For Your Listening Pleasure show

For Your Listening Pleasure

Summary: "I Think You Will Love This Music Too" Weekly (or so) podcast of Classical music from my personal collection. No intros, no voice-overs, just the music, baby! Podcast episodes are commented in both English and French in our weekly blog at http://itywltmt.blogspot.com/

Podcasts:

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #344 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 3383

"Nielsen: Maskarade (Act 3)" Any opera lover worth his or her salt will see right through the plot of this opera: Leander is something of a party animal, which displeases his father Jeronimus to no end. Jeronimus has struck a gentleman’s agreement with Leonard (a well-to-do Copenhagen resident) that Leander will marry Leonard’s daughter Leonora. Leander, meanwhile, has met a wonderful girl at a masquerade ball, and is determined to marry her and not Leonora (whom he’s not formally met). At Leonard’s house, the mirror-image of the story is revealed. Now, one has to wonder who it is that both of these young people have met – as if you don’t know, but why spoil the antics that will invariably ensue… Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/MaskaradeFs39ByCarlNielsen [First Time on our Podcasting Channel]

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #343 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5289

"Nielsen: Maskarade (Acts 1-2)" Any opera lover worth his or her salt will see right through the plot of this opera: Leander is something of a party animal, which displeases his father Jeronimus to no end. Jeronimus has struck a gentleman’s agreement with Leonard (a well-to-do Copenhagen resident) that Leander will marry Leonard’s daughter Leonora. Leander, meanwhile, has met a wonderful girl at a masquerade ball, and is determined to marry her and not Leonora (whom he’s not formally met). At Leonard’s house, the mirror-image of the story is revealed. Now, one has to wonder who it is that both of these young people have met – as if you don’t know, but why spoil the antics that will invariably ensue… Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/MaskaradeFs39ByCarlNielsen [First Time on our Podcasting Channel]

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #228 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5053

:Symphonic Stravinsky" Three Stravinsky symphonies are part of this listener guide beginning with Stravinsky’s “Opus one”, a Symphony in E-flat major, composed in 1905–07 during his apprenticeship with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; it is also his first composition for orchestra. Of classical 4-movement structure, it is broadly influenced by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky and Wagner. The score bears the dedication "To my dear teacher N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov". A private performance was given on 27 April 1907 by the St. Petersburg Court Orchestra . Stravinsky later recalled that both Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov considered the orchestration "too heavy”. A revised version was conducted by Ernest Ansermet on 2 April 1914. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/pcast263

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #244 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4550

"Intimate Stravinsky" What I like about this listener guide is that it illustrates just how diverse Stravinsky’s output really is – we think of the great ballets, some of his symphonic works, and even his choral and operatic works. However, Stravinsky has left a great deal of chamber music, and works for solo instrument. This selection of “intimate” works by Stravinsky spans many decades, and features most notably tracks from a pair of recordings by members of the Orpheus Chamber Ensemble. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/pcast283

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #243 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4020

"Ansermet / Stravinsky" Ernest Ansermet introduced Stravinsky's three early "big" ballets to the U.S. on the 1916 tour by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. With his passion for precision, he became, over time, one of the composer's most trusted interpreters, giving the premières of the Capriccio for piano and orchestra (1929, with Stravinsky at the keyboard). Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/pcast286

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #242 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2711

"The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with Neville Marriner" This listener guide features one of the handful of discs Neville Marriner recorded with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra which he led from 1969 to 1978. This all-Stravinsky disc features two of his concertos for orchestra and his set of neo-baroque danses concertantes. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/03DansesConcertantes1942 [First Time on our Podcasting Channel]

 En Reprise - Pelléas et Mélisande | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4985

[Project 366 Listener Guide #53] Three different works inspired by Maeterlinck’s play. Read our fresh take on June 5 @ http://itywltmt.blogspot.com , details @ https://archive.org/details/pcast108-Playlist (ITYWLTMT Podcast # 108 - 7 June 2013)

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #298 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4585

"Stravinsky & Balanchine" As a young ballet student at the Imperial Theater School in Petersburg, Georgi Balanchivadze was immediately drawn to Stravinsky's vibrant music. By the time of his death in 1983, he had choreographed many of the composer's most important works. The powerful pulse of Stravinsky's music flowed relentlessly forward, begging to be placed into physical motion, to be visualized, to be danced. Even through those electrically charged Stravinskyan moments of silence that so powerfully jolt the music's continuity. No matter what the piece, the genre, the instrumentation, the choreographer declared that “every measure Eagerfeodorovitch ever wrote is good for dancing”. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/pcast310

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #235 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2582

"King Of The Delta Blues Singers" The Robert Johnson legend rests predominantly on a pair of recording sessions. The first session was held on November 23, 1936, in room 414 of the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, which Brunswick Records had set up to be a temporary recording studio. In the ensuing three-day session, Johnson reportedly performed facing the wall, which has been cited as evidence he was a shy man and reserved performer. The slide guitarist Ry Cooder speculates that Johnson played facing a corner to enhance the sound of the guitar, a technique he calls "corner loading". Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/02TerraplaneBlues_201705 [First Time on our Podcasting Channel]

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #236 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4580

"The Blues" What is the Blues? Some would say it’s a form of musical expression, others a musical genre, and I think both are right in their own way. It’s about worry, broken hearts, despair and it’s also a musical genre with its own “code” and “patterns”. A key ingredient is the Blue Note – or the worried note - sung or played at a slightly different pitch (typically between a quartertone and a semitone). Like the blues in general, the blue notes can mean many things. One quality that they all have in common, however, is that they are lower than one would expect, classically speaking. Details on our archives page @ https://archive.org/details/pcast211

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #237 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4340

"Theatre of the Mind" The music selections I chose to explore today are, in a sense, speculative works – that is to say, works written (one could think) in anticipation of a stage work. All of the pieces I chose are intended either to depict stage music, or suggest stage music, whilst not necessarily designed to accompany any specific stage work – other, maybe, than the type of stage performance, be it a theatrical play, a ballet or an opera. Details on our archives page @ https://archive.org/details/pcast282

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #254 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 4663

"The Crown" Our montage today presents some selections that were played for her coronation, June 2nd 1953. The works are from Handel, William Walton. Also, another Walton march, Crown Imperial, is part of the collection of works, as it was played for the coronation of Queenie's father, George VI. Mozart's coronation concerto wasn't commissioned for a coronation ceremony - rather, the nickname comes from from his playing the work at the time of the coronation of Leopold II as Holy Roman Emperor in October 1790. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/TheCrown_245

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #229 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5065

"Messiaen, the Spiritual Composer" Messiaen’s catalog of works has a significant number of works that are inspired by his religious beliefs, and provide “secular” settings of aspects of his fairth and its teachings falling short of meeting my above lithurgical standard. That having been said, they are certainly not secular (or non-sacred), which is why I call them “spiritual” – not to be confused with the spiritual genre of popular in Christian North-Amnerica. Details on our archives page @ https://archive.org/details/MessiaenTheSpiritualComposer

 En Reprise - This Day in Music History 29-05-1913 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 5237

[Project 366 Listener Guide #58] This listener guide recreates the recital of les Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées on 29 May, 1913. Read our fresh take on May 29 @ https://itywltmt.blogspot.com. Details @ https://archive.org/details/pcast107-Playlist (ITYWLTMT Montage #107 - 29 May, 2013)

 Project 366 - Listener Guide #232 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 2736

"Bernstein Conducts Ives" Subtitled “The Camp Meeting” – a reference to the travelling religious revivals of yesteryear when people gathered in fields to sing and listen to preachers - Ives' third symphony has many influences including War songs, dances, and general European classical music. Ives was sentimentally nostalgic, glancing back as a modern composer at a nineteenth-century childhood of hymns, bells, and children's games. The symphony is filled with complex harmonies and meters. In 1947, the symphony was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/01SymphonyNo3 [First Time on our Podcasting Channel]

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