The seventh part of Vivaldi’s Gloria. Just happen to be singing this in choir this semester. Great piece. 🙂 “begotten Son, Jesus Christ”
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Piazzolla – Primavera porteña from “Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas”
In 1965, Piazzolla began writing Cuatro Estraciones Porteñas, a homage to both the tango and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and completed the work in 1970. The Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas, also known as the Estaciones Porteñas or The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, are a set of four tango compositions written
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Christmas-ish Baroque Interlude – A. Vivaldi: RV 589 / Gloria in excelsis Deo in D major
That time of year folks, enjoy. 🙂 Part 1. Part 2. Need the Sheet Music? Go here. 🙂 Filed under: Music Tagged: A. Vivaldi: RV 589 / Gloria in excelsis Deo in D major, The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude, Vivaldi
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Vivaldi – Violin Concerto in A Minor RV356
Antonio Vivaldi Born: Venice, March 4, 1678 Died: Vienna, (buried July 28, 1741) Another Italian composer and virtuoso violinist, Antonio Vivaldi is remembered today for the enormous number of concertos he composed throughout his lifetime. He most likely learned the violin from his father, himself a violinist at St. Mark’s
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Vivaldi Recorder Concerto RV 433
The Largo and Presto movements from Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto in F Major for Recorder and Strings, RV 433, with soloist Hanneke van Proosdij, recorder, and the San Francisco Early Music Ensemble Voices of Music. Such a far cry from the elementary music classes that feature the recorder.Filed under: Music Tagged: La tempesta di mare, RV […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Vivaldi – Lute Concerto in D major, RV 93
The concerto is in three movements: Allegro Largo Allegro The first movement is in a fast tempo and begins with a ritornello played by the entire orchestra and then repeated by the solo lute.[1][2] According to AllMusic critic Brian Robins, the ritornello “contrasts a tuneful opening theme with a more lyrical motif in the minor […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – Spring
Here in Sunny Alberta, our seasons don’t quite match what the calendar might have you believe. So while it may be that it has officially been spring for some time now, the threat of frost up until last week kind of detracted from any sense of rebirth or new life. But
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