viernes, 9 de febrero de 2024

MUSIC - SERIES OF CONDUCTORS - Klaus Tennstedt 2 / 7

MUSIC

SERIES OF CONDUCTORS

Klaus Tennstedt

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When you think of great conductors throughout history, you must include Klaus Tennstadt as one of them. His devotion to music raises him into a one of a kind in his position. You can feel his empathy for the composer´s original scores.

Someone may even imagine a constant dialogue between the composer, the conductor and musicians as they lead us into a rich environment of joy and transcendence.

Please relax and keep your senses open to this worldwide recognized conductor.

ALMO

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Wagner Tannhäuser Overture Klaus Tennstedt London Philharmonic

https://youtu.be/OQpBQSOOups?si=NOxrvjMR4ad4Px7k

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MUSIC - SERIES OF COMPOSERS - Albert William Ketelbey 2 / 7

MUSIC

SERIES OF COMPOSERS

Albert William Ketelbey

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A remarkable composer of unique and outstanding masterpieces,some of which we find in top preferences of music critics and the general public fond of classical music. His best works are inspired by different cultures around the world.

By saying so, we are welcome to travel along into his rich encounters with melodies, harmonies and rhythms acquainted with people from Egypt, Persia, China, among others, within a mystic atmosphere, involving our lives by attractive and marvelous surroundings.

Please take a deep breathe when listening to Maestro Ketelbey.

ALMO

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Bells across the Meadows. Albert Ketelbey.Edited by Marino van Wakeren

https://youtu.be/xgGNn96MJpY?si=9qK_7_bBy4NtQ01M

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Vista previa del vídeo Bells across the Meadows. Albert Ketelbey.Edited by Marino van Wakeren de YouTube

lunes, 5 de febrero de 2024

FILOSOFIA - Nuestra Palabra

FILOSOFIA

Nuestra Palabra

Ramakrishna decía : "La abeja revolotea zumbando hasta tanto no se pose sobre la flor y liba la dulzura de la miel que hay en ella. Pero, una vez dentro de la flor, gusta el néctar silenciosamente. Mientras el hombre disputa sobre doctrinas y dogmas demuestra que no ha probado el néctar de la verdadera fe. Una vez que la pruebe, se torna silencioso."

Esto ocurre cuando el buscador inquieto ha logrado su aspiración más urgente : reconocer a su Maestro. que es Él mismo y que su personalidad encuentra al fin en un hombre físico, singular a los ojos del mundo, pero que es para el discípulo Su Maestro, o sea : Ejemplo y Perfección constantes. La razón de esto es que la puerta estrecha que conduce al mundo en donde no hay espacio-tiempo-distancia, es una puerta física y visible.

Sólo entonces comienza el Sendero, un Sendero que no conduce a parajes etéricos o mágicos, sino a otro mundo igualmente físico pero que tiene para el discípulo otro sentido.

Pero permanecer al lado de Su Maestro significa continuos esfuerzos conscientes en estar Alerta y Despierto, porque en presencia del Maestro no es posible el sueño ; el discípulo debe entonces tener la honradez y la valentía de ver sus propias llagas reflejadas en el espejo que es Su Maestro ; y por esto decimos que el Maestro es Ejemplo y Perfección constantes porque el espejo gracias a su pureza devuelve siempre la imagen real del discípulo y éste debe corregirla constantemente. Para el discípulo , ésta es la dulzura de la miel de Su Maestro.

El discípulo en el Corazón de Su Maestro lo ha logrado todo. Va renunciando a la voluntad de su personalidad hasta que se convierte en un habitante de dos mundos, haciéndolo todo en el Nombre de Dios Clemente y Misericordioso.

OM TAT SAT

domingo, 4 de febrero de 2024

MUSIC - SERIES OF CONDUCTORS . Klaus Tennstedt 1 / 7

MUSIC

SERIES OF CONDUCTORS

Klaus Tennstedt

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Someone may even imagine a constant dialogue between the composer, the conductor and musicians as they lead us into a rich environment of joy and transcendence.

Please relax and keep your senses open to this worldwide recognized conductor.

ALMO

almoxxi.blogspot.com

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . . .

Klaus Hermann Wilhelm Tennstedt (German: [ˈtɛnʃtɛt]; June 6, 1926 – January 11, 1998) was a German conductor from Merseburg. Known for his interpretation of the Austro-German repertoire, especially his sympathetic approaches towards Gustav Mahler, Tennstedt is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential conductors of the late 20th century. He worked with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, and other highly regarded ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and most notably the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he was closely associated and recorded many of his celebrated recordings under the EMI label, including a cycle of Mahler's 10 symphonies.

Life and career

He studied violin and piano at the Leipzig Conservatory. He avoided military service during the Nazi era by joining a Baroque orchestra. He became concertmaster of the Halle Municipal Theater orchestra in 1948, but a finger injury ended his career as a violinist and he continued as a voice coach at the same theater. Tennstedt then directed his talents toward conducting. In 1958, he became music director of the Dresden Opera, and in 1962, music director of the Schwerin State Orchestra and Theatre.

He emigrated from East Germany in 1971, obtaining asylum in Sweden. He conducted in Gothenburg at the Göteborg Theater, and in Stockholm with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1972, he became General Music Director of the Kiel Opera in northern Germany. From 1979 to 1981, he was chief conductor of the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra (NDR Symphony) in Hamburg, and during the same period (1979–82) was principal guest conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra in Minneapolis.

In 1974, Tennstedt made his North American debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. His first U.S. appearance was shortly after that, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, on December 13, 1974, conducting an all-Brahms program. The following week, his BSO Bruckner Symphony No. 8 earned laudatory reviews. In Norman Lebrecht's The Maestro Myth, the story was told that when the Boston management asked Tennstedt what he wanted to conduct, he replied: "You mean I get to choose?" His appearances were so highly acclaimed that as a result, Tennstedt was invited to guest-conduct at the Tanglewood Music Festival and Blossom Music Festival in 1975.

His only American opera engagement was a series of seven performances of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera, the last of which, on January 7, 1984, was broadcast.

Tennstedt then guest-conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New York Philharmonic. In Europe, he guest- conducted the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony of Munich, the Berlin Philharmonic and the SDR Symphony (now the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra).

His London debut was with the London Symphony (LSO) in 1976. In 1977 came his first engagement with the London Philharmonic (LPO), which led to his appointment as its principal guest conductor in 1980, and eventually as principal conductor in 1983. Due to ill-health he resigned in 1987, but was later named its conductor laureate,^[1] returning to the LPO in 1986 to record Mahler's Symphony No. 8 ("Symphony of a Thousand", EMI DSB-47625) and for Mahler concerts in November 1991 (Symphony No. 6) and May 1993 (Symphony No. 7). His last guest appearance in the U.S. was with the New York Philharmonic in 1992, but on the advice of his physicians he retired from conducting altogether in October 1994. The last time he conducted was in June 1994, at a rehearsal of a student orchestra at Oxford University, where he received an honorary doctorate a few days later.^[3] He died of throat cancer in January 1998, at his home in Kiel, Germany.

In 1978 Tennstedt became the first German conductor of his generation to conduct the Israel Philharmonic, which until then had boycotted German conductors because of their connections with the Nazi regime.

His recordings include a complete cycle of the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, and several of Tennstedt's concert performances have been reissued on CD.

Wagner Die Walküre Klaus Tennstedt London Philharmonic

https://youtu.be/LlxKtRbALTA?si=95WYRQFYmnX_DdBx

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MUSIC - SERIES OF COMPOSERS - Albert William Ketelbey 1 / 7

MUSIC

SERIES OF COMPOSERS

Albert William Ketelbey

1 / 7

A remarkable composer of unique and outstanding masterpieces,some of which we find in top preferences of music critics and t he general public fond of classical music. His best works are inspired by different cultures around the world.

By saying so, we are welcome to travel along into his rich encounters with melodies, harmonies and rhythms acquainted with people from Egypt, Persia, China, among others, within a mystical atmosphere, involving our lives by attractive and marvelous surroundings.

Please take a deep breathe when listening to Maestro Ketelbey.

ALMO

almoxxi.blogspot.com

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Albert William Ketèlbey (/kəˈtɛlbi/; born Ketelbey; 9 August 1875 – 26 November 1959) was an English composer, conductor and pianist, best known for his short pieces of light orchestral music. He was born in Birmingham and moved to London in 1889 to study at Trinity College of Music. After a brilliant studentship he did not pursue the classical career predicted for him, becoming musical director of the Vaudeville Theatre before gaining fame as a composer of light music and as a conductor of his own works.

For many years Ketèlbey worked for a series of music publishers, including Chappell & Co and the Columbia Graphophone Company, making arrangements for smaller orchestras, a period in which he learned to write fluent and popular music. He also found great success writing music for silent films until the advent of talking films in the late 1920s.

The composer's early works in conventional classical style were well received, but it was for his light orchestral pieces that he became best known. One of his earliest works in the genre, In a Monastery Garden (1915), sold over a million copies and brought him to widespread notice; his later musical depictions of exotic scenes caught the public imagination and established his fortune. Such works as In a Persian Market (1920), In a Chinese Temple Garden (1923), and In the Mystic Land of Egypt (1931) became best-sellers in print and on records; by the late 1920s he was Britain's first millionaire composer. His celebrations of British scenes were equally popular: examples include Cockney Suite (1924) with its scenes of London life, and his ceremonial music for royal events. His works were frequently recorded during his heyday, and a substantial part of his output has been put on CD in more recent years.

Ketèlbey's popularity began to wane during the Second World War and his originality also declined; many of his post-war works were re-workings of older pieces and he increasingly found his music ignored by the BBC. In 1949 he moved to the Isle of Wight, where he spent his retirement, and he died at home in obscurity. His work has been reappraised since his death; in a 2003 poll by the BBC radio programme Your Hundred Best Tunes, Bells Across the Meadows was voted the 36th most popular tune of all time. On the last night of the 2009 Proms season the orchestra performed his In a Monastery Garden, marking the fiftieth anniversary of Ketèlbey's death—the first time his music had been included in the festival's finale.