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Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was an Italian priest, violinist, and composer known as the red priest (“il prete rosso”). He was born in Venice and as a child learned to play the violin from his father; at the age of 15 he entered the Seminary and once ordained a priest, he could barely attend to his religious obligations due to his health problems; so he was appointed violin teacher in an orphanage where he taught theory and instrument classes. At the age of 40, he was appointed Chapel Master in Mantua where he wrote his famous Four Seasons . From there he moved to Milan , then to Rome ; later, again to Venice and finally, to Vienna where he would die. Throughout his life he composed almost 800 works, of which half were concerts, 40 operas, 60 religious works and numerous sonatas.

The Four Seasons are a set of four concertos (Fast-Slow-Fast) for violin, which at its premiere included an explanatory booklet similar to what we understand as program music . Today we offer the Spring Concert with Julia Fisher as a soloist.

spring . This is what the brochure that can serve as a listening guide said: I (0'23'') ALLEGRO “Spring has arrived and celebrating it, the birds greet it with joyful singing and the fountains with the breath of the zefirillos. With sweet murmur they run meanwhile: They come covering the air with black mantle, lightning, and thunder, chosen to announce it. Thus silencing these, the little birds; They return to their sweet charm again. II (3´25´´) LONG AND PIANISSIMO ALWAYS . "And so, on the flowery and pleasant meadow, to the dear murmuring of forests and plants, the goatherd sleeps with the faithful dog at his side." III ( 6´01´´) ALLEGRO PASTORALE “From the pastoral hurdy-gurdy to the festive sound, nymphs and shepherds dance on the beloved roof at the brilliant arrival of spring”.

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was an Italian opera composer, considered among the greatest, of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a visionary, creator of the music concepts that would govern cinema during the 20th century ; for him, the use of modal passages or polytonal resources and tonality or atonality were matters of effect that were defined by the dramatic needs of the work. For example, in Tosca , the way in which the text is replaced by musical passages anticipates the action that is about to take place. In addition to twelve operas, Puccini wrote other notable works, including a Mass of Glory, a Hymn to Rome , a symphonic caprice, two symphonic preludes, and three minuets for string quartet. He is considered the successor to Giuseppe Verdi .

Quando me'n vo , also known as " Musetta's Waltz ", is a soprano aria, a waltz from the second act of Puccini 's 1896 opera La bohème . Musetta sings it , in the presence of her bohemian friends , hoping to win back the attention of her occasional boyfriend Marcello .

Ana Netrebko (1971), Russian singer and one of the most brilliant sopranos in history, began as a janitor at the Mariinsky Theater until she was heard by the conductor Valery Gergiev who became her adviser, beginning to play roles of some relevance. in various operas. At the age of 24 he made his debut in the USA where the successes were chained one after another after his appearance at the San Francisco opera. Claudio Abbado also played a relevant role in his dedication to the bel canto repertoire, while his technique was perfected with the Italian soprano Renata Scotto .

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) is considered one of the greatest English composers in history. He wrote all kinds of choral and instrumental works, both sacred and profane, among which the opera Dido and Aeneas shines . After the death of his father and at the request of his uncle, he was admitted as a member of the choir of the Capilla del Rey where he would begin his first studies. At the age of 17 he was appointed assistant organist at Westminste Abbey; At the age of 23, he was appointed titular organist, from which point on, and for six years, he only wrote sacred works until, starting in 1689, he wrote different operas. In his work, the French and Italian influence can be appreciated within what would be a typical British Baroque style. He died at the age of 36 at the height of his career.

The ode (from the Latin oda, a loan in turn from the Greek οdé, originally "song" or "singing action", and very soon after also used to designate hymns and songs of joyous or funeral praise, war or magic) is a lyrical poem and a high-tone or sung poetic composition that deals with various topics, including a reflection of the poet. Depending on the subject matter, it can be of a religious, heroic, philosophical or loving nature. In general it applies to any poem intended to be sung. It is also used to praise qualities possessed by people or objects that the poet wants to highlight positively.

Ode for Queen Mary's birthday (Ode for Queen Mary's birthday). There were several royal odes that Purcell composed on the occasion of some important event for the nobility, the king or queen (some birthday or return), among which the one in this video stands out. The version that we present today is offered to us by two Croatian groups such as the Ensemble Antiphonus vocal ensemble and the Croatian Baroque Ensemble instrumental ensemble led by the concertmaster of this group, Catherine Mackintosh .

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904), born in Nelahozeves (then Bohemia and now the Czech Republic ), is considered one of the great masters of the second half of the 19th century and the main representative of Czech nationalism. In 1847 he entered the primary school of his town, where he received his first musical lessons. During the 1860s he played viola in the Orchestra of the Bohemian Provisional Theater , conducted from 1866 by Bedřich Smetana . In 1873 he was exalted with all kinds of important international awards for his collection of Slavonic Dances . Throughout his life he wrote abundant vocal, chamber, symphonic and operatic music. His New World Symphony is a well-known work and its themes have been widely used in popular music.

Slavic Dances are a set of 16 dances written for orchestra, although originally for piano four hands, and published in two groups. He wrote them at the request of his publisher, and was inspired by Brahms 's Hungarian Dances , albeit with notable differences; while Brahms uses Hungarian folk melodies, Dvorak uses only the rhythms of Slavic folk music.

Today they are offered to us by the St. Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by the Hungarian maestro Zoltán Kocsis.

John Scofield (Dayton, Ohio, December 26, 1951) is a prominent American jazz guitarist and composer. In his teens, Scofield played rhythm & blues, urban blues, soul, and rock and roll in local bands; but he was soon fascinated by jazz guitar and quickly assimilated the styles of Wes Montgomery, Tal Farlow, Barney Kessel and Jim Hall . He studied with Jim Hall and Mick Goodrick , two of the most important jazz guitarists of all time, and worked with important jazz musicians such as Charles Mingus , or George Duke ; for three years he joined the band of trumpeter Miles Davis . Over the years, Scofield 's playing matured further, leading to a series of critically acclaimed and original jazz albums.

Elton John (1947) is a British singer, pianist, composer and musician. With a career spanning more than 50 years, he has sold more than 300 million copies worldwide, being one of the most successful artists in history and the only to keep at least one song on the Billboard Hot 100 for 30 consecutive years, from 1970 to 2000. His song Candle in the Wind 1997 , rewritten on the occasion of the death of Diana of Wales sold more than 33 million copies being the second best-selling single in history. He has won five Grammy Awards, five Brit Awards, two Golden Globes, a Tony Award, a Disney Legends Award, two Oscars , and the Kennedy Award. In 1996, he was Knighted after being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and the appellation Sir was added to his name.

The clarinet is a musical instrument of the family of woodwind instruments with a single reed (the oboe and bassoon use double reeds). Within the orchestra, he is in the woodwind section, along with the flute, oboe, saxophone and bassoon. The timbre of the clarinet is rich in nuances and expressive possibilities. Along with the flute and the violin, it is the most agile instrument in the orchestra; it can emit any extreme nuance in any of its registers, making this instrument an extremely versatile voice. Great works and concertos have been written for the clarinet, most notably one of the most highly rated concertos in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Concerto in A Major for Clarinet and Orchestra .

Parts of the clarinet . Mouthpiece : it is the piece where the reed is placed and the instrumentalist places the mouth to make the embouchure. The reed is a thin strip of material (usually wood) that thanks to the wind that is produced when the instrumentalist blows, the reed vibrates producing a sound in the instrument. Barrel : it is the element that articulates the mouthpiece with the upper body of the instrument. Upper body : it is where the left hand is placed when playing and it has part of the instrument's mechanism. Lower body : it is where the right hand is placed when playing and it has part of the instrument's mechanism. Bell : Located in the lower part and fulfills an acoustic function that allows the projection of sound during the performance.

Clarinet quartet "Nevsky" offers us this small anthology of themes related to Spring from different nations and times, adorned with small sparks of crazy humor.

Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer of classical music and film of Russian-Jewish origin. His work is influenced by impressionism and especially by Igor Stravinsky . He stood out along with George Gershwin as one of the most important composers of the musical identity of the United States in the 20th century . In the fall of 1917 he began studies in harmony and counterpoint with Rubin Goldmark ; At his suggestion, she studied piano first with Victor Wittgenstein and from 1919 with the famed pedagogue Clarence Adler . In June 1921, he went to France to study with Nadia Boulanger ; In 1924 he returned to the USA and the following year he was the first composer to receive the Guggenheim Fellowship , which he renewed in 1926.

In 1945 Copland received the Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Music Critics Award for his ballet Appalachian Spring , which is performed today by dancer Nancy Osbaldeston accompanied by the Constella Orchestra .