Music Recording Of Beethoven Egmont Ouverture, Bruch...

The piece I have chose to analyze is an online video recording of Beethoven Egmont Ouverture, Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 and Mahler Symphony No. 1 preformed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra led by the conductor Christoph Eschenbach and violinist Ray Chen. Over the 101 minutes recording there are many great examples of the concepts learned in the course. Throughout the piece I found myself taking the role of a referential listener. Which I believe to be something I naturally am rather than it being a comment on the piece. While listening I found myself hearing less of the music and instead picturing different landscapes in my head. In some parts I saw beautiful fall forests, with changing leaf colors, and the wind blowing.†¦show more content†¦Also it seems that both the instruments used and their arrangement amongst one another is done in a way that resembles how it would have been originally played. The first piece, Beethoven Egmont Ouverture, Bruch Violin Con certo No. 1 was particularly good I thought and exhibited a lot of the concepts we have studied in this course. For example unity, throughout the piece I felt that there was a strong backbone section which kept the piece feeling familiar. Even when there would be seemingly unrelated ideas thrown in, I always felt that it was taken back to familiar ideas. Having said that there was definitely a lot of variety in the piece. There were several ideas throughout, which sometime would come back in a pattern while others would only make an appearance once. There was also a lot of variety in the volume or dynamic of the piece which gave a nice variety to it. Additionally several different instruments were used which gave several different timbres. The tempo also varied a lot within the piece. Going from fast to slow and vice versa, and with different accelerations which gave it a nice feel. The overall rhythm of the piece was nice and polyphonic. This piece was made in the classical era o f art (2). The second piece, Mahler Symphony No. 1 was not as good for me, although it still exhibited a lot of the concepts we have studied in this course. For example