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The Mighty Handful

The Mighty Handful or ‘The Five’ were a qroup of five Russian composers—César Cui, Alexander Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Modest Mussorgsky, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – who, in the 1860s, attempted to create a national school of Russian music, free of the influence of Italian opera, German lieder, and other western European forms. They composed operas on distinct Russian subjects and incorporated…

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Festspielhaus Baden-Baden - Die Walküre (konzertante Aufführung)

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On Paul Robeson's 126th birthday, I would like to celebrate one of his lesser known songs. His rendition of Beethoven's Ode to Joy with his own interpretive translation of the lyrics. It captures the humanistic spirit of the Enlightenment, French Revolutionary and Romanticist eras in which Beethoven worked. And the egalitarian ideas Robeson championed. Those who struggle are supported and those who might dominate are kept in check. It is the deepest level of solidarity and fraternity where none are allowed to fall. A powerful antidote to an age of unchecked individualism, competition, cruelty and glorification of strength for its own sake.

..Build the road of peace before us, Build it wide and deep and long Speed the slow and check the eager, Help the weak and curb the strong. None shall push aside another, None shall let another fall March beside me, oh, my brothers, 

ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL

Paul Robeson Sings For The Underdog 

During his career, vocalist Paul Robeson usually avoided singing classical music, once stating that European traditions had “nothing in common with the history of my slave ancestors.” He almost exclusively devoted himself to spirituals, protest songs and folk ballads, championing the oppressed through music. That was certainly the case with his unlikely but devoted relationship with group of working-class miners in Wales, whom Robeson supported in their protests against low wages and unsafe working conditions.

On the occasion he did perform classical works, he reframed them as folk music. Robeson’s “Ode to Joy” replaces the orchestra with a single piano, and he opts to sing in English rather than German, driving home the message of brotherhood to his English-speaking audiences. Robeson’s leftist politics lead to his blacklisting during the McCarthy Era, leaving him unable to travel with a revoked passport. So when the Welsh miners invited him to perform at a festival 1957, his only choice was to sing across the sea via a transatlantic telephone line. He dedicated his version of “Ode to Joy” to the crowd of 5,000, supporting their struggle for what he called “a world where we can live abundant and dignified lives.”

Chilean Women Protest A Violent Dictator

In 1973, military dictator Augusto Pinochet assumed power in Chile and oversaw the imprisonment and torture of tens of thousands of people belonging to opposition groups. At the risk of their own lives, female protesters gathered outside torture prisons to sing the “Himno a la Alegria,” a hymn based on “Ode to Joy,” to bring hope to those being held inside. You can see a clip of the protest in the documentary Following the Ninth: 

Another of his lesser known performance is of Luther's famous hymn, which launched in the religious sphere the bourgeois democratic revolt against Medieval Feudalism.

While we are still a long, long ways away from the just society Robeson dreamed of, we have at least made some progress from the McCarthyist days in which he was blacklisted, to being officially recognized today in our nation's capital.

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Willem Pijper (1894-1947): Six Adagios, per orchestra (1940).

I. Grave II. Adagio (Lento assai) III. Adagio (Quasi un poco meno lento) IV. Adagio (Un poco più andante) V. Largo VI. Grave

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra diretta da Roelof van Driesten.

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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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Hee-Younger Lim: Enjoying Her way into a magical area

Upon graduation from NEC, she ongoing experiments within the Conservatoire Nationwide Supérieur de Musique de Paris, in which her teachers bundled Philippe Muller. Immediately after she graduated with the NSMP with the best difference, très bien à l’unanimité and moved to study within the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, where she acquired her Konzertexamen degree mit auszeichnung or summa cum laude. By the point she was twenty, Miss out on Lim created her North American recital debut at The Kennedy Heart in Washington, DC.

Two a long time afterwards she won to start with prize for the Washington International Competition for Strings . She was a Silver Medalist on the 2009 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Young Artist Competitiveness. Later she gained the Grand Prix within the Normandy Worldwide Discussion board (France), and received third prize on the Witold Lutosławski Intercontinental Cello Competitors in Warsaw. In 2015, Lim grew to become principal solo cellist of your Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, appointed by none apart from the orchestra’s Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In September 2018, Miss out on Lim turned the Professor of Cello on the Beijing Central Conservatory, the 1st Korean cellist named towards the Beijing college.

Hee-Younger Lim with Yannick Nézet-Séguin With Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Below’s where it gets somewhat ironic – and really humorous – for the kid who “didn’t actually need to Participate in the cello.” It was, as Skip Lim tells it, the piano that had when stolen her heart. She would not be “gently persuaded” to “consider up the cello”. But when her mother mentioned she was gonna give absent the highly-priced instrument, Miss Lim ultimately relented. “I transformed my brain genuinely speedy then. ‘No, no!’ I reported to my mum. ‘I need to master the cello,’ I explained to her.” It absolutely was a fortuitous conclusion for it led into the unlocking of her concealed genius.

Currently Miss out on Lim performs by using a power that mere mortals can only dimly perceive. Like Du Pré, Maisky, Ma and Other people, she belongs to a breed of cellists which have a purely natural rapport with their instrument. When she performs the cello, it truly is not a cello: It's a harp, a piano, a horn, or the whole crashing orchestra alongside one another. It can be tunes in spirit and in flesh. When she presses her fingers down on the fingerboard and wields the bow influencing sensitive, glancing blows on the strings underneath glissando, col legno, breathes in and out in double-stops, or – as directed from the music – sul tasto, the black dots fly from the composed page and right into a rarefied realm in which the music resides and evokes the blithe spirits with the composers who wrote them. She is in her purely natural factor.

The international job that has blossomed for Hee-Youthful Lim has also brought her Global renown, however it is one which she handles with circumspection. Although I'm speaking with her from throughout continents and she is informed that it will end in this function, I receive the impression that she would prefer to be playing her instrument… or instructing, as I find out Briefly get. She did, All things considered, send me a quick Observe telling me that she experienced a web-based course at any given time shortly following the a person I advised we converse. “I've to organize for my college students,” she wrote. The undertaking of teaching is a single she usually takes critically and enjoys enormously – Practically just as much as she does playing her instrument.

Taking part in the cello with uncommon brilliance was The explanation why the French maestro and cellist, Phillipe Muller approved her to be a pupil when she was scarcely in her teenagers. It is usually the reason why he has also carried out [within the 9th of May, 2019, with the Beijing Central Conservatory of New music, in Xicheng District, China] cello duets on phase with Miss out on Lim. “We played an unconventional application,” Muller stated within an interview.” “You will find not that a lot of duos for 2 cellos. Normally a cello would play which has a violin, a piano or a major ensemble,” Maestro Muller additional. The programme integrated parts by composers for example Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Jacques Offenbach, Reinhold Glière and David Popper, and was intended to reflect harmony between system and musicality.

“We started out which has a Baroque piece created by Jean Barrière, which can be very stunning, then some duos by Glière – like Op.53, No.one “Commodo” – which can be not often played. The suite we chose by Popper is very difficult, technically extremely demanding, but exciting,” Maestro Muller also added. “We didn’t decide on the songs Simply because it’s complicated. It’s also sympathetic, refreshing, I hope for that viewers way too,” the cellist observed, reaffirming the big faith and admiration he had for his younger previous-pupil. After i repeated what her previous-Trainer had said about her as well as effectiveness Skip Lim was characteristically demure: “You can hardly ever cease Understanding,” she mentioned with a shy smile.

But Plainly the tricky lines in between grasp and college student have begun to blur – in fact they may have blurred adequate to generate Skip Lim a recording agreement with Sony Classical. She produced her debut about the label with a rare recording of French Cello Concertos (2018). That programme bundled functions by Camille Saint-Saëns, Édourd Lalo, Darius Milhaud, Jacques Offenbach and Jules Massenet. In an evaluation on the recording, Michael Cookson famous that Miss out on Lim performed by using a “joyously lyrical temper” and was swept absent by “the profound weeping good quality [she] develops.”

You may think that these praise may accrue for something that is made while in the controlled natural environment of the studio. But quite a few years prior to she even recorded this, the entire world of audio was previously using recognize. At time of her debut efficiency inside the Kennedy Middle in the United States, as a make any difference of point her recital was explained in glowing phrases from the critics present. The Washington Write-up: “[Miss out on] Lim is often a deeply gifted musician that has a entire, singing tome, close to-flawless method and a purely natural lyricism that infused just about every single Be aware she performed.”

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JohanDeMeij.com | Music Profile

Symphony no. 1 The Lord of the Rings (Orchestral Version)

Composer: Johan de Meij

Johan de Meij’s first symphony “The Lord of the Rings” is based on the trilogy of that name by J.R.R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The symphony consists of five separate movements, each illustrating a personage or an important episode from the book.

The movements are:

I. GANDALF (The Wizard)

II. LOTHLORIEN (The Elvenwood)

III. GOLLUM (Sméagol)

IV. JOURNEY IN THE DARK

a. The Mines of Moria

b. The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm

V. HOBBITS

The symphony was written in the period between March 1984 and December 1987, and had its première in Brussels on 15th March 1988, performed by the “Groot Harmonieorkest van de Gidsen” under the baton of Norbert Nozy. In 1989, The Symphony The Lord of the Rings was awarded a first prize in the Sudler International Wind Band Composition Competition in Chicago, and a year later, the symphony was awarded a grant by the Dutch Composers Fund. In 2001, the orchestral version was premiered by the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra.

Although it is not simple to summarize such an extensive and complex work, the main outline is als follows: the central theme is the Ring, made by primaeval forces that decide the safety or destruction of the World. For years it was the possesion of the creature Gollum, but when the Ring falls into the hands of the Hobbits the evil forces awake and the struggle for the Ring commences. There is but one solution to save the World from disaster: the Ring must be destroyed by the fire in which it was forged: Mount Doom in the heart of Mordor, the country of the evil Lord Sauron.

It is the Hobbit Frodo who is assigned to carry out this task, and to assist him a company, the Fellowship of the Ring, is formed under the leadership of Gandalf, the wizard, which includes the Hobbits Sam, Peregrin and Merin, the Dwarf Gimli, the Elf Legolas, Boromir and Aragorn, the later King. The Companions are secretly followed by Gollum, who does not shun any means, however perfidious, to recover his priceless Ring. However, the Companions soon fall apart, after many pernicious adventures and a surprising dénouement Frodo and Sam can at last return to their familiar home, The Shire.

Explanation of the five movements:

I. GANDALF (The Wizard)

The first movement is a musical portrait of the wizard Gandalf, one of the principal characters of the trilogy. His wise and noble personality is expressed by a stately motiff which is used in a different form in movements IV and V. The sudden opening of the Allegro vivace is indicative of the unpredictability of the grey wizard, followed by a wild ride on his beautiful horse “Shadowfax”.

II. LOTHLORIEN (The Elvenwood)

The second movement is an impression of Lothlórien, the elvenwood with its beautiful trees, plants, exotic birds, expressed through woodwind solo’s. The meeting of the Hobbit Frodo with the Lady Galadriel is embodied in a charming Allegretto; in the Mirror of Galadriel, a silver basin in the wood, Frodo glimpses three visions, the last of which, a large ominous Eye, greatly upsets him.

III. GOLLUM (Sméagol)

The third movement describes the monstrous creature Gollum, a slimy, shy being represented by the soprano saxophone. It mumbles and talks to itself, hisses and lisps, whines and snickers, is alternately pitiful and malicious, is continually fleeing and looking for his cherished treasure, the Ring.

IV. JOURNEY IN THE DARK

The fourth movement describes the laborious journey of the Fellowship of the Ring, headed by the wizard Gandalf, through the dark tunnels of the Mines of Moria. The slow walking cadenza and the fear are clearly audible in the monotonous rhythm of the low brass, piano and percussion. After a wild persuit by hostile creatures, the Orks, Gandalf is engaged in battle with a horrible monster, the Balrog, and crashes from the subterranean bridge of Khazad-Dûm in a fathomless abyss. To the melancholy tones of a Marcia funèbre, the bewildered Companions trudge on, looking for the only way out of the Mines, the East Gate of Moria.

V. HOBBITS

The fifth movement expresses the carefree and optimistic character of the Hobbits in a happy folk dance; the hymn that follows emanates the determination and noblesse of the hobbit folk. The symphony does not end on an exuberant note, but is concluded peacefully and resigned, in keeping with the symbolic mood of the last chapter “The Grey Havens” in which Frodo and Gandalf sail away in a white ship and disappear slowly beyond the horizon.

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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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19 musicians from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra came together virtually to perform Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' 🎻

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Young Conductors

“All music was new music once,” we often have to remind ourselves, and the same is true of conductors: they were all young once upon a time. But what does age have to do with a conductor’s artistic vision, or prowess with a baton? In Conversation looks at some of today’s up-an-coming conductors and we hear if their recordings justify the hype. Four conductors currently making their mark on the…

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Good Morning/Afternoon Tumblrs!

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.” ― Terence McKenna

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Then this, more music from a group of musicians (i.e., an orchestra) who are self-isolating in Rotterdam, but put this together for us:

Musicians from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, who are self-isolating due to the coronavirus pandemic, came together to record a virtual, collaborative performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th symphony from their homes.

The Dutch orchestra filmed the finale of Beethoven's symphony 'Ode to Joy' with 19 musicians recording their individual parts on their respective instruments to a click track. Each part was then added to an audio mix along with an archival recording of the final choir segment.

As concert halls and theatres have been turned into silent, dark spaces by the need for social distancing to slow the spread of the virus, musicians forced into self-isolation have been finding creative ways to perform.

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Willem Pijper (1894-1947) : Symphony No.2 -

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

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please watch musicians from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra play Beethoven 9 while social distancing

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2010s: Flash mobs. 2020s: Social distancing.

Self-isolated members of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra come together virtually to perform Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.