Classical Music for Dummies

Classical Music for Dummies

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Other Authors: Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643, Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 1632-1687, Charpentier, Marc-Antoine, 1643-1704, Couperin, François, 1668-1733, Rameau, Jean-Philippe, 1683-1764, Pachelbel, Johann, 1653-1706, Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741, Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750, Bach, Johann Christian, 1735-1782, Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759, Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736, Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809, Boccherini, Luigi, 1743-1805, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791, Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von, 1714-1787, Weber, Carl Maria von, 1786-1826, Rossini, Gioacchino, 1792-1868, Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828, Mendelssohn, Felix, 1911-1952, Chopin, Frédéric, 1810-1849, Paganini, Nicolò, 1782-1840, Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886, Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883, Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896, Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899, Schumann, Robert, 1810-1856, Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897, Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911, Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884, Dvořák, Antonín, 1841-1904, Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907, Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901, Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924, Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908, Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881, Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893, Scriabin, Aleksandr Nikolayevich, 1872-1915, Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869, Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880, Franck, César, 1822-1890, Lalo, Édouard, 1823-1892, Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921, Bizet, Georges, 1838-1875, Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912, Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924, Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918, Albéniz, Isaac, 1860-1909, Granados, Enrique, 1867-1916, Orff, Carl, 1895-1982, Elgar, Edward, 1857-1934, Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958, Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934, Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, Dukas, Paul, 1865-1935, Satie, Erik, 1866-1925, Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937, Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974, Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963, Webern, Anton, 1883-1945, Boulez, Pierre, 1925-2016, Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928, Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945, Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957, Falla, Manuel de, 1876-1946, Rodrigo, Joaquín, Villa-Lobos, Heitor, Gershwin, George, 1898-1937, Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981, Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943, Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953, Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971, Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975, Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992, Dutilleux, Henri, 1916-2013, Pärt, Arvo, Glass, Philip
Format: Audio
Language:English
Published: New York : EMI Records, p2012.
Subjects:
Instrumental music.
Orchestral music.
Operas > Excerpts.
Piano music.
Vocal music.
Concertos.
Dance music.
Sound recordings.
Excerpts.
Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1. The Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque era: Coro de monjes del monasterio / Gregorian chant: puer natus in Bethlehem (2:01)
  • Santus: Missa papae marcelli (extract) / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1:50)
  • Madrigals, book 8: Hor ch'el ciel e la terra (extract) / Claudio Monteverdi (1:23)
  • Le Beourgeois gentilhomme: Marche pour la ceremonie des turcs. / Jean-Baptiste Lully (2:03)
  • Te Deum: Prelude / Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1:37)
  • Le tic-toc-choc ou les maillotins / Francois Couperin (2:36)
  • La poule / Jean-Phillipe Rameau (3:01)
  • Canon in D / Johann Pachelbel (3:38)
  • Music for a while / Henry Purcell (3:46)
  • Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo / Antonio Vivaldi (2:22)
  • Concert in C major: I. Allegro / Antonio Vivaldi (3:10)
  • The four seasons, spring: I. Allegro / Antonio Vivaldi (3:01)
  • The four seasons, summer: Summer: III. Presto / Antonio Vivaldi (2:25)
  • Jesu, joy of man's desiring / Johann Sebastian Bach (3:23)
  • St. John Passion: Part One - Herr, unser Herr (extract) / Johann Sebastian Bach (3:21)
  • The well-tempered clavier, book 1: prelude no.1 in C major / Johann Sebastian Bach (1:54)
  • Cello suites: suite no. 1 in G major: prelude / Johann Sebastian Bach (2:04)
  • Brandenburg concerto no. 2 in: I. Allegro (extract) / Johann Sebastian Bach (1:41)
  • Keyboard concerto in F minor: II Adagio / Johann Sebastian Bach (3:06)
  • Toccata and fugue in D minor: toccata / Johann Sebastian Bach (2:32)
  • Orchestral suite no. 3 in D major: Air / Johann Sebastian Bach (4:47)
  • Adriano in siria: tutti nemici, e rei / Johann Christian Bach (2:40)
  • Sonata in F minor / Johann Christian Bach (3:13)
  • Messiah: hallelujah chorus / George Friedrich Handel (3:59)
  • Sarabande / Georg Friedrich Handel (3:23)
  • Music for the Royal fireworks / Georg Friedrich Handel (2:20)
  • Zadok the priest (extract) / Georg Friedrich Handel (2:15)
  • Stabat mater: stabat mater dolorosa / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (3:56)
  • Disc 2. The classical tradition: Trumpet concerto in E flat: III. Allegro / Joseph Haydn (4:49)
  • Piano sonata no. 62 in E flat major: III. Finale (extract) / Joseph Haydn (2:43)
  • Minuetto in A: string quintet in E major op. 11 no. 5 / Luigi Boccherini (3:36)
  • Piano concerto no. 21 in C: II. Andante / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (5:13)
  • Piano concerto no. 23 A major: II. Adagio / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (6:36)
  • Piano sonata no. 11 in A: III. Rondo alla turca / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (3:15)
  • Requiem in D minor: dies irae / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1:59)
  • Requiem in D minor: Lacrimosa / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (3:34)
  • Eine kleine nachtmusik: I. Allegro (extract) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (4:10)
  • Symphony no. 25 in G minor: allegro con brio (extract) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2:33)
  • Symphony no. 40 in G minor: I. Molto allegro / Ludwig van Beethoven (7:21)
  • Piano sonata no. 14 in C sharp minor: adagio sostenuto / Ludwig van Beethoven (6:32)
  • Piano sonata no. 8 in C minor, "Pathetique": II adagio cantabile / Ludwig van Beethoven (5:33)
  • Symphony no. 5 in C minor: I. Allegro con brio / Ludwig van Beethoven (7:15)
  • Symphony no. 7 in A: II Allegretto (extract) / Ludwig van Beethoven (2:58)
  • Symphony no. 9 in D minor: Ode to joy / Ludwig van Beethoven (3:42)
  • Piano concerto no. 5 E flat major: II. Adagio un poco mosso / Ludwig van Beethoven (6:34)
  • Disc 3. The rise of romanticism: Orpheus and eurydice: ballet des ombres heureuses / Christoph Willibald von Gluck (3:43)
  • Der freischutz: overture (extract) / Carl Maria von Weber (2:12)
  • La gazza ladra: overture (extract) / Gioacchino Rossini (1:52)
  • Guillaume tell: overture (extract) / Gioacchino Rossini (3:11)
  • Piano trio no. 2 in E flat major: II. Andante con moto (extract) / Franz Schubert (3:13)
  • 6 moments musicaux: no. 3 in F minor / Franz Schubert (1:32)
  • Symphony no. 5 in B flat: allegro (extract) / Franz Schubert (2:19)
  • String quartet no. 14 in D minor, "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto / Franz Schubert (2:18)
  • Piano concerto no. 20 A major: II andantino (extract) / Franz Schubert (2:31)
  • Piano quintet in A "The Trout": IV. Theme (andontino) / Franz Schubert (2:11)
  • Erlkonig / Franz Schubert (3:46)
  • A midsummer night's dream: wedding march (extract) / Felix Mendelssohn (1:42)
  • St. Matthew Passion: Aria: Erbarme dich, sein Gott / Johann Sebastian Bach (6:22)
  • Etude en E major, op.10 no.3 / Frederic Chopin (3:55)
  • Piano sonata no.2 in B flat minor: III. Marche funebre (extract) / Frederic Chopin (2:26)
  • Waltz in D flat, op.64 no.1 "Minute" / Frederic Chopin (2:03)
  • Waltz in C sharp minor, op.64 no.2 / Frederic Chopin (3:39)
  • Preludes op.28 no.4 in E minor (largo) / Frederic Chopin (2:12)
  • Nocturne no.5 in F sharp major, op.15 no.2 / Frederic Chopin (3:29)
  • 24 caprices op.1:no.1 in E / Niccolo Paganini (1:44)
  • La ronde des lutins / Franz Liszt (2:46)
  • 19 Hungarian rhapsodies: no.2 in C sharp minor (extract) / Franz Liszt (3:55)
  • Les jeux d'eau a la villa d'este / Franz Liszt (6:15)
  • Disc 4. The pinnacle of romanticism: Logengrin: Prelude to act I / Richard Wagner (9:44)
  • Die walkure: ride of the Valkyries / Richard Wagner (4:45)
  • Lohengrin: Bridal chorus (extract) / Richard Wagner (1:43)
  • Siegfried Idyll / Richard Wagner (5:35)
  • Symphony no.4 in E flat "Romantic": IV finale (extract) / Anton Bruckner (2:34)
  • The blue danube (extract) / Johan Strauss fils (1:40)
  • Kinderzenen: 7. Traumerei (2:46)
  • Piano concerto in A minor: I. Allegro affettuoso (extract) / Robert Schumann (4:28)
  • Carnival of Venice: IV intermezzo / Robert Schumann (2:17)
  • Symphony no.3 in F major: III. poco allegretto / Johannes Brahms (5:55)
  • Piano quartet no.1 in G minor: IV. Ronda alla zingarese (extract) / Johannes Brahms (1:06)
  • III. Intermezzo in C major / Johannes Brahms (1:46)
  • III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace: violin concerto in D op.77 (extract) / Johannes Brahms (2:01)
  • Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor: IV. Adagietto (extract) / Gustav Mahler (3:12)
  • Ma vlast: II. vitava (extract) / Bedrich Smetana (4:18)
  • Slavonic dances: no.2 in E minor (extract) / Antonin Dvorak (2:32)
  • Symphony no.9 in E minor, "From the new world": IV. Allegro con fuoco (extract) / Antonin Dvorak (3:53)
  • Peer Gynt: morning mood / Edvard Grieg (4:09)
  • Holberg suite: prelude / Edvard Grieg (2:46)
  • Requiem: dies irae / Giuseppe Verdi (2:11)
  • Nabucco: chorus of hebrew slaves / Giuseppe Verdi (4:12)
  • Messa di Gloria: credo / Giacomo Puccini (2:47)
  • Disc 5. Classical music around the world: Prince Igor: polovtsian dances / Alexander Borodin (2:19)
  • Scheherazade: III. The young prince and the young princess (extract) / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (2:24)
  • Pictures at an exhibition: the great gate of kiev (extract) / Modest Mussorgsky (1:53)
  • Piano concerto no.1 in B flat minor: I. Allegro non troppo / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (3:22)
  • Swan lake: act II scene / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (2:46)
  • The Nutcracker: Waltz of the flowers / Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (5:42)
  • Etude no.12 in D sharp minor / Alexandre Scriabin (2:30)
  • La damnation de faust: Hangarian March / Hector Berlioz (4:43)
  • Symphonie fantastique: II. un bal (extract) / Hector Berlioz (3:22)
  • Gaite parisienne: can-can / Jacques Offenbach (3:30)
  • Symphony in D minor: I. lento allegro non troppo (extract) / Cesar Franck (3:09)
  • Symphonie espagnole: III intermezzo (extract) / Edouard Lalo (2:03)
  • The carnival of the animals: the aquarium / Camille Saint-Saens (2:40)
  • Prelude: L'Ariesienne Suite no.1 (extract) / Georges Bizet (2:55)
  • Espana / Emmanuel Chabrier (6:12)
  • Meditation from Thais (extract) / Jules Massenet (4:02)
  • Pavane / Gabriel Faure (6:19)
  • Requiem: IN paradisum / Gabriel Faure (3:21)
  • Children's corner: Golliwogg's cakewalk / Claude Debussy (2:58)
  • Suite bergamasque: clair de lune / Claude Debussy (3:47)
  • Asturias (extract) / Isaac Albeniz (1:58)
  • Goyescas: la jeune fille et le rossignol (extract) / Enrique Granados (5:59)
  • Disc 6. On the road to modernism: Also sprach Zarathustra sunrise / Richard Strauss (1:51)
  • Carmina burana: O Fortuna / Carl Orff (2:27)
  • Pomp and circumstance: march no.1 (extract) / Edward Elgar (1:44)
  • Fantasia on greensleeves (extract) / Ralph Vaughan-Williams (1:44)
  • The planets: Jupiter (extract) / Gustav Holst (2:56)
  • Simple symphony: playful pizzicato (extract) / Benjamin Britten (1:09)
  • The sorceror's apprentice (extract) / Paul Dukas (3:44)
  • Gymnopedie no.1 / Erik Satie (3:04)
  • Le festin de l'Araignee: danse de l'Ephemere / Albert Roussel (3:22)
  • Bolero (extract) / Maurice Ravel (2:22)
  • Le boeuf sur le toit (extract) / Darius Milhaud (1:54)
  • Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor: II Larghetto (extract) / Francis Poulenc (1:21)
  • Transfigured night: grave / Arnold Schonberg (2:54)
  • Six orchestral pieces: III. Massig / Anton Webern (0:55)
  • 12 notations for piano: IV rhythmic / Pierre Boulez (0:29)
  • Sinfonietta: I. Allegretto / Leos Janacek (2:16)
  • Romanian folk dances: 1-3 / Bela Bartok (2:35)
  • Violin concerto in D minor: I. Allegro moderato (extract) / Jean Sibelius (2:49)
  • La vida breve: danza / Manuel de falla (3:19)
  • Conceirto de aranjuez: II. Adagio (extract) / Joaquin Rodrigo (3:00)
  • Aria (cantilena): Bachianas brasileiras no.5 (extract) / Heitor Villa-Lobos (2:58)
  • Rhapsody in blue (orch. by Ferde Greofe) / George Gerswhin (2:40)
  • Adagio for strings (extract) / Samuel Barber (2:06)
  • Symphonic dances from west side story: I prologue (extract) / Leonard Bernstein (2:17)
  • Piano concerto no.2 in C minor: I. moderato (extract) / Sergei Rachmaninov (2:29)
  • Romeo and Juliet: The knights dance (extract) / Sergei Prokofiev (1:46)
  • Pierre et le loup: theme de pierre / Sergei Prokofiev (0:54)
  • The rite of spring: the adoration of the earth (extract) / Igor Stravinsky (3:20)
  • Gayaneh: Sabre dance / Aram Khatchatourian (2:27)
  • Jazz suite no.2: VI Waltz 2 (extract) / Dmitri Shostakovich (1:25)
  • Quarter for the end of time: dance of fury, for the seven trumpets (1:11)
  • 6 small pieces for piano: VI. etude / Henri Dutilleux (1:11)
  • Spiegel im speigel (extract) / Arvo Part (3:31)
  • Facades / Phillip Glass (2:30).

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