Gianluca Bersanetti (b. 1964) - Concerto “in stile barocco” for 4 Harpsichords and Strings in g-minor, III. Allegro. Performed by Michele Barchi, Roberto Loreggian, Francesco Baroni and Francesca Bacchetta, harpsichords, and L’Arte dell’Arco on baroque instruments.
Carl Orff ~ ”Carmina Burana” - No. 25 ~ Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
O Fortuna (Reprise) (1975)
Composer: Carl Orff | Composed in 1935 and 1936
Cantata | Classical Music | Modern Classical Music
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Personnel:
Conductor: Andre Previn
The London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
St. Clement Danes Grammer School Boys’ Choir
Vocals:
Sheila Armstrong
Gerald English
Thomas Allen
Produced by Christopher Bishop
Recorded:
@ Kingsway Hall
in London, England UK
November 25, 1974 - November 27, 1974
Released:
in 1975
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(German imprint of “His Master’s Voice”)
Since it's now officially Spooky Season, try on this avant-garde classical piece for size: "The Banshee" (comp. 1925) by Henry Cowell. It requires two people to play: one person to sit at the bench and hold the damper pedal down throughout, and another to actually play the work by scratching and plucking the piano strings, for unearthly effect.
So so proud of these talented ladies studying this summer with the Chamber Music Institute Southern California for tackling my “Greek Dance” for string quartet (along with one of my fav Haydn quartets)!! Thank you for bringing my music to life! 🙏
Federico Maria Sardelli (b. 1963) - Fuga postale for Strings and Basso continuo in G-Major (2007). Performed by Federico Maria Sardelli/Modo Antiquo on baroque instruments.
very relaxing and pretty. i can't get enough of compositions like these. i seriously have found this super lovely niche in my music tastes that makes me feel really at home
it's immediately clear that both the creature and victor find some of their greatest comforts in nature and that's one of the key features that connects them and proves they're not so different from each other, but i've also noticed that they tend to admire different TYPES of nature
victor tends to amaze at "the high and snowy mountains [...] immense glaciers [...] the rumbling thunder of the falling avalanche [...] the supreme and magnificent mont blonc" (65), typically finding the most comfort in the "savage and enduring scenes" (64) which tend to be colder and rougher yet unchanging; while the creature found that his "chief delights were the sight of the flowers, the birds, and all the gay apparel of summer" (94). there is probably something to be said about the creature's affinity for spring and summer, the seasons of rebirth, of NATURAL and beautiful life, a direct contrast to his unnatural, coldly scientific, "wretched" rebirth that he abhors so much
i was discussing this idea with a friend, who added that victor finding solace in the frozen and dead beauty of wintery environments, a typically less-favoured season, could reflect how victor often refuses himself the typical joys of life. throughout the novel, he struggles with his self-worth because of the guilt induced by his creation of the creature and the deaths that then followed, and the only reason he even desires peace and comfort is because he knows he needs to present himself that way to his family in order for them to be happy ("i [...] wished that peace would revisit my mind only that i might afford them consolation and happiness" [62]). i built on her idea by noting how the creature acknowledged that he "required kindness and sympathy; but [he] did not believe [him]self unworthy of it" (94), a completely contrasting stance from victor, who finds himself undeserving of the many comforts offered to him by his family
furthermore, it seems that victor finds beauty in glory & majesty ("[the scenery] spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence--and i ceased to fear, or to bend before any being less almighty than that which had created and ruled the elements" [64]), while the creature finds beauty in warmth & growth. both characters seem to find what they desire(d) in the versions of the natural world that they admire most
to reference what i said in the beginning about the connections between victor and the creature, this observation only contributes to my understanding that victor and the creature are incredibly similar, and many of their identical traits involve a rejection or a reversal of the other; they both ardently wish for each other's destruction, they both ruined each other, they're the reason that the other is simultaneously a victim and a villain in their own sense, they both hate themselves but for reversed reasons (victor hates himself for what he's done rather than what he is, while the creature hates himself for what he is more than what he's done), and now this--they both find solace in nature, just opposing kinds. like father, like son