Liszt transcribed Beethoven's symphonies, as well as a myriad other vocal and instrumental works, for piano. |
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His six symphonies are coming to be regarded as a major contribution to the genre in the 20th century. |
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His works have been performed by symphonies in Akron, Springfield and Cleveland, Ohio, as well as the Warsaw Philharmonic. |
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This series includes a complete cycle of the symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin. |
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In these three central symphonies, a large orchestra is used economically, with passages of delicacy and refinement akin to chamber music. |
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But for every loony tune there are several solid symphonies, whose excellence few critics will decry. |
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Although not all the symphonies survive, three are preserved in arrangements by the composer for piano duet. |
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If you've heard the symphonies of Elgar, Walton and Vaughan Williams, these should certainly be next on your list. |
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In the 1770s he began composing symphonies, concertos, operas and theater music. |
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For someone reason, I got it into my head the other day that he only wrote a few symphonies and operas, the odd piano concerto, and the Requiem. |
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These include seven symphonies, nine operas, and chamber, organ and piano works. |
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He now has recorded all three of the symphonies, and he is sympathetic to their appealing late Romantic gush. |
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His Mahler Tenth is still viable as a recommendable choice, as are his accounts of Shostakovich symphonies. |
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He has also worked with symphonies and chamber groups from the Brooklyn Philharmonic to Zurich's Ensemble Fur Neue Musik. |
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Compare the beginnings of the two symphonies that I will be conducting at this year's Proms. |
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He now travels the world performing with renowned symphonies and conductors. |
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After all, aren't the Beethoven symphonies central to our musical culture and universally popular for very good reasons? |
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His vibrant symphonies four, five and six show him at his peak, but this sinfonia is over the hill. |
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The front legs of rococo chairs were undulating symphonies of curves and counter-curves. |
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If I compare it to the symphonies, concerti, and chamber music, it seems rather bland to me, but why deny people their fun? |
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Both symphonies betray the composer's interest in nature and its cyclical patterns. |
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It should be added that there's little reason to hear these four symphonies as a true cycle, or at least to digest them at a single sitting. |
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He was a prolific composer, writing symphonies, concertos, sonatas, and dramatic works. |
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His once popular symphonies and concertos have disappeared from the repertoire. |
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These include lieder, thirty string quartets and six symphonies, plus numerous overtures and choral works. |
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Joseph Haydn's Scherzandi are bite-size symphonies in four movements, each seven or eight minutes in length. |
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This left Wilms with little time for composing, but four symphonies date from the last decade of the 18th century. |
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A really quiet and disciplined audience lost themselves in symphonies of Schubert and Mozart. |
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They reshape the festive polyrhythms of a village, a street sound, a rhythm-and-blues tune, or a folk melody into solos, suites, and symphonies. |
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It is only when he is describing the problems of performing the symphonies that he characterises them at all. |
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His seventh and eighth symphonies get an occasional airing, as do the serenade for strings and the robust violin concerto. |
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He began composing late in life, completing six symphonies and nine string quartets. |
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It's not an ambitious score and is less serious than Piston's symphonies and concertos. |
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For those who know Weinberg's symphonies, concerti, and chamber music, this ballet may come as a surprise. |
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Although also without recitative, there were arioso pieces and instrumental symphonies, with choruses which included chorales. |
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Mahler had completed his first three symphonies, and Mascagni and Leoncavallo were creating new orchestral colours in their verismo operas. |
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Dorati was working on Decca at the time to let him record all 104 symphonies by the uncommercial Joseph Haydn. |
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From Beethoven onwards the traditional place of the minuet in symphonies and chamber music began to be taken over by the scherzo. |
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My parents also flinched when I put on my scratchy gramophone records of German symphonies, and prepared for complaints from the neighbours. |
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He is an extremely prolific composer whose output also includes some five symphonies, violin concertos, cello concertos, chamber music and vocal oeuvres. |
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As well as symphonies he wrote books on astronomy and campanology. |
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He composed three symphonies, a piano concerto, and chamber music. |
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Now, of course, the composer appears on even major labels with some regularity, and there have been several integral recordings of the symphonies. |
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But if the two symphonies were written concurrently, they are certainly not alike-indeed, they make a most contrasting pair. |
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Most of his summer vacations, spent in St Florian and, latterly, in Steyr, were devoted to intensive work on his symphonies, beginning with the Janus-faced Symphony no. |
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He was likewise the more sensitive orchestrator, and in the last three symphonies he greatly expanded the role of the brasses. |
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He also has a taste for dark fugues, nocturnes, and symphonies of melancholia. |
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In the Eighth, even more than in his other symphonies, Bruckner is given to pausing and lighting out in a new, seemingly unrelated direction. |
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Among his orchestral works are three symphonies, two Romanian rhapsodies, and an overture on Romanian folk themes. |
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One of the most important composers of classical music in the country, González Zuleta, was the author of symphonies, sonatas, and rhapsodies. |
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As a composer, Casals is less well known, though he has written symphonies, oratories, quartets, sonatas, and songs. |
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When compared to the first movements of Beethoven's two earlier symphonies, the Allegro con brio of the Eroica does indeed seem monumental. |
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Soviet Russia, too, propagated symphonies and operas patriotically understood. |
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Classic Masters delivers the classical concertos, symphonies and ballet music from 1760 to the present. |
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Yet Mr Barenboim approaches Berg's music in the same way as he would the most lyrical of Romantic symphonies. |
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By the time he was 25 three of his symphonies had been performed by British orchestras and his two operas had been staged in London. |
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Then, at college, he sold his recordings of Arnold Bax's symphonies to buy Pere Ubu and Sonic Youth, and hung out at punk clubs in Berkeley. |
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Enjoy theatre and art exhibitions, singers and symphonies, dance performances and film screenings. |
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The result was a series of unrivalled masterpieces, from chamber music, through symphonies, to operas. |
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How do they succeed in playing the Beethoven symphonies in just four days at the same high level? |
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We have already had excellent accounts of Beethoven and Mozart symphonies and serenades and now it is the turn of some exquisite Haydn and Schubert symphonies. |
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For lovers of forgotten Romantic symphonies, this is a treat, even if the interpretations could have been a bit more joyous and the orchestral playing more refulgent. |
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All the Brown siblings have soloed with various symphonies, and collectively, the Brown children have had thirteen solo appearances with the Utah Symphony. |
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Like other great composers he mastered a wide range of musical genres, including symphonies, concerti, film music, operas, program pieces and ballets such as Romeo and Juliet. |
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Now they play fifteen to twenty concerts a year together, while Misha plays ninety to 100 other engagements as soloist, chamber musician or with symphonies. |
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If Beethoven were alive today and creating symphonies and if he were obliged to enter the international market in order to compete with the major music multinationals, he would die of hunger. |
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Gone are the tiny tunes and minimalist orchestration: in Dust Lane the tetchy Breton singer delivers post-rock mini symphonies that blend keyboards, saturated guitars and vocals in an astonishing acoustic maelstrom. |
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This new recording of the final Beethoven symphony means that all of Beethoven's symphonies have been newly recorded by the German Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Järvis's direction. |
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A more fanciful interpretation might take as its point of departure other works composed by Mozart at the time: both sonatas were written while Mozart was hard at work on the last three symphonies. |
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Anselm and Josef recognised the quality of the work, Josef telling Josef Herbeck in a letter of 8 March 1860 that they considered it was the equal of Schubert's 'Great' C major and of any of Beethoven's symphonies. |
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Frederic Chopin wrote no symphonies, operas or string quartets, generally considered the ultimate Olympian challenges for entry into the Pantheon of the greatest composers. |
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See a play at the Playhouse and Perth Theatres or hear soul singers and symphonies carry through the superb acoustic architecture of Perth Concert Hall. |
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Like symphonies that leave the ear with imprints of their supreme richness, the symphony of the 13 grape varieties gives birth to an unshared passion for an exceptional wine: Chateauneuf-du-Pape. |
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A novel that seems to convey the time of the Golden Age, of the paradise of childhood, of pastoral symphonies, of milk and honey, of Boccadian groves, the ineffable time of harmony between peoples. |
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He wrote four symphonies, four concertos, several large one-movement symphonic works, six numbered string quartets, a piano quintet and a multitude of chamber and vocal pieces. |
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He wrote a total of 9 symphonies, the most famous of these is Symphony No. 9 in E Minor From the New World, which is one of the most important works of this type in musical history. |
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Since 1995 he has alternated between conducting symphonies and operas. |
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Starting much later than some other composers, he completed four symphonies, a well-known piano concerto, some chamber works, songs and song cycles and a wealth of shorter works for piano. |
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The foundation will also cater to a wider group of music students of all ages, sponsoring open rehearsals with the world's leading symphonies, as well as master classes and workshops. |
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Entire songs or symphonies cannot be protected as trademarks. |
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A piece rarely heard in concert or recorded, Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique as transcribed for the piano by Franz Liszt is one of the most technically complex symphonies ever composed and among the richest-sounding. |
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In his 1964 analysis of the nine, Schwartz found it striking that no two of the symphonies are alike, either in structure or in mood. |
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Vaughan Williams said in his later years that this was his favourite of the symphonies. |
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Grove lists more than thirty works by Vaughan Williams for orchestra or band over and above the symphonies. |
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None of these works have rivalled the popularity of the symphonies or the short orchestral works mentioned above. |
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He mimed Tchaikovsky and Gounod, the Beethoven piano sonatas, the symphonies of Haydn, the operas of Pergolesi and Glinka. |
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Before he signed with Sony Classical Records and began writing blockbuster neo-Romantic symphonies and filmscores, Tan Dun was an inventive and widely admired avant-gardist. |
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Symphony No. 103 is especially thematically economical, and its movements are related by thematic resemblances, foreshadowing the cyclic nature of many 19th-century symphonies. |
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That's the drama of Beethoven's brawny, odd-numbered symphonies, from the Third through the Ninth, where scenes of a sombre, searching, soliloquizing nature give way to festivities of dancing or marching. |
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Balduin Sulzer's catalogue of musical works comprises about 350 pieces, including two operas, seven symphonies, one passion, twelve concertos, piano pieces, chamber music, lieder and choral music. |
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Dubois wrote in many forms including symphonies, operas, and ballets but only his oratorio, The Seven Last Words of Christ, and an organ toccata are occasionally heard on the concert stage. |
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As a result, the Berlin sound moved away from Karajan's patrician opulence to a leaner, cleaner, more texturally detailed palette, resulting in 2000 in what is probably the finest cycle of Beethoven symphonies yet recorded. |
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Ridout also composed symphonies, concertos and chamber music, writing either atonally or tonally, depending on the requirements of the piece or the audience. |
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For example, present-day gagaku performances are undoubtedly different from those of 1,000 years ago, but Mozart symphonies as well do not sound the same as they did in the 18th century. |
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Glenn Branca's symphonies go backward and forward. |
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This superb conductorless ensemble has been working its unchronological way through the Beethoven symphonies in recent years, and here is the first. |
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But I can't hear anything in Philip Glass's symphonies – and there are now a mighty 10 of them at the time of writing – apart from windily grandiose bombast, mind-numbing note-spinning, and time-filling composing-by-numbers. |
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The series concludes on September 26 with the wonderful second and third symphonies, and the tone poem Oceanides. |
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His 9th Symphony is one of the composer's shorter symphonies, a totally non-serious, unpretentious piece shot through with sardonic humour, verve and wit. |
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And yet his symphonies were performed during his lifetime in the West, especially in the United States: his death in 1950 marked the beginning of his purgatory. |
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And the symphonies and tone poems of Sibelius are said to transport us to distant Finnish forests and icy Nordic landscapes. |
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As one of several prominent American composers who rebelled against the severity of modernism, Mr Glass has an enormous catalogue that includes 20 operas, nine symphonies, string quartets and soundtracks. |
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In addition to the nine symphonies, this will be an opportunity to hear the rarely played Triple Concerto, as well as music from the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus. |
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It may be played for as long as the graduates are walking, which can be longer than some symphonies. |
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This gives rise to a curious misapprehension: the modern listener often finds that Romantic symphonies sound like movie music, when in fact the very opposite is true. |
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When Mendelssohn, in the later symphonies, starts moving away from an omni-present contrapuntal style, it is in Mozart's music that he reaches for inspiration. |
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Nine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven. |
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He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Bach's Brandenburg concertos, Mozart symphonies, and song cycles by Schubert and Schumann. |
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His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. |
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The predominant works of the 1950s were his three last symphonies. |
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But in the symphonies which framed the evening, Haydn's Surprise and Mendelssohn's Reformation, Manze's overemphatic body-language distracted from the quality of music-making. |
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His approach was illustrated by the care he took with Mahler's symphonies. |
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