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Tone Poem Tuesday
Jacques Offenbach might well have been the French equivalent of Franz von Suppe and, later on, Vienna’s Strauss family in that he wrote a great deal of very pleasing music of high energy which was often infused with the rhythms … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
When in doubt, there are always Mozart and Beethoven. In 1822 Karl Friedrich Hensler, a Vienna dramatist and theater manager, was opening a rebuilt venue called the Theater in der Josefstadt, which still stands and is apparently now the oldest … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Jean Sibelius is a composer with whom I am in constant need of discovery. His work is sometimes warm and melodic and fully Romantic, but other times there is an austerity to his music, a certain emotional coolness and introspection … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Want to listen to one of the great orchestral showpieces of all time? Sure you do! Here’s Rimsky-Korsakov’s Cariccio Espagnol. And you can’t go wrong with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
Tone Poem Tuesday
Here’s something interesting, not for how good it is but rather how good it isn’t. This concert overture, creatively titled by its composer “Concert Overture #1,” is a student work that makes for a nice and pleasant listen, but that’s … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Last night we finally watched this year’s New Years From Vienna concert, a new year tradition of mine that dates back to high school when I discovered this wonderful annual program on PBS. We used to watch it on New Years Night, … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas AND Tone Poem Tuesday
Two birds, one stone! Here’s a symphonic poem by British composer Arnold Bax, titled “Christmas Eve”. Apparently it was originally titled “Christmas Eve in the Mountains”, but Bax revised the work some years later and shortened the title. It’s an … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas (and Tone Poem Tuesday!)
Leroy Anderson excelled at these brief pieces that set a cheerful tone, and his most famous one is one of the more enduring Christmas pieces. Here’s “Sleigh Ride”, conducted by none other than Maestro John Williams himself!
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Tone Poem Tuesday
Transcriptions of works from one medium to another can be especially fascinating, as this orchestral version of Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #2 demonstrates. This was originally a work for piano, and to perform it well requires enormous skill from the … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Some Berlioz this week, and one of his most frequently performed works: the Roman Carnival overture, which is a concert piece comprised of repurposed material from his opera Benvenuto Cellini. Berlioz is not generally considered one of classical music’s finest … Continue reading