Classical Music for Dummies
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Format: | Audio |
Language: | English |
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New York :
EMI Records,
p2012.
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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).