Name: Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op.110: iv. Largo by Tiberius Klausner in [Skiley] crabhands - Part 5
Duration: 4 min 39 s
Description: Artists: TIberius Klausner, violin; Paul Hatton, violin; Hugh Brown, viola; Robert Battey, cello

Part 5 of playlist "crabhands", generated via Skiley (https://skiley.net).

[Skiley] crabhands - Part 5

SALES TEXT
Cellist Beatriz Blanco and pianist Federico Bosco follow the success of their first Odradek album with Of Love and War, a sumptuous programme of music by Nadia Boulanger, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Webern, Hindemith and Fauré, featuring mezzo-soprano Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke.

Of Love and War, partly inspired by Eduardo Galeano’s novel Days and Nights of Love and War, draws parallels between the isolation and pent-up passions of wartime and the experiences of the current pandemic. Much of this repertoire was composed around the time of the First World War, but also embraces broader themes of beginnings and endings, night and day, love and loss. 

Nadia Boulanger is celebrated as a teacher of great composers, but was a composer in her own right; her Three Pieces occupy a similar soundworld to that of Debussy, whose Cello Sonata is at the heart of the programme, and Fauré, whose song Les berceaux we hear in an arrangement for cello and piano. There are works by Webern that show us ‘before and after’ his early lessons with Schoenberg: the Zwei Stücke für Cello und Klavier of 1899, written when Webern was only 16, and the Drei Kleine Stücke, Op. 11 and Cello Sonata, both dating from 1914. The album discovers a softer side to Hindemith in his richly Romantic Three Pieces, Op. 8, and the whole recital is framed by glorious songs by Strauss and Debussy, performed by Solenn’ Lavanant-Linke.

15 - NADIA BOULANGER - 3 Pieces For Cello And Piano - I. Modere

A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole

Form a V

Invincibility

Oh My Actual Days

It's Too Late

FIRE

FIRE (feat. Katori Walker)

Story
🎵 The Singing Mirror
High in the mountains of Arzulea, where the wind speaks in forgotten tongues and the trees whisper secrets of ages past, there existed a relic that no wise man dared name without shuddering: the Singing Mirror.
It was no ordinary mirror. Its surface reflected not faces, but melodies. Whoever approached it did not see their image, but heard a unique song, composed instantly by the mirror's soul. Each note revealed a hidden truth: a buried memory, a lie told, a wish never confessed.

🌑 The Legend of Laira
Laira, a young troubadour from the underground city of Eltur, had heard of the mirror in her grandmother's songs, who said it was forged by the gods of sound and silence. It was said that the mirror sang only once per person, and that its song could heal or destroy.
Driven by a night vision in which her voice broke before a black moon, Laira set out on her journey. She climbed impossible cliffs, crossed rivers that sang in water dialects, and finally reached the mirror's sanctuary: a crystal cavern suspended in the air by tree roots that never touched the ground.

🎶 The Mirror's Song
As she drew closer, the mirror began to vibrate. It emitted not light, but chords. The melody that emerged was a sweet lament, as if the mirror were crying for her. In each measure, Laira heard fragments of her life: her mentor's betrayal, the love she never confessed to her friend Kael, and the fear that had made her flee her destiny as Keeper of the Echoes.
But then, the music changed. It became ascending, luminous, as if the mirror were showing her not only what had been, but what could be. In a final chord, the mirror sang its true name: “Laira of the Seven Timbres, Voice of Rebirth.”

🌠 The Awakening
As the song ended, the mirror shattered into a thousand fragments that floated like stars. Each one embedded itself in the air, forming a constellation that only the singers could see. Laira descended from the mountain with a new voice: one that could reveal truths through song, as the mirror did.

🎶 Listen 💫 Share 💬 Comment  ➕📃🎧 Add to your playlists...  Because this journey is meaningless without you... Thank you for being here...   J. Bilbao

Sonic Universe

The Singing Mirror III

Concerto for Strings No.1 op.46 - 3. Adagio

This piece is a grand, sweeping anthem born from memory, dedicated to the final journey of heroes.

We take the iconic melodies of the classic era and recast them for the cinematic age. The music begins with a solitary, Chopin-esque piano, carrying the weight of the past—a fragile memory echoing in the vast halls of a cathedral. As the melody swells, the lush symphonic strings and heroic French horns rise, representing the strength and the tragic burden of the armored figures in the silent city.

Every note is a reflection of the "weight of the vows"—the sacrifices made by the heroes and the unending duty to the world. Feel the power of the crystalline celesta with the thunderous, dramatic percussion, marking the final, epic step toward destiny. 

A journey through their struggles, their bonds and ultimately salvation from their duty- be it life... or mayhaps... even death. What does fate holds for the trio?

The Weight of the Vows [Music]

Artists: TIberius Klausner, violin; Paul Hatton, violin; Hugh Brown, viola; Robert Battey, cello

The Volker String Quartet - April 21, 1991

Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op.110: iv. Largo

Performed by the MBHS Chamber Orchestra
Spring Orchestra Concert
MBHS Auditorium
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Suite for String Orchestra by Leos Janacek - Movement IV. Presto

Unknown album (4/23/2018 9:13:09 PM)

Sergei Rachmaninoff cello Sonata in G minor, Op.19 III. Andante

Performer: 't Muziek Frascati, May 14th, 2009, Concert Hall Leuven 
Conductor: Kris Stroobants

http://www.tmuziekfrascati.be/concert/5

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"Prince Igor is an opera in four acts with a prologue. It was composed by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the East Slavic epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Polovtsian tribes in 1185. The opera was left unfinished upon the composer's death in 1887 and was edited and completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. It was first performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1890." (source: Wikipedia)

'Polovtsian Dances' from 'Prince Igor' (Alexander Borodin)

Marche Slave, Op. 31 by Tchaikovsky performed at the July 21st concert to benefit the Sean Hanna Foundation

Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op.110: iv. Largo

Tiberius Klausner

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