After a lengthy search, an unusual solution for the instrumental role was found: the "super-personal" meaning of what is depicted calls out to augment the ensemble of four grand pianos and the large percussion section.
42. Iolanta+
He found all of this in Iolanta , which reflects Tchaikovsky´s moral and philosophical searches from the closing years of his life.
43. Liszt. Mahler
The composer used the title of his favourite book by Jean Paul purely to share with the romantic writer his enthusiastic pantheism, his love of nature and, at the same time, his inherent and scathing irony and his torturous search for his own “self”.
44. Berlioz. Ravel
First turning to the concerto genre towards the end of his career as late as 1929–1931, Ravel was drawn by the search for various possible resolutions within one and the same genre.
45. Rem Urasin recital (piano)
All of these shades and nuances were reflected in his music when in the very early 1830s in Vienna he first turned to mazurkas in search of the Polish national style.
46. Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra
Tariverdiev became famous first and foremost because of his music for films ( Seventeen Moments of Spring, The Irony Of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath, An Old-Fashioned Comedy and In Search of the Sun ), many of the melodies from which proved absolute hits.
47. Ensemble of soloists from the Berliner Philharmoniker
The famous Lied Die Forelle to Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart’s poem that forms the basis of the fourth section had been composed two years earlier, and Schubert was still continuing to refashion it in his search for perfection.
48. The Wiener Philharmoniker Orchestra
Rules governing membership of the Society of Friends of Music and regulations concerning a season’s guest conductors and individual concerts may have changed, but neither adversity or misfortune could impel the freedom-loving musicians to search for a “fuehrer” (or a tyrant in their independent view) who could protect them if the case arose.
All of these nuances were reflected in his music when, in the very early 1830s, he was in Vienna and turned to mazurkas for the first time in his search for a national Polish style.
50. Poésie de sons
Through artistic images they try to express their principles and touch on themes affecting almost everyone which are complex and, at times, painful – themes of love and enmity, of war and the search for harmony with nature, of death and hope and of our destiny.