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Ralph Vaughan Williams [1939] - Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’



conductor Sir Mark Elder and the Manchester, UK-based Hallé Orchestra
 
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Jean Sibelius [1902] - Symphony No. 2



played by Frankfurt Radio Symphony

conducted by Susanna Mälkki
 
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“Music is a language. It's a memory of the cosmic system, a memory of past and future. Above all it's science not entertainment.” --Vangelis (29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022)

 
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I actually play this polonaise and is a very demanding work, IT is very technical and in this regard very complex and difficult, but also musically this a very complex and difficult piece...

Lots of polish ppl lived, like chopin, lived in Paris, france because of the russian revolution - Chopin was actually on his way to vienna, austria, for his second musical journey, when the russians invaded poland; Chopin went to Paris as hè was too weak suffering tbc to go back to poland To fight and wrote in his diaries the horrible nightmares hè would have about his father getting brutally murdered and his mother and sisters getting raped and killed, Chopin composed a piece about this (its called the revolutionary etude, but this title was only later given To IT by critics, as chopin his music was in a way programmatic - hè composed the first ballad ever for instrument, which was till then a song singing about heroic tales about for example a King - hè Never gave titles to his works and this piece was simply called etude opus 10 nr 12...

Another example of an etude of Chopin being later on titled by critics is the etude opus 10 nr 4 called la tempesta...

This polonaise, the opus 53, got titled this way as the heroic polonaise and another very famous one is the military polonaise, when Chopin for the first time played his famous polonaise in the salle de pleyel - pleyel being the brand of Chopins favorite piano, which had a very soft touch - all the polish emigrants stood up and started singing the national anthem...

This was such powerful polish music,.since Chopin often wrote in typical polish musical forms such as dances like polonaises and mazurkas - in the mazurkas chopin.is considered to be An alchemist at work due to the highly experimental nature of these piieces and of every.mazurka there are jazz.variations cause already back then He experimented that much with.dominant septiem chords - and hè used to often integrate themes that came from polish.folk songs - like in the first scherzo, second theme, which is based upon a x mas song about Jesus - and his music followed the rythm and speech of the polish spoken language...
 
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Georges Bizet [1875] - Carmen Suite No. 1

played by Mannheimer Philharmoniker
Boian Videnoff, conductor

 
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