Lately I've been neglecting the blog more than it should and I'm fine, confident he can resume as soon as the speech in a more continuous basis. I could not ignore, however
the opportunity given to me by Christmas to send a musical postcard to all those who still take the time to browse these pages.
True to my principles, here I am to offer you a little-known composition of an author still too little known: it is the symphonic fantasy "Die Natali, Op. 37" (is not German, Latin ...); commissioned Samuel Barber from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, dedicated to the memory of Sergei and Natalie Koussevitsky, had its premiere in Boston under the direction of Charles Munch December 23, 1960. Christmas carols are lead the way for officials and experts of this kind will not escape quotes, literal or varied, the carols "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" "Lo, how a rose e'er blooming", "God rest you merry, gentlemen," "Good King Wenceslas," in addition to the most famous "Silent Night," "Adeste fideles "and" Joy to the world "which ends in glory composition.
Marin Alsop conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
more intimate joy evoked by the birth of the Child and celebrated by Ottorino Respighi in "The Adoration of the Magi," second "picture" Botticelli Triptych, composed in 1927. We are not dealing with a pout-pourri Christmas, but with an original composition, but in whose closing bars Respighi, in order to describe the devotion of the Magi to the infant, could not resist the temptation to resort to a quote "on tiptoe" the critically acclaimed "You come down from the stars", composed in 1755 by Alfonso Maria de 'Liguori and entered in the folk tradition, where it remains in its own right.
Again, best wishes for happy Christmas.
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