Leo Ornstein Vidéos
compositeur et pianiste
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- piano
- États-Unis
- compositeur ou compositrice, pianiste, pédagogue, professeur ou professeure de musique
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2024-04-28
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I. Molto con moto 0:00 "With a good deal of dash and warmth" II. Andante 5:51 III. Allegro 9:48 Ornstein's last 2 Sonatas are probably among the most vividly creative and original works written in his last period. The penultimate one, the 7th, is a strange piece, which reflects Ornstein's violent and percussive side. The harmonies are constantly changing, always on the threshold between tonality and atonality. The chromaticism is so intense that in fact, the accidentals apply only for the note for which they stand for, instead of carrying through the measure, with some small exeptions in the 1st movement, where Ornstein puts 2 key signatures (altough they don't last very long). In the 1st movement, the ecstatic initial theme is presented. The mood is stormy and impetuous consisting of costant polyrithms, fast arpeggios and scalar passages. Then a calmer and more tonally stable section arrives... But it doesn't last very long as the percussive "Barbaro" (barbaric) theme enters. The movement ends in an abrubt, violent way. 2nd movement is a (not-so-much) gentle andante, filled with frequent changes in mood and dynamics. An interesting expression mark appears in the climax near the end: "Quasi marche Funebre". The 3rd movement is a fast, mephistophelic, constant cascade of notes, which brings the restlessness of the first movement to a whole new level. [Sorry about the poor quality of the recording, it was the only one I could find].
Joseph Holbrooke Vaughan Williams Ornstein Schoenberg Heymann Seaman Shakespeare Beethoven Barnett 1878 1920 1925 1958
Joseph Holbrooke (1878 – 1958) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. Joseph Holbrooke belongs to the generation of composers at the core of the twentieth century British musical renaissance. He died in 1958, the same year as Vaughan Williams, and in almost total obscurity. His neglect began after the Great War and the gradient of descent increased dramatically from 1925 onwards. However he had a heyday and one with considerable celebrity. He wrote a considerable amount of light music and not once did he veer in the direction of atonalism although the four dances for solo piano may be taken as lampooning the trendiness of people like Ornstein and Schoenberg. Jazzy moments find their way into some of the music of the Twenties. For example he wrote music for the big society balls of the day and also went dancing with his wife Dorothy, better known as 'Dot'. Holbrooke has a strong handle on melody and perhaps his apprenticeship in the music halls accounts for the fact that he retained an unfeigned and unashamed admiration for real whistleable tunes. These found their way into his concert music which (with a few exceptions), contrary to popular myth, are not for monster-sized orchestras. Klaus Heymann's adventurous recording company Marco Polo have already recorded a number of his orchestral works but what we desperately need now are recordings of the symphony (No. 2) Apollo and the Seaman and the impressionistic tone poem Queen Mab (after Shakespeare). The three music-dramas are a natural for cinema or TV. In fact Holbrooke used film as part of the scenery in the premieres of all three works. The late works based on Poe short stories also appear to be worth exploring and are at the very least intriguing. These include the overture Amontillado, and the two 1930s tone poems The Pit and the Pendulum and The Maelstrom. All are in urgent need of exploratory performances. A full score of the overture and The Pit and The Pendulum exist; however the full score of The Maelstrom, which may also be entitled Descent Into the Maelstrom appears to be missing. At a less ambitious level we need recordings of his two titled piano sonatas of the 1930s/40s. There is so much which remains an unknown quantity with Holbrooke. His eight symphonies are each scored completely differently from the other seven. We can look at the later symphonies (5-8) and wonder particularly about the eighth symphony (Dance Symphony) which is scored for piano and orchestra. This work may well trace its origins back to the popular music he wrote during the 1920s but it could just as easily point towards new directions and experiments. Throughout his life Holbrooke was an experimenter but one who chose the language of romance in which to express himself. Like Beethoven, Holbrooke was afflicted with deafness. This set in relatively early from 1920 onwards. Visitors to the family home often had to contend with Holbrooke struggling with a massive old-fashioned hearing aid. Composition and re-composition continued. He revised earlier works and quarried discarded works for thematic material. There are also a few cases of the same work emerging under a different title. He occupied himself during the late 1930s and through into the 1940s with an autobiography. (Robert Barnett) / - A method to find scores: (http•••) - My donation link to keep the channel growing: (http•••) Thanks for listening :-)
Robert Schumann Leo Ornstein Clara Wieck 1838 1839 1893 2002
Leo Ornstein +••.••(...)) piano. Robert Schumann wrote his Arabeske in C major, Op. 18 in 1839 when he was 29 years old, dedicating it to Frau Majorin Friederike Serre auf Maxen, to whom he also dedicated his Blumenstück in D-flat, Op. 19. In the autumn of 1838 Schumann had left Leipzig for Vienna. His relationship with Clara Wieck had reached a point of no return, as her father vehemently opposed anything that might interfere with his daughter's career as a pianist and strongly disapproved of Schumann as a possible son-in-law. Geographically yet not emotionally detached from Clara, he was able to communicate with her only through letters and in his own music. This has been proposed as an explanation for this work, which alternates passages of wistful longing with more robust, declamatory episodes. continue: (http•••) Scanned early '900 Ampico Piano roll n. 56166, digitally restored by me with midi software and modern piano samples! The Youtube piano rolls project When i discovered that old piano rolls could be easily scanned with modern hardwares and then converted into an exact MIDI copy of the roll, i was pretty surprised that nobody has really taken the "duty" to upload, on a stable and frequented site like Youtube, all the material available on the internet. So today im planning to upload all the 1k files i have my hands on, trying to always respect the copyrights and trying when possible to search and synchronize the music sheets with the audio which is sampled from MIDI using some free software around online! What I've unexpectedly found is an almost infinite list of GREAT pieces, totally and inexplicably forgotten! Some of the pieces are completely never uploaded on any source on the net and some others are very rare to find; togheter whit these rare pearls we have also a lot of fantastic and very interesting performances of great and better known classical pieces recorded more or less one hundred years ago, where I've found that interpreting a piece was significantly different, hear to believe! This entire project is of course taking a lot of my free time (time to select, to fix with midi editor, to find the best sound with samplers and options, to look up the sheets and syncro etc) but that's still a thing I really wanna do, for pleasure, curiosity ,culture and for the others! So if you wanna help a little i may only ask to like, share and subscribe:) nothing more! Thanks if you read up here and have a good time! Bruno
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