~ Psychological Torture
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Music: "Brahms Piano Sonata #3 in F Minor Op. 5 4th Mvt." by Andreas Haefliger
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~ Bokito Jumpstyle
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~ Yo Yo Ma - Dvorak
Views: 148517 |  |  |  |  | Dvorak Silent woods by Yo Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma (Paris, 7 de outubro de 1955) é um músico norte-americano nascido na França, de origem chinesa, considerado um dos melhores violoncelista virtuosos da história.
Yo-Yo Ma nasceu na França numa família de origem ...More chinesa com forte influência musical. Sua mãe, Marina Lu, era cantora, e seu pai, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, era maestro e compositor. Ma começou estudando violino e depois viola, antes de se interessar pelo violoncelo, instrumento que começou a manipular aos quatro anos de idade, com seu pai. Depois de um primeiro concerto em Paris, aos seis anos de idade, a família de Ma se muda para Nova York.
Ma era uma criança prodígio, tendo aparecido na televisão norte-americanda com oito anos de idade, em um concerto conduzido por Leonard Bernstein. Ele entrou para a Juilliard School (na qual tinha aulas com Leonard Rose), e passou um semestre estudando na Universidade de Columbia antes de se matricular na Universidade de Harvard, mas se questionava sobre se valeria a pena continuar a estudar até que, nos anos 70, o estilo de Pablo Casals o inspirou.
Retorna à França para tocar com a Orquestra Nacional da França e com a Orquestra de Paris, sob a direção de Myung-Whun Chung.
Já desde sua infância e adolescência, Ma possuia uma fama bastante estável e havia tocado com algumas das melhores orquestras do mundo. Suas gravações e interpretações das Suites para violoncelo solo de Johann Sebastian Bach são particularmente aclamadas.
Em 1978, Ma se casou com a violinista Jill Hornor. Eles tem dois filhos, Nicholas e Emily. Sua irmã mais velha, Yeou-Cheng Ma, também nascida em Paris, é violinista e junto com Yo-Yo coordena um projeto chamado Children's Orchestra Society (COS) em Long Island, nos EUA.
Atualmente, Ma toca com o Silk Road Project, que visa juntar músicos de vários lugares do mundo de países pelos quais passava a histórica Rota da Seda.
Conforme anúncio do secretário geral das Nações Unidas, Kofi Annan, em janeiro de 2006, Ma se uniu à lista dos embaixadores da paz da ONU, a exemplo de vários outros músicos, como o tenor Luciano Pavarotti e o jazzista Wynton Marsalis, entre outros.
O principal instrumento de performance de Yo-Yao Ma é o Petúnia, feito por Domenico Montagnana em Veneza em 1733. Esse instrumento já foi esquecido no banco traseiro de um táxi em Nova York, mas mais tarde reencontrado ileso.
Outro violoncelo usado por Ma é um stradivarius Davidov, tocado anteriormente por Jacqueline du Pré e deixado para Ma após a morte desta última. Du Pré já havia expressado sua frustração com a impredictabilidade daquele violoncelo, enquanto Ma associa isto ao estilo passional de du Pré ao tocar e diz que esse cello necessita ser coagido por seu intrumentista. Até pouco tempo atrás, esse cello era utilizado apenas para a execução de música barroca. Ma também possui um violoncelo de fibra de carbono, criado por Luis & Clark.
Yo-Yo Ma é habitualmente citado pela crítica como o "o mais omnívoro de todos os cellistas" e de fato possui um repertorio muito mais eclético do que é esperado para um instrumentista erudito.
Ma já apresentou e gravou um sem-número de peças de música barroca e de outras escolas da música clássica, em instrumentos de época ou modernos. Compõem também seu repertório peças de música tradicional e popular, como por exemplo a trilha sonora do filme O tigre e o dragão. Tangos argentinos de Astor Piazzola, música brasileira, e a partitura minimalista de Philip Glass para Naqoyqatsi.
Seu último disco (As of 2006) é o resultado da colaboração de Ma com vários outros músicos, para a trilha sonora do filme Memórias de uma Gueixa.
Yo-Yo Ma habitualmente se mostrou aberto a formas musicais distintas da música erudita e clássica, como o jazz e o tango. Além disso, também costuma incorporar a seus trabalhos formas de musicalidade tradicionais e primitivas, quando, por exemplo, toca com membros do povo das savanas do Kalahari na África.
Ma também patrocinou os primeiros anos da Orquestra East-Western Divan (fundada por ele e Edward Said), orquestra árabe-israelense dirigida por Daniel Barenboim (cujo nome divan, em árabe quer dizer encontro).
Ma atuou recentemente em um episódio da série infantil de TV infantil Arthur, além das séries West Wing, Sesame Street e Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Além disso, também estreou no acompanhamento visual de sua gravação de Bach de Seis Suítes para um Violoncelo Solo.
Recentemente, Ma também se encontrou com Steve Jobs, presidente da Apple e da Pixar. Yo-Yo Ma é frequentemente convidado para eventos para a imprensa das companhias de Jobs, tendo chegado a tocar no palco durante uma palestra de abertura de um evento da Apple apresentado por Jobs.
Antonin Leopold Dvorak nasceu em Nelahozeves (Rep. Tcheca), a 8 de setembro de 1841. Filho de um humilde comerciante, aos oito anos de idade Dvorak teve despertada sua vocação musical. Mas só pôde realizar os primeiros estudos em 1853, já residindo na cidade de Zlonice. Quatro anos depois instalou-se em Praga, onde iniciou uma vida de sacrifícios, aliviados quando foi premiado pela composição de um hino patriótico (1873).
Depois de uma fase influenciada por Wagner e Liszt, tornou-se adepto do movimento nacionalista tcheco iniciada por Smetana. O impulso decisivo para a sua carreira ocorreu em 1877 quando, sob recomendação de Brahms, os Duetos morávios foram editados na Alemanha. Desde então, os programas de concerto no estrangeiro passaram a colocar em destaque o nome de Dvorak.
Na Inglaterra, houve uma acolhida sobremodo entusiástica (iniciada com a apresentação das Danças eslavas), a ponto de quase se tornar a segunda pátria do compositor. Várias vezes Dvorak esteve em Londres e outras cidades britânicas, regendo as próprias obras, entre estas a Sinfonia em ré maior e o oratório Santa Ludmilla. Em 1891, a universidade de Cambridge lhe conferiu o título de doutor honoris causa.
Por essa época, já era numerosa a produção de Dvorak. Tinha abordado todos os gêneros, revelando-se especialista em música de câmara. O Trio para piano Op. 90 - Dumky (1891), foi logo incorporado ao repertório de todos os conjuntos camerísticos. A posição estética do compositor também já estava definida, como a de seu conterrâneo Smetana, igualmente abeberado nas fontes folclóricas.
Popularidade, fama, honrarias, tornaram-se comuns na vida de Dvorak. Em Praga, recebeu também o título de doutor honoris causa da universidade. Foi nomeado professor e mais tarde diretor do conservatório. Chegou a ser nomeado membro da câmara dos pares do império austríaco.
Sua fama atravessou o Atlântico. Dvorak foi dirigir o conservatório de Nova Iorque. Nos Estados Unidos, foi atraído pela melodia dos índios e dos negros. Três anos na América resultaram para Dvorak na fase mais conhecida de sua atividade criadora. A ela pertencem obras como a célebre Sinfonia n.º 9 em mi menor - Do Novo Mundo (1893); o Quarteto em fá maior Op. 96, arbitrariamente apelidado de Americano (1893); o Concerto para violoncelo em si menor Op. 104 - obra-prima no gênero; e uma coletânea de peças para piano intitulada Humoresques, das quais a sétima chegou a ser a música quase mais tocada em todo o mundo.
Quando retornou a Praga, a fidelidade às origens continuou inalterada. Dvorak dedicou-se à composições de peças sinfônicas e óperas. E nestas últimas, principalmente, os elementos musicais e dramáticos são de pura inspiração folclórica tcheca. A glória em vida acompanhou-o até a morte. Dvorak morreu em Praga, a 1.º de maio de 1904 e foi sepultado como herói nacional.
Dvorak apareceu como um improvisador, bem menos atento às regras de estruturação formal. Embora Smetana, sempre obediente às normas tradicionais, fosse seguidor de Liszt e Wagner - ao passo que Dvorak é discípulo de Brahms, Schumann e, sobretudo, de Schubert - Dvorak é bem mais, rapsódico. Daí, por certo, a popularidade que alcançou no mundo inteiro.
Da fase americana de Dvorak também resultou um equívoco, hoje esclarecido: dizia respeito ao aproveitamento do folclore dos Estados unidos, em detrimento das fontes eslavas; mas pesquisas musicológicas, levadas a efeito em Harvard, concluíram por confirmar o original caráter eslavo da Sinfonia n.º 9 e do Quarteto Americano.
Óperas - Vanda (1875), Rusalka (1900), Armida (1902-1903)
Concertos - Concerto para violino em lá menor (1880), Concerto para violoncelo em si menor Op. 104 (1895)
Trios - Trio para piano em si bemol maior Op. 21 (1875), Trio para cordas em fá menor Op. 65 (1883), Trio para piano em mi menor Op. 90 - Dumky (1891)
Quartetos - Quarteto para cordas em lá menor Op. 16 (1874), Quarteto para piano em mi bemol maior Op. 87 (1889), Quarteto para cordas em fá maior Op. 96 - Americano (1893)
Quintetos - Quinteto para piano em lá menor Op. 81 (1887), Quinteto para cordas em si bemol maior Op. 97 (1893)
Sinfonias - Sinfonia n.º 8 em sol maior Op. 88, Sinfonia n.º 9 em mi menor Op. 95 - Do Novo Mundo (1893)
Compôs ainda um oratório (Santa Ludmilla), um Stabat Mater (1877), um Requiem (1890), um Te Deum (1892), peças para piano, para violino, canções, etc.
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~ Gracia - Brahms Fantasy/ Brahms-Hollo-Molnar
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from Hungary.
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~ Hungarian Dance No.5
Views: 81208 |  |  |  |  | Brahms's father, Johann Jakob Brahms, came to Hamburg from Schleswig-Holstein, seeking a career as a town musician. He was proficient on several instruments, but found employment mostly playing the horn and double bass. He married Johanna Henrika Christia ...More ne Nissen, a seamstress, who was seventeen years older than he was. Initially, they lived near the city docks, in the Gängeviertel quarter of Hamburg, for six months before moving to a small house on the Dammtorwall, located on the northern perimeter of Hamburg in the Inner Alster.
House in Hamburg where Brahms was bornJohann Jakob gave his son his first musical training. He studied piano from the age of seven with Otto Friedrich Willibald Cossel. Brahms showed early promise (his younger brother Fritz also became a pianist) and helped to supplement the rather meager family income by playing the piano in restaurants and theaters, as well as by teaching. It is a long-told tale that Brahms was forced in his early teens to play the piano in bars that doubled as brothels; recently Brahms scholar Kurt Hoffman has suggested that this legend is false.[citation needed] Since Brahms himself clearly originated the story, however, some have questioned Hoffman's theory.[citation needed]
For a time, Brahms also learned the cello, although his progress was cut short when his teacher absconded with Brahms's instrument. After his early piano lessons with Otto Cossel, Brahms studied piano with Eduard Marxsen, who had studied in Vienna with Ignaz Seyfried (a pupil of Mozart) and Carl von Bocklet (a close friend of Schubert). The young Brahms gave a few public concerts in Hamburg, but did not become well known as a pianist until he made a concert tour at the age of nineteen. In later life, he frequently took part in the performance of his own works, whether as soloist, accompanist, or participant in chamber music. He was the soloist at the premieres of both his Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1859 and his Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1881. He conducted choirs from his early teens, and became a proficient choral and orchestral conductor.
He began to compose quite early in life, but later destroyed most copies of his first works; for instance, Marxsen's memoirs report a piano sonata that Brahms had played or improvised at the age of 11.[citation needed] His compositions did not receive public acclaim until he went on a concert tour as accompanist to the Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi in April and May of 1853. On this tour he met Joseph Joachim at Hanover, and went on to the Court of Weimar where he met Franz Liszt, Peter Cornelius, and Joachim Raff. According to several witnesses of Brahms's meeting with Liszt (at which Liszt performed Brahms's Scherzo, Op. 4 at sight), Reményi was offended by Brahms's failure to praise Liszt's Sonata in B minor wholeheartedly (Brahms fell asleep during a performance of the recently composed work), and they parted company shortly afterwards.
Joachim had given Brahms a letter of introduction to Robert Schumann, and after a walking tour in the Rhineland Brahms took the train to Düsseldorf, and was welcomed into the Schumann family on arrival there. Schumann, amazed by the 20-year-old's talent, published an article "Neue Bahnen" (New Paths) in the journal Neue Zeitschrift für Musik alerting the public to the young man who he claimed was "destined to give ideal expression to the times". This pronouncement was received with some scepticism outside Schumann's immediate circle, and may have increased the naturally self-critical Brahms's need to perfect his works and technique. While he was in Düsseldorf, Brahms participated with Schumann and Albert Dietrich in writing a sonata for Joachim; this is known as the F-A-E Sonata. He became very attached to Schumann's wife, the composer and pianist Clara, fourteen years his senior, with whom he would carry on a lifelong, emotionally passionate, but probably platonic, relationship. Brahms never married, despite strong feelings for several women and despite entering into an engagement, soon broken off, with Agathe von Siebold in Göttingen in 1859. After Schumann's attempted suicide and subsequent confinement in a mental sanatorium near Bonn in February 1854, Brahms was the main go-between between Clara and her husband, and found himself virtually head of the household.
Brahms's grave in the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery), Vienna.After Schumann's death at the sanatorium in 1856, Brahms divided his time between Hamburg, where he formed and conducted a ladies' choir, and the principality of Detmold, where he was court music-teacher and conductor. He first visited Vienna in 1862, staying there over the winter, and in 1863 was appointed conductor of the Vienna Singakademie. Though he resigned the position the following year and entertained the idea of taking up conducting posts elsewhere, he based himself increasingly in Vienna and soon made his home there. From 1872 to 1875 he was director of the concerts of the Vienna Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde; afterwards he accepted no formal position. He refused an honorary doctorate of music from University of Cambridge in 1877 (he was afraid of being lionized in England, where his music was already very popular) but accepted one from the University of Breslau in 1879, composing the Academic Festival Overture in response.
He had been composing steadily throughout the 1850s and 60s, but his music had evoked divided critical responses and the Piano Concerto No. 1 had been badly received in some of its early performances. His works were labelled old-fashioned by the 'New German School' whose principal figures included Liszt and Richard Wagner. Brahms in fact admired some of Wagner's music and admired Liszt as a great pianist, but in 1860 he attempted to organize a public protest against some of the wilder excesses of their music.[citation needed] His manifesto, which was published prematurely with only three supporting signatures, was a failure and he never engaged in public polemics again. It was the premiere of Ein deutsches Requiem, his largest choral work, in Bremen in 1868 that confirmed Brahms's European reputation and led many to accept that he had fulfilled Schumann's prophecy. This may have given him the confidence finally to complete a number of works that had been wrestled with over many years, such as the cantata Rinaldo, his first string quartet, third piano quartet, and most notably his first symphony. This appeared in 1876, though it had been begun (and a version of the first movement seen by some of his friends) in the early 1860s. The other three symphonies then followed in 1877, 1883, and 1885. From 1881 he was able to try out his new orchestral works with the court orchestra of the Duke of Meiningen, whose conductor was Hans von Bülow.
Brahms frequently traveled, for both business (concert tours) and pleasure. From 1878 onwards he often visited Italy in the springtime, and usually sought out a pleasant rural location in which to compose during the summer. He was a great walker and especially enjoyed spending time in the open air, where he felt that he could think more clearly.
In 1889, one Theo Wangemann, a representative of American inventor Thomas Edison visited the composer in Vienna and invited him to make an experimental recording. He played an abbreviated version of his first Hungarian dance on the piano. The recording was later issued on an LP of early piano performances (compiled by Gregor Benko); while the spoken introduction to the short piece of music is quite clear, the piano playing is largely inaudible due to heavy surface noise. Nevertheless, this remains the earliest recording made by a major composer. Analysts and scholars remain divided, however, as to whether the voice that introduces the piece is that of Wangemann or of Brahms.
In 1890, the 57-year-old Brahms resolved to give up composing. However, as it turned out, he was unable to abide by his decision, and in the years before his death he produced a number of acknowledged masterpieces. His admiration for Richard Mühlfeld, clarinettist with the Meiningen orchestra, moved him to compose the Clarinet Trio Op. 114, Clarinet Quintet Op. 115 (1891), and the two Clarinet Sonatas Op. 120 (1894). He also wrote several cycles of piano pieces, Opp. 116-119, and the Four Serious Songs (Vier ernste Gesänge), Op. 121 (1896).
While completing the Op. 121 songs, Brahms developed cancer (sources differ on whether this was of the liver or pancreas). His condition gradually worsened and he died on April 3, 1897. Brahms is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna.
Although many listeners may regard Brahms as one of the last bastions of the Romantic Period, he was not a mainstream Romantic, but rather maintained a Classical sense of form and order within his works -- in contrast to the opulence and excesses of many of his contemporaries. Thus many admirers (though not necessarily Brahms himself) saw him as the champion of traditional forms and "pure music," as opposed to the New German embrace of program music. With the possible exception of Anton Bruckner, Brahms was arguably unmatched as a symphonist in the late 19th century. His symphonies helped revive a virtually moribund genre, and inspired such composers as Gustav Mahler and Jean Sibelius.
Though he was viewed as diametrically opposed to Wagner during his lifetime, it is incorrect to characterize Brahms as a reactionary. His point of view looked both backward and forward; his output was often bold in harmony and expression, prompting Arnold Schoenberg to write his 1933 essay "Brahms the Progressive", which paved the way for the re-evaluation of Brahms's reputation in the 20th century. Only in recent decades have scholars begun to examine Brahms's remarkably original rhythmic conceptions, which include 5- and 7-beat meters.[citation needed]
Brahms himself had considered giving up composition at a time when all notions of tonality were being stretched to their limit and that further expansion would seemingly only result in the rules of tonality being broken altogether. But he offered substantial encouragement to Schoenberg's teacher Alexander Zemlinsky, and was apparently much impressed by two movements of Schoenberg's early Quartet in D major which Zemlinsky showed him. |
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