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Tarantella "puro sangue" – con passaggio della Processione
From the age of 18 until he was 30, Gio Rossini (1792–1868) composed 32 operas. After being stressed out by the production of his grand opera William Tell (the overture to which every American knows) in 1829, he quit writing operas, and for the next 46 years, he just enjoyed being a celebrity and wrote only some sacred music and small works to amuse himself.
In the twentieth century, Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) took a number of these little gems and arranged them into suites for orchestra. The first such suite is La Boutique fantasque ("The Enchanted Toyshop"), but this is the finale from his neglected Rossiniana suite, which is based on Rossini's collection of pieces, Péchés de vieillesse ("Sins of my old age").
A tarantella is a dance from southern Italy. The folklore of the dance is that when someone gets bitten by a tarantula, they have to keep dancing to work the venom out of their system. Of course, red vino also helps the process. In fact, it might be a good idea to help yourself to some red vino right now as a prophylactic measure. (Never can tell when them pesky spiders might strike.)
My purpose in posting this is to demonstrate to all the "classical" composers here that classical music is not necessarily slow, solemn or dull, although alert listeners will notice that in the middle of the piece, the revelry is interrupted by a benediction and procession from the cathedral. A friend I sent this to reports that her cats highly enjoyed this music.
The artwork is of my own design.
From the age of 18 until he was 30, Gio Rossini (1792–1868) composed 32 operas. After being stressed out by the production of his grand opera William Tell (the overture to which every American knows) in 1829, he quit writing operas, and for the next 46 years, he just enjoyed being a celebrity and wrote only some sacred music and small works to amuse himself.
In the twentieth century, Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936) took a number of these little gems and arranged them into suites for orchestra. The first such suite is La Boutique fantasque ("The Enchanted Toyshop"), but this is the finale from his neglected Rossiniana suite, which is based on Rossini's collection of pieces, Péchés de vieillesse ("Sins of my old age").
A tarantella is a dance from southern Italy. The folklore of the dance is that when someone gets bitten by a tarantula, they have to keep dancing to work the venom out of their system. Of course, red vino also helps the process. In fact, it might be a good idea to help yourself to some red vino right now as a prophylactic measure. (Never can tell when them pesky spiders might strike.)
My purpose in posting this is to demonstrate to all the "classical" composers here that classical music is not necessarily slow, solemn or dull, although alert listeners will notice that in the middle of the piece, the revelry is interrupted by a benediction and procession from the cathedral. A friend I sent this to reports that her cats highly enjoyed this music.
The artwork is of my own design.
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Enrique Gil
I have a predilection for classical music interpreted with synthetizer.I wish I knew how to utilize it the way you do. It is amazingly well done. I will download it (as I have downloaded many of your recordings) as soon as my MacBook is back from repairs (I dropped it!. Thank you.