Andante - Classics For Relaxing And Dreaming

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Cat No: 8556606

Release Date: 06 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 730099660624

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: ANDANTE - CLASSICS FOR RELAXING AND DREAMING

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Andante: Classics for Relaxing and Dreaming ANDANTE, the Italian word for repose, has created the peaceful and serene moments in classical music, From the extensive Naxos catalogue of compact discs, thirteen tracks have been selected to transport you to those precious moments of tranquility… The slow awakening of dawn has been so beautifully pictured in Edvard Grieg's Morning. Norwegian by birth, young Edvard took his formal studies in Leipzig. International recognition came with his Piano Concerto and the incidental music to Ibsen's play, Peer Gynt. At first he thought that he only had to supply background music, but soon found he was expected to provide a score of substance. He later extracted two orchestral suites, and from the first, he completed in 1888, comes this misty view of Morning. Shortly after Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky had composed his first song at the age of four, family wealth evaporated, and a frustrated musician became a reluctant office clerk. From this insecure backdrop came the finest Russian composer of the 19th century, producing six symphonies, concertos, and ballets. His dream, however, was to be a great opera composer, though that largely eluded him, and it was his short salon pieces that appeared in millions of albums of piano music that made his name famous throughout the world. From a group of Six Songs, composed in 1869, comes None but the Lonely Heart, here transcribed for piano. George Frederic Handel was born in Germany, but found such fame when he visited London in 1710 that he decided to settle there, and became a naturalised English citizen. He produced one success after another, and the appetite for his music was overwhelming. Among the many works composed in 1739 was the Twelve Concerti Grossi, the Siciliano from the eighth reminding us of his short period in Italy before he arrived in London. For years people believed Franz Schubert had died before he could complete his Eighth Symphony, and it became known as the 'Unfinished'. In fact he abandoned it after completing just two movements six years before his untimely death. Maybe he would have returned to it in later life, or he may simply have found the existing movements so perfect that he could not find a finale of suitable stature. The long Andante was one of the sublime orchestral works of the romantic era. Fryderyk Chopin was only twelve when his playing had passed anything his teacher could impart. He was then self-taught until he was old enough to enter the Warsaw Conservatoire. As a composition student he was impatient and decided to earn a living as a concert pianist. In 1830 he made his final appearance in Warsaw, when he played the First Piano Concerto, the Larghetto central movement in the form of an affectionate Romance. Born in 1809, one year before Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn was one of the most naturally gifted composers of the first half of the 19th century. A brillian
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