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MCCLEERY, D.: Discover Music of the Romantic Era (Unabridged)


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Category: Chamber Music
Artist(s):
Aragall, Giacomo • Banowetz, Joseph • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra • Biret, Idil • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra • Bramall, Anthony • Devoyon, Pascal • Dohnanyi, Oliver • Drahos, Bela • Gunzenhauser, Stephen • Halasz, Michael • Hill, Peter • Humburg, Will • Hungarian State Opera Chorus • Hungarian State Opera Orchestra • Hurst, George • Jando, Jeno • Kang, Dong-Suk • Kodaly Quartet • Kosler, Zdenek • Maksymiuk, Jerzy • Morandi, Pier Giorgio • Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia • Orgonasova, Luba • Podles, Ewa • Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra • Rahbari, Alexander • Russell, Lynda • San Diego Symphony Orchestra • Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra • Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra • Talmi, Yoav • Tumagian, Eduard • Wildner, Johannes • Wit, Antoni
Catalogue No.: NA495212
ISBN No.: 9789626349526
Total Playing Time: 05:07:25

Track Details

Disc 1
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
1 Chapter 1: The Dawn of the Romantic Era 00:07:35
2 The Rise of Romanticism 00:06:56
3 Chapter 2: A Musical Revolution 00:05:44
Beethoven, Ludwig van
4 Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, "Eroica": I. Allegro con brio 00:08:11
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
5 200 years after the event, it is difficult to understand… 00:04:59
6 Chapter 3: A Radical New Musical Language 00:06:09
Berlioz, Hector
7 Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: IV. Marche au Supplice: Allegretto non troppo 00:04:57
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
8 One of Berlioz's greatest legacies… 00:08:26
Liszt, Franz
9 Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124/R455: Allegro maestoso - Tempo giusto - 00:05:19
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
10 As Liszt grew older… 00:06:54
Chopin, Fryderyk
11 Polonaise No. 8 in D minor, Op. 71, No. 1 00:06:11
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
12 Chapter 4: The Classical Romantics 00:04:17
Schubert, Franz
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - lyricist(s)
13 Gretchen am Spinnrade, Op. 2, D. 118 00:03:19
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
14 His late, epic song-cycle Die Winterreise… 00:00:30

Disc 2
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
1 When Schubert left the Stadtkonvikt… 00:05:05
Mendelssohn, Felix
2 The Hebrides, Op. 26, "Fingal's Cave" 00:10:57
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
3 In 1835 Mendelssohn moved to Leipzig… 00:08:23
Schumann, Robert
4 Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44: IV. Allegro, ma non troppo 00:07:11
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
5 In addition to being a composer… 00:07:58
Brahms, Johannes
6 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2. Intermezzo in A major 00:05:19
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
7 Chapter 5: Opera in the 19th Century 00:01:09
8 Italian Opera 00:01:55
Rossini, Gioachino
Ferretti, Jacopo - lyricist(s)
9 La Cenerentola (Cinderella), Act II: Nacqui all'affanno e al pianto 00:07:48
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
10 In 1815 Rossini moved to Naples… 00:03:31
Donizetti, Gaetano
11 Lucia di Lammermoor, Act III: Spargi d'amaro pianto 00:04:01
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
12 Without any shadow of a doubt… 00:05:04
Verdi, Giuseppe
Du Locle, Camille / Mery, Joseph - lyricist(s)
13 Don Carlo, Act I: E lui ... Dio che nell'alma infondere 00:07:31
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
14 In Verdi's last two operas… 00:01:11

Disc 3
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
1 German Opera 00:09:18
Wagner, Richard
2 Tristan und Isolde, Act I: Prelude 00:08:49
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
3 As Verdi had unpredictably written a comic opera… 00:02:13
4 Chapter 6: The Nationalists 00:03:03
Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich
5 Kamarinskaya 00:06:18
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
6 Glinka was the inspiration for a new generation… 00:03:20
Borodin, Alexander Porfir'yevich
7 Symphony No. 2 in B minor: I. Allegro 00:06:57
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
8 Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)… 00:06:16
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
9 Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, "Pathetique": II. Allegro con gracia 00:08:40
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
10 This was the work that Tchaikovsky loved… 00:02:59
11 Bohemia 00:04:43
Smetana, Bedrich
12 Ma vlast (My Fatherland): No. 2. Vltava (Moldau) 00:13:21

Disc 4
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
1 When Smetana was appointed music director… 00:03:15
Dvorak, Antonin
2 Slavonic Dances, Series 1, Op. 46, B. 83: No. 1 in C major 00:03:50
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
3 Dvorak's growing reputation led to an invitation… 00:03:07
4 Moving West 00:03:58
Faure, Gabriel
5 Romance in B flat major, Op. 28 00:05:39
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
6 From 1896 Faure was Professor at the Paris Conservatoire… 00:01:37
Grieg, Edvard
7 Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King 00:02:38
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
8 Elsewhere in Scandinavia… 00:01:43
9 Chapter 7: The Epic Austrian Symphonists 00:09:11
Mahler, Gustav
10 Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan": III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen 00:10:06
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
11 In addition to composing… 00:03:33
12 Chapter 8: The End of Romanticism 00:06:17
13 Equally Romantic was the Italian composer, Giacomo Puccini… 00:05:28
Rachmaninov, Sergei
14 Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 2. Prelude in C sharp minor 00:04:43
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
15 In any overview of 19th-century music… 00:01:58
Elgar, Edward
16 Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma": Variation 9: Nimrod 00:03:36
McCleery, David - author(s)
Discover Music of the Romantic Era 02:42:04
17 The wistful melody and predominance of the strings… 00:01:31
18 Into a New Age… 00:02:48