THE ENCHANTED HOUR "Prokofiev: Classical Symphony"

PROKOFIEV

 

HENRY WEBER

Episode 18 aired over the Mutual Network on September 25, 1949. The Enchanted Hour, produced in Chicago, featured classical orchestral and operatic music. Directed by Jim Ramsey and Jack LaFrandre, Henry Weber and his orchestra play uninterrupted music by composers such as Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Handel, Debussy, Strauss, and Wagner. Nancy Carr appeared often as soprano. This episode opens with The Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, also known as the "Classical". It was Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's first numbered symphony. He began to compose it in 1916 and completed it on September 10, 1917. It was composed as a modern reinterpretation of the classical style of Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The symphony's nickname was bestowed upon it by the composer. It premiered on April 18, 1918 in Petrograd, conducted by Prokofiev. It has remained one of his most popular works.

CLASSICAL MUSIC " Ukraine "

 

Douglas Gamley arranger conductor - Mussorgsky Great Gate of Kiev - Pictures at Exhibition. Albert Sandler and Orchestra - ADALGISO FERRARIS Souvenir d'Ukraine. Adalgiso Ferraris (16 February 1890 – 31 December 1968) was an Italian-born British composer and pianist. Ferraris' arrangements and compositions were based on classical and popular genres, with a particular flavour of gypsy, Hungarian and Russian traditionals. Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten piano pieces, plus a recurring, varied Promenade theme, composed by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The piece is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and it has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It became further widely known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other composers and musicians, with Maurice Ravel's 1922 adaptation for full symphony orchestra being the most recorded and performed. The Bogatyr Gates (In the Capital in Kiev) Stasov's comment: "Hartmann's sketch was his design for city gates at Kiev in the ancient Russian massive style with a cupola shaped like a slavonic helmet." Bogatyrs are heroes that appear in Russian epics called bylinas. Hartmann designed a monumental gate for Tsar Alexander II to commemorate the monarch's narrow escape from an assassination attempt on April 4, 1866. Hartmann regarded his design as the best work he had done. His design won the national competition but plans to build the structure were later cancelled. The movement's grand main theme exalts the opening Promenade much as "Baba Yaga" amplified "Gnomus"; also like that movement, it evens out the meter of its earlier counterpart. The solemn secondary theme is based on a baptismal hymn from the repertory of Russian Orthodox chant.