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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 within it. In 1703 he obtained his first job as a court musician for 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 after a year and a half to María Magdalena 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 main three geniuses in the History of Music along with Mozart and Beethoven.

Sicilian (also known as sicilienne in French) is a musical form that became popular throughout Europe between the late 17th century and the 18th century . It is a slow dance that takes place in a time signature of 6/8 or 12/8 and is characterized by the presence of a trochaic rhythm , as well as by its simple melodies and clear harmonies and is usually written in a minor mode. It is a dance similar to the jig in terms of rhythm but much slower and with a melancholic character.

Today we offer the second movement, Siciliana , from JS Bach 's Eb major sonata (BWV 1031) for flute and harpsichord with Pete Lilla on flute.

Karl Jenkins (1944) is a British composer and musician born in Gower , Wales . His father, an organist and choir director, gave him his first musical instruction. He continued his musical studies at University College Cardiff and the Royal Academy of Music and was known as a jazz and rock musician; Perhaps his most famous piece is the classic theme used by the diamond company De Beers for its television advertising campaign. He later included it as the title piece in a compilation of various works he called Diamond Music and eventually created Palladio , using it as the theme of the first movement. The Adiemus theme is also well known , used in an advertisement for the airline Delta Airlines , and whose success led Jenkins to decide to create the Adiemus project.

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is a work by Karl Jenkins commissioned for the millennium celebrations in 2000, and was dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis. It is essentially an anti-war work that is based primarily on the Catholic mass and written for SATB choir with soloists (soprano and narrator) and symphony orchestra; In addition to ordinary excerpts from the mass, the text incorporates words from other sources including the Islamic Call to Prayer, the Bible , and the Mahabharata . Writers whose words appear in the composition include Rudyard Kipling, Alfred Tennyson , and Sankichi Toge , who survived the bombing of Hiroshima .

Today we offer the Sanctus of the aforementioned Mass performed by the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and four Welsh choirs, conducted by Jenkins himself.

Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer who was born in Piran , then the Republic of Venice and today Slovenia . He had an eventful youth because after marrying his beloved Elisabetta Premazore, he was accused of having kidnapped her, so she was interned in a convent while he fled; After wandering from one place to another, he found refuge in the Convent of San Francisco , in Assisi , where he deepened his studies and violin technique; After a few years he managed to reunite with Elisabetta and work as a violinist in the Ancona theater. In 1726 he moved permanently to Padua where he was hired by the Basilica of San Antonio and two years later he created the Scuola delle Nazioni for violin, attended by instrumentalists from all over Europe .

The Sonata was originally a composition written to be played or "sounded" by one or more musical instruments, as the cantata was to be "sung" by one or more voices. Beginning with classicism (1750-1810), its definition adjusts to a work generally structured in three movements (fast-slow-fast) and sometimes four, with or without a short introduction. It should not be confused with the sonata form , which is a compositional model that consists of three sections without interruption: a) exposition of the two main and contrasting themes, b) development of both themes, c) reexposition or recapitulation. Sonata form is typically applied to the first movements of sonatas, quartets, symphonies, and concertos .

The Devil's Sonata , or “The Devil's Trill”, sonata for violin in G minor, was written by Tartini for violin and basso continuo; although today we offer it arranged for solo violin and string orchestra. Written in the Baroque era, its formal structure does not conform, of course, to the later rules of classicism; although the alternation of “slow-fast” and the soloist's cadenza can already be seen shortly before the final bars. Its name comes from the technical difficulty that its interpretation required for the time in which it was written and which is offered to us today by the Korean violinist Soyoung Yoon (1984), winner of important international competitions.

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.

Carmen is a dramatic opera in four acts with music by Georges Bizet and a French libretto by Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac , based on the novel Carmen by Prosper Mérimée ; The action takes place in Seville in 1820, starring a beautiful and impulsive gypsy with a strong character.

Today it is offered to us by Nadia Krasteva , in the role of Carmen with Aleksandrs Antonenko, Sebastian Holecek, Asa Elmgren ... and the Choir and Orchestra of the Nationaltheater Brüun , all conducted by the Austrian maestro Ernst Märzendorfer (1921-2009) .

Lizz Wright (1980) is an American jazz singer-songwriter. He was born in the state of Georgia ; His father was a preacher and his mother sang gospel at mass. He has two brothers with whom he formed a vocal trio that accompanied his father in church. He studied voice at Georgia State University in Atlanta and later in New York and Vancouver . According to The New York Times , she is the heir to a "direct line that runs from Odetta to Tracy Chapman ," singers whose primary source is the African-American spiritual tradition. Regarding her vocal style, it is not simply a question of wealth. of his tone of voice or his unparalleled control; but of the sensitivity and insight that he shows through all his interpretations.

Gloria Gaynor (1943) is an American disco and soul singer. His best-known hits are " Never Can Say Goodbye " (1974), " I Will Survive " (1978) and " I Am What I Am " (1983). He was born on September 7, 1943 in Newark , a city in the state of New Jersey . Their first single was released in 1965 under the title " She'll Be Sorry / Let Me Go, Baby ". For the first time, the lyrics of a song are written from the point of view of a woman, attacking her ex-lover that she is now free and can move on without him. The song became an anthem of women's liberation and continues to play strongly in clubs and karaoke today. Gloria Gaynor leads hit after hit and becomes the queen of the dance floor for 20 years and Europe surrenders to her.

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist, considered one of the main representatives of musical romanticism. His mother, Gesine , was his first piano teacher; Later, she met the legendary Norwegian violinist Ole Bull , a family friend and her mother's brother-in-law. Grieg adapted many themes and songs from his country's folklore, thus contributing to creating a Norwegian national identity, just as Jean Sibelius did in Finland or Antonín Dvořák in Bohemia . His most important works are: the Piano Concerto in A minor , the intimate Lyrical Pieces (for piano), the Holberg Suite (for string orchestra) and, especially, Peer Gynt, incidental music that he wrote at the request of the writer Henrik Ibsen for his homonymous drama.

The Lyric Suite is an orchestration of four of the six piano pieces from Book V of Grieg 's Lyric Pieces , Op. 54. The orchestration is by Anton Seidl and Grieg . It consists of three pieces revised by Grieg based on Seidl's arrangements, and one piece arranged by Grieg alone.

Today we offer one of the movements from this Suite, the Trool March , choreographed by Rebekah Wainwright for the St. George Dance Company of Utah.

The Hang is a melodic percussion instrument made up of a hollow piece of spheroid metal, with dents on its surface of different shapes and sizes that, when struck with the hands, produce different notes and musical scales. The structure of the hang has a characteristic “flying saucer” shape, the result of gluing two nitrided “shells” (a process that modifies the composition of the metal by adding nitrogen, resulting in an increase in the surface hardness of the pieces) on its edges. Inside the instrument there is a void that acts as a resonance box, while the outer face has various harmonic ornaments or sculpted membranes, produced by hammer blows. These membranes are normally excited using fingers, which are dynamic and rich in harmonics without using any additional force. It was developed in May 1999 by Felix Rohner and Sabina Schärer at the Panart company in Bern , Switzerland.

Today we suggest viewing a little fantasy performed by the duo Hang Massive composed of Danny Cudd and Markus Offbeat .