jueves, 10 de agosto de 2023

MUSIC - SERIES OF COMPOSERS - Gustav Mahler (1860-1911 ) 3 / 7

 MUSIC 


                              SERIES OF COMPOSERS 
                                 Gustav Mahler (1860-1911 )
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A devoted musician who was a brilliant Conductor as a daily living, soon found his muse to inspire him as a Composer. Like many other great musicians, he was recognized after many years of hard work. Nowadays, all his masterpieces form part of all prestigious orchestras throughout the world.

Feel free to enjoy some of his fine music as you enter into his magnificent world.

ALMO 



Mahler 2 "Resurrection" symphony - finale with English subtitles conducted by Leonard Bernstein



MUSIC - SERIES OF CONDUCTORS - Carlos ( Karl ) Kleiber ( 1930 - 2004 ) 2 / 7

 

MUSIC
                               

                                                 SERIES OF CONDUCTORS
                             Carlos ( Karl )  Kleiber  ( 1930 - 2004 ) 
                                                        2 / 7


Carlos (Karl ) Kleiber is considered one the best Conductors in his days and for long time listeners and followers of his performances. Any person will be delighted to enjoy his unique style, so appropriate in each concert, with such passion and devotion which resembles his talent and dedication as a profound musician.

Thank you Maestro Kleiber !

ALMO






Rare footage of Carlos Kleiber in Ljubljana, 6th June 1997

MUSIC - SERIES OF COMPOSERS - Gustav Mahler (1860-1911 ) 2 / 7

 


MUSIC 

                              SERIES OF COMPOSERS 
                                 Gustav Mahler (1860-1911 )
                                             2 / 7

A devoted musician who was a brilliant Conductor as a daily living, soon found his muse to inspire him as a Composer. Like many other great musicians, he was recognized after many years of hard work. Nowadays, all his masterpieces form part of all prestigious orchestras throughout the world.

Feel free to enjoy some of his fine music as you enter into his magnificent world.

ALMO 






Mahler - Symphony No. 1 "Titan" (Bernstein, VPO) FULL VIDEO

martes, 8 de agosto de 2023

MUSIC - SERIES OF CONDUCTORS - Carlos ( Karl ) Kleiber ( 1930 - 2004 ) 1 / 7

 MUSIC

                               

                                                 SERIES OF CONDUCTORS
                               Carlos ( Karl )  Kleiber  ( 1930 - 2004 ) 
                                                        1 / 7


Carlos (Karl ) Kleiber is considered one the best Conductors in his days and for long time listeners and followers of his performances. Any person will be delighted to enjoy his unique style, so appropriate in each concert, with such passion and devotion which resembles his talent and dedication as a profound musician.

Thank you Maestro Kleiber !

ALMO






from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Early life

Kleiber was born as Karl Ludwig Bonifacius Kleiber in Berlin in 1930, the son of the eminent Austrian conductor Erich Kleiber and American Ruth Goodrich, from Waterloo, Iowa. In 1935, the Kleiber family emigrated to Buenos Aires and Karl was renamed Carlos. As a youth, he had an English governess and grew up in English boarding schools. He also composed, sang, and played piano and timpani. While his father noticed his son's musical talents, he nevertheless dissuaded Carlos from pursuing a musical career: "What a pity the boy is musically talented", wrote Erich to a friend.[5]

Carlos first studied chemistry at ETH Zurich but soon decided to dedicate himself to music. He was répétiteur at the Gärtnerplatz Theatre in Munich in 1952 and made his conducting debut with the operetta Gasparone at Potsdam theatre in 1954. From 1958 to 1964 he was Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and Duisburg, and then at the Opera in Zurich from 1964 to 1966. Between 1966 and 1973 he was first Kapellmeister in Stuttgart, his last permanent post. During the following years, he often conducted at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.

During his time at Düsseldorf his operatic repertoire included Giuseppe Verdi's La traviataRigolettoI due Foscari and OtelloGiacomo Puccini's La bohème and Madama ButterflyRichard StraussDaphne and Der RosenkavalierJacques Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann plus several of his operettasFranz Lehár's The Merry WidowEngelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and GretelIgor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Edipo re At Zurich he conducted Verdi's Falstaff and Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride for the first time.


Mature career

During his freelance career, Kleiber restricted his conducting appearances to select occasions. He made his British debut in 1966 with a performance at the Edinburgh Festival of Alban Berg's Wozzeck, a work whose premiere his father had conducted in 1925. Kleiber's repertoire at the Royal Opera House included Der RosenkavalierElektraLa bohème and Otello.[7] He made his Bayreuth debut in 1974 conducting Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

His American debut came in 1978 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra,  where he again conducted in 1983, his only US orchestra appearances. His Metropolitan Opera debut was in 1988, conducting La bohème with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni. In 1989, following Herbert von Karajan's resignation from the Berlin Philharmonic, Kleiber was offered, but declined, the opportunity to succeed him as music director. He returned to the Met in 1989 to conduct La traviata, and in 1990 for Otello and Der Rosenkavalier.

Kleiber kept out of the public eye, and apparently gave an interview only once in his lifetime, contrary to reports that he never gave any.  After he resigned from the Bavarian State Opera, his appearances became less frequent and he made only a few recordings.

Most of these studio recordings are highly regarded; they include Ludwig van Beethoven's fifth and seventh symphonies with the Vienna PhilharmonicJohannes Brahms's Symphony No. 4 and Franz Schubert's third and eighth ("Unfinished") symphonies, also with the Vienna Philharmonic, recordings of Dvořák's Concerto for piano and orchestra with Sviatoslav RichterCarl Maria von Weber's Der FreischützJohann StraussDie Fledermaus and Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata. His last studio recording was Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde with the Staatskapelle Dresden. Recording sessions began in 1980. Kleiber left before they were completed, but since a musically complete performance had been set down, Deutsche Grammophon released it, much to Kleiber's anger.

Kleiber's small studio discography has been increased by a number of releases of live recordings, often sourced from broadcast relays. These have included his two Vienna New Year's Concerts, performances of Beethoven's Fourth and Seventh Symphonies with the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Sixth with the Bavarian State Orchestra. The Sixth is especially notable as the only occasion on which Kleiber conducted the work; in this instance the source came not from a radio broadcast but a C-90 compact cassette recorded for his son.



ALMO



Carlos Kleiber Beethoven Symphonies 7 (Complete) / Concergebouw Orchestra


MUSIC - SERIES OF COMPOSERS - Gustav Mahler (1860-1911 ) 1 / 7

 


MUSIC 

                              SERIES OF COMPOSERS 
                              Gustav Mahler (1860-1911 )
                                              1 / 7

A devoted musician who was a brilliant Conductor as a daily living, soon found his muse to inspire him as a Composer. Like many other great musicians, he was recognized after many years of hard work. Nowadays, all his masterpieces form part of all prestigious orchestras throughout the world.

Feel free to enjoy some of his fine music as you enter into his magnificent world.

ALMO 





from Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia

Gustav Mahler (German: [ˈɡʊstaf ˈmaːlɐ]; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect, which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.

Born in Bohemia (then part of the Austrian Empire) to Jewish parents of humble origins, the German-speaking Mahler displayed his musical gifts at an early age. After graduating from the Vienna Conservatory in 1878, he held a succession of conducting posts of rising importance in the opera houses of Europe, culminating in his appointment in 1897 as director of the Vienna Court Opera (Hofoper). During his ten years in Vienna, Mahler—who had converted to Catholicism to secure the post—experienced regular opposition and hostility from the anti-Semitic press. Nevertheless, his innovative productions and insistence on the highest performance standards ensured his reputation as one of the greatest of opera conductors, particularly as an interpreter of the stage works of WagnerMozart, and Tchaikovsky. Late in his life he was briefly director of New York's Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic.

Mahler's œuvre is relatively limited; for much of his life composing was necessarily a part-time activity while he earned his living as a conductor. Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna, Mahler's works are generally designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and operatic soloists. These works were frequently controversial when first performed, and several were slow to receive critical and popular approval; exceptions included his Second Symphony, and the triumphant premiere of his Eighth Symphony in 1910. Some of Mahler's immediate musical successors included the composers of the Second Viennese School, notably Arnold SchoenbergAlban Berg and Anton WebernDmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten are among later 20th-century composers who admired and were influenced by Mahler. The International Gustav Mahler Society was established in 1955 to honour the composer's life and achievements.




ALMO



Mahler: Adagietto Symphony 5 - Karajan*


domingo, 30 de julio de 2023

FILOSOFIA - EL CANTO DE LA VIDA - KRISHNAMURTI

 FILOSOFIA


                              EL CANTO DE LA VIDA
                              --------------------------------

La consecución de la Verdad es una experiencia absoluta, final.  Yo me he formado de nuevo conforme a la Verdad. No soy poeta ;  he intentado, sencillamente, poner en palabras, mi modo de realizarla.  

                                                                                                                                        Krishnamurti


No tengo nombre,
Soy como la fresca brisa de los montes ;
No tengo asilo,
Soy curso de las aguas sin abrigo;
No tengo santuarios cual los dioses misteriosos,
Ni estoy en la sombra de los templos solemnes ;
No tengo sagradas escrituras,
Ni estoy sazonado en la tradición.


No estoy en el incienso 
Que sube a las alturas,
Ni en la pompa de las grandes ceremonias ;
Tampoco estoy en la adorada imagen,
Ni en el sonoro canto de una voz melodiosa.


No estoy limitado por teorías,
Ni corrompido por creencias ;
No soy esclavo de las religiones,
Ni de la pía asistencia
De sus sacerdotes ;
No soy engañado por filosofías,
Ni el poder de sus sectas me da nombre.


No soy humilde ni conspicuo,
Ni apacible ni violento ;
Yo soy el Adorador y el Adorado,
Yo soy libre.


Mi canción es la canción del río,
En sus anhelos por los mares inmensos.
Divagando, divagando.


Yo soy la vida ! . . . 

                                                            Krishnamurti



Fuente: Órgano de Cultura y Difusión del Centro de Orientación Filosófica. Caracas, Venezuela, Enero, Año 1970.

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