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โAch, dass wir doch dem reinen stillen Wink, des Herzens nachzugehn so sehr verlernenโ ๐๏ธ๐โค๏ธโ๐ฉน Absolutely Politically Neutral / No Nationalism and Patriotism .โ๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ซถ๐๐ฝ.๐. Isaiah 2:4. Jw.org Searching for Friends of Peace๐๏ธโค๏ธโ๐ฉน
and visions suggested by four of Romes fountains contemplated at the hour in which their character is most in harmony with the surrounding landscape, or in which their beauty appears most impressive to the observer...
14.10.2025 03:22 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0and music of the Italian baroque. Fountains of Rome was the first of these three great tone poems, composed between 1913 and 1916, and inspired by a series of photographs given to him by the artist Edita Broglio.
Intensely programmatic, the work sees Respighi setting out to evoke sentiments
Born in Bologna in 1879, Respighi trained as a violinist and composer, and travelled extensively.
His influences are therefore wide-ranging, from Richard Strauss and Debussy to Rimsky-Korsakov (who taught him orchestration) in addition to a love of and fascination with Plainsong
Ottorino Respighi.
Pines, Fountains & Festivals of Rome.
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Sinfonia of London.
John Wilson.
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#FrederickDelious
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Johann Sebastian Bach.
BWV. 83
Aria: Erfreute Zeit im neuen Bunde (Alto)
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Helen Watts (Alto).
Stuttgart Bach Collegium.
Stuttgart Gachinger Kantorei.
Helmuth Rilling.
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12.10.2025 22:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The opening theme had long been thought of as a London tribute, quoting from the street-song โHot Cross Buns,โ but in recent years has been identified as โOj Jelena,โ a ballad sung by the Croatians living in Eisenstadt when Haydn made his home there.
12.10.2025 20:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The burly minuet has a particularly jaunty trio, dominated by solo oboe and bassoon, while the grand finale โ to London and to Haydn, the symphonist โ is a potpourri of Slavonic folk tunes which Haydn heard during his years on the Esterhรกzy estates.
12.10.2025 20:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Reversing the procedure, the Adagio begins with an innocent, lilting G-major melody in the first violins, which darkens almost imperceptibly as the other strings enter, then changes its personality as the winds play a little lament, whereupon the whole orchestra bursts out in (minor-key) fury.
12.10.2025 20:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The dark drama nonetheless gives way to something quite different (otherwise it wouldnโt be Haydn, master of the unexpected), a charging, joyous Allegro.
12.10.2025 20:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0statement,โ including the boldly decisive, symmetrical introduction, as distinct from the improvisatory feeling Haydn conveys in similar circumstances elsewhere: two portentous D-minor episodes framing a smaller one in the key of F major.
12.10.2025 20:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0It should be noted that by this time Salomon was no longer able to afford his own series and Haydn had become associated with another presenter.
Whether or not Haydn had decided that this would be his last symphony โ which it is โ everything about it projects the feeling of a โ
Of the latter, Haydn recorded in his diary: โThe hall was filled with a picked audience.
The whole company was delighted and so was I.
I took in this evening 4000 gulden. One can make as much as this only in England.โ
The last symphony, the present work, to which alone among the 12 the name โLondonโ has become particularly attached, was first heard on April 13, 1795, and was also the main event of Haydnโs London farewell concert, for his own benefit, three weeks later.
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Joseph Haydn.
Symphony No. 104 in D major, 'London
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Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink conductor.
Royal Albert Hall (Proms 2012)
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Joan Sutherland died on this day fifteen years ago. Too many astonishing performances and recordings, really, to choose just one, but her 1965 Semiramide is simply staggering. Here's the Act II duet with Marilyn Horne.
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โNite, peeps. Iโm doing some historically informed grieving over here due to the evisceration of #STLBlues: 5-0, home ice. Hockey season opening heartbreaker. ๐ญ
Handel aria, โAh! spietato!โ
โAh! Cruel One! And you are not moved. By such faithful affectionโฆโ
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#ClassicalMusic
Time and stillness: Gluck dares to freeze time.
In moments of intense grief or moral doubt, the music slows down, as if the world has momentarily stopped turning.
Orchestral empathy: The orchestra is not an accompanist, but an emotional narrator.
Think of the tremolos, dissonances, or sudden silences that express a character's inner turmoil.
Motifs as inner monologues: Instead of virtuoso coloraturas, Gluck uses repeated motifs and harmonic shifts to express obsessive thoughts or emotional fixations.
10.10.2025 12:54 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The aria "Divinitรฉs du Styx" is not a moment of bravura, but an expression of existential despair and moral surrender.
The music pulsates with dark harmonies and sharp orchestral accentsโa sonic image of her torn soul.
Take, for example, Alceste (1767), in which Alceste offers her life in exchange for that of her dying husband, Admรจte.
What Gluck does here is not merely depict a heroic act, but an inner struggle between love, duty, and self-loss.
Human vulnerability is central.
His heroes are not all-powerful figures, but people who suffer, doubt, and hope.
This makes them relatable and emotionally relatable.
