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Brazil

The music of Brazil has developed some unique and original styles such as samba, bossa nova, choro and frevo alongside Brazilian versions of rock, pop, soul, hip-hop, rap and gospel. Instrumental music is also popular in Brazil especially jazz influenced forms. But there is also a long history of classical composers so today’s programme explores some of the composers who influenced and defined…

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Leevi Madetoja SYMPHONY NO. 2 (1916-1918)

John Storgårds Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

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tuesday 13/08/2024

i like listening to classical music as i do math and german ft. my point n shoot film camera

♫ the wood nymph op. 15 - jean sibelius, helsinki philharmonic orchestra, john storgårds ♫

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Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) - Guitar Concerto No. 5, "Helsinki": I. Spaces ·

Timo Korhonen, guitar

Conductor: Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen

Orchestra: Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra

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raut concerto recs?

okay, so

Piano Concerto No. 1 (Op. 45)

okay so my favourite recording for this is by Laura Mikkola (pfte) and Hannu Lintu with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra

i just love this recording so much it makes me go feral istg

Violin Concerto

check out the recording by Elmar Oliveira (vln) and Leif Segerstam with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. its just amazing and Oliveira's cadenza fits so well with Rautavaara's style that i honestly had a hard time trying to hear when it began

Percussion Concerto - "Incantations"

the percussion concerto is great. Colin Currie (perc.) with John Storgårds and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra is amazing and its just

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Concerto for Birds and Orchestra - "Cantus Arcticus"

yes, you heard that right. not even birds are safe from composers.

but in all seriousness, the recording by Max Pommer and the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra is great and it just feels right. at least to me.

why i dont have more

ive just been trying to find good recordings. for the third piano concerto, Vladimir Askenazy's (pfte., cond.) recording is... alright? i mean its certainly not terrible, but it feels a bit too heavy at times.

ive been beginning to listen to the harp concerto as of late and its really quite wonderful.

the double bass concerto is something that ive listened to only in part.

also if you had to ask me what my favourite non-concerto work by Rautavaara is, it would probably have to be Over The Horizon. idk.

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Finlandia: From Lapland to Helsinki

  The symphony Finlandia was composed by the famous Finnish composer Sibelius prior to the Second World War, when Finland was invaded by the Russians – and fought them off for 6 months – an act of unbelievable courage from such a small population. I attended the performance of Finlandia by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra earlier in the year – and how it resonated with the audience with the…

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Entry 6: Music and politics

This week is Week 3, which means we will have to complete our first assessment for each module. One of the assessment peeked my interested- writing a 500-word essay and present an inherent bias in a musical institution. For this assessment, I decided on discussing the female conductors in the classical music scene. 

The reason why I picked this topic is because I realised I have never encountered a female conductor before, even when I went on YouTube to listen to some orchestra recordings, there’s hardly any female conductors. I went through some digging on the internet and found the history in women conducting. It wasn’t until the 1930, Antonia Brico made her first debut as a female conductor with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. I understand that women are not allowed in the music scene in the early days, but we have Fenny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach and few other female role models composing and performing in public in the 1800s, I did not expect the first female conductor to only appear in 1900s. It was shocking for me and honestly a little disheartening to know this fact. 

I researched some factors that contribute to this issue. The main reason why all this happened was the double standards between men and women. There were arguments about how women has weaker stage presence, or have no stamina in conducting, or has more feminine gestures and the musicians will misinterpret it. I found it ridiculed that another reason is because the board members are mostly men, and thought that they have the role and responsibility to keep the tradition going on, which is by only having a male conductor, a maestro, to lead the orchestra. I thought it was nonsense, the board member shouldn’t made the decision based on prejudice. They didn’t even let the female conductor to showcase their talent and just decided to just shut them off. There's an article that mentions female conductors don’t lack talent, they lack the opportunities and I agree with them. 

Some more interesting facts about female conductors are there is currently no female conductor leading the top 25 best orchestras in the world. Marin Alsop used to be the only female conductor that made it to that list, guiding Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, but she left in 2021 and now it is back to square one. On the bright side, more and more female conductors are taking up roles as chief conductor and music director in orchestras. We have Simone Young, the only Australian conductor that made it to Gramaphone’s Top 50 conductors 2022, recently being appointed as the chief conductor for Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Xian Zhang for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki for Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra.

I have gain a lot of insights through this assessment. The female conductor field had made a leeway, but there is still a very long way to go. I sincerely hope female conductors won’t give up their dream due to any double standards they faced and will continue to thrive so there’s more role model to the younger generations. I also hope that everyone can stop labelling musicians based on their gender: male conductor or female conductor, and just refer them merely as conductors. In the end, all the conductors disregard of gender or race, they all hold the same intentions and motive; to bring music alive. 

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Bergamo: Sei imperdibili concerti per la 96a Stagione dei Concerti dell’Accademia Tadini

Bergamo: Sei imperdibili concerti per la 96a Stagione dei Concerti dell’Accademia Tadini. L’Accademia Tadini di Lovere (Bg) si appresta ad ospitare, per la novantaseiesima volta, la rassegna concertistica che, nel tempo, si è imposta come uno degli eventi più prestigiosi del territorio del lago d’Iseo e che prenderà il via venerdì 14 aprile. Anche quest’anno gli appuntamenti in programma si annunciano di grande fascino e qualità in un luogo recentemente restaurato e dotato di un’acustica speciale. Sottolinea il maestro Claudio Piastra, direttore artistico della manifestazione: «Nel corso degli anni a Lovere si sono esibiti alcuni degli artisti più affermati del panorama concertistico come Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, il Quartetto Italiano, Claudio Arrau, Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi, Sergei Krilov e i Solisti dei Berliner, solo per citarne alcuni. Proprio nel nome di questa gloriosa tradizione vogliamo proseguire per offrire al nostro pubblico concerti di alto spessore artistico». Quest’anno il cartellone vuole idealmente riproporre quel contesto di alto intrattenimento che si respirava nella Lovere ottocentesca, senza rinunciare alla consolidata volontà di proporre ogni anno un evento aperto ai nuovi linguaggi o ad altri stili musicali. Tra i protagonisti della 96a edizione spiccano l’attore Enzo Decaro insieme al pianista Corrado Greco, la mezzosoprano Sonia Ganassi, il violoncellista tedesco Alexander Hulshoff in duo con il chitarrista Claudio Piastra, il Beethoven Klavier quartet, il pianista Martin Kasik e, per un omaggio al mondo del jazz, il sassofonista Gianluigi Trovesi in duo con il violoncellista Marco Remondini. L’esecuzione di “Quadri di un’esposizione”, l’opera più conosciuta di Modest Musorgskij, segnerà l’inizio della 96.a edizione: protagonista del concerto inaugurale, venerdì 14 aprile, sarà Martin Kasik, considerato fra i più importanti pianisti della Repubblica Ceca, che proporrà la versione originale del capolavoro del compositore russo insieme ad alcune pagine di Chopin. Vincitore di numerosi concorsi, Kasik si è esibito in tutto il mondo nelle principali sale da concerto; ha suonato, inoltre, come solista con orchestre quali Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra e Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra con direttori illustri tra cui Pinchas Zukerman, Marin Alsop, Yakov Kreizberg, Ingo Meztmacher, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, Libor Pešek, Jakub Hrůša e Tomáš Netopil. Collabora regolarmente con la Czech Philharmonic Orchestra e la Prague Symphony Orchestra. Mercoledì 19 aprile la nuova stagione concertistica dell’Accademia Tadini si aprirà al jazz con l’evento “TroveRemo” (organizzato in collaborazione con il Festival Le due Rive del Jazz), con la partecipazione di due musicisti che hanno fatto la storia del jazz italiano e, cioè, il sassofonista e clarinettista Gianluigi Trovesi e il violoncellista Marco Remondini. Il primo è uno dei tesori fortunatamente non nascosti della musica italiana, che ha contribuito negli anni Settanta a tracciare i contorni della koinè del jazz europeo. In questo progetto Trovesi incontra Marco Remondini, maestro mantovano dalla storia forse meno illustre ma altrettanto talentuoso e altrettanto innamorato dell’evocatività che risiede in ogni forma musicale popolare, dal folk all’opera lirica. Sabato 22 aprile sarà la volta del Beethoven Klavier Quartet, formazione spagnola composto da Carlos Appelaniz (pianoforte), Joaquin Palomares (violino), Gaetano Adorno (viola) e David Appelaniz (violoncello): si tratta di musicisti pluripremiati, con alle spalle un’intensa e variegata attività concertistica solistica, che dal 1995 si riuniscono in questo ensemble esibendosi in tutto il mondo e collaborando anche con altri solisti di fama, per proporre grandi opere cameristiche. A Lovere il Beethoven Klavier Quartet eseguirà pagine di Schumann (Quartetto in Mi bemolle maggiore Op. 47) e Brahms (Quartetto con pianoforte nº 3 Op. 60 in Do minore). Per il quarto appuntamento della nuova stagione, venerdì 28 aprile sarà di scena il mezzosoprano Sonia Ganassi che, accompagnata dalla pianista Elisa Montipò, proporrà una serie di arie da camera e pagine di Donizetti e Verdi. Conosciutissima dagli amanti della lirica fin dal suo esordio con la vittoria al Concorso di Spoleto (nonché vincitrice dell’ambitissimo Premio Abbiati della Critica Musicale Italiana e del Premio Internazionale Franco Corelli), Sonia Ganassi si è esibita nei ruoli principali presso i più importanti teatri del mondo. Ha cantato diretta da Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti, Chung Myung-whun, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Antonio Pappano e molti altri. “Enoch Arden” è il melologo per eccellenza, scritto alla fine dell’800 da Richard Strauss su testo di Alfred Tennyson, che l’attore Enzo Decaro e il pianista Corrado Greco porteranno in scena lunedì 8 maggio. Per Decaro, volto notissimo del cinema, del teatro e della televisione (fin dal suo esordio raggiunse una grande fama insieme a Massimo Troisi e Lello Arena nel trio La Smorfia) ma anche regista teatrale e scrittore, si tratta di un debutto in questa veste. Insieme a lui, in un dialogo serrato fra testo e musica, ci sarà il pianista Corrado Greco, musicista affermato e con collaborazioni importanti, molto attivo in particolare nella musica da camera. Chiuderà la rassegna, venerdì 12 maggio, una formazione rara da ascoltare, ma dal fascino indiscutibile: il duo violoncello-chitarra composto da Alexander Hulshoff e Claudio Piastra, che presenteranno un programma molto variegato con musiche di grande effetto, fra cui Vivaldi, Nin, Bellafronte e Piazzolla. Alexander Hulshoff si è esibito in tutto il mondo, suonando con alcune fra le orchestre più illustri e con i direttori più affermati. Il violoncellista tedesco vanta, inoltre, collaborazioni stabili con artisti del calibro di Pinchas Zukerman, Martin Stadtfeld, Fazil Say, Hagai Shaham, Vadim Gluzman, The Fine Arts Quartet, Orion String Quartet, Gil Sharon e Rainer Honeck. Direttore di Villa Musica, una delle più importanti scuole europee di musica da camera, da alcuni anni Hulshoff si dedica anche alla direzione d’orchestra e recentemente è stato nominato direttore ospite principale della Klassische Philharmonie di Bonn. Con lui sul palco ci sarà Claudio Piastra, uno dei più importanti chitarristi nazionali con all’attivo oltre 1.000 concerti, 25 cd e 45 pubblicazioni, nonché direttore artistico della Stagione dei Concerti dell’Accademia Tadini e del Festival Onde Musicali sul Lago d’Iseo.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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Eric Prydz - Opus (Helsinki’s Philharmonic Orchestra)

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Paul Douglas Freeman (January 2, 1936 – July 21, 2015) was a conductor, born in Richmond, Virginia. He was a conductor, composer, and founder of the Chicago Sinfonietta. He earned his BA, MA, and Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. A Fulbright Scholarship enabled him to study for two years at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Ewald Lindemann. He studied conducting with Pierre Monteux at the American Symphony Orchestra. He began his conducting career as the music director of the Opera Theatre of Rochester for six years. He then held posts as associate conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. These were followed by a stint as principal guest conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic. He served as music director of the Victoria Symphony in Canada. He founded the Chicago Sinfonietta of which he remained the Musical Director until his retirement. Concurrently with his time with the Chicago Sinfonietta, he held the post of music director and chief conductor of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague. Following his retirement from the Chicago Sinfonietta, he was named Emeritus Music Director of the orchestra. He can be considered one of the most successful recording conductors from the US. He has a nine-LP series that follows the history of African American symphonic composers from 1750 to the time of recording. This series garnered a lot of attention on the Columbia Records label during the 1970s and has since been re-released as a Sony Classical boxed set of ten CDs, published in 2019. He collaborated with pianist Derek Han to record all of the piano concertos of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. In his work with numerous orchestras, he has been a part of over a dozen televised productions in North America and Europe. He has been nominated for two Emmy Awards. He married Cornelia Freeman and they had one son. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6jKdcLjBH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra photographed by Marko Rantanen

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Einojuhani Rautavaara SELECTED WORKS

Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61 Pertti Pekkanen Klemetti Institute Symphony Orchestra

Angel Of Dusk Leif Segerstam Olli Kosonen Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri

String Quartet No. 2 Jean Sibelius Quartet

Cantos I-III Juhani Lamminmäki Tapiola Sinfonietta

Epitaph for Béla Bartók Hommage à Zoltán Kodály Hommage à Ferenc Liszt Csaba Szilvay Géza Szilvay The Helsinki Strings

A Requiem In Our Time Jorma Panula Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Sonetto for Clarinet and Piano Kullervo Kojo Juhani Lagerspetz

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Uuno Klami (1900-1961) - Aurora borealis, Op. 38 ·

Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: John Storgårds

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watching la forza del destino bawling my eyeballs out at the callbacks to the pilot. dan knowing the obscure conductors of major philharmonic orchestras. helsinki. one of them trying to convince the other one that it’s worth staying at sports night.