Enjoy!
I: Largo, molto allegro
II: Minuetto I
III: Adagio
IV: Minuetto 2
V: Romance
VI: Tema con variazioni
VII: Finale
… and another work, by Hans Steinmetz. Something I’ve not heard before. Anyone know it?
I see these so far …
Not For Fun Only
Opera Tattler
San Jose Mercury News
Not For Fun Only even mentioned me and my “insights”. He will probably guess that I am now laughing. ;-)
We’ve now had two of the eight performances. Our next is this Thursday night. Having them spread out always makes it sort of tough on my brain.
But then most everything is tough on my brain!
… I’ve had the song Raindrops on Roses as an ear worm on several walks. Mostly it’s when I’m walking in the rain and I’m taking photos of roses. Go figure. It can get rather unpleasant. I like this version, though! Great fun!
Osesp Bassoon Quartet
Quartet Members
1° Alexandre Silvério
2° Francisco Formiga
3° Romeu Rabelo
4° José Arion Liñares
Guest: Armando Yamada
Recorded and Edited by Wallas Pena
A year ago I had blogged about Kinshasa Symphony. This segment below, aired recently on 60 minutes tells you more about the orchestra.
If you don’t want to listen to it all, at least scroll into to 2:54 and watch from there. :-)
Yep, I missed it by a day. Oops.
BUT … if you want a real deal, you can go to Amazon and get the Big Bach Set
Next week Symphony Silicon Valley will be doing this (but not with Baroque instruments). I’ll be on third, in case you are wondering.
… and that’s just the beginning! Don’t you want to hear more? :-)
Audra McDonald visits with Stephen Colbert.
But of course you must hear her sing, too …
I really love Magdalena Kožená’s voice, and I love the way she interprets music. I own this recording, Lettere amorose … just wish I could purchase this video, but I guess it’s not available. I know I’d posted at least some of this before, but who says we can’t enjoy it again?
There are several YouTube folks who have put this up, but this black & white one is the only one that seems to have absolutely everything on it, including the strolling on to the stage … or at least as far as I can tell. (Unfortunately she doesn’t sing my favorite song, Merula’s Folle é ben on it. I wonder why … it ends the album and is just stunning. Guess you have to purchase the recording to hear it!
If you want it and feel like supporting this blog go Here: Lettere Amorose
Well, according to the seller it’s a “sound bridge”. You can read about it here, and listen to the two clips below. Thoughts? Do you hear a difference? Is it worth $65 to $300?
Without:
With:
(March 5, 1887 – November 17, 1959)
I played The Moldau a lot in high school, or at least it seemed like I did. I was in and out of San Jose Youth Symphony (for some reason I never really got completely connected to a youth symphony until I joined PACO in my senior year) and if I recall correctly SJYS did The Moldau a lot. I liked it then. Later I thought it was so darn “ho-hum” and didn’t appreciate it any longer. Dan and I were talking about it the other day, and how it has come back to us in a different way and how much we now appreciate it. Funny how that goes.
Here’s an arrangement I’m sure you’ve never heard before, played on glass harp by Robert Tiso. It’s quite beautiful!
One of the reasons The Moldau has returned to my “yes list” is due, I must confess, to Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life, a movie I fell in love with.
Ah, I really need to see that movie again!
I have to memorize anything for this weekend’s Mahler 4 concert that has lovely command “Schalltrichter auf!” because I can’t see my music when I raise the oboe that high. But hey … how dare I whine, eh?
Ligeti Sechs Bagatellen played by Carion:
Movements 1 & 2:
Movements 3 & 4:
Movements 5 & 6:
I’ve played this (or at least I’ve attempted it. Who knows how we sounded … it’s been eons and I can’t remember! But Carion woodwind quintet does things by memory. And they move around.
Yeah, I’m impressed by their ability!
Or was that depressed about my inabilities?
Hmmm.
Pondering ….
Nope, never heard of this sonata for bassoon and cello before! Fun!
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, (Salisburgo, 27 gennaio 1756 — Vienna, 5 dicembre 1791
sonata per fagotto e violoncello KV 292
allegro
andante
rondò, allegro
Milan Turkovic fagotto
Gerhard Iberer violoncello
Next time I think about complaining about the pit temperature I’ll think about this guy:
Of course some of what he says … not knowing what to expect, how it’s different every time … well … sounds like an oboe reed!
