 

1744 Birth of composer Augustin Holler.

1757 Birth of Austrian piano manufacturer and composer Ignaz Joseph Pleyel.

1780 Birth of composer Michael Henkel.

1799 Death of Mozart's German music publisher Johann André in Offenbach.

1803 FP of Méhul/Boieldieu/Kreutzer/Nicolo: "Le Baiser et la quittance, ou Une Aventure de garnison" Paris.

1807 FP of Gyrowetz's "Die Junggesellen-Wirtschaft" Vienna.

1816 FP of Boieldieu/Herold's "Charles de France" Paris.

1820 Birth of composer Martin Andreas Udbye.

1821 FP of C. M. Von Weber's opera Der Freischutz at the Königliches Schauspielhaus, in Berlin.

1822 Birth of composer Henry David Leslie.

1831 FP of Donizetti's "La Romanziera e l'uomo nero" Opera buffa, Naples.

1837 Felix Mendelssohn completes his String Quartet in e, Op. 44, no. 2, while on his honeymoon in Freiburg, Germany.

1848 Birth of Belgian baritone Jacques Bouhy. 

1850 Birth of Austrian-German composer Richard Heuberger in Graz.

1872 Birth of English pianist Katharine Goodson.

1876 Birth of French soprano Marcelle Demougeot in Dijon.

 1880 Birth of Mexican composer Jose Pomer in Mexico City.

1887 Birth of American soprano Blanche Yurka in St. Paul, MN.

 1887 Birth of soprano Kamila Ungrova in Kourim. 

1889 Birth of Italian tenor Ismaele Voltolini in Mantua.

1891 FP of Bruneau's "Le Rêve" Paris.

1892 Birth of German pianist Edward Steuermann. 

1896 Birth of Australian composer and organist Sir George Thalben-Ball. 

1903 Birth of American soprano Jeanette MacDonald.

1904 Birth of French composer and conductor Manuel Rosenthal in Paris. 

1905 Birth of Estonian-Swedish composer Eduard Tubin in Kallaste. 

1907 Alexander Glazunov receives Mus.D. degree from Oxford University.

1915 Birth of French composer Victor Legley in Hazebrouck. 

1917 Birth of composer Akhmet Jevdet Ismail Hajiyev.

1923 Birth of American ethnic music composer Elizabeth Waldo.

1927 Birth of Hungarian tenor Robert Ilosfalvy in Hódmezoevasárhély. 

1927 Birth of composer Simeon Pironkov.

1933 Birth of Australian composer Colin Brumby in Melbourne.

1934 Birth of composer Pavle Dešpalj. 

1941 Birth of Dutch conductor Hans Vonk in Amsterdam. 

1942 Birth of British singer and composer Sir Paul McCartney.

1943 Birth of Hungarian soprano Eva Marton.

1944 Birth of American computer composer Paul Lansky in NYC.

1945 Birth of English horn player and conductor Anthony Halstead.

1947 Birth of composer Douglas Young.

1948 Birth of Welch baritone Arwel Huw Morgan in Neath S. Wales. 

1950 Birth of Polish-American composer Jan Radzynski in Warsaw, Poland.

1950 Birth of American composer Frank Ferko in Barberton, OH.

1952 Death of baritone Heinrich Schlushnus. 

1953 Birth of English pianist Peter Donohoe.

1955 Death of Swiss composer Willy Burkhard in Zürich. 

1955 FP of Pierre Boulez`cantata Le Marteau sans Maitre in Baden-Baden.

1957 Birth of American composer Rand Steiger in NYC.

1957 Death of tenor Georgi Nelepp. 

1958 FP of B. Britten's opera Noye's Fludde at Orford Church, Aldeburgh.

 1962 FP of Halffter's Oratio 1st stage perf., la Scala.

1962 Death of Swiss composer and conductor Volkmar Andreae in Zurich. 

1962 FP of Manuel de Falla`s opera Atlantida in Milan.

1963 Death of Dutch tenor Hans Kaart.

1971 Death of baritone Heinrich Nillius. 

1977 FP of Davies' "The Martyrdom of St. Magnus" chamber opera, Kirkwall.

1978 Death of Brazilian baritone Lourival Braga. 

1980 FP of V. Persichetti's Three Toccatinas for Piano. Performed by contestants in the International Piano Festival and Competition at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

1982 FP in USAmerica, Stage Premier, Verdi: Il Corsaro in San Diego, CA. 

1992 FP of Anthony Davis' opera Tania at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia, PA.

1994 Death of soprano Rosemare Broncato.

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Listening to...

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Ballet in Tallinn - The Goblin by Richard Findlay@FotoFlingScotland Via Flickr: Ballet by Eduard Tubin in two acts World premiere on March 31, 1943 Vanemuine Theatre Premiere at the Estonian National opera on September 18, 2015 “The Goblin” is the first Estonian ballet as well as Eduard Tubin’s first work for a music theatre. The work is based on a mythical character from Estonian folklore, the Goblin, whose sole purpose is to serve his greedy master, the Farmer, in obtaining riches. In Marina Kesler’s rendition, the story crosses the borders of one nation’s folklore: in a contemporary money-hungry world the Goblin is like a voice in people’s head, finding excuses why there is never enough money. But money buys no happiness and the reward for gluttony is ruination – becoming weary of human voracity, the Goblin destroys his maker and dies as well. The story of the greedy Farmer and the Goblin is contrasted by the love of the Farmer’s Daughter and the Peasant, resented by the Farmer because of the young man’s poverty. Kesler’s staging raises the question – what is important in today’s material and racing world? Is there room for love? “The Goblin” premiered in 1943 at the Vanemuine Theatre, conducted by the composer himself. The choreographer and stage director was Ida Urbel. The ballet premiered at the Estonian National Opera a year later as the last staging of Rahel Olbrei. “The Goblin” could be performed a few times only as the theatre suffered severely from the Soviet aerial bombardment, begun on March 9, 1944. Without having time to change out of their costumes, the dancers fled the building, scaring the citizens in the streets. “The Goblin” was last staged at the Estonian National Opera by Mai Murdmaa in 1999. Tubin has successfully combined folk music elements with contemporary sound and symphonic language. In his words, ““The Goblin” is based completely on folk music that provides an inexhaustible treasury”. In 1962, Tubin composed an orchestra suite from the ballet’s music

[lesser-known-composers]

Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) - String Quartet: II. Andante ·

Tallinn Quartet

[atbejammin]

Listened to Symphony No. 2, "Legendaire'" (The Legendary): I. Legendaire by Eduard Tubin from the album: Tubin: Complete Symphonies Last.fm Link: http://ift.tt/1XRZkYJ Search on Spotify

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Eduard Tubin - Suite from the Ballet "Kratt" 

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Eduard Tubin - Alto Saxophone Sonata (1951)

I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Allegro vivace

 performed by saxophonist Pekka Savijoki and pianist Roland Pöntinen

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DSC00934 by Graham_Stone on Flickr.

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Tubin bass concerto = love