Discovering Music: Discovering Music explores pieces of music in detail, providing a unique insight into the inner workings of a millennium of musical historywww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tn54The Bernstein BeatSaturday 12 November 2005 14:00-15:00 (Radio 3)
Charles Hazlewood and the Ulster Orchestra are joined by guest Jamie Bernstein for a special edition designed to introduce younger listeners to the music of her father Leonard. This workshop focuses on the rhythmic vitality and the energy of some of Bernstein's dance-based theatre music, with extracts from On the Town, Candide, Mass and West Side Story.
www.mediafire.com/?memzjyggjjwBrahms String Quartet in B Flat, Op 67In a programme coming from the University of Cumbria in Ambleside as part of the Lake Disctrict Summer Music Festival 2009, Stephen Johnson explores Brahms's third and final string quartet in B flat, Op 67, written in 1876 soon after he completed his First Symphony. Brahms's previous quartets, Op 51 Nos 1 and 2, suggest a more classical model and have more of his symphonic drama, but a striking element of the writing in Op 67 is its more conversational or dialogue style.
Stephen is joined by the Kuss Quartet, who illustrate with excerpts and give a complete performance of the quartet.
www.mediafire.com/file/0wmnnzyyjfb/...jfb/DiscoveringStravinsky Firebird Suite (1945)In a programme recorded at City Halls, Glasgow, Stephen Johnson explores the version of Stravinsky's Firebird suite from 1945, and begins by examining a work by one of Stravinsky's musical father figures, the Overture on Russian Themes by Rimsky-Korsakov. With excerpts and complete performances of both works from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Takuo Yuasa.
www.mediafire.com/?ddn5yywvznwThe English Viol ConsortPurcell Weekend
As part of BBC Radio 3's celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the birth of Henry Purcell, Catherine Bott joins Laurence Dreyfus and his celebrated viol group Phantasm at the 2009 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music for a guided tour of the Golden Age of English viol music, the culmination of which was the Fantasies and In Nomines of Henry Purcell.
Catherine and Laurence offer an illustrated insider's view to this music, explaining the ideas that inspired it and highlighting many of characteristics that define it. They draw on music by Robert Parsons, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, John Jenkins and William Lawes - all of whom provided the catalyst for the Fourth Fantasia of Henry Purcell which tops and tails the programme. A well as many musical illustrations, Catherine presents complete performances given by Phantasm during the 2009 Lufthansa festival.
Taverner: In Nomine (Sanctus of the Missa Tibi Trinitas - arranged for viols) (excerpt)
Parsons: De La Court (In Nomine III)
Byrd: Fantasia a 5 - two parts in one (Queen's Goodnight - Prelude and Ground a 5)
Gibbons: In Nomine a 5
Jenkins: Fantasy 1 a 5 in G (excerpt); Fantasy 15 a 5 in C minor (excerpt)
Lawes: Pavan and Ayre (Consort Set IV a 5 in F)
Purcell: Fantazia 4 a 4.
www.mediafire.com/?wjdykdjydtmBritten's NocturneSaturday 25 June 2005 14:00-15:00 (Radio 3)
This exploration of the music and imagery of Benjamin Britten's evocative cycle of night poems for tenor, seven solo instruments and strings was recorded earlier this month in Orford Parish Church. Premiered at the Leeds Festival in 1958, the work was first heard in Orford during the 1959 Festival. During the workshop Charles Hazlewood, his chamber orchestra and tenor Mark Tucker tease out the detail of the work and also give a complete performance.
ScaricaThe Romantic HornThe sound of the horn took on a special significance to the Romantic composers of the early 19th century with its suggestions of woodland magic and heroism. Charles Hazlewood deconstructs music by Weber, Mendelssohn and Schumann with the BBC Concert Orchestra, in an exploration of an instrument which achieved iconic status and came very much into its own when conveying the spirit of early Romanticism. Also helping Charles in his exploration are the hornists Stephen Bell and Michael Thompson.
Charles looks at Weber's Overture to the opera Oberon; Mendelssohn's Nocturne from A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Schumann's formidable Konzertstuck for four horns, the latter being a piece that also exploited the Romantic fascination for virtuosity.
The programme was recorded before an audience in Watford.
www.mediafire.com/file/blwt2mjnnmm/...mantic_Horn.mp3Vivaldi and Bach Double Violin ConcertosJohann Sebastian Bach's Double Violin Concerto remains one of his best loved and most famous works, but concertos for more than one instrument weren't a novelty by any means. Vivaldi had written many works for differing numbers of soloists, from one to 13, and had written double violin concertos of his own, including one as part of his famed 1711 publication L'estro armonico.
For today's Discovering Music, Stephen Johnson is joined in Cardiff's Hoddinott Hall by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Nicholas Kraemer, and by Violinists Jennifer Pike and Lesley Hatfield and organist Daniel Hyde to explore these two great works of the Baroque.
ScaricaBeethoven: Symphony No 3 (Eroica)Stephen Johnson presents a programme exploring Beethoven's Third Symphony in E flat major, the Eroica. It is well known that Beethoven intended to dedicate the symphony to Napoleon, but when Napoleon had himself crowned Emperor in 1804, Beethoven angrily scratched out this dedication and the symphony was then titled the 'Heroic' symphony. Stephen Johnson considers this theme of 'heroism' in the work, illustrated with examples and a complete performance of the symphony by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Christophe Mangou.
scaricaPurcell - Dido and AeneasStephen Johnson and Nicholas Kraemer examine Purcell's Dido and Aeneas - the first truly great opera in the English language. Along with members of the Manchester Camerata, and before an audience at the RNCM in Manchester, they examine Purcell's masterpiece in the light of its time and look at some of the musical devices that Purcell employs to create a tightly knit narrative and evoke real tragic human emotions. The programme includes a complete performance.
scaricaBarber: Violin Concerto and Essay No 1 for OrchestraStephen Johnson explores one of Samuel Barber's most tranquil and astonishing wartime orchestral works - his Violin Concerto, which he began in Switzerland in the summer of 1939. Barber continued writing the finale of the concerto in Paris before he quickly returned to his homeland of Pennsylvania as World War II erupted in Europe. The Violin Concerto was actually a commission from an American entrepreneur - Samuel Fels, who wanted a virtuosic showpiece for his adopted son to play. Barber's late Romantic style, though, wasn't exactly what Fels was looking for, so there had to be a number of changes made before the young prodigy Iso Briselli agreed to perform it.
To begin the programme, Stephen Johnson also looks at another work written around the same time as the Violin Concerto - his Essay No.1 for Orchestra. This was a commission by the great Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini in 1938. Toscanini, despite living in the USA for many years, rarely commissioned new works from American composers, but he had been so struck by the "simple beauty" of the slow movement of Samuel Barber's String Quartet, that he suggested Barber provide him with a version for full string orchestra. The First Essay, which has similar melancholic undertones to the resultant, now famous "Adagio for strings", was first performed at that same concert.
scaricaShostakovich: Symphony No 9Stephen Johnson and the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Michal Dworzynski are joined by the Danel String Quartet to explore the music and ideas of Dmitri Shostakovich's 9th Symphony. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his 9th Symphony in 1945, and it was planned to commemorate the Soviet victory over Germany in the second World War. The composer himself had said two years earlier that the symphony would be a work for large forces including orchestra, soloists and chorus with the idea of celebrating the Russian people, and the great Red Army's liberation of their homeland. However, when it finally appeared, the Symphony was without parts for either soloists or chorus, and the work's "light" style surprised many. Shortly after it's premiere, the work was censored and banned from performance by the Soviet authorities. Stephen Johnson is joined by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Michal Dworzynski and by the Danel String Quartet to explore this controversial work.
scaricaThe Split Choir TraditionRobert Hollingworth presents a programme looking at the split choir tradition in Renaissance music, and specifically in repertoire from north Italy which was the birthplace of the polychoral style of writing. Robert demonstrates how the element of musical dialogue between groups developed from the age-old tradition of psalm singing, illustrated in the music of Willaert's Salmi Spezzati, through to more elaborate polychoral repertoire by composers such as Striggio, Marenzio and Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli. The programme also includes extracts performed by members of the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, and a complete performance of Giovanni Gabrieli's 'In Ecclesiis' from the recording made by the Taverner Consort and Players.
scaricaFaure's Requiem
Gabriel Faure© composed what is arguably his magnum opus - the Requiem in D minor - between 1870 and 1890, but his reasons for composing the piece are uncertain. Faure lost both his parents within two years of each other, which may have been his original impetus, but by the time of his mother's death he had already begun the work, which he later declared was "composed for nothing . for fun, if I may be permitted to say so!"
The first version of the work, which he called "un petit Requiem" included just five movements, but not the "Libera Me". It was first performed at La Madeleine in Paris, with Fauré himself conducting - the occasion being the funeral of the architect, Joseph La Soufaché.
Over the next two years Fauré expanded the piece to the now more familiar seven movements, and altered some of his original orchestrations. In 1899-1900, the score was reworked again for full orchestra, probably by one of his students. It was the definiteive version of the Requiem - played at Fauré's own funeral in 1924 - until John Rutter rediscovered Fauré's original manuscript of the chamber orchestra version in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris in the early 1980s. It has now become one of the most popular pieces for choirs and choral societies all over the world.
In today's programme, Stephen Johnson explores the nuances and differences in the Requiem, using the recordings by John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir and The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers.
scaricaBeethoven Missa Solemnis
Charles Hazlewood presents a workshop on three movements of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in D, which he grouped together for a concert performance in 1824 - Kyrie, Gloria and Agnus Dei. Beethoven considered the Missa Solemnis to be his greatest work.
Sarah Fox (soprano)
Sara Fulgoni (mezzo soprano)
Mark Wilde (tenor)
Matthew Hargreaves (baritone)
Tallis Chamber Choir
Harmonieband conducted by Charles Hazlewood
scaricaDebussy: La Mer
Debussy's La Mer – 'The Sea' – seems a literal title and description of the piece, but he also called it "Trois esquises symphoniques" – Three Symphonic Sketches. What did Debussy mean by that and how much does it tell us about the kind of music that Debussy was writing? Stephen Johnson explores the depths of La Mer assisted by members of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Kenneth Woods.
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partitura Ragas
Nishat Khan, one of the world's foremost virtuosos of the sitar, demonstrates how Indian classical music works. He explores the centuries old heritage of the raga. He reveals how his own family tradition is rooted in the vocal music of India; and he shows how he constructs a musical performance through improvisation, with his colleagues on tabla (drums) and tampura (drone).
scarica Dvorak: the Golden Spinning Wheel (Op. 109)
Stephen Johnson joins the members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Neil Thomson for a look at the workings and inspiration behind Antonin Dvorak's fairy-tale inspired tone poem, The Golden Spinning Wheel.
scarica Haydn: Op. 33 QuartetsThe six string quartets that Joseph Haydn composed around 1781 - his Op. 33 - contain some of his most inspired and innovative music. Stephen Johnson joins the members of the Wihan Quartet in front of an audience at the Jacqueline du Pre Hall in Oxford to reveal and to revel in the delights of Haydn's musical wit and invention.
scarica FoxtrotsCharles Hazlewood and the BBC Concert Orchestra explore how the foxtrot of the dance halls of the 1920s and 40s had a creative impact on the imagination of 20th-century composers such as Maurice Ravel, John Adams and Peter Maxwell Davies.
The iconic sounds of the popular foxtrots, which reached mass audiences through the wind-up gramophone, through the dance halls and through radio, have become a useful vehicle with which some composers have chosen to present extra-musical and sometimes ironic references in their 'serious' music.
Charles briefly analyses the substance of the foxtrot and considers how Ravel used the dance in his opera L'enfant et les sortileges to evoke the spirit of his times; of how American composer John Adams uses the distinctive sounds of the dance played on a 78 rpm record, as the basis for short orchestral concert work The Chairman Dances; and of how Peter Maxwell Davies's recollection of the foxtrots of his childhood culminate in observations about political and moral responsibility in his St Thomas Wake for orchestra.
scarica Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium'Leonard Bernstein's five movement concerto for violin, strings and percussion is one of his most personal compositions. It was inspired by Plato's discourse on love in all its aspects, the 'Symposium', which was presented in the form of a series of statements by celebrated guests at a banquet. Charles Hazlewood explores the relationship between Bernstein's music and the source of his inspiration. With Performances by Antje Weithaas (violin) and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
scarica Wagner's Die WalkureWith its massive line-up of instruments, Wagner's orchestra for Die Walkure should by rights have been a recipe for nothing but gluttony. But with the skill of a watercolourist Wagner used it brilliantly to convey the subtlest of emotions. Stephen Johnson descends to the orchestra pit and uncovers the secrets of the composer's orchestral writing. En route he explores how this opera revolutionary marshalled the likes of Wagner tubas, six harps and a medieval bugle horn to create some of the most transfixing musical sounds ever produced.
scarica Tschaikovsky - Serenade For String scarica Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 scarica Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini
scarica Rachmaninov: Third Symphony
scarica Rachmaninov: Elegiac Trio
scarica Mozart - Jupiter Symphony
scarica Dvorak - 7th Symphony
scarica Handel - Messiah
scarica Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis
scarica Finzi - In terra pax
scarica Beethoven 5th Symphony
scarica Petrushka - Igor Stravinsky
scarica Poulenc - Concerto for two pianos
scarica Britten - Spring Symphony
scarica Edited by smarques - 11/2/2013, 17:54
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