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While organizations in other artistic fields — theater, literature, the visual arts — attempt, however haltingly and imperfectly, to broaden the scope of their activities to include a range of creative voices and life experiences, the leadership in classical music keeps on ignoring the whole subject. The field is just as committed now to the work of white men as it was 100 years ago or more. That’s a very bad look for any cultural organization in 2017. And it’s a particularly bad look for a field that needs to be thinking seriously about how far the traditional models can...

French musicologist and biographer Henry-Louis de La Grange has passed away in Lonay, Switzerland - aged 92 A graduate of the Aix-en-Provence University and Yale University School of Music where he studied under Nadia Boulanger, he will be remembered for his epic four-volume comprehensive biography of composer Gustav Mahler. He served as long-standing President of the Gustav Mahler Musical Library in Paris, and since first hearing a Mahler symphony in 1945 is said to have devoted the rest of his life to researching every detail of the Austrian composer’s life.

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Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart murdered by Italian composer and contemporary Antonio Salieri? Rumors have persisted since Mozart’s death in 1791. But the idea truly went global nearly 200 years later with the appearance of Peter Shaffer’s fictionalized account of the life and death of Mozart as seen through the eyes of his contemporary and competitor Salieri in Amadeus, first the Tony award-winning play in 1979, and the then the film of the same name by Milos Foreman which won an Oscar for Best Picture in 1985. Scholars have largely and uniformly debunked the theory, including Shaffer’s portrayal of Salieri as...

Dietrich Buxtehude Complete Organ Works Vol I,Ton Koopman

Robert Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C major, Op.61 I. Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo (00:00) II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace (12:06) III. Adagio espressivo (19:21) IV. Allegro molto vivace (29:35) Staatskapelle Dresden Paavo Järvi, conductor October 18, 2005 Semperoper, Dresden

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"La Mer" L.109, (The Sea), is an orchestral composition by Claude Debussy. It was started in 1903 in France and completed in 1905 on the English Channel coast in Eastbourne. The premiere was given by the Lamoureux Orchestra under the direction of Camille Chevillard on 15 October 1905 in Paris. "La Mer" is a composition of huge suggestion and subtlety in its rich depiction of the ocean, which combines unusual orchestration with daring impressionistic harmonies. The work has proven very influential, and its use of sensuous tonal colours and its orchestration methods have influenced many later film scores. While the...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский) Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Op.74 (1893) Watching in 480p or above makes it much easier to read (along with fullscreen)! There is also a chance I might reupload this video with most of the whitespace cropped out, so that it would be easier to see. Movement I: Adagio--Allegro non troppo (0:00) Movement II: Allegro con grazia (21:00) Movement III: Allegro molto vivace (28:36) Movement IV: Adagio lamentoso (36:55) Performed by: Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, under the direction of Valery Gergiev (2010)

Paul Dukas (1865-1935) (France) Symphonie en ut majeur (1896) 1/3 **MUST HEAR** Dir : Armin Jordan 1- Allegro non troppo vivace, ma con fuoco (14.52) Après avoir été un élève médiocre au Conservatoire, Paul Dukas écrivit le plus célèbre (et l'un des meilleurs) poème symphonique français : « L'Apprenti Sorcier » (1897). Parce qu'il n'avait pas obtenu le Grand Prix de Rome à cause de Charles Gounod, il devint le protégé de Camille Saint-Saëns, ce qui le dédommagea. Dans son Histoire de la musique, Emile Vuillermoz écrit : « musicien d'élite, qui, dans notre époque friande de querelles esthétiques, de...

Great, dramatic and powerful presentation of Semyon Bychkov with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus, the BBC National Chorus of Wales, the London Philharmonic Choir, Marina Poplavskaya (soprano), Mariana Pentcheva (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor) and Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass) playing the great Requiem of Giuseppe Verdi, at BBC Proms 2011.

Carl Stamitz - Symphony in D-major "La Chasse" (c. 1772) Picture: Paul de Vos - Stag Hunt, c.1600-1650 Carl Stamitz (baptized 8 May 1745 – 9 November 1801) Work: Symphony in D-major "La Chasse" (c.1772) (Scored for strings, 2 oboes, horns, trumpets and timpani.) Mov.I: Grave - Allegro 00:00 Mov.II: Andante 04:05 Mov.III: Allegro moderato - Presto 10:10 Orchestra: London Mozart Players Conductor: Matthias Bamert

Pieter Hellendaal Six Sonatas for Cello and Bass Opus V 1780

Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major is one of the composer's most popular works. It was written in 1874 and revised several times through 1888. It was dedicated to Prince Konstantin of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. It was premiered in 1881 by Hans Richter in Vienna with great success. The symphony's nickname of Romantic was used by the composer himself. It does not refer to the modern conception of romantic love but rather the medieval romance as depicted in the operas Lohengrin and Siegfried of Richard Wagner. The symphony has four movements: I. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell (0:09) II. Andante, quasi...

GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911) Sinfonía nº 6 Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig (24:47) Andante moderato (41:22) Scherzo. Wuchtig (55:16) Finale. Allegro moderato Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia Dima Slobodeniouk, director Grabación realizada en el Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña el 5 de enero de 2016 Realización: Antonio Cid / RDC Producciones Sonido: Pablo Barreiro / CRTVG

Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994): Concerto for Orchestra (1950/1954) I. Intrada, Allegro maestoso II. Capriccio, Notturno e Arioso [07:40] III. Passacaglia, Toccata e Corale [13:24] Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern diretta da Stanisław Skrowaczewski. Cover image: Texture.

George Frederick Bristow Born: December 19, 1825 - Brooklyn, New York, USA Died: December 13, 1898 Bristow was born into a musical family in Brooklyn, New York. His father, William, a well-respected conductor, pianist, and clarinetist, gave his son lessons in piano, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and violin. George joined the first violin section of the New York Philharmonic Society Orchestra in 1843 at the age of seventeen, and remained there until 1879. The New York Philharmonic's records indicate that he was concertmaster between 1850 and 1853. (ref: Wikipedia) The Arcadian Symphony was composed in 1872 and first performed this in...

Moritz Moszkowski - Piano Concerto Op. 3 (1874) I. Con Spirito - Allegro - 00:00 II. Adagio - 10:31 III. Scherzo - Molto Vivace - 24:00 IV. L'istesso tempo - Allegro con spirito - 31:38 Continued...

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Sinfonia Eroica Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Opus 55 The work is in four movements: 1: Allegro con brio (0:00) 2: Marcia funebre: Adagio assai in C minor (15:10) 3: Scherzo: Allegro vivace (30:17) 4: Finale: Allegro molto (36:06) Symphony No. 3 is a structurally rigorous composition of great emotional depth, which marked the beginning of the creative middle-period of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven began composing the third symphony soon after Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 36; he completed the composition in early 1804, and the first public performance of Symphony...