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Have to admit I love a capella and there is no better time than Christmas to indulge. Todays selection is a nice mix of professional and non professional. and these 5 songs are not the total nor are they necessarily the best. They are just ones that caught my attention. Please add your own.
So for your Christmas advent pleasure
Enjoy, Jack
I was checking out possible Christmas music but I think we should wait another week. So I looked in the “some time in the future” folder where I stick stuff I run across for enjoying at a later date. I hope this provides some calm as you recover from yesterdays hectic shopping. It did for me the other day
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E‑flat Major the “Emperor Concerto”, Rosalía Gómez Lasheras, the young lady playing the piano is 25 and she has been playing the piano since she was 5.
Enjoy, Jack
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K 622
Either back in Jr high or early high school I decided to become a musician and play an instrument. As the only one available was a clarinet my parents got for my older sister, it was what I tried to learn to play. I quickly gave up on the idea and as far as I know that clarinet is still in our old farm house that has since collapse in on itself.
I have always loved listening to the clarinet and this piece is no exception but what I love here is the performance of Arngunnur Árnadóttir, the lady soloing on the clarinet. She just keeps playing and keeps playing, what amazing stamina.
This piece was published after Mozarts death. and has an interesting back story
“As there is no autograph for this concerto and as it was published posthumously, it is difficult to understand all of Mozart’s intentions.[citation needed] The only relic of this concerto written in Mozart’s hand is an excerpt of an earlier rendition of the concerto written for basset horn in G (K. 584b/621b).[citation needed] This excerpt is nearly identical to the corresponding section in the published version for A clarinet.[citation needed]
Mozart originally intended the piece to be written for basset horn, as Anton Stadler was also a virtuoso basset horn player, but eventually was convinced the piece would be more effective for clarinet.[citation needed] However, several notes throughout the piece go beyond the conventional range of the A clarinet; Mozart may have intended the piece to be played on the basset clarinet, a special clarinet championed by Stadler that had a range down to low (written) C, instead of stopping at (written) E as standard clarinets do.[1]
Even in Mozart’s day, the basset clarinet was a rare, custom-made instrument, so when the piece was published posthumously, a new version was arranged with the low notes transposed to regular range.”
Enjoy, Jack
For a person who enjoys good music as I do, there is so much good music out there. With the impeachment hearings going on I decided to see what the founding fathers might have been listening to if they had their streaming service. I typed in the wrong date, 1790 instead of 1787 and found this marvelous piece. I could have gone with traditional, the up start Mozart or the always in fashion Johann S Bach. Instead I clicked on this Italian composer I had never heard of before and found a wonderful piece of music.
We live in blessed times
What I have learned by doing this weekly music post is that there is so much good music. An orchestra could play every night all year long and never repeat themselves and never play an inferior piece They don’t. They repeat the same “important” composers in the same boring top 40’s style play list.
For something different as in “I never heard of this guy”
Enjoy, Jack
Bartolomeo Campagnoli, His Wiki