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Post by keff on Dec 13, 2023 20:46:24 GMT
I'm going to revise January from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons. It somehow lifts my spirits. What are other peoples' suggestions...they can be the blues if you like?
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Post by Zi on Dec 14, 2023 16:26:59 GMT
What a lovely idea. I wonder if there is music for every month?
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Post by keff on Dec 15, 2023 8:55:27 GMT
What a lovely idea. I wonder if there is music for every month? There is a piece for every month as Tchaikovski had been commissioned to write a new work for a monthly magazine called 'Le Nouvelliste' throughout 1873. Although he wrote twelve pieces named January through to December I seem to recall that he missed the publishing deadline for some of them so it stretched to more than a year. There are some lovely pieces in this collection. |
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Post by Zi on Dec 15, 2023 13:03:19 GMT
I didn't know that - thank you! I'll have to look out for them. I've been thinking about music that is cheerful and I think some of Grieg does that for me.
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Post by keff on Dec 16, 2023 10:57:33 GMT
"January" has a subtitle...At the Fireplace. There is a Puschkin quotation at the top of the score;
A little corner of peaceful bliss,
the night dressed in darkness,
the little fire is dying in the fireplace,
and the candle has burned out.
Given , no doubt, that Russia is infinitely colder than we experience they must have been a tougher lot especially in the dark apart from the final glow of a fire.
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