Bedrich Smetana Video
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Commemorazioni 2024 (Nascita: Bedrich Smetana)
- pianoforte, violino
- musica classica, opera, poema sinfonico
- Impero austriaco, Austria-Ungheria
- compositore, direttore d'orchestra, docente, pedagogista, pianista, insegnante di musica
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Bronislaw Huberman Beethoven Johann Sebastian Bach Smetana Hahn Barzin Ignaz Friedman Heiden 1930 1942 1944
Dedicated to my dearest best friend & greatest among artists Laetitia Hahn (http•••) • Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 Bronislaw Huberman, violin National Orchestral Association, Leon Barzin Recorded in New York, 1944 • Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, Op. 47: II. Andante con variazione & III. Presto (previously unissued takes of the commercial recording made in London in 1930) Bronislaw Huberman, violin & Ignaz Friedman, piano • Bedrich Smetana: From My Homeland (R.1942) • Johann Sebastian Bach: Nun komm der Heiden heiland (R.1942) Bronislaw Huberman, violin & Boris Roubakine, piano For other great productions have a look at: (http•••) & (http•••)
Alois Hába Auerbach Bedřich Smetana Franz Schreker Ferrucio Busoni Josef Suk 1893 1908 1918 1923 1928 1931 1933 1937 1941 1955 1967 1973
Dan Auerbach - Violin 00:00 Allegro Non Troppo 03:59 Andante Cantabile 08:44 Scherzo, Energico 11:17 Moderato Alois Hába +••.••(...)) was a Czech composer. When he was five years old it was discovered that he had absolute pitch. In school, Alois became very interested in the musical aspects of the Czech language, above all in pitch, rhythm, accent, dynamics, and timbre of the speech. In 1908 he entered the teacher's training college in Kroměříž, where he began to develop an interest in Czech national music, analyzing the works of Bedřich Smetana. Already at that time he found out from his textbooks that the European system of music was not the only one in the world and that even some European music had in the past used different scales than the ones used in his time. He therefore started to develop his own point of view in this issue. He studied with Franz Schreker in Vienna in 1918. At that time, Hába wrote his first quarter-tone piece, Suite, consisting of three fugues in the quarter-tone system, composed for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart. In 1923, he met Ferrucio Busoni in Berlin, who had advocated the sixth-tone system and encouraged Hába to continue his work in microtonality. After that he was kicked out of Nazi Germany and he went back to Czechoslovakia. After the premiere of his quarter-tone opera Matka (Mother) in 1931, introducing a practically athematic concept, Hába emerged as a leader of Czech modernist music and became internationally well known as one of the most important avantgarde composers. This opera also uses two quarter-tone clarinets and two quarter-tone trumpets, which were built especially for this work. Hába expressed his bold socialist viewpoint throughout his operas and that caused controversies already at the time. In 1933, when Josef Suk became director of the Prague Conservatory, Hába was made a full professor and established the Department of Quarter-tone and Sixth-tone Music. Here he had much influence over his many students. His works became banned during Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. They closed down the Prague Conservatory in 1941 and prevented him from teaching. During the war Hába wrote a continuation of his Theory of Harmony, completed, as already mentioned, a sixth-tone opera (which was never produced), and considered constructing a twelfth-tone harmonium. At the turn of forties and fifties, the work of Alois Hába was affected by the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, becoming transitionally simplified, much more "thematic" and tonal, and also setting texts projecting communist ideology. He was nevertheless unable to rid himself of the label of “formalist” stuck onto him by Marxist aesthetics. When Hába returned to his style, he continued in his experimental musical studies, which culminated in the 1960s with the use of fifth tones in his Sixteenth String Quartet in 1967. Alois Hába's works total 103 opuses, the majority of which are various kinds of chamber music. Among the most important are his string quartets, which document and demonstrate the development of his style. In addition to quarter tones, Hába used sixth-tones in his String Quartets nos. in the 5, 10, and 11, as well as in Six Pieces for Sixth-tone Harmonium or String Quartet (1928), Duo for Sixth-tone Violins (1937), Thy Kingdom Come, a Sixth-tone Musical Drama in Seven Scenes (1937–42), Suite in Sixth-tones for Solo Violin (1955), and Suite in Sixth-tones for Solo Cello (1955).
Ivor Gurney Adolf Busch Busch Carl Flesch Hamilton Harty John Barbirolli Manley Boyd Neel Frank Bridge Benjamin Britten John Ireland Beethoven Ralph Vaughan Williams Lark Bach Henry Purcell Dvořák Arthur Benjamin Benjamin Dale Lennox Berkeley Kenneth Leighton Edmund Rubbra York Bowen Howard Ferguson Arthur Bliss Béla Bartók Handel Rachmaninoff Smetana Arnold Bax Yehudi Menuhin London Symphony Orchestra Aeolian Quartet Salzburg Festival Proms 1686 1697 1718 1908 1909 1911 1927 1930 1935 1936 1937 1938 1940 1942 1947 1952 1963 1966 1978 1979 1987
The Apple Orchard by Ivor Gurney, Frederick Grinke - Violin Ivor Newton - Piano Recorded in 1942. The Apple Orchard is one of two short pieces written for violin and piano by Ivor Gurney that were published posthumously in 1940. Frederick Grinke CBE (8 August 1911 – 16 March 1987) was a Canadian-born violinist who had an international career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He was known especially for his performances of 20th-century English music. He started to learn the violin at the age of 9, and studied with John Waterhouse and others in Winnipeg. He made his first broadcast at the age of about 12, and formed a trio at age 15. In 1927, he won a Dominion of Canada scholarship award to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Rowsby Woof. He continued his studies (at age 21) for a summer with Adolf Busch in Switzerland, and afterwards in Belgium and London with Carl Flesch. Hamilton Harty considered appointing him leader of the London Symphony Orchestra at the age of 21, but the offer was not made on account of his youth. From around 1930 to 1936, Grinke was second violin of the Kutcher String Quartet (in which John Barbirolli was for a time the 'cellist). In 1935, with pianist, Dorothy Manley, he gave the premiere of the Canadian composer Hector Gratton's Quatrieme danse canadienne. It was with Manley and Florence Hooton, both fellow students at the Academy, that Grinke formed his trio, Kendall Taylor later replacing Manley. In 1937 he became concertmaster of the Boyd Neel Orchestra, a post he would hold until 1947. His first performance with them was at the Salzburg Festival in 1937, giving the premiere of the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge by Benjamin Britten. Thereafter he performed with them in Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand, the London Proms, and at the Edinburgh Festival. He resigned as concertmaster to pursue his solo career. During the later 1940s, Grinke made numerous recordings, mainly for Decca, many of which were originally released in the last years of 78rpm records. His recordings of John Ireland's chamber music include the Phantasie Trio of 1908, the 1938 Trio no 3 in E major, and The Holy Boy (with Florence Hooton (cello) and Kendall Taylor (piano)), and the Violin Sonata no 1 of 1909 with the composer at the piano. The trio also recorded the Phantasy trio of Frank Bridge and the Beethoven trio in E flat. Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his Sonata in A minor, written in 1952, to Grinke, who recorded the composer's Concerto Accademico in D minor, and The Lark Ascending, with the Boyd Neel Orchestra. Grinke and David Martin (also a Canadian violinist) performed J.S. Bach's Concerto for two violins at Vaughan Williams's funeral. Among other recordings from the 1940s were no's 3 and 9 from the 1697 set of 10 Sonatas by Henry Purcell, with Jean Pougnet and Boris Ord, and Purcell's sonata in G minor with Arnold Goldsbrough. He is heard with Kendall Taylor in the Dvořák G major Sonatina op 100, and with Watson Forbes (violist of the Stratton Quartet and Aeolian Quartet) in Mozart duos. He also premiered and recorded works by Arthur Benjamin, Benjamin Dale, Lennox Berkeley, Kenneth Leighton, Edmund Rubbra, York Bowen, Howard Ferguson, Arthur Bliss, Béla Bartók, Beethoven, Handel, Rachmaninoff and Smetana, often accompanied by Ivor Newton. He recorded all six Brandenburg Concertos with the Boyd Neel Orchestra, and made a broadcast of the Arnold Bax violin concerto from Australia. From 1963 to 1966 he taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School at Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey. He frequently sat on juries for international competitions. He retired from the Royal Academy of Music in 1978, where his students included John Georgiadis, and was appointed a CBE in 1979, but continued teaching until his death, which occurred in 1987. The National Portrait Gallery lists 8 portraits of Grinke in its collections.[ Grinke played an instrument by J. B. Rogerius of 1686, with aluminium-covered D and A, and silver-covered G and steel E strings, but also often played a Stradivarius dated 1718, lent by the Royal Academy of Music. He was married in 1942 to Dorothy Sirr Sheldon and had one son. He is buried in the churchyard of St Mary, Thornham Parva, Suffolk.
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