The Blackbirds started singing about 2 weeks ago here: Spring is coming!
What are your specific recommendations for welcoming the spring, I mean what kind of music would reflect this? Music with wind instruments, flutes,... birds whistle, positive Karma, light on the digestive tract,,, you get the idea...
Writing that, I'm listening to Nielsen:
QuoteFrom ''Moderen'' - Tågen letter, for flute and harp
From ''Moderen'' - Børnene leger, for flute solo
From ''Moderen'' - Tro og Håb spiller, for flute and Viola
Autumn and Winter: No problem at all. I know a lot of classical - But in this case I have only very few ideas.
Well, I've just listened to two different recordings of Le sacre du printemps.
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on March 20, 2009, 07:43:12 AM
Well, I've just listened to two different recordings of Le sacre du printemps.
Just listening to this piece is not enough to really welcome spring. The
human sacrifice part is mandatory >:D
We shall place your concerns before the proper authorities.
Quote from: sTisTi on March 20, 2009, 07:59:01 AM
Just listening to this piece is not enough to really welcome spring. The human sacrifice part is mandatory >:D
Have you anyone in particular in mind?
Quote from: DavidRoss on March 20, 2009, 08:15:05 AM
Have you anyone in particular in mind?
Any racist, bigoted male-shovinistic jerk! Don't think there is anyone that fits this description here though. 0:)
Beethoven's Sixth!
Nielsens Springtime in Funen and Brittens Spring symphony are both wondeful pieces!
Quote from: erato on March 20, 2009, 09:40:25 AM
Nielsens Springtime in Funen and Brittens Spring symphony are both wondeful pieces!
Excellent suggestions!
Schumann's First Symphony.
Britten's Spring Symphony would seem mandatory.
"Happy Birthday" is what I usually hear to usher in Spring.
Oh, wait, that's just because the 21st is my birthday. Right. (Never mind.)
So Joys of Spring it is, then. (By Mr. Bronius Kutavičius.)
Brian took the words right out of my mouth when he said Beethoven's 6th Symphony.
Thanks for your Input so far...
Yes MN Dave, this is Karlhennings spring welcome ;) Yes, Beethoven 6 is alright ... I was thinking of more lightweight stuff..
Edit: I've got one: Wilhelm Peterson Berger: Frösöblomster Suite
found more searching for "spring" through my library: Alexander Glazunov: Spring op. 24, "Spring" on "The Seasons" op. 67
Two Medtner suggestions:
The Second Violin Sonata (especially in Mordkovitch/Tozer's impassioned reading) and the Primavera op.39 no.3 (part of the second set of Forgotten Melodies).
For the former, here's an excerpt from Paul Stewart's excellent notes for the Naxos recording of Medtner's violin sonatas:
"Medtner's "Spring Sonata", his Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 44, also dates from those peripatetic years. As with the second Canzona, its inspiration was triggered by homesickness, particularly for the memories of springtime in Russia. Symbolic of rebirth and the affirmation of God in nature, spring was especially significant to Medtner. A quotation from Fyodor Tyutchev's poem Vesennye vody (Spring Waters), also the text of a famous song by Rachmaninov, adumbrates the Finale's main theme in the printed score.
The Second Sonata is conceived as a gigantic structure lasting over forty minutes. An imposing Introduzione immediately announces a "motto" motif, in a characteristic dotted rhythm, which will unify the entire sonata. The first movement fairly bursts with impassioned melody, exhaustively developed and crowned with a magnificent Coda, its many themes deconstructed over the course of a long diminuendo. A brief Cadenza, featuring the "motto" in the piano and some virtuoso writing for the violin, serves as a prelude to six variations whose plaintive theme is redolent of Russian Orthodox liturgical music. Cast in the Aeolian mode common to a dumka or lament, each variation becomes increasingly more folkloric, both instruments imitating the strumming of a balalaika in the final measures. Another short Cadenza (this time spotlighting the piano) launches the folkloric Finale. In rondo form, the rhythm of its main theme corresponds exactly to Tyutchev's words, "Viesna idyot!" ("Spring comes!"). Subsidiary material consists of a voluptuous episode in B major, and a quasi-polonaise in C major/minor (a small, deliberate plagiarism from Liszt's Mephisto Waltz underlines the demonic side of this section). The former episode, returning quietly and most effectively in the pianist's left hand, gathers intensity until an overwhelming climax is reached. The Coda gleefully exploits every Medtnerian trick in the book, juxtaposing themes from all three movements with triumphant final statements of the "motto". Spring has indeed come!"
What the heck are you all talking about? Autumn is coming! ::)
Quote from: tanuki on March 21, 2009, 04:29:43 AM
What the heck are you all talking about? Autumn is coming! ::)
LOL, you upside-down people :D.
Johann Strauss, Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring). Kathleen Battle and the Vienna Phil can't be beat:
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Sarge
Quote from: Wurstwasser on March 20, 2009, 06:59:25 AM
The Blackbirds started singing about 2 weeks ago here: Spring is coming!
What are your specific recommendations for welcoming the spring, I mean what kind of music would reflect this? Music with wind instruments, flutes,... birds whistle, positive Karma, light on the digestive tract,,, you get the idea...
Writing that, I'm listening to Nielsen:
Autumn and Winter: No problem at all. I know a lot of classical - But in this case I have only very few ideas.
I've done these Springy musics in the last couple of days:
EWAZEN - Ballade for clarinet, harp and strings
HONEGGER - Pastorale d'ete
MASLANKA - 11:11
YOSHIMATSU - Prelude to the Celebration of Birds
They just struck me as springish. Springulose. Springulated.
Anyone have good suggestions for Spring music? (Whether it was intended by the composer or just something that reminds you, personally, of spring.)
Haydn 'Spring' from The Seasons
Mahler Symphony No. 1
Beethoven Symphony No. 6
Tippett Piano Concerto -- the first movement sounds very pastoral, but energetic.
Messiaen Oiseaux Exotiques -- sounds like my backyard, pretty much. Very lively and cheerful, too.
Naxos has what looks to be an entertaining album of Spring-titled or inspired works that form a good basic list, but there's many more as composers were oft-inspired by spring :
http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/preview/catalogueinfo.asp?catID=0029682ART&path=1
MAGIC OF SPRING (THE) (in order of appearance on disk)
Delius, Frederick
3 Small Tone Poems: III. Spring Morning
Verdi, Giuseppe
Les vepres siciliennes (I vespri siciliani), Act III, Scene 2: The 4 Seasons: Spring
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
Les Saisons (The Seasons), Op. 37b: No. 4. April: Snowdrop
Grieg, Edvard
2 Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34: II. Varen (Last Spring)
Delius, Frederick
2 Pieces for Small Orchestra: No. 1. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Sinding, Christian
6 Pieces, Op. 32: No. 3, Rustle of Spring (arr. for orchestra)
Vivaldi, Antonio
Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269, "La primavera" ("Spring")
Mendelssohn, Felix
Lied ohne Worte No. 30 in A Major, Op. 62, No. 6: Fruhlingslied
Strauss II, Johann
Fruhlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), Op. 410
Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich
The Seasons, Op. 67: VII. 2me Tableau. Le Printemps
Coates, Eric
Springtime Suite: I. Fresh Morning: Pastorale
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
String Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K. 387: III. Andante cantabile
Schumann, Robert
Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat Major, Op. 38, "Spring": II. Larghetto
right off the top o' my head there's also : Gounod's Chanson de printemps [Z7 Golden Dragon Egg Award!!!!] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyTtornA0VM
And : Igor's Rite of Spring; Debussy's Rondes de Printemps (from Images); Gounod's Viens! Les Gazons sont Verts! (also a favorite) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJrc9Ny0Y0o
Not explicitly related to spring, but a few days ago I listened to as disc with Dvorak 8/Schubert 6 (Blomstedt/Dresden) and it felt very appropriate. Likewise today Mendelssohn's octet (Archibudelli/Sony).
There are probably dozens or hundreds of baroque pieces with bird voices references. Apart from the 4 seasons there is a Vivaldi concerto called "il gardellino" (some kind of finch), out of the top of my head at least three Handel arias (probably a lot more), I think: "Se in fiorito prato" from Julius Caesar, "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire" from Acis & Galatea, and one in "L'allegro..." And of course the cuckoo/nightingale organ concerto
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Frank Bridge: Enter spring - a very, very great piece of glorious music!
https://www.youtube.com/v/DJeqdA8N2FQ
Debussy's (early) Salut printemps for female chorus and orchestra.
And Copland, of course
https://www.youtube.com/v/ZNHWcHEMy-Q
Quote from: Jo498 on April 12, 2015, 09:31:01 AM
Not explicitly related to spring, but a few days ago I listened to as disc with Dvorak 8/Schubert 6 (Blomstedt/Dresden) and it felt very appropriate. Likewise today Mendelssohn's octet (Archibudelli/Sony).
There are probably dozens or hundreds of baroque pieces with bird voices references. Apart from the 4 seasons there is a Vivaldi concerto called "il gardellino" (some kind of finch), out of the top of my head at least three Handel arias (probably a lot more), I think: "Se in fiorito prato" from Julius Caesar, "Hush, ye pretty warbling quire" from Acis & Galatea, and one in "L'allegro..." And of course the cuckoo/nightingale organ concerto
The Mendelssohn Octet is awesome. Possibly my favorite piece of chamber music ever composed, period. I've loved it since freshman year of high school. And it does make me think of Spring, especially now that you mention it.
Händel: "Quel fior che all'alba ride", HWV 192
http://www.youtube.com/v/nN6byS3JvpM
Quel fior ch'all'alba ride
il sole poi l'uccide
e tomba ha nella sera.
È un fior la vita ancora:
L'occaso a nell'aurora
e perde in un sol dì la primavera.
--
Translation:
The flower that smiles at dawn
is slain by the sun anon
and is buried in the evening.
Life is like a flower:
declining at first light,
its verdant spring lost in a single day.
https://www.youtube.com/v/WJKziU8yEt4
A bitonal spring!
And an Hungarian spring. I find the second movement, "allegretto", especially ravishing in an almost Hollywoodian manner...
https://www.youtube.com/v/DEpA9Og8JCs
P.
Ah! Claude Le Jeune : Reveci (revoici) venirdu printemps!
https://www.youtube.com/v/D8hzcpkoh24
Quote from: EigenUser on April 12, 2015, 06:30:12 AM
Anyone have good suggestions for Spring music?
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Oh yeah,
that's what I'm talkin' about! ;)
Quote from: pjme on April 12, 2015, 10:22:40 AM
And Copland, of course
I too would have mentioned '
A Ballet for Martha', even though it really has nothing to do with the season.
Martha Graham, the ballet dancer/choreographer to whom
Copland wrote the piece, named it after a line in a poem by
Hart Crane, and the word 'spring' means a water source. 8)
https://www.youtube.com/v/HJzogioRx6A
I can't believe I forgot this and noone mentioned it so far:
It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino
That o'er the green corn-field did pass.
In spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding a ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ3XbrnLRM0
https://www.youtube.com/v/kOoDzJPrNPg
Berlioz Vilanelle from Les nuits d'été
in Régine Crespin's classic performance with Ansermet conducting.
Villanelle
Poem by Théophile Gautier
Quand viendra la saison nouvelle,
Quand auront disparu les froids,
Tous le deux nous iront, ma belle,
Pour cuellir le muguet au bois.
Sous nos pieds égranant les perles
Que l'on voit au matin trembler,
Nous irons écouter les merles,
Nous irons écouter les merles
Siffler.
Le printemps est venu, ma belle,
C'est le mois des amants béni;
Et l'oiseau, satinant son aile,
Dit des vers au rebord du nid.
Oh! viens donc sur ce banc de mousse
Pour parler de nos beaux amours,
Et dis-moi de ta voix si douce,
Toujours!
Loin, bien loin, égarant nos courses,
Faisons fuir le lapin caché,
Et le daim, au miroir des sources,
Admirant son grand bois penché!
Puis chez nous, tout heureux, tout aises,
En paniers enlaçant nos doigts,
Revenons, rapportons des fraises
Des bois!
Quote from: North Star on April 12, 2015, 11:43:14 AM
I too would have mentioned 'A Ballet for Martha', even though it really has nothing to do with the season. Martha Graham, the ballet dancer/choreographer to whom Copland wrote the piece, named it after a line in a poem by Hart Crane, and the word 'spring' means a water source. 8)
https://www.youtube.com/v/HJzogioRx6A
You are absolutely right. I found that out years ago - but got carried away by "spring fever"?!
https://www.youtube.com/v/IDfyBQSeav0
A late -Romantic Flemish spring night...
And a May night by Brahms
https://www.youtube.com/v/Ru-bht3e7y8
https://www.youtube.com/v/nHXtzNxzOYs
Ecco la Primavera, Landini. The perfect spring song!
Quote from: pjme on April 12, 2015, 01:24:06 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/kOoDzJPrNPg
Quote from: pjme on April 12, 2015, 11:00:59 AM
Ah! Claude Le Jeune : Reveci (revoici) venirdu printemps!
https://www.youtube.com/v/D8hzcpkoh24
Quote from: The new erato on April 12, 2015, 01:29:40 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/nHXtzNxzOYs
Ecco la Primavera, Landini. The perfect spring song!
Top three, INPO.
This (https://soundcloud.com/karlhenning-1/09-out-in-the-sun).
Quote from: karlhenning on April 15, 2015, 03:21:39 AM
This (https://soundcloud.com/karlhenning-1/09-out-in-the-sun).
Yes! An excellent choice,
Karl. 8)
I don't usually even visit silly threads.
Then, when I opened this up finally, it was only to see that not only had I already visited but had contributed a straight-faced contribution.
Ouch.
But all is well that ends well. A genial piece by Karl Henning for what has so far been a pretty temperate spring here, though the usual old thunder storms are in the works. Another coupla hours.
That's from when the sun is less genial, I guess. :D This sun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ik-UltGCYA
Another vote for Frank Bridge's 'Enter Spring' which some consider his masterpiece:
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Also, Bax 'Maytime in Sussex' aka 'Morning song'.
Not a Spring title but I'm going Scandanavian as well as this was the first thing that came instantly to mind.
Wiren: Serenade for Strings
https://www.youtube.com/v/FRe2bheb2FI
Quote from: North Star on April 16, 2015, 12:28:20 PM
https://www.youtube.com/v/FRe2bheb2FI
Absolutely exquisite work, Karlo. Need to see if this work is in that
Essential Sibelius set.
We have a fine, cool, first day of Spring in Belgium.
This is a first contribution:
https://www.youtube.com/v/jxuMn8NlPXE
Version wordless chorus & orch.,reconstructed by Emil de Cou.
and
https://www.youtube.com/v/lBDcVzecAz4
P.
A sunny, cool day with showers up here. Some small signs of spring, but no leaves yet, some expected maybe in two-three weeks.
That Debussy piece is one of my favourite works by him.
Some other, nices ones are
- Laszlo Lajtha: 4th Symphony "The Spring" /Ferencsik recording
- Nielsen: "Springtime on Funen", for vocals & orchestra
- Frank Bridge: "Enter Spring", symphonic poem
I don´t remember if Josef Bohuslav Foerster´s symphonic poem"Springtime and Desire" is particularly good. But worth a listen too, I guess.
https://soundcloud.com/karlhenning-1/09-out-in-the-sun
And there's already a thread (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,11737.0.html) on this. ;)
You lucky northern hemisphere people!!!!
Stravinsky's Rite. 'Nuff said. ;D
Quote from: jochanaan on March 21, 2017, 05:22:43 PM
Stravinsky's Rite. 'Nuff said. ;D
Joffrey Ballet, recreation of original production; choreography, sets and costumes.
https://www.youtube.com/v/jo4sf2wT0wU
Gian Francesco Malipiero:
Sinfonia n.1 "In quattro tempi come le quattro stagioni" I. Primavera: Quasi andante, sereno (1933)
https://www.youtube.com/v/uNsL-o5aXog
Sinfonia dello Zodiaco; I, Primavera (1951)
https://www.youtube.com/v/V5HmFhyIayQ
Aaron Copland ~ Appalachian Spring, original scoring for 13 instruments
https://www.youtube.com/v/kt5Eq317bX8
Darius Milhaud:
Petit symphonie No. 1 'Printemps'
https://www.youtube.com/v/WJKziU8yEt4
Printemps Op. 25, for piano
1er cahier
https://www.youtube.com/v/h0d8sxuWitE
2d cahier
https://www.youtube.com/v/JU4HLVfRxJw
The representation of spring in music:
https://www.youtube.com/v/L4p2ObQvxlk
"Wie dünkt mich doch die Aue heut so schön" :) :)
And for those averse to opera, in its purely orchetsral guise:
https://www.youtube.com/v/ezHQw5OCj4o
Seriously, Wagner, spring music ?
Time to get back to your homeland with one of the greatest hit of classical music, Luigi Boccherini, Minuet from the quintet Op. 10
https://www.youtube.com/v/2AZOknKotVc
I am presently listening to the Cuarteto Casals CD
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This is the epitome of music of the enlightment, perfect for spring.
Quote from: North Star on March 21, 2017, 02:27:25 AM
https://soundcloud.com/karlhenning-1/09-out-in-the-sun
Yes!
Listened again after a very long time - Out in the sun = Happy music!
Can I suggest a spectacular location for the next performance?
https://www.youtube.com/v/3AQgNyFPFyk
P.
...and, of course, the most appropriate...
Quote from: Thatfabulousalien on March 26, 2017, 03:22:50 AM
The irony of that work (which is probably the most well known and famous 20th century work), is that it's not actually about spring. Spring is just the setting for the.....party :laugh:
It's about the celebration of spring, a ritual tied to the season. If that means it's not
about spring, what is? Surely not migrating birds returning, or river ice melting...
Raff: Symphony #8, "Sounds of Spring"
https://www.youtube.com/v/uvmlkMHT9y0
"In this work, Raff produced three successive movements of surging vitality, demonic excitement and pastoral delicacy which go a long way towards explaining his huge success in his lifetime." ―Raff.org
Welcome aboard, schnittkease! Big fan of Schnittke's music right here.
Quote from: pjme on April 12, 2015, 01:24:06 PM
Berlioz Vilanelle from Les nuits d'été
in Régine Crespin's classic performance with Ansermet conducting.
Villanelle
Régine Crespin! and
Les nuits d'étéYou're so right, for the category, but also about this being a 'classic' must-have recording.
Crespin was a fabulous singer
and a tremendous musician. If you've ever seen the French Television video of her singing from
Les nuits d'été, she makes it look like singing like that is completely
effortless.Best regards.
Quote from: some guy on March 20, 2009, 04:51:07 PM
"Happy Birthday" is what I usually hear to usher in Spring.
Oh, wait, that's just because the 21st is my birthday. Right. (Never mind.)
From one post-modern curmudgeon to another....
MANY HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY!
https://www.youtube.com/v/HNDbsj5zlV8
Quote from: ritter on March 22, 2017, 09:47:47 AM
The representation of spring in music:
https://www.youtube.com/v/L4p2ObQvxlk
"Wie dünkt mich dich die Aue heut so schön" :) :)
And for those averse to opera, in its purely orchetsral guise:
https://www.youtube.com/v/ezHQw5OCj4o
I understand your point.
But I'd choose Bach's Passions instead.
Since my younger years, his music for passiontide has gone hand in hand with blackbirds singing in the late afternoon and early evening, due to memories of me with my parents going to a Bach passion concert in spring.
Quote from: Marc on March 26, 2017, 11:25:17 PM
I understand your point.
But I'd choose Bach's Passions instead.
Since my younger years, his music for passiontide has gone hand in hand with blackbirds singing in the late afternoon and early evening, due to memories of me with my parents going to a Bach passion concert in spring.
And I get your point too,
Marc! Wonderful to have those memories about the
Bach Passions. I myself rehearsed (but never perfomed, as the conductor behind the whole project sadly passed away before the concerts were set to take place) as a chorioster the
St. John Passion in my youth in Caracas, and that too is a memory I'll always cherish.
My incliniation towards that
Wagner excerpt, though, is because (even if it is related to Good Friday), both the text ("
Nun freut sich alle Kreatur..." etc.) and the music deal to a great extent with the renewal of nature which is specific to spring (regardless of the religious aspects of Easter). The luminiscent poetry of the music in this passage, after the barren, desolate prelude to Act III, really has a spring-like feeling to it....
Regards,
Quote from: ritter on March 27, 2017, 01:51:52 AM
And I get your point too, Marc! Wonderful to have those memories about the Bach Passions. I myself rehearsed (but never perfomed, as the conductor behind the whole project sadly passed away before the concerts were set to take place) as a chorioster the St. John Passion in my youth in Caracas, and that too is a memory I'll always cherish.
My incliniation towards that Wagner excerpt, though, is because (even if it is related to Good Friday), both the text ("Nun freut sich alle Kreatur..." etc.) and the music deal to a great extent with the renewal of nature which is specific to spring (regardless of the religious aspects of Easter). The luminiscent poetry of the music in this passage, after the barren, desolate prelude to Act III, really has a spring-like feeling to it....
Regards,
I understand.
I admit I did not dive that deep into the Wagnerian sea... I'm a true Baroccian, you know. ;)
But I do recall from those younger years that both the Passions AND Parsifal were regular 'guests' in the Radio Program Guide during Lent/Passiontide.
Handel ~Messiah
Originally commissioned for, intended for, performed for -- Easter.
I'm currently analyzing some data for a spring/mass/damper system, so I misread the title of this thread for half a second. It was a funny thought.
So, here's some music for some springs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhFv5PU-9FU
Quote from: nathanb on March 28, 2017, 09:21:11 AM
So, here's some music for some springs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhFv5PU-9FU
Nice!