Carter’s Controversies
In his 103rd year, composer Elliot Carter continues to work 4 hours every day!
In this clip he discusses the “not so friendly” relationship between percussion and piano in the “Controversies” section of his new work, Two Controversies and a Conversation. The Philharmonic performs the world premiere June 9 as part of the next Contact! program.
One of my favorite composers Anton Bruckner’s “Requiem in D minor” - “Dies irae” - Allegro, D minor, 3/4.
Adele Haas (soprano)
Sylvia Wade (contralto)
Björn Maseng (tenor)
Leopold Spitzer (bass)
Choir and Orchestra of St Augustin-Wien
Organ - Martin Haselböck
Conductor - Friedrich Wolf
The Requiem in D minor WAB 39 by Anton Bruckner is a setting of the Missa pro defunctis for vocal soloists, trombones, one horn, strings and organ with figured bass, written to memorialize Franz Sailer, the notary of the St. Florian monastery, who bequeathed Bruckner a Bösendorfer piano.
“Bruckner is half simpleton, half God.”
- Gustav Mahler
Alec Baldwin interviewing Renee Fleming. Listen!!! :)
(Source: seventysixtrombones, via tornamiadir)
(Source: thefckis, via guiltless-and-free)
Maurizio Pollini performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 21 in C major K. 467 with the Orchestra filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Muti conducting (2004).
Piano duel scene with Jelly Roll Morton from the Legend of 1800 (can skip to 2:38 when the music starts)
Rostropovich & Richter perform Beethoven cello sonatas (1964 live)
If you have 2 hours to spare… ;)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio Op.70 No.1 in D major “Ghost” Allegro vivace e con brio.
check out this trio!
Jacqueline du Pré: Cello
Daniel Barenboim: Piano
Pinchas Zukerman: Violin
These pieces are representative of Beethoven’s “Middle” stylistic period, which went from roughly 1803 to 1812, and which included many of his most famous works. Beethoven wrote the two piano trios while spending the summer of 1808 in Heiligenstadt, Vienna, where he had completed his Symphony No. 5 the previous summer. He wrote the two trios immediately after finishing his Sinfonia pastorale, Symphony No. 6. This was a period of uncertainty in Beethoven’s life, in particular because he had no dependable source of income at the time.
(via blogthoven)
Zimerman performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 4 in G major, Bernstein conducting.
Richter plays Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 17 no. 2, 3rd movement
Józef Hofmann plays Frédéric Chopin “Little Dog” Waltz, op. 64 No. 1
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor op. 54 - 3. Allegro vivace (10:17)
Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen (Blessed are they who bear suffering)Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, cond.Brahms’ sprawling Requiem was composed between 1865 and 1868 (compare this to the twenty-plus years spent on the First Symphony); it was probably germinated by the death of the composer’s mother as well as Brahms’ memories of Schumann, but the motives behind the work were never made clear. Many of Brahms’ choral works, as well as the Four Serious Songs—his last vocal compositions—focus on the finality and mystery of death.
The kernel of the originality of Brahms’ contribution to the genre is not only its use of the German-language scripture, but the focus of Brahms’ libretto on the living rather than the dead; Ein deutsches Requiem is a humanist, realist work meant to console the bereaved rather than ritually escort the dead to the afterlife.
