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Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) was a prominent German composer, harpsichordist and organist of the Baroque period. He is among the most important musicians of the generation before Johann Sebastian Bach , whose father he was a friend. In addition to composing a large number of sacred and secular works, he contributed to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue, earning him a place among the most important composers of the Baroque era. Pachelbel 's music was very popular in his time, thanks to which he gained many students and managed to become a model for composers in southern and central Germany . Pachelbel favored a lucid and uncomplicated style, placing special emphasis on melodic and harmonic clarity.
The Canon in D major is Pachelbel 's best-known work and was the only canon he wrote, although, in reality, the term is relatively inaccurate because the piece is not strictly a canon but, rather, a chaconne or passacaille . Today the work is very popular and has been the subject of numerous versions and recordings.
Today we offer it in an arrangement for brass quintet offered by Canadian Brass , a Canadian brass quintet formed in 1970 in Toronto . The group is known for their frequent use of humor and an irreverent attitude in their live performances. He has performed internationally and recorded over 130 CDs and DVDs . The Ensemble has commissioned, performed and recorded hundreds of transcriptions and original works for brass quintet. Canadian Brass has a library of over 600 compositions and arrangements written specifically for them. The quintet was named "one of the most popular brass ensembles in the world" in 2015 by The Washington Post .
Beethoven 's musical legacy includes 32 piano sonatas, numerous works for chamber ensembles, concertos for piano and violin, incidental music, sacred music and, above all, nine symphonies that occupy the zenith of the History of Music . To understand it better, we can divide this legacy into three stages of continuous renewal and improvement: A) Until 1802 . Classicism . His first ten piano sonatas, the first six string quartets, the septimino, the first two symphonies and the first two piano concertos belong to him. B) 1803-1814 . Romanticism . In full artistic maturity and with absolute control of the formal structure and lyricism, he composed the symphonies from the 3rd to the 8th, his opera Fidelio , his 3rd, 4th and 5th piano concertos, the violin concerto, the triple concerto, the sonatas for piano “Claro de luna”, “Appasionata” , the Kreutzer Violin Sonata ,… C) 1815 until his death . Innovation of a more intense language with more daring harmonic and structural treatments: five last piano sonatas and five last string quartets, Symphony No. 9 with the incorporation of soloists and choir, Misa Solemnis …
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 is a four-movement symphony by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven written between 1812 and 1813. Beethoven proudly refers to it as his "little symphony in F", distinguishing it from the Sixth Symphony , a longer work also in F major . . The work is, indeed, his happiest, most carefree symphony and a work completely devoid of the somber emotions of his life.
Today we offer the fourth Movement from the hand of the Chinese teacher Elim Chan, principal of the Antwerp Symphony
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) was a Polish virtuoso pianist and composer; As a pianist, he is considered one of the most important in history and as a composer, one of the leaders of Romanticism . He was born into a vocationally musical family; His mother played the piano and his father played the violin and flute; His first teacher was a sister of his with whom he liked to play four-hand pieces. At the age of eight he gave his first public concert at the Radziwill family palace in Warsaw . Chopin 's work focuses exclusively on the piano, solo or concertante, with which he undertook a solo career of technical perfection, expressive splendor and deepening of rubato until he became the musical reference for said instrument.
Frédéric Chopin's waltzes are medium-tempo pieces like common 3/4 waltzes, but they are noticeably different from Viennese waltzes, being performances for concert and not for dance. Some are accessible to pianists of moderate skill, but the most difficult ones require advanced technique. Carl Maria von Weber 's " Invitation to Dance " served as a model for these waltzes. Chopin began composing waltzes at the age of fourteen and continued composing them until the year of his death in 1849.
Valentina Lisitsa (1973) is a Ukrainian pianist living in the USA since 1991. She began studying piano at the age of three, later enrolling at the Kiev Conservatory where she met her husband Alexei Kuznetsoff , also a pianist. Lisitsa has sought out her audience through her own YouTube channel for which she has recorded a multitude of performances, currently being the most viewed classical concert artist on the internet.
Pablo Sorozábal (1897-1988) was an orchestra conductor and composer born in Donostia (San Sebastián); He began his violin studies at the Municipal Academy of Music of San Sebastián ; At the age of 17 he joined the San Sebastián Casino Orchestra and at the age of 21, the Madrid Philharmonic . With a scholarship from the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, he complements his studies in Leipzig and Berlin . In 1931 Katiuska premiered, followed by other zarzuelas that would give him great fame, such as La del manojo de rosas and La Tabernera del Puerto , among others; He also wrote various works of Basque music, works for txistu, choral works and symphonic music. Due to his republican ideas, after the Civil War , he was isolated as a composer, which made it difficult for him to premiere the different zarzuelas he composed in Madrid . As conductor of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra he ended up in bad shape in 1952 when he was prohibited from playing Shostakovich 's Leningrad Symphony .
Zortziko in the generic sense today is, fundamentally, a song or piece of music in a very specific three-part rhythm, which is written in 5/8 time and dotted in most cases, approximately in this way : 1 eighth note, 2 eighth notes with dotted-sixteenth notes, 3 eighth notes with dotted-sixteenth notes , with the different variants that the ligatures between notes can offer. It must be taken into account that in sung zortzikos , the notes of the second and third parts are tripletted in order to sweeten the rhythm.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is considered one of the three giants of musical composition along with Bach and Beethoven . Child prodigy born in Salzburg , at the age of six he mastered the keyboard and violin and began to compose. His father, Leopold, exhibited him on exhausting tours of different European courts. Prolific composer (more than 600 works written from the time he was five years old until his death) he cultivated all types of musical genres: piano works, chamber music, symphonies, concert works, choral works, operas... each and every one of them, masterpieces of its gender. His operas The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Cosí fan Tutte, and The Marriage of Figaro are among the 10 most performed operas in the world. He died in Vienna at the age of 35.
Don Giovanni The Punished Libertine or Don Juan (original title in Italian, Il dissoluto punito, ossia il Don Giovanni ) is a humorous drama in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and an Italian libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte based on the original play The mocker of Seville and stone guest of Tirso de Molina . It premiered at the Prague Theater on October 29, 1787. Although sometimes classified as comic, it mixes comedy, melodrama, and supernatural elements. It appears as number seven on the Operabase list of the most performed operas in the world, and Mozart's third, after The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro . The work, whose plot takes place in Seville , is a reworking of the literary theme of Don Juan .
Claudio Abbado (1933-2015), Italian conductor considered one of the greatest of our time, has been musical director of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan , principal conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic , principal of the London Symphony Orchestra , musical director of the Vienna State Opera, general director and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also the founder and musical director of the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and maintained a close relationship with the System of Youth and Children's Orchestras of Venezuela, repeatedly conducting the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in Caracas . and in different cities in Europe and the USA.
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) was a German composer, one of the pillars of Romanticism . He studied piano, although due to an incurable injury to his right hand, he left his piano career to focus on composition. He married Clara Wieck (“Clara Schumann”), daughter of his teacher, composer and prodigious pianist; Both maintained a close friendship with Brahms . From the age of 23 he suffered several depressive episodes and hallucinations with a suicide attempt in 1854. Until the age of 30 he only wrote works for piano and lieder (songs); But encouraged by his wife, he dared to write heavier works and thus wrote several choral works, chamber works, and orchestral works, among which his four symphonies, a dramatic poem, Manfred , and an opera stand out.
The Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97, also known as "Rhineland", was written by Robert Schumann in the late 1850s and premiered on February 6, 1851 in Düsseldorf under the direction of the composer himself. Structured in five movements: I (0´17´´) LEBHAFT .-. II (10´39´´) SCHERZO. SEHR MÄSSIG .-. III (17'22'') NICHT SCHNELL .-. IV (22´47´´) FEIERLICH .-. V (29'02'') LEBHAFT, this work is perhaps the most brilliant and optimistic of his symphonic works, as the composer strived to achieve wide public acceptance. Thus, he commented to his biographer, Wilhelm von Wasielewski , that he wanted the "popular elements" to dominate the work. In fact, the melodic and quasi-folkloric character helped win over audiences and critics, and "Renana" soon became one of his biggest hits.
Gemma New (27 December 1986) is a New Zealand conductor. Born into a family dedicated to music, she began studying violin at age 5 and piano at age 8. She has conducted the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra as an assistant and has been a member of Dudamel 's conducting with the New Jersey Philharmonic Orchestra. Los Angeles . In May 2015, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (HPO) named her its music director, a position in which she will continue until 2024. She has been resident conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), music director of the Symphony Orchestra Saint Louis Youth and Principal Guest Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra . In March 2021, she was awarded the Sir Georg Solti Directing Award .
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) was a Finnish violinist and composer, considered the musical reference of his country and one of the fathers of the Finnish national identity against belonging to Russia . He entered the Helsinki Conservatory where he trained in violin and composition. After obtaining a scholarship, he moved to Berlin and later to Vienna to perfect his composition studies. Interested in the independence wishes of his country, he wrote numerous works, in many of which the nationalist character prevails: piano music, chamber music, more than 100 songs for voice and piano, Masonic music, thirteen symphonic poems, seven symphonies, a violin concerto, incidental music for theater, an opera and other smaller works.
A symphonic poem is a free-form orchestral work, generally based on a literary text, whose purpose is to create sensations or feelings through a pre-established script. It generally consists of a single movement and is written for orchestra, although it can be for piano or for small instrumental groups. The father of the symphonic poem was Franz Liszt who composed up to 13 works of this genre; genre that would quickly become widespread from romanticism.
The work we present today, Finland , is a symphonic poem composed by Sibelius with the idea of enlivening the patriotic feelings of independence of the Russia to which he then belonged; hence his grandiose and rowdy music in many moments emulating the popular rebellion until (3'49'') triumph begins to flourish. To avoid censorship, the work adopted different titles such as “The Awakening of the Finnish Spring”, “Heroic Feelings” or “Nocturne”, until after the proclamation of its independence it could take the desired title. The interpretation we offer is provided by the Caracas Youth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of César Iván Lara .
Ástor Piazzolla (1921–1992) was born in Mar de Plata , Argentina; At three years old he moved with his family to New York where his father bought him a bandoneon. At the age of thirteen he contacted Carlos Gardel and the secrets of tango. Upon his return to Argentina , he received Ginastera classes for six years and was part of different groups, from where his innovations were considered the murder of tango. In Paris , however, he contacted Nadia Boulanger who made him believe in the possible conjunction of tango with classical music. He returned to Buenos Aires with such activity that in 1973 he suffered a heart attack; Despite what he continued with his activity until 1990, in Paris , he suffered a thrombosis that he would not be able to overcome.
Chiquilín de Bachín is a well-known tango song in waltz rhythm composed by the Argentine musician Astor Piazzolla and the Uruguayan-Argentine poet Horacio Ferrer . It was first performed by Amelita Baltar . The song was released as side B of a single released by CBS in November 1969, with " Balada para un loco ", by the same authors, as side A. The following month (December/1969), RCA released a single with the same songs performed by Roberto Goyeneche and the Ástor Piazzolla Orchestra . Goyeneche 's emotionally broken performance was henceforth associated with the theme.
Ksenija Sidorova (born May 18, 1988 in Riga) is a Latvian accordionist. In 2016, he signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon ; His first album on the label, Carmen , is an accordion recreation of Georges Bizet 's Carmen that incorporates Latin, Asian, European and North American musical styles.
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Freddie Hubbard (1938-2008) was an American jazz trumpeter. Born in Indianapolis , he began performing in different groups from a very young age; At the age of 20 he moved to New York , where he had the opportunity to collaborate with eminent musicians, and especially with John Coltrane , until he formed his own quintet, as we can see today at the German Burghausen festival. Freddie Hubbard formed his sound from the influence of Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan , and in the early seventies his sound was completely characteristic and original. However, just when Hubbard seemed perfectly ready to assume his role as veteran trumpet master, his lips began to give him serious problems.
Celtic Woman is an all-female Irish musical ensemble conceived and created by David Kavanagh and Sharon Browne . They had international success when David Downes , former musical director of the Irish stage show Riverdance released their music to a worldwide audience. Downes assigned them a repertoire that ranged from traditional Celtic tunes to modern songs. The group's lineup has changed over the years; but despite this, fourteen albums have been released under the name "Celtic Woman" and the group has made several world tours. Cumulatively, Celtic Woman 's albums have sold more than nine million records worldwide and she has been named Billboard World Album Artist of the Year six times.
Maluma (Juan Luis Londoño Arias, Medellín 1994) is a Colombian pop, reggaeton and Latin rap singer. He rose to fame in his native country in 2011, thanks to the singles "Farandulera", "Obsesión", and "La Temperature" ; and with " Carnaval " (2014), in the rest of Latin America . His debut album Magia (2012) had great commercial success in Colombia , and a year later he was nominated for a Latin Grammy for best new artist. In March 2018, he was summoned to perform the Spanish version of the song " Colors ", the anthem for the 2018 Soccer World Cup . Maluma is considered by specialized critics as one of the "urban music artists with the greatest impact" in Latin America .
Isabel Pantoja (Seville, August 2, 1956), is a singer recognized as one of the most important Spanish singers; He has published twenty-eight albums and sold thirty million records. For his sales, he has obtained one hundred and fifty platinum records and fifty gold records in album sales, three platinum records in DVD sales and an Art Record awarded in Puerto Rico in 2023. He began his career in the early seventies. and she achieved international fame in 1985, with the album Marinero de luzes , dedicated entirely to the bullfighter Francisco Rivera, to whom she was married for just over a year, due to his tragic death in 1984. " La Pantoja ", as she is usually called , is one of the most popular artists in her country and most famous in Latin America .
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Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) was a Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, considered one of the main composers of the 20th century and creator of numerous masterpieces in different musical genres. His works include such popular works as the march of The Love of the Three Oranges , the suite The Lieutenant Kijé , the ballet Romeo and Juliet , Peter and the Wolf ... Within the established forms and genres in which he worked, he created seven complete operas, seven symphonies, eight ballets, five piano concertos, two violin concertos, one cello concerto, and nine completed piano sonatas. After his death, Arthur Honegger proclaimed that Prokofiev "will remain for us the greatest figure in contemporary music."
Cinderella (Cendrillon, Cinderella) is the tale of Cinderella made into a ballet in three acts to the music of Prokofiev . Today we attended its performance with Sylvie Guillem as first dancer accompanied by the Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was a Russian-born American composer of classical music and film. 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 famous pedagogue Clarence Adler . In June 1921 he moved 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.
Rodeo is a ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille , which premiered in 1942 and consists of five sections. The original ballet was choreographed for the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo , a dance company that moved to the USA during World War II. Among many reviews stood out De Mille's highly evocative choreography, described as having "cinematic sensibility" and recognized for its realism. Today we attended the performance of the American Ballet Theater Corps de ballet
Georgian dances are divided into solo, couple and group dances. The women move gracefully in short steps, while the men show the fighting spirit that is expressed in quick movements, high jumps and brave pirouettes. Georgian dance has costumes of various colors, according to the choreographies with themes of wars, dances, weddings and parties of all kinds staged with incredible acrobatics typical of the Georgian people, among which is dancing on tiptoe, without any support on the feet, as well as 360 degree spins, double spins and a whole range of jumps and acrobatics that make the dancers appear as if they were flying.
Lezginka is the collective name originally given by the Russians to all Caucasian dances united by fast rhythm. It can be just male or dance as a couple. The melody is clear and dynamic and the rhythm is fast. A common misconception is attributed only to the Lezgin people. However, until the end of the 19th century , the Russians used the name " Lezgin " as a common name for all highlanders of Dagestan , as well as Chechnya, Ingushetia, and North Azerbaijan .
Charles Ives (1874 – 1954) was an American composer recognized as one of the first to achieve international significance. Ives 's music was almost ignored during his lifetime and many of his works remained unplayed for many years. In time, Ives would come to be regarded as one of the American Originals , a composer who adopted a uniquely American style, with American folk tunes woven throughout his compositions and a restless search for musical possibilities. His best-known works are The Unanswered Question for orchestra and "Concord" Sonata for piano.
Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) was an American composer, pianist and conductor. He was the first conductor born in the USA to achieve worldwide fame, famous for having conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , for his Concerts for Young People on television between 1958 and 1972 and for his many compositions, including West Side Story (1957 ) and Candide . He was also an essential figure in the modern revival of the music of Gustav Mahler , the composer he was most passionately interested in. As a composer he wrote music for piano, chamber music, choral music, religious music, numerous stage works for ballet, film, opera and musicals, as well as abundant orchestral work.
Today Maestro Bernstein talks to us about Charles Ives and his Symphony No. 2 .
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