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Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini - Guitar Quintet, G. 451

2012-04-16T15:17:48-04:00

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) was an Italian composer and cellist. His contemporaries considered his music to be a counterpart to Haydn's, going so far as to call him "Haydn's wife" due to its gentleness (Grove Music Online).

This recording is performed by the Soloists of the Massy Opera Orchestra: Pedro Ibañez, Danuta Glowacka-Pitet, Haïk Davtian, Ghislaine Rouits, and Emmanuelle Cohen.

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"On a Holiday" performed by Ella Jenkins (SFW45031)

2012-02-28T09:07:29-05:00

Ella Jenkins thinks that people should sing in every season, and this recording can help us all do just that. Here is a lively sing-along, recorded at a summer program in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969. Enthusiastic children join world-famous performer Ella Jenkins on twelve wonderful songs in a variety of styles, from traditional spirituals to Caribbean, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll. The recording features Ella Jenkin’s baritone ukulele, drums, harmonica, guitar, and rhythm sticks. Especially suited for children 3-9 years old, their parents, teachers, and playmates.

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Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov's "Cello Sonata, Op. 19"

2012-02-21T09:31:40-05:00

Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873-1943) was a Russian composer and pianist. As in many of his compositions, in the Cello Sonata, the piano accompaniment echoes the melodic line and plays as significant part as the cello.

This recording was performed by Daria Hovora & Aleth Lamasse.

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"Gypsy Davy" by Margaret MacArthur

2012-02-14T10:17:28-05:00

"Gypsy Davy" by Margaret MacArthur from the album "Folksongs of Vermont" (FW05314)

Born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, Margaret MacArthur spent her childhood moving around the western United States. Her first contact with folk music came in 1933, when her father began work at an Arizona timber company with displaced cowboys and folk singers who had collected songs throughout their travels. In 1948 MacArthur moved to Vermont, where she gathered the songs presented here from churches, friends, and broadsides found near her farm. When speaking of her death, Margaret MacArthur’s granddaughter Robin wrote, "On her deathbed she was sick with morphine, most of her memory gone, but she could still remember the lyrics to any ballad we asked her to sing. This music had etched itself into her soul; song and landscape and self had twined into a fabric that was lasting, resounding, and full of grace."

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Giuseppe Torelli's "Trumpet Concerto in D major, G.28"

2012-02-07T09:16:44-05:00

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was an Italian composer and violinist. While he began his career composing chamber music, he turned to concertos and in fact advanced the concerto as a genre. This concerto, written around 1701 as one of the first of several trumpet-oboe pieces, remained unpublished until after his death.

This recording is performed by the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Pierre Cao, conductor.

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"Tarona 1" performed by Academy of Maqam

2012-01-31T09:01:25-05:00

"Tarona 1" by Academy of Maqam from the album "Music of Central Asia Vol. 2: Invisible Face of the Beloved: Classical Music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks" (SFW40521)

Amid the mosques and minarets of Samarkand and Bukhara, generations of vocalists set the mystical, Sufi-inspired verse of Hafiz and other classical poets to lyrical melodies, creating a spiritual art music of great refinement and sublime beauty called Shashmaqâm, confirming its important place among the great art music traditions of Eurasia.

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Gabriel Faure's "Sonata for Piano and Cello No. 1, op.109"

2012-01-10T17:19:34-05:00

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) was a French composer. His music serves as a bridge between Romanticism, an era in full bloom when he was born, and twentieth-century music. Faure wrote this cello sonata during World War I. Like many of his compositions from that era, the music of this sonata is quite forceful.

This recording is performed by Daria Hovora, piano, and Aleth Lamasse, cello.

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Free Download: "Como mi suegra (Like My Mother-in-Law) - milonga" by Los Gauchos de Roldán

2012-01-05T13:08:46-05:00

"Como mi suegra (Like My Mother-in-Law) - milonga" by Los Gauchos de Roldán from the album "Button Accordion and Bandoneón Music from Northern Uruguay" (SFW40561)

Accordions and guitars have enlivened the social life of cattle-herding gaucho families of northern Uruguay since the mid 1800s. On Los Gauchos de Roldán, regional musical icon Walter Roldán pumps out time-honored polcas and chotis, Brazilian-tinged maxixas, and more on his button accordion as Chichí Vidiella adds the lush color of the bandoneón.

Bernardo Sanguinetti's guitar and Richardo Cunha's percussive, deep-pitched guitarrón immerse the melodies in a rich nest of rhythms and harmonies, which formerly-exiled singer-songwriter Numa Moraes treats us to five gems of his repertoire. 19 tracks, 55 minutes of music, 40-page bilingual booklet.

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Free Download: Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047"

2011-12-27T09:41:05-05:00

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer and organist.

Bach wrote the Brandenburg Concertos over a period of several years and compiled them for the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721. The Concertos show Bach veering from the standard concerto grosso and featuring solo instruments instead. The Concerto No. 2 is likely Bach's last orchestral work.
This recording is performed by the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra, Norbert Matern, oboe, Vassil Ivanov, viola, and Jean de Ridder, trumpet.

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Free Download: "Sao Chegados Os Trez Reis (The Three Kings Have Arrived)" by Various Artists from the album "Christmas Songs of Portugal"

2011-12-19T14:10:24-05:00

"Sao Chegados Os Trez Reis (The Three Kings Have Arrived)" by Various Artists from the album "Christmas Songs of Portugal"(FW0684)

When this album was recorded in the 1950s, Estrella Church in Lisbon celebrated Christmas with a choir, a bagpiper and an elephant. Hear some of the sacred favorites of the season, generally sung unaccompanied. (On this recording, elephant not included.)

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