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Tarantella "puro sangue" (Rossini)


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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.

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Uploaded: Jan 04, 2007 - 09:28:16 PM
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Enrique Gil said 1051 days ago (January 6th, 2007)
Wonderful as always
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.
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Enrique Gil said 1051 days ago (January 6th, 2007)
what did you use?
you did not state which programs you used for this recording. Please let us know.
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Reinholt56 said 1051 days ago (January 6th, 2007)
The piece is technically good...
I think that rendering classical pieces in this way at least makes them available, should the particular programmer wish, for others to enjoy.

My concern though is that either the sounds are not quite rich (or probably authentic) enough for this great piece of music or that the production could have been a tad different, to enhance the synthesized orchestral sounds.

Have a great 2007.

R.


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rainfice said 989 days ago (March 9th, 2007)
i am fairly ignorant, unfortunately
to the vast and rich world of classical music. I know of course all the stuff everyone knows; moonlight sonata and yes, william tell, but my actual knowledge doesn't go far beyond that. It's something that has bothered me for some time, as I have been interested in this music for about 10 years, but have never really grown my appreciation to any substantial ragard.
Despite my self-induced frustration, I wanted to leave a comment to say that, even in the modest position I am in, and with the slight knowledge I have, I must say that classical music is by no means slow or dull or solemn through any sort of prerequisite. Not that I find there to be anything wrong with being sombre or durge like in punctuation, accent and overall execution, as my own offerings at MacJams will indicate.
I listen frequently to Beethoven's symphony no. 9, Ode An Die Freude in it's entirety, as it is one of the few classical works I own, and I find myself falling subject to all emotions I know. Certainly, it is not limited to a stigma however mispaced, of boredom and tired cliches. It is beautiful, expressive, and real.
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