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Title: Conductor's Guide to Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin & Concerto for Orchestra

Author: Gerard Schwarz

Narrator: Gerard Schwarz

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-30-06

Publisher: Musically Speaking, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 17 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

When Bartok was five, his father died, and Bartok began to live a nomadic life with his mother, who struggled to earn a living. Bartok fell in love with the folk music of the rural villages of Hungary as he grew up, music that was largely unknown to the outside world. It was this music that he traveled to record later in his life and which formed the basis of his compositions.

Schwarz uses musical excerpts from The Miraculous Mandarin to demonstrate Bartok's use of harmonic fourths and Concerto for Orchestra, Bartok's most popular orchestral composition and one of the most familiar of all his works.

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Title: Conductor's Guide to Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 & No. 4

Author: Gerard Schwarz

Narrator: Gerard Schwarz

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-06

Publisher: Musically Speaking, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Mendelssohn lived and composed during the Romantic era, yet his music reflects more influence from the Classical and pre-Classical tradition. His music reveals a blend of Classical form with Romantic content, which made itself felt in the form of poetic melodies, highly expressive harmonies, and original instrumental textures.

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Title: Conductor's Guide to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons

Author: Gerard Schwarz

Narrator: Gerard Schwarz

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-06

Publisher: Musically Speaking, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 33 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The Musically Speaking Conductor's Guides are your link to an appreciation of the greatest classical music ever performed. Let Maestro Gerard Schwarz enrich your classical music listening enjoyment by illuminating the great works of the Masters with revealing commentary and educational insight.

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Title: Conductor's Guide to Haydn's Cello Concerto in D Major & Symphony No. 103

Author: Gerard Schwarz

Narrator: Gerard Schwarz

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-06

Publisher: Musically Speaking, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 15 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Haydn played a crucial role in establishing the new classical forms. For all practical purposes he invented the string quartet as a musical form, and his contributions to the symphony helped develop that format from a modest off-shoot of the opera overture into the most potent and attractive type of instrumental music available to composers.

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Title: Conductor's Guide to Strauss' Thus Spake Zarathustra and Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome

Author: Gerard Schwarz

Narrator: Gerard Schwarz

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-06

Publisher: Musically Speaking, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The Musically Speaking Conductor's Guides are your link to an appreciation of the greatest classical music ever performed. Let Maestro Gerard Schwarz enrich your classical music listening enjoyment by illuminating the great works of the Masters with revealing commentary and educational insight.

Members Reviews:

Introduction to an Underrated Genius

Gerard Schwarz uses his knowledge of Strauss's biography, and music theory to explain the music and genius of Richard Strauss.

The course spends a lot of time explaining how the life of Strauss and events that were happening therein influenced his music. This formed and integral foundation for the further understanding of Strauss, and how his musical abilities developed from his first forays into the business as a teenager.

As a young adult Strauss became noted for tone poems, or program music being able to set even highly philosophical pieces to music in such a way as to capture the theme and emotion of Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra." The theory of tone poems are thoroughly explained. In fact much time is spent on music theory, and this continues throughout the lecture.

From there the lecture moves on to Strauss's work in Opera with special attention being paid to "The Dance of the Seven Veils" in Salome. Here talk of overtones, chords and intervals reaches a crescendo as you listen to the Eastern folk themed music and beats framing Salome's dance of seven veils.

Those listening to this series of lectures before attending a play or opera of Strauss will do well. They will have greater understanding of the music, the intent and the life of the composer that inspired it, and in turn their appreciation for the the play or opera will increase in proportion.

It should also be mentioned that though "Thus Spake Zarathustra", The Dance Seven Veils" and "Guntram" form the triangular frame of the lecture, other pieces are thrown into the mix for elucidation including his work associated with "Fantasia."

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Title: Conductor's Guide to Stravinsky's Petrouchka & The Rite of Spring

Author: Gerard Schwarz

Narrator: Gerard Schwarz

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-06

Publisher: Musically Speaking, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Stravinsky's pre-eminence among the modern masters rests in large part on the great originality of his work. The composer introduced exciting new rhythmic possibilities into concert music, made expressive use of dissonance, and conceived unprecedented instrumental sonorities. These novelties baffled some listeners early in the century and cemented the composer's reputation as a daring modernist. Yet for all his innovation, Stravinsky was no iconoclast bent on destroying the past. On the contrary, his art was in many ways rooted in tradition. He drew inspiration from legends and fairy tales, from old Italian comedy and classical myths. And he loved music from earlier centuries and paid homage to it in a number of his works.

The Musically Speaking Conductor's Guides are your link to an appreciation of the greatest classical music ever performed. Let Maestro Gerard Schwarz enrich your classical music listening enjoyment by illuminating the great works of the Masters with revealing commentary and educational insight.

Members Reviews:

Misleading title . . . not FOR conductors

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

This audiobook, while well written, does not fall in line with it's title. I was specifically looking for an in-depth analysis of the Rite of Spring. The level of analysis in this book is very superficial. It is not written FOR conductors. It is written BY a conductor and intended for the layperson.

Would you be willing to try another book from Gerard Schwarz? Why or why not?

No. The title of the audiobook is misleading, and I do not intend to continue to be misled.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Yes.

Was Conductor's Guide to Stravinsky's Petrouchka & The Rite of Spring worth the listening time?

See answer above. Not a waste of time, but not what the title led me to believe it to be.

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Title: Conductor's Guide to Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain & The Three-Cornered Hat

Author: Gerard Schwarz

Narrator: Gerard Schwarz

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-06

Publisher: Musically Speaking, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

Beginning in the waning years of the 19th century, Spanish composers turned to the rich tradition of Spanish folk music for materials and inspiration, and in doing so imbued their compositions with a colorful national character. The most brilliant of those composers was Manuel de Falla. Fusing the rhythms and melodic traits of Spanish folk music with a modern palette of harmonies and instrumentation, Falla created music with the sophistication of Debussy, Ravel, or Stravinsky, but audibly rooted in the folkloric soil of Spain. It is music that blends bright energy and languorous sensuality, strong rhythms and deep lyricism, qualities that have always been part of the mysterious Spanish soul.

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Title: Conductor's Guide to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, No. 5, and Orchestral Suite No. 3

Author: Gerard Schwarz

Narrator: Gerard Schwarz

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-06

Publisher: Musically Speaking, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

While aware of their father's greatness, the younger Bachs were more sympathetic to new musical currents. Because of that, their own compositions generally abandoned the elaborate polyphony or interweaving of musical lines, which had been their father's guiding principle, in favor of the more emotive style of the emerging Classical period. The youngest of these three sons, Johann Christian, befriended the 9-year-old Mozart and exerted a direct influence on the young composer's musical values and, consequently, on the whole flavor of Classical-period music. As a result, the two generations of Bachs were in the forefront of musical developments for most of the 18th century.

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Title: Conductor's Guide to Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique & Les Troyen

Subtitle: Royal Hunt and Storm

Author: Gerard Schwarz

Narrator: Gerard Schwarz

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-06

Publisher: Musically Speaking, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The Musically Speaking Conductor's Guides are your link to an appreciation of the greatest classical music ever performed. Let Maestro Gerard Schwarz enrich your classical music listening enjoyment by illuminating the great works of the Masters with revealing commentary and educational insight.

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Title: Conductor's Guide to Schubert's Symphony No. 5 & Symphony No. 8

Author: Gerard Schwarz

Narrator: Gerard Schwarz

Format: Original Recording

Length: 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-06

Publisher: Musically Speaking, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Publisher's Summary:

The Musically Speaking Conductor's Guides are your link to an appreciation of the greatest classical music ever performed. Let Maestro Gerard Schwarz enrich your classical music listening enjoyment by illuminating the great works of the Masters with revealing commentary and educational insight.