RCM Repertoire 10

Intermezzo In B Flat Minor, Op. 117, No. 2 – Johannes Brahms

Grieg: Peer Gynt / Ravel: Rhapsody Espagnole

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: III. Anitra's Dance

Waltz in a Flat Major, Op. 42 (Choir Rendition)

French Suites 1, 2 & 3

French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812: II. Courante

French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812: I. Allemande

French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813: II. Courante

French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812: III. Sarabande

From Les Boreades  Act 4 Sc 2.
Performed by The Andersonville Orchestra.

The Arts and the Hours (Jean-Philippe Rameau)

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The String Quartet No. 16 in E flat major, K. 428/421b, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This is the third of the Haydn Quartets, a set of six string quartets he wrote during his first few years in Vienna and later dedicated to Joseph Haydn.

It is in four movements:

I. Allegro non troppo
II. Andante con moto
III. Menuetto & Trio
IV. Allegro vivace

The first movement is highly chromatic, with the chromaticized bridge theme in the exposition being one of several examples, the end of the exposition being another.

The slow movement "invokes ... the slow movement of Haydn's Op. 20 No. 1. The ostentatious dissonances of its opening almost have an antique flavour, caused by the collision of semitonal ascents and descents, and this strongly suggests the opening subject of the first movement, so surprisingly isolated there." Other commentators hear it as pointing forward to Johannes Brahms.

Throughout the third movement Mozart "makes use of a pedal point in the bass, thus giving the music an entrancing rustic effect." The last movement "can best be described as being an abridged rondo form."

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Orchestral samples included in this recording from the Vienna Symphonic Library.

Mozart - The Essential Collection

Tidal

Quartet No. 16 in E-Flat Major, K. 428: IV. Allegro Vivace Assai

Key Signature: Natural
Time Signature: 5/4 (from 4/4 to 6/4)
Tempo: Poco lento (for the opening theme), Allegretto (for the main motiffs)
Difficulty: Advanced

this piece beautifully encapsulates the chaos and harmony of fluttering butterflies.

Jean Coulthard (1908-2000) was a Canadian Composer. Through her mother she received her earliest musical training and was introduced at an early age to the work of French composers like Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, both of whom were lifelong influences.
A scholarship from the Vancouver Woman's Musical Club enabled her to pursue studies at the Royal College of Music in 1928-1929 where she was a pupil of Kathleen Long, R.O. Morris, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
She studied in the 1930s and early 1940s with such composers as Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, and Arnold Schoenberg.

In 1956-7, she spent a year in Paris and in Roquebrune, southern France, beginning an opera and completing several substantial chamber and vocal works. A later sabbatical in London permitted Coulthard to work in a sustained way with Gordon Jacob, the British composer and orchestrator.

She was one of a trio of women composers who dominated Western Canadian music in the twentieth century: Coulthard, Barbara Pentland, and Violet Archer. All three died within weeks of each other in 2000.

Coulthard's composition students included Canadian composers Chan Ka Nin, Michael Conway Baker, Sylvia Rickard, Ernst Schneider, Robert Knox, Jean Ethridge, Joan Hansen, David Gordon Duke, Lloyd Burritt and Frederick Schipizky.

Some of her well-known compositions include Cradle Song, Threnody, Canadian Fantasy, Ballade "A Winter's Tale" and her opera Return of the Native.
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Aegean Sketches, 1st mvt -The Valley of The Butterflies-

Hildegard Von Bingen - 'O Euchari In Leta Via' - Arr. Toni Castells Feat. Rebecca Nelsen

French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812: II. Courante

Johann Sebastian Bach