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Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa - Ludus (Lesley Hatfield, Rebecca Hirsch, Ulster ...
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Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa - Ludus (Lesley Hatfield, Rebecca Hirsch, Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa)
I made a slightly different version - the pictures running slowly and also with some more paintings - and posted it in my other channel, Nadaniente2
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Five Nocturnes, for piano (1919)
Yitkin Seow, piano
Erik Satie completed h...
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Five Nocturnes, for piano (1919)
Yitkin Seow, piano
Erik Satie completed his five Nocturnes for solo piano between August and November 1919. They were his last piano works. These are oddly humorless works, but after the passing of Debussy in the previous year, Satie's mood remained less than light. His musical focus seemed more strained as well. While his Nocturnes are successful, beautiful pieces, alert listeners can hear the effort the composer put into them, which was not the case for his works from the 1890s. By the end of World War I, Satie's musical language had achieved a perfect union of almost-mechanical gesturing and French fluidity. Satie has included none of the qualities of Chopin or Field's nocturnes in his music, but the nocturnal effect is clearly there. There is something reductive about Satie's Nocturnes that gives them a specific value. One could say that they sound overheard rather than heard; there is no attempt to woo the listener, who is forced to listen closely to hear the striking, macabre pace of each movement that defines their unique qualities. What can be heard and appreciated by almost anyone in this music is an audible transformation of character of the composer that comes through in these works. Most mature people have seen those prone to humor come to an apex in their own thinking and develop a seriousness that cannot completely conceal their formerly humorous selves. This is what happened to Satie, and he became more interested in causing riots in theatrical venues than having attentive listeners in concert halls. His Nocturnes were his last pieces of pure music. They are a sort of swan song, featuring dedications to Marcelle Mayer, Valentine Hugo, and Jean Cocteau's mother.
At the end of the war Satie had no money and was severely depressed. His own sort of stoicism was the sort that, when it gave way, permanent emotional damage was lurking underneath. Though a sudden change of fortune came his way, he did not fully recover. A young Belgian painter named Mesens somehow rejuvenated his spirits. Though Satie was more than a generation older, he seemed to enjoy the painter's company as if he were an old friend. From this rapport the composer found another burst of creative energy and wrote his Nocturnes. They are conventionally notated, using bar lines, which he eschewed in his earlier pieces. They demonstrate no joy, but have an eerie intimacy, saying goodbye not to music or to life but to something. Their sadness and focus combine for a quality that is not easily surmised in English, but they are among the undiscovered masterpieces of the twentieth century. [Allmusic.com]
Art by Edouard Leon Theodore Mesens
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Montserrat Caballé & Montserrat Martí ,
Live ,Teatro Real ,
Spain,
Gala...
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Montserrat Caballé & Montserrat Martí ,
Live ,Teatro Real ,
Spain,
Gala de Zarzuela de la SGAE.
Teatro Real, 1999
Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid,
maestro José Collado
~ Bolero ~ "Los Diamantes de la corona" (F. A. Barbieri) ,
Franciso Asenjo Barbieri's beautiful zarzuela "Los Diamantes de la Corona" (The Diamonds of the Crown), the Bolero: "Niñas que a vender flores vais a Granada" (Girls that you go to sell flowers to Granada)
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, wkipedia:
http://es.wikiped...
Francisco Asenjo Barbieri
http://www.spaini...
Asenjo Barbieri zarzuelas , http://www.zarzue...
Painting in video, a part of it....
"Spanish woman". Oil 49x34 cm , circa 1928
, by painter HELENE SCHJERFBECK (1862-1946)
http://fi-fi.face...
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From A'dam ( as you discovered this very moment)
Pleased you like my Herous as well..as you can see by my playlists
( they are under my profile at the left,I mention it cause many visitors overlook them)
I have a great love for Classical also.
But there is so much more to love and enjoy ,hence the eclectic collection.
I also uploaded my own recordings from the eighties ( 4 albums) not all but a nice collection from 3 albums.
I do hope you ''ll enjoy those as well !
Ja .."tis prachtig pre-Lente weer hier...waar blijft die ons beloofde Horror-winter ?
Lieve groet
Peter Schneider.
I'm please and honored by your subscribtion.
Yours is a fine channel with a lovely collection of favorites (several are mine too)
Very nice to meet you here on YT .
Oh..and I gladly return the favor and sub to your fine channel !
Best regards (en een kopje)
Peter Schneider.
I love classic ^^