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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German violinist, organist, conductor and composer, born in Eisenach into the most prominent musical family in history. In 1703 he obtained his first job in 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 Mary Magdalene 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. Considered one of the three main geniuses in the History of Music along with Mozart and Beethoven, his influence has been notable on Haydn , Mozart , Beethoven , Mendelssohn , Schumann , Chopin ... and many other renowned composers.

The Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041, seems to have been written by Bach shortly after moving to Leipzig and structured in the manner proposed by Vivaldi ; that is, in three movements (Fast-Slow-Fast); Of them, today we offer the first written in ritornello form; meaning that there is a main section that returns in fragments in both the solo violin and the orchestral parts. The motifs of the theme appear in changing combinations and separate and intensify throughout the movement.

Your soloist today, Julia Fischer (1983), one of the most important violinists in the world, is a German violin and piano virtuoso. At the age of twelve she won the Yehudi Menuhin violin prize and in 2007 she was declared “Artist of the Year” by Gramophon magazine. In order not to go into detail with the enumeration of her numerous and important recognitions, we will say that although dedicated to the violin, she has never wanted to move away from the piano. He has performed in the main venues in the world with the best conductors as a violin soloist, although he has also performed sporadically as a piano soloist.

John Andrew Stevenson (1761 – 1833) was an Irish composer. He is best known for his piano arrangements of Irish tunes with the poet Thomas Moore . The University of Dublin awarded him an honorary doctorate and he was knighted in April 1802. Stevenson's secular works include operas, sonatas, concertos, symphonies, captures, jubilations, odes, operas, songs and arrangements of traditional music, although for By 1825, Stevenson had composed a large body of church music amounting to twenty-six hymns and eight service arrangements, not to mention hymns, double hymns, hymns, and the oratorio The Thanksgiving Day

The Last Rose of Summer is originally a poem by Irishman Thomas Moore written in 1805; two years later John Andrew Stevenson would set the poem to music. The poetry metaphorically uses "the last rose" in response to the sadness of being left alone after loved ones are gone. It evokes the feeling of sadness at the end of life, since everything around you has faded or died. Friedrich von Flotow uses the song for his opera entitled " Martha ", Ludwig van Beethoven composed a theme and three variations for flute and piano, op. 105, based on the song and Felix Mendelssohn , a Fantasy in E major, op. fifteen.

Georges Bizet (1838-1875) was a French pianist and composer who did not have many successes during his lifetime. Bizet won several awards throughout his brilliant career as a student at the Paris Conservatoire , including the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1857. He was recognized as an exceptional pianist, although he preferred not to take advantage of his skill and rarely played in public. His best-known opera, Carmen , achieved sensational success at its premiere that he did not enjoy as he died three months later of a heart attack at the age of 39. The rest of his works were cornered and rescued little by little in the 20th century. Despite this, he is currently considered a reference of the 19th century and a brilliant and imaginative composer.

L'Arlesienne ( The Girl from Arlesienne ) is a composition of incidental music written by Georges Bizet for Alphonse Daudet 's work L'Arlésienne and which consisted of 27 numbers (some of a few measures) for voice, choir and chamber orchestra. Later Bizet himself would arrange the work, summarizing it into a suite (today known as Suite No. 1 ). The so-called Suite No. 2 (17'40'') was arranged and published four years after the composer's death by Ernest Guiraud .

Today we can view both suites under the baton of maestro Nathalie Stutzmann alto and French conductor and principal guest conductor for the 2021-2022 season of the Philadelphia Orchestra .

Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was a British trombonist, arranger, composer and teacher. He is primarily known for his orchestral suite The Planets , for although he composed many other works in a variety of genres, none achieved comparable success. His distinctive compositional style was the product of many influences, with Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss being the most crucial early in his development. The subsequent revival of English popular song of the early 20th century and the example of emerging modern composers such as Maurice Ravel led Holst to develop and refine his personal style. His compositions had a marked influence on several younger English composers, such as Edmund Rubbra, Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten .

The First Suite in Eb for Military Band , Op. 28, No. 1, by the British composer Gustav Holst , is considered one of the fundamental masterpieces of the Brass Band repertoire. The work has three movements:

I MOV (0´03´´) "CHACONA": This movement, in 3/4 time, is based on an eight-bar melody started by the low brass that is repeated sixteen times throughout the piece. Holst uses many colorful effects to vary the chaconne theme, especially with the theme notes in the brass and percussion while the woodwinds play virtuoso sixteenth notes.

II MOV (5´00´´) "INTERMEZZO": Almost all of this movement is dedicated to a rhythmic and well-articulated oboe, clarinet and cornet solo. The exploitation of the combinations of tones and colors of the Music Bands gives flavor to this movement. While the movement is predominantly light in character, the clarinet has a stirring solo, which is then repeated by other voices.

III MOV (7´45´´) "MARCHA": It opens with a famous bass drum solo, one of the few in Banda literature. It features two primary melodies, both very contrasting in style. The first melody is presented exclusively in the brass section in a very marked way. The second melody on the middle and low wind instruments, and later the euphonium, baritone saxophone and bassoon, resembles the melodies of the first two movements and is played in a very legato and lyrical style. The last bars are very powerful (marked ffff) and have one of the most famous trombone solos in the Banda repertoire.

Walter Maynard Ferguson was a Canadian jazz trumpeter born in Montreal , who began his career at the age of 13 as a soloist in Canada , forming his own group at a very young age. He played with musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton . His fame spread when he composed the music for the film Rocky , " Gonna fly now", "Now I'm going to fly", starring Sylvester Stallone . For this song he was nominated for the Grammy Awards in 1978. For many critics he is the most notable trumpeter suggested in Canada , the high notes of his trumpet were spectacular, as can be seen in this recording.

Tina Turner (1939-2023) was a singer and songwriter, who developed her career for more than fifty years. Considered the "Queen of Rock" , she retired from the stage and music in 2013 at the age of seventy-three, after a musical career of fifty-four years. She began her musical career in the mid-1950s as a performance singer with her husband , Ike Turner , songwriter and leader of the band Kings of Rhythm . As a solo artist, her 1984 album Private Dancer launched her back to stardom, achieving international success and expanding her career into film in 1975. She has sold more than two hundred million albums worldwide. In 2013 he acquired Swiss nationality, renouncing his American nationality.

Peter Ludwig Hertel (1817 – 1899) was a German composer of dance and ballet music, best known for his ballet La fille mal gardée. He also composed the music for Fausto's ballet Satanella oder Metamorphosen and " Die Abenteuer von Flick und Flock " (The Adventure of Flick and Flock), both choreographed by Paul Taglioni . Born in Berlin , Hertel studied violin and composition with the renowned musicians of his time, Eduard Rietz, Friedrich Schneider and Adolf Marx . From 1858 until his death he worked as Kapellmeister and composer at the Royal Opera House . In 1860 he worked as a guest conductor at London's Covent Garden .

La fille mal gardée (Spanish: The Badly Guarded Girl) is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre Antoine Baudouin 's 1765 painting, La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère . The ballet was originally choreographed by ballet master Jean Dauberval to a mixture of music, based on fifty-five popular French airs. La fille mal gardée is one of the oldest and most important works in the ballet repertoire, and has remained alive over the years since its creation through many changes of title, and even, of scores. Since the 20th century it has usually been presented in Alexander Gorsky 's version with music by Peter Ludwig Hertel .

Pierre Antoine Baudouin 's painting showed a crying girl with her clothes in disarray being scolded by an old woman (presumably her mother) in a hay barn, while her lover can be seen in the background running up the stairs to the safety of the attic. This picturesque work of art so amused Dauberval that he immediately set about creating a suitable setting for a ballet, which was first performed at the Grand Theater of Bordeaux , on July 1, 1789.

Plot: Lise and Colas are in love and want to get married. However, the widow Simone wants Lise to marry the dim-witted but extremely wealthy Alain , and has arranged (with Alain 's father, Thomas ) a marriage contract between Lise and Alain . The widow Simone tries her best to keep Lise and Colas apart, but is unsuccessful in her attempts.

AUTHORS: Alexander Gorsky with music by Peter Ludwig Hertel. PERFORMERS: Valentina Kozlova and the Basler Ballett choreographed by Heinz Spoerli, Vienna Symphony conducted by John Lanchbery. VIDEO DIRECTOR: José Montes-Baquer ,

The Alboka is a traditional Basque wind instrument with a double musical pipe, which, although the two pipes are independent, are played simultaneously; As for the tuning, it depends on the region in which we are: the albokas made in the Arrati region (Bizkaia) are tuned in A ♭ , while those made in Zegama (Gipuzkoa) are tuned in Bb . Normally, the players play the melody with the five-hole body on the left and the accompaniment with the three-hole body on the right. The alboka is usually accompanied by a tambourine, where the jota , the porrusalda and the march are its usual musical genres. To play the alboka , circular or continuous breathing is used; that is, inhaling and touching at the same time.

Ibon Koteron (1967) is a Basque musician and one of the most active albokalaris today. He began learning to play this musical instrument at the age of 20 and immediately began teaching. Today, he directs the most important school in the Basque Country , together with the well-known musician Kepa Junkera . He has organized various events in honor of some of the main traditional albokalaris, such as those held for León Bilbao (Artaga, 1996) and "Txilibrin" (Bilbao, 1998) and has collaborated on different occasions with the musicians Tomás San Miguel, Fran Lasuen , Tapia and Leturia and Berrogüetto , among others. He is also a philosophy professor and bagpiper in Navarra .