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REPERTOIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Albeniz Iberia (Arbos) Alfven Dala rhapsody Midsommervarka Andriessen,H Ricercare Van Anrooij Piet Hein rhapsody Bach Suite (arr. Mahler) Preludium/Toccata (Stokovski) Balakirev Islamey Barber Overure The School of Scandal Bartok Concert for Orchestra Dance suite Music for strings, percussion and celesta The Miraculous Mandarin van Beethoven All Symphonies and Overtures Prometheus ballet, Egmont incidental music Berio Sinfonia Ritirata Notturna di Madrid Berlioz Overtures Benvenuto Cellini, King Lear, Le Carnaval Romain Music from Les Troyens Symphonie Fantastique Harold en Italie Three pieces from Faust Requiem Incidental music from Roméo et Julliet Bernstein Divertimento Symphonic Dances West Side Story Candide Overture Kaddish On the Town On the Waterfront Prelude, Fugue and Riffs Chichester Psalsms Bizet Two Carmen suites Two Arlésienne suites Roma Symphony in C Jeux d’ enfants Bloch various solo pieces Concerti Grossi Borodin Overture Prince Igor Polovetsian Dances Symphony nr. 2 Brahms All Overtures All Symphonies Haydn Variations Hungarian Dances Two Serenades Ein Deutches Requiem Schicksalslied Pianoquartet arr. Schönberg Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Soirées Musicales,Matinées Musicales Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra Bruckner Symphonie nr. 3,4,7 Overture Mass in e Chabrier Espaňa Chausson Symphony Chavez Sinfonia India Cherubini Overtures: Medea, Anacréon, Die Wassetrträger Requiem Copland Rodeo El Salon Mexico Billy the kid Debussy La Mer Petite Suite Nocturnes Prélude á l’après midi d’une faune Images Delibes Coppélia Le Roi ‘s amuse Sylvia Dukas L’Apprenti Sorcier Dvorak Slavonic Dances op. 46 + op. 72 Czech Suite Czech Rhapsodies Overture Carnaval The Waterspirit Symphonies: 6,7,8,9 Stabat Mater Elgar In the South Chanson de Nuit, Chanson de Matin The Wand of Youth Variations on an original theme (“Enigma”) Symphony nr. 2 Enescu Two Rumanian Rhapsodies De Falla The Threecornered Hat El Amor Brujo Fauré Pélleas et Melisande Masques et Bergamasques Dolly Pavane Requiem Franck Psyché Symphony in D Gade Overture Nachklänge zu Ossian Gershwin An American in Paris Rhapsody in Blue (various versions) Porgy and Bess (Symphonic Picture) Cuban Overture Glazunov Suite from Raymonda Glinka Jota Aragonese Valse Fantaisie Overture Russlan and Ludmilla Kamarinskaya Gounod Faust Ballet music Grieg Peer Gynt (suites and incidental music) Sigurd Jorsalfar Symphony in C Grofé Grand Canyon Suite Gruber Frankenstein Holst The Planets Honegger Pacific 231 Humperdinck Overture Hänsel und Gretel Ibert Divertissement Ippolitov Iwanov Caucasian Sketches Ives Symphonies 2 and 4 The Unanswered Question Janacek Sinfonietta Taras Bulba Lachian Dances Kabalevski The Commedians Overture Colas Breugnon Keuris Movements Khatchaturian Gayaneh Maskerade Kleinsinger Tubby the Tuba Kodaly Hary Janos (suite and incidental music) Dances from Galanta The Peacock Lalo Overture Le Roi d’Ys De Leeuw Mouvements Rétrogrades Liadow the Magic Lake Baba Yaga Eight Folksongs Liszt Les Préludes Mazeppa Loevendie The Nightingale Six Turkish Folkpoems Mahler Symphonies 1 (also Urversion),,2,3,4,5,6,9 Totenfeier Lied von der Erde Massenet Scènes Pittoresques Le Cid de Meij Symphony nr. 1 The Lord of the Rings Mendelssohn Symphonies 2,3,4,5 Midsummernights Dream Overture and Incidental Music Overtures: Fingals Cave, Melusine, Prosperous Journey Milhaud La Création du Monde Le Boeuf sur le Toit La P’tite Lily Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (various versions) Night on a Bald Mountain (various versions) Khovantsjina (Blomhert) Nicolai Overture the Merry Wives of Windsor Nielsen Aladdin Suite Symphonies 1 and 4 Van Oosten various works Orff Carmina Burana Piazolla various works a.o. Adios Nonino Ponchielli Suite La Gioconda Pijper Six Adagios Poulenc Les Biches Babar Gloria Prokofiev Alexander Nevski Peter and the Wolf Symphonie nr. 1 ,5 and 7 Ivan the Terrible Lieutenant Kije Scythian Suite The Love for the Three Oranges Suite Romeo and Julliet (ballet and suites) Overture on Jewish Themes Puccini Preludio Sinfonico Rachmaninov The Isle of Death Symphonic Dances Symphony nr. 2 Ravel La Valse Daphnis et Chloé Bolero Le Tombeau de Couperin Ma mere l’oye Pavane pour un Infante Defunte Rapsodie Espagnole Reger Mozart Variations Respighi Pini di Roma Fontane di Roma Feste Romane Gli Uccelli Von Reznicek Overture Donna Diana Rimsky Korsakov The Golden Coquerel Sheherazade Overture Great Russian Easter Festival Capriccio Espagnol The Invisible City of Kitesh suite Rossini Stabat Mater Overtures Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola, L’Italiana in Algeri, Il Signore Bruschino,Semiramide, La Scala di Seta, La Gazza Ladra, Tancredi, Guillaume Tell Rota Film music form La Strada, Il Gattopardo,The Godfather and 8 ½ Roussel Le Festin d’Araigné Saint Saëns Le Carnaval des Animaux Algerian Suite La Jeunesse d’Hercule L’Assasinat du Duc Guise Le Deluge Danse Macabre Schubert Ouvertures in Italiaanse Stijl Rosamunde Balletmuziek Ouverture Die Zauberharfe, Die Hauslige Krieg Symphonies 4,5,6,8 en 9 Schumann Manfred Overture Overture,Scherzo and Finale All Symphonies Scriabin Second Symphony Shostakovitch Jazz Suites The Bold Suite from Moscow Chernomusye Tahiti Trot Festival Overture The Gadfly Suite from The Nose Symphonies nr. 1,2,4,5,7,9,10,14,15 Sibelius Finlandia En Saga Rakastava Valse Triste Pelleas and Melisande Symphonies 1,2,5,7 Smetana The Bartered Bride: overture and intermezzi Strauss, Joh. Various walzes,marches and polkas Die Fledermaus Der Zigeunerbaron Strauss Richard Till Eulenspiegel Aus Italien Eine Alpensymphonie Tod und Verklärung Don Quixote Also Sprach Zarathustra Ein Heldenleben Stravinsky The Firebird (various versions) Petrushka (various versions) The Rite of Spring Pulcinella Two Suites Circuspolka Scherzo á la Russe Symphony in Three Movements Pulcinella Symphonie des Psaumes Mass Jeu des Cartes Svendsen Norvegian Karnaval Tchaikovski Overture Fantaisie Romeo and Julliet (various versions) The Storm Fatum The Vojvodes Mozartiana Capriccio Italien Overture 1812 Slavonic March Suite Sleeping Beauty Suite Swan Lake Suite Nutcracker All Symphonies (including Manfred) Toyama Dances from Yugen Vaughan Williams a London Symphony Pastoral Symphony Verdi Overture La Forza del Destino Overture Jeanne d’Arc Overture Italian Vespers Overture Nabucco Music from Aida Overture La Traviata Requiem Te Deum Villa Lobos Bacchianas Braslieiras nr. 2 de Vries Discantus Wagenaar Overtures Cyrano de Bergerac, The Taming of the Shrew The Doge from Venice Saul and David Wagner Overtures Flying Dutchman, Die Meistersinger,Tristan and Isolde,Lohengrin Parsifal,Rienzi,Tannhaűser Siegfried Idyll Walton Façade Weber Overtures Die Freischűtz,Oberon, Euryanthe Aufforderung zum Tanz Williams Film music from ET, Starwars,Schindlers List, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Witches of Eastwick Zuidam She’s everywhere now that she’s gone .
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    FRAMMENTI DELL'OPERA "TESTIMONIANZA" DI VOLKOV: http://www.francescomariacolombo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i d=54&Itemid=65&lang=it LA BIOGRAFIA DEL MUSICISTA DA "SOSTAKOVIC" DI FRANCO PULCINI: http://books.google.it/books?id=2vim5XnmcDUC&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=testimonianza+v olkov&source=bl&ots=iq2gzJOa7_&sig=3Y_drOErxYxehd6cjNO7R6ThVFM&hl=it&sa=X&ei=yUi SUbVkzMQ9t9mA2A0&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=testimonianza%20volkov&f=false LA PASSIONE PER IL CALCIO http://www.storiedicalcio.altervista.org/calcio_sostakovic.html CENNI SULLA BIOGRAFIA: http://www.52composers.com/shostakovich.html PERSONALITA' DEL MUSICISTA NELL'APPOSITO PARAGRAFO "PERSONALITY" : http://www.classiccat.net/shostakovich_d/biography.php SCHEMA MOLTO SINTETICO DELLA BIOGRAFIA: http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/dmitry-shostakovich-344.php La mia droga si chiama Caterina La mia droga si chiama Caterina “Io mi aggiro tra gli uomini come fossero frammenti di uomini” (Nietzsche) In un articolo del 1932 sulla rivista “Sovetskoe iskusstvo”, Sostakovic dichiarava il proprio amore per Katerina Lvovna Izmajlova, la protagonista dell’opera che egli stava scrivendo da oltre venti mesi, e che vedrà la luce al Teatro Malyi di Leningrado il 22 gennaio 1934. Katerina è una ragazza russa della stessa età del compositore, ventiquattro, venticinque anni (la maturazione artistica di Sostakovic fu, com’è noto, precocissima), “dotata, intelligente e superiore alla media, la quale rovina la propria vita a causa dell’opprimente posizione cui la Russia prerivoluzionaria la assoggetta”. E’ un’omicida, anzi un vero e proprio serial killer al femminile; e tuttavia Sostakovic denuncia quanta simpatia provi per lei. Nelle originarie intenzioni dell’autore, “Una Lady Macbeth del distretto di Mcensk” avrebbe inaugurato una trilogia dedicata alla donna russa, còlta nella sua essenza immutabile attraverso differenti epoche storiche.
  • Sinfonia Da Requiem, Op. 20 Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) Written: 1940 Movements: Three Style: Contemporary Duration: 20 Minutes

    Sinfonia Da Requiem, Op. 20 Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) Written: 1940 Movements: Three Style: Contemporary Duration: 20 Minutes

    Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20 Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) Written: 1940 Movements: Three Style: Contemporary Duration: 20 minutes The composer Benjamin Britten left England for America in 1939 rather than become involved in the impending war. He returned to England in 1942 and registered as a conscientious objector. While in America, Britten received a strange commission from the government of Japan to write a piece to help celebrate the 2,600th anniversary of the founding of the Mikado dynasty. Britten reluctantly agreed as long as his work wouldn’t have to include any “musical jingoism.” He had already been considering writing a work to commemorate his parents, so he sent a proposal back. The Japanese agreed and in very short order, Britten wrote his Sinfonia da Requiem. He dedicated it to his parents and wrote “as anti-war as possible.” Upon seeing the final product, the Japanese rejected it and disinvited Britten. “We are afraid that the composer must have greatly misunderstood our desire . [it] has a melancholy tone both in its melodic pattern and rhythm, making it unsuitable for performance on such an occasion as our national ceremony,” they wrote. Britten also said they accused him of “providing a Christian work where Christianity was apparently unacceptable.” He provided these (here much abbreviated) comments about the piece for its premiere in 1941 in New York City: I. Lacrymosa. A slow marching lament in a persistent 6/8 rhythm with a strong tonal center on D. There are three main motives. The first section of the movement is quietly pulsating; the second is a long crescendo leading to a climax based on the first cello theme.