The History of Classical Music - Richard Fawkes read by Robert Powell

The History of Classical Music

Other by Richard Fawkes read by Robert Powell

Released August 1997

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CD 1: The Early, Medieval and Renaissance Periods
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: The Baroque Period (c1600-1750) The Classical Period (c1750-1800)
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: The Romantic Period (c1827-1900)
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: The Twentieth Century
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