The Story of Classical Music / Darren Henley (unabridged) [4 CDs]

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Naxos AudioBooks
Release Date
July 1, 2004
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      HENLEY DARREN
    • PERFORMER
      Henley Darren
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 01, 2004
    • UPC
      9789626343104
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NA331012
    • LABEL
      Naxos AudioBooks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      4
    • GENRE
      Junior Non-Fiction
    Works ⌄

    1. The Story of Classical Music

    2. The Year 600: Music in Churches

    3. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

    4. Medieval to Renaissance: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594)

    5. The Birth of Opera: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) / Franciscus Bossinensis (fl. 1510)

    6. Into the 17th Century: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)

    7. London: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

    8. Germany: Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)

    9. Italy: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1715)

    10. Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

    11. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

    12. Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1750)

    13. Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

    14. The Classical Period: An Explanation

    15. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)

    16. Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)

    17. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

    18. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

    19. Mozart's Great Works

    20. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

    21. Beethoven's Great Works

    22. Background History

    23. The composer as a Star

    24. Nicolò Paganini (1782-1840)

    25. Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)

    26. Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

    27. Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

    28. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

    29. Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849)

    30. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

    31. Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

    32. Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

    33. Clara Schumann (1819-1896)

    34. Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

    35. Max Bruch (1838-1920)

    36. Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

    37. Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

    38. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

    39. Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

    40. The Waltz: The Strauss Family

    41. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

    42. Léo Delibes (1836-1891)

    43. Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

    44. Russia, the national voice and the 'Mighty Handful'

    45. Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

    46. Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

    47. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

    48. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

    49. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Continued)

    50. Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

    51. Norway – Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

    52. England – Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)

    53. France – Jules Massenet (1842-1912)

    54. Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

    55. Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

    56. Spain – Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

    57. Industrial progress

    58. England – Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

    59. Italy – Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

    60. Austria – Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

    61. France – Paul Dukas (1865-1935)

    62. Erik Satie (1866-1925)

    63. Maurice Ravel (1875-1837)

    64. Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

    65. Finland – Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

    66. England – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

    67. Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

    68. Russia – Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

    69. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

    70. Russia – Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

    71. Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

    72. Hungary – Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

    73. Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

    74. Austria – Anton Webern (1883-1945)

    75. Carl Orff (1895-1982)

    76. Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)

    77. USA – Charles Ives (1874-1954)

    78. Roy Harris (1898-1979)

    79. George Gershwin (1898-1937)

    80. Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

    81. Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

    82. Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

    83. England – William Walton (1902-1983)

    84. Russia – Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

    85. England – Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

    86. France – Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

    87. France and USA – Edgard Varèse (1883-1965)

    88. USA – John Cage (1912-1992)

    89. England – John Tavener (b. 1944)

    90. USA – Philip Glass (b. 1937)

    91. Hans Zimmer (b. 1957)

    92. Howard Shore (b. 1946)

    93. John Williams (b. 1932)

    94. Epilogue


This exclusive 6-disc collection from the BR Klassik label features legendary voices in previous unreleased recordings from the archives of Bavarian Broadcasting in Munich. The "Munich Sunday Concerts" series of live radio shows began in 1952 (and continue to the present day) with an international cast appearing with the Munich Radio Orchestra. This "best-of " compilation features classic voices like Margaret Price, Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Elisabeth Grummer, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Mirella Freni. 6 top notch live recordings together in one set, and each one a gem