lunes 29 de noviembre de 2010

Beethoven: Violin Concerto, By Robin Stowell (PDF)

Beethoven: Violin Concerto, By Robin Stowell
Cambridge University Press | 140 pages | English | 1998 | ISBN: 0521451590 | PDF | 4,3 MB

This is the first individual study of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. It explores the work's background and the influences that combined in its creation, and describes its indifferent initial reception. It considers the numerous textual problems that confront the performer, including discussion of Beethoven's adaptation for piano and orchestra. Following a detailed synopsis of the work itself, a final section reviews the wide variety of cadenzas that have been written to complement the concerto throughout its performance history.

Contents
List of figures page vii

Preface ix

1 Towards the Violin Concerto Op. 61 1

Beethoven's Violin Concerto in the context of his oeuvre 1
Beethoven as violinist 2
Apprenticeship 4

The violin and bow in the early nineteenth century 6

2 The genesis of Op. 61 11
The French connection I - principal personalities 11

The French connection II - general style, form and
character 14
The French connection III - violin idiom 16

Austrian influences 20

Franz Clement — I: performing style 20

Franz Clement - II: Violin Concerto in D major 24

3 Reception and performance history 30

The premiere 30

After the premiere 33

The age of Joachim and Vieuxtemps 35

Ysaye and other nineteenth-century virtuosos 38

The age of recordings 39

Editions of the solo violin part 42

The version for piano Op. 61a 47

4 The textual history
Sketches

Principal sources
The text

5 Structure and style I— I. Allegro ma non troppo

6 Structure and style II - 2/3. Larghetto - Rondo:
Allegro

Larghetto

Rondo: Allegro
7 Cadenzas

Appendix 1: Select discography

Appendix 2\ Published cadenzas

Appendix 3: Textual problems perpetuated in some
printed scores
Notes

Select bibliography

Index


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martes 23 de noviembre de 2010

Paul Auster: Sunset Park (PDF-E-pub-Mobi-HTML)

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Sunset Park
Follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.
An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families. A group of young people squatting in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world. William Wyler's 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives. A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway. An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage. These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers


"With a plot that encompasses war in the Middle East, economic recession and the perils of the publishing industry, a contemporary vitality distinguishes the latest from the veteran author…. Sure to please Auster fans and likely to attract new readers as well." Kirkus, (Starred Review)

"Passionately literary… every element is saturated with implication as each wounded, questing character's story illuminates our tragic flaws and profound need for connection, coherence, and beauty. In a time of daunting crises and change, Auster reminds us of lasting things, of love, art, and ‘the miraculous strangeness of being alive.'"
Donna Seaman, Booklist, (Starred Review)

"Auster deftly balances minute details that evoke New York City, post-financial meltdown, with marvelously drawn characters bruised but unbowed by life's vicissitudes. He has an impressive array of literary nominations to his credit, but this should be the novel that brings him a broader readership." —Sally Bissell, Library Journal, (Starred Review)

"Auster is in excellent form… a gratifying departure from the postmodern trickery he's known for, one full of crisp turns of phrase and keen insights." —Publishers Weekly

"Sunset Park is sprawling but taut, toweringly ambitious in scope yet wholly intimate in the sphere of its characters' lives. While we still teeter on the brink of recession in an uncertain economic recovery—with millions still out of work and losing their homes—this novel is probably one of the most important literary touchstones of our era. And it's a true pleasure to read."
—Jason Bennett, Library Journal

"A clear-eyed and muscular fable about tough economic times." —Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal (Pre-Pub "My Picks")



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viernes 19 de noviembre de 2010

Schubert: Divertissement à la hongroise-Alexandre Tharaud and Zhu Xiao-Mei (2003)

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Las composiciones de Schubert para piano a cuatro manos, permiten reunir a dos de los más grandes pianistas de nuestro tiempo: Alexandre Tharaud, que es muy conocido como uno de los tecladistas indispensables en la ejecución de la música vanguardista más novedosa y Zhu Xiao-Mei, virtuosa de origen Chino, quien hubo de sufrir cinco años de prisión durante la Revolución Cultural en la que la "música burguesa" fue prohibida y los músicos perseguidos y castigados.

Ambos logran en su rendición un registro que nadie, interesado en el piano, debe perderse.

Esta ha sido reconocida como una de las mejores grabaciones de piano a cuatro manos de los últimos 10 años
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1.- Divertissement à la hongroise for piano, 4 hands in G minor, D. 818 (Op. 54)

Composed by Franz Schubert

with Xiao-Mei Zhu, Alexandre Tharaud

2.- Variations (8) on an Original Theme, for piano, 4 hands in A flat major, D. 813 (Op. 35)

Composed by Franz Schubert

with Xiao-Mei Zhu, Alexandre Tharaud


3.- Fantasia for piano, 4 hands in F minor, D. 940 (Op. 103)

Composed by Franz Schubert

with Xiao-Mei Zhu, Alexandre Tharaud



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sábado 13 de noviembre de 2010

Henryk Gorecki - Beatus Vir · Totus Tuus · Old Polish Music (1993)


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Henryk Gorecki ha muerto
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Su obra es una de las expresiones mas crudas del "dolor del Mundo", un testimonio de la infinita ansiedad del siglo XX convertida en música.

Con su partida el mundo queda aun mas vació.



1. Beatus Vir, op.38

2. Totus Tuus. op.60

3. Old Polish Music, op.24


Nikita Storojev, baritone

Prague Philharmonic Choir & Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

John Nelson, conductor



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lunes 8 de noviembre de 2010

Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 3 & 9, Viktoria Mullova (2010)


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En esta entrega compartimos dos joyas del acervo Beethoveniano: la Sonata para Violín No.3 op12/3 y la Sonata No.9 op47 "Kreutzersu", ambas en una ambiciosa combinación de instrumentos de época.

Se trata del disco más reciente de Viktoria Mullova, lanzado por sello creado por la violinista: ONYX CLASSICS.
La Mullova ejecuta usando un G.B Guadagnini de 1750 y es acompañada por el joven pianista Sudafricano Kristian Bezuidenhout que para esta rendición usa un fortepiano de Anton Walter und Sohn de 1822.
Se ha dicho- por el director y fortepianista Jos van Immerseel- que la modernidad de las Sonatas de Beethoven se destaca más con instrumentos de época que con los contemporáneos. Aquí puede comprobarse, ampliamente, ese juicio.

Recomendamos este disco con toda nuestra capacidad de énfasis.


Following on the critical success of her brilliant recording of Bach s Sonatas and Partitas, this new CD of Beethoven sonatas sees Viktoria Mullova partnered with rising-star fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout. For this disc, Mullova plays with her usual grace and fire on gut strings and using on a classical period bow, but is never a slave to musicological correctness. Bezuidenhout demonstrates his staggering virtuosity on the 1822 Walter fortepiano chosen for this recording. Both of these fantastic performers bring out every nuance of Beethoven s sonatas, making the listener forget any controversy over the instruments they play. This recording, the fiftieth release from Onyx, marks the fifth anniversary of this enterprising young label.




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viernes 5 de noviembre de 2010

The Violin: A Condensed History of the Violin, Chas. Goffrie (1876) PDF


Free download. Descarga gratuita. La tercera entrega del ciclo: Old Violin Books, es el ejemplar de la Bibioteca de California de The Violin: A Condensed History of the Violin, de Charles Goffrie, registrado en 1876.





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martes 2 de noviembre de 2010

The Tuscan. A Short account of a Stradivari Violin (PDF)

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Nuestra segunda entrega del ciclo: Old Violin Books, es el volumen The Tuscan. A Short account of a Stradivari Violin made for Cosimo de Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany.
El libro aborda la historia de un Stradivari datado en 1690.
El texto fue publicado en Ingles en 1891 y forma parte de los fondos reservados de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de California en Los Angeles.



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