#ClassicsaDay #Classical1925 Week 2
For January 2025 the Classics a Day team challenges you to look back a century. The "modern" era of music was well underway in 1925. Some of the works composed still shock audiences today.
The challenge is to post classical works that were created, premiered, or recorded for the first time in 1925. Here are my posts for the second week of #Classical1925.
01/06/25 Georges Auric: Cinq Bagatelles for piano 4 hands
Auric was a member of Les Six and actively participated in their collaborative compositions. Cinq Bagatelles was composed in 1925.
01/07/25 Arthur Honegger: Judith
The music for "Judith" was first composed for a play of the same name. It premiered in 1925. Honegger recomposed it as an opera the following year, and then in 1927 created an oratorio version.
01/08/25 Darius Milhaud: String Quartet No. 7, Op. 87
Milhaud wrote a total of 18 string quartets between 1912 and 1950. His seventh quartet was composed in 1925, the year he married his cousin, the actress Madeline Milhaud.
01/09/25 Francis Poulenc: Les Soirées de Nazelles
Geoffrey Bush described this work as "the French equivalent of Elgar's "Enigma Variations." In it, Poulenc presents miniature portraits of his friends. Poulenc himself didn't think much of it in later years.
01/10/25 Ferde Grofé: Mississippi Suite
Grofé comfortably straddled the musical worlds of classical and jazz. His 1925 "Mississippi Suite" was released in a shortened form by Paul Whiteman. The full version wouldn't be recorded until 1931.
