Musicianship Through Conducting
Musicianship Through Conducting Part One: Classical to Romantic 1. Classical - 1st Viennese School Mozart: Violin Concerto no. 3, mvt 1 (1775) Haydn: Symphony no. 104, mvt 1 (1795) Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 4, mvt 1 (1805-6) 2. Early Romantic Schubert: Symphony no. 9, 1st mvt (1826) Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture (1830) Schumann: Symphony no. 3, 1st mvt (1850) 3. Middle Romantic Grieg: Piano Concerto, mvt 1 (1868) Brahms: Symphony no. 1, mvt 1 (1876) Bruckner: Symphony no. 7, mvt 3 (1881-5) 4. Vienna: New Year’s Day, Waltzes, Polkas, Marches Johann Strauss I: Radetzky March (1848) Johann Strauss II: The Blue Danube - Waltz (1866) Johann Strauss II: Vom Donaustrande - Polka Schnell (1873) 5. Epic Stories Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, mvt 5 (1830) Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition, Great Gate of Kiev (1874) Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, mvt 2 (1888) 6. 19th Century Symphonic Poems Liszt: Les Preludes (1854) Smetana: Má vlast, The Moldau (1874-5) Dvořák: The Wild Dove (1896-7) Part Two: Music for Ballet (some highlights) 1. Romantic ballet - The Paris Opéra Adolphe Adam: Giselle. Choreographers: Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli (1841) - Act One: Mad scene (Giselle) - Act Two: Beginning (Myrtha - ponte) - Act Two: Pas de deux (Giselle and Albrecht) 2. The Imperial Ballet (Mariinsky Ballet), St Petersburg - Petipa and Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker. Choreographer: Lev Ivanov, Libretto: Marius Petipa (1892) - Act One: Battle of the Mice and the Gingerbread Soldiers - Act Two: Waltz of the Flowers - Act Two: Pas de Deux 3. Diaghilev and The Ballets Russes - Nijinsky and Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. Choreographer: Vaslav Nijinsky (1913) - Part One: Introduction and Augurs of Spring - Part One: Dance of the Earth - Part Two: Sacrificial Dance 4.
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