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February 5, 2013

By “All Quiet on the Western Front ”. E. M. Remarque.

“[..]   He fell in October 1918, on a day so calm and quiet on all fronts, the bulletin of the Supreme Command was limited to these words:” All Quiet on the Western Front. “He had fallen forward and lay with his head on the ground, as if asleep. When he turned around he saw that he could not have suffered long: his face wore an expression so serene, almost as if he was glad to finish so […] ‘  –

Listen to this symphony (Robert Alexander Schumann’s Symphony). Try to rivevere inside these sounds, while this soldier recovers his humanity, just at the moment when it kills itself (the enemy). He kills his enemy, and at that moment he, for the first time, looks into his eyes. And he knows that both are dying.

From the 23-th minute when he is about to shoot and tries to reach it; after when he sees it fall. And he understands too late. You hear the sound of the strings. He feels the humanity in itself, but just at the moment when one takes to his fellow man. The absurd war, murder. If one can identify with this, really: he faints because he feels the horror. And do not cry. No, too easy. Do you hear the music from the 23 th minute when playing wind instruments and strings, and to 23:50. BEHOLD HIM THE FEEL. FEEL IT IN YOUR HEART. COMING OF THE WIND WHO KILLED HIM IN HIS HEART and THE FEEL .. After hearing that, we can cry. Yes, once you can cry for all the dead in a sleep of stone.

Robert Schumann – image taken HERE

To listen to the symphony no. 4 click HERE

January 29, 2013

Picture taken HERE

My sister gave me the image of Him (Johannes Brahms), thus illuminating the shadowy spring day.

And that gift was the alternation of light and cloud in the alternating movement of the two themes decidedly mixed. The first theme, very lyrical and melancholy, brings an atmosphere of sore nostalgia for events never happened and he evoked. Like a restless throb along a century. And this is in contrast to the second theme, introduced by woodwinds, Notable for its intense rhythmic and bringing the emotional rainbow as the omen of summer rain (4 minutes and 10 seconds.) – And the yearning of the arches in 4 minutes and 40 seconds.

In this sonata for the first time is not required to repeat the exposure of themes, which are two: the first is drawn in from the opening two sections of violins, cellos and horns from the second, and it is characterized by the broad range of seventh . The absence of a second exposure sheds particular light on the relations between the different moments of the movement, in the development undergone by the first theme, there is one that appears in the second half for the use wind instruments, which seem to want to turn everything into a choir, from which, however, the theme wriggles free quickly to return to his true nature melodic.

What a paradox: what was an early in his career as a composer room, which was tricky with the wind instruments, uses an imposing orchestra here and follow it by arches, which Gently reproduce musical cells that make up their towing. As the silence after the rain, as soon as interrupted by the whispers of the rays of the clouds thinned out.

Me and the picture of him with my sister and from the eighth minute the musical work, with the whole orchestra this time, we invite everyone who is willing.

To listen “L’allegro ma non troppo” of the Fourth Symphony, click HERE