Barber - "Toccata Festiva (hr-sinfonieorch, Iveta Apkalna)" [Classical]

"Toccata Festiva (hr-sinfonieorch, Iveta Apkalna)" music video by Barber
Added: 08-10-2019
Genre : Classical
Description : Barber: Toccata Festiva - hr-Sinfonieorchester - Iveta Apkalna - Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Samuel Barber:
Toccata Festiva op. 36 

hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony 
Iveta Apkalna, Orgel 
Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Dirigent 

hr-Sinfoniekonzert 
Alte Oper Frankfurt, 13. September 2019 

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Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century; music critic Donal Henahan stated, "Probably no other American composer has ever enjoyed such early, such persistent and such long-lasting acclaim."

His Adagio for Strings (1936) has earned a permanent place in the concert repertory of orchestras. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music twice: for his opera Vanessa (1956–57) and for the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1962). Also widely performed is his Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (1947), a setting for soprano and orchestra of a prose text by James Agee. At the time of Barber's death, nearly all of his compositions had been recorded.

Among his orchestral works are four concertos, one each for violin (1939), cello (1945) and piano (1962), and the neoclassical Capricorn Concerto for flute, oboe, trumpet and string orchestra (1944). He also wrote a concertante work for organ and orchestra entitled Toccata Festiva (1960).

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