#classical concerto

[soyouwanttoplaytheflute]

I am so so happy that this is finally out! A gorgeous piece (which I am CRAZY about!) by Benjamin Yusupov. I play the flute, flute with a ‘dizzy’ head joint, bass flute and Contrabass flute. It really is stunning music. I hope you enjoy it!

[gasparodasalo]

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Concerto for Violin, Strings and Basso continuo in E-flat Major, RV 251, III. Allegro. Performed by Giuliano Carmignola, violin, and Andrea Marcon/Venice Baroque Orchestra on period instruments.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach.

- Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould plays Bach's Keyboard Concerto in D Minor. In 1960.

Glenn Gould made his television debut on CBS's Ford Presents "The Creative Performer" with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic.

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Round 1 begins on January 16th!!!

[opera-ghosts]

Here we see this antique postcard from 1916 with a nice pencil drawing from the famous young Composer, Pianist, Conductor, Teacher and Writer Franz Liszt (1811-1886).

[diagnosed-anxiety-disorder]

Waiting for the day there’s a mosh pit at a classical music concert. I need to run around and scream while Shostakovich is playing or else what’s the point

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Semifinal time!

Propaganda:

Tchaikovsky:

- the first movement orchestral tutti is SO BEAUTIFUL every time I listen to it I cannot help but smile. it waters my crops and cleans my pores. I don't know how one moment in a piece is able to hold such emotional power over a person but that's Tchaikovsky for you ig. - also the trill where it resolves at the end of the cadenza. and then the flute comes in with the main melody. it's so comforting - almost hopeful?? - the melodic lines and countermelodies are so nice there's really nice bassoon and cello lines in the first movement I'm thinking of and there's also a moment in the third movement where the melody gets passed between the clarinet and oboe - the entire concerto is like a warm hug :)

I've left the submission form tab open for three days and I still can't find words to describe how beautiful Tchaik VC is. THE TUTTI IN MVT 1 MEANS EVERYTHING TO ME

Shostakovich 1:

The third movement is the most awe inspiring horrifyingly gorgeous masterpiece of music that exists in the violin repertoire. Followed by a slow build cadenza where the rage creeps up on you until the violin is screaming. And then a brutally fun final movement. First and second mvts are sickeningly spectacular too, but the 3-cadenza-4 is just simply the crown jewel of violin rep. It doesn’t get better than this.

It’s got a passacaglia AND a burlesque what more could you want

It is everything.

[momokat]

A bunch of doodles. Cross overs of some good games

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

[schoenbergtwink]

Apropos of nothing here are 3 underrated cello concertos:

1. Barber: Cello Concerto

Barber manages to wind together banger melody after banger melody in a way that absolutely grips the listener’s attention. Probably underprogrammed because of its extreme difficulty (Jesus Christ that cadenza in the first movement!)

2. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto no. 2

Extremely morose work, as with most of late Shostakovich. If that scares you off, try the second movement, which is classic Shostakovich, very impish and sarcastic, or the third, where he breaks out horns and what can only be described as “the GarageBand beats”

3. Bloch: Schelomo

Bloch tells the story of King Solomon using solo cello, with the orchestra representing the world around him. Very operatic with a couple excellent themes that weave in and out of Solomon’s world. The piece is in one movement. It’s 21 minutes long, but flows excellently and is absolutely never boring.

[punster-2319]

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Succession (Main Title Theme) (Extended Intro Version) • Rondo In F Minor For Piano And Orchestra - "Kendall's Journey" • Moderato Con Brio For Violin, Harp, And Orchestra • Intermezzo In C Minor - "Money Wins" • Rondo In F Minor For Solo Piano - "Kendall's Summit" • Atmosphere In B Minor • Contredanse - "Shiv's Move" • Cello Quintet In C Minor - "Tern Haven" • Andante Con Moto - Piano And Strings - "Vaulter" • Rondo In F Minor For String Orchestra • Concerto Grosso In C Minor - Ripieno Strings • Andante Con Moto - String Orchestra Variation • Roman's Beat - "Hearts" • Andante In C Minor - Main Theme Strings Variation • Maestoso - Piano Solo • Larghetto - Piano, Celesta, Strings - "Kendall's Return" • Intermezzo In C Minor - Piano And Double Bass • Moderato Con Brio - Violin Sextet • Boar On The Floor • Kendall's Departure - "This Is Not For Tears" • Maestoso - String Orchestra - "To The Press Conference" • Concerto Grosso In C Minor + End Credits - "You Have To Be A Killer" • L To The OG

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[gasparodasalo]

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Concerto for 2 Keyboards and Strings in c-minor, BWV 1062, III. Allegro assai. Performed by Fabio Ciofini, harpsichord, Markku Mäkinen, organ, and Opus X on period instruments.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I have played over the music of that scoundrel Brahms. What a giftless bastard!

- Tchaikovsky writing in his diary in 1886.

Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky had a lot to say about Brahms’ music- all bad. Johannes Brahms, for his part, didn’t seem to much enjoy Tchaikovsky’s music, either. He attended a rehearsal for Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and fell asleep. Although the two composers share a birthday - 7 May, with Brahms, born in 1833, being seven years older - they illustrate opposite poles of the composing spectrum. Brahms was the great classicist, building vast symphonies and concertos with intricate musical logic; Tchaikovsky was the heart-on-sleeve emotionalist, as colourful as Brahms was sober.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work accordingly — sometimes positively, sometimes brutally.

Tchaikovsky was far more an antagonist than Brahms. The Russian composer’s chief criticism of Brahms’ music was that it was too controlled and not emotional enough. In a letter to his patron in 1879, he wrote of Brahms’ violin concerto, “His music is not warmed by true feelings, there is no poetry in it, though it has great pretension to depth.”

As for Brahms, stories have long circulated that he fell asleep at a performance of a Tchaikovsky symphony.  There’s no evidence that this actually happened, but it’s true that Brahms was often seen taking an afternoon snooze in the cafes of Vienna and was known to fall asleep at the table or theatre.

Composers are rarely members of a mutual admiration society, but Tchaikovsky’s concerns seem to focus more on style than on musicianship. “Hard as I try to respond to his music,” he adds, “I remain cold and hostile. It is a purely instinctive feeling.”

In his diary, he was even more explicit, calling Brahms a “giftless bastard,” and his work “self-inflated mediocrity.” But his opinion seems to have softened in 1887, shortly after being invited for Christmas dinner at the Leipzig home of a friend, where he was “astonished” to find Brahms at the table, as well.

Brahms was there to rehearse his Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101, and Tchaikovsky sat through the whole piece and made no critical comment. Writing a friend about the evening, Tchaikovsky called Brahms “a very nice person, and not at all proud as I had imagined.”

It was a major breakthrough, and Tchaikovsky would spend six days in Leipzig, encountering Brahms several more times. He wrote home that the German composer did everything he could to be agreeable — but was far better as a drinking companion than as a conversationalist.

Brahms attended a rehearsal for the Leipzig premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Orchestral Suite No. 1, and expressed approval of the first movement, but strongly criticized the jovially childlike march (which to our ears points ahead to the sound world of the Nutcracker).

A year later, Tchaikovsky arrived in Hamburg to find Brahms there, planning to attend a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky’s new Fifth Symphony. Having heard the piece, Brahms told Tchaikovsky he approved of the first three movements but disliked the finale.

Honest criticism like this rarely upset Tchaikovsky - and, besides, he hadn’t liked any of Brahms’ symphonies, either.

“Brahms is very amiable,” he wrote to his brother. “After the rehearsal we had lunch together and drank well. He is a very sympathetic person and I like his integrity and simplicity.” Tchaikovsky even tried—unsuccessfully—to persuade Brahms to conduct in Moscow during the next season.

Brahms was the one contemporary who, both in output and stature, matched Tchaikovsky, and public comparisons were expected. But, in a somewhat endearing turnabout, the two rival composers grew to appreciate each other as individuals, if not always approving of each other’s music.

[your-local-granny]

when you (gay musician) watch the gay music anime and it makes you go crazy about the music 😐😐😐

[mikrokosmos]

This Week's Listening & Muses - April 1-7

Schmitt - Suites from Antoine et Cléopâtre. For r/classicalmusic 's piece of the week. I haven't listened to much by Florent Schmitt, I know his symphonie concertante and some piano works. I liked his orchestration, like Debussy mixed with Strauss. Doesn't captivate me as much as the piano and chamber works but it is luscious.

Mendelssohn - Concerto in Ab Major for two pianos. Decided to listen through more of Hyperion's catalogue of "Romantic Piano Concertos", which were some of the works I listened to getting into classical music and were formative to my tastes. Mendelssohn's double piano concertos were written when he was a teenager for him to play with his sister Fanny, and they weren't published in his lifetime and apparently he thought they were immature. The concerto was charming and made me think of the early/classical Beethoven piano concertos

Moszkowski - Piano Concerto in E major. Another recording from the Romantic Concertos series, I hadn't listened to this one much before and wasn't that interested. Listening to it again now, I loved the exuberance and larger-than-life sounds

Schmidt - Symphony no.1. A less popular symphonist I was really into years back, late romantic and decadent. I didn't like this one as much at first, but listening now I'm surprised that I used to find it boring. It's very loud, grand, "majestic", and like a lot of romantic symphonies, long. It's great for blasting on speakers

Messiaen - Turangalîla. To break up the Romantic monotony, I was happy to see Marc-André Hamelin as the pianist for this masterpiece. Bombastic, "futuristic", otherworldly, fun and beautiful and sometimes mind-boggling.

I'll try to post the top favorites of music I listen to in a week to share some recommendations and act as my own listening diary, hopefully introduce some music to you guys or get recommendations in return!