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P.I. Tchaikovsky Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, part 1
E.Bloch suite "Baal Shem" - Improvisation
I.Frolov "Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra on themes from the opera by J.Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess"
Just as there is a history of all human discoveries and deeds in the world, so there is a history of music.
Together with literature and theater, with works of painting and sculpture, music is an almost immaterial art consisting of sounds alone, which is one of the noblest pleasures that give a person sublime joy.
The history of music is full of wonderful events and examples of how far you can go thanks to talent, hard work, patience and faith.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. We can imagine the personality of the composer based on the historical records that have survived to this day, on his music. "I am 44 years old – how much has been lived and how little has been done!" And Tchaikovsky wrote this about himself, being the author of a number of brilliant works. The composer, without whose creativity it is now simply impossible.
Tchaikovsky's path was not strewn with roses at all. It seems to us now that he was lucky. In fact, he has received a fair share of slaps in his creative life. And one of them was the first review of the performance of the Violin Concerto. For three long years, the concert was idle and not performed, it was branded "unplayable". For the first time, the concert was performed not in Russia, but in Vienna, and here is the review of the Viennese music critic: "The Russian composer Tchaikovsky is bloated, obsessed with the mania of genius, composing indiscriminately and tastefully. What we got to know from his writings was a strange mix of genius and rudeness, happy insights and disappointing sophistication. Such is his brand new, long and pretentious Violin Concerto." There were about 11 lifetime performances of the Violin Concerto op 35, after the death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1893, the concert underwent many different editions, the first of which was the edition by Leopold Auer, to whom it was dedicated Concert. Auer himself performed a concert dedicated to him for the first time only after Tchaikovsky's death and performed it several times, mainly in concerts for memorable dates.
In 1958, the Concert was included as a mandatory piece in the program of the Tchaikovsky Competition. Every four years, new interpretations appear and the most successful ones are immediately posted online.
Ernest Bloch is a composer who changed his Swiss citizenship to an American one. A composer who has spent decades searching for a nutritious source for all his music.
Ernest Bloch's first compositional debut took place in 1903 and to say that the works he presented made a splash is to say nothing. Critics with one voice demanded to "lock up and put this young upstart on bread and water", insulting the audience with his wild dissonant music.
Ernest Bloch did not belong to any schools and directions of music of the twentieth century – an independent spirit was a determining factor in his work. His music, like his personality – passionate and sad, thoughtful, mystical and deeply intellectual - may not have changed the world, but many of his works help to quench the spiritual thirst for new musical discoveries and comprehend the content of his inner world.
One of Ernest Bloch's most famous chamber compositions is the suite "Baal Shem" for violin and piano (1923). The suite consists of three parts three photographs of Hasidic life "Repentance", "Improvisation" and "Joy".
When the American composer George Gershwin created his masterpiece opera Porgy and Bess in 1935, he had no idea that the melodies from this opera would become so popular. After all, the production of this opera brought only losses to the composer, and this work was appreciated only many years after the composer's death. Many variations have been created on the themes of this opera, mainly in the jazz style.
In general, the main theme for the composer is Jewish music. But from his interest in biblical subjects, it is not necessary to conclude that he was an Orthodox Jew. The composer himself claimed that he was neither a believer nor an atheist, but he admired Jesus Christ as a man who lived according to the principles he preached.
The author of the Fantasy is the People's Igor Frolov, the creator of the Moscow Camerata Chamber Orchestra.
The famous melody from Gershwin's opera, Clara's lullaby, sounds in the center of this work. In the opera, the girlfriend of the main character sings it, cradling her baby. This lullaby is like a small island of peace before the tragic events that will then happen to the heroes of the opera drama. But so far everything is fine, life is wonderful, the baby falls asleep with hope for tomorrow.
Igor Frolov's "Fantasy" is imbued with a bright feeling: no matter how harsh life is, a person always believes in the best.

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