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John Philip Sousa composed this lively march in 1893 to commemorate the Manhattan Beach Park resort. It is notable for its unique style, using soft clarinet arpeggios to musically mimic the gentle, rolling waves of the ocean lapping against the shore.
Thanks to Iriss for suggesting this piece!
“Stolta stad!” is one of Sweden's most famous 18th-century songs, written by the legendary poet and performer Carl Michael Bellman as Fredman's Epistle No. 33. The piece is a musical irony, setting a grand, rigid military march melody against a comedic, chaotic story about working-class citizens taking a rowboat ferry across Stockholm.
Bellman was primarily a master of parody, and rarely composed original melodies from scratch. The tune for “Stolta Stad!” was said by scholar Nils Afzelius to come from the aria “Regardez ces traits” in Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's 1761 opera Le cadi dupé, but this claim has been actively disputed by musicologists such as James Massengale. Comparing the score to Monsigny's aria side-by-side with Bellman's Epistle 33, one finds that the phrasing, rhythm, and melodic contours do not match up cleanly enough to prove an indisputable direct influence.
This is the third study from German flutist and composer Caspar Kummer's 32 Etudes amusantes et instructives, Op. 129, first published in 1858.
This is the opening Allegro of a Sonata in D major written for three German flutes by Johann Scherer, a German composer of the 18th century.
Thanks to Joyce Kai for contributing this piece!
“Libiamo ne'lieti calici” (literally, “Let's drink from the merry chalices”) is the most famous duet from Verdi's La traviata, one of the most well known fragments of opera around the world, and an obligatory performance for any great tenor. The song is categorised as a brindisi, which is Italian for “toast”. Those who have performed it include Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Enrico Caruso, Andrea Bocelli, Anna Netrebko and many others.
The duet is performed by Alfredo and Violetta in the first act of the opera, at a late-night party at Violetta's house. Alfredo is a young man in love with Violetta, and he is convinced by his friend Gastone to show off his voice, so he sings this drinking song.
This 9/8-time jig first appears in Francis O'Neill's celebrated collection Music of Ireland, published in Chicago in 1903. O'Neill's source for this tune was fiddler John McFadden, born in the 1850s in the townland of Carrowmore, near Westport, County Mayo in western Ireland.
This is the very first study from Italian composer Giuseppe Gariboldi's Etudes mignonnes (Dainty Studies), Op. 131.