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La Musica Notturna Delle Stradi Di Madrid (Night Music of the Streets of Madrid). Allegro Vivo. Luigi Boccherini (1743 – 1805). Played on mandolin and guitar by Joel McDermott.

This piece featured in the film Master and Commander starring Russell Crowe.

Boccherini Allegro from Night Music of the Streets of Madrid. Guitar & Mandolin. Master and Commander film music.

L.R. Boccherini - Sonata in A major for Cello

Recorded at Teatro de Bellas Artes, Bogotá, Colombia.

Soloist: Felipe Hernández.
Accompanied by Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, directed by Andrés Estrada.

00:00 I: Moderato: C minor

The opening movement begins with a series of bell-like tollings on the piano that build tension, eventually climaxing in the introduction of the main theme. In this first section, the orchestra carries the Russian-character melody while the piano makes an accompaniment made of rapid oscillating arpeggios. After the statement of the long first theme, a quicker transition follows until the lyrical second theme, in E flat major, is presented.

The agitated and unstable development borrows motives from both themes changing keys very often and giving the melody to different instruments while a new musical idea is slowly formed. The music builds in a gradual climax as if the first bars were to be repeated, but in the recapitulation the theme is presented as unique to the first statement.

While the orchestra restates the first theme, the piano, that in the other occasion had an accompaniment role, now plays the march-like theme that had been halfly presented in the development, thus making a considerable readjustment in the exposition, as the main theme, played by the orchestra has become an accompaniment. This is followed by a piano solo, which leads into a descending chromatic passage and concluding with an eerie French horn solo. From here the last minutes of the movement are placid until drawn into the agitated coda, and the movement ends in C minor fortissimo.

10:20 II: Adagio sostenuto – Più animato – Tempo I: C minor → E major

The second movement opens with a series of slow chords in the strings which modulate from the C minor of the previous movement to the E major of this movement. The piano enters, playing a simple arpeggiated figure. This opening piano figure was composed in 1891 as the opening of the Romance from Two Pieces For Six Hands. The main theme is initially introduced by the flute, before being developed by an extensive clarinet solo. The motif is passed between the piano and other soloists before the music accelerates to a short climax centred on the piano. The original theme is repeated, and the music appears to die away, finishing with just the soloist in E major.

21:13 III: Allegro scherzando: E major → C minor → C major

The last movement opens with a short orchestral introduction that modulates from E (the key of the previous movement) to C minor, before a piano solo leads to the statement of the agitated first theme. After the original fast tempo and musical drama ends, a lyrical theme is introduced by the oboe and violas. This second theme maintains the motif of the first movement's second theme. After a long period of development tension is built up considerably. Near the end, Rachmaninoff restates the second theme in loud, fortissimo orchestration. After this a fast, ecstatic and very triumphant coda draws the piece to a close, ending in C major.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 1

guitars: F.Hiemenz & O.Kälberer
music by Luigi Boccherini(from quintet no 4 in D major for guitar and string quartet, arr. for two guitars) 
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We played this during some kind of music festival, which took place in a sports hall.
Just in the right moment, a little swallow entered the hall, began to sing and so made itself unforgettable. That was really funny and amazing. You still can hear it if you listen carefully ;-)
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Painting "El Jaleo" (excerpt) by John Singer Sargent 
[source http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AEL_JALEO-SINGER.jpg]


Grave & Fandango by L.Boccherini (played by F.Hiemenz & O.Kaelberer)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a. III. Waltz of the Flowers

Rachmaninoff׃ Symphony No.2 Op.27 [HD] Complete Live Concert

Beethoven's 9th Symphony 4th Movement "Ode to Joy"

Shimizu Keiichi - Cello Concerto in B-flat major (G.482) by Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini

Alexander Borodin: Polovetsian Dances
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic
Walter Morales, conductor
October 26, 2005
Carnegie Music Hall
Oakland, Pittsburgh

Alexander Borodin: Polovetsian Dances

Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 -Mozart

Luigi Boccherini: Quintetto in Si bem. magg. G.442 - Rondeau Grazioso

From Luigi Boccherini: Quintetti per flauto G.438 - G.440 - G.442, con il Nuovo Quartetto Italiano



Luigi Boccherini: Quintetto in Si bem. magg. G.442 - Rondeau.Grazioso

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Søndergård, conductor
Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 (November 2018)

With Kristen Watson, soprano

Visit: http://astonmagna.org/ to learn more.

Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasileras No. 5

9th symphony Beethoven

According to legend, "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance their dance of death for him while he plays his fiddle.

L.R. Boccherini - Sonata in A major for Cello

Ç. Karateke