Advantages: Classic Concertos for Everybody Disadvantages: Strings only!!!no woodwind...boo!
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Allegro non molto - Allegro / Adagio - Presto - Adagio / Presto
Here the strings adopt a heady, moody summer style. The oppressive heat and looming storm is aptly labelled "Summer Storm." you can almost count down the the looming storm. The style reflects the dripping heat and you can imagine you are in a heat shimmer some where in a desert, or in a meditterranean abode having an afternoon nap!
3:Autumn: Concerto No.3 in F Major,
Allegro (Peasant Dance and Song) / Adagio molto (Sleeping Drunkards) / Allegro (The Hunt)
There is hint of the fading sun, and time if busyness wiuth the harvest and preparations for winter. This isn't as well known as the other pieces on the CD, but well worth a listen, as you can really tell the difference between the seasons. Each has a signature which is instantly recognisable.
4:Winter: Concerto No.4...
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...of this concerto is much more romantic and lyrical and is a nice, peaceful, calming movement 'of exceptional lyricism and tenderness' to use the words of the composer. It appears even more peaceful when played with the other two more elaborate movements. The concerto ends with a faster movement, which although isn't as good as the previous two, is still a good enough way to finish off the concerto.
The final concerto is the Tuba Concerto, Op. 46 (1980s) by John Golland.
10 - Allegro
11 - Adagio
12 - Allegro giocoso
This concerto is based, especially in the first and third movements, around the interval of a perfect fourth, which in my opinion does not help give a nice sound to the concerto and this concerto is another of my least favourites and is not one that I would want to sit down and listen to. The first movement has the not so nice sound...
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Advantages: A decent collection of varied music Disadvantages: Several 'sections' of music
...Pleasure First/The Promise {The Piano}
10. Symphony, No. 7 in A, Op. 92 II Allegretto (Opening) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
11. Lacrimosa (Requiem)
12. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Opening) - London Philharmonic Orchestra
13. Te Deum - Ambrosian Singers Of London, The Philharmonia Orchestra
14. Adagio in G Minor (Extract) - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
15. Song of Our Homeland (Prince Igor)
16. Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana) - The Philharmonia Orchestra
17. Nessun Dorma (Turandot)
18. Celebration - London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Disc: 2
1. Fanfare for the Common Man
2. Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)
3. Piano Concerto, No. 3 in D Minor I: Allegro Ma Non Tanto (Opening) - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
4. O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
5. Casta Diva (Norma) - La Scala Orchestra...
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22.07.2005
04.11.2006
