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Air, from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 "Air in D major", BWV 1068, Johann Sebastian Bach, 1731
Recorded at The Charlie Chaplin Studios, Hollywood, 1947,
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron (22.IV.1916 - 12.III.1999)
The first International Music Day, organised by the International Music Council, 1st of October, was initiated in 1975 by Lord Yehudi Menuhin to encourage:
- The promotion of our musical art among all sections of society;
- The application of the UNESCO ideals of peace and friendship between peoples, of the evolution of their cultures, of the exchange of experience and of the mutual appreciation of their aesthetic values;
- The promotion of the activities of IMC, its international member organizations and national committees, as well as its programme policy in general.
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (22 April 1916 -- 12 March 1999) was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985. He is often considered to be one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.
Yehudi Menuhin was a rich enigma: a gentle spirit tied to an implacable will: a perfectionist who loved amateurs and young beginners; an ascetic who relished down-to-earth pleasures.
A visionary who got things done. A man who could not forget, perhaps never quite came to terms with, the extraordinarily gifted child he had been and, in some ways, remained.
An artist who believed the music he played to be, quite literally, a form of human healing, out of which we might make peace with ourselves.
12 March 1999: Yehudi Menuhin dies in the Martin Luther Hospital, Berlin
"Anything that one wants to do really and one loves doing, one must do every day. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can't imagine a bird saying, 'Well, I'm tired today. I'm not going to fly.'"
Yehudi Menuhin
Johann Sebastian Bach probably wrote his Suite for Orchestra No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 in 1731. This was not the sort of music he normally wrote; it is lighter fare than his normally more rigorous, sacred or fugal fare. Suites for orchestra were also called overtures, and they were an all-purpose form of entertainment, featuring some pretensions of French culture, which was the most sought-after affectation among the royals of Europe in the eighteenth century. The genre was a collection of excerpts from French ballets and operas, and the arrangement of the form was an overture (the beginning of a stage work) followed by a collection of dances. Garden parties, trade fairs, and every other sort of celebration were good spots for these pieces. Bach wrote only four of these works; it was not the sort of thing he did naturally. However, the local groups of players in Leipzig, called Collegium Musicum, required music; he had been appointed its director in 1729, on top of his normal duties at the Thomas School. His political position in Leipzig was usually tenuous because he was frequently petitioning the city council for a better wage, better teaching and conducting conditions, and more money for music in general. For this he probably needed to commit to acts of good faith, and music such this Orchestral Suite in D major would have been exactly what the city council and citizens enjoyed. This work was most likely revived from a similar piece he wrote around 1720 in Cöthen. Its Leipzig premiere probably took place "at the Zimmermann Coffee House in the Cather-Strasse from 8 to 10 on Friday." This unearthed advertisement for the concert features the D major Orchestral Suite. For someone who stood back from the world of light, entertainment music, Bach was good at writing it. This suite uses a rich blend of timbre, featuring oboes, trumpets, timpani, strings, and continuo.
Its second movement, Air, (also known as "Air on the G String") centers around one of the most well known melodies he ever wrote. Bach approaches the music with his personal instincts intact, and leans as much toward Italy as much as France in this material. The visceral, propulsive nature of Vivaldi's concertos find their way into all these orchestral suites. BWV 1068 is a total five joyous movements, about 19 minutes in duration.
The Air is one of the most famous pieces of baroque music.
Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068, 2. Air
Suite Nr. 3 D-Dur BWV 1068, Air
Ouverture n° 3, BWV 1068, Air
Suite Para Orquestra N.º 3, BWV 1068, Air
Suite per a orquestra núm. 3 en re major, BWV 1068, Air
Orkesterisarja nro. 3, D-duuri, BWV 1068, Air
Orkestersuiter nro. 3 BWV 1068, Air
Orkestrosuitoj D-maĵora BWV 1068, Air
"Air on the G String"
Air, from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 "Air in D major", BWV 1068, Johann Sebastian Bach, 1731
Recorded at The Charlie Chaplin Studios, Hollywood, 1947,
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron (22.IV.1916 - 12.III.1999)
The first International Music Day, organised by the International Music Council, 1st of October, was initiated in 1975 by Lord Yehudi Menuhin to encourage:
- The promotion of our musical art among all sections of society;
- The application of the UNESCO ideals of peace and friendship between peoples, of the evolution of their cultures, of the exchange of experience and of the mutual appreciation of their aesthetic values;
- The promotion of the activities of IMC, its international member organizations and national committees, as well as its programme policy in general.
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (22 April 1916 -- 12 March 1999) was a Russian Jewish American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. He was born to Russian Jewish parents in the United States, but became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and of the United Kingdom in 1985. He is often considered to be one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century.
Yehudi Menuhin was a rich enigma: a gentle spirit tied to an implacable will: a perfectionist who loved amateurs and young beginners; an ascetic who relished down-to-earth pleasures.
A visionary who got things done. A man who could not forget, perhaps never quite came to terms with, the extraordinarily gifted child he had been and, in some ways, remained.
An artist who believed the music he played to be, quite literally, a form of human healing, out of which we might make peace with ourselves.
12 March 1999: Yehudi Menuhin dies in the Martin Luther Hospital, Berlin
"Anything that one wants to do really and one loves doing, one must do every day. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you can't imagine a bird saying, 'Well, I'm tired today. I'm not going to fly.'"
Yehudi Menuhin
Johann Sebastian Bach probably wrote his Suite for Orchestra No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 in 1731. This was not the sort of music he normally wrote; it is lighter fare than his normally more rigorous, sacred or fugal fare. Suites for orchestra were also called overtures, and they were an all-purpose form of entertainment, featuring some pretensions of French culture, which was the most sought-after affectation among the royals of Europe in the eighteenth century. The genre was a collection of excerpts from French ballets and operas, and the arrangement of the form was an overture (the beginning of a stage work) followed by a collection of dances. Garden parties, trade fairs, and every other sort of celebration were good spots for these pieces. Bach wrote only four of these works; it was not the sort of thing he did naturally. However, the local groups of players in Leipzig, called Collegium Musicum, required music; he had been appointed its director in 1729, on top of his normal duties at the Thomas School. His political position in Leipzig was usually tenuous because he was frequently petitioning the city council for a better wage, better teaching and conducting conditions, and more money for music in general. For this he probably needed to commit to acts of good faith, and music such this Orchestral Suite in D major would have been exactly what the city council and citizens enjoyed. This work was most likely revived from a similar piece he wrote around 1720 in Cöthen. Its Leipzig premiere probably took place "at the Zimmermann Coffee House in the Cather-Strasse from 8 to 10 on Friday." This unearthed advertisement for the concert features the D major Orchestral Suite. For someone who stood back from the world of light, entertainment music, Bach was good at writing it. This suite uses a rich blend of timbre, featuring oboes, trumpets, timpani, strings, and continuo.
Its second movement, Air, (also known as "Air on the G String") centers around one of the most well known melodies he ever wrote. Bach approaches the music with his personal instincts intact, and leans as much toward Italy as much as France in this material. The visceral, propulsive nature of Vivaldi's concertos find their way into all these orchestral suites. BWV 1068 is a total five joyous movements, about 19 minutes in duration.
The Air is one of the most famous pieces of baroque music.
Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068, 2. Air
Suite Nr. 3 D-Dur BWV 1068, Air
Ouverture n° 3, BWV 1068, Air
Suite Para Orquestra N.º 3, BWV 1068, Air
Suite per a orquestra núm. 3 en re major, BWV 1068, Air
Orkesterisarja nro. 3, D-duuri, BWV 1068, Air
Orkestersuiter nro. 3 BWV 1068, Air
Orkestrosuitoj D-maĵora BWV 1068, Air
"Air on the G String"
![Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a3jpy1OzWg8/hqdefault.jpg "Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune [HD]
Claude-Achille Debussy - Clair de Lune (Mondglanz, Mondschein, Moonlight), Suite Bergamasque, Claudio Arrau pianist. The Suite bergamasque was first composed by Debussy, 1890-1905. Claudio Arrau, 88 years old. Recorded in 1991. Arrau died in June 1991.
Claude Debussys famous Clair de lune is the third piece of the Suite bergamasque for piano, a work whose title was chosen as much for its composers love of the word-sounds as for its Renaissance implications (though the work can rightly be described as something of a tribute to the French harpsichordists of olden days).
The D flat major of Clair de lune is perfectly chosen, the gleaming melody in parallel thirds (con sordina, Debussy requests) expertly balanced by the beautifully dissonant tempo rubato that follows it. During the un poco mosso middle section of Clair de lune, the music swells far past the pianissimo of the opening, and in its climax one might say that the young composer has crafted more of sunlight than of moonlight; the incessant arpeggios may well be overdone, but one can cherish them all the same. Little wisps of these arpeggios find their way over into the reprise of the opening music, and the rolling tones of the middle section are given a few measures to plead their case once more before the final chromatic cadence, a moment of absolute tranquility, is made.
Clair de Lune is a French poem written by Paul Verlaine in the year 1869. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Debussys 1890 Suite bergamasque of the same name. Clair de lune (Moonlight) is from Verlaines early collection Fêtes galantes (Gallant Parties, 1869).
Clair de lune
Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.
Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
Lamour vainqueur et la vie opportune,
Ils nont pas lair de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,
Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter dextase les jets deau,
Les grands jets deau sveltes parmi les marbres.
Moonlight
Your soul is a select landscape fair
Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
All sing in a minor key
Of victorious love and the opportune life,
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight,
With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
Which gives the birds to dream in the trees
And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy,
The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.
Moonlight
Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair,
Peopled with maskers delicate and dim,
That play on lutes and dance and have an air
Of being sad in their fantastic trim.
The while they celebrate in minor strain
Triumphant love, effective enterprise,
They have an air of knowing all is vain,—
And through the quiet moonlight their songs rise,
The melancholy moonlight, sweet and lone,
That makes to dream the birds upon the tree,
And in their polished basins of white stone
The fountains tall to sob with ecstasy.
Luar
A tua alma é uma paisagem escolhida
Onde enganam máscaras e bergamascas
Tocam lira e dançam quase
Tristes sob os seus fantásticos disfarces.
Cantando em modo menor
O amor triunfante e a vida auspiciosa,
Não parecem acreditar na sua felicidade
E a sua canção se mistura com o luar,
Com o calmo luar triste e belo,
Que faz sonhar as aves nas árvores
E soluçar de êxtase os jactos de água,
Os grandes jactos de água esbelta entre os mármores.
Paul Verlaine, 1869
Reacting against realism and rhetoric, the Symbolists tried instead to evoke a mood, an essence, an Ideal. Just as the Moon takes its light from the Sun, they sought to illuminate seemingly inaccessible subjects indirectly, by creating reflections. Here we have masks and dancing, fantastic disguises, fountains sobbing in ecstasy, moonlight: a swirl of suggestive images that speaks volumes about the human soul without really saying anything. Rather like music, in fact. Both Ravel and Fauré composed pieces based on Verlaines poetry, and this poem inspired Claude Debussy to write his own Clair de lune, the third movement of his Suite bergamasque and the work for which he is now most famous.
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