I am looking to buy the prokofiev sonatas and I have heard great things about japanese and russian editions, as well as from personal experience. I live in Canada and have no idea where to buy/order products from publishers. I have searched the web but most of the ones I know do not ship internationally. I am a big fan of Zen-on editions and cannot find a place to purchase them as they do not sell them off of their main website. Any suggestions on where to buy them/other great japanese/russian editions?
The tune is played in this video from 8:39 to 8:49 https://youtu.be/wmcd3eyL-VQ
I could've sworn it uses the same tune as "Cossacks never say die / Ready your horse lads" but I don't think so. If I could know the name of the original song or tune, that would be ideal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Js65l8yoA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHvRAIHBr4o (particularly the first 44 seconds)
Here are two pieces by Laurence Rosenthal for the 90's television series Young Indiana Jones. I've been trying to find Russian classical music that is similar to this - not necessarily something composed by a Russian, but something that has this 20th century Russian feel to it. Something that is not afraid to be a little folksy (notice the Balalaika in the second link at the end).
I've listened to numerous Russian composers and cannot find the 'feel' I'm looking for, which these compositions have. I tried to contact Laurence Rosenthal to ask about his inspiration, with no luck.
Hi everyone, just wanted to let you know that I've created r/TheMightyHandful, a place to talk about the Russian composers Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Balakirev, Cui, and Mussorgsky. Feel free to join if you'd like.
Some ten years ago I learnt to play a piano piece for a recital.
I can no longer remember the name of the piece or the composer's name.
All I remember is the first few bars, which I played and uploaded to soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/user-683072777/search-for-this-music
Artists die, but their work doesn’t. Decades or even centuries after the original artist dies, good music lives on, and will still be played and performed by new generations of fans and musicians alike.
Just one question: what happens when you go so far back that the music itself predates the very idea of copyright?
The thing with classical music is most of it predates copyright laws and the composers are long dead. So, the vast majority of it is in the public domain. You can feel free to use In The Hall of the Mountain King for your meme compilation without worrying about a copyright strike. Theoretically, anything goes when it comes to classical music, so it’s usually a pretty safe bet if you want to add music to something without getting your pants sued off.
”Usually” being the operative word. Because sometimes, that isn’t the case.
Sure, classical pieces themselves aren’t covered by copyright. However, specific recordings are a different story. If you upload a pirated recording of Ode to Joy Beethoven's estate isn’t going to come after you with an army of lawyers. The Berliner Philharmoniker, on the other hand? That’s a different story altogether.
And when amateur YouTube musicians are playing the exact same pieces as professional orchestras with their own record labels, this can lead to some unfortunate false positives.
##A Baroque-en system and a spurious copyright strike
James Rhodes is a British/Spanish pianist, occasional TV presenter, author, and activist. One day, James decided to upload a quick clip of him playing Bach’s Partita No. 1 to Facebook. It would be fun, he thought, and his followers would love it. So that’s what he did.
Shortly afterwards, Sony barged in, declared “we own this performance of a piece from a composer who’s been dead for 300 years” and had the video taken down.
In their claim, Sony Music claimed that 47 seconds was a perfect match for audio that they owned. The automated copyright bots had simply mistaken his performance with a recording by an artist under Sony’s music label - specifically, Glenn Gould’s 1957 recording of the same piece.
Okay, fine, that’s just bots being stupid. Surely, once this is appealed and it gets seen by a human, this should all resolve itself. So, James immediately disputed the claim. In his own words: [”This is my own performance of Bach. Who died 300 years ago. I own all the rights.”](https://www.eff.
... keep reading on reddit ➡I think [Gorecki Symphony No. 3 - Movement 1] (https://youtu.be/u8dWoxcpCpg) finally did me in, I could cry just thinking about it, damn
EDIT : This blew up, thanks for all the replies people, I dont have much to say to most of them because this is all pretty new to me but I appreciate it lots, have a nice weekend everyone!
What pieces should I pick that wouldn't paint the picture of 'lame' classical music to these kids who don't know what they're missing out.
I was thinking of these pieces: Stravinsky - Firebird Finale, Spring rounds from the Rite of Spring Rachmaninoff Symphony 2, Piano concerti Prokofiev piano concerto 3, violin concerto 2 Korsakov Scheherezade
Realised these are all the later period Russians. Anyways, do you lovely people have more recommendations?
Thanks
Ok so recently I’ve been wanting to get into Russian lit. I think Russians have a very specific tone when it comes to writing, a tone that I have found to enjoy. I’m not sure where to start though.
A few years ago, i was looking at guitar videos on YouTube for some weird reason and found something that caught my attention but i can't remember it any more. She has a normal name like "Anita" or something and a hard to pronounce Russian/Polish surname. She also sings
Rachmaninoff piano concertos no. 2 & 3 are always spectacular to listen to, despite any count on the number of times I had listened to it before. I can’t quantify the magic in the music, but the sound tickles me in just the right way to make his music uniquely special.
In all music I listen to, there’s a quiet expectation that the music will follow in a conventional way. I’ve never studied music theory properly so I couldn’t point to a set of particular chord progressions that I would define as conventional, so I can only take it on trust that you know what I mean when I talk about melodies resolving themselves in a certain predictable way.
Back to Rachmaninoff, what’s special about him is how I never hear those predictable resolutions. It’s always different than what I expect, and always a more interesting and emotional way of completing the melody. Sometimes the melody doesn’t even end, it just turns into a whole new idea!
To be honest I’m not sure what my objective is in explaining this, but I hope I communicated this special relationship I have with Rachmaninoff’s music, and I’m curious to hear if you have any composers who surprise you with beautiful music you couldn’t predict.
I really enjoy listening to classical music and as I was searching for information about Russian composers, I found a great lesson where I could also listen to parts of their masterpieces. I have to say I am impressed!
My favourite one was Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights. What do you love most of the Russian classical music?
