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Rhapsody of Fire: Angel of Light
A tragic dark tale
A message of love
From no man's land I
I will follow ancient rhymes
Cut me and I will bleed
If that's all you want
My mind is free and I close my eyes
I'm waiting for changes
In this old world
Late just, just too late
To take a chance again
You, like a ghost that I feel
Makes me warm, makes me real
In my heart and my lonely soul
Tell me your secrets
Angel of light
Where time has no meaning
In cold winter nights
You, can you hear me
Are you there I know it's late
You, like a ghost that I feel
Makes me warm, makes me real
In my heart and my lonely soul
Tell me your secrets
Angel of light
Where time has no meaning
In cold winter nights
Tell me legends untold
When angels nee to know how to fly
Let the dance of nature inspire me
And illusion and reality fades
Tell me your secrets
Angel of light
Where time has no meaning
In cold winter nights
Whispers and dark rhymes of
My angel of light
'Cause where time has no meaning
I'll stand with my pride, my pride
Rhapsody of Fire: Angel of Light
A tragic dark tale
A message of love
From no man's land I
I will follow ancient rhymes
Cut me and I will bleed
If that's all you want
My mind is free and I close my eyes
I'm waiting for changes
In this old world
Late just, just too late
To take a chance again
You, like a ghost that I feel
Makes me warm, makes me real
In my heart and my lonely soul
Tell me your secrets
Angel of light
Where time has no meaning
In cold winter nights
You, can you hear me
Are you there I know it's late
You, like a ghost that I feel
Makes me warm, makes me real
In my heart and my lonely soul
Tell me your secrets
Angel of light
Where time has no meaning
In cold winter nights
Tell me legends untold
When angels nee to know how to fly
Let the dance of nature inspire me
And illusion and reality fades
Tell me your secrets
Angel of light
Where time has no meaning
In cold winter nights
Whispers and dark rhymes of
My angel of light
'Cause where time has no meaning
I'll stand with my pride, my pride





![R.SCHUMANN: piano concerto - A.B.MICHELANGELI (live)
R.SCHUMANN: piano concerto - A.B.MICHELANGELI
Photos: Italian Alps; Dolomites
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The Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54, by the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann was completed in 1845 and is the composers only piano concerto. The complete work was premiered in Dresden on 4 December 1845. It is one of the most widely performed and recorded piano concertos from the Romantic period.
History
Schumann had worked on several piano concertos earlier. He began one in E-flat major in 1828, from 1829–31 he worked on one in F major, and in 1839, he wrote one movement of a concerto in D minor. None of these works were completed.
Already on 10 January 1833, Schumann first expressed the idea of writing a Piano Concerto in A minor. In a letter to his future father-in-law, Friedrich Wieck, he wrote: I think the piano concerto must be in C major or in A minor.[1] From 17–20 May 1841, Schumann wrote a fantasy for piano and orchestra, his Phantasie in A minor.[2] Schumann tried unsuccessfully to sell this one-movement piece to publishers. In August 1841 and January 1843 Schumann revised the piece, but was unsuccessful. His wife Clara, an accomplished pianist, then urged him to expand it into a full piano concerto. In 1845 he added the Intermezzo and Allegro vivace to complete the work. It remained the only piano concerto that Schumann finished.
The premiere of the first movement (Phantasie) took place on 13 August 1841 at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig with Clara Schumann as the soloist. The complete three-movement version was premiered in Dresden on 4 December 1845, again with Clara Schumann, and the dedicatee Ferdinand Hiller as the conductor. Less than a month later, on 1 January 1846, the concerto was performed in Leipzig, conducted by Felix Mendelssohn.
After this concerto, Schumann wrote two other pieces for piano and orchestra: the Introduction and Allegro Appassionato in G major, Op. 92, and the Introduction and Allegro Concertante in D minor, Op. 134.
Instrumentation
The concerto is scored for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings, and solo piano. With this instrumentation Schumann chose the usual orchestration in early Romantic music for this concerto.
STRUCTURE:
The piece, as marked in the score, is in three movements:
Allegro affettuoso (A minor)
Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso (F major)
Allegro vivace (A major)
There is no break between these last two movements (attacca subito). The duration of the concerto is about 30 to 35 minutes, depending on the interpretation. R.SCHUMANN: piano concerto - A.B.MICHELANGELI (live)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vTV5i-ZLpAM/mqdefault.jpg)
![I. HANNIKAINEN : Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor, Op. 7 (1917)
I. HANNIKAINEN : Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor, Op. 7 (1917)
Photos: Finland
Ilmari Hannikainen (1892-1955) (Finlande)
Piano Concerto in B flat minor (1917-1920)
Original audio:
Arto Satukangas (piano), Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (cond. Petri Sakari)
“Hannikainen composed this in 1917-20 in St. Petersburg while studying with Siloti. The score was left slightly unfinished and was not printed during the composers lifetime. Hannikainen gave the premier with Kajanus in 1920. Then, in 1958 pianist Tapani Valsta and Helsinki Philharmonia (dir. Tauno Hannikainen) recorded it. In 1980 it was performed by pianist Nijole Kasperaviciute with dir. Onni Kelo with two different Finnish orchestras.
Toivo Ilmari Hannikainen (19 October 1892, in Jyväskylä – 25 July 1955, in Kuhmoinen) was a Finnish composer and virtuoso pianist.
Hannikainen was the son of Pekka Juhani Hannikainen and the brother of Väinö Hannikainen, both of whom were composers and of Tauno Hannikainen who was a conductor. After studying at the University of Helsinki (1911–14), he became a pupil of Franz Schreker at the Musikakademie in Vienna, and continued his studies with Alexander Siloti in Saint Petersburg (1915–17) and with Alfred Cortot in Paris (1919). Returning to Finland, he taught piano at the Helsinki Conservatory and later gained a Professorship at the Sibelius Academy.
Hannikainen steered Finnish classical music from late Romanticism towards Impressionism. In addition to his piano miniatures, which best illustrated this development, he composed one opera, one piano concerto, one piano quartet, lieder, and film scores (notably, Sången om den eldröda blomman, Sweden, 1934).
Hannikainen drowned during a sailing trip in Kuhmoinen in 1955. Some musical colleagues, like Aarre Merikanto, considered his death a suicide. He is buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki.[1]
In the 1970s, the Ilmari Hannikainen Pianokilpailu (Ilmari Hannikainen Piano Competition) was created dedicated to Hannikainen. In 2020, the competition renewed its format style.[2] I. HANNIKAINEN : Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor, Op. 7 (1917)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/voHcjMxnSwo/mqdefault.jpg)



![Frederic CHOPIN: BOLERO - Ingolf WUNDER
Frederic CHOPIN: BOLERO - Ingolf WUNDER
Photos: Majorca
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The Boléro, Op. 19, is a short piano work written by Frédéric Chopin and published in 1834. It is one of his lesser-known piano pieces, although it has been recorded numerous times.
Structure
The overall key of the Boléro is difficult to establish. It was often listed as Boléro in C major - A minor, as the work opens with three unison octaves in G (dominant chords of C major) in fortissimo, then a lengthy Introduction in C major, moving to A minor (relative minor) for the Boléro proper. It is interrupted by sections in A major, A-flat major and B-flat minor before returning to A minor. It ends triumphantly in A major (parallel major).
Composition
The work was dedicated to the Scottish-born but half-French Mademoiselle la Comtesse Émilie de Flahaut,[1] then aged only 14, and a pupil of Chopins.[2] She was later to become Countess of Shelburne.The apparent inspiration for the Boléro was Chopins friendship with the French soprano Pauline Viardot, whose father, the famed Spanish tenor Manuel García, had introduced boleros to Paris by the time of Chopins arrival there.[3] His biographer Frederick Niecks speculated that it was inspired by the Bolero in Daniel Aubers La muette de Portici (1828).[2] Despite the ostensibly Spanish flavour of the piece, it has been described as a polonaise in disguise, or a boléro à la polonaise,[4] as its rhythms are more redolent of the national dance of Chopins homeland than anything Spanish. It was written five years before Chopin first visited Spain (1838). Frederic CHOPIN: BOLERO - Ingolf WUNDER](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xft3rwdEddA/mqdefault.jpg)