26. From tranquillity to jubilation in three steps.

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I've noticed over the years that one of the ways people seek to encourage new listeners to classical music is by emphasizing its relaxing quality. It's not a word you'll ever catch me using about it. I don't think any composer would want to know that his or her music had been used for that purpose. It's a label which is particularly tempting to use on gentle music, such as the one we're going to start with today. But music of any kind should stimulate us to send our minds to places or people we cherish or may even have forgotten. Rosa Munda, Princess or Cypress, is a play rarely performed these days, and is only really known for the music which Hubert wrote to accompany it, which itself is equally rarely performed in full, made up of ten parts and lasting for over an hour. We're going to listen to one of the most famous sections, the Andantino. It's a charming and gentle melody. Hubert obviously liked the main theme himself as well, since he went on to use it a couple of other times elsewhere, most notably in his B flat impromptu number three. The Andantino is played here by the Dresden Statiskabella Orchestra conducted by Willi Boskowski, a man who had a particular affinity with Viennese music. Alfredo's dad has been to visit Violetta. Germond returns to find his son in disappear. After reading Violetta's letter, that she must leave him in this area. And speaking of better, they don't know how much better than this. The much lamented imagery of Ostovia. This is an extraordinary example of real colour and breath control in a live performance at Coven Garden in 2004. The first two sentences are sung in one breath, and the final note is perfection itself. Now is that time in introducing this blaze of jubilation. Strauss, who lived between 1864 and 1949, and with no relation whatsoever to the Walter famous family, was a German composer who attracted a great deal of controversy and appropriate because of his links with Nazism. Born into a wealthy brewing family, there was always plenty of music in the household, and composition apparently came easily to him as they were conducting a talent which appeared in a number of high-profile positions as well as some major recordings. When Hitler became chancellor in 1933, Stranger was nearly seventy, and found himself in a fairly awkward position. He was by now a prominent and well-known individual whose support for the success of the new regime and was idle. But he had a Jewish daughter-in-law, as well as many Jewish friends. So while he never joined the party, he felt a heck of a love of music would be the better safeguard. Nevertheless, it was a standard of which many disapproved. The Don has been set in music by many famous age by Modus Art and his order of Don Giovanni. But unlike Modus Art and Don, is defined by the last on the Nile's account where the Don Die Duel. At least a couple of them are not culminating in the as well as a tender lighting introduced by another. It's all there. Right after the duel at the end. And if you listen carefully, you will hear the single thing on the drawing followed by quivering on the thing and then falls on the ground. Because the opening is a difficult interview. In 1924, I said, Haven't I to write after all or write one music? I cannot bear the tragedy at the present time. I want to create joy. I need it. Don't we all? Here it is in spades, played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with its trademark brass at the center stage, conducted by George Shelty.

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