The History of Classical Music

Compilation by Richard Fawkes & Robert Powell

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    The Sound of Gregorian Chant
    4:48
  2. 2.
    Plainsong: The Ambrosian Chant
    0:58
  3. 3.
    The Dorian, Phrygian and Lydian Modes
    1:25
  4. 4.
    Hildegard of Bingen
    2:04
  5. 5.
    The Gothic Age…Léonin (Active c1160-c1180) and Pérotin (Active c1180-1236)
    4:15
  6. 6.
    The Motet
    3:46
  7. 7.
    The Troubadour Tradition
    5:48
  8. 8.
    Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377
    2:34
  9. 9.
    The Madrigal - Francesco Landini 1325-1397
    5:16
  10. 10.
    Guillaume Dufay 1400-1474 and Johannes Ockeghem c1420-1495
    9:47
  11. 11.
    The Agincourt Carol - 1415
    2:37
  12. 12.
    The Renaissance - Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina 1525-1594
    5:56
  13. 13.
    The High Renaissance in England
    9:10
  14. 14.
    The Madrigal in France, Italy and England
    6:00
  15. 15.
    John Dowland 1536-1626
    6:27
  16. 16.
    Andrea c1510-1586 and Giovanni Gabrieli 1557-1612 Sonata A 12 - 1597
    3:11

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    The Birth of Opera
    3:55
  2. 2.
    Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 and the Growth of Opera
    9:38
  3. 3.
    Music in England - Henry Purcell 1659-1695
    5:27
  4. 4.
    George Frederic Handel 1685-1759
    2:04
  5. 5.
    Church Music in the Baroque - The Oratorio and the Cantata
    4:25
  6. 6.
    Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
    5:35
  7. 7.
    The Development of Keys
    2:46
  8. 8.
    Music for Keyboards
    5:52
  9. 9.
    The Violin
    2:45
  10. 10.
    The Development of the Solo Concerto
    5:08
  11. 11.
    The Age of Reason - The Classical Period
    1:52
  12. 12.
    Sonata Form
    2:44
  13. 13.
    The Symphony
    3:19
  14. 14.
    Franz Joseph Haydn 1735-1782
    7:05
  15. 15.
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
    4:52
  16. 16.
    Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714-1787
    5:36
  17. 17.
    Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827
    6:27

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    The Concept of Romanticism
    2:48
  2. 2.
    Hector Berlioz 1803-1869
    4:32
  3. 3.
    Franz Schubert 1797-1828
    5:46
  4. 4.
    The Piano
    1:23
  5. 5.
    Frederic Chopin 1810-1849
    2:52
  6. 6.
    Robert Schumann 1810-1856
    3:56
  7. 7.
    Antonin Dvořák 1841-1904
    3:24
  8. 8.
    Eduard Grieg 1843-1907
    2:55
  9. 9.
    France - César Franck 1822-1890
    1:49
  10. 10.
    Russia - The Mighty Handful
    3:19
  11. 11.
    Franz Liszt 1811-1886
    2:28
  12. 12.
    Anton Bruckner 1824-1890
    2:28
  13. 13.
    Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
    2:37
  14. 14.
    Gustav Mahler 1860-1911
    5:25
  15. 15.
    Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
    4:35
  16. 16.
    Felix Mendelssohn and the Concerto 1809-1847
    1:34
  17. 17.
    The Amateur Choral Tradition
    1:59
  18. 18.
    Opera - Gioacchino Rossini 1791-1868
    3:13
  19. 19.
    Grand Opera - Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791-1864
    1:19
  20. 20.
    Bel Canto - Vincenzo Bellini 1801-1835 and Gaetano Donizetti 1797-1848
    4:56
  21. 21.
    Jacques Offenbach 1819-1880
    1:43
  22. 22.
    Georges Bizet 1838-1910
    1:39
  23. 23.
    Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901
    3:03
  24. 24.
    Giacomo Puccini 1858-1924
    2:15
  25. 25.
    Opera in Germany - Carl Maria Von Weber 1786-1826
    2:24
  26. 26.
    Richard Wagner 1813-1883
    4:56

Disc 4

  1. 1.
    Isms
    2:44
  2. 2.
    Claude Debussy 1862-1918 and Impressionism
    3:20
  3. 3.
    New Directions
    1:49
  4. 4.
    Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
    4:27
  5. 5.
    Arnold Schönberg 1874-1951 and Serialism
    5:03
  6. 6.
    Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992
    1:00
  7. 7.
    Richard Strauss 1864-1949
    3:19
  8. 8.
    Gustav Holst 1874-1934
    2:34
  9. 9.
    Edward Elgar 1857-1934
    2:56
  10. 10.
    Jean Sibelius 1865-1957
    4:04
  11. 11.
    Ralph Vaughan Williams 1873-1958
    0:52
  12. 12.
    Sergei Rachmaninov 1873-1943
    2:11
  13. 13.
    Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975
    3:46
  14. 14.
    Sergei Prokofiev 1890-1953
    1:57
  15. 15.
    Post WWI France - Les Six
    2:26
  16. 16.
    The Folk Music Heritage and Nationalism
    1:05
  17. 17.
    Poland - Karol Szymanowski 1882-1945
    1:06
  18. 18.
    Hungary - Béla Bartók 1882-1945
    2:59
  19. 19.
    Czechoslovakia - Leoš Janáček 1854-1928 and Bohuslav Martinů 1890-1962
    3:04
  20. 20.
    United States - Charles Ives 1874-1954 and Aaron Copland 1900-1990
    4:06
  21. 21.
    South America - Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887-1959
    1:34
  22. 22.
    Spain - Joaquin Rodrigo 1901-1999
    1:10
  23. 23.
    Other Directions - The Far East and Film Music
    3:12
  24. 24.
    New Sounds - Edgard Varèse 1883-1965, Pierre Boulez 1925-2016 et al
    6:30
  25. 25.
    Minimalism - Steve Reich 1936-, Philip Glass 1937- and John Adams 1947-
    1:06
  26. 26.
    Henryk Górecki 1933-2010
    1:27
  27. 27.
    Michael Tippett 1905-1998
    1:51
  28. 28.
    Benjamin Britten 1913-1976
    3:31
  29. 29.
    At the Close of the 20th Century
    3:56

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