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Review: Nota Bene Period Orchestra
In today’s Record
A concert Friday night by the Nota Bene Period Orchestra was proof that the witching hour comes early on Hallowe’en and is indiscriminate in its manifestation. By 7:45pm, two men in full 18th century livery were seated in the front row. By 8, cellist Felix Deak’s transmutation into The Incredible Hulk had already [...]
Schubert: Symphony No.5 in B flat major D485
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Symphony No 5 in B flat major D 485
Allegro
Andante con moto
Menuetto: Allegro Molto - Trio
Allegro Vivace
In 1816, when Symphony No.5 was written, Schubert was 19 years old. He was a prodigious but not precocious youth, composing many pieces but producing little of any real originality.
For the most part, he output [...]
Béla Bartók: Music For Strings, Percussion and Celeste
Béla Bartók
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste BB114 1936
Andante tranquillo
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro molto
Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste is one of his most well known pieces along with the Concerto for Orchestra and the 6 string quartets. It was commissioned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Basel Chamber Orchestra and premiered 21 January [...]
Spine Tinglers: John Terauds
John Terauds, the Classical Music Critic for The Toronto Star, weighs in with the first Spine Tingler of the season.
Here’s John:
We can only hope of wining the big lottery once. But people who listen or play can (and should) have one of those spine-tingling musical moments several times in their lifetime.
I work as a critic [...]
Program Notes Catalogue
Miss Mussel writes programme notes for orchestral and chamber music concerts in England and would be happy to create an original set of notes for your next concert. Her preferred method is to write an essay that links the whole program together and discusses overarching themes rather than writing three or four independent notes. [...]
Quiz #19 Envelope Please
Five foot French windows overlooking the city centre are lovely except that when they were installed 150 years ago, there was no such thing as an air conditioner. Now that air conditioners are everywhere, there is no such thing as five foot French windows. Circle. Square.
Muggy summer in Southern Ontario started yesterday and [...]
Quiz #19 Clue Two
Since this clue is posted so late in the day, the closing date for entries will be moved to midnight on Thursday 5th June.
Another track has been added to the player.
The clues are:
1) There is a structure of architectural and historical significance in Berlin that shares a name with this piece and its five cousins.
2) [...]
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