J.S. Bach :: Matthew's Passion / Erbarme Dich :: Julia Hamari

Prokofiev - Romeo And Juliet, No 13 Dance Of The Knights (Valery Gergiev, LSO)

1-01 Bach_ Mass In B Minor, BWV 232 - Kyrie_ Kyrie Eleison 1

VITTORIO MONTI ~ Csardas
(Performed by  the Budapest  Symphony Orchestra)

Csárdás (or Czardas) is the only famous composition of Vittorio Monti. A rhapsodical concert piece written in 1904, it is a well-known folk piece based on a Hungarian csárdás. It was originally composed for violin, mandolin or piano. Nowadays, it is usually played on the violin, but can also be played as a piano solo, saxophone solo, on the accordion, or as an orchestral arrangement. The duration of the piece is about four 

VITTORIO MONTI ~ Csardas

Carmen, Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre

Vivaldi Autumn

My first complete interpretation of one of the closest classical works to my heart, inspired by Lucas Debargue's great performance in the XV Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015.

Video: https://youtu.be/xkM3vKtR1vg 

Source score: http://imslp.org/wiki/Special:ReverseLookup/57351

Valse Sentimentale, Tchaikovsky (Op.51, No. 6)

Tartini allegedly told the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that he had dreamed that the Devil had appeared to him and had asked to be Tartini's servant. At the end of their lessons, Tartini had handed the devil his violin to test his skill, which the devil immediately began to play with such virtuosity that the composer felt his breath taken away. The complete story is told by Tartini himself in Lalande's Voyage d'un François en Italie:

One night, in the year 1713 I dreamed I had made a pact with the devil for my soul. Everything went as I wished: my new servant anticipated my every desire. Among other things, I gave him my violin to see if he could play. How great was my astonishment on hearing a sonata so wonderful and so beautiful, played with such great art and intelligence, as I had never even conceived in my boldest flights of fantasy. I felt enraptured, transported, enchanted: my breath failed me, and I awoke. I immediately grasped my violin in order to retain, in part at least, the impression of my dream. In vain! The music which I at this time composed is indeed the best that I ever wrote, and I still call it the "Devil's Trill", but the difference between it and that which so moved me is so great that I would have destroyed my instrument and have said farewell to music forever if it had been possible for me to live without the enjoyment it affords me.

Despite having said that this sonata was his favorite, Tartini later wrote that it was "so inferior to what I had heard, that if I could have subsisted on other means, I would have broken my violin and abandoned music forever." 
While he claimed he composed the sonata in 1713, scholars think it was likely composed as late as the 1740s, due to its stylistic maturity. It was not published until 1798 or 1799, almost thirty years after the composer's death.

The sonata would become the basis for Cesare Pugni's 1849 ballet Le violon du diable, as well as Chopin's Prelude No. 27.

Tartini Violin Sonata in G minor "the Devil's Trill Sonata"

Mark Bernes - S Chego Nachinaetsya Rodina

Franz Schubert - Ave Maria

Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Op. 14 and subtitled To October, for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. It was first performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academy Capella Choir under Nikolai Malko, on 5 November 1927. After the premiere, Shostakovich made some revisions to the score, and this final version was first played in Moscow later in 1927 under the baton of Konstantin Saradzhev. It was also the first time any version of the work had been played in Moscow.

Mark Bernes - S Chego Nachinaetsya Rodina

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