#classicalmusic

"Piggies" is a song by the English rock band #theBeatles from their 1968 album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). Written by #GeorgeHarrison as a #socialCommentary, the song serves as an #Orwellian satire on greed and consumerism. Among several elements it incorporates from #classicalMusic, the track features #harpsichord and #orchestralStrings in the #baroquePop style, which are contrasted by Harrison's acerbic lyrics and the sound of grunting pigs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0nzZ8-kIf0

Bartok: Suite, Op. 14 - Alexandra Burch
https://youtu.be/ElbQivCCByw?si=W1O5uO5izgIXIoH9

Even though this piece was published more than a century ago, to my ear it still sounds refreshingly modern. As I listen to it on a loop, I feel myself breaking out of a late romantic sound world which I do not reject but recognize as one that can for me all too easily become one of cliche, lush comfort, and mere reassurance.

I try, and at times attain, what one might call listening "success" with works of the paradigmatically modernist Second Viennese School.
At other times, though, I just feel lost.

So I feel grateful to Bartok for composing music that is modern, not necessarily always "easy", yet which disproves the equation of "musical modernism" with "unintelligibilty".

#BelaBartok #Bartok #Piano #Modernism #ClassicalMusic

Australian Chamber Orchestra slams ANU plan as 'cultural vandalism'
By Lily Nothling

The Australian Chamber Orchestra's Richard Tognetti has warned that the ANU's plan to axe its School of Music would result in an "act of cultural vandalism", with another Canberra ensemble saying its offer to help has been rejected.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-10/australian-chamber-orchestra-slams-anu-plan-cut-school-of-music/105634030

#MusicEducation #ClassicalMusic #Music #Universities #LilyNothling

An old documentary about a fine pianist, Klara Wuertz,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5DZWXvLWdQ

#classicalmusic @classicalmusic #piano

Choral Music of Florence Price www.pizzicato.lu/chormusik-vo... #classicalmusic

Chormusik von Florence Price -...

@classicalmusic
@galantmusic

#AntonioVivaldi 1678 – 1741

#ConcertoGrosso in D minor
Op.3 No.11 (LEstro armonico, 1711) #RV565

1. Allegro
2. Adagio e spiccato
3. Allegro
4. Largo e spiccato
5. Allegro

#AnneSofieVonOtter #Mezzosoprano
#DanielHope #Violin solo

#VeritàBaroque

#classicalmusic #galantmusic #sacralmuic #musik #music #musique #musica #Vivaldi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjO-wWUzcmA

@classicalmusic
@renaissancemusic

#ThomasTallis 1505 –1585

'If ye love me'

#TheGesualdoSix,
#Owain Park.

#musik #music #musique #musica #Tallis #renaissancemusic #classicalmusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHe2FDlHHa8

@classicalmusic

#FrancisPoulenc 1899 — 1963

Concerto for 2 Pianos in D minor (1932) #FP61

1 Allegro ma non troppo
2 Larghetto
3 Allegro molto

#LucasJussen & #ArthurJussen #Piano

#FrankfurtRadioSymphony ∙
#AlainAltinoglu

#classicalmusic #modernistmusic #musik #music #musique #musica #Poulenc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9iaollYj2U

Here is an extract of a strings quartet song I'm working on.

#orchestral #orchestration #orchestra #strings #stringquartet #ClassicalMusic #musescore

Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 3; Two Scherzos album review – deft execution of the Russian’s early exuberance
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/aug/07/shostakovich-symphonies-nos-1-3-two-scherzos-album-review?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#ClassicalMusic

#Shostakovich: #Piano #Quintet, Op. 57 & Piano Trios
Oliver Schnyder Trio, Julia Fischer, Nils Mönkemeyer

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1818869829?l=en-US

#classicalMusic #appleMusicClassical #commute

Putting some Sciarrino on the ears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y-TxbTc6Wk&list=PL8E78E4B9CF4E8699
#NowListening #ClassicalMusic #ModernClassicalMusic

An unknown composer posted his music online and scored the biggest indie game of the year
By Gianfranco Di Giovanni and Meena Shamaly

In his first-ever video game soundtrack, Lorien Testard created the music for hit game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. It's topped charts and racked up millions of streams.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-07/lorien-testard-video-game-soundtrack-clair-obscur-expedition-33/105575166

#VideoGames #ClassicalMusic #Composer #GianfrancoDiGiovanni #MeenaShamaly

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Grace Williams : Elegy for Cynddylan, for Trumpet and Piano (1970)
https://youtu.be/VALBVc1XzJA?si=Ymitdoc7NaUDHNe5

I don't really know anything about Grace Williams. After hearing this elegy for trumpet and piano, I think I might give her trumpet concerto a listen later.

To learn more about this Welsh composer, I turned to...

#ClassicalMusic #GraceWilliams #BritishMusic #WelshMusic

#music #ClassicalMusic #Brahms

'The Lübeck University of Music has made its archive of documents relating to the composer Johannes Brahms available for free online.'

https://theviolinchannel.com/lubeck-university-of-music-makes-its-brahms-archive-available-online/

RADIANT DAWN
THE GESUALDO SIX, OWAIN PARK
MATILDA LLOYD, TRUMPET

Owain Park, The Gesualdo Six

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1810495337?l=en-US

#classicalMusic #appleMusicClassical #commute #vocal

@classicalmusic
@galantmusic

#AntonioVivaldi 1678 – 1741

'Sovvente il sole' | Andromeda liberata (first perdormance 1726)
RV #Anh117

#AnneSofieVonOtter #Mezzosoprano
#DanielHope #Violin solo

#ChamberOrchestraOfEurope

#classicalmusic #galantmusic #sacralmuic #musik #music #musique #musica #Vivaldi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oadCEhcQJLw

@classicalmusic
@renaissancemusic

#GiovanniPierluigidaPalestrina c. 1525 - 1594

':Sicut cervus'

#TheMarianConsort

#musik #music #musique #musica #Palestrina
#classicalmusic #madrigalmusic
#renaissancemusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG8hy6P6DCs