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Alessandro Marcello (1673–1747) was an Italian nobleman and dilettante who was interested in a variety of fields, including poetry, philosophy, mathematics, and, perhaps most notably, music. A contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi , Marcello gave concerts in his hometown of Venice . He composed several sets of concerts, including concertos entitled La cetra (The Lyre), as well as cantatas, arias, canzonettas, and violin sonatas. He used, according to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , “a concise use of Vivaldian counterpoint, elevating his status to the highest level of the Venetian Baroque classical concerto”; today Marcello is considered a highly accomplished composer. His brother Benedetto Marcello (1686–1739) was also a celebrated composer.

Oboe Concerto in C minor . “The concerto in question is the only one that has come down to us from the hand of Alessandro Marcello , brother of the equally famous composer and writer Benedetto Marcello . The unusual factor in the set of parts found in the city of Schwerin is that the manuscript parts are presented in C minor instead of D minor, the key of the parts published in Amsterdam in 1716 by Jeanne Roger . While I was at university, I also noticed that J.S. Bach had composed this same concerto for solo harpsichord, in the key of D minor” (BWV 974) (Nancy Bonar Lehrer). The concerto consists of three movements, of which we offer the third today, in a version for trumpet instead of oboe; the soloist is Alison Balsom (1978), an English trumpeter who, despite her youth, was named Artist of the Year at the 2013 Gramophone Awards ; in 2009 she performed as a soloist at the London Proms . She has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Leicester and Anglia Ruskin University , and is an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama .

Marcello's best-known work is the Oboe Concerto in D minor , whose third movement we offer today in a trumpet version (in C minor) with the English trumpeter Alison Balsom as soloist.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). Along with Bach and Mozart, he forms part of the trio of giants of Western music. Born in Bonn , his father, of Flemish origin, attempted to showcase him as a second Mozart , although it was a notable failure. Despite this, from the age of nine, the organist Christian Gottlob Neefe captivated him with the study of Bach , whom he would always remember. In 1787, he moved to Vienna with the intention of taking Mozart classes, but the death of his mother brought him back to Bonn a few days later. And so, after five years, he returned to Vienna where he was able to study with Haydn and Salieri . However, his profession as an excellent pianist could not be realized due to the deafness that attacked him the following year, leaving him totally incapacitated in this faculty.

The catalog of Beethoven's works . There are 138 musical works composed by Beethoven , arranged by numbers known as opus ("work" in Latin) or its abbreviation op. , assigned by the composer's publishers during his lifetime. In addition, there are another 205 works that do not have opus numbers and were published after the composer's death. These works were assigned WoO numbers (Werke ohne Opuszahl, "works without opus numbers"). This catalog was first compiled by Georg Kinsky and Hans Halm (Das Werk Beethovens) in 1955.

The Fifth Symphony is one of the most well-known and popular works in the history of music . Of its four movements, today we will review the first. This movement, as was customary at that time since the beginning of Classicism , is written in a rapid mode and in sonata form : 1) exposition of two themes contrasting in character and tonality; 2) development of both themes; restatement in the same tonality of the two main themes. Today it is offered to us by the Texas Medical Center Orchestra, conducted by Libi Lebel , a Russian pianist and conductor who has conducted various American, Russian, and Romanian orchestras and is characterized by her transparent technique and passionate character. She is currently the principal conductor of the Texas Medical Center Orchestra.

The Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), whose brother Michael Haydn was also a notable composer, was one of the main pillars on which Classicism was based (1750-1820). At the age of six, he began his musical studies on harpsichord and violin. At the age of eight, he was admitted as a chorister at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna , where he continued his studies in singing, piano, and violin. After his voice changed, he had to survive by working multiple jobs while studying composition by analyzing the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. He maintained a close friendship with Mozart and was Beethoven 's teacher. He laid the main foundations of sonata form and the formal structure of the string quartet and the symphony. He died at the age of 77 in Vienna .

The catalog of Haydn's works . Joseph Haydn's works are classified today according to the system devised by Anthony van Hoboken. Each work is identified by a Roman numeral corresponding to a category, which in most cases is identified with a genre. Some categories have subdivisions, indicated by a lowercase letter followed by an Arabic numeral corresponding to the order of the specific work within the category.

These figures are preceded by the word Hoboken (in memory of the author of the catalogue) and sometimes by Hob (its abbreviation).

The concerto is a musical form written for one or more solo instruments accompanied by an instrumental ensemble. It was Vivaldi who established the fundamental foundations of its structure with three movements (Fast I, Slow II, Fast III) and presented as a dialogue between the soloist(s) and the instrumental ensemble.

Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob. VIIb/2, Op. 101 for cello and orchestra ​ is one of the most frequently performed by cellists and requires a much higher level of technique than Haydn 's other cello concertos . It is structured in three movements: I (0´50´´) ALLEGRO MODERATO .-. II (15´01´´) ADAGIO .-. III (19´55´´) RONDO – ALLEGRO.

Today's version is offered by Russian cellist Anastasia Kobekina (1994) accompanied by the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie under the baton of French maestro Frank Braley .

Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) was a French pianist and composer born in Paris who began studying piano with her mother. At the age of 18, she gave her first concert, which made her famous. As a composer, she wrote nearly 400 works; more than half of them for piano and salon songs, in addition to other chamber and symphonic compositions. She was the first composer to be awarded the title of Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur , the highest civilian honor awarded in France .

Catalogue of Chaminade's works . His works are classified by their Opus number (from the Latin opus 'work'), a term used in music to catalogue the works of most composers. From the 17th century , this form of cataloguing began to be used whenever a work was published, preceding the word Opus , or its abbreviation Op ., with the serial number of the work.

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 40. It is a single-movement composition for piano and orchestra by Cécile Chaminade , which is offered today by the Italian pianist Rosamaria Macaluso accompanied by the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra conducted by the French maestro Jean-Luc Tingaud .

Carey Bell (1936-2007) was an American blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter. He was known for his distinctive use of the chromatic harmonica and his sharp, attacking phrasing. He played in Muddy Waters ' band from 1970 to 1974; he was then a regular member of the Willie Dixon Band until the early 1980s; and later continued as a solo artist, touring virtually all over the world until his death in mid-2007. Today we feature his performance in Bern, Switzerland , at the 2001 Jazz Festival .

Paulina Rubio (Mexico City, June 17, 1971) nicknamed "The Golden Girl" is a Mexican singer, songwriter, actress, television presenter, model and businesswoman. She is the daughter of actress Susana Dosamantes , whose projection in Mexican cinema influenced her since childhood to pursue the same aspiration of becoming famous. She has received nominations for the Grammy Awards and the Latin Grammy Award seven times. Forbes magazine included her in its list of the "50 most powerful women in Mexico ", she was also considered one of the celebrities with the most followers on Twitter and according to YouGov she is one of the most popular Latin artists in the USA .

Boris Asafyev (1884–1949) was a Russian and Soviet composer, writer, musicologist, music critic, and one of the founders of Soviet musicology. Asafiev studied philology and history at St. Petersburg University , graduating in 1908; at the same time, he took courses in orchestration with Rimsky-Korsakov and in musical composition with Anatoly Lyadov at the Conservatory, graduating in 1910. Born during the Russian Empire, Boris Asafiev saw the birth of the USSR , where he strongly influenced Soviet music. His compositions include ballets, operas, symphonies, concertos, and chamber music.

Flames of Paris or The Flames of Paris is a full-length ballet choreographed by Vasily Vainonen with stage direction by Sergei Radlov and music by Boris Asafyev based on songs of the French Revolution . The libretto by Nicolai Volkov and Vladimir Dmitriev was adapted from a book by Felix Gras . It premiered at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad on 7 November 1932. The Flames of Paris is a ballet considered "revolutionary" that takes the French Revolution as its theme, including in its setting the storming of the Tuileries Palace by revolutionary soldiers and their victorious march on Paris . The plot is taken from Felix Gras 's 1896 Provençal novel Li Rouge dou Miejour , which was translated into French as Les Rouges du Midi (The Reds of the South).

(Inauteria) Alakiketan was the continuation of the shows " Irradaka " (1987) and " Zortziko " (1988), which premiered in 1992 at the Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao . In 1993, " Muriska ", a dance drama or choreography based on the pastorals of Zuberoa , was added, and the whole set was premiered for the first time at the Olite International Festival . This video, Inauteria (Carnival), is part of the latter format. Direction, choreography and costumes: Juan A. Urbeltz , Musical direction and arrangements: Marian Arregi . (Extracted from the commentary at the bottom of the video)

Argia Dantza Taldea is a Basque dance group from San Sebastián, made up of around 45 members, directed by Juan Antonio Urbeltz (1940). They have collected numerous Basque dances in situ, grouped into cycles that prioritize authenticity in their choreographic, musical, instrumental, and even costume versions. At the 1968 Middlesbrough International Folklore Festival (England), they won first prize for dance among 28 groups from 22 nations. In 1998, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg awarded them the European Prize for Popular Art .