S2.E93 Mendelssohn Capriccio Brillant, Mozart Horn Quintet, Tchaikovsky January, Offenbach Les Oiseaux dans La Charmille

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All the way back in episode 25, we listened to Mendelssohn's Rondo Capricorno, an exuberant pizza photo piano, which performers quite admitted easier to play than it sounds. So it's always good material for an orcore. Mendelssohn wrote a pizza. A capriccio, but y'all. The difference being that this incorporates an orchestra and what is in effect a one-movement competitor, the format of which you most likely picked up from Caleb from Vapor. Capriccio is a strange title here. Because although it means a change of all kinds of different moods, it's nevertheless suggestive of something unattractive. That can't be said it is 10-minute work. Because although it does have different moods, it's fundamentally playful and uplifting. The German peer Laura Holt, whose death in 2022, just three days before his 52nd birthday, came as a terrible shock. At the time of his death, he was a musical director of the Chamber Orchestra of Paris with whom he performed as a life recording. But his horn quintet could so easily have been a fifth had it been scored for an orchestra rather than a quartet and a horn. Because just like a concerto, it has three moments in a traditional faster flow, faster format. A quartet is traditionally made up of two violins, a viola and a chatter. But in this arrangement, a motel has just one violin and two violets and a chat. That gives it as like a darker sound of the basis, allowing the horn to reach out. And in this recording, by the players of the WDRs over the orchestra, they've actually gone a step further by slipping in a double basis on the outside movement. Allowing ourselves anyway take away in RB world. I wonder if classical music had ever been more important in our lives or the left. January eighteen seventy-six, so exactly 150 years ago, saw the first release of twelve monthly editions in the competed by the music magazine Novele. A commission offered to him by the editor with the subtitles of twelve canopies. Which ran monthly through the year. So in the 21st century equivalent, I thought we might pop one into the podcast every month in the same way. I'll be using the version by Vladimir Ashenazi, one of the truly great Russian pianists who is also one of those rare musicians who made a successful transition from solo career to the conductors podium. Here just in time is January titled By the Fireside. But anybody can tell that this is a brutal perform and we're listening to a live recording. We don't need to go into the plot of a barker tales of Hoffman, because it will be harder to think long before I finish. But I'll just tell you what's going on here, and then you can enjoy it, for a year master. Hoffman has fallen in love with Olympia and doesn't realise that she is a fact. But there's more than a hint of her mechanical nature when she has to be wound up a few times. It's all a bit of fun. But just listen to the way Kathleen Kim delivers those notes with a pinpoint protection.

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