"Trischerlied des Valentin from ''Der Vershwender'' (1834)
Text: Ferdinand Raimund
Music: Konradin Kreutzel
Da streiten sich die Leut' herum
oft um den Wert des Glücks;
der Eine heißt den Andern dumm,
am End' weiß keiner nix.
Da ist der allerärmste Mann
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTT7TCodEsc
Richard Barth: Ciacona, in B minor, for Violin, Op.21 (1908)
Info (Many Thanks to Wikipedia)
Richard Barth (1850-1923), was a left-handed German violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and composer of the romantic period.
He was in the circle of Johannes Brahms.
Barth was born in Grosswanzleben, Saxony and from 1863 to 1867 studied with the renowned violinist Joseph Joachim.
Barth used his left hand for bowing and his right hand for fingering and so played the violin "in reverse." Nonetheless, he was successful as a violinist and served as concertmaster of orchestras in Munster, Krefeld, and Marburg and headed a string quartet.
He was also a successful music teacher. He was the music director of the university in Marburg before he moved to Hamburg where he became the conductor of the Philharmonie and the Singakademie and directed the Conservatory beginning in 1908.
His Ciacona in B minor, Op. 21, composed in 1908, is a finely crafted tribute to J.S. Bach's Chaconne in post-Paganini technical and tonal terms.
He died in Marburg in 1923.
Performers
Violin: Jennifer Koh (1976-)
Good listening by MikoNatt!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrUROc60X8A
Daniel Auber: La Muette de Portici, Overture, S 16 (1828)
La muette de Portici (The Mute Girl of Portici, or The Mute Girl of Portici), also called Masaniello in some versions, is an opera in five acts by Daniel Auber, with a libretto by Germain Delavigne, revised by Eugène Scribe.
The work has an important place in music history as the earliest French grand opera. It is also known for its role in the Belgian Revolution of 1830.
Background
The opera was first given at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra on 29 February 1828. The role of Masaniello was taken by the famous tenor Adolphe Nourrit and Princess Elvire was sung by Laure Cinti-Damoreau. The dancer Lise Noblet played the mute title role, a part later taken by other dancers such as Marie Taglioni, Fanny Elssler, and Pauline Leroux, also the actress Harriet Smithson (the future wife of Hector Berlioz). Alphonse was created by Alexis Dupont, who was Lise Noblet's brother-in-law. The conductor at the premiere was Henri Valentino.
La muette was innovative in a number of ways. First, it marked the introduction into opera of mime and gesture as an integral part of an opera plot (although these formats were familiar to Parisian audiences from ballet and mélodrame). Also, it is historic setting, liberal political implications, use of popular melodies, handling of large orchestra and chorus and spectacular stage effects immediately marked it as different from preceding types of opera, in retrospect earning it the title of the first of the genre of 'Grand Opera'. The journal Pandore commented after the premiere "for a long time, enlightened critics have thought that alongside the old tragédie Lyrique it was possible to have a more realistic and natural drama which might suit the dignity of this theatre." The new genre was consolidated by Rossini's Guillaume Tell (1829) and Meyerbeer's Robert le diable (1831).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzI6IOPD7k
Johann Strauss II: Maskenball-Quadrille (From Giuseppe Verdi Opera: "Un ballo in Maschera"), Op.272
Good listening by MikoNatt!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCpzpwOTM0k
Anthony Collins: Vanity Fair (Orchestral Version) (1952)
Anthony Collins (1893-1963) was a British Conductor and Composer.
Collins, a student of violin of Achille Rivarde and of Composition of Gustav Holst, was a composer.
While at the start, the Sussexian, played the Viola in the London Symphony Orchestra, and later at the royal opera house and at the convent garden orchestra, he IN 1936 resigned and he started to conduct in 1938.
He also became especially popular for his film music composed in a period from 1937 to 1954, moving to the United States im 1939 he enjoyed some notoriety in the years 1940 and 1941, when he was nominated to some academy awards for best film score and in 1942 when he was nominated an academy award Best Music, Scoring a musical piece, but lost all three.
He retun to England in 1945, where he as a conductor recorded music from 1945 to 1956.
In the late 1950s, he retired and he returned to the United States, in Los Angeles, where he died in 1963.
Performers
Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson (1924-2015)
Orchestra: RTE Concert Orchestra
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Good Listening by MikoNatt!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezMSblZI5T8