#ClassicsaDay #Classical1925 Week 3

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 third week of #Classical1925.

01/13/25 Ottorino Respighi: Concerto in modo misolidio

Respighi was inspired by the Gregorian chant when creating this work. It was composed and premiered in 1925. Respighi played the piano part at the Carnegie Hall premiere with the New York Philharmonic.

 

01/14/25 Sergei Rachmaninov: Bach - Saraband, from Klavier Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828

Rachmanoniv recorded this track for RCA in December of 1925. At that time he had been under contract to RCA for five years.

 

01/15/25 Sergei Prokofiev: Divertimento, Op. 43

Prokofiev began work on this composition in 1925. It would take him four years to complete it.

 

01/16/25 Nicolai Medtner: Dansa Festiva, Op. 38, No. 3

Medtner recorded this composition in 1925 for the Duo-Art piano roll company. It was one of a series of recordings of his music Medtner did for the firm.

 

01/17/25 Heitor Villa-Lobos: Choros No. 8 for orchestra and two pianos

Villa-Lobos wrote a series of Choros for a variety of instrumental combinations. This one was completed in 1925. It premiered two years later, with Tomás Terán, the dedicatee, as one of the pianists.