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Johannes Brahms, Piano Trio No. 1 in B major,Op.8.
Recording 1968.
Trio di Trieste.
Dario de Rosa, Piano.
Renato Zanettovich, Violine.
Amando Baldovino...
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Johannes Brahms, Piano Trio No. 1 in B major,Op.8.
Recording 1968.
Trio di Trieste.
Dario de Rosa, Piano.
Renato Zanettovich, Violine.
Amando Baldovino, Violincello.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
(for violin, cello and piano)
I. Allegro con brio
II. Scherzo. Allegro molto
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro
Composed in 1854, when Brahms was around 21 years old
Revised in 1891, when Brahms was around 58.
In 1854, laboring under the "curse" of Schumann's glowing predictions for Germany's new rising star, a young twenty-one year old Brahms decided to publish his first chamber composition, the Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8. This was no small undertaking: Brahms was a fierce self-critic and is known to have consigned several early chamber works to the fire. Thirty-five years later, in 1890, with all but a few final works ahead, the mature, master Brahms returned to the same trio compelled to revise. With his characteristic humor, Brahms claimed, "I didn't provide it with a new wig, just combed and arranged its hair a little". His changes were in fact substantial: he shortened the work by about one-third, significantly modifying all but the scherzo. It was around this time that Brahms decided to retire, after which he was coaxed momentarily by a late affair with the clarinet into a final small set of compositions. This piano trio therefore has a special significance for Brahms the chamber composer: it began his public career and it preoccupied his attentions again at the end of an astonishing series of masterpieces. In its final form, the B major piano trio bears the hand, the mind and the heart of both the young and the elder Brahms.
Though an early work, the first of his three piano trios is unmistakably Brahms. Lasting nearly half of its total duration, the first movement is a massive sonata beginning with a beautiful theme in the cello, jarred by violent contrast and escalating into a mountain of dramatic development. A restless, dark character dominates most of the trio from the first movement's secondary themes to the brooding march of the scherzo to the wind-blown sweep of the finale rondo. While the light of B major frequently breaks through, the majority of the Trio gravitates to minor related keys, ending, despite the suggestions of its title, on a solid b minor chord. Typical of Brahms, the textures are thick, frequently juxtaposing the heavy romantic piano with the strings, violin and cello unified in a variety of parallel harmonies and symmetric counter motions.
To counterbalance such weight, Brahms offers the third movement adagio, a slow movement of such repose that it seems to hover, nearly motionless, an introspective intermezzo from another world. The lightest movement in multiple senses of the word, it is perhaps the most emotionally compelling, certainly, the most peculiar. The soft musical meditation focuses primarily on the piano with echoing commentary by an ethereal chorus of strings. The central section of its ternary form gathers into a tender, melancholy song first in the cello, passing to the piano and the violin across interludes that are somber, even haunting. Ephemeral, the concrete diffuses again into the abstract, the reappearance of the now familiar beginning transforming the indefinite into the transcendent.
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Anna Chan:
Rather than just relying on prayer, a Buddhist nun is using her voice to help needy Nepalis in one of the world's poorest countries. The ...
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Anna Chan:
Rather than just relying on prayer, a Buddhist nun is using her voice to help needy Nepalis in one of the world's poorest countries. The nun is funding her school for orphans by singing her way into the international charts.
Ani Choying Dolma, a 37-year-old Tibetan-Nepali known as Nepal's "singing nun", has soared to global fame with her eight albums of Tibetan and Sanskrit meditation songs. She has performed more than 50 concerts in Europe, Asia and the United States, and more are lined up for this year in Germany.
[Ani Choying Dolma, Singing Nun]:
"The singing part comes just somehow. I did not really plan for it, but somehow it came up. It happened and then once I realized the benefit of using my own skill or whatever I'm blessed with and to be able to use it for the benefit of others. So I feel more productive."
The income from her CD sales has helped Dolma build the Arya Tara School, which has 58 students drawn from poor Nepali families, including some from neighboring India and Tibet. They study Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan language, English and mathematics. Young nuns also learn the art of Thanka wall painting.
Dolma was later encouraged to sing by an American musician who was impressed when he heard her humming. But since her debut in 1998, Dolma has never turned back. Her CDs included "Cho", "Dancing Dakini", "Choying", "Moments of Bliss", "Selwa", "Smile" and her most recent, "Inner Peace". Some of her songs have also featured in the well-known "Buddha Bar" collection.
[Ani Choying Dolma, Singing Nun]:
"That CD actually established me in the international music field I should say, as a Buddhist nun, as a singer. The singing nun, as they call me."
All of the proceeds from Dolma's record sales and performances go directly into the Nuns Welfare Foundation.
Dolma also longs for peace in Nepal, which is just emerging from a decade-long Maoist civil war and years of political unrest.
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kijk eens bij mijn liedjes, niet klassiek, en ook niet allemaal even rustgevend, maar wel energiek.
Groet,
Renk Jan Vissers
Glad that you liked the videos and thanks for subscribing. I listened to a few of the classical guitarists that you have posted. ...very lovely.
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Happy Easter!
Santiago
Wish you a very Happy New Year 2010 !!!
bedankt voor je abo. Mooi kanaal!
Als ik in de buurt van Groningen zou wonen, zou je mijn micro & video kunnen lenen!
Groeten,
Jasper
Your story on your musical career sounds very very familiar....I'm 43 and just got back to music after almost 15 years of a break.
You really don't need that much equipment with todays technology !!!!
Check my First Ever video / public performance out and read the details in the description you'll see what I mean !!
Have a nice day in a nice way....