IBIOCAT Musical Entertainment - August 10, 2008

"The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night
And his affections dark as Erebus:
Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music".

(L'uomo che dentro di sè non ha la musica,

che l'armonia dei suoni non commuove,

è incline al tradimento, al furto, alla perfidia;

buia come la notte è la sua intelligenza,

oscuro come l'Erebo è il suo pensiero.

Diffida di quest'uomo. Ascolta la musica).

 

William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice (V, i, 83-88)

 

 

Selected for you: 

 

Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911. Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor. Zubin Mehta Conductor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duSL3y2LASI

Completed 1902, first performance October 18, 1904 at Köln (Cologne). The complete symphony is scored for a large orchestra, but the Adagietto is scored for harp and strings only. "Surely the most beautiful music the composer ever set to paper, it serves as perhaps the supreme example of Mahler's mastery of orchestration. Most of the orchestra is idled, but rather than choosing a conventional string ensemble, he adds a single harp to provide an underpinning of motion to the lazily soaring melody. This simple change is pure genius, producing a sonority that has never been matched before or since. Closing the eyes and relaxing in the concert hall, one can easily imagine a peaceful sunset in the mountains the composer loved, bringing a perfect end to the day's solitude and the last true happiness he would know" (Geoff Kuenning, 1994).

Laura Cipollina- IBIOCAT, Divisione Marketing e Commerciale