Calendarul muzical al zilei - 10 august 2015

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1806 Comemorarea compozitorului austriac Michael Haydn 209 ani 1865 S-a născut compozitorul rus Aleksandr Glazunov (decedat 21.03.1936) 150 ani 1926 S-a născut organista franceză Marie Claire Alain (decedată 26.02.2013) 89 ani 1947 S-a născut pianistul rus Dmitri Alexeev 68 ani 1952 S-a născut dirijorul polonez Jacek Kasprzyk 63 ani 1952 Aniversarea dirijorului român Dan Mihai Goia 63 ani 1970 Comemorarea compozitorului german Bernd Aloys Zimmerman 45 ani

Michael Haydn (1737-1806): Symphony No.2 in C Major (Slovak Chamber Orchestra)
Michael Haydn (1737-1806): Symphony No.3 in G Major (Slovak Chamber Orchestra)
Michael Haydn (1737-1806): Symphony No.18 in C Major (Slovak Chamber Orchestra)
Glazunov - Saxophone Concerto in E flat major, Op. 109 (1934)
Concerto for alto saxophone and string orchestra in E flat major, Op. 109 (1934)

A concerto by Russian composer, conductor and teacher Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936). He directed the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from 1905 to 1928, presiding over it during the turbulent Bolshevik Revolution and reorganizing the institution into the Petrograd Conservatory. Under his celebrated tenure, many great musicians and composers attended the institution, including Sergei Prokofiev, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Jascha Heifetz, George Balanchine, Vladimir Sofronitsky and Leo Ornstein, among others. In 1934, the saxophone (which had been invented a century earlier) was still relatively new to the world of classical music and it was generally considered a "middle-class" instrument; Glazunov's decision to compose a concerto for the alto sax was quite unusual. The German saxophonist Sigurd Raschèr had been requesting a concerto from Glazunov for quite a while, and he finally composed the work in 1934. Although it was written in 1934 and performed in November of the same year in Sweden, the composer did not live to hear it played, since he was living in Paris, where the work's premiere came after his death. Glazunov outlined the structure of the composition in a letter to Maximilian Steinberg:

- Exposition: Allegro Moderato, in 4/4, ending in G minor
- Development (brief)
- Transition: Andante (C flat major; sometimes B major), in 3/4, leading into a small cadenza
- Conclusion: Fugato (C minor), in 12/8

Saxophone: Pekka Savijoki
Conductor: Jorma Panula
New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra