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Dvorak Serenade for Strings

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Shostakovich String quartet n.8

Antonin Dvorak - Serenade for strings
Mov. 1 - Moderato
Chamber Orchestra of Belgium - conducted by Benjamin Haemhouts
Live recording @ Concertgebouw Amsterdam
20-03-'13

Dvorak - Serenade for strings - Mov.1

Antonin Dvorak - Serenade for strings
Mov. 2 - Tempo di Valse
Chamber Orchestra of Belgium - conducted by Benjamin Haemhouts
Live recording @ Concertgebouw Amsterdam
20-03-'13

Dvorak - Serenade for strings  - Mov. 2

Antonin Dvorak - Serenade for strings
Mov. 4 - Larghetto
Chamber Orchestra of Belgium - conducted by Benjamin Haemhouts
Live recording @ Concertgebouw Amsterdam
20-03-'13

Dvorak - Serenade for strings - Mov. 4

Antonin Dvorak - Serenade for strings
Mov. 5 - Finale: allegro vivace
Chamber Orchestra of Belgium - conducted by Benjamin Haemhouts
Live recording @ Concertgebouw Amsterdam
20-03-'13

Dvorak - Serenade for strings - Mov. 5

Antonin Dvorak - Serenade for strings
Mov. 3 - Scherzo: vivace
Chamber Orchestra of Belgium - conducted by Benjamin Haemhouts
Live recording @ Concertgebouw Amsterdam
20-03-'13

Dvorak - Serenade for strings - Mov. 3

DVORAK Sérénade 2-Tempo Di Valse

This track is from the album Eternal Classic and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/dolcevitastringquartet

Concerto Grosso No.11 in D Minor, Op. 3: IV. Allegro

NEC Orchestra conducted by Richard Hoenich perform excerpts of Holst's The Planets in Jordan Hall, Boston, MA.

Holst - The Planets -  Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity

Alesso ft Nico & Vinz - I Wanna Know

Dvorak - Serenade for strings in E - II. Tempo di valse

Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) is one of those unfortunate composers whose major works are obscured by the celebrity of their first performances. He composed, in the last years of his life (between 1876 and 1883), two masterpieces: two string quartets which are as unclassifiable as Beethoven’s last quartets. But this is the only similarity, because whereas for Beethoven the gradual onset of this deafness meant that he was no longer encumbered by sound and could turn his deafness to his advantage in writing music in total freedom, Smetana, who was brutally struck by deafness during the night of 19 to 20 October 1874, turned back on himself. From then on and more relentlessly than ever before, he went in quest of his own roots.

The first quartet, ‘From my Life’, in E minor, tells a story. But it is far from being descriptive music. The writing is of extraordinary richness and vivacity. The first chord is certainly one of the most pathos-laden moments in music since the first seven bars of Schumann’s Scenes from Faust. Smetana, a great admirer of Chopin, was inspired by folk music without ever copying it. The quartet is a discreet summary of his life in four movements. It represents youth, with its enthusiasms, its adventures and its hopes but with a premonition of tragic events. The second (Allegro a la polka) is freedom from care and the dance, the deep heart of Bohemia. The third movement is a song of love to his adored wife. And the final movement is all happiness, then, in a single chord, deafness strikes like an axe into a tree trunk.

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Smetana - String Quartet No.1 in E minor "From my life" - Allegro vivo appassionato

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Zoltan Lengyel (myself) on church organ, with Berthold Oppitz on violin. 

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Vivaldi - Four Seasons - Spring

"Winter" is peppered with silvery pizzicato notes from the high strings, calling to mind icy rain

Antonio Vivaldi - Four Seasons - Winter - Allegro non molto

The New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, coached by Donald Palma, performs Arensky's Variations on a theme of Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a. Recorded live in Jordan Hall November 2010.

Arensky: Variations on a theme of Tchaikovsky

The New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48. Recorded live in Jordan Hall October 2011.

Dvorak - Serenade for strings - Mov. 5

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