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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German violinist, organist, conductor and composer. He was born in Eisenach into the most prominent musical family in history, with more than 30 famous composers in its midst. In 1703 he obtained his first job as court musician to the Prince of Arndstat and in 1707 he moved to Mülhausen as an organist, where he married his cousin Maria Barbara with whom he had seven children. After the death of his wife in 1720, he remarried Maria Magdalena a year and a half later, with whom he would have another thirteen children. In 1723 he moved to Leipzig, where he would reside until his death at the age of 65. A prolific composer, he is considered one of the three main geniuses in the history of music along with Mozart and Beethoven.

The catalogue of Bach's works or Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis , better known by its initials BWV , consists of a numbered index of all the composer's works arranged thematically by type of work or genre and according to their vocal or instrumental nature and used by scholars and musicians around the world. This catalogue was created in 1950 by the German musicologist Wolfgang Schmieder .

The Suites for Orchestra, BWV 1066–1069 (called ouvertures after their author), are four pieces written by Johann Sebastian Bach between 1725 and 1739 in Leipzig . In a broad sense, the term suite was used in Baroque Germany to refer to a series of dance pieces preceded by an ouverture .

The Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major , BWV 1068 , is structured in five movements, of which today we offer the second, Air (aria) , which is one of the most famous pieces of Baroque music in a version by the Voices of Music group, the most popular early music ensemble in the USA .

Arturo Márquez (Sonora, Mexico, 1950) is a Mexican composer known for using Mexican musical forms and styles in his compositions. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1962; three years later, at the age of 16, he began studying violin, tuba, trombone and piano, with which he began his first compositions with an intuitive harmony accompaniment. In 1967 he returned to Navojoa (Sonora) to direct his Municipal Music Band . From 1970 to 1975 he studied piano at the National Conservatory of Mexico and in 1976, composition at the National Institute of Fine Arts ; in 1980, upon completing this workshop, the French government awarded him a scholarship to study in Paris for two years. In 2009 he was awarded the National Prize for Fine Arts of Mexico .

Danzón No. 2 is a musical work for symphony orchestra composed by Arturo Márquez and premiered on March 5, 1994. Influenced by danzón, popular rhythms and Mexican concert music , it is the most notable of the series of nine danzones, and became a recurring piece in the performance of symphony orchestras in Mexico and the world. The Mexican government on its twentieth anniversary recognized Danzón No. 2 as "the second most famous work of Mexican concert music, only behind the Huapango of José Pablo Moncayo ." Critics such as Aurelio Tello describe it as "one of the most profoundly genuine faces of current music."

Today, the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas brings us the performance under the direction of Alondra de la Parra (1980), an internationally renowned Mexican conductor who is currently the director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and who is the first woman to hold a position in this entity in Australia .

Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759) was born in Halle , Germany. He became a naturalised Englishman and is one of the greatest figures in the history of music , including the Baroque. As a child he began to receive harmony and counterpoint lessons from Friedrich Zachow , organist in Halle , with whom he also learned to play the oboe, violin and organ. At the age of 18 he moved to Hamburg, where he wrote his first two operas. After three years he travelled to Florence and then to Rome . In 1710 he returned to Germany and from there to London , where he settled for life. Despite the total silence with which he protected his privacy, his homosexuality seems clear. Of his abundant musical production, we must highlight the Oratorio The Messiah , one of the masterpieces of history . He died at his home at the age of 74.

The catalogue of works by Georg Friedrich Händel, known by the acronym HWV , stands for Handel Werke Verzeichnis (in German, Catalogue of Handel's Works). It is not arranged chronologically but thematically, by type of work or genre and according to its vocal or instrumental nature. It covers 612 works plus 25 supplements and doubtful and lost works, and was compiled between 1978 and 1986 in three volumes. The exact number of compositions is therefore difficult to determine. Its author is the musicologist Bernd Baselt .

Xerxes (Serse in the original Italian; HWV 40) is a serious opera in three acts by George Friedrich Handel. It was first performed at the King's Theatre, London on 15 April 1738. The Italian libretto was adapted by an unknown hand from that written by Silvio Stampiglia for an earlier opera of the same name by Giovanni Bononcini in 1694. The opera is set in Persia (present-day Iran) in 480 BC and is based very loosely on Xerxes I of Persia , although there is little in the libretto or music that is relevant to that setting. Serse , originally sung by a castrato soprano, is now usually sung by a soprano (or mezzo-soprano).

The opening aria, " Ombra mai fu ", sung by Xerxes to a plane tree (Platanus orientalis), set to one of Handel 's best-known melodies, is often referred to as Handel's Largo (even though it is written as "larghetto" in the score). Serse is for many the most Mozartian of Handel 's operas. Passion is mixed with farce and satire; human stupidity is exposed but not ridiculed. Today we are witnessing its staging by Les Talens Lyriques, conducted by its founder, the French maestro Christophe Rousset.

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) was a prominent German composer and conductor who had at least a dubious, if not collaborative, relationship with the Nazi government . His long musical career spans from late Romanticism to the first half of the 20th century and he is known particularly for his operas, symphonic poems and lieder . Together with Gustav Mahler , he represents the extraordinary late flowering of German Romanticism after Richard Wagner , in which an elaborate and complex development of orchestration is joined to an advanced harmonic style. Strauss 's music had a considerable influence on composers of the early 20th century and, especially his symphonic poems, on future film scores.

Concertino (musical composition) is a short concerto in a more free form. It usually takes the form of a one-movement musical composition for solo instrument(s) and orchestra, although some concertinos are written in several movements played without a break. It should be distinguished from the concertino (violinist) who is the principal first violinist and leader of the orchestra.

Duett Concertino F-dur (Duot Concertino for clarinet and bassoon). The Duo-Concertino for clarinet and bassoon with string orchestra and harp in F major was written by Richard Strauss in 1946/47 and premiered on 4 April 1948 on Radio Lugano with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana conducted by Otmar Nussio with Armando Basile on clarinet and Bruno Bergamaschi on bassoon. The work is written in three movements: (I (0´26´´) ALLEGRO MODERATO .–. II (6´47´´) ANDANTE .–. III (9´29´´) RONDO), although the second movement acts as little more than a brief transition between the outer movements. The dance-like third movement is very much in the spirit of his Oboe Concerto . This concertino is the last purely instrumental work he wrote.

Today we are treated to the performance by clarinetist Thorsten Johanns and bassoonist Ole Kristian Dahl , accompanied by the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln and conducted by maestro Dan Ettinger .

John Coltrane (1926-1967), was an American jazz musician, tenor saxophonist and soprano saxophonist, and occasionally alto saxophone and flute ; he is one of the most relevant and influential musicians in the history of jazz , on a par with other artists such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis . His musical career was marked by constant creativity and always within the avant-garde, covering the main styles of jazz after bop : hard bop, free jazz and modal jazz . Coltrane 's work is consciously linked to the fight for civil rights of blacks and, in many occasions, towards a transcendence as can be seen in what is considered his masterpiece, A Love Supreme .

Eskean Kristö (Arratia, Bizkaia) is a rock & roll band formed by Peilo Artabe (vocals), Alex Harillo (guitar), Aritz Ontalvilla (guitar), Imanol Arrese (drums) and Peio Artetxe (bass). It was after their participation in the fifth edition of the Banden Lehia contest, which awards the most popular music band both on the Internet and live, when they had the opportunity to record an album and take part in the Bilbao BBK Live 2014 festival. The band also won the EH Sona contest, which led them to play at the Razzmatazz venue (Barcelona) with Gatibu . Their most frequent themes are life and death, happiness and sadness, Scotch whiskey and American bourbon. It is the music of the 70s that influenced this group as the members confess, and it is evident in singles such as 'Zaztamar'. (Extracted from El Correo)

Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) was a French composer born in Paris and author of abundant scenic music. His first successes came in his adult years with the ballet Giselle and the opera Si j'étais roi ; by then he had already written several ballets and operas; in total he wrote 40 operas, 14 ballets and various cantatas, hymns, masses, choruses, piano pieces, pantomimes, military marches and plays; of all these compositions it is worth highlighting, in addition to those already mentioned, the Christmas carol Cantique de Noël , world-famous in its English translation as O Holy Night . and the ballet Le Corsaire of which today we offer the Trio starring Osiel Gouneo, Bianca Teixeira and Joseph Michael Gatti

Le Corsaire (The Corsair) is a ballet in three acts, five tableaux and an epilogue to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges , inspired by Lord Byron 's poem The Corsair and Verdi 's derived opera Le Corsaire , with music by Adolphe Adam . The original choreography was by Joseph Mazilier and it was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1856. In 1868, Marius Petipa and Jules Perrot gave a revival of the ballet for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow ; most later adaptations and productions are based on this version.

Thien Thu Quan Am is a dance composed by Chinese dance master Truong Ke Cuong . The dance was performed by 63 deaf people from the China Performing Arts Dance Troupe for the Disabled . Since they could not hear the music, there were 6 directors wearing white shirts to help them dance to the beat. This dance depicts the legend of the thousand-armed Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara . A Bodhisattva is someone who is about to become a Buddha but is still attached to the world and has not yet become a Buddha . Curse of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara : As long as there is a tear in the world, I will not become a Buddha. (Excerpt from the bottom of the video)

The image of Thiên thủ Quán Âm originates from the sutras of Thien Thu , Generous, Perfect, Unobstructed, Great Compassion, Dharani, Great Buddha , Tathagata 's Secret Man and a number of other sutras. Thiên thủ Quán Âm is one of the many names of the bodhisattva, in Sanskrit, who has thousands of arms and thousands of eyes. In each palm of the Bodhisattva has one eye and can manifest countless arms with countless eyes. It is thought that a thousand hands and a thousand eyes is a way of saying used to refer to many numbers, not to define the number as a thousand. But why does the Bodhisattva have a thousand eyes and a thousand arms? According to the sutras, he not only has a thousand arms and one eye in each palm, but also has three heads, four heads, even many heads, depending on his manifestation.