All Entries Tagged With: "horn"
Today Only: Beethoven Orgy On The CBC
UPDATE: This broadcast will take place on Sunday 13th April, not today.
If you didn’t get enough Beethoven this week, you can indulge yourself all day tomorrow starting at 9am.
From the CBC website:
The symphonies will be presented in order with each to be preceeded by a conversation between Bill Richardson and Vancouver Symphony [...]
Spine Tinglers: Thomas Dausgaard
Some years ago the wonderful violist Steven Dann introduced me to a recording on which he played the 2nd violin in Mahler symphony no 4 - well, 2nd violin solo, as this was a recording of the chamber version of the symphony by Erwin Stein done in 1921. It was made for the circle of musicians in and around the 2nd Viennese school of composers in Vienna, and it was scored for just string quintet, flute, oboe, clarinet, piano, harmonium, percussion, and soprano.
Hornucopia: Pencils Down Everyone
The winning answer has been received from none other than Opera Bouffe herself.
This weeks mystery music was Six mélodies pour cor à pistons et piano composed in 1840 by Charles Gounod.
Miss Mussel and her horn colleagues used to sneak into the concert hall at university and take turns accompanying each other playing these lovelies. [...]
Hornucopia: Clue 2
Three quick clues this morning:
1) The composer is French
2) The genre his is most known for is opera
3) He won the Prix de Rome in 1839.
Let’s have some guesses!
Listen again here if for no other reason than these are really lovely pieces.
Hornucopia: Clue One
Ok. So no one had a guess yesterday, which means one of three things:
1) You don’t understand French.
2) You aren’t really into this guessing game.
3) You have absolutely no bloody idea where to begin.
Let’s sort out the first one. Qu’est-ce que c’est simply means what’s this.
The next possibility isn’t really flattering to [...]
Qu’est-ce que c’est?: Hornucopia Edition
The name that tune game was quite a success last week so Miss Mussel, knowing a good thing when she sees it, is going to stick with it. Plus, it’s just plain fun, why not? Pardon the excruciating elisions and archaic double meaning in the title. Some things are just too good to resist.
Have [...]
Siegfried’s Calling.
She is labelled only as Superwoman in the notes but if any of the comments can be believed, she is/was assistant principal at the Stockholm Opera.
Update [26/01/08] Operabouffe kindly informs that Superwoman is also known as Annamia Erikson and she is indeed co-principal at the Royal Opera Stockholm.
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