Listed below is a list of connecting links to programme notes of various selections of classical music. To use the programme notes, please inform the author at <dr@andrewfilmer.com>
Chamber Music
Bach’s Sixth Suite for Unaccompanied Cello (arr. Viola)
Britten: Phantasy for oboe, violin, viola, and cello
Mozart: Divertimento in F, K. 138
Concertos
Monuments to Music: Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor
From the Charm of the Court: Weber’s Concertino for Oboe and Winds
Symphonic works
From Revelries to Visions: Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Believing in the Dream of Brotherhood
The Search for Inevitability: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
The Call of the Sea: The ‘Hebrides’ Overture by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Symphony No. 39 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Championing a Lasting Youth of Melody: Overtures by Rossini
Enter the Bullfighter: Overture to Carmen
Where Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow: Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet
As Fate Would Have It: Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony
Victory, Freedom, and Love: Verdi’s Triumphal March from Aïda
Wake Up and Listen: A Little History of Musical Surprise
Exploring the context of Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Surprise” Symphony and Jacques Offenbach’s Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld
Other works
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
Of Dreams, Romance, and Fevered Visions – Chopin: Nocturnes 1, 8, and 9
Selected research
Andrew Filmer & Chen Zhangyi, “From Intersections to Crossroads: Navigating Interactions between Performers, Researchers, and Composers”
http://cimacc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/MIP-Article-Filmer-Chen.pdf
Andrew Filmer and Ann Rosnida Md Deni, “Powering Up Interactivity in the Use of PowerPoint within an Educational Context”
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3416797.3416845
Andrew Filmer, Sanjiv Indran, and Tan Mei Ying, “Imagery and the Interpretative Canonic Power of the Audience in the Music of Star Wars”
https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/3167268/normal_5e70f6c64842e.pdf
Andrew Filmer, “A Critical Guide to Editorial Issues in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante”
https://classiques-garnier.com/european-drama-and-performance-studies-2019-1-n-12-saluts-rappels-et-fins-de-spectacle-xixe-xxie-siecles-a-critical-guide-to-editorial-issues-in-mozart-s-sinfonia-concertante.html
Andrew Filmer, “No Museum Pieces: A Practical Take to the Grande Sestetto Concertante”
https://www.internationalviolasociety.org/post/44th-international-viola-congress-wellington