Resources for Orchestra of Life Session 1

Recordings used in Session 1

This is an excerpt on Spotify.
To hear the whole piece, click on the “…” and choose “Play on Spotify.”

This is an excerpt on Spotify.
To hear the whole piece, click on the “…” and choose “Play on Spotify.”

Resources Used in Session 1

Score to Richard Strauss’ Don Juan

Original Manuscript of Richard Strauss’ Score Don Juan

Video Recordings of Pieces Used in Session 1

J. S. Bach Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1065, for Four Harpsichords

Netherlands Bach Society, featuring Siebe Henstra, harpsichord 1, Menno van Delft, harpsichord 2, Pieter-Jan Belder, harpsichord 3, Tineke Steenbrink, harpsichord 4

Recorded for the project All of Bach on April 16th 2016 at Ottone, Utrecht.

J. S. Bach Concerto in A Minor, BWV 1065, for Four Pianos

Rondane Quartet ( Petra van Oort, Laura Sandee, Robert Lambermont en Daphne Keune ) is accompanied by students from the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and HKU Utrechts Conservatorium. Conductor Peter Csuka.

I provide this performance as a contrast. This piece is actually a transcription of the Vivaldi Concerto for 4 Violins. Baroque period music  is adaptable to various instrumentation. What is important is that the music is treated with families of instruments rather than various. For example, there is an arrangement of this piece for 4 marimbas (8 players).

Giuseppe Verdi,  Prelude to Act I, La Traviata

The Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, conducted by Xian Zhan, performs at the BBC Proms in September of 2013

Very traditional performance from an Italian orchestra known for their performances of Verdi (hence their name).  Very good production.

Giuseppe Verdi,  Prelude to Act I, La Traviata

Sir Georg Solti conducts the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden

In this performance you are able to experience how the composition was intended to be heard, from the orchestra pit. Sir Georg Solti conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra at Covent Garden, in a live performance of La Traviata, December, 1994. Notice Sir Goerg’s choices in interpreting the opera’s famous prelude. The more assertive interpretation was chosen, perhaps, to elevate the dramatic, tragic story line that follows.

Dudley Moore’s Orchestra! with Sir Georg Solti

Dudley Moore and Sir Georg Solti join forces in this engaging documentary about playing in a symphony orchestra