#sibelius violin concerto

[musicianrambles]

Romantic concertos come in two forms:

Immediately brings the soloist in like we don't even have the orchestra it's just plopped in immediately. We know what we're in for. Don't worry.

Spends like 10 minutes just faffing. Is this piece even a concerto? You don't need to establish every theme paganini like this isn't a musical from the early 20s.

[yume-x-hanabi]

LMAO I was watching this short and this comment under it is killing me 😂

I recently started learning harmonics and... I feel u, random youtube commenter 😌

[musicianrambles]

I hope this illustrates how ecstatic I was to find the Elgar Violin Concerto having already been a fan of the Sibelius violin concerto AND Elgar 1

[violinconcertobracket]

The seeding is done!

I've finished seeding the brackets! The posts with the first few concerti will go up shortly. Please note that the bracket is seeded so that the most popular contestants will go up against the least popular contestants first, so please don't be upset if you feel that the matchup is "unfair" - that's intentional.

[ww92030]

KHIMAIRA [7 MINUTE DEMON] - Full Showcase

[iidsch]

im in a classical music phase again (and by that i mean i have listened to one classical piece today on account of them being a gazillion hours long each), but man rachmaninov's piano concerto no. 2 is so unbelievably good. if i could eat music i would have this piece for breakfast every day of my life

if you havent listened to it here's a link its 34 minutes long i know but its worth every second

[dandelion-de-deus]

Once again thinking about the fourth movement of Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2

[connanro]

me (listening to the same concerto but with a different soloist each time for the sixth time in a row): yeah i'm normal about music

[entropy404]

orchestra schedule

i hate you whoever won this goddamn competition. i hate you i hate you i hate you!!!!!

[waterlemon-melon]

imagine accidentally buying too many tickets to a concert (bought 2 like you planned but freaked out when the ticket price was too high with the student membership so you tested again and the price was fine it’s just you chose the concession ticket and panicked again bc you don’t remember whether a student can buy a concession ticket so you bought a regular ticket (and the price was reduced like the membership advertised) but you checked again and yes students can still get the concession price so in the end you have 3 tickets) and you invited both a high school friend who you’ve been hanging out all the time and a guy who you met in a tutorial and he’s a piano major and now you’re freaking out bc you don’t know how he feels abt meeting someone he hasn’t met (bc he’s super shy and awkward) or how your hs friend feels meeting a music major

also now you’ve spent a week’s worth of pay on this fiasco :)

[jamlessjj]

For the past 24 hours I have not been able to stop thinking about how these images remind me of tenebrism, a style of art/painting that dramatically engulfs the subject in a setting predominantly composed of complete darkness (like chiaroscuro on steroids... jamlessjj goes one day without mentioning chiaroscuro: impossible challenge). In these paintings, it is like the outside world falls away as a single source of searching light isolates, or perhaps is itself emitted from, some kind of profound emotional experience the subjects are going through or sharing.

I know there is a quote floating around somewhere from one of U2's members that mentions how light/illumination/the idea of light/searching for light is a common theme in the band's songwriting & composing processes, so in that respect the style of these photos is pretty relevant but ANYWAY I can feel a tangent coming on soooo...

Right, so LIKE. This is the vibe Bono and The Edge are bringing to the function:

"The Inspiration of Saint Matthew" by Caravaggio (x) but like also maybe this is Bono and The Edge writing music.

"The Taking of Christ" (once again) by Caravaggio (x) but tell me this isn't actually just Bono and The Edge during "Until The End Of The World" in the above photos (and also "You lead me on with those innocent eyes / You know I love the element of surprise / In the garden I was playing the tart / I kissed your lips and broke your heart" from the song's second verse etc etc).

"Still Life of Flowers in a Glass Vase on a Marble Ledge" by Rachel Ruysch (x) except with the way these flowers are alight I'm thinking about the whole "Edge is the silence inside every noise. He's the light inside the paint" (Surrender, p.60) thing again.

"Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy" by (guess who) Caravaggio (x) BUT ALSO--

I read up on this painting briefly and have so many thoughts about it in relation to the frameworks U2 tend to write music in, like how some of Bono's lyrics dually address spirituality&religious themes and sexuality, but I cannot be writing an essay right now.

Moral of the story: Bono and The Edge Doing Their Thing during the elevation tour would have driven a centuries-old tenebrism enthusiast into a coma.

As a musician myself, here is to hoping that one day I can perform in such a way that makes the rest of the world fall away :)

Is it just gig performance or foreplay? Are they arousing each other? Or is it just my dirty mind?😋

Bono & The Edge/Elevation Tour, Arnhem, Netherlands, Agust, 2001.

📷 Paul Bergen and Peter Pakvis/Getty Images

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Classical Music Eras

Classical Music - describes orchestral music, chamber music, choral music, and solo performance pieces, yet within this broad genre, several distinct periods exist. Each classical era has its own characteristics that distinguish it from classical music at large.

Eras of Classical Music

Musicologists divide classical music into historical eras and stylistic subgenres. One way to examine classical music history is to divide it into 7 periods:

Medieval period (1150 to 1400): Music has existed since the dawn of human civilization, but most music historians begin cataloging classical music in the Medieval era. Medieval music is known for monophonic chant—sometimes called Gregorian chant due to its use by Gregorian monks. In addition to singing, Medieval musicians played instrumental music on instruments like the lute, the flute, the recorder, and select string instruments.

Renaissance period (1400 to 1600): Renaissance-era music introduced polyphonic music to wide audiences, particularly via choral music, which was performed in liturgical settings. In addition to the lute, Renaissance musicians played viol, rebec, lyre, and guitar among other string instruments. Brass instruments like the sackbut and cornet also emerged during this era. Perhaps the most notable Renaissance composers were Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, John Dowland, and Thomas Tallis.

Baroque period (1600 to 1750): During the Baroque era, classical music surged forward in its complexity. The Baroque era saw a full embrace of tonal music—music based on major scales and minor scales rather than modes—and it maintained the polyphony of the Renaissance era. Many of the instruments used by today's orchestras were common in Baroque music, including violin, viola, cello, contrabass (double bass), bassoon, and oboe. Harpsichord was the dominant keyboard instrument, although the piano first emerged during this era. The most renowned composers of the early Baroque era include Alessandro Scarlatti and Henry Purcell. By the late Baroque period, composers like Antonio Vivaldi, Dominico Scarlatti, George Frideric Handel, and Georg Philipp Telemann achieved massive popularity. The most influential composer to come from the Baroque era is Johann Sebastian Bach, who composed extensive preludes, fugues, cantatas, and organ music.

Classical period (1750 to 1820): Within the broad genre of classical music exists the Classical period. This era of music marked the first time that the symphony, the instrumental concerto (which highlights virtuoso soloists), and the sonata form were brought to wide audiences. Chamber music for trio and string quartet was also popular during the Classical era. The signature classical composer is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, although he was far from the only star of the classical era. Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, and J.S. Bach's sons J.C. Bach and C.P.E. Bach were also star composers during this period. Opera composers like Mozart and Christoph Willibald Gluck developed the operatic form into a style that remains recognizable today. Ludwig van Beethoven began his career during the Classical era, but his own innovations helped usher in the next musical era.

Romantic period (1820 to 1900): Exemplified by late-period Beethoven, the Romantic era introduced emotion and drama to the platonic beauty of Classical period music. Early Romantic works like Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 set a template for nearly all nineteenth-century music that followed. Many of the composers who dominate today's symphonic repertoires composed during the Romantic era, including Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Opera composers like Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, and Giacomo Puccini used Romanticism's emotional power to create beautiful melodic lines sung in Italian and German. The Romantic era also saw the creation of a new instrument in the woodwind family, the saxophone, which would gain special prominence in the century to come.

Modern period (1900 to 1930): The Modern era of art and music came about in the early twentieth century. Classical composers of the early twentieth century reveled in breaking the harmonic and structural rules that had governed previous forms of classical music. Igor Stravinsky defiantly stretched instruments to their natural limits, embraced mixed meter, and challenged traditional notions of tonality in works like The Rite of Spring. French composers like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel led a subgenre of twentieth-century music called Impressionism. Others like Dimitri Shostakovich, Paul Hindemith, and Béla Bartók stuck with classical forms like the piano concerto and the sonata, but challenged harmonic traditions. Perhaps most radical was the German composer Arnold Schoenberg who, along with disciples like Alban Berg and Anton Webern, disposed of tonality altogether and embraced serial (or 12-tone) music.

Postmodern period (1930 to today): The art music of the twentieth century shifted starting in the 1930s and continuing into the post-World War II era, ushering in a style of music that is sometimes called postmodern or contemporary. Early purveyors of postmodern music include Olivier Messiaen, who combined classical forms with new instruments like the ondes martenot. Postmodern and contemporary composers like Pierre Boulez, Witold Lutoslawski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk Górecki, György Ligeti, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams, and Christopher Rouse have blended the lines between tonal and atonal music, and they’ve blurred the lines between classical music and other forms like rock and jazz.

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[vieraslaji]

it's funny how once you spend enough time engaging with Finnish culture the spirit of Torille will eventually possess you also

I was at a concert tonight where people were showing their support for various violin concertos via applause, and when Sibelius' name was mentioned my soul briefly left my body to be replaced by civic pride for a country I'm not even a citizen of

[violinconcertobracket]

Propaganda:

Sibelius:

It's Just That Good, Folks

just stuck with me ever since i heard it from the first time. once i was drawing while listening to it and the ending hit so hard that i threw my apple pencil and broke it

Both melodically and orchestration-wise, undoubtedly the greatest concerto in the repertoire. It is both lyric and intensely demanding for the soloist; for the orchestra, there is as much work to do as in a symphony. Like most of Sibelius' output it stands on its own, neither following the Romantic tradition nor entirely breaking from it. It is at once sparse and powerful, and stamped in every bar is an irresistible and eloquent intensity.

downright gorgus [sic] i saw hilary hahn play it and my soul nearly left my body. hands down best violin concerto of the romantic era (even though ik people are gonna end up voting for tchaik lol)

Vieuxtemps: None

[nordickies]

I didn’t realize just how important Sibelius was to Finland until I was watching a performance that Hilary Hahn did a few years ago of his violin concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony, and the applause lasted several minutes! Is Sibelius seen as a sort of national figure?

Here’s the recording btw: https://youtu.be/sVKRTb-Wp5g?si=Kn_bPIhFgoAOyfeW

I'd say yes, he's considered a national figure here. He worked in the later waves of romanticism, in the early 1900s during the Russification period and you can catch the national romantic motif in his work (works such as Finlandia, Karelia suite, Kullervo, Swan of Tuonela, just to name a few). There is a music academy and of course, the famous sculpture, named after him in Helsinki. In Finland, you can fly the national flag only during special occasions (e.g. birthdays or weddings) or certain days that are recognized as "flag flying days". Sibelius' birthday, 8 December, is one of those days, celebrated as "The Day of Finnish Music"

It's a pretty popular take over here that most people wouldn't mind "Finlandia" being the official national anthem of Finland. Usually, the biggest complaint is that both Finland and Estonia share the same melody for their national anthems (and the composer was German, the original lyrics were in Swedish, etc etc). There have been multiple petitions about changing the national anthem over the years, but "Finlandia" is treated as an unofficial national anthem on many occasions

[prince-kallisto]

Hello hello!

I'm back with some classical pieces for Crowley😀 Apologies if the list is a bit long - I tried to pick something from my playlists that would suit him😶 (all of these can be found on youtube!)

1. Michaela Rózsa Růžičková – II. Passacaglia "Death of Falstaff" (just vibes)

2. Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 (a personal favorite for him from this list)

3. Karl Jenkins – Concerto Grosso for Strings “Palladio” (a little basic but why not. It gives me the image of him plotting something haha)

4. Sergei Rachmaninoff – The Isle of the Dead (more like background/subtle theme music?)

5. Jean Sibelius – Lemminkäinen Suite (Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op. 22 (specifically the 2nd and 3rd movements - though I'm not entirely sure about this one)

6. Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons: Violin Concerto No. 3 in F Major, “Autumn” II. Adagio molto (somewhat pensive - feels like the kind of piece that would play during a book's ending, maybe in a cliffhanger about Crowley's past...)

7. Antonín Dvořák – Slavonic Dances, Op. 72, No. 10 in E Minor (a second personal favorite. It gives the vibe of him inviting you for a dance.)

8. Johannes Brahms – Intermezzo in A Minor, Op. 116 No. 2

9. Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in C Minor (not sure, but from nocturnes I'd choose this one)

10. Chopin – Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34 No. 2

*maybe? - Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 (mostly Largo movements)

Hope it was helpful !😊 💚 Have a good day/night✨

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Ahhhh I am happy!!! 😭💕💕💕 I’m so blown away to receive such a list all because of my Crowley rambles! I’m really honored- thank you so much for all the thought you put into this 🥹💕 I have a new playlist to listen to now, all the songs were lovely picks! \(//∇//)\ 💕💕💕🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

All of these were so good…I already felt the vibes from the first one alone! 😳🤣 Death of Falstaff felt so magical to listen to ✨✨✨ and Verklärte Nacht NABXHFHDI loved the whirlwind of emotions I felt from it…it’s very Crowley🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛for Lemminkäinen Suite, I liked everything- but the 3rd movement really attacked me with its intensity! 😳🙏💕 I loved thinking about Crowley in that part! Abbchchdbcbxjcjf I’m a person who cries easily, but Antonín Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances made me cry (in a good way) at the “inviting you to a dance” idea!!! \(//∇//)\ it’s too perfect!!! Haha and I loved thinking about Crowley’s potential mischief to Palladio, it was one of my favorites to listen to. Oh, I also really loved String Quarter No 8, even if you feel uncertain about it 😳 I totally agree with the Largo movements- it felt really like the “Dire Crowley” theme! But I also felt the vibe with Allegro Molto and Allegretto! 👀 Ah, maybe it’s too far off from what the original context of piece may be, but the waves of a uncertain, foreboding calm atmosphere to the aggressive madness really stood out to me! Σ੧(❛□❛✿)\

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