Podcasts about raindrop prelude

A prelude is a performance, action or event, preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter. I played the Raindrop Prelude when I was a kid and in Illinois, I thought that raindrops were sort of a nuisance, but now that I'm older and live here, I realize much better what a great blessing raindrops are. They feed all kinds of blessed flowers and plants, and even help provide water for us to drink. This piece was requested as a favorite of Dawn. She is the lovely wife of Mark who has been tuning my piano lately. Dawn does the scheduling and Mark drives all over to tune pianos. One interesting thing about these 24 preludes that Chopin wrote is that he dedicates them to Joseph Christoph Kessler, a German pianist and composer, who 10 years earlier, had dedicated his own set of 24 Preludes, Op. 31, to Chopin. Kessler's Prelude in E Minor is also a favorite that many people enjoy.

25 Chopin - Op. 28, No. 15 - Raindrop Prelude by Ruach Breath of Life

Chopin Raindrop prelude by Daniel Winn

Pianist Henrik Kilhamn takes a closer look at Chopin's famous Raindrop prelude. The repeated notes present during the whole piece represents raindrops, which haunted Chopin in his stay in Valldemossa, Mallorca, in the winter of 1838. Analysis: 2:20, Performance: 15:01.

As we approach winter and 2018, WNYC's Sara Fishko looks back to the winter of 1838, when Frédéric Chopin and George Sand lived through a damp and dismal moment abroad - and lived to write about it. The richly repetitive "Raindrop Prelude," in this Fishko Files. (Produced in 2010) Fishko Files with Sara Fishko Assistant Producer: Olivia BrileyMix Engineer: Wayne ShulmisterEditor: Karen Frillmann

Songs include: Into Each Life, Some Rain Must Fall, Come Rain or Come Shine, Ridin' Around In the Rain, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, Raindrop Prelude, Rainy Weather Blues and September In the Rain. Performers include: Thomas "Fats" Waller, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Charles Harrison, The Ink Spots, Bing Crosby, George Shearing and Sarah Vaughan.

It’s not clear Chopin actually had raindrops in mind when he wrote this. The German pianist Hans von Bülow gave it the name “Raindrop Prelude,” not Chopin himself. Nevertheless, to this day, the popular recital piece is still compared to the sound of soft, drizzling rain. Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDYB-4lGtjk More info about Chopin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Chopin http://filesource.abacast.com/king/music/exploringmusic/3133181.mp3

Raindrop Prelude by Chopin

Songs about dihydrogen monoxide, including:Cool Water, Rising High Water Blues, the Raindrop Prelude, By a Waterfall and Water Faucet; plus an excerpt from Handel's Water Music. Performers include  Sons of the Pioneers, Bessie Smith, Eugene Ormandy, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Stan Getz.

This piece was the first classical work that I fell in love with. In fact, this was the gateway that led to my love for the piano and my endeavor to study and practice. I heard it as "background" music for a popular Japanese film (I believe it was titles "Dreams") back in high school. Upon hearing the music, I went home and rummaged through my mother's sheet music collection until I found a copy of this piece. I played it over and over until I had committed it to memory. Although this was not the "tipping point" for me and the piano, it was definitely a key point in my love for classical music.