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Thomas Dawkins
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2013
A music director, pianist, organist, harpsichordist, double reed, recorder-playing baritone shares hopefully inspirational, fun, and/or beautiful things,
Diabelli: Sonatina in C Major, op. 24, no. 1
0:00 I. Andante
2:41 II. Allegretto
Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) is best known for a project where he asked every important living Austrian composer (and several non-Austrians as well) to write a variation on a 32-bar waltz that he had written. Fifty composers wrote a variation for him; Beethoven wrote 33, now known as the Diabelli Variations which take half a recital program to play. Diabelli himself wrote more simple music, much of it for teaching, and a large amount of four-hands music for piano. All of his sonatinas are in a two movement form, nothing terribly challenging but still tuneful and fun to play.
2:41 II. Allegretto
Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) is best known for a project where he asked every important living Austrian composer (and several non-Austrians as well) to write a variation on a 32-bar waltz that he had written. Fifty composers wrote a variation for him; Beethoven wrote 33, now known as the Diabelli Variations which take half a recital program to play. Diabelli himself wrote more simple music, much of it for teaching, and a large amount of four-hands music for piano. All of his sonatinas are in a two movement form, nothing terribly challenging but still tuneful and fun to play.
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Adler & Ross: Hernando's Hideaway
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I'm not going to write extensively about this except to say that I really wanted to do a tango and when this one came to mind I looked for arrangements and found this one, originally for brass quintet, that needed very little modification to work on five recorders instead. Sometimes a piece like this is just what you need: a bit of fun that still has a few challenging bits in it and chances to ...
Todd: "Blessed are the Peacemakers"
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Will Todd is an English composer who wrote this piece in 2016 as a retirement gift for a Canadian organist and music director. It was published in 2019 and has one line of text from Matthew 5:9: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." This is the kind of universal message that I think resonates with just about anybody, even it is from the New Testament. I don't t...
Morley: Fantasy for three recorders
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Thomas Morley's output of consort music is small; mostly he is known as a madrigalist. This is a Fantasy (some sources say "Aire") for three viols or recorders, in this case two tenors and a bass. Morley included it in his "A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke" published in 1597. At over 220 pages, it seems to be neither plain nor particularly easy! This piece takes under two m...
Prelude and Postlude for November 17th (Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost)
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0:00 Autumn Song (Diggle) 4:05 Meditation (Blair) 7:52 Autumn (Johnston) The subject of this week's selections is, of course, autumn and to a lesser extent evening as envisioned by three composers from England and Scotland, the first of whom moved to America in his 20s to be the music director at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral in Los Angeles. This church has a long history of social action; the...
Berlioz: Le spectre de la rose (from Les nuits d'été)
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This gorgeous song by Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) to a text of his friend and neighbor Théophile Gautier. It is extraordinarily imaginative, sung from the point of view of the (now withered) rose that a young woman wore to a ball the night before. Though, along with the rest of the cycle "Les nuits d'été" (Summer Nights) it is usually performed in Berlioz's own orchestral version, this arrangeme...
Salieri: De profundis (Psalm 130)
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Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) may be most famous because he appeared in Peter Shaffer's play "Amadeus" where he serves as the primary antagonist, which is almost certainly not true. He was mostly a composer of opera. Born in Venice, he was appointed to direct the Habsburg court's Italian opera when he was 24 years old and remained in their service for almost two decades. He wrote a small amount o...
Valente: Variations on "La Romanesca"
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Antonio Valente (ca. 1520-1601) was a Neapolitan organist and composer who was blind from childhood. He left a large amount of sacred music for the organ covering the entire liturgical year, as well as some fantasias, dances, and variations for either harpsichord or organ. Apparently E. Power Biggs used to play this piece quite a lot in recital. The Romanesca is not a particular piece, but a ha...
Tuba Gallicalis
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"Tuba Gallicalis" means "French trumpet" in Latin and is an anonymous piece from an early 15th century manuscript once housed in the Bibliothèque Municipale of Strasbourg, France. Unfortunately, the manuscript was destroyed in a fire during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. We have a list of the pieces and their incipits, as well as a partial copy that is now in Brussels. I believe that this is ...
Jones: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis
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Charles Jones (1670-1725) will not be known to most musicians as he was a clergyman, eventually a canon at Wells Cathedral, and only considered himself to be an amateur composer. Nevertheless he wrote this setting of the evening canticles that deserves an occasional outing. It has a few student-like mistakes in the counterpoint that I am more than willing to forgive since it is obvious that som...
Pepusch: Concerto No. 1 (arr. Tennant)
มุมมอง 194วันที่ผ่านมา
0:00 I. Largo 4:52 II. Allegro 6:51 III. Adagio 8:56 IV. Allegro Christoph Pepusch, like Handel, was born and educated in Germany but worked much of his later life in England. This is the first in opus 8, which is a set of six concerti grossi for two recorders, either two transverse flutes, oboes, or violins, and bass. It has been transcribed by R.D. Tennent for recorder quintet: two alto recor...
Prelude and Postlude for November 10th (Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost)
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0:00 Cantique (Elgar) 5:07 The Last Post 7:45 Nimrod (Elgar) The music here is designed for Remembrance Day (as it is called in Europe) or Veterans' Day (as it is called in the United States) Two slow pieces by Sir Edward Elgar are played with "The Last Post" placed in between them. This will be very familiar to English viewers, and is similar to playing "Taps" for Americans, both in that it is...
Schubert: "Lachen und Weinen"
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This Schubert song dates from 1823 and sets a text of Friedrich Rückert that was published the year before in a collection called "Östliche Rosen" (Eastern Roses). The same collection contains "Du bist die Ruh" and other texts common in German Lieder, probably because most of the poems are fairly short and strict in form, which makes them somewhat easier to set. Schubert gives only subtle chang...
Hurford: Litany to the Holy Spirit
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Peter Hurford (1930-2019) was best known as an organist who you either loved or hated (I'm the former) depending on your views on how Bach should be played on the organ. Hurford played it big and Romantic for the most part, in the same vein as his other organ fireworks like Widor and Franck. He was also a composer, mostly of sacred music written when he was Master of the Music at St. Albans Cat...
Scarlatti: Sonata in E-flat Major (K. 123)
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This Scarlatti sonata is in his usual binary form (AABB) and has a few chromatics that are a bit on the surprising side for the time (A-natural and D-flat forming a tritone in the right hand with a B-flat in the left hand that is dissonant with the A, for instance). You will also hear a good number of sequences, one of the most common compositional devices of the Baroque era. Domenico Scarlatti...
West: "O how amiable are Thy dwellings"
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West: "O how amiable are Thy dwellings"
Scheidt: Canzon super Cantionem Belgicam
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Scheidt: Canzon super Cantionem Belgicam
Prelude and Postlude for November 3rd (All Saints Sunday)
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Prelude and Postlude for November 3rd (All Saints Sunday)
Hopkins: "I sing a song of the saints of God"
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Hopkins: "I sing a song of the saints of God"
Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain (arr. D. Janzer)
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Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain (arr. D. Janzer)
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre (original song)
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Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre (original song)
Prelude and Postlude for October 27th (Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost)
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Prelude and Postlude for October 27th (Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost)
J.C. Bach: Sonata in F Major for piano four-hands
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J.C. Bach: Sonata in F Major for piano four-hands
Love H's Hideaway! I once got to be the on-stage strolling violin in that scene and I met my future spouse there. Thanks for a great performance.
Omg this is amazing
I have a copy of the Blair piece somewhere.This has prompted me to hunt it out.
Just want to say that I appreciate that you write a lot about the pieces you play in the video description. (I know many people tend to not read those, but I always do and I find that bit of information to be interesting.)
That was spooky!
Finally, some good TH-cam recommendations.
Thanks for your upload! I love it
My duettist and I have been practising Bach's Double VIolin Concerto on two alto recorders for years. We call it Gadget because the opening movement, when played jazzily sounds like Inspector Gadget. We have to get this music.
We need to find two friends to join us!
Dare I ask? Is this available as sheet music?
It's on MuseScore: musescore.com/user/26121171/scores/6048254
This was brilliant! Thanks for this endearing performance. 😊
Isn't it fun? I love it.
@@ThomasDawkins88 Indeed it was! I grew up with this cartoon. 😃 I liked it so much that I also produced my own organ cover of its theme song. Have you listened/watched it before by any chance? 😊 th-cam.com/video/5H89LN0e0Vk/w-d-xo.html
Listening to this while it's raining and thundering like crazy outside. So perfectly spoooooooky! ⛈
🎶😈🎶 nice!
I've played the violin solo from Danse Macabre since I was a pre-teen and I never knew there was a song! Happy Halloween.
A very satisfying piece to play on recorder
He apparently wrote quite a few echo fantasies.
Told jya
I think I prefer it like this. Thank you.
Vivian Crawford-Jamaica : Thank you, to the glory of God. Memories of the choir,All Saints Kingston.
Very nice piece and very nice playing, IMO, and a very different style of Ibert to his flute Concerto! (I still have the notes for that somewhere in my head 😆).
The only Ibert I've played is the wind quintet, which is fun. This was a nice little piece.
So schön
I think you missed the opportunity for the Batman style "Bang" (popped on the screen in a colorful bubble) at the 5:20 mark. That being said, you did a masterful job of presenting this - as always. I hope you have a great day.
5 parts, 5 beats.... nice! (If only it were a Rondo, ABACA.) BTW, have to watched Waldemar Januszczak's discussion of that painting? I recommend it.
Samuel Adler is apparently still with us at 96.
Peaceful and pleasing, and a complete mystery 🥰
Enjoyed your Voluntary selections for this Sunday. Blessings to you.
Listening to the Stanley was one of those 'Wait, I know that one!' moments. Thanks again for a great Saturday evening preview.
This is so beautiful, like singing spirits. Do recorders use "Just" intonation?
Thank you! Recorders are tuned however the maker tuned them (renaissance instruments might be in meantone, for instance) but you can use your ear and subtle changes in breath pressure and adding or taking away a finger to slightly raise or lower the pitch so that thirds and fifths are more "pure" or more "tempered" as you wish.
Very nice! I love recorders and a piece like this is a great one for people who only think of recorders as being for elementary school kids :)
A peaceful start to the day - thank you 🙂
This my favorite tempo for the Bach on violin, organ, or with an ensemble because you can hear the intricacies of the line.
Oh marvelous, simply stunning. Bravo indeed. And it's news to me that my doctor is so musically inclined. Oh rapture.
This would be so fun to play with a special friend or relative.
I’m not familiar with this composer! It cannot have been easy to compete with JSB so close at hand. What temperament are you using here? If it is EQ then the registration has given the sound a certain “je ne said quoi” Thanks for the music.
It's Weckmeister, III I believe.
@@ThomasDawkins88 Thanks!
Oooh i love this ...
Danke
So a choir of 26 members, each called Thomas? 🙂 I enjoy your work!
A great performance; lively; a real tonic to listen to it. Registration spot on!
Congratulations! Thank you for every Sunday (and Monday through Saturday too)
🙂🙂 A little unclear on words. Can you put lyrics at bottom?
You will find it in the description now.
Astonishing
Any idea why it is called 'Plectrum' when it suggests bowed string instruments?
No idea! The full Latin title translates to "A musical plectrum, with harmonious and faithful sounds, prepared to praise God equally as to cheer the hearts of men." Obviously he thought quite highly of it...
This was re introduced Lincoln Minster during Advent in the late 70s. The boys loved it.
I know that melody here in the UK as the tune for the Christmas carol “Child in the manger, infant of Mary”’, words which were originally in Gaelic. In my Hymnbook the tune is called BUNESSAN - arranged and adapted by Martin E F Shaw who, along with RVW did a lot to bring folk melodies into the use of the church. The words are by Mary Macdonald, 1789-1872 and translated by Lachlan Macbean, 1853-1931.
Nice! Though I suspect that you have a bit of the same problem I have when making recordings with myself. It's tricky to play with the as much expression and groove as when I play together with other people, as intonation and timing is fixed with the first recorded track instead of being a live thing constantly reacted to by all players. Do you have any tips in that regard?
It is more difficult to be expressive in general, although it's been enlightening to discover just how far you can go within a bar of fixed length. Don't be too proud to go back and fix something that sounded fine on its own but doesn't quite sync up or reveals itself to be out of tune! I almost always start with the lowest part, but sometimes you get first-inversion chords and the third on the bottom just isn't where you thought it was.
Lovely performance! What kind of Alto are you using, if you don't mind my asking? It's got a beautiful dark tone.
This is played on a Mollenhauer Denner alto in grenadilla wood, probably my favorite of my recorders to play.
Nobody: Absolutely nobody: Beethoven casually blending the entire history of western music in his late works: Ps. Great performance my man
Delightful performance!
Ho-ly man this is amazing! This is my favourite choral piece of all time and you nailed it man. I guess sacred music covers dont get much recognition but this is really good. People during lockdown spent their time in the most random ways lol. Hope youre still doing good man
Nicely done!
This is so good! Please make a longer version 🙏