The Beeb 3's In Tune Mixtape

Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Bernstein: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances, 4. Mambo, Meno Presto

Shostakovich: Piano Concertos, Three Fantastic Dances, Preludes & Fugues.

24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87: No. 24 in D Minor, Andante - Moderato

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-

Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 1: II. Andante

The Artistry of Martha Argerich

Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: I. Ondine

Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air ("On a G String")

Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: II. Air

Debussy: 12 Etudes, D'Un Cahier D'Esquisses [2011 - Remaster]

Debussy: Danse bohémienne, CD 4, L. 9

Info: http://www.onclassical.com/artists/salvatori/debussy-iii/

This album contains a number of short pieces, most of which were written by the author during the first years of his career.
Debussy’s way of writing for piano at this early stage is less articulated yet it contains a certain degree of complexity in his inner structures which indicates how the author had already taken his own path. The choice of subject for his pieces as well as the way he presents his ideas also show a stronger connection with the traditional repertoire: the most interesting example here is the suite 'Images Oubliées', literally a first version of 'Pour le piano', where he sketched ideas, which will later appear in his most important works, using and combining them in a less brilliant way. As an example, in the first movement one can clearly hear similarities to 'Jardins sous la pluje' and the first piece of 'Pour le piano'.
The structure of a three pieces suite with an 'animato' first movement, a sarabanda-like slow piece and a fast ending movement appears here for the first time; it will later develop into 'Estampes' and 'Images'.
It is interesting to notice that the second movement here is the same piece as in 'Pour le piano' but with some slight harmonic differences.
Among these early pieces there are some other short works, written in the style of his latter pieces, which for various reasons did not fit into the two series of 'Préludes', but which are nevertheless interesting pieces of music.

Debussy: Elegie L. 138 - Jacopo Salvatori

The Song of Names

Paganini: 24 Caprices for Violin, Op. 1, MS. 25: No. 9 in E Major "La Chasse"

Debussy: Danse bohémienne, CD 4, L. 9

Walter Gieseking

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