Classical Music for Villains

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Classical Music for Villains
POV: You’re a villain (or just a misunderstood hero?) scheming against your enemies…
Tracklist:

0:00:00 Jenkins – Concerto Grosso for Strings “Palladio”: I. Allegretto
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov

0:02:33 Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 4 in F minor, RV 297 “Winter”: I. Allegro non molto
0:05:49 Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 4 in F minor, RV 297 “Winter”: III. Allegro
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov
Violin: Yuliya Lebedenko

0:08:54 Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 2 in G minor, RV 315 “Summer”: III. Presto
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov
Violin: Yuliya Lebedenko

0:11:34 Litvinovsky – Suite for Strings “Le Grand Cahier”: X. L’Incendie
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov

0:13:54 Litvinovsky – Tales of the Magic Tree: IV. Spider Knows His Craft
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov

0:17:33 Litvinovsky – Suite for Strings “Le Grand Cahier”: II. Les Alertes
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov

0:19:45 Haydn – Die Worte des Erlösers am Kreuze, Hob. XX:1: IX. Il Terremoto
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov

0:21:31 Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio (Live)
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Giuseppe Lanzetta

0:29:08 Prokofiev – Suite No. 1 from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64bis: No. 6, Death of Tybalt
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov

0:33:40 Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”: IV. Allegro con fuoco
Orquesta Reino de Aragón, Ricardo Casero

0:45:25 Mussorgsky – Night on Bald Mountain
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov

0:56:41 Grieg – Holberg Suite, Op. 40: IV. Air
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov

1:02:14 Händel – Suite No. 11 in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov

1:05:02 Beethoven – Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Giuseppe Lanzetta

1:14:16 Mozart – Requiem, K. 626: Introitus. Requiem
1:19:40 Mozart – Requiem, K. 626: Sequentia. Dies Irae
1:21:21 Mozart – Requiem, K. 626: Sequentia. Confutatis & Lacrimosa
1:26:58 Mozart – Requiem, K. 626: Kyrie
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Harmonia Cantata, Giuseppe Lanzetta

1:29:39 Orff/Killmayer – Carmina Burana: O Fortuna (Live)
Orquesta Reino de Aragón, Coro Amici Musicae, Igor Tantos

1:32:18 Verdi – Requiem: 2a. Dies Irae
Orquesta Reino de Aragón, Jose Antonio Sainz de Alfaro

Cover art: Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
John William Waterhouse

From Wikipedia: Circe is an enchantress and a minor goddess in Greek mythology. She is either a daughter of the god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse or the goddess Hecate and Aeëtes. Circe was renowned for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs. Through the use of these and a magic wand or staff, she would transform her enemies, or those who offended her, into animals.

The best known of her legends is told in Homer’s Odyssey when Odysseus visits her island of Aeaea on the way back from the Trojan War and she changes most of his crew into swine. He manages to persuade her to return them to human shape, lives with her for a year and has sons by her, including Latinus and Telegonus. Another story tells of her falling in love with the sea-god Glaucus, who prefers the nymph Scylla to her. In revenge, Circe poisoned the water where her rival bathed and turned her into a dreadful monster.

Depictions, even in Classical times, diverged from the detail in Homer’s narrative. Early philosophical questions were also raised about whether the change from being a human endowed with reason to being an unreasoning beast might not be preferable after all, and the resulting debate was to have a powerful impact during the Renaissance. Circe was also taken as the archetype of the predatory female. In the eyes of those from a later age, this behaviour made her notorious both as a magician and as a free woman. She has been frequently depicted as such in all the arts from the Renaissance down to modern times.

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