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Salut d'Amour, Op. 12, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar in 1888, originally written for violin and piano.
Elgar finished the piece in July...
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Salut d'Amour, Op. 12, is a musical work composed by Edward Elgar in 1888, originally written for violin and piano.
Elgar finished the piece in July 1888, when he was engaged to be married to Caroline Alice Roberts, and he called it "Liebesgruss" ('Love's Greeting') because of Miss Roberts' fluency in German. When he returned home to London on 22 September from a holiday at the house of his friend Dr. Charles Buck, in Settle, he presented it to her as an engagement present. Alice, for her part, offered him a poem called "The Wind at Dawn" which she had written years before and which he soon set to music.
The dedication was in French: "à Carice". "Carice" was a combination of his wife's names Caroline Alice, and was the name to be given to their daughter born two years later.
It was not published (by Schott & Co.) until a year later, and the first editions were for violin and piano, piano solo, cello and piano, and for small orchestra. Few copies were sold until Schott changed the title to "Salut d'Amour" with Liebesgruss as a sub-title, and the composer's name as 'Ed. Elgar'. The French title, Elgar realised, would help the work to be sold not only in France but in other European countries: Schott was a German publisher, with offices in Mainz, London, Paris and Brussels.
The first public performance was of the orchestral version, at a Crystal Palace concert on 11 November 1889, conducted by August Manns.
"Salut d'Amour" has certainly been published in more different forms and arrangements than any other work of Elgar's.
The Romanian-born conductor, Ion Marin, received his musical training as a composer, conductor and pianist at the George Enescu Academy in Bucharest, the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.
After leaving his homeland of Rumania in 1986, Ion Marin became one of the most interesting composers on today´s music scene, and currently lives as an Austrian citizen in Switzerland. During his first engagement as a resident conductor at the Vienna State Opera (during Claudio Abbado's administration as director) he conducted a large repertoire of works ranging from Mozart to Alban Berg in the years between 1987 and 1991. He developed his outstanding reputation in the symphonic field - especially in late romantic and 20th century works - by conducting such sterling ensembles as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Montréal Symphony, Orchestre National de France and Dresden Staatskapelle. He has worked with such prominent soloists as Yo-Yo Ma, Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich, Sarah Chang, Yuri Bashmet and Frank Peter Zimmermann.
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Her most famous rendition of the Queen of the Night's "Der Hölle Rache", in HD. All hail to the Queen! I always wonder if the people in t...
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Her most famous rendition of the Queen of the Night's "Der Hölle Rache", in HD. All hail to the Queen! I always wonder if the people in that room were aware they had just witnessed perfection.
With Dorothea Röschmann as Pamina. The three ladies are Gillian Webster, Christine Rice and Yvonne Howard.
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01 - Adagio. Allegro vivace (Beethoven, Symphony 4, B flat major, Op 60, Christian Thielemann, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)
The Fourth was perfor...
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01 - Adagio. Allegro vivace (Beethoven, Symphony 4, B flat major, Op 60, Christian Thielemann, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)
The Fourth was performed in March 2009 at Vienna's ornate but rather cramped looking Musikverein. Colors are beautifully saturated and fine detail is excellent. Somehow both television directors managed to cram their cameras into somewhat unexpected nooks and crannies (pay attention to just how close the orchestra sits together, and how close they are to the audience), and therefore coverage is really fabulous, including good close-ups of soloists which reveal excellent detail.
Christian Thielemann, a native Berliner, has spent most of his outstanding musical career in Berlin, Munich, and now Dresden. The partnership of Thielemann and the Philharmoniker was a Beethoven match made in heaven when these videos were shot in 2008 and 2009. His take on these familiar works is highly individual, with all manner of detail pointed up, tempo adjustments in mid-stream, dynamics of multiple and subtle gradations, rests that are sometimes lengthened, and playing of the most exacting standards. Regarding the last observation, while the Vienna players deliver accurate and polished performances, they never sound stiff or reined-in, but rather natural and fully in sympathy with the emotional flow of the music. Indeed, they are of one mind in following Thielemann's often unconventional way with the scores.
All nine symphonies were recorded between December, 2008 and April, 2010
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JMU Spring String Thing 2010, Chamber Orchestra, "Themes from Symphony #3 "Eroica" by Beethoven, arranged by Dr. Robert McCashin
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Here it is, the best and unrivaled scene in all of opera
Mozart: Don Giovanni Met - April 1990 - James Levin...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-Dbd...
Here it is, the best and unrivaled scene in all of opera
Mozart: Don Giovanni Met - April 1990 - James Levine (c) - Franco Zefirelli (dir) Character Artist Giovanni Samuel Ramey Anna Carol Vaness Elvira Karita Mattila Ottavio Jerry Hadley Leporello Ferruccio Furlanetto Zerlina Dawn Upshaw Masetto Philip Cokorinos Commendatore Kurt Moll
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