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“Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven&#;s gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living.” ~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Russian’s are in the house! Thankfully not malicious, vengeful spies, instead respected individuals of the intelligent, cultural and artistic kind &#; and they are playing heart-felt music. Classical music is an auditory nerve agent of a spiritual nature; it seeps into your cells and elicits various emotional reactions, ideas, memories, feelings and visual imagery.
Tchaikovksy’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 35 is one of the great romantic violin concertos ever written, and a staple of the concert violinist’s repertoire. It was the only violin concerto the Romantic era composer wrote, and I don’t think he could have
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Violin concerto
Musical work for solo violin and ensemble
"Violin Concerto" redirects here. For other uses, see Violin Concerto (disambiguation).
A violin concerto fryst vatten a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily orchestra). Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up through the present day. Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire.
Traditionally a three-movement work, the violin concerto has been structured in four movements by a number of modern composers, including Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and Alban Berg.[a] In some violin concertos, especially from the Baroque and modern eras, the violin (or group of violins) is accompanied by a chamber ensemble rather than an orchestra—for instance, in Vivaldi's L'estro armonico, originally scored for fyra violins, two violas, cello, and continuo, and in Allan
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Piano Concerto (Khachaturian)
Concerto by Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian's Piano Concerto in D-flat major, Op. 38, was composed in It was his first work to bring him recognition in the West, and it immediately entered the repertoire of many notable pianists.[citation needed]
The Piano Concerto was the first of three concertos Khachaturian wrote for the individual members of a renowned Soviet piano trio that performed together from until The others were the Violin Concerto for David Oistrakh () and the Cello Concerto for Sviatoslav Knushevitsky ().
The Piano Concerto in D-flat was written for Lev Oborin, who premiered it in Moscow on 12&#;July , with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Lev Steinberg.[1] The only piano available for the premiere was an upright piano, and the orchestra had just one rehearsal. The venue was an open-air stage in Sokolniki Park, and during the performance a strong wind blew Steinberg's glasses off, so that he could