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[krixxx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dBg__wsuo

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto E Minor OP.64 (Full Length)
Violin : 힐러리 한 Hilary Hahn
Conductor : 파보 예르비 Paavo Jarvi
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
11th,Jun,2012. Korean Art Centre Concert Hall,Seoul Korea

[wimbo77]

Fleetwood Mac - Big Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6xU70O73c

[tomesing]

Vicki Lawrence - The Night the Lights went out in Georgia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrQvOvu_eRc


tomesing

[krixxx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5hYjWfPNYE

I. Allegro Patetico
II. Intermezzo - Allegretto Molto Tranquilo
III. Lento Maestoso
IV. Allegro Con Fuoco

Franz Xaver Scharwenka, pianist and composer, was born on 6 January 1850 in Samster (the modern Szamotu1y near Poznań, Poland) in the heart of the then Prussian region of Wielkopolska. His father, August Wilhelm Scharwenka, an architect by profession, moved to Samster from Prague. His mother, Apolonia Emilia Golisch, came from a typical Polish Catholic family, which held a small landed estate in Ruxmühle near Samster. As Scharwenka remembered many years later, his mother's family were exceptionally musical, and there were frequent childhood visits to her relatives that familiarised him with Polish folk-music which was later to become such a vital source of inspiration in his career as a composer.

Scharwenka's most outstanding and most popular compositions are four piano concertos, works which made him famous as a composer and pianist on both sides of the Atlantic. The Concerto in F minor, is Scharwenka's last piano concerto. It crowns his experience of the form, and appears to be his final "coming to terms" with piano music, for the technical demands of the solo part reach the apex of performance skills, particularly in the outermost movements. The massive texture of the piano part based on octave repetitions and bravura passages, as well as sequences of broken chords in octaves, and virtuoso cadenzas covering the entire sound range of the instrument create an impression that the composer wanted to embrace the entire history of the form, as well as summarise achievements of the pianism of the time in a single composition. From the stylistic point of view, the concerto is an eclectic piece, which combines elements typical of brillante concertos with those typical of Mendelssohn's, Liszt's and Tchaikovsky's works. Thematic material is presented mainly by the orchestra, with the piano part instantly transforming it. Orchestra tutti are also intended to counterpoint bravura fragments of the solo part, or to provide chordal accompaniment. Although the concerto consists of three movements, it lacks the usual classical structure, and proportions of particular elements are distorted. Instead of a typical slow fragment, the second movement is an Allegretto molto tranquillo of dance-like quality, which—as noted by the composer in the score—is the intermezzo between the first movement, and the beginning of the third movement, the Lento. An Allegro con fuoco, whose melodic pattern brings to mind Polish folk-dances, forms the second part of the third movement, and, simultaneously, the finale proper. The formal integrating factor is the main theme of the Allegro patetico, which, at the same time, constitutes the core of the whole concerto. Reminiscences appear in the second and third movements. The theme is also present in the wind parts (bassoon, clarinet) of the third movement (following the Lento), announcing the following part of the movement, the final Allegro. Formally speaking, it is a very interesting example of a piano concerto whose virtuoso quality influences its structure.

Composed in 1908, the Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 82, had its première in Berlin in October of the same year, with Scharwenka's pupil and later assistant, Martha Siebold, as soloist. The first page of the score contains a dedication: To Her Highness, Queen Elisabeth of Romania. Two years later the composer played the concerto himself in New York. Scharwenka, who appeared with the New York Symphony Orchestra under Gustav Mahler, described the evening in a rather laconic way: He conducted my work in an accomplished manner. It is a well-known fact that Scharwenka and Mahler did not get on particularly well. Following the New York première, Scharwenka played the concerto in America a number of times, both under Mahler and Leopold Stokowski. Though a work of genius, its incredible technical and interpretational difficulty resulted in the Concerto in F minor being rejected by most pianists even in Scharwenka's lifetime. Too demanding, too laborious, too many possible pitfalls.

[rotobott]

Cabaret Voltaire - Kino

[trailmaster]

Giovanni Battista Fontana was an obscure Italian composer in the early Baroque period. Not much is known of him. He lived mostly in Rome. His only surviving music is what you will hear. A group of sonatas for different instruments.

https://youtu.be/z-EvacMC4aw

https://youtu.be/XWDNnwsuc3w

https://youtu.be/hq0XkpMH0jk

https://youtu.be/MIYDbZPmlmg

https://youtu.be/ufm7c1NIFWY

[diamelsx]

Rotary Connection-Burning of the Midnight Lamp

[uli12345]

German Swing

Jawohl meine Herren!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGylhtcmomk

Hans Albers

Heinz Rühmann

Uli

[soulreaper]

Die Toten Hosen Shake Hands live im So36 HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EATC-5KwNa8

[soulreaper]

Whitesnake - Soldier of Fortune (Official / New / Studio Album / 2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z69sxDq3Ybc