Classical Music Association Thread

[Roehre]

Little Russia is the Ukraine, Byelorussia was for many years part of Poland.

This is a nice one. In German and Dutch "Little Russia" (Kleinrussland, Klein Rusland) is identical with White Russia (Weissrussland, Wit Rusland), is Belarus. Ukraine is Ukraine (German), Oekraine (Dutch) repectively.
indeed, Minsk (present Belarus capital) was until the 2nd Polish divsion (1793) a Polish-Lithuanian town.

But Mtsinsk is in Belarus, so back to the thread's subject: musical association

Shostakovich: Lady macBeth of Mtsinsk.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Ah, but referring to Tchaikovsky's 2nd Symphony, the Little Russia is the Ukraine, as the symphony uses a couple of Ukrainian folktunes and Russians seem to have referred to the Ukraine as Malorusski (small/little Russia).

[Mr Pee]

Mussourgsky- Pictures at an Exhibition- The Great Gate of Kiev.

[Roehre]

The great gate of Kiev is a bit like a triumphal arch, therefore:

Verdi: Triumph march from Aida

[3rd Viennese School]

Thomas Ades Tevot.

Supposed to be arch- like or something.

[3rd Viennese School]

For those of us not in the know (probably only me) could the connections between #186/7/8 be explained please? (so I can get the most out of this fascinating exercise)

186/187/188

Le petite canards.
The word “Petite” is French for little.
As in Tchaikovsky’s little Russian.

If Tchaikovsky was French it would have had Petite in the title.
I think Tchaikovsky would have been at home in France.

.Except he didn’t nick name his symphony!

[Roehre]

Thomas Ades Tevot.

Supposed to be arch- like or something.

If it's arch (like "cunning"): Janacek: The little cunning Vixen

[3rd Viennese School]

Stravinsky The Flood

"the animals walk on to the ark two by two. Including two foxes I expect!"

[Roehre]

Haydn: The Creation (emulating the beginning of Stravinsky's Flood)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Carey Blyton: Creation Jazz

[Roehre]

Antheil: A Jazz-symphony

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Stravinsky - Ebony Concerto

[Roehre]

Rolf Liebermann: Concerto for Jazzband and Orchestra

[Mr Pee]

Joseph Horovitz:- Jazz Concerto.

[hmvman]

Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits. (Elgar, in suggesting Skelton's texts to VW, said the lines were "pure jazz").