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Christoph Graupner (1683 - 1760) was a prolific German composer, renowned for the excellent calligraphy of his autographs and copies. Graupner completed his studies in Leipzig with Johann Kuhnau (1660-1722), Bach 's predecessor at St. Thomas Church . In 1705 he took up a position as harpsichordist in the orchestra of the Hamburg Opera , where Handel was a violinist. In 1709 he accepted a position at the court of Hesse-Darmstadt , becoming its conductor and composer in 1711. Graupner was one of the most esteemed composers of his time, like his contemporaries Handel, Telemann and Bach. He was a lively, passionate, cultured man with great professional experience, which endowed his compositions with an outstanding level of invention and originality.

His works are catalogued with the initials GWV (Graupner Werke-Verzeichnis); Werke in German means "work" and Verzeichnis, "catalogue".

The viola d'amore is a baroque bowed string instrument belonging to the viol family. It has fourteen strings, although only seven of them are played, the other seven causing a resonance effect by sympathetic vibration; in the past they were tuned in a variety of ways, apparently depending on the work, with neither composers nor musicians reaching an agreement until a famous French player of this instrument, Chrétien Urban (1790-1845), in the 19th century , fixed the tuning.

Today we offer the Chaconne from the Ouverture for viola d'amore GWV 460 performed by the Basel-based Ensemble Der Musikalische Garten where the role of viola d'amore is played by the cello.

Tine Thing Helseth (1987) is a Norwegian trumpeter specialising in classical repertoire. Born in Oslo , she began playing the trumpet at the age of seven; her teachers included Heidi Johanessen and, since 2002, Arnulf Naur Nilsen .

She has formed a brass group with nine other friends and colleagues as a way of actively enjoying her instrumental family (brass) and at the same time claiming and demonstrating her ability with these instruments, usually and mostly played by men: three trumpets, a flugelhorn, a horn, four trombones and a tuba.

These are the members of tenThing Brass Ensemble who today offer us the Proms Chamber Music recital with works by the French Georges Bizet (0´37´´), the German Kurt Weill (6´48´´), the Argentine Astor Piazzola (17´46´´) and the Norwegian Edvard Grieg (22´05´´).

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was one of the giants of Western music along with Bach and Mozart . Born on 16 December 1770 in Bonn , his father, of Flemish origin, tried to present him as a second Mozart , although it was a notable failure. Despite this, from the age of nine the organist Christian Gottlob Neefe captivated him with the study of Bach , whom he would always keep in mind. In 1787 he moved to Vienna with the intention of receiving classes from Mozart , but the death of his mother brought him back to Bonn a few days later. And so after five years, he returned to Vienna where he was able to study with Haydn and Salieri . However, his profession as an excellent pianist could not be realized due to the deafness that attacked him the following year, leaving him totally incapacitated in this faculty.

The catalogue of Beethoven's works . There are 138 musical works composed by Beethoven , arranged by numbers known as opus (Latin for "work") or its abbreviation op. , assigned by the composer's publishers during his lifetime. In addition, there are another 205 works that do not have opus numbers and that were published after the composer's death. These works were assigned WoO numbers (Werke ohne Opuszahl, "works without opus numbers"). This catalogue was first compiled by Georg Kinsky and Hans Halm (Das Werk Beethovens) in 1955.

The Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73, popularly known as the "Emperor", was Beethoven 's last piano concerto. It was written between 1809 and 1811 in Vienna and is dedicated to Rudolf of Austria , Beethoven 's protector and pupil. It was premiered on 28 November 1811 at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig . The nickname "Emperor" was not assigned by Beethoven himself but by Johann Baptist Cramer , the concerto's English publisher.

Structure The concerto is divided into the three traditional concerto movements: I (0´28´´) ALLEGRO. As in all of Beethoven 's piano concertos, the first movement is particularly long. In the introduction the orchestra plays three chords, each followed by a short cadenza , of an improvisatory nature but written in the score. The whole is written in sonata form, with three themes, and begins with the particular introduction. The first two themes are introduced by the orchestra in the exposition, but at the end of the second exposition the piano presents a virtuoso and triumphant third theme. The coda of the movement is particularly long and complex. - II (20´46´´) ADAGIO UN POCO MOSSO The second movement is highly lyrical, and is undoubtedly the best known of the three movements. The theme is introduced by the orchestra, followed by the piano exposition. The theme is repeated three times with different variations. The coda ends by slowly introducing the main theme of the third movement - III (28´03´´) RONDO - ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO. The third movement follows the second uninterruptedly and is a typical Italian rondo, in the form ( A B A C A B A ). The main theme is played by the piano and then responded to by the orchestra. Scales on the piano introduce the second theme, which is also responded to by the orchestra. In the much longer C section, the A theme is presented in three different keys.

Alina Elena Bercu (1990) is a Romanian concert pianist. She began her first piano lessons at the age of 7 at the School of Arts in her hometown of Campina and at the age of 9 she gave her first concert with an orchestra, soon performing on important stages in Europe, America and Asia . She has given more than 200 concerts with renowned orchestras and made recordings for various European radio stations.

Carmelo Alonso Bernaola (1929-2002) was a Basque composer, music teacher and clarinetist, considered one of the greatest exponents of Spanish music in the second half of the 20th century . Throughout his career he composed more than 300 works including classical music, popular songs such as the Anthem of Athletic Club , and numerous soundtracks for film and television. He was a clarinetist in the Municipal Band of Madrid , a harmony teacher at the Conservatory of Madrid and director of the Jesús Guridi Conservatory of Music in Vitoria from 1981 to 1991. His honours include two National Music Awards, the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts and his entry into the Music Section of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando.

Symphony No. 2 was commissioned by Radio Nacional de España to celebrate Carmelo Bernaola 's fiftieth birthday. It was meant to be a page of maturity and it has turned out to be the work of a master. The three performances, to enthusiastic applause by the composer from Otxandiano, clearly show that the proposed goal has been achieved: to connect with the general public without giving up current thinking in its radical substantiality. Four movements (linked by the intervention of a string sextet located in the distance) give us a succession of images and sound events that are extraordinarily beautiful through a prodigious orchestral imagination and within proportions so precisely calibrated that we receive the sensation that not a single note is missing or superfluous. (Extracted from an article by Enrique Franco in El País)

Today's version is offered to us by the RTVE Symphony under the baton of the Levantine maestro Jordi Bernàcer Valdés (Alcoy, November 5, 1976).

Ken Zazpi is a Basque pop-rock band formed in 1996 in Gernika (Bizkaia). They sing mainly in Basque, although they have also covered some of their songs in Catalan. In 1996 they released the song Bi eta bat and that same year they recorded a demo in Muxika (Bizkaia) with the help of guitarist José Alberto Bátiz (then in Fito & Fitipaldis). Their acoustic album, Gelditu denbora ("Stop time") took them on a concert tour through the Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre and Catalonia . Today we propose the concert offered at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao on December 5, 2013 accompanied by the Euskadi Symphony under the baton of maestro Fernando Velázquez .

Miguel Aceves Mejía was a Mexican singer and actor; he was born on December 13, 1915 in Chihuahua , son of Miguel Aceves and Herminia Mejía . Since he was a child he worked as a shoeshine boy and selling newspapers, since his father died when he was four years old. His first performances were in his hometown, as well as in Monterrey , and later in Los Angeles , where he recorded his first album, with the trio Los Porteños . Despite the immediate success he had in Los Angeles , he told his companions that his dream was to return to Mexico . There he formed every morning from 7 a.m. to wait for an opportunity until Fernando Fernández introduced him to a program when one of the singers fell ill.

His talent and interpretive style opened the doors to success, as evidenced by the more than two thousand songs he recorded and consecrated him as the King of Falsetto . His popularity led him to venture into the cinema. After appearing in ten films, in 1954 he made his star debut in the film A los cuatro vientos , alongside Rosita Quintana . Miguel and Rosita were so well received as a couple that the producers decided to reunite them in other films. On November 6, 2006, Mejía died in Mexico City at the age of 90, due to pneumonia.

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was a French composer, a leading figure in programmatic music (music that follows a plot) and in Romanticism in general. His father, a doctor, sent him to Paris to study medicine, which he did not like; so he abandoned medicine and enrolled in the Paris Conservatory where he studied composition. From here he went to Rome where he received a scholarship to study Italian opera. He wrote several operas, symphonies, overtures, various songs and choral works. In 1830 he wrote the Symphonie Fantastique, his best-known work, of which we suggest today the choreography of the fourth movement, The March to the Gallows.

Cumbia is a traditional Colombian musical rhythm and folk dance. It has contents from three cultural sources: indigenous, African and, to a lesser extent, white (Spanish), the result of the long fusion between these cultures. The music features drums of African origin; maracas, guache and pitos (millet cane and bagpipes) of indigenous origin; while the songs and verses are a contribution from Spanish poetry. As for the dance, it is worth highlighting the presence of sensual, gallant and seductive movements, characteristic of dances of African origin. The clothing has clear Spanish features: long skirts, lace, sequins, candongas and the same flower headdresses and intense makeup on the women; white shirt and pants, red scarf tied around the neck and hat on the men.