the leading tone

Alberto Ginastera
Popul Vuh, la creación del mundo maya, Op. 44

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Stefan Asbury

Never checked this out before, but any tone poem based on the Maya creation legend is bound to hold my attention. Ginastera left this orchestral work, a commission from Eugene Ormandy, almost-but-not-quite finished upon his death in 1983. This recording presents the seven movements he was able to complete.

Goodnight, and happy springtime, tumblr.

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Tcherepnin
Russian Dances, Op. 50
V. Allegro marziale

Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orch.
Wang Sie Yip

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Vaughan Williams
Concerto for oboe and strings (1944)
III. Finale (Scherzo)

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Janáček
Taras Bulba,
rhapsody for orchestra

Czechoslovak Radio Symphony-Bratislava
Ondrej Lénard

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Debussy
La Mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre
I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer
II. Jeux des vagues
III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer

Montréal Symphony Orch.
Dutoit

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Schumann
Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, Op. 52
II. Scherzo

Philharmonia Orchestra
Christian Thielemann

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nyphil:

Bartók Meets Bernstein

Lenny’s original marked score for Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra? Don’t mind if we do! This work received its world premiere by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1944. By way of small world, four years earlier, Koussevitzky had taken on a promising young pupil at Tanglewood by the name of … Leonard Bernstein.

You can leaf through the entire score with Bernstein’s markings, in the Philharmonic’s Digital Archives, by clicking here. Andris Nelsons conducts the Orchestra in the work (along with Dvořák’s The Noon Witch and Brahms’s Violin Concerto No. 1) February 6—9.

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Germaine Tailleferre
Concerto grosso for two pianos, singers, saxophones, and orchestra

III. Allegro maestoso

Orchestre du Conservatoire du Centre de Paris
Clinton-Narboni Duo

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Chabrier
Bourée fantasque (orch. Roussel)
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Paul Paray

The French composer Emmanuel Chabrier, friend and inspiration to Ravel and Debussy, was born on 18 January 1841. The Bourée fantasque, a novel and prodigiously colorful piano piece, was one of his last works. He left its orchestration incomplete at his death; it has since been completed by several conductors and composers.

(Cézanne | Mardi Gras (Pierrot et Harlequin), 1888)