The History of Classical Music (Non Fiction)
£9.94
Very enjoyable and interesting - This is a very interesting and enjoyable History of Classical Music on four CDs. It contains excerpts from over 50 pieces of Western Music.I have read some musical history before but I found that this set of CDs dealt more thoroughly with the thousand years of development from around 600 AD to around 1600 AD.The CDs are are follows:CD1 The Early, Medieval, and Renaissance PeriodsThis includes Gregorian Chant, Ambrosian Chant, the Dorian, Phrygian and Lydian Modes, Hildegard of Bingen, the Gothic Age, the Motet, the troubadour tradition, Guillaume de Machaut, the Madigral - Landini, Dufay and Ockeghem, the Agincourt Carol - 1415, the Renaissance - Palestrina, the High Renaissance in England, the French Chanson and the madrigal in Italy and England, John Dowland, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrielli.CD 2 The Baroque Period (c 1600 - C 1750) The Classical Period (c 1750 - c 1800)This includes:The Birth of Opera, Claudio Monteverdi, Music in England - Henry Purcell, Handel, Bach, Music for Keyboards - Couperin, Bach, the violin, the development of the solo concerto - Vivaldi, the Age of Reason - the Classical Period, Mozart, von Dittersdorf, Haydn, Mozart, Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven.CD 3 The Romantic Period (C 1827 - 1900)This includes:The concept of Romanticism - Beethoven, Berlioz, Schubert, The piano, Chopin, Schumman, Dvorak, Grieg, France - Cesar Franck, Russia - the Mighty Handful - Borodin, Liszt, Bruckner, Brahms, Mahler, Tchaiskovsky, The Concerto - Mendelssohn, the amateur choral tradition - Brahms, Opera - Rossini, Meyerbeer, Bel Canto - Bellini, Donizetti, Offenbach, Bizet, Verdi, Puccini, Weber, Wagner.CD 4 The Twentieth CenturyThis includes:Stravinsky, Impressionism - Debussy, New Directions, Stravinsky, SErialism - Schoenberg, Richard Strauss, Holst, Elgar, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Rachmaninov: Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Szymanowski, Bartok, Copland, Villa-Lobos, Rodrigo, Varese and Boulez, Minimalism - Reich, Glass and Adams, Gorecki, Tippett, Britten, Arvo Part. Altogether an enjoyable treat.