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Max Derrickson
@musicprogramnotes.bsky.social
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I am a music researcher, program note writer, music program annotator - find out more from my website: www.MusicProgramNotes.com . Each day, I also post music of lesser-known composers and lesser-known works by the great composers. Open for work, too.
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 18m
Celebrating the Music of Julie von Webenau!
(October 16, 1813 –July 2, 1887)
German-Austrian composer. Here’s her very lovely song, for piano and mezzo, but here arranged with orchestra – Der Bleicherin Nachtlied:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M5_...
Der Bleicherin Nachtlied - ASO Orchester
YouTube video by Monika Ciernia
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 20m
Celebrating the Music of Albert Franz Doppler!
(October 16, 1821 – July 27, 1883)
Polish (now Ukrainian) flutist and composer. Here’s the Rondo from his Andante & Rondo (1870, arranged for flute, violin and piano – instead of two flutes and piano). youtu.be/53oB1kgP6YM?...
Franz Doppler Andante & Rondo for flute, violin, piano
YouTube video by Christopher Lee
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 1d
Celebrating the Music of Bert (born Berthold Heinrich Kämpfert) Kaempfert!
(October 16, 1923 – June 21, 1980)
If not Classical then he’s a Classic - Bert Kaempfert (recall his irritatingly fabulous song “Danke Schoen”). And here’s his Afrikaan Beat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmR...
Afrikaan Beat By Bert Kaempfert
YouTube video by texpaco
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 2d
More Celebration of the Music of Alexander von Zemlinsky!
(October 14, 1871 – March 15, 1942)
Here is his tunefully rich and inventive Trio in D minor, movement II:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fU...
Zemlinsky Trio Op. 3
YouTube video by nrynston
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 2d
Celebrating the Music of Alexander von Zemlinsky
(October 14, 1871 – March 15, 1942)
Austrian composer and conductor. Here is his early Expressionist, drifting, beautiful and haunting Frühlingstag Op. 2, No. 1 (1895-6):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRw-...
Zemlinsky: Lieder, Op. 2, Book 1: No. 1, Frühlingstag
YouTube video by Anne Sofie von Otter - Topic
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 3d
Celebrating the Music of Giuseppe Ferlendis!
(1755 – 1810)
Italian oboist and composer. Here’s the very care-free finale Rondo to his Oboe Concerto in F Major:
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Giuseppe Ferlendis - Oboe Concerto in F-major
YouTube video by KuhlauDilfeng2
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 3d
Celebrating the Music of Heinrich Schütz!
(October 8, 1585 – November 1, 1672)
Early Baroque German composer and organist. Here is his
Die mit Träen säen, SWV 378 (1648)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyQA...
Heinrich Schütz - Die mit Tränen säen SWV 378
YouTube video by monteverdifan
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 4d
Celebrating the Music of Sylvius Leopold Weiss!
(October 12, 1687 –October 16, 1750)
German composer and lutenist. Here is the Courante from his Suite in D Major (played by the incomparable Hokinson Smith on an amazing, historical lute):
youtu.be/LMABOX1tgoo?...
Hopkinson Smith plays Weiss on a 1755 Widhalm Swan-neck Baroque Lute
YouTube video by Joannes Couchet
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 4d
Celebrating the Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams!
(October 12, 1872 – August 26, 1958)
English composer. This is his much beloved The Lark Ascending (1914, (1921 with orchestra…. But here, wonderfully arranged for solo violin and voices)):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4rt...
VOCES8 & Jack Liebeck: The Lark Ascending - Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr. Paul Drayton)
YouTube video by VOCES8
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 5d
More Celebration of the Music of Felix Draeseke!
(October 7, 1835 – February 26, 1913)
Here’s the first movement of his Piano Sonata No. 1 in C# minor, Sonata quasi fantasia – the sonata that won him the admiration of Franz Liszt:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPdt...
Felix Draeseke: Sonata quasi Fantasia - Movement 1
YouTube video by treseus
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 5d
More Celebration of the Music of Felix Draeseke!
(October 7, 1835 – February 26, 1913)
Here’s the second movement of his very fine Clarinet Sonata from 1887.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFtX...
Felix Draeseke - Clarinet Sonata, Op. 38
YouTube video by olla-vogala
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 5d
Celebrating the Music of Felix (August Bernhard) Draeseke!
(October 7, 1835 – February 26, 1913)
German composer. Here’s the very fun third movement scherzo to his Symphony No. 4, in G Major, WoO 38, “Symphonia comica”, III: Lebendig, flott:
youtu.be/MZrnozKjbJk?...
Felix Draeseke: Symphony No. 4 in G Major, WoO 38, "Symphonia comica"
YouTube video by Johann Rufinatscha
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 5d
Celebrating the Music of Paul Creston!
(October 10, 1906 – August 24, 1985)
American composer (birth name: Giuseppe Guttoveggio). Here is the meditative, quietly rhapsodic second movement, Calm, from his Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra, Op. 21 (1940): www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4I...
Paul Creston - Concertino para Marimba, 2º Andamento
YouTube video by JSaxofone
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 6d
More Celebration of the Music of Giuseppi Fortunino Frencesco Verdi!
(October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901)
Lastly and not leastly is his exquisite “Va, pensiore!” Chorus from Nabucco (1842), the opera that put Verdi on the map:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORB...
11.Andrea Bocelli - ''Va pensiero'' - Verdi Nabucco. ( Sacred Arias ).
YouTube video by FARAIuFARA
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 6d
More Celebration of the Music of Giuseppi Fortunino Frencesco Verdi!
(October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901)
… and his indomitable Dies irae from his Requiem (1874), with its spine-tingling Last Trump[et]:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHw4...
BBC Prom 13 - Verdi Requiem - Dies Irae e Tuba Mirum
YouTube video by Gustavo Coppini
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 6d
Celebrating the Music of Giuseppi Fortunino Frencesco Verdi!
(October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901)
Italian composer. Here’s his absolutely melting, soaring, beautiful Ave Maria from his Quattro pezzi sacri (1889): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoX...
Verdi - Ave Maria (Four sacred pieces) (1/4)
YouTube video by valerioansa
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 7d
Celebrating the Music of Gloria Coates!
(October 10, 1938 – August 19, 2023)
American composer. Here is the second movement, Mirror Manifold, from her orchestral poem Holographic Universe – it’s beautiful as well as chilling: youtu.be/_YXusTwfP7w?...
Gloria Coates: Holographic Universe (1975)
YouTube video by Wellesz Theatre.
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 7d
Celebrating the Music of Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns!
(October 9, 1835 – December 16, 1921)
French composer and polymath. Here, The Swan from his The Carnival of the Animals, with Ogden Nash’s rhyme (added around 1950) recited by a bespectacled James Bond:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvh4...
Carnival of the Animals - The Swan (Original Music Video)
YouTube video by stars&wings media
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 24d
I think it might be this... :)
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 24d
An expensive detailing... but, sure! A clean car ain't a bad thing!
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 24d
More Celebration of the Music of Gustav Theodore Holst!
(September 21, 1874 – May 25, 1934)
IHere’s his not-terribly-well known, and absolutely beautiful, Invocation for Cello and Orchestra:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBdX...
Gustav Holst, Invocation
YouTube video by Punkus Pallinus
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 24d
More Celebration of the Music of Gustav Theodore Holst!
(September 21, 1874 – May 25, 1934)
This is the piece that probably influenced more sci-fi movie scores than any other music in history, from The Planets: Movement 1: Mars – The Bringer of War:
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
The Planets - Mars
YouTube video by NorskTorsk
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 24d
More Celebration of the Music of Gustav Theodore Holst!
(September 21, 1874 – May 25, 1934)
Here’s a very seldom performed work, his Double Violin Concerto, and the second movement, Lament, is a piece of mystical forlornness and beauty:
youtu.be/kzGhbK2M760?...
Gustav Holst - Double Violin Concerto (1930)
YouTube video by Cmaj7
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Max Derrickson @musicprogramnotes.bsky.social · 25d
Celebrating the Music of Gustav Theodore Holst!
(September 21, 1874 – May 25, 1934)
English composer, Holst wrote more music than just his breakthrough The Planets. Here is his wonderful Chaconne, from his brilliant First Suite for Military Band in E-flat.
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
First Suite in E-flat: Chaconne
YouTube video by Psychedelicity
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