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The History of Classical Music Richard Fawkes read by Robert Powell

Release: 1997 Europe, Language: English, Status: Official
Format: CD + CD + CD + CD, Tracks: 88, Length: 5:12:41, Barcode: 9789626341407
Release type: Other - Audiobook

Contents

CD #1
1 The Sound of Gregorian Chant 4:48
2 Plainsong: The Ambrosian Chant 0:58
3 The Dorian, Phrygian and Lydian Modes 1:25
4 Hildegard of Bingen 2:04
5 The Gothic Age…Léonin (Active c1160-c1180) and Pérotin (Active c1180-1236) 4:15
6 The Motet 3:46
7 The Troubadour Tradition 5:48
8 Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377 2:34
9 The Madrigal - Francesco Landini 1325-1397 5:16
10 Guillaume Dufay 1400-1474 and Johannes Ockeghem c1420-1495 9:47
11 The Agincourt Carol - 1415 2:37
12 The Renaissance - Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina 1525-1594 5:56
13 The High Renaissance in England 9:10
14 The Madrigal in France, Italy and England 6:00
15 John Dowland 1536-1626 6:27
16 Andrea c1510-1586 and Giovanni Gabrieli 1557-1612 Sonata A 12 - 1597 3:11
CD #2
1 The Birth of Opera 3:55
2 Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 and the Growth of Opera 9:38
3 Music in England - Henry Purcell 1659-1695 5:27
4 George Frederic Handel 1685-1759 2:04
5 Church Music in the Baroque - The Oratorio and the Cantata 4:25
6 Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 5:35
7 The Development of Keys 2:46
8 Music for Keyboards 5:52
9 The Violin 2:45
10 The Development of the Solo Concerto 5:08
11 The Age of Reason - The Classical Period 1:52
12 Sonata Form 2:44
13 The Symphony 3:19
14 Franz Joseph Haydn 1735-1782 7:05
15 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 4:52
16 Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714-1787 5:36
17 Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827 6:27
CD #3
1 The Concept of Romanticism 2:48
2 Hector Berlioz 1803-1869 4:32
3 Franz Schubert 1797-1828 5:46
4 The Piano 1:23
5 Frederic Chopin 1810-1849 2:52
6 Robert Schumann 1810-1856 3:56
7 Antonin Dvořák 1841-1904 3:24
8 Eduard Grieg 1843-1907 2:55
9 France - César Franck 1822-1890 1:49
10 Russia - The Mighty Handful 3:19
11 Franz Liszt 1811-1886 2:28
12 Anton Bruckner 1824-1890 2:28
13 Johannes Brahms 1833-1897 2:37
14 Gustav Mahler 1860-1911 5:25
15 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893 4:35
16 Felix Mendelssohn and the Concerto 1809-1847 1:34
17 The Amateur Choral Tradition 1:59
18 Opera - Gioacchino Rossini 1791-1868 3:13
19 Grand Opera - Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791-1864 1:19
20 Bel Canto - Vincenzo Bellini 1801-1835 and Gaetano Donizetti 1797-1848 4:56
21 Jacques Offenbach 1819-1880 1:43
22 Georges Bizet 1838-1910 1:39
23 Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901 3:03
24 Giacomo Puccini 1858-1924 2:15
25 Opera in Germany - Carl Maria Von Weber 1786-1826 2:24
26 Richard Wagner 1813-1883 4:56
CD #4
1 Isms 2:44
2 Claude Debussy 1862-1918 and Impressionism 3:20
3 New Directions 1:49
4 Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971 4:27
5 Arnold Schönberg 1874-1951 and Serialism 5:03
6 Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992 1:00
7 Richard Strauss 1864-1949 3:19
8 Gustav Holst 1874-1934 2:34
9 Edward Elgar 1857-1934 2:56
10 Jean Sibelius 1865-1957 4:04
11 Ralph Vaughan Williams 1873-1958 0:52
12 Sergei Rachmaninov 1873-1943 2:11
13 Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975 3:46
14 Sergei Prokofiev 1890-1953 1:57
15 Post WWI France - Les Six 2:26
16 The Folk Music Heritage and Nationalism 1:05
17 Poland - Karol Szymanowski 1882-1945 1:06
18 Hungary - Béla Bartók 1882-1945 2:59
19 Czechoslovakia - Leoš Janáček 1854-1928 and Bohuslav Martinů 1890-1962 3:04
20 United States - Charles Ives 1874-1954 and Aaron Copland 1900-1990 4:06
21 South America - Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887-1959 1:34
22 Spain - Joaquin Rodrigo 1901-1999 1:10
23 Other Directions - The Far East and Film Music 3:12
24 New Sounds - Edgard Varèse 1883-1965, Pierre Boulez 1925-2016 et al 6:30
25 Minimalism - Steve Reich 1936-, Philip Glass 1937- and John Adams 1947- 1:06
26 Henryk Górecki 1933-2010 1:27
27 Michael Tippett 1905-1998 1:51
28 Benjamin Britten 1913-1976 3:31
29 At the Close of the 20th Century 3:56