The Water Goblin by Antonín Dvořák

Antoni Leopold Dvořák was a composer and one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition. In line with the Romantic era’s nationalist idiom he frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the traditional folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia.

Advertisements

Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky

Title: Pictures at an Exhibition Date: 1874 Composer: Modest Mussorgsky Movement: Romantic Born: 21 March 1839, Karevo, Russia Russian Died: 28 March 1881, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Minuetto by Luigi Boccherini

Title: Minuetto Date: 1771 Composer: Luigi Boccherini Movement: Classical Born: 19 February 1743, Lucca, Italy Italian Died: 26 May 1805, Madrid, Spain

Figaro’s Aria, The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini

Title: Figaro’s Aria Date: 18123 Composer: Gioachino Rossini Movement: Opera Italian Born: 29 February 1792, Pesaro, Italy Died: 13 November 1868, Paris, France

Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland was a composition teacher, composer, writer and conductor.

Gustav Holst: The Planets – Venus

Gustavos Theodore von Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. There had been professional musicians on the Holst family and it was noted when he was a young boy he would follow the same calling. Apart from the Planet Suite and a few other pieces his music was largely ignored until the 1980s.

The Four Seasons – Autumn by Antonio Vivaldi

  https://youtu.be/Q8AN0jWNrJA Title: The Four Seasons - Autumn Date: 1723 Composer: Antonio Vivaldi Movement: Baroque Italian 1678 - 1741 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was a composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. He is recognised as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and within his lifetime his influence was widespread across Europe. He composed numerous concertos for …

Dance of the Furies by Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck

  https://youtu.be/vvVl15XXrOg Title: Dance of the Furies Date: 1776 Composer: Christoph Wilibald Ritter von Gluck Movement: Classical German 1714 - 1767 Christoph Wilibald Ritter von Gluck was a composer of Italian and French opera during the early classical era. With a series of radical works, including Orfeo ed Euridice, he broke into the stranglehold of …

Eduardo di Capua and Alfredo Mazzucchi: O Sole Mio

Sung by Luciano Pavarotti https://youtu.be/d_mLFHLSULw Title: O Sole Mio Date: 1898 Composer: Eduardo di Capua and Alfredo Mazzucchi Tenor Vocals: Luciano Pavarotti Opera 1935 – 2007 Luciano Pavarotti was an operatic tenor. He also crossed over into popular music becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time. As one of the finest …

Modest Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain

https://youtu.be/iCEDfZgDPS8 Title: A Night on Bald Mountain Date: 1867 Composer: Modest Mussorgsky Romantic Era Russian 1839 - 1881   Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a composer and an innovator of Russian music during the Romantic period. In defiance of the conventions of the Western music establishment, he deliberately strove to give Russian music its own identity. …

Astor Piazzolla: Libertango

  https://youtu.be/WpEpS1FX5ic Title: Libertango Date: 1974 Composer: Astor Piazzolla Nuevo Tango Argentine 1921 - 1992 Astor Pantaléon Piazzolla was a composer, particularly of music for the tango, a bandoneon player and arranger. His compositions revolutionised tango music into the nuevo style combining elements of jazz and classical music. He has been described as the ‘world’s …

La Follia

  https://youtu.be/VHRdFILo_Yw  Title: La Follia Date: 1700 Composer: Arcangelo Corelli Movement: Baroque Italian 1653 - 1713 Arcangelo Corelli was an Italian violinist and composer. He studied under Giovanni Battista Bassani and Matteo Simonelli. Corelli’s first major success was at the age of 19 in Paris. By 1679 he had entered the service of Queen Christina …

Sarabande

https://youtu.be/JSAd3NpDi6Q Title: Sarabande Date: Between 1703 and 1706 Composer: George Frideric Handel Movement: Baroque German 1685 - 1759 George Frideric Handel was a baroque composer born in Germany but spent most pf his career in London. He was well known for his operas, oratorios and organ concertos. When he died in 1759 he was given …

The Isle of Dead

  https://youtu.be/dbbtmskCRUY Title: The Isle of Dead Date: 1908 Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff Movement: Romantic Russian 1973 - 1943 Sergei Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a pianist, composer and conductor. His works are among the most popular of the Romantic era. Rachmaninoff started to play the piano at 4 years old and graduated from the Moscow …

Ode to Death

https://youtu.be/73rX1AfaHz0 Title: Ode to Death Date: 1919 Composer: Gustav Holst English 1874 – 1934 Gustav Holst Gustavos Theodore von Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. There had been professional musicians on the Holst family and it was noted when he was a young boy he would follow the same calling. Apart from the …

Karelia Suite

https://youtu.be/1ryhN5kNFzc Title: Karelia Suite Date: 1893 Composer: Jean Sibelius Movement: Romantic Finnish 1865 – 1957 Jean Sibelius Johan Julius Christian Sibelius, better known as Jean Sibelius was a composer of the late Romantic and early Modern periods. He is widely recognised as Finland’s greatest composer and is credited with helping provide the country with a …

Waltz Opus 39 Nr. 15 For Violin

https://youtu.be/uSji5Gamq8Q Title: Waltz Opus 39 Nr. 15 for Violin Date: 1865 Composer: Johannes Brahms Movement: Romantic German 1833 – 1897

I Love You

https://youtu.be/xK-UFwM69K8 Title: I Love You Date: 1864 Composer: Edvard Grieg Movement: Romantic Norwegian 1843 – 1907

The Force of Destiny

https://youtu.be/EQjOaIyh6HQ  Title: The Force of Destiny Date: 1862 Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Italian 1813 – 1901

Serenade No.13 in G Major

https://youtu.be/j6gP3Lim7_k Title: Serenade No. 13 in G Major Date: 1787 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Movement: Classical Austrian 1756 – 1791

Prelude in C Major

https://youtu.be/zlAic9aPoqs Title: Prelude in C Major Date: 1722 Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Movement: Baroque German 1685 – 1750

Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

https://youtu.be/Gu77Vtja30c Title: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity Date: 1916 Composer: Gustav Holst English 1874 – 1934

The Four Seasons – Summer

https://youtu.be/KY1p-FmjT1M Title: The Four Seasons - Summer Date: 1723 Composer: Antonio Vivaldi Movement: Baroque Italian 1678 – 1741

O Mio Babbino Caro

https://youtu.be/s6bSrGbak1g Title: O Mio Babbino Caro Date: 1918 Composer: Giacomo Puccini Italian 1858 – 1924

In the Hall of the Mountain King

https://youtu.be/kLp_Hh6DKWc Title: In the Hall of the Mountain King Date: 1875 Composer: Edvard Grieg Movement: Romantic Norwegian 1843 – 1907

Lakmé Flower Duet

https://youtu.be/8Qx2lMaMsl8 Title: Lakmé Flower Duet Date: 1883 Composer: Léo Delibes Movement: Romantic French 1836 – 1891

O Fortuna

https://youtu.be/GXFSK0ogeg4 Date: 1937 Composer: Carl Orff German 1895 - 1982

Danse Macabre

https://youtu.be/YyknBTm_YyM Title: Danse Macabre Date: 1874 Composer: Camille Saint-Saens Movement: Romantic French 1835 – 1921

Adagio in G Minor

https://youtu.be/ATuoxYAsBvs  Title: Adagio in G Minor Date: 1970’a’s or 1980’s Composer: Remo Giazotto Italian 1910 – 1998

Stabat Mater

https://youtu.be/zIpbgr9aUEo Title: Stabat Mater Date: 1712 Composer: Antonio Vivaldi Movement: Baroque Italian 1678 – 1741

Agnus Dei

https://youtu.be/TFJ4hN7vxWo Title: Agnus Dei Date: 1967 Composer: Samuel Barber American 1910 - 1981

Zadok the Priest

https://youtu.be/EEuWUiXVwgM Title: Zadok the Priest Date: 1727 Composer: Georg Frideric Handel Movement: Baroque German 1685 - 1759

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Op 18

https://youtu.be/txkSRwyluBQ Title: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor Op 18 Date: 1900 Sergei Rachmaninov Movement: Romantic Russian 1873 – 1943

Black Swan Pas de Deux

https://youtu.be/P5AopfCTxTE    Title: Black Swan Pas de Deux Date: 1875 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Romantic Era Russian 1840 - 1893

Clair de Lune

https://youtu.be/CvFH_6DNRCY Title: Clair de Lune Date: 1905 Composer: Claude Debussy Movement: Impressionist French 1862 – 1918

Gymnopédie No.1

https://youtu.be/S-Xm7s9eGxU    Title: Gymnopédie No.1 Date: 1888 Composer: Erik Satie Movement: Modernism French 1866 - 1925  

Phantasy Quartet

https://youtu.be/aJQZ6qjn-q4   Title: Phantasy Quartet Date: 1932 Composer: Benjamin Britten Movement: 20th Century Classical English 22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976

Flight of the Bumblebee

https://youtu.be/kAJcVR0n-ek   Title: Flight of the Bumblebee Date: 1899 Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian 18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908

Mars, the Bringer of War

https://youtu.be/Jmk5frp6-3Q   Date: 1914 Composer: Gustav Holst English 21 Sept 1874 – 25 May 1934

Finlandia

https://youtu.be/F5zg_af9b8c   Date: 1899 Movement: Romantic Jean Sibelius Finnish 8 Dec 1865 – 20 Sept 1957

Brandenburg Concerto No 5

https://youtu.be/BnjqGhAlFzs 1721 Movement: Baroque Johann Sebastian Bach German 31 Mar 1685 – 28 July 1750

Blue Danube Waltz

https://youtu.be/lkzWF1UE1CI 1866 Movement: Romantic Johann Strauss II Austrian 25 Oct 1825 – 3 Jun 1899

Canon In D Major

https://youtu.be/hOA-2hl1Vbc Movement: Baroque Johann Pachelbel German 1653 – 13 Mar 1706

A Musical Joke IV Presto

https://youtu.be/lLjRDlnbyOw Wolfgang Amdeus Mozart Movement: Classical 27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791 Austrian

The Four Seasons – Spring

https://youtu.be/l-dYNttdgl0   Antonio Vivaldi Italian Movement: Baroque 4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741

Nocturne Op. 2

https://youtu.be/9E6b3swbnWg Frederic Chopin

Moonlight Sonata

  https://youtu.be/4Tr0otuiQuU Ludwig van Beethoven Movement: Transitional between Classical and Romantic Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

https://youtu.be/C66XCqWkhmw   George Frederic Handel Baroque 23 Feb 1685 – 14 Apr 1759

Boléro

https://youtu.be/LwLABSm0yYc   Maurice Ravel Movement: Impressionist 7 Mar 1875 – 28 Dec 1937

Marcia Trionfale

https://youtu.be/AssDQbaIP_I   Giuseppe Verdi Movement: Opera 10 Oct 1813 – 27 Jan 1901