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Interlude

Ivan Aivazovsky, Moon Path (1886)

 
Ivan Aivazovsky, Moon Path (1886)

 

 

An interlude is a brief rest, a brief time of calming or reflection. Take a breath: a new year is just around the corner.

Real

Imaginary

Visual Arts

  • René Magritte, Intermission (1927/28)
  • Paul Klee, Tropical Twilight (1921)
  • Claude Monet, Twilight, Venice (1908)
  • Mikalojus Ciurlionas, Winter Motif (1907)
  • Vincent van Gogh, Landscape at Dusk (1885)
  • Vincent van Gogh, Village at Sunset (1884)
  • Arkhip Kuindzhi, Moonlit Night on the Dnieper (1880)
  • Ivan Shishkin, Twilight. After Sunset (1874)
  • Konstantin Korovin, Winter Twilight
  • Maxime Maufra, Evening Twilight on the Seine
  • Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness (1860)

Music: Composers, artists, and major works

Frederick Delius

  • Caprice and Elegy
  • A Song Before Sunrise
  • Idyll
  • Cynara    
  • A Song of Summer 

Maurice Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales (Noble and Sentimental Waltzes) (1911)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, early and mid-life Divertimenti

  • K 136 in D Major
  • K 137 in B Major
  • K 138 in F Major
  • K 205 in D Major
  • K 251 in D Major
  • K 287 in B flat Major
  • K 334 in D Major (No. 17)

Guy Ropartz, piano music:

  • Dans l’ombre de la montagne (1913)
  • Un Prélude Dominical et Six Pièces à danser pour chaque jour de la semaine (1928-29)
  • Choral varié (1904)
  • La Chanson de Marguerite (1886)
  • First-Love (1886)

Other works:

  • Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49/1 (1798)
  • Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49/2 (1798)
  • Larsson: 12 Concertinos, Op. 45 
  • Franz Tunder (1614-1667), Organ works 
  • Bax, Summer Music (1921, rev. 1932) 
  • Bovet, Organ works 
  • The light jazz music of Dave Brubeck
  • Satie, Trois gymnopédies [“The word gymnopédies was derived from a festival of ancient Sparta at which young men danced and competed against each other unencumbered by clothing, and the name was a (presumably) droll reference to Satie’s gentle, dreamy, and far-from-strenuous piano exercises. (Satie is known to have introduced himself as a gymnopédiste.)”]
  • Nick Peros, 24 Nocturnes for Solo Guitar
  • César Franck, Grand Trio pour violin, violincelle et piano in C minor, Op. 6, CFF 108 (1834)

 

Music: songs and other short pieces

  • Franz Schubert (composer), Winterlied (Winter Song), D. 401 (1816) (lyrics)

August 26, 2010

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