Mikhail Pavlovich Ziv: Ballad About Soldier Suite @robt0007

robt007 Mikhail Pavlovich Ziv (Михаил Павлович Ziv)

Born: May 25, 1921, Moscow
Died: May 30, 1994, Moscow (age 73)

Suite from the film “Ballad About Soldier”

1. Prologue 00:00
2. Single Combat with Tanks 01:57
3. Meditation 06:05
4. The Road 08:55
5. Shura and Alesha 11:30
6. Epilogue 15:50

Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra
Sergei Skripka, conductor

updated 4 years ago

Mikhail Pavlovich Ziv: Ballad About Soldier Suite

robt007 2020-08-03 | Mikhail Pavlovich Ziv (Михаил Павлович Ziv)

Born: May 25, 1921, Moscow
Died: May 30, 1994, Moscow (age 73)

Suite from the film “Ballad About Soldier”

1. Prologue 00:00
2. Single Combat with Tanks 01:57
3. Meditation 06:05
4. The Road 08:55
5. Shura and Alesha 11:30
6. Epilogue 15:50

Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra
Sergei Skripka, conductor

Adolf Reichel: Symphony No. 2 in C major (1869)

robt007 2024-04-05 | Adolf Reichel (1816-1896)
Symphony No. 2 in C major (1869)

1. Allegro 00:00
2. Andante 10:42
3. Scherzo: Allegro non troppo presto 19:17
4. Finale: Allegro 26:58

Hanover Radio Orchestra
Nicolaus Eschbacher, conductor
North German Radio recording

Adolf Reichel (born August 30, 1816 in Turcznitz, West Prussia, died March 5, 1896 in Bern) was a German-Swiss conductor and composer. Adolf Reichel was a son of an East Elbe German landlord family in West Prussia.

He studied composition with Siegfried Dehn in Berlin, piano with Ludwig Berger and instrumentation with Carl Gottlieb Reissiger in Dresden. He found his first job as a music teacher of the young hereditary prince Georg von Sachsen-Meiningen. He traveled to Vienna, Berne and Brussels and lived from 1844 as a piano teacher in Paris, where he frequented George Sand and Frédéric Chopin. In Dresden in 1842 he had met the professional revolutionary and anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In his circle he met in Paris on oppositionists such as Georg Herwegh, Gottfried Kinkel, Karl Marx, Georg Weber, Vasily Petrovich Botkin, Pierre -Joseph Proudhon and Richard Wagner, without that he himself actively participated in the 1848 Revolution. In 1850 he and Marija Kasparovna Ern (1823-1916), whom he had met as an employee of Alexander Hearts. They had four sons, among them the Swiss judge and politician Alexander Reichel.

In 1857 he joined the private Dresden Conservatory as a composition teacher and also directed the Dreyssigsche Singakademie. In view of the perceived repressive political climate in Dresden, he followed in 1867 a reputation as music director to Bern. He was naturalized in 1869 in Oberburg. Until 1884/1888 he was director of the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the music school of the Bernische Musikgesellschaft (BMG) and the choir of the Cäcilienverein. He composed piano and choral songs and major choral and orchestral works, including a Deutsche Messe, symphonies and overtures. Of his approximately 600 works in the style of classical and early romanticism, many were printed during his lifetime by Bote & Bock, Breitkopf & Härtel, Simon Richault and other music publishers. The now reconstructed estate is located for the most part in the library of the Bern University of the Arts, his handwritten memoirs in the Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis in Amsterdam. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Mikhail Kalachevsky - Ukrainian Symphony (1876)

robt007 2022-03-05 | Mikhail Kalachevsky

Symphony in G minor, Ukrainian Symphony (1876)

Михайло Калачевський
Українська симфонія

Mykhaylo Kalachevsʹkyy
Ukrayinsʹka symfoniya

Ukrainian SSR State Symphony Orchestra
Natan Rakhlin, conductor

I. Allegro - 00:00
II. Scherzo - 13:15
III. Adagio (?) - 20:43
IV. Allegro - 32:27

Mikhail Kalachevsky, Ukrainian composer;
b. Polovka, near Elizavetgrad, Sept. 26, 1851; d. Kremenchug, c. 1910.
He studied piano with Carl Reinecke and theory with E.F.E. Richter at the Leipzig Cons. (1872-76). Returning to Russia, he occupied provincial government positions. His music reflects the modalities of Ukrainian folk songs; his Ukrainian Symphony (1876) has some historical value. He also composed a Requiem for Chorus, String Quartet, and Organ, a String Quartet in E-flat major, a Piano Trio in A minor, and several works for solo piano, including 19 romances.

Peter Benoit: Kinderkantate De wæreld in! (1878)

robt007 2021-04-26 | Peter Benoit: Kinderkantate "De wæreld in! "(1878)
Kindercoor
Mia Vinck, director

Petrus Leonardus Leopoldus Benoit was born in Harelbeke, Flanders in 1834. He was taught music at an early age by his father and the village organist. In 1851 Benoit entered the Brussels Conservatoire, where he remained till 1855, studying primarily with FJ Fétis. During this period he composed music to many melodramas, and to the opera Le Village dans les montagnes for the Park Theatre, of which in 1856 he became the resident conductor. In 1857 he won the Belgian Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Meurtre d'Abel. The accompanying money grant enabled him to travel through Germany. In the course of his journings he found time to write a considerable amount of music, as well as an essay called L'École de musique flamande et son avenir.

Fétis loudly praised his Messe solennelle, which Benoit composed in Brussels on his return from Germany. In 1861 he visited Paris for the production of his opera Le Roi des Aulnes ("The Erl King"), which, though accepted by the Théâtre Lyrique, was never performed. (He also composed a work for piano and orchestra called Le Roi des Aulnes.) While there he conducted at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens. Again returning home, he astonished the musical community with the production in Antwerp of a sacred tetralogy, consisting of his Cantate de Noël, the above-mentioned Mass, a Te Deum and a Requiem, in which were embodied to a large extent his theories about Flemish music.

Benoit passionately pursued the founding of an entirely separate Flemish school, and to that purpose even changed his name from the French "Pierre" to the Dutch equivalent "Peter". Through prodigious effort he succeeded in gathering a small group of enthusiasts who recognized with him the potential for a Flemish school that would differ completely from the French and German schools. However these intentions failed, as the school's faith was tied too closely to Benoit's music, which was hardly more Flemish than it was French or German.

Benoit's most important compositions include the Flemish oratorios De Schelde (The River Scheldt) and Lucifer (which met complete failure when it was staged in London in 1888), the operas Het Dorp in 't Gebergte (The village in the mountains) and Isa, and the Drama Christi, a huge body of songs, choruses, small cantatas and motets. Benoit also wrote a great number of essays on musical matters.

He died in Antwerp on 8 March 1901, aged 66. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Peter Benoit: Kantate, Theodoor van Rijswijck (1884)

robt007 2021-04-26 | Peter Benoit: Kantate, “Theodoor van Rijswijck” (1884)
Frans Cawenberghs
Renaat Verbruggen, conductor

Petrus Leonardus Leopoldus Benoit was born in Harelbeke, Flanders in 1834. He was taught music at an early age by his father and the village organist. In 1851 Benoit entered the Brussels Conservatoire, where he remained till 1855, studying primarily with FJ Fétis. During this period he composed music to many melodramas, and to the opera Le Village dans les montagnes for the Park Theatre, of which in 1856 he became the resident conductor. In 1857 he won the Belgian Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Meurtre d'Abel. The accompanying money grant enabled him to travel through Germany. In the course of his journings he found time to write a considerable amount of music, as well as an essay called L'École de musique flamande et son avenir.

Fétis loudly praised his Messe solennelle, which Benoit composed in Brussels on his return from Germany. In 1861 he visited Paris for the production of his opera Le Roi des Aulnes ("The Erl King"), which, though accepted by the Théâtre Lyrique, was never performed. (He also composed a work for piano and orchestra called Le Roi des Aulnes.) While there he conducted at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens. Again returning home, he astonished the musical community with the production in Antwerp of a sacred tetralogy, consisting of his Cantate de Noël, the above-mentioned Mass, a Te Deum and a Requiem, in which were embodied to a large extent his theories about Flemish music.

Benoit passionately pursued the founding of an entirely separate Flemish school, and to that purpose even changed his name from the French "Pierre" to the Dutch equivalent "Peter". Through prodigious effort he succeeded in gathering a small group of enthusiasts who recognized with him the potential for a Flemish school that would differ completely from the French and German schools. However these intentions failed, as the school's faith was tied too closely to Benoit's music, which was hardly more Flemish than it was French or German.

Benoit's most important compositions include the Flemish oratorios De Schelde (The River Scheldt) and Lucifer (which met complete failure when it was staged in London in 1888), the operas Het Dorp in 't Gebergte (The village in the mountains) and Isa, and the Drama Christi, a huge body of songs, choruses, small cantatas and motets. Benoit also wrote a great number of essays on musical matters.

He died in Antwerp on 8 March 1901, aged 66. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Carl Nielsen - Nearer, My God, to Thee - paraphrase for wind orchestra FS 63 (1912)

robt007 2021-04-15 | Carl Nielsen:
Paraphrase on “Nearer My God to Thee”,
FS 63 (1912)

Nærmere Gud til dig, "Nearer, My God, to Thee" is a 19th-century Christian hymn by Sarah Flower Adams, which retells the story of Jacob's dream. Genesis 28:11–12 can be translated as follows: "So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it..." The melody is based on ”Bethany” by Lowell Mason.

The hymn is well known, among other uses, as the alleged last song the band on RMS Titanic played before the ship sank.

The RMS Titanic sank in the early morning hours of 15 April 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean, four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic had an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at around 23:40 (ship's time)[a] on Sunday, 14 April 1912. Her sinking two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 (ship's time; 05:18 GMT) on Monday, 15 April, resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. (REF. Wikipedia)

Nærmere Gud til dig

Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Nærmere Gud til dig, paraphrase for wind orchestra FS 63 (1912)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor

Eduard Lalo: Piano Concerto in F minor (1888-1889)

robt007 2020-12-28 | Piano Concerto in F minor (1888-1889)
0:00:00 1. Lento – Allegro
0:10:50 2. Lento
0:16:20 3. Allegro

Orazio Frugoni, piano
Weiner Volksoper
Michael Gielen, conductor

Édouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo (27 January 1823 – 22 April 1892) was a French composer. His most celebrated piece is the Symphonie espagnole, a five-movement concerto for violin and orchestra, which remains a popular work in the standard repertoire.

Lalo's distinctive style has earned him a degree of popularity. The Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra still enjoys a prominent place in the repertoire of violinists, while the Cello Concerto in D minor is occasionally revived. His Symphony in G minor was a favourite of Sir Thomas Beecham and has occasionally been championed by later conductors. His music is notable for its strong melodies and colourful orchestration, with a Germanic solidity that distinguishes him from other French composers of his era. Such works as the Scherzo in D minor, one of his most colourful pieces, embody his distinctive style and strong expressive bent. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Scott Joplin: Four Piano Selections from Treemonisha

robt007 2020-11-08 | Scott Joplin (1868-1917)

Four Piano Selections from the Opera “Treemonisha”

1. Overture from “Treemonisha” 00:00
Marco Fumo, piano
2. Act II - Frolic of the Bears (1915) 09:35
Richard Zimmerman, piano
3. Prelude to Act III (1911) 14:35
Richard Zimmerman, piano
4. Act III - A Real Slow Drag (1913) 18:31
Richard Zimmerman, piano

Scott Joplin (c. 1868 - April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the King of Ragtime. During his brief career, he wrote over 100 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Scott Joplin: Highlights form the Opera Treemonisha

robt007 2020-11-08 | Scott Joplin (1868-1917)

Piano Highlights from the Opera “Treemonisha”

Richard Zimmerman, piano

Scott Joplin (c. 1868 - April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the King of Ragtime. During his brief career, he wrote over 100 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the "Maple Leaf Rag", became ragtime's first and most influential hit, and has been recognized as the archetypal rag. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Josef Strauss: Harlekin polka, Polka schnell, Op 48

robt007 2020-11-07 | Josef Strauss: Harlekin polka, Polka schnell, Op 48

Broadcast performance. Performers unknown.

George Frederic Handel: Concerto for Oboe No 3 in g minor

robt007 2020-08-19 | Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Concerto for Oboe No. 3 in G minor,

Grave - Allegro - Sarabande - Largo - Allegro

The Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra
Jean-Francois Paillard, conductor

Sir Christopher Wren - St. Paul's Cathedral, London

George Frederic Handel: Double Concerto No 27 in B flat major

robt007 2020-08-18 | Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Double Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat Major,
for two instrument choirs and string orchestra

I. Ouverture (Grave - Allegro ma non troppo)
II. Allegro - Lento - A tempo ordinario
III.Alla breve, Moderato menuet

The Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra
Jean-Francois Paillard, conductor

Art work by Encompass by Michael Speller

Mikhail Pavlovich Ziv: Suite from the film A Clear Sky

robt007 2020-08-02 | Mikhail Pavlovich Ziv Михаил Павлович Ziv

Born: May 25, 1921, Moscow
Died: May 30, 1994, Moscow (age 73)

Suite from the film “Clear Sky”

1. Introduction 00:00
2. New Year's Waltz 03:35
3. Echelon 07:35
4. The First Meeting 13:05
5. Sashen'ka 17:15
6. Return 21:45

Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra
Sergei Skripka, conductor

Photo by Maxim Smerichinsky
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Carl Orff: Gassenhauser

robt007 2020-04-11 | Carl Orff - Gassenhauser (Street Song)

Orff Schulwerk (Orff’s Approach)
Musik für Kinder (with Gunild Keetman) (1930–35, reworked 1950–54)

Carl Orff (German: [ˈɔɐ̯f]; 10 July 1895 – 29 March 1982)[1] was a German composer and music educator, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education.

Orff is best known for Carmina Burana (1936), a "scenic cantata". It is the first part of a trilogy that also includes Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite. Carmina Burana reflected his interest in medieval German poetry. The trilogy as a whole is called Trionfi, or "Triumphs". The composer described it as the celebration of the triumph of the human spirit through sexual and holistic balance. The work was based on thirteenth-century poetry found in a manuscript dubbed the Codex latinus monacensis found in the Benedictine monastery of Benediktbeuern in 1803 and written by the Goliards; this collection is also known as Carmina Burana. While "modern" in some of his compositional techniques, Orff was able to capture the spirit of the medieval period in this trilogy, with infectious rhythms and simple harmonies. The medieval poems, written in Latin and an early form of German, are often racy, but without descending into smut. "Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi", commonly known as "O Fortuna", from Carmina Burana, is often used to denote primal forces, for example in the Oliver Stone film The Doors. The work's association with fascism also led Pier Paolo Pasolini to use the movement "Veris leta facies" to accompany the concluding scenes of torture and murder in his final film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.

With the success of Carmina Burana, Orff disowned all of his previous works except for Catulli Carmina and the Entrata (an orchestration of "The Bells" by William Byrd (1539–1623)), which he rewrote.[citation needed] Later on, however, many of these earlier works were released (some even with Orff's approval). Carmina Burana was so popular that Orff received a commission in Frankfurt to compose incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, which was supposed to replace the banned music by Mendelssohn. After several performances of this music, he claimed not to be satisfied with it, and reworked it into the final version that was first performed in 1964.

About his Antigonae (1949), Orff said specifically that it was not an opera but rather a Vertonung, a "musical setting", of the ancient tragedy.[citation needed] The text is a German translation by Friedrich Hölderlin of the Sophocles play of the same name. The orchestration relies heavily on the percussion section and is otherwise fairly simple. It has been labelled by some as minimalistic, a term which is most pertinent in terms of the melodic line.[citation needed]

Orff's last work, De temporum fine comoedia (Play on the End of Times), had its premiere at the Salzburg Festival on August 20, 1973, and was performed by Herbert von Karajan and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and Chorus. In this highly personal work, Orff presented a mystery play, sung in Greek, German, and Latin, in which he summarized his view of the end of time.

Gassenhauer, Hexeneinmaleins, and Passion, which Orff composed with Gunild Keetman, were used as theme music for Terrence Malick's film Badlands (1973). (Ref: Wikipedia)

Art work by Telmo Miel and Joe Iurato - et.al.

Franco Leoni: LOracolo (1905)

robt007 2020-04-04 | Franco Leoni - L'Oracolo (1905)
L'Oracolo (The Cat and the Cherub)
窗体顶端
窗体底端

Joan Sutherland (soprano),
Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo),
Ryland Davies (tenor),
Tito Gobbi (baritone),
Clifford Grant (bass),
Richard Van Allan (bass)

Finchley Children’s Music Group
John Alldis Choir
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Bonynge, condutor

00:00 Act I
23:31 Act II
40:57 Act III

Franco Leoni (24 October 1864 – Hampstead 8 February 1949) was an Italian opera composer. After training in Milan, he made most of his career in England, composing for Covent Garden and West End theatres. He is best known for the opera L'Oracolo, written for Covent Garden but taken up successfully by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In addition to his operas, Leoni wrote several cantatas and oratorios and many ballads and other songs. He also worked as a conductor in London, both in the concert hall and in the theatre.

L'Oracolo, premiered at Covent Garden in 1905, is a piece of operatic Grand Guignol with a kidnapping and two murders within its one hour of music. A later critic said of the work, "Hokum, but any opera that begins with three crashes, a very loud cock-crow, a chorus shouting in fake-Chinese and then launches into a vehement unaccompanied solo … has clearly got something going for it.[23] The one-act piece, which depicts melodramatic events in and around a San Francisco opium den, had a libretto by Camillo Zanoni, based on the play The Cat and the Cherub by Chester Bailey Fernald. The London performances, conducted by André Messager with Antonio Scotti as the villain, Cim-Fen, were well received: The Observer wrote of the score, "It is never for an instant dull. … Melody he has at easy command … completely a master of his orchestra. ... His music belongs to no school save that of modernity – with a modern Italian flavour." Nevertheless, L'Oracolo made no more than a modest impact in London and dropped out of Covent Garden's repertory. REF: Wikipedia

Photos of San Fransico's Chinatown ca. 1900.

Mykola Ovsianiko Kulikovsky: Symphony № 21 in G minor (1809)

robt007 2020-03-16 | Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovski

Symphony №21 in G Minor (1809)

(On the opening of the Odessa Theatre in 1805)

I.Adagio - Allegro (00:00)
II. Menuet (7:20)
III. Finale. Kazachok (11:45)

St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Yuri Serov

Famous musical hoax, created in 1948 by composer and violinist Mikhail Goldstein.

Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky (Russian: Николай Овсянико-Куликовский, 1768–1846) was the purported author of a famous musical hoax. The Symphony No. 21 by Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky was perpetrated by composer and violinist Mikhail Goldstein.

In 1948, Goldstein announced that he had discovered the manuscript of a symphony by Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky in the archives of the theater in Odessa. The G minor work, numbered 21, was said to have been written in 1809; it bore the inscription "for the dedication of the Odessa Theater". The discovery caused a great deal of excitement in Soviet musical circles, for it was seen as proof that Russia had been able to produce a symphony of comparable stature to Joseph Haydn. Furthermore, the symphony contained Ukrainian folk songs and ended with a Cossack dance, showing that the composer had a nationalist awareness. This piece was subsequently proven to be a fake (Ref: Wikipedia)

The Melodiya recording of the symphony has recently been reissued.
MELODIYA - MEL 1000933 -
Evgeni Mravinsky performing the Fourth Symphony of Glazunov, as well as the Ovsianiko-Kulikovski symphony.
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Evgeni Mravinski, conductor
Recorded in 1954

This recording of the symphony has four movements, which includes a Romance as the second movement. Also this album indicates that Ovsianiko-Kulikovski’s first name was Nikolai and that the dedication was for the opening of the Odessa Opera House in 1805.

August Enna: Overture to The Little Match Girl (1897)

robt007 2019-10-27 | August Enna (13 May 1859 -- 3 August 1939) was a Danish composer, known mainly for his operas.

Overture to the opera, 'The Little Match Girl' (1897)

Odense Symphony Orchestra
Ole Schmidt, conductor

Enna was born in Denmark, but his ethnic origins lay in the town of Enna in Sicily. His first major success as a composer was The Witch (1892), which was followed by several popular operas, songs, two symphonies (in D minor and C minor), and a violin concerto. Strongly influenced by Wagner's music, he would himself be an influence on Danish composers such as Carl Nielsen.

J. P. E. Hartmann: Overture to The Raven (1832)

robt007 2019-10-27 | Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann:

Overture to "The Raven" (1832)

Odense Symphony Orchestra
Ole Schmidt, conductor

Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (14 May 1805 – 10 March 1900) was a Danish composer.

Hartmann was born and died in Copenhagen and came from a musical family of German descent. Although he received his music lessons initially from his father, he taught himself as much as possible. He complied with his father's wishes the biological son of Fritz Michael Hartmann for him to study jurisprudence and consequently worked as a civil servant from 1829 to 1870, but also pursued an extensive musical career. By 1824, he was already the organist at the Garnisons Kirke in Copenhagen, and in 1832, he made his debut as a composer with the opera Ravnen (The Raven).

In 1836, he made his first study tour to Germany and France, where he made the acquaintance of such significant musical figures as Frédéric Chopin, Gioachino Rossini, Luigi Cherubini, and Louis Spohr. Spohr and the Danish composer Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse were Hartmann's most important mentors. Further journeys to Germany followed in the next few years, during which he also founded the Danish Musical Association in 1836, remaining its chairman until the end of his life. In 1843, he transferred from the Garnisons Kirke to play the organ for the Vor Frue Kirke, and became the director of the Student Choral Association. He also held both these posts until his death.

In 1867, after having taught at the Conservatory of Giuseppe Siboni since 1827, Hartmann helped co-establish and direct the Copenhagen Conservatory with Niels Gade and Holger Simon Paulli. He was the director of the Copenhagen Musical Society briefly in 1890 following the death of Gade. During his lifetime, Hartmann occupied a central place in Danish musical life and was considered by many to be an absolute authority on musical matters.

One of his sons, Emil Hartmann, also became a composer, while Carl Christian Ernst Hartmann became a sculptor. Niels Gade and August Winding both married daughters of J. P. E. Hartmann.

Lars von Trier, the film director, is the biological son of Fritz Michael Hartmann, the grandson of Emil Hartmann. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Zakaria Paliashvili: Abesalom da Eteri (1909-1918)

robt007 2019-10-07 | Zakaria Paliashvili

"Abesalom da Eteri" (1909-1918)

Performed by the Great Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of Radio USSR. Didim Mirzchulava, conductor
Recording from 1979

Librettist: Petr Mirianashvili

0:00:00 Act 1: Scene 1, A wooded landscape - No's 1 thru 4 - Scene 2 - No's 5 thru 7 (32:56)
0:32:56 Act 2: The King's Palace - No's 8 thru 13, Ballet (33:57)
1:06:53 Act 3: Abessalom's Aria - No's 14 and 15, Finale (16:35)
1:23:29 Act 4: Part 1 - Etery's Aria - No's 16 thru 22 (27:36)
1:51:06 Part 2 - No's 23 thru 27, Finale (18:26)

Zakaria Paliashvili (Georgian: ზაქარია ფალიაშვილი) (1871-1933) was a Georgian composer. He is regarded as a founder of Georgian classical music.

As a young boy, he sang in a choir and learned to play the organ in the St. Mary Catholic Church of Kutaisi. His first tutor was his brother Ivan, who later became a conductor. Paliashvili moved to Tbilisi in 1887 as a chorister in the St. Mary Assumption Catholic Church of Tbilisi, eventually entering the music school there, studying French horn and composition. During 1900-1903, he studied composition under Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory. Upon returning to his native land, Paliashvili began to play a strong role in developing national music in Georgia. He collected Georgian folk songs, co-founded the Georgian Philharmonic Society, and became head of the Tbilisi Conservatory.

Paliashvili composed works for symphony orchestra (e.g., Georgian Suite on Folk Themes), but is probably best known for his vocal music, which includes choruses and songs. His major works in this regard are the operas Abesalom da Eteri (Absalom and Eteri) (premiered 1919, although a version of Act III was performed in 1913; based on a folk tale "Eteriani"), Daisi (Twilight) (1923), and Latavra (1927).

Abesalom da Eteri is an opera by composer Zakaria Paliashvili and librettist Petr Mirianashvili. Composed between 1909 and 1918, the work was premiered on 21 February 1919 at the Georgian National Opera House in Tbilisi. Music from this opera was later adopted for Tavisupleba, the national anthem of the country of Georgia.
(Ref: Wikipedia)

Synopsis

Act 1
A peasant girl Eteri, having run away from an evil stepmother, sits and cries alone in the woods. She hears a singing of hunters from afar - Prince Abesalom and his courtier Murman are hunting along with their retinue. Eter follows the sound of singing and runs into Murman. Startled by the sudden encounter, she runs the other way but is intercepted by Abesalom. Bewitched by Eter's beauty, the prince pledges his love to her. Murman himself is enamored with the peasant girl, but he is merely a courtier and does not dare to express his feelings. Privately, Murman is overcome by an evil desire to take Eter away from Abesalom.

Act 2
The wedding of Abesalom and Eter is being held the palace. King Abio blesses the engaged, who take the oath of loyalty. As a wedding gift, Murman presents Eter with a small box containing an enchanted necklace. The necklace is to afflict Eter with an incurable illness, from which only Murman can save here. Eter starts to feel unwell but King Abio tries to keep the guests entertained and asks Marekh to sing. The wedding proceeds with dancing and singing.

Act 3
Great misfortune befalls upon the palace – Eter is overcome by an incurable illness. Abesalom falls into desperation and the entire place mourns the developments. The Queen advises her son to let Eter go, suggesting that perhaps mountains and sun with bring her back to health. Abesalom is forced to give in and let Eter go. Murman has achieved his goal – he takes Eter to himself.

Act 4
In Murman's tower Eter comes back to health. Murman's mother and sisters cherish her in every way. When Abesalom hears of this, he starts to long for Eter even more. The prince becomes unable to cope with his separation from Eter and becomes weakened as a result of his suffering. Trumpets sound – Abesalom is finally visiting Murman's tower to see Eter. To get rid of Murman, Abesalom sends him off to find the elixir of life with the pretext that perhaps that will bring his strength back. Murman reluctantly agrees. Queen Natella implores Eter to meet Abesalom, hoping that she will make him feel better, but Eter is refusing – she is angry that her love had given her up and sent her away. Marekh finally convinces Eter to meet Abesalom, but the weakened prince dies in Eter's arms. Struck by grief, Eter kills herself with the same knife, which the prince had once given her as a sign of their love. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Sculpture of “Ali and Nino” by Tamara Kvesitadze.
Located in Batumi.

Charles Haubiel: “Karma” (1928)

robt007 2019-09-06 | Charles Haubiel: “Karma” Symphonic Variations” (1928)

Charles Trowbridge Haubiel (born Delta, Ohio, 1892 - died Los Angeles, 1978) was an American composer. He studied in New York City and spent eight years teaching piano at the Institute of Musical Art in that city before moving on to New York University. His music has been described as a combination of Johannes Brahms and Claude Debussy. He composed three operas in addition to much orchestral and chamber music. His set of variations for orchestra, Karma, won a prize in the 1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition. (Ref: Wikipedia)

The 1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition was a competition part-sponsored by the Columbia Record Company in honor of the centenary of the death of Franz Schubert. Its original aim was to encourage composers to produce completions of Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony but the rules were modified several times to allow the submission of original symphonic works. Preliminary rounds were judged on a country or area basis, and the winning works at this level were then forwarded to the final judging for the world prize, which took place in Vienna. Notable composers who gained prizes in the country categories included Havergal Brian, Czesław Marek and Franz Schmidt, but the overall prize, after a wrangle among the judges, was awarded to the Swedish composer Kurt Atterberg for his Sixth Symphony
From 19–23 June 1928 the 30 winning scores from the ten national zones were evaluated in Vienna by the International jury. This body consisted of one delegate from each of the zones plus an eleventh juror appointed in Vienna. The chairman was Alexander Glazunov; he was assisted by such luminaries as Franco Alfano, Alfred Bruneau, Walter Damrosch, Carl Nielsen, Franz Schalk, Max von Schillings, and Donald Tovey. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Robert Hood Bowers, conductor
Recorded in 1928 by the Columbia-Graphophone Company under the supervision of the composer.

1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition Franz Schubert Centenary
New York Times

List of regional winners:

Havergal Brian Gothic Symphony
Franz Schmidt
Moni Friedsohn
Czesław Marek
Kurt Atterberg 1st Place for his Sixth Symphony,
“The Dollar Symphony”
Ludvig Irgens-Jensen
Charles Haubiel American music
Hans Gál
Jens Laursen Emborg

List of Judges:

Alexander Glazunov
Franco Alfano
Alfred Bruneau
Walter Damrosch
Carl Nielsen
Franz Schalk
Max von Schillings
Donald Tovey
Emil Młynarski
Guido Adler

Janis Ivanovs: Symphony No. 13 in d minor, Sinfonia Humana (1969)

robt007 2019-09-06 | Janis Ivanovs

Symphony No. 13 in d minor, "Sinfonia Humana" (1969)

Un-named reciter
Un-named orchestra: most likely the Latvian State Radio Symphony
Conductor: Aleksandr Vilumanis

00:00 First Movement (14:04)
14.05 Second Movement (8:50)
22:56 Third Movement (10:48)

If anyone has any information concerning this recording, input would be greatly appreciated.

Jānis Ivanovs (9 October 1906 in Babri, Preiļi – 27 March 1983 in Riga) was a Latvian and Soviet classical music composer.

In 1931, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. In 1944, he joined the conservatory's faculty, becoming a full professor in 1955. He is regarded as being the most distinguished Latvian symphonist. His love of melody is evident in each of his compositions and forms the essence of his works. He often drew inspiration from the native songs of the Latgale district in eastern Latvia. His grasp of orchestral color and musical texture were highly regarded by his colleagues. The Latvian composer and music critic, Margers Zarins, described Ivanovs' symphonies as "like ancient Greek tragedies, filled with ecstasy and purification." He is mostly remembered for his twenty-one symphonies. Nevertheless, he composed in many other fields, including five symphonic poems, concertos for piano, violin and cello, three string quartets, and numerous vocal, piano and various chamber works.

He became the People's Artist of the USSR in 1965, was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1950 and Latvian SSR State Prize in 1959 and 1970. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Georges Bizet: Ivan IV An opera on a Circassian theme (1867)

robt007 2019-08-12 | Georges Bizet's "Ivan IV"
An opera on a Circassian theme:

Libretto by Francois-Hippolyte Leroy and Henri Trianon

"Ivan IV" (1867; completed posthumously), an opera in five acts and six tableaux, was composed by the famous French musical composer Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Bizet is best known for his popular opera "Carmen" (1875).

(0:00:00) Act 1: In the Caucasus
(0:35:46) Act 2: A banquet in the Kremlin
(1:11:29) Act 3: Kremlin courtyard
(1:38:55) Act 4: A room outside the nuptial chamber
(2:27:13) Act 5 Scene 1 -- The walls of the Kremlin and
Scene 2 -- A hall in the Kremlin

BBC Northern Orchestra & Chorus
Conductor: Bryden Thomson
3 October 1975

The exquisite Circassian maiden Gwascheney (or Gwaschene; Гуащэней, е Гуащэнэ), daughter of Temryuk (Temrouk) Idar (Teimriqwe Yidar; Идар и къуэ Темрыкъуэ), was betrothed to Ivan IV (1530-1584) on 21 August 1561 AD, to cement the treaty between Temryuk, Prince of Princes of Kabarda (Eastern Circassia), and Ivan the Terrible, "Tsar of All Russia". Tsarina Maria Temryukovna (Мария Темрюковна; 1544-1569), as was Gwascheney baptized upon marriage, was married to Ivan for eight years until her early death at the age of 25 on 1 September 1569.

Ivan IV (the Terrible)
John Noble - Ivan IV (Tsar of Russia)
Jeanette Scovotti - Maria Temrouk (daughter of Temrouk)
John Brecknock -- Igor (brother of Maria)
Nielsen Taylor -- Yorloff (a Russian boyar)
Richard Angas -- Temrouk (Prince of Circassia)
Patricia Kern - The young Bulgarian
Barbara Rebotham - Olga (sister of Ivan)
David Lennox -- A Russian officer
Dennis Nelson -- A Circassian

Act 1: In the Caucasus
Women are collecting water from a spring; a stranger who has lost his way asks for help. Maria, daughter of Temrouk, offers to show him the path. A second stranger, Ivan in disguise, enters and leaves with the young stranger. Russian soldiers burst in and order Temrouk to surrender his daughter to them. The prince refuses, but when an officer threatens to murder the children, Maria goes with them. Igor arrives as the Circassians lament their fate, and he vows to kill the enemy. Temrouk orders that the avenger must be chosen by lot; it is Igor.

Act 2: A banquet in the Kremlin
Boyars celebrating the victory of Ivan over the Tartars. Condemned criminals pass by begging for mercy but in vain. Ivan congratulates Yorloff, who had uncovered the conspiracy and commands the young Bulgarian to sing of his homeland. The Tsar responds with a battle song. Ivan had sought the most beautiful girl in the land to be his wife. Yorloff is confident that his own daughter will be chosen, and a group of maidens enters the hall. Ivan commands them to remove their veils, but Maria refuses. Although she is forced to do this, she refuses to become his wife. Ivan's sister Olga passes through in a religious procession and Maria puts herself under her protection.

Act 3: Kremlin courtyard
People sing praises on the marriage of Ivan and Maria. The cortege approaches and Igor steals on. Temrouk also enters at this moment. Yorloff reveals to Igor that he too has a grievance against Ivan and the three of them prepare to assassinate Ivan that night.

Act 4: A room outside the nuptial chamber
Maria muses on her fate -- she has fallen in love with Ivan. Ivan enters to lead her to the nuptial boat on the Volga. Yorloff tells the Tsar that he will watch out for assassins, and when Ivan has left admits Igor. When Maria enters, brother and sister embrace and is horrified when Igor tells her he has come to kill the Tsar. Igor is about to stab her when Maria reminds him that their mother had placed her under the protection of her brother. He forgives his sister and embraces her. Ivan and Yorloff enter and the latter denounces Igor. Ivan, heartbroken by Maria's supposed treachery hesitates to condemn her. An officer enters to announce that the Kremlin is on fire and enemies are attacking the gates. Ivan condemns Igor and Maria then collapses.

Act 5
Scene 1 -- The walls of the Kremlin
Temrouk is agonised by events: his children have been condemned to death. Ivan has regained his senses and enters, and when the bell announcing death of a tsar tolls, they both rush off to the palace.

Scene 2 -- A hall in the Kremlin
Yorloff proclaims himself regent, as the Tsar had lost his reason. The courtiers call for the death of Igor and Maria. Ivan bursts in and reveals Yorloff's plots and condemns him to die. Courtiers sing praises to Ivan and Maria. (REF: Wikipedia)

Ara Sevanian: Four Armenian Songs

robt007 2019-07-29 | Ara Sevanian: Four Armenian Songs

1. (00:00) Street Song (3:45)
2. (03:45) Sobbing (3:55)
3. (07:30) My Soul (6:00)
4. (13:40) Everything Nice and Sweet (3:35)

Arpine Pehlivanian, soprano
Ara Sevanian, Kanon
Gloria Mikialian, piano

Ara Sevanian (Born, May 21, 1916, Armenia. Died, January 4, 2011, Mission Hills, California), was a composer and kanonist whose works have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, among others. He composed many works for the kanon, as well as nine symphonies.

Ara Sevanian: 5 Selections for Egyptian Harp (Kanon)

robt007 2019-07-29 | Five Pieces for Egyptian Harp (Kanon)

(00:00) 1. San Francisico Sketch by Ara Sevanian (3:30)

(03:30) 2. Tarametzaf (Faded) by Sayat Nova (2:33)

(06:05) 3. Armenian Folk Song and Dance No. 1 (4:02)

(10:10) 4. Shepherd Song (3:05)

(13:15) 5. Love Song by Ara Sevanian
(Dedicated to his wife Ester) (1:55)

Ara Sevanian, Kanoon
Gloria Mikialian, piano (? not named)

Ara Sevanian (Born, May 21, 1916, Armenia. Died, January 4, 2011, Mission Hills, California), was a composer and kanonist whose works have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, among others. He composed many works for the kanon, as well as nine symphonies.

Ara Sevanian: Third Concerto in G for Egyptian Harp (Kanon)

robt007 2019-07-29 | Ara Sevanian: Third Concerto in G for Egyptian Harp (Kanon)

(00:00) I. Allegro non troppo (6:30)
(06:30) II. Andante (9:50)
(13:00) III. Tempo di Marcia (7:20)

Ara Sevanian, Kanoon
Gloria Mikialian, piano

Ara Sevanian (Born, May 21, 1916, Armenia. Died, January 4, 2011, Mission Hills, California), was a composer and kanonist whose works have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, among others. He composed many works for the kanon, as well as nine symphonies.

Ara Sevanian: 7 Pieces for Egyptian Harp (Kanon)

robt007 2019-07-29 | Ara Sevanian: 7 Pieces for Egyptian Harp

(00:00) 1. Never On Sunday (3:25)

(03:25) 2. Nights Of Erevan (2:36)

(06:00) 3. Enzely (2:10)

(08:10) 4. Little One (3:25)

(11:35) 5. Festal Song (3:05)

(14:40) 6. Artashaty (4:35)

(19:15) 7. Lezginka (From Act III of the Ballet "Areknazan") (1:50)

Ara Sevanian, Kanon
Gloria Mikialian, piano (? not named)

Ara Sevanian (Born, May 21, 1916, Armenia. Died, January 4, 2011, Mission Hills, California), was a composer and kanonist whose works have been performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, among others. He composed many works for the kanon, as well as nine symphonies.

Edmond de Luca: Conquerors of the Ages (1957) complete

robt007 2019-07-05 | Conquerors of the Ages (1957) (Complete)

Composer: Edmond De Luca
Born: 7 February 1909 — Philadelphia, PA — USA Died: 9 April 2004

Edmond De Luca was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music; he took composition and theory with William Happich and piano with Leo Ornstein. In 1936, his Suite for Orchestra won a composition competition hosted by the Philadelphia Orchestra and was performed by them. He graduated from Juilliard in 1943 and then De Luca's First Symphony won first prize in another competition, this time hosted by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. De Luca's best-known works were orchestral suites commission by David L. Miller of Trans World Records, "Safari" and "Conquerors of the Ages," originally recorded by the "Trans World Symphony Orchestra," later known as the 101 Strings Orchestra and, in actuality, the Hamburg Symphony. Both tasty and tasteless, these albums were popular among audiophiles in the days of early stereo, but their lushly romantic, highly cinematic style did not establish De Luca as a composer worthy of serious consideration by the classical establishment of the day. Oddly, De Luca is not known to have worked in the motion picture industry, where his talents would have situated him well. (ref: Classical Composers Database)

Orchestra: Reinhard Linz conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus.

Cover Art:
2a. Alexander the Great by Howard David Johnson
2b. Alexander the Great in the Temple of Jerusalem
2c. Alexander at the Battle of Sustrans
2d. Alexander at the Looting of Persepolis
2e. Alexander with the Indian King
3a. The Roman Senate by Maccari-Cicero
3b. Proclaiming Claudius Emperor
3c. Roman Gladiator
3d. Battle of Actium by Lorenzo A. Castro
4a. Atilla the Hun by Miguel Coimbra
4b. Feast of Attila (artist unknown)
5a. Statue of Genghis Khan
5b. Yushan: Young Genghis Khan

6a. Hernán Cortés (artist unknown)
6b. Shiphead
6c. The Burning of the Ships
6d. Aztec Ritual
6e. Hernan Cortes by (boc0-d4husrh)?
7a. Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon
7b. Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow (2 pictures)
7c. Prianishnikov, Retreat from Moscow 1812
7d. Prussian Attack at Plancenoit by Adolf Northern
8. Various pictures were taken during WWII and of Adolf Hitler.

Gordon Jenkins: California, The Golden State (1949)

robt007 2019-06-24 | Gordon Jenkin - California (The Golden State) (1949)

Gordon Jenkins with his orchestra and chorus.

Gordon Hill Jenkins (May 12, 1910 – May 1, 1984) was an American arranger, composer, and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements. Jenkins worked with The Andrews Sisters, Johnny Cash, The Weavers, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, Harry Nilsson, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others.

During this time, Jenkins also began recording and performing under his own name. One of his enduring works while at Decca was a pair of Broadway-style musical vignettes, “Manhattan Tower” and "California" which saw release several times (78s, 45s, and LP) in the '40s and '50s. The two were paired on a very early Decca LP in 1949, and Jenkins was given the Key to New York City by its mayor when Jenkins's orchestra performed the 16-minute suite on The Ed Sullivan Show in the early '50s. Manhattan Tower was also a Patti Page LP album, issued by Mercury Records as catalog number MG-20226 in 1956. It is her version of Gordon Jenkins' popular 1948/1956 Manhattan Tower suite and the album charted at #18 on the Billboard charts. The album was reissued, combined with the 1956 Patti Page album You Go to My Head, in compact disc format, by Sepia Records on September 4, 2007. Jenkins also made a rare excursion into film work in 1952 when he scored the action film Bwana Devil, the first 3-D movie shot in color. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Gordon Jenkins: Manhattan Tower (1946)

robt007 2019-06-24 | Gordon Jenkins
Manhattan Tower, a Musical Narrative (1946)

Gordon Jenkins with his orchestra and chorus

Featuring:
Elliot Lewis, narrator
Beverly Malr, soloist

Movement:
1. Magical City
2. The Party
3. New York, My Home
4. Love in the Tower

Manhattan Tower (Gordon Jenkins album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Manhattan Tower was a composition written by Gordon Jenkins in the 1940s and first issued to the public in 1946 as a two-disc 78-rpm set on the Decca label, DA-438. It was considered quite innovative for its time and was quite warmly received by critics and the public alike. Jenkins also performed the suite in its entirety on the very time-conscious Toast of the Town.

With the advent of 45-rpm and 33 1/3-rpm records in 1948 and 1949, the suite became one of the first recordings to be reissued by Decca in all formats then available, including 45-rpm set 9-2, 45-rpm Extended Play ED 462, and LP DL 8011, the LP issue being backed with Jenkins's later composition "California." The original monaural recording was "reprocessed for stereo" in the early 1960s, and that LP release remained in print into the 1970s as Decca DL 78011.

By the middle 1950s, "High Fidelity Sound," available on LP and 45 (as well as magnetic tape), had become the rage, and Jenkins rewrote major parts of the suite, expanding it to approximately three times its original length, and recorded it for Capitol Records in 1956 as The Complete Manhattan Tower, catalog number T-766. This new version of the suite was again a monaural recording, and appeared with Capitol's turquoise LP label; the entire suite was also issued as a 45-rpm EP set, EDM-766. Later, the album was issued on Capitol's "High-Fidelity" rainbow label. Capitol also reprocessed the recording for stereo with their own "Duophonic" process, and issued that version as DT-766; it also remained in print into the 1970s.

The 1946 Manhattan Tower combined mood music, original songs, spoken narration/dialogue, and sound effects to tell the story of a young man who travels to New York City for a visit. The tower referred to in the title is the apartment building in which he resides. Although the original suite introduces the theme of love, it is more thoroughly developed in the expanded 1956 composition. In both recordings, Elliott Lewis narrates the story and Beverly Mahr is the featured soloist; in the Capitol version, they are given the names "Stephen" and "Julie," Lewis also sings, and their brief love affair forms the context of the expanded composition.

Cover art by: ?. Wilfred?

Harald Genzmer: Sinfonie Nr. 4 (1990)

robt007 2019-05-21 | Harald Genzmer
Vierte Sinfonie, for large orchestra (1990)

00:00 I. Allegro molto
05:45 II. Andante Tranquillo
12:25 III. Presto
17:25 IV. Intermezzo - Larghetto
22:05 V. Finale - Vivace

Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Theodor Guschlbauer, conductor

Harald Genzmer (9 February 1909 – 16 December 2007) was a German composer of classical music and an academic. The son of the legal historian Felix Genzmer, Genzmer was born in Blumenthal, near Bremen, Germany, he studied composition with Paul Hindemith at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin beginning in 1928.
From 1938 he taught at the Volksmusikschule Berlin-Neukölln. During the early part of the Second World War he served as a military band clarinetist. When his pianistic abilities were noticed by the Musikmeister, he was put on detached duties as a pianist/accompanist for "Lazarettenkonzerte", concerts for recuperating wounded officers. He was based for some time near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where he made the acquaintance of Richard Strauss. When the war ended, he was offered a post at the Musikhochschule München. This was blocked by the American authorities, and so, from 1946 to 1957 he taught at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau.

From 1957 to 1974 he taught at the Musikhochschule München. He hung a framed review from the Süddeutsche Zeitung above his piano, which stated after the premiere of his 1955 Sinfonietta for Strings that it was a work destined only for oblivion. Sharing the frame was a cutting from a few years later, reporting that in the previous year it had been the most performed work for string orchestra in Europe.

Among his notable students are Bertold Hummel, the Egyptian composer Gamal Abdel-Rahim and the British composer John McCabe. See: List of music students by teacher: G to J# Harald Genzmer.

He died on 16 December 2007 in Munich.
(Ref: Wikipedia)

Cover Art: Paul Klee (1879-1940) Senecio, 1922 (detail)

Heinz Schubert - Ambrosianisches Konzert (1943)

robt007 2019-05-21 | Heinz Richard Schubert (1908-1945)
(* 8. April 1908 in Dessau; † 1945) war ein deutscher Komponist und Dirigent.

Ambrosianisches Konzert, Choral-Phantasie über
"Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich" für Klavier und kleines Orchester, 1943

Gerhard Puchelt, piano
Munchner Philharmoniker
Robert Faisst, conductor

Josef Matěj: Symphony No. 4

robt007 2019-03-31 | Josef Matěj (1922-1992)
Czech composer, trombonist and choirmaster.

Symphony No. 4

I. Adagio molto e quieto (7:30)
II. Allegro energico-Quasi adagio-Vivace (12:50)

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Josef Hrnčíř, conductor

Josef Hrnčíř (2 April 1921 - 31 August 2014) was a Czech conductor, musicologist and music theorist. In 2008, he received the Award of Society for Science and Arts. He died at age 93.

Oldrich Flosman: Symphony No. 2 (1974)

robt007 2019-03-31 | Oldřich Flosman (1925-1998)

Symphony No. 2 (1974)

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Milos Konvalinka, Condutor

1. Allegro vivo (7.35)
2. Larghetto (8.45)
3. Presto (8.30)

Peter Schickele: Concerto for Chamber Orchestra (1998 World Premiere)

robt007 2019-03-28 | Peter Schickele

Concerto for Chamber Orchestra
(1998 World Premiere)

Peter Schickele (/ˈʃɪkəli/; born July 17, 1935) is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach. He also hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix. From 1990 to 1993, Schickele's P.D.Q. Bach recordings earned him four consecutive wins for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

Concerto for Chamber Orchestra (1998) World Premiere

Celeste New York Orchestra
Dr. Ransom Wilson

1998 Ok, Mozart International Festival, Bartlesville, Ok.
13 June 1998

Image: Broad Street (1950) by S. Fraserburgh

Peter Schickele: Symphony No. 1, “Songlines” (1996)

robt007 2019-03-28 | Peter Schickele

Symphony No 1, “Songlines” 1996

Peter Schickele (/ˈʃɪkəli/; born July 17, 1935) is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach. He also hosted a long-running weekly radio program called Schickele Mix. From 1990 to 1993, Schickele's P.D.Q. Bach recordings earned him four consecutive wins for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

Symphony No. 1, “Songlines” (1996)
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin

Image: Saint Louis by Karl Haglund

John Ogdon: Piano Concerto No. 1 (1965)

robt007 2019-03-11 | John Ogdon

Piano Concerto No.1 (1965)

John Ogdon, piano
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Lawrence Foster, conductor

John Andrew Howard Ogdon (27 January 1937 – 1 August 1989) was an English pianist and composer.

Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, and attended the Manchester Grammar School, before studying at the Royal Northern College of Music (formerly The Royal Manchester College of Music) between 1953 and 1957, where his fellow students under Richard Hall included Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr, Elgar Howarth and Peter Maxwell Davies. Together they formed New Music Manchester, a group dedicated to the performances of serial and other modern works. His tutor there was Claud Biggs. As a boy had studied with Iso Elinson and after leaving college, he further studied with Gordon Green, Denis Matthews, Dame Myra Hess, and Egon Petri—the latter in Basel, Switzerland. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Janis Ivanovs: Symphony No. 10 (1963)

robt007 2019-02-03 | Janis Ivanovs

Symphony No. 10 (1963)

I. Dialogo. Allegro moderato (0:00)
II. Tocatto Basso ostinato. Allegro ma non troppo (10:50)
III. Intermezzo. Andante con dolore (16:50)
IV. Finale. Allegro moderato (25:06)

Latvian National Symphony Orchestra
Edgars Tons, conductor

Jānis Ivanovs (9 October 1906 in Babri, Preiļi – 27 March 1983 in Riga) was a Latvian and Soviet classical music composer.

In 1931, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. In 1944, he joined the conservatory's faculty, becoming a full professor in 1955. He is regarded as being the most distinguished Latvian symphonist. His love of melody is evident in each of his compositions and forms the essence of his works. He often drew inspiration from the native songs of the Latgale district in eastern Latvia. His grasp of orchestral color and musical texture were highly regarded by his colleagues. The Latvian composer and music critic, Margers Zarins, described Ivanovs' symphonies as "like ancient Greek tragedies, filled with ecstasy and purification." He is mostly remembered for his twenty-one symphonies. Nevertheless, he composed in many other fields, including five symphonic poems, concertos for piano, violin and cello, three string quartets, and numerous vocal, piano and various chamber works.

He became the People's Artist of the USSR in 1965, was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1950 and Latvian SSR State Prize in 1959 and 1970. (Ref. Wikipedia)

Janis Ivanovs: Andante

robt007 2019-02-03 | Janis Ivanovs

Andante, for Chamber Orchestra
This is a performance for string orchestra of the 2nd movement (Andante) of Janis Ivanovs' "String Quartet No. 3" (1961).

Chamber Orchestra of the Latvian Philharmonic
Tovijs Lifsics, conductor

Jānis Ivanovs (9 October 1906 in Babri, Preiļi – 27 March 1983 in Riga) was a Latvian and Soviet classical music composer.

In 1931, he graduated from the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga. In 1944, he joined the conservatory's faculty, becoming a full professor in 1955. He is regarded as being the most distinguished Latvian symphonist. His love of melody is evident in each of his compositions, and forms the essence of his works. He often drew inspiration from the native songs of the Latgale district in eastern Latvia. His grasp of orchestral color and musical texture were highly regarded by his colleagues. The Latvian composer and music critic, Margers Zarins, described Ivanovs' symphonies as "like ancient Greek tragedies, filled with ecstasy and purification." He is mostly remembered for his twenty-one symphonies. Nevertheless, he composed in many other fields, including five symphonic poems, concertos for piano, violin and cello, three string quartets, and numerous vocal, piano and various chamber works.

He became the People's Artist of the USSR in 1965, was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1950 and Latvian SSR State Prize in 1959 and 1970. (Ref. Wikipedia)

Artwork by unknown artist.

Ikuma Dan: Symphony No. 6, Hiroshima (1985)

robt007 2019-01-01 | Ikuma Dan: Symphony No. 6, "Hiroshima" (1985)

Ikuma Dan (1924~2001, Japan)

Symphony No. 6, "Hiroshima" for Soprano, Nohkan, Shinobue and Orchestra,

Text by Edmund Blunden (1985)

I. Andante ma non troppo, quasi andante sostenuto 22:30
II. Allegro ritnico 10:49
III. Andante sostenuto e funebre 20:01

Shinobue [Nokan, Shinobue], Michiko Akao
Soprano Vocals, Anna Pusar
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Ikuma Dan, conducting
Recorded: June, 1988

Ikuma Dan (團伊玖磨 Dan Ikuma, 7 April 1924 – 17 May 2001) was a Japanese composer.

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Conservatory of Music in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Saburō Moroi, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Kunihiko Hashimoto, and Midori Hosokawa.
During his career, he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of film scores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China (from 1979 until his death in Suzhou, China, in 2001), and received the commission to write an opera (Takeru) for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan's main opera house.

Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru (Twilight Crane), which is regularly revived there (Ref: Wikipedia)

• Symphony No. 1 in A (1948-49/56-57)
• Symphony à la Burlesque (1954)
• Symphony No. 2 in B♭ (1955-56/88)
• Symphony No. 3 (1960)
• Symphony No. 4 "1965 Kanagawa" (1965)
• Symphony No. 5 "Suruga" (1965)
• Sinfonietta (1974)
• Symphony No. 6 "Hiroshima" for soprano, nohkan, shinobue and orchestra, text by Edmund Blunden (1985)
• Symphony No. 7 "Jashūmon (Heretics)", text by Hakushū Kitahara – unfinished

Ikuma Dan: Symphony No. 5, Suruga (1965)

robt007 2019-01-01 | Ikuma Dan: Symphony No. 5, "Suruga" (1965)

Ikuma Dan (1924~2001, Japan)

Symphony No.5 "Suruga" (1965)

I. Andante sostenuto - Allegro moderato 16:17
II. Scherzo (Allegro vivo) 9:06
III. Ten Variations on an Old-Fashioned Theme 15:00

Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Ikuma Dan, conducting
Recorded: June, 1988

Suruga Province (駿河国 Suruga no kuni) was an old province in the area that is today the central part of Shizuoka Prefecture.[1] Suruga bordered on Izu, Kai, Sagami, Shinano, and Tōtōmi provinces; and was bordered by the Pacific Ocean through Suruga Bay to the south. Its abbreviated form name was Sunshū (駿州). (Ref: Wikipedia)

Ikuma Dan (團伊玖磨 Dan Ikuma, 7 April 1924 – 17 May 2001) was a Japanese composer.

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Conservatory of Music in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Saburō Moroi, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Kunihiko Hashimoto, and Midori Hosokawa.
During his career, he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of film scores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China (from 1979 until his death in Suzhou, China, in 2001), and received the commission to write an opera (Takeru) for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan's main opera house.

Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru (Twilight Crane), which is regularly revived there (Ref: Wikipedia)

• Symphony No. 1 in A (1948-49/56-57)
• Symphony à la Burlesque (1954)
• Symphony No. 2 in B♭ (1955-56/88)
• Symphony No. 3 (1960)
• Symphony No. 4 "1965 Kanagawa" (1965)
• Symphony No. 5 "Suruga" (1965)
• Sinfonietta (1974)
• Symphony No. 6 "Hiroshima" for soprano, nohkan, shinobue and orchestra, text by Edmund Blunden (1985)
• Symphony No. 7 "Jashūmon (Heretics)", text by Hakushū Kitahara – unfinished

Ikuma Dan: Symphony No 4, Kanagawa (1964)

robt007 2018-12-16 | Ikuma Dan: Symphony No.4 (1964-65)

Ikuma Dan (1924~2001, Japan)

Symphony No.4, "Kanagawa" (1964)

I. Allegro ma non troppo 9:30
II. Adagio 9:28
III. Tempo di minuetto (Allegretto) 7:32
IV. Allegro con brio 4:54

Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Ikuma Dan, conducting
Recorded: June, 1988

Ikuma Dan (團伊玖磨 Dan Ikuma, 7 April 1924 – 17 May 2001) was a Japanese composer.

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Conservatory of Music in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Saburō Moroi, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Kunihiko Hashimoto, and Midori Hosokawa.

During his career he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of filmscores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China (from 1979 until his death in Suzhou, China, in 2001), and received the commission to write an opera (Takeru) for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan's main opera house.

Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru (Twilight Crane), which is regularly revived there (Ref: Wikipedia)

• Symphony No. 1 in A (1948-49/56-57)
• Symphony à la Burlesque (1954)
• Symphony No. 2 in B♭ (1955-56/88)
• Symphony No. 3 (1960)
• Symphony No. 4 "Kanagawa" (1964)
• Symphony No. 5 "Suruga" (1965)
• Sinfonietta (1974)
• Symphony No. 6 "Hiroshima" for soprano, nohkan, shinobue and orchestra, text by Edmund Blunden (1985)
• Symphony No. 7 "Jashūmon (Heretics)", text by Hakushū Kitahara – unfinished

Ikuma Dan: Symphony No. 3 in 2 movements (1960)

robt007 2018-12-12 | Ikuma Dan

Symphony No 3 in 2 movements (1960)

I. Andante sostenuto
II. Allegro

The Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Ikuma Dan, conductor

Ikuma Dan (團伊玖磨 Dan Ikuma, 7 April 1924 – 17 May 2001) was a Japanese composer.

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Conservatory of Music in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Saburō Moroi, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Kunihiko Hashimoto, and Midori Hosokawa.

During his career he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of filmscores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China (from 1979 until his death in Suzhou, China, in 2001), and received the commission to write an opera (Takeru) for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan's main opera house.

Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru (Twilight Crane), which is regularly revived there. (REF: Wikipedia)

• Symphony No. 1 in A (1948-49/56-57)
• Symphony à la Burlesque (1954)
• Symphony No. 2 in B♭ (1955-56/88)
• Symphony No. 3 (1960)
• Symphony No. 4 "1965 Kanagawa" (1965)
• Symphony No. 5 "Suruga" (1965)
• Sinfonietta (1974)
• Symphony No. 6 "Hiroshima" for soprano, nohkan, shinobue and orchestra, text by Edmund Blunden (1985)
• Symphony No. 7 "Jashūmon (Heretics)", text by Hakushū Kitahara – unfinished

Ikuma Dan: Symphony No. 2 in B Flat (1956)

robt007 2018-11-20 | Ikuma Dan (1924~2001, Japan)

Symphony No.2 in B Flat (1956/Revised in 1988)

I. Andante serioso - Allegro ma non tanto 00:00
II. Andante con moto 25:37
III. Allegro con brio 37:20

Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Kazuo Yamada, conducting
Recorded: June, 1988

Ikuma Dan (團伊玖磨 Dan Ikuma, 7 April 1924 – 17 May 2001) was a Japanese composer.

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Conservatory of Music in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Saburō Moroi, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Kunihiko Hashimoto, and Midori Hosokawa.

During his career, he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of film scores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China (from 1979 until his death in Suzhou, China, in 2001), and received the commission to write an opera (Takeru) for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan's main opera house.

Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru (Twilight Crane), which is regularly revived there (Ref: Wikipedia)

• Symphony No. 1 in A (1948-49/56-57)
• Symphony à la Burlesque (1954)
• Symphony No. 2 in B♭ (1955-56/88)
• Symphony No. 3 (1960)
• Symphony No. 4 "1965 Kanagawa" (1965)
• Symphony No. 5 "Suruga" (1965)
• Sinfonietta (1974)
• Symphony No. 6 "Hiroshima" for soprano, nohkan, shinobue and orchestra, text by Edmund Blunden (1985)
• Symphony No. 7 "Jashūmon (Heretics)", text by Hakushū Kitahara – unfinished

Note: The image is Chinese art.

Ikuma Dan: Symphony No. 1 in A (1948-1949)

robt007 2018-10-02 | Ikuma Dan (團伊玖磨 Dan Ikuma, 7 April 1924 – 17 May 2001) was a Japanese composer.

Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin and Tokyo Conservatory of Music in 1946. He studied with teachers including Kosaku Yamada, Saburō Moroi, Kan'ichi Shimofusa, Kunihiko Hashimoto, and Midori Hosokawa.

During his career he completed six symphonies, all recorded and released on the Decca label in Japan, and wrote seven operas as well as a number of filmscores, and many songs. He wrote celebratory music for the Japanese imperial family, actively promoted cultural exchange with China (from 1979 until his death in Suzhou, China, in 2001), and received the commission to write an opera (Takeru) for the 1997 opening of the New National Theatre, Tokyo, Japan's main opera house.

Dan is known in Japan for his 1951 opera Yūzuru (Twilight Crane), which is regularly revived there. (REF: Wikipedia)

Symphony No. 1 in A (1948-49/revised 1956-57)
Andante maestoso Allegro

The Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Kazuo Yamada, conductor

Martin Mather: March from the Timeless Land - Festival Olympiad (1984)

robt007 2018-10-02 | Martin Mather (1927-2002)

March from the Timeless Land –
Festival Olympiad (1984)

Sidney Symphony Orchestra
Patrick Thomas, conductor

Martin Mather was born in Harrow, England, on 6th October 1927. His first tertiary studies were towards a history degree at King's College, University of London, graduating with a B.A. (Hons.) in 1948. Music, however, was his first love, and in 1952 he was awarded a Composition Scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where his teachers included Herbert Howells (composition) and Frank Merrick (piano). Whilst at the College he was awarded the Patrons Fund Award in 1954.

Shortly after completing his studies in 1955, Mather took an audition at Wigmore Hall. Offered the choice of becoming repetiteur at Glyndebourne Opera Company, or touring Australia as accompanist with a troup of Spanish dancers, Mather opted for the latter and arrived in Australia in 1956. Deciding to remain in the country, he joined the Elizabethan Opera Company as a repetiteur in 1958, and worked at the Public Library of NSW between 1958 and 1972. In 1974 and 1975 Mather undertook further piano studies with Eunice Gardiner.

Mather's compositions include numerous pieces for solo piano and choral orchestral works. The Last Voyage of Matthew Flinders (1964), a cantata for choir and orchestra, was written on the 150th anniversary of Flinders' death and was recorded in 1965 by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joseph Post. Mather's other large-scale work for choir and orchestra, ANZAC Requiem (1967), was first performed by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra on Rememberance Day 1976 and was broadcast nationally by ABC radio on Anzac Day the following year. This piece was principally inspired by John Manifold's poem The Tomb of Lt. John Learmonth, A.I.F. and the notion that a new image for Anzacs had been long overdue in the arts.

Martin Mather died on 26 April 2002.
(REF: Australian Music Centre)

Karl Höller: Symphony No 1 in C minor, op.40 (1944-1946)

robt007 2018-09-13 | Karl Höller

Symphony No. 1 in C# minor, op. 40 (1944-1946)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Karl Höller, conductor (1959)

I. Allegro moderato 00:00
II. Poco vivace 23:16
III. Adagio con gran espressione 41:46

Karl Höller (25 July 1907–14 April 1987) was a German composer of the late Romantic tradition.

Karl Höller was born in Bamberg, Bavaria. He came from a musical family on both sides: his father Valentin Höller was the Bamberg Cathedral organist for 40 years, and his grandfather and great-grandfather were organists at Würzburg Cathedral. His aunt Gretchen was the first female organist at Würzburg. His mother was a singer, whose father had been a choir director and musician. He showed an aptitude for the organ at an early age. He was a choirboy from age six, and he studied piano, organ, and cello in Bamberg. He went to the Würzburg Conservatory where he studied composition under Hermann Zilcher; and to the Munich Academy of Music, where he studied composition with Joseph Haas and Waltershausen, organ with Gatscher, and conducting with Siegfried von Hausegger. After taking his composition and organ examinations in 1929, he became a master-class student of Haas.

He taught at the Munich Academy (1933–37), from 1937 in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory and Hochschule für Musik (1938–46), and the Munich Conservatory (Hochschule für Musik) (1949–72; taking over the composition class of his teacher Joseph Haas). In 1942 Höller joined the NSDAP.

He was also president of the Munich Hochschule für Musik from 1954 to 1972.

Höller became a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin in 1952, and an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1958.

His compositions are characterized by polyphony and colorful, impressionistic harmony and orchestration. They are redolent of Paul Hindemith, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, and the French 20th-century school. He wrote in a tonal idiom regardless of the prevailing fashions, which meant that he was initially criticised as modernist, and later as a reactionary. His music has been recorded by such artists as Eugen Jochum (Symphonic Fantasy and Sweelinck Variations), Wilhelm Furtwängler (Cello Concerto No. 2, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) and others.
(Ref: Wikipedia)

Karl Höller died on 14 April 1987 in Hausham, Miesbach, Bavaria.

Karl Höller: Piano Concerto, op.63 Bamberger Konzert (1972)

robt007 2018-09-07 | Karl Höller

Piano Concerto, op. 63 (1972)
00:00 1- Allegro
16:50 2- Larghetto misterioso
23:09 3- Allegro molto

Ludwig Hoffmann, piano
Bamberger Symphoniker
Martin Turnovsky, conductor (1973)

Karl Höller (25 July 1907–14 April 1987) was a German composer of the late Romantic tradition.

Karl Höller was born in Bamberg, Bavaria. He came from a musical family on both sides: his father Valentin Höller was the Bamberg Cathedral organist for 40 years, and his grandfather and great-grandfather were organists at Würzburg Cathedral. His aunt Gretchen was the first female organist at Würzburg. His mother was a singer, whose father had been a choir director and musician. He showed an aptitude for the organ at an early age. He was a choirboy from age six, and he studied piano, organ, and cello in Bamberg. He went to the Würzburg Conservatory where he studied composition under Hermann Zilcher; and to the Munich Academy of Music, where he studied composition with Joseph Haas and Waltershausen, organ with Gatscher, and conducting with Siegfried von Hausegger. After taking his composition and organ examinations in 1929, he became a master-class student of Haas. He taught at the Munich Academy (1933–37), from 1937 in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory and Hochschule für Musik (1938–46), and the Munich Conservatory (Hochschule für Musik) (1949–72; taking over the composition class of his teacher Joseph Haas). In 1942 Höller joined the NSDAP.

He was also president of the Munich Hochschule für Musik from 1954 to 1972.

Höller became a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin in 1952, and an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1958.

His compositions are characterized by polyphony and colorful, impressionistic harmony and orchestration. They are redolent of Paul Hindemith, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, and the French 20th-century school. He wrote in a tonal idiom regardless of the prevailing fashions, which meant that he was initially criticised as modernist, and later as a reactionary. His music has been recorded by such artists as Eugen Jochum (Symphonic Fantasy and Sweelinck Variations), Wilhelm Furtwängler (Cello Concerto No. 2, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) and others. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Karl Höller died on 14 April 1987 in Hausham, Miesbach, Bavaria.

Photo: A doorway in Stuttgart

Karl Höller: Hymnen über gregorianische Choralmelodien, op.18 (1933)

robt007 2018-09-07 | Karl Höller

Hymnen über gregorianische Choralmelodien, op. 18 (1933)
Hymn on Gregorian Chorales, Op.18 (1932-1934)

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Karl Höller, conductor

1- Toccata (6.52)
2- Ricercare (11.15)
3- Adoration (5.43)
4- Fantasie and Fugue (11.39)

Karl Höller (25 July 1907–14 April 1987) was a German composer of the late Romantic tradition.

Karl Höller was born in Bamberg, Bavaria. He came from a musical family on both sides: his father Valentin Höller was the Bamberg Cathedral organist for 40 years, and his grandfather and great-grandfather were organists at Würzburg Cathedral. His aunt Gretchen was the first female organist at Würzburg. His mother was a singer, whose father had been a choir director and musician. He showed an aptitude for the organ at an early age. He was a choirboy from age six, and he studied piano, organ, and cello in Bamberg. He went to the Würzburg Conservatory where he studied composition under Hermann Zilcher; and to the Munich Academy of Music, where he studied composition with Joseph Haas and Waltershausen, organ with Gatscher, and conducting with Siegfried von Hausegger. After taking his composition and organ examinations in 1929, he became a master-class student of Haas. He taught at the Munich Academy (1933–37), from 1937 in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory and Hochschule für Musik (1938–46), and the Munich Conservatory (Hochschule für Musik) (1949–72; taking over the composition class of his teacher Joseph Haas). In 1942 Höller joined the NSDAP.
He was also president of the Munich Hochschule für Musik from 1954 to 1972.

Höller became a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin in 1952, and an honorary member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1958.

His compositions are characterized by polyphony and colorful, impressionistic harmony and orchestration. They are redolent of Paul Hindemith, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, and the French 20th-century school. He wrote in a tonal idiom regardless of the prevailing fashions, which meant that he was initially criticised as modernist, and later as a reactionary. His music has been recorded by such artists as Eugen Jochum (Symphonic Fantasy and Sweelinck Variations), Wilhelm Furtwängler (Cello Concerto No. 2, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) and others. (Ref: Wikipedia)

Karl Höller died on 14 April 1987 in Hausham, Miesbach, Bavaria.

Walter Draeger: Piano Concerto, Tritone Concerto

robt007 2018-08-23 | Walter Draeger (1888–1976)

Piano Concerto, Tritone Concerto

Ingeborg Jellinek, piano
Berliner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester
Adolf Fritz Guhl (Nov.1953)

Hans Osieck: Piano Concertino No. 3

robt007 2018-08-19 | Hans Osieck (1910-2000)

Piano Concertino No 3

I 00:00'
II 03:00'
III 06:56'

Cor de Groot, piano
Radioamerorkest
Hubert Soudant, conductor (1974)

Hans Osieck is a Dutch pianist and piano teacher. As a composer he is self-taught. He writes several compositions for piano and orchestra: 'Fantasie op 'In een blauw geruite kiel' (1935), 'Concert voor twee piano's' (1942) and 'Pianoconcert' (1954). He also writes compositions for symphony orchestra and chamber music.

Hans Osieck is born on January 25, 1910, in Amsterdam. He studies piano with Elisabeth Aghina and Piet Vincent and after secondary education, he studies at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart (Germany) with Walter Rehberg and Max Pauer. In 1934 he plays his first 'Piano Concerto' with the Hague Philharmonic Orchestra. At that time he also performs with other Dutch symphony orchestras and on the radio.

For one year Hans Osieck studies in Paris with Yvonne Léfébure. From 1940 to 1945 he teaches piano at Bloemendaal. During the Second World War he cannot give concerts due to his disapproval of the 'Kultuurkamer'. After the war he studies in Paris again and in 1949 he goes to Germany for further studies. There he performs regularly with a.o. the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Hans Osieck teaches for one year at the College of Music in Durban, South Africa. After his return, he settles in Eindhoven as a piano teacher at the local school of music. Osieck gave many recitals after his retirement. He died on June 22, 2000, at Bloemendaal. (Refer: Muziekencyclopedie)

Artwork is by Harry van Gestel