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Let’s continue our Random Contemporary Music Week here at Musica in Extenso with a piece of Paul Dukas. Yes you know this name because of the famous best-known work, the orchestral piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier), but let’s hear something else from the French composer.

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Paul Dukas

Fanfare pour précéder La Péri

Wiener Symphoniker

Marie Jacquot

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musicainextenso · 2 years

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A final post for Random Contemporary Music series, here at Musica in Extenso! This was the basic series of our blog with 16 (!!!) episodes, with a lot of contemporary music, but not only. We posted here our actual favourites, our beloved music pieces and I think this was a possibility to express ourself through musical examples. It was so good to have this journey together as a team, but now it’s time to say goodbye and make a beautiful farewell.

For this last post I choose the famous Ola Gjeilo and a very amazing piece written by the Norwegian composer.

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Ola Gjeilo

Tundra

Have a wonderful weekend! - Editor-in-Chief

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Some Sunday Morning Blues from La Monte Young, here at Musica in Extenso and as a penultimate post ever in the series finale of Random Contemporary Music.

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This is not contemporary music, not even 20th century music... but so valid in 2021. The famous opera, Oberon composed by Carl Maria von Weber is a splendid music for the soul.

Please enjoy the finale of this opera! Majestic music to ears! - Editor-in-Chief

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musicainextenso · 2 years

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Random Contemporary Music, random feelings, random days and a random November. A random year... let’s dive in this beautiful piano piece, composed by the amazing Maurice Ravel.

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Stravinsky (1882-1971)'s L'Histoire du Soldat, or A Soldier's Tale was born of economic constraints and marketability in the very uncertain final year of the Great War. Originally conceived of as a touring theater piece for a shoestring budget, A Soldier's Tale could easily travel and be produced as its slim pit orchestra required only seven musicians, and its onstage performers numbered three narrators, a dancer, and two actors. The content of the story was crafted with savvy as well, offering a well-worn favorite tale of Faust but told through the exotic lens of Russian folklore, “The Runaway Soldier and the Devil”. The story also sets the soldier, a zeitgeist hero of 1917, as the main protagonist. Furthermore, the deliberate separation of narrative text from musical numbers meant that translations for tours could be easily and quickly written, and that the musical numbers could also be played separately as a purely instrumental suite. In short, it was a genius theatrical concept conceived for success during extremely volatile times. Indeed, the first performance of the work in Lausanne was very well-received. Despite the very difficult circumstances, A Soldier's Tale was well on its way to greater success, with subsequent performances in Switzerland programmed. And then, a coup de grace stopped cultural life dead in its tracks: the 1918 flu pandemic. In an effort to contain the menacing virus, the Swiss government shut down all performance venues for the year. An eerily familiar fate, which is repeating itself a century later… A Soldier's Tale is also remarkable for another, more personal feature: woven within its musical DNA are the crossroads of the composer's earlier folk nationalist and future neoclassic periods, against the backdrop of then-current pop cultural trends. The listener can simultaneously identify the Russian nationalist compositional techniques and ethno musicological influences as found in earlier works such as Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (1913) and Petrouchka (1911), while detecting forebodings of his neoclassic style which would inspire other theater pieces to come such as Pulcinella (1920) and Apollon Musagète(1927-8). Occasional American riffs taken from the popular music of the time, including a US ragtime and an Argentinian Tango, vacillate between nonchalance, seduction, and the grotesque. In this trio adaptation reworked by Stravinsky himself, the story of the soldier's trials through damnation is condensed into five selected movements:

I. Marche du Soldat, depicting the Soldier's leitmotif as he marches through life II. Le violon du Soldat where the Soldier plays his prized violin by a stream in the woods III. Petit Concert, describing the Soldier recuperating his violin from the Devil after a thrown card game and playing triumphantly upon it IV. Tango - Valse - Rag, the dances the Soldier plays to a bed-ridden princess, successfully rousing her from her illness and thus winning her hand V. Danse du Diable, the Devil's ultimate victory dance as he reclaims the Soldier's soul.

The fable's moral, as recited in the original full-length version by the narrator during the final Lutheran-inspired chorale, is this: “You must not seek to add to what you have, what you once had; you have no right to share what you are with what you were. No one can have it all, that is forbidden. You must learn to choose between.”

(source: ligetifestival.ro)

Melinda Béres - violin

Aurelian Băcan - clarinet

Eva Butean - piano

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musicainextenso · 3 years

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Before Easter, we will share with you in our Random Contemporary Music series (Part 13) Via Crucis by the famous composer, Franz Liszt. Yeah... it’s not contemporary music, but perfectly fits for this week.

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Franz Liszt

Via Crucis (1879)

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It’s time to continue our Random Contemporary Music week, this time with the music of Arnold Schoenberg.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16

If you are in some weird moods nowadays, you will say a thank you to me later for this amazing work.

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musicainextenso · 2 years

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A short and quick entry today for our special Random Contemporary Music week (#14... whaaat?), with a big composer for me: the unprecedented composer, William Walton. Majestic music and incredible talent to create solemn atmosphere. That well-known British air is always present in his splendid music, like also in the

Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

Please enjoy this wonderful music! - Editor-in-Chief

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musicainextenso · 3 years

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Next week on Musica in Extenso! Join us! @cantationem & @mikrokosmos

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Let’s conclude the week in a jazzy-happy mood with our dear Leonard Bernstein. I couldn’t resist myself to post this amazing and instantly made-my-day overture and I hope it’s a perfect fit for the closing post to our Random Contemporary Music Week (Part 11).

I never visited the United States, but when I listen to this amazing music, I can imagine myself wearing a classy trench-coat, holding a black umbrella and walking on the famous streets of New York... oh, sweet dream.

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Leonard Bernstein

Wonderful Town (1953)

Overture

Have a wonderful weekend all of you and don’t forget to get yourself a Pumpkin Spice Latte, ‘cause next week is coming our special Halloween event, here at Musica in Extenso! Stay tuned! - Editor-in-Chief