This movement just drive relentlessly forward. Exhausting, but hauntingly beautiful. Kyrie eléison (Κύριε, ἐλέησον) Lord, have mercy Christe eléison (Χριστέ, ἐλέησον) Christ, have mercy
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Edmonton Symphony Orchestra | John Estacio’s King Arthur and Merlin
Music from the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Berlioz Symphony No.14 – Fantastique
Just experienced this last Friday. Wow, what a musical ride. The fifth movement is likened to be from the underworld after a drug addled protagonist imagines himself executed for the murder of his love interest. Love the Dies Irae motif. 🙂
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Beethoven’s 5th, Third & Fourth Movement.
Rousing finales are a continuation of the theme started last week with the excerpt from Tchaikovsky’s 4th symphony. Few bring it home as grandly and as majestically as Beethoven does.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Classical Music Interlude – Mozart “Rondo Alla Turca”
The gift of practice.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Saint-Saëns “Danse macabre” for two pianos, op.40
According to legend, “Death” appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (here represented by a solo violin). His skeletons dance for him until the rooster crows at dawn, when they must return to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb, 1st mov.
Joseph Haydn’s Concerto per il Clarino, (Hob.: VIIe/1) (Trumpet Concerto in E flat major) was written in 1796 for his long-time friend Anton Weidinger. Joseph Haydn was 64 years of age. Filed under: Music Tagged: 1st mov., Haydn, Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb, The DWR Friday Classical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Brahms Hungarian Dance no.5
The Hungarian Dances (German: Ungarische Tänze) by Johannes Brahms (WoO 1), are a set of 21 lively dance tunes based mostly on Hungarian themes, completed in 1869.[1] They vary from about a minute to five minutes in length. They are among Brahms’s most popular works, and were certainly the most
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Musical Interlude – O Fortuna
Went with the family to see this on the weekend. The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra did a splendid job with the piece. O Fortuna velut luna statu variabilis, semper crescis aut decrescis; vita detestabilis nunc obdurat et tunc curat ludo mentis aciem, egestatem, potestatem dissolvit ut glaciem. Sors immanis et inanis,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Mahler 2 – Resurrection
Well, folks let me tell you, listening the the choral finale of Mahler 2 is inspiring, but singing it… Next level experience. We had the Calgary Youth Orchestra and 3 other choirs join my choir to tackle this monumental piece. Every chorister should have the opportunity to sing in this
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Classical Music Interlude – Mussorgsky – Night On the Bare Mountain
Night on Bald Mountain (Russian: Ночь на лысой горе, Noch′ na lysoy gore), also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). Inspired by Russian literary works and legend, Mussorgsky composed a “musical picture”, St. John’s Eve on Bald Mountain (Russian: Иванова
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Missa Brevis K49 – W. A. Mozart
Our choir will be singing this in May. My very first Mass. 🙂 The counting in some of the movements are quite tricky, as young Mozart decided that switching between common and cut time was a cool thing to do. The Mass in G major (K. 49/47d) is the first full mass composed by Wolfgang […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude – Ludwig van Beethoven: 6 Ecossaises in E-flat Major
Well, well, well. I spy another tune that I’m learning, and looking at the tempo I use and the one below. Nothing like seeing the work ahead that needs to be done. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: Beethoven, Ecossaises in E-flat Major, The DWR Friday Classical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Interlude: for Paris, and Beirut, and Baghdad
(I’m writing this early in the week, for publication Friday. I’m dreading coming back and editing this list…) and Garissa, Kenya; Yola, Nigeria and all the places being terrorized by “our” side… Gustav Mahler wrote his song cycle Kindertotenlieder, Songs on the Death of Children, over a century ago, a setting of five (out of over […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Classical Music Interlude – Hayden Cello Concerto No. 1
Hayden is often referred to as the Father of Classical music. Listen and find out why. 🙂 All three movements of this work are written in sonata form, unlike the second concerto, where rondo form is used in the second and third movements. This concerto is more related to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Beethoven’s String Quartet No.1 in F major, Op.18 No.1
“The String Quartet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1 begins one of the greatest cycles of music in the entire Western Classical canon, the sixteen quartets of Beethoven spanning the whole of his creative life. Composed between 1798 and 1800, the six Op. 18 quartets show an
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Musical Interlude – Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’ Trio
Opus 70 is a set of two Piano Trios by Ludwig van Beethoven, written for piano, violin, and cello. Both trios were composed during Beethoven’s stay at Countess Marie von Erdödy’s estate, and both are dedicated to her for her hospitality. They were published in 1809. The first, in D
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Rachmaninoff Prelude in G minor.
Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5, is a music piece by Sergei Rachmaninoff, completed in 1901. It was included in his Opus 23 set of ten preludes, despite having been written two years earlier than the other nine. Rachmaninoff himself premiered the piece in Moscow on February 10,
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