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Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards, #XI excerpt [2:28]
Hakan Autbo, piano

Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question [4:50]
(Orpheus Chamber Orchestra)

Aaron Copland: Quiet City [10:02]
Orchestra of St. Luke’s

Part Two:

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet in a minor, Opus 132: (3rd movment) [17:50]
"Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit"
(A Convalescent’s Holy Song of Thanksgiving to the Deity)
The Emerson Quartet

Part Three:

Johann Sebastian Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 21 [2:54]
La Chapelle Royale/
Philippe Herreweghe

Gabriel Faure: In Paradisum, from “Requiem” [3:56]
La Chapelle Royale/Philippe Herreweghe

Christobal De Morales: Parce Mihi Domine, from the Hilliard Ensemble/Jan Garbarek CD Officium [6:34]

Conclusion:
Olivier Messiaen: Vingt Regards, #XI excerpt [2:28]
Hakan Autbo, piano

More information:
About two-fifths of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sacred cantatas are considered lost, while more than half of his secular cantatas will likely never be recovered. Among his cycles of chorale cantatas are the introductions of older instrumental movements, as sinfonias and with chorus.
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Perhaps in response to his tough life, including frustrations with his deafness and his inability maintain happy personal relationships, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his most sublime and profound works at the end of his life, including his String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132.
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Quiet City isn’t the only Aaron Copland piece that music aficionados turn to in times of crisis. Commissioned and composed at the height of World War II, Fanfare for the Common Man.
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Gabriel Fauré’s creative development traveled through four musical styles: Romanticism (he set to music poems by 19th century writers Victor Hugo and Théophile Gautier); the Parnassian poets period (he discovered Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine around this time); an era of more forceful expression; and a period of more economic expression.
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Regarded as the leading American composer of 20th century art music, Charles Ives integrated American and European musical traditions and innovations in rhythm, harmony and form into works that evoked the energy of American life.
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Though Olivier Messiaen incorporated many compositional influences and techniques in his music, such works as Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus (Twenty Glances at the Infant Jesus) reveal his contemplative artistic nature.
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The leading Spanish composer during the country’s Golden Age, Cristobal de Morales found inspiration in polyphony, a musical style not native to Spain, in which several parts in a composition move independently, and in the polyphonic artists that preceded him.
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