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Gabriel Fauré - Morceau de Concours Gabriel Fauré Morceau de Concours, for flute & piano (or strings) in F major (Full HD)
Gabriel Fauré - Morceau de Concours Gabriel Fauré Morceau de Concours, for flute & piano (or strings) in F major (Full HD)







![L. V. Beethoven - Symphony No. 2 in D major (Op. 36)
Beethoven - Symphonie No.2 Ludwig van Beethovens Symphony No. 2 in D major (Op. 36) was written between 1801 and 1802 and is dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky.
Beethovens Second Symphony was mostly written during Beethovens stay at Heiligenstadt in 1802, at which time his deafness was becoming more apparent and he began to realize that it might be incurable. The work was premiered in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 5 April 1803, and was conducted by the composer. During that same concert, the Third Piano Concerto and the oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives were also debuted.[1] It is one of the last works of Beethovens so-called early period.
Beethoven wrote the Second Symphony without a standard minuet; instead, a scherzo took its place, giving the composition even greater scope and energy. The scherzo and the finale are filled with vulgar Beethovenian musical jokes, which shocked the sensibilities of many contemporary critics. One Viennese critic for the Zeitung fuer die elegante Welt (Newspaper for the Elegant World) famously wrote of the Symphony that it was a hideously writhing, wounded dragon that refuses to die, but writhing in its last agonies and, in the fourth movement, bleeding to death.
Instrumentation
The symphony is scored for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in A, two bassoons, two horns in D and E, two trumpets in D, timpani and strings. The composer also made a transcription of the entire symphony for piano trio which bears the same opus number.
Form
This symphony consists of four movements:
Adagio molto, 3/4 Allegro con brio, 4/4
Larghetto, 3/8 in A major
Scherzo: Allegro, 3/4
Allegro molto, 2/2 L. V. Beethoven - Symphony No. 2 in D major (Op. 36)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KT_Z0ABYeqk/mqdefault.jpg)

![Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras, No. 2 Complete
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras, No. 2 Complete
The Bachianas Brasileiras constitute a series of nine suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945. They represent not so much a fusion between Brazilian folk and popular music on the one hand, and the style of Johann Sebastian Bach on the other, as an attempt freely to adapt a number of Baroque harmonic and contrapuntal procedures to Brazilian music (Béhague 1994, 106; Béhague 2001). Most of the movements in each suite have two titles: one Bachian (Preludio, Fuga, etc.), the other Brazilian (Embolada, O canto da nossa terra, etc.).
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2
Scored for orchestra (1930). There are four movements, the third later transcribed for piano, and the others for cello and piano (Appleby 1988, 64 65).
Preludio (O canto do capadocio) [Despite the five translations—French, English, Italian, Spanish, and German—printed in the score, the composers own notes on this movement make it clear that the meaning of capadocio is not campagnard, countryman, campagnolo, etc., but rather Teddy boy or layabout (Round 1989, 39).]
Aria (O canto da nossa terra)
Dansa (Lembrança do sertão)
Toccata (O trenzinho [misspelled in the score: tremzinho] do caipira: The Little Train of Caipira)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (Portuguese pronunciation: [ejˌtoʁ ˌvilɐ ˈlobus]; March 5, 1887 November 17, 1959) was a Brazilian composer, described as the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music. Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works. His music was influenced by both Brazilian folk music and by stylistic elements from the European classical tradition, as exemplified by his Bachianas Brasileiras (Brazilian Bachian-pieces). Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras, No. 2 Complete](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LaNoiKuJFQg/mqdefault.jpg)
