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Freiburger Domsingknaben Scholz Roser Wiggins 2013
Provided to YouTube by Believe SAS In einem Kripplein lag ein Kind · Freiburger Domsingknaben, Raimund Hug, Gesa Maatz, Constanze von Bausznern-Kollmann, Günter Theis, Georg Lustig, Matthias Maria Scholz, Michael Roser, Robert Hommes Stimmungsvolle Weihnachts-Klassik, Vol. 9 ℗ Freiburger Musik Forum Released on: 2013-09-02 Composer: Christopher David Wiggins Music Publisher: D.R Author: Heinrich von Laufenberg Auto-generated by YouTube.
Anne Wiggins Brown George Gershwin Ruby Elzy Todd Duncan Wiggins 1912 1935 1936 1940 2009
My Man's Gone Now From "Porgy and Bess" Music by George Gershwin, Words by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin Anne Brown, soprano, with Eva Jessye Choir Decca Symphony Orchestra directed by Alexander Smallens Recorded May 15, 1940 From Act 2, Scene 1. In the opera, the aria is sung by Serena, the grieving widow, at her husband Robbins's wake. He has been murdered by Crown, the local pimp, during a crap game played in the courtyard of Catfish Row. In the original 1935 production, the role of Serena was played by Ruby Elzy. George Gershwin's "American Folk Opera" Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway on October 10, 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression and closed after only 124 performances on January 25, 1936. In May 1940, Decca Records assembled some of the members of the original cast, including Todd Duncan and Anne Brown, who had played the title characters, for a recording session that produced a 78 rpm album of selections from the score. Anne Wiggins Brown (born Annie Wiggins Brown August 9, 1912 - died March 13, 2009) was an African American soprano who created the role of "Bess" in the original production of George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess in 1935. She was also a radio and concert singer. She settled in Norway in her 30's and later became a Norwegian citizen.
Mozart Piano Quartet Hewitt Braga Wiggins
Three movements. Recorded in a recital given in the Hornby Library, Liverpool by John Peace with Jennifer Hewitt-Jones (violin) Robert Braga (viola) David Wiggins (cello). Bechstein piano.
Einojuhani Rautavaara Mikko Franck Sibelius Shostakovich Prokofiev Stravinsky Wiggins Sinfonia Finlandia 1545 1956 1988 2003
Belgium National Orchestra conducted by Mikko Franck I - Andante: 0:00 II - Poetico: 15:45 III - Allegro: 23:28 Rautavaara's first symphony was completed in 1956, when the composer was studying in the United States. Originally, the work was divided in the traditional four movements (two slow and two fast alternating), in 1988, however, Rautavaara decided, as he said it, to “rewrite my history, rewrite my life”. I have re-cast the work into two movements and reorchestrated the remainder, bringing “the expression of the work into a precise shape, according to what one well remembers of the fragrance and atmosphere of that era”. In 2003, a third version emerged with the addition of a lyrical slow movement based on a solo song that he had written in the 1950s. The first movement, andante, is the most extensive, being romantic in spirit. After the entry of the timpani, the strings presents a wide, lyrical main theme, stylistically near to the music of Sibelius. The second theme reminds us of the lyrical melodies of Shostakovich. Development takes us to its climax. The recap begins with the interpretation of the main theme in a more solemn way. It ends with a coda based on that motive. The second movement, poetico, is based on a previous song as already mentioned. It opens with a calm, lyrical theme presented between a duo of the horn and clarinet with the support of the strings. The dissonances of the strings add a very vivid colour to the music. The orchestra leads up in a brief, dissonant anticlimax, before returning to the inicial statism. Woodwind interventions add thematic variety to a very passive, poetic music. It ends with a calm coda. The third movement, allegro, is actually a scherzo, derived from the original second movement. It consist in an ironic dance that reminds us of Prokofiev, which is sometimes interpreted grotesquely. A vibrant coda ends the work with a big bang. In the 50s, Stravinsky, Bartok, Shostakovich and Prokofiev, who were studied by Rautavaara, were considered modernists. According to the composer himself, these authors influenced the first stage of his compositional life. He says that his first symphony was a project too ambitious for that time and therefore he rewrote it in 1988. But it still seemed to me that a slow movement was missing, which I added in 2003, he recounts in an interview conducted by Mark Wiggins, reproduced in Diverdi magazine. Picture: A photograph of a Tsunami of clouds (Illinois, USA). Sources: (http•••) Musical analysis done partially by me (the second movement)
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