The London Suite, also known as London Everyday, is a suite of orchestral music by the English composer Eric Coates. The Suite was completed in 1933 when Coates was 47.It consists of three movements:
I. Covent Garden (Tarentelle)
II. Westminster (Meditation)
III. Knightsbridge (March)
The work was extremely popular when it was first published, with the third movement, Knightsbridge, being used as the
theme tune for a BBC Radio Radio chat show programme called In Town Tonight, broadcast initially on the National Programme from 1933 and then switched to the Home Service in 1939 where it continued until 1960.
The BBC received such a large number of requests for the name of the piece by post so that they had slips of paper printed specifically to help with the demand. Gerrard Williams arranged the military band edition of the suite for Chappell's Army Journal, while Paul V. Yoder also arranged the march for Chappell & Company.
Such was the popularity of London Suite that in 1936 Coates wrote a sequel to it called the London Again Suite.
Resources:
London Suite (Coates). Youtube, uploaded by Guilhem Buisson. Accessed August 27, 2017. (Orchestre Symphonique Opus 31, Direction Guilhem Boisson) - Apology. This video is no longer available. / Tel, May 7, 2023.
Great Mass in C of Mozart premieres in Salzburg, October 26, 1783.
The GreatMass in C Minor, K. 427 (K. 417a), is a musical setting of the Mass of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was composed in 1782 and 1783 in Vienna. The large scale work remained unfinished. It was set for two soprano soloists, a tenor and a bass, double chorus and large orchestra. The Mass was written as a result of a vow Mozart made with himself in relation to Constanze, his wife, and his father, Leopold Mozart. At that time, his relationship with his father was strained.
As a thanksgiving offering after his marriage to Constanze Weber,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed this "great" Mass in C in 1782 and
1783. The mass was first performed in the Church of St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg, October 26, 1783. It took place in a Roman Catholic Mass context, with the performers, the Hofmusik, employed at the court of Salzburg's Prince-Archbishop Count Hieronymus von Colloredo. At this premiere the soprano solos were sung by Constanze Mozart.
In a letter written to his father, Leopold Mozart (January 4, 1783), Wolfgang mentioned the score of "half a mass lying on his desk bearing witness to
the promise". Later that year in St. Peter's Salzburg (October 26), the
completed sections of the mass were performed - the Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, and Benedictus, had been completed, but the Credo was not set in full. It was scored in Mozart’s usual draft, and the Agnus Dei was not even begun.
Orchestral masses compositions had fallen out of favour in Austria during the
reign of Emperor Joseph II, and Mozart composed it during this time.
Even the older Joseph Haydn did not compose any orchestral masses between 1782 and 1796.
Of the remainder of the mass, the Credo was never completed, the Sanctus and Benedictus, although complete, subsequently became partially lost, and the Agnus Dei had never been contemplated by Mozart beyond some sketches he made for the Dona nobis pacem.
Perhaps Mozart's Great Mass's incompleteness rightly symbolizes the failure of its underlying purposes: to express filial piety (respect to his father), to evidence devotion to religious music in an age of reform, and especially to serve as an emblem of Mozart's reconciliation with his father and sister, conditioned upon their acceptance of his wife, whose worthiness Mozart expressed by the sublimity of the 'Great Mass in C' itself.
Suggested Listening:
Great Mass in C minor - Kyrie - K. 427- W. A. Mozart - Bernstein - Delacroix. Uploaded by codonauta. Accessed Octoboer 25, 2010. Leonard Bernstein - Conductor.
Arleen Auger - Sopran.
Frederica von Stade - Mezzo sopran.
Frank Lopard - Tenor.
Cornelius Hauptmann - Bass.
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
Symphonie orchester des Bayerrischen Rundfunks.
Pictures: Delacroix
Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor, KV 427 - John Eliot Gardiner. YouTube, Uploaded by Huckleberry Finn. Accessed October 25, 2014. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C minor, KV 427
Barbara Bonney, soprano.
Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano.
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor.
Alastair Miles, bass.
Monteverdi Choir.
English Baroque Soloists.
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor.
Barcelona, December 1991.
Mozart: Mass in C minor Kv. 427: Kyrie (1785). Uploaded by Azael Hernandez. Accessed August 25, 2016. (effectively dismantled and used as a cantata, Davidde Penitente K. 469). Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra & Monteverdi Choir.
Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.
Mozart Mass in C minor K.427 Gardiner. YouTube, uploaded by vse vsad. Accessed April 1, 2019. (Monteverdi Choir.
Eric Ericson. Chamber Choir.
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mia Persson soprano.
Ann Hallenberg mezzo-soprano.
Helge Rønning tenor.
Peter Mattei bass.
Nobel Prize Concert 2008.)
Trivia
(Added: April 4, 2019). For 2019 Easter offering, our Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and the visiting Capella St Crucis from Hannover will fill the Sydney Opera House with the glorious and uplifting sounds of J.S. Bach's Magnificat and Wolfgang A. Mozart's Great Mass in C minor. The concert: "Bach and Mozart: In the Imagination of their Hearts" will be conducted by Florian Lohmann, for Mozart, and Brett Weymark, for Bach. It will also include Anotny Pitts new setting of 'Mente cordis sui' (in the imagination of their hearts), as he takes inspiration from Bach. Saturday April 20 at 2pm. Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
Bras, Jean-Yves; Bras, Jean-Yves; transl. Derek Yeld (2006). "A Mass of Thanksgiving", p. 31 [CD]. Album notes for Mass in C minor (La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-Éllysées, cond. Philippe Herreweghe) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arles: Harmonia Mundi (HMX 2961393).
Mozart, W. A.; Holl, Monika (preface), Thalmann, Gabriele (transl.) (2006). Mass in C minor (Urtext). Bärenreiter-Verlag. pp. VII. ISMN M-0006-20223-2
Solomon, Maynard. (1995) Mozart: a Life. Harper Collins Publishers.
(c) Posted Oct. 25, 2010. Updated Aug. 25, 2017. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
French composer, founder of Music Impressionism: Short profile of the life and works of Claude Debussy. He is mainly famous for piano music Clair de lune and orchestral La mer and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
French composer Claude Debussy reached his career peak when the late Romantics like Liszt and Wagner were coming to an end. He is often called a musical 'Impressionist' as aligned with French impressionism painters Monet, Renoir, and Degas.
Beginnings
Debussy did not come from a musical family but was encouraged to take up music at an early age. He was born on August 22, 1862 in St Germain-en-Laye. At the age of 10, he studied with Guiraud at the Paris Conservatoire.Initially, he planned to be a virtuoso pianist but he abandoned it when won the coveted Prix de Rome competition twice.
Early Impressions
In his early years, he travelled extensively to Vienna, Italy and Russia. He also spent some years in Rome but often he was not happy. He was known to be unsociable even as a youth.
I've chosen to feature Claude Debussy's "Clair de lune" beautifully performed on the piano by composer and pianist Sally Whitwell. Sal is an ARIA Award-winning Australian pianist.
Music transports us to other times and places. Journey to the Elizabethan era with our Sydney Philharmonia Choirs' Symphony Chorus and works inspired by a
golden age of English art. Thomas Tallis and Thomas Tomkins created a unique style of choral music: expressive, dramatic and intimate. A great English composer of a later generation rediscovered their music and was profoundly transformed: Ralph Vaughan Williams paid tribute to his forebears in his Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and invoked the spirit of Shakespeare in his gorgeous Serenade to Music, but it is the Five Tudor Portraits that are Vaughan Williams’ most extended love letter to Merrie Olde England.
Tuesday 31 March 2015, 8pm:
Saturday 4 April 2015, 1pm
Review from Limelight: Review: St. John Passion (Sydney Philharmonia Choirs)
Review from SMH: Bach's St John Passion review: Sydney Philharmonic Choirs deliver the best performance of this work you'll hear.
Dates:
Thursday 24 August, 7:30pm
Sunday 27 August, 2:00pm Venue:
City Recital Hall
Music transports us to other times and places. Journey to the Elizabethan era with our Symphony Chorus and works inspired by a
golden age of English art. Thomas Tallis and Thomas Tomkins created a unique style of choral music: expressive, dramatic and intimate. A great English composer of a later generation rediscovered their music and was profoundly transformed: Ralph Vaughan Williams paid tribute to his forebears in his Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and invoked the spirit of Shakespeare in his gorgeous Serenade to Music, but it is the Five Tudor Portraits that are Vaughan Williams’ most extended love letter to Merrie Olde England.
Charade is a 1963 Technicolor American romantic comedy/mystery film
directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and
starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The cast also features Walter
Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, and
Jacques Marin. It spans three genres: suspense thriller, romance and
comedy. Because Universal Pictures published the movie with an invalid
copyright notice, the film entered the public domain in the United
States immediately upon its release.
The movie is based on The Unsuspecting Wife (1961) short story by Peter Stone and Marc Behm. Music is by Henry Mancini.
Harassed by three men who had a linkage to her late husband's murder, Reggie seeks help from Joshua who confesses that he is the brother of the fourth accomplice in the crime. Will she trust him?
In a Monastery Garden is a piece of light classical or semi-classical music composed by Albert Ketèlbey (born Augsut 9, 1875 - died November 26, 1959), an English composer, conductor and pianist, best known for his short pieces of light orchestral music. He was born in Birmingham and moved to London in 1889 to study at Trinity College of Music, however, he did not pursue the classical career, instead became director of the Vaudeville Theatre before gaining fame as a composer of light music and conductor of his own works.
Albert Ketèlbey's In a Monastery Garden, surprisingly, has been performed only once at the Proms in London's Royal Albert Hall, and the above video is that one performance, given on the 2009 'Last Night at the Proms' by the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBCSO ) and BBC Symphony Chorus, under conductor David Robertson, current artistic director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (SSO). As you'll hear, Ketèlbey was "tweeting" long before 'Twitter' was invented!
Music transports us to other times and places. Journey to the Elizabethan era with our Symphony Chorus and works inspired by a
golden age of English art. Thomas Tallis and Thomas Tomkins created a unique style of choral music: expressive, dramatic and intimate. A great English composer of a later generation rediscovered their music and was profoundly transformed: Ralph Vaughan Williams paid tribute to his forebears in his Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and invoked the spirit of Shakespeare in his gorgeous Serenade to Music, but it is the Five Tudor Portraits that are Vaughan Williams’ most extended love letter to Merrie Olde England.
Performed by Julia Mortyakova and Valentin Bogdan, piano.
Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944), French Composer and Pianist. She was born in Paris, and studied at first with her mother, then with various teachers on piano, violin, and music composition, however, not officially in all this, since her father disapproved of her musical education. Her first experiments in composition took place in very early days, and in her eighth year she played some of her music to Georges Bizet, who was much impressed with her talents. Chaminade gave her first concert
when she was eighteen, and from here on, her work as a composer
gained favor. She wrote mostly character pieces for piano,
and salon songs, almost all of which were published and popular.
