Ave Maria - Arcadelt
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In the Latin tradition there is a devotion to the Virgin Mary as " Our Lady of Sorrows"We often see icons and paintings which depict Mary bearing the wounds of seven swords in her heart. This relates to the prophesy of Simeon "Behold this child is set for the fall, and for the resurrection of many in Israel, and for a sign which shall be contradicted; and thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed." The seven swords represent the seven dolours, or sorrows, experienced by Mary that wounded her heart throughout her life with Jesus.Mary suffered along with her Son Jesus and is always there for us, she embraces us with the same love she showed as she held Jesus in her arms when He was taken down from the cross. We are never closer to Jesus on this earth than in times of suffering. Mary is always there for us, she will take our hand and guide us to Jesus. In John 16:33 Jesus tells us to have no fear as He has already conquered this world."These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have distress: but have confidence, I have overcome the world"
Me Studying @ Library.
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The typical mental exercise done at the ideal location during a break from work in winter, 2008.
Raff - Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 185 - Part 2/3
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Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 185I. AllegroII. Andante quasi larghettoIII. Finale: AllegroComposer: Joseph Joachim Raff (1822-1882)Performer: Michael Ponti (piano) & Hamburg Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Richard KappRaff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. He was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster. He sent some of his piano compositions to Felix Mendelssohn who recommended them to Breitkopf and Härtel for publication. They were published in 1844 and received a favourable review in Robert Schumann's journal, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, which prompted Raff to go to Zürich and take up composition full time.In 1845, Raff walked to Basel to hear Franz Liszt play the piano. After a period in Stuttgart where he became friends with the conductor Hans von Bülow, he worked as Liszt's assistant at Weimar from 1850 to 1853. During this time he helped Liszt in the orchestration of several of his works, claiming to have had a particularly big part in orchestrating the symphonic poem Tasso. In 1851, Raff's opera König Alfred was staged in Weimar, and five years later he moved to Wiesbaden where he largely devoted himself to composition. From 1877 he was the first Director of, and a teacher at, the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. There he employed Clara Schumann and a number of other eminent musicians as teachers, and established a class specifically for female composers (this was at a time when women composers were not taken very seriously). His pupils there included Edward MacDowell and Alexander Ritter. He died in Frankfurt am Main.Raff was very prolific, and by the end of his life was one of the best known German composers, though his work is largely forgotten today (only one of his pieces, a cavatina for violin and piano, is performed with any regularity today, sometimes as an encore). He drew influence from a variety of sources - his eleven symphonies, for example, combine the Classical symphonic form, with the Romantic penchant for program music and contrapuntal orchestral writing which harks back to the Baroque. Most of these symphonies carry descriptive titles including In the Forest (number three), Lenore (No. 5) and To the Fatherland (No. 1), a very large-scale work lasting around seventy minutes. His last four symphonies make up a quartet of works based on the four seasons.The Lenore symphony, famous in its time, was inspired by a ballad by Gottfried August Bürger that also inspired works by several other composers, including Maria Theresa von Paradis (1789), Henri Duparc, Franz Liszt (late 1850s, mentioned by Alan Walker in his Liszt biography vol. 2), for example.Raff also composed in most other genres, including concertos, opera, chamber music and works for solo piano. His chamber works include two piano sonatas, five violin sonatas, a cello sonata, a piano quintet, two piano quartets, a string sextet and four piano trios. Many of these works are now commercially recorded. He also wrote numerous suites, some for smaller groups (there are suites for piano solo and suites for string quartet), some for orchestra and one each for piano and orchestra and violin and orchestra.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Raff
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