SUNDAY MORNING CLASSICS ON TBP

A collaboration of: “The Classic Music Mafia”
Anthony Aaron, and Steve C.

Steve C / Classic Music Mafia: Here is the image depicting “The Classic Music Gangsters,” a whimsical and imaginative group of classical musicians with a playful gangster twist. The scene is set in an old-world music hall with rich, vintage decor, where the musicians are performing in stylish 1920s-era gangster attire. The atmosphere is mysterious yet sophisticated, capturing the unique blend of classical music and a lighthearted gangster theme. – aka.attrition

Every Sunday morning we present selections for our TBP family to enjoy.

We present symphonies, ensembles, quartets, octets, etc.

Not all of our music is strictly ‘classical’. We may stray a little, but we strive to make all of our selections ‘classy’.

We offer tips on proper ‘symphony etiquette’ and even some selections that are a bit light-hearted and fun aimed at a younger audience. Those pieces will be so designated, and might be a good way to introduce kids to a world of music that they might not have been exposed to or think of as old and ‘stuffy’.

A full symphony will run as long as it will. We don’t want to cut a symphony short. However, we also include some shorter pieces that we try to keep under fifteen minutes in length. You can sample each and hopefully find one or more that pleases you.

We hope that you enjoy our Sunday selections.

Steve C.

The 10 Most Popular Symphony Finales – by Dvořák, Mahler, Beethoven a.o.(Celibidache, Mehta, Maazel)

Well, it’s happened yet again. This piece is only available on YouTube.

It’s a good piece though and worth the trip.

This week in our feature as well as in my ‘shorts’ below we will explore what some people consider to be the popular and beautiful finales in classical music.

I hope you will enjoy it.

Discover 10 of the most famous and breathtaking symphony finales of all time! Featuring Dvorak’s “New World Symphony”, Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”, as well as Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, and more.

With some of the greatest orchestras and conductors in the world: Sergiu Celibidache & Münchner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel & New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim and West-Eastern Divan, as well as Lionel Bringuier, Christoph Eschenbach, Georg Solti and Fabio Luisi.

These Five Pieces Come To Us Thanks To Anonymous.

Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte

Beethoven Symphony No 7 A major Kurt Masur Gewandhaus Leipzig

Händel – Suite in A major, HWV 426 (Keith Jarrett)
Harpsichord Suite No. 1 in A, HWV 426

George Frideric Handel

Keith Jarrett, piano

Canon in D – bottles, glasses and others – GlassDuo

Yma Sumac In Her Duet With A Flute – Insane Harmonization

This One Comes To Us Thanks To m.

Отава Ё – Пойдём, братцы, вдоль улицы/ Otava – Yo –

Let’s take a walk down the street, brethren

As today is Russian Orthodox Easter Sunday:

Христос воскресе! [translit. “christoss vaskressje”] – Christ is Risen!

This One Comes To Us Thanks To Current Mafioso Anthony Aaron.

Rimsky-Korsakov – Russian Easter Overture

And … the Russian Easter Overture by Rimsky-Korsakov …

The Next Ten Pieces Come To Us Thanks To Ursel Doran.

Dvořák Yo Yo Ma Bělohlávek 2015

YO Yo Ma performs Dvorak cello piece!!

Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence – Madison Square Garden, NYC – 2009/10/29&30

This very famous tune is IMHO a classic as it has lasted for all time.

Original:

Yuja Wang /Her Best Performance

The two goddess of the keyboard collection for all to clip and enjoy.

Yuja Wang: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major Op. 83 [HD]

HD – Yuja Wang – Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 in d minor, Op.15

Yuja Wang : Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 & Encore at Carnegie Hall (FULL Video in HD)

Yuja Wang: Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54 [HD]

(In Macau 2019) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30–Yuja Wang

Khatia Buniatishvili – Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto No 1 in B flat minor, Op.23 (2017)

Zubin Mehta, Khatia Buniatishvili, Israel Philharmonic – Schumann, Op. 54 (without crickets)

Anthony Aaron

Johann Sebastian Bach (born March 21 [March 31, New Style], 1685, Eisenach, Thuringia, Ernestine Saxon Duchies [Germany]—died July 28, 1750, Leipzig) composer of the Baroque era, the most celebrated member of a large family of north German musicians. Although he was admired by his contemporaries primarily as an outstanding harpsichordist, organist, and expert on organ building, Bach is now generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time and is celebrated as the creator of the Brandenburg Concertos, The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Mass in B Minor, and numerous other masterpieces of church and instrumental music. Appearing at a propitious moment in the history of music, Bach was able to survey and bring together the principal styles, forms, and national traditions that had developed during preceding generations and, by virtue of his synthesis, enrich them all.

Bach, a dazzling organist and church musician, had to compose all kinds of original pieces for every church service including pieces for choir, organ, harpsichord and orchestra. Since most of his music was written to be performed in a church service only once and then thrown out, very little of his music was published during his lifetime. It was for this reason that Bach composed more music than almost any other composer. However, his musical genius was not recognized until about 100 years after his death.

Here are a selection of videos of not only Bach’s music, but of musical performance and of Bach’s place in even modern music. I hope you find something to value …

The Best of Bach

The title says it all … a sample of his beautiful compositions.

THE BEST OF BACH

Johann Sebastian Bach

1. Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046
Allegro (00:00)
Adagio (4:43)
Allegro (9:10)
2. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Allegro (13:40)
Allegro assai (19:11)
Allegro (24:05)
3. Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major, BWV 1049
Presto (31:42)
Andante (36:37)
Affettuoso (39:32)
4. Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051
Allegro (45:02)
5. Concerto for Violin and Oboe in C minor, BWV 1060
Allegro (50:38)
Largo (54:59)
Allegro (59:32)
6. Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067: Menuet (1:02:35)
7. Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: Air on the G String (1:05:35)
8. Cantata BWV 147: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (1:10:07)
9. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565 (1:13:32)
10. Harpsichord Invention No. 1 in C major, BWV 772 (1:22:23)
11. Harpsichord Invention No 8 in F major, BWV 779 (1:23:43)
12. Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067: Badinerie (1:24:42)
13. Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach: Minuet in G major, BWV Ahn. 114 (1:27:24)
14. Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach: Musette in D major, BWV Anh.126 (1:28:59)
15. Violin Partita No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: Bourée (1:30:06)
16. Sonata for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord, BWV 1028 (1:31:48)
17. Concerto in D minor, BWV 1059: 2nd Movt. (1:35:44)
18. Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat major, BWV 1010: Courante (1:38:54)
19. Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Gavotte (1:42:32)
20. Cello Suite No. 6 in D major BWV 1012: Prelude (1:46:42)

Bach – Oboe concerto in D minor BWV 1059R

A work by Bach presumably unknown to many – for us too – as Bach left behind only a very brief sketch of this concerto, of just nine bars. However, these nine bars do correspond to another piece: the ‘Sinfonia’ of the cantata Geist und Seele wird verwirret (BWV 35). And that’s where this reconstruction – recorded here for All of Bach with oboist Rodrigo López Paz – finds its basis. For the middle movement we have opted for the famous Adagio from the oboe concerto by Alessandro Marcello, which is an audience favourite nowadays, but was also greatly admired by Bach.

Netherlands Bach Society

Rodrigo López Paz, oboe

0:00 Movement 1
5:39 Movement 2
9:31 Movement 3

Musicians on pitch | Netherlands Bach Society

The most frequently asked question on our YouTube channel is about pitch: you remark that our text or title mentions the wrong key or ask why we perform pieces a tone too low. Why do recordings on All of Bach often sound a semitone lower (or higher) than when you play this piece at home on the piano, violin or flute? In this background video on pitch, our musicians explain why.

Netherlands Bach Society

Siebe Henstra, harpsichord

Robert Vanryne, trumpet

Rodrigo López Paz, oboe

Lucia Swarts, cello

Femke Huizinga, viola

Robert Franenberg, double bass

Thomas Hobbs, tenor

Eduard Bos, tuner

Marloes Biermans, musicologist

The Bach Effect: What the GREATS Hear That You Don’t

In today’s episode I (Rick Beato) explore the profound influence of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) on music legends, revealing the timeless impact of Bach’s genius across genres.

What Made Bach Great? Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

Another video by Rick Beato exploring the life and music of Bach …

Steve C.

7 of the Most Epic Symphony Endings in Classical Music History

The symphonies in this video are not listed in a specific order, and this list is VERY subjective. These are some of our favourite symphony finales, please comment your favourite!

Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction
00:42 – 7. Shostakovich Symphony No. 10
01:59 – 6. Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
03:14 – 5. Dvořák Symphony No. 9
05:05 – 4. Prokofiev Symphony No. 5
06:53 – 3. Bruckner Symphony No. 4 “Romantic”
09:31 – 2. Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 “The Year 1905”
11:04 – 1. Mahler Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
14:59 – Conclusion

13 MORE Stunning Symphony Endings in Classical Music

The symphonies in this video are not listed in a specific order, and this list is VERY subjective. These are some of our favourite symphony finales, please comment your favourite!

Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Symphony was mistakenly labelled as “Op. 18” in the video (which is actually his second concerto), it is actually his Op. 27.

Chapters:
00:00 – Disclaimers
00:39 – Introduction
01:16 – 13. Beethoven Symphony No. 9 Op. 125
03:22 – 12. Brahms Symphony No. 1 Op. 68
05:24 – 11. Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Op. 64
08:09 – 10. Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 “Organ Symphony” Op. 78
11:50 – 9. Schumann Symphony No. 2 Op. 61
14:14 – 8. Janáček Sinfonietta “Military”
17:41 – 7. Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 Op.27
20:08 – 6. Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie
23:02 – 5. Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 Op.74
27:09 – 4. Copland Symphony No. 3
30:19 – 3. Atterberg Symphony No. 3 “Pictures of the West Coast”
32:55 – 2. Mahler Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand”
36:40 – 1. Bruckner Symphony No. 8 “The Apocalyptic” WAB 108
43:17 – Conclusion

The Classic Music Mafia – Adding some class to this joint one Sunday at a time.

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