#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.

[szeryngs-sibelius]

classical music enjoyers of tumblr!! reblog and put in the tags: if you could only listen to 5 classical pieces for the rest of your life, what would those be?

[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.

[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

[chaosdancer]

condivido una grande che esegue musica grande

[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

[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

[blacky-kah]

Gas and Ice giants’s favorite songs!

Jupiter so just so 🤓☝️so I headcanon him as liking classical music :)

Also, I was listening to the Sibelius violin concerto a while ago, but now I’m listening to the Mendelssohn violin concerto now 😔

[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

[sevarix-blogs]

i was tagged A LONG TIME AGO (SORRY!!!!!) by @fractured-shards !

the game is that you make a poll of 5 of your favorite songs! mine aren't songs but i'm gonna do it anyway lol

first, take a listen to each:

Dvořák - String Quintet in E flat Major Op. 97 (The American)

Sibelius - Violin Concerto

Franck - Violin Sonata

Chopin - Nocturne op 48 no 1

Schubert - String Quartet no 14 (Death and the Maiden)

i tag whoever wants to do this!