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22 October 2011 ♪♫♪

Mauro Giuliani Gran Duo Concertante, Op.85

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Freaking SICK song we heard in orchestra. *__*

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25 March 2011 ♪♫♪

The German word Plappermaulchen certainly has a clumsy look and sound, reinforcing the view held by many that Italian and French are the most Romantic languages for singing. Perhaps true, but this Josef Strauss work is a polka and the comical sound of its title, which means Chatterbox, is quite appropriate for its busy and quite colorful music. This score is zany and effervescent from first note to last, but mostly graceful in its humorous manner. Strauss never crosses over into the realm of vulgarity, even if he spices the music with much percussion and sonic effects. The work opens with a brief introduction, after which Strauss hurls the main theme onto the sonic canvas in a quirky creation that occasionally pauses to allow certain phrases to repeat while still managing to build to a near frenzy in its manic joy. The middle section is relatively subdued at the outset, but soon turns quite rollicking itself. The main theme, in all its kinetic drive and mischief, returns, but just when the listener expects the work to explosively end, Strauss delivers a detour whose gentle manner at the outset soon transforms into a frisky one at the close. This polka typically has a duration of three minutes.

-Robert Cummings, Rovi

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24 March 2011 ♪♫♪

The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata (Mondscheinsonate in German), was completed in 1801.[1] It is dedicated to his pupil, 17-year-old[2] Countess Giulietta Guicciardi,[3] with whom Beethoven was, or had been, in love.[4] It is one of Beethoven's most popular sonatas.

-Wikipedia

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19 March 2011 ♪♫♪

Carmen Fantasie (1946) is a virtuoso showpiece for violin and orchestra. The piece is part of Franz Waxman's score to the movie Humoresque. The music, based on various themes from Georges Bizet's opera Carmen (and an adaptation from the similarly titled work of Pablo de Sarasate), was initially meant to be played by Jascha Heifetz. However, he was replaced by a young Isaac Stern for the first recording of the score. Stern's hands can be seen in the close-up shots from the movie.

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18 March 2011 ♪♫♪

The "Maple Leaf Rag" (copyright registered September 18, 1899[1]) is an early ragtime musical composition for piano composed by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's early works, and is one of the most famous of all ragtime pieces, becoming the first instrumental piece to sell more than one million copies of sheet music.[2]

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17 March 2011 ♪♫♪

The Nokia tune (also called Grande Valse on old Nokia mobile phones) is a phrase from a composition for solo guitar, Gran Vals, by the Spanish classical guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega, written in 1902.

The excerpt is taken from measures (bars) 13–16 of Gran Vals.

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10 March 2011 ♪♫♪

Holberg Suite, Op. 40 more properly "From Holberg's Time", (German: Aus Holbergs Zeit, Norwegian: Fra Holbergs tid), subtitled "Suite in olden style" (Norwegian: Suite i gammel stil, German: Suite im alten Style), is a suite of five movements based on eighteenth century dance forms, written by Edvard Grieg in 1884 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Danish-Norwegian humanist playwright Ludvig Holberg.

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