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Classic FM's Big Book of Classical Music is a fully illustrated book detailing each day of the year in classical music - the perfect coffee table companion for any classical music lover. Entries contain original illustrations, landmark events taking place on that day, profiles of the great composers, recommended listening, and much more. From the birth of Chopin on 22nd February, to the premiere of the Eroica Symphony on April 7th and the death of Mozart on December 5th, every day reveals a fascinating new musical milestone - the perfect excuse to sit back, relax, and listen to your favourite classical music. Each beautifully-illustrated entry pulls together facts, figures and noteworthy events - including biographies of the essential composers, suggesting listening for each day of the year, musical quotations and a host of other material. The perfect Christmas gift for classical music aficionados and a highly accessible introduction for anyone new to the genre, this beautiful book is an indispensible guide to take you through a year in classical music.
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• Disc 1. The escape from Riga
• London, Paris and Rienzi
• What to do about Germany?
• The rise of German Opera
• Disc 2. The Flying Dutchman (parts 1 & 2)
• Dresden and Tannhäuser (parts 1 & 2)

• Disc 3. Lohengrin (parts 1 & 2)
• The escape from Dresden, exile and essay
• Tristan and Isolde (part 1)
• Disc 4. Tristan and Isolde (part 2)
• Miracles
• The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (parts 1 & 2)

• Disc 5. The Ring (parts 1-4)
• Disc 6. The Ring (part 5-6)
• Parsifal (parts 1 & 2)

Richard Wagner was one of history's greatest composers, a theater artist of extraordinary genius and vision, and one of the most controversial characters in the entire pantheon of Western art. •As a composer, he rewrote the rules for opera—reenvisioning its musical forms and creating dazzling and unforgettable dramatic tapestries that melded orchestral magnificence with the soaring beauty of the human voice. •As a theater artist, he pioneered the "Gesamtkunstwerk" or "total artwork" that incorporated music, drama, poetry, philosophy, myth, and ritual, building a theater of revolutionary design and creating musical dramas on a scale never before attempted in history. •And, as a self-styled theorist, he pursued an agenda of militant German nationalism, anti-Semitism, elitist prejudice, and unbounded self-glorification in his often troubling philosophical tracts and essays. More than a century after his death, his legacy is still debated, his influence still felt in our very conception of Western music and in the contemporary forms of opera and the complete spectrum of theater and literary arts. Grappling with all of this in the 24 lectures of The Music of Richard Wagner, Great Courses favorite Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances returns with a rich and multifaceted exploration of the trailblazing works and outsized life of this historically pivotal figure

"The Rough Guide to Classical Music" is the ideal handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to contemporaries such as Thomas Ades and Kaija Saariaho. Both a CD buyer's guide and a who's who, the guide includes concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. For novices and experts alike, the fully updated fifth edition features contemporary composer Helmut Lachenmann and Widor, the 19th century organ composer of 'Toccata' wedding fame, as well as dozens more works added for existing composers. You'll find an new 'Top 10's' section with accessible introductory listings including the Top 10 operas and the Top 10 symphonies plus new essay boxes on topics such as 'Baroque - a style or a period?' and 'The clarinet comes of age'. "The Rough Guide to Classical Music" features fresh and incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting the very best of the latest recordings and reissues as well as more than 150 illustrations of composers and performers, including a rare archive of photos.
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"In his 1985 BBC televsion essay examining the roots of Mahler's inspiration, Leonard Bernstein talks, plays, and conducts the London Symphony, Vienna, and Israel Philharmonic orchestras."--Container.

• Franz Liszt: Life and Works / Franz Liszt (Jeremy Siepmann, reader).

This detailed musical reference work combines an introduction to classical music and the major composers, with a personal commentary by the author. He relates his favourite performances and the outstanding recordings that have been available to the public from the 1920s to the 1980s.
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Documentary. Biography includes dramatizations of scenes from Bach's life which are interspersed with performances of his music by the above named artists.

Gustav Mahler's life and music explained by Leonard Bernstein. In this musical essay, Leonard Bernstein recollects and relives his experiences with the music of the great Viennese composer and conductor Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Bernstein filmed all of Mahler's ten symphonies as well as Das Lied von der Erde and the Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. The vocal soloists of these productions, Dame Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp and Walton Groenroos, underscore Leonard Bernstein's elucidations with appropriate music examples. The recordings with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra were made in Tel Aviv, those with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Cathedral of Ely and those with the Wiener Philharmoniker in the Grosser Musikvereinssaal in Vienna, in which Gustav Mahler himself conducted. The Little Drummer Boy illustrates the fundamental concepts of Leonard Bernstein's interpretation of Mahler's works, and exposes not only the building material and framework of Mahler's brilliant structures, but also the tensional pulls within them. Searching for the musical roots and the hidden truths guiding the composer, Leonard Bernstein discovers the key to Mahler's music in the composer's repressed Jewishness. Starting from the song Der Tambourg'sell (from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, written in 1899), Leonard Bernstein spans a broad arch over all the symphonies and concludes with Mahler's last and greatest song, the Lied von der Erde.

• Johann Sebastian Bach : Brandenburg concertos (s. 1046/51) ; Chaconne (from violin partita no. 2, s. 1004) ; Magnificat in d major, s. 243
• Bela Bartok : Concerto for orchestra
• Ludwig van Beethoven : Concerto no. 3 in c minor for piano, op. 37 ; Concerto no. 4 in g major for piano, op. 73, "emperor" ; Concerto in d major for violin, op. 61 ; Piano sonata no. 14 in c-sharp minor, op. 27, no. 2 "moonlight" ; Symphony no. 1 in c major, op. 21 ; Symphony no. 2 in d major, op. 36 ; Symphony no. 3 in e-flat major, op. 55, "erotica" ; Symphony no. 4 in b-flat major, op. 60 ; Symphony no. 5 in c minor, op. 67 ; Symphony no. 6 in f major, op. 68, "pastoral" ; Symphony no. 7 in a major, op. 92 ; Symphony no. 8 in f major, op. 93 ; Symphony no. 9 in d minor, op. 125 ; Trio no. 6 in b-flat major, op. 97, "archduke"
• Hector Berlioz : Harold in Italy, for viola and orchestra, op. 16 ; Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
• Georges Bizet : Symphony no. 1in c major
• Johannes Brahms : Concerto in a minor for violin and cello, op. 102 ; Concerto no. 1 in d minor for piano, op. 15 ; Concerto no. 2 in b-flat major for piano, op. 15 ; Concerto in d major for violin, op. 77 ; Symphony no. 1 in c minor, op. 68 ; Symphony no. 2 in d major, op. 73 ; Symphony no. 3 in f major, op. 90 ; Symphony no. 4 in e minor, op. 98
• Anton Bruckner : Symphony no. 7 in e major ; Symphony no. 9 in d minor
• Frederic Chopin : Concerto no. 2 in f minor for piano, op. 21 ; Waltzes
• Aaron Copland : Billy the kid and rodeo
• Claude Debussy : Iberia (no. 2 from images pour orchestre) ; La mer
• Antonin Dvorak : Concerto in b minor for cello, op. 104 ; Symphony no. 7 in d minor, op. 70 ; Symphony no. 8 in g major, op. 88 ; Symphony no. 9 in e minor, op. 95, "new world"
• Edward Elgar : "Enigma" variations
• Cesar France : Sonata in a major for violin and piano ; Symphony in d minor
• George Gershwin : An American in Paris ; Concerto in f major for piano ; Rhapsody in blue
• Edvard Grieg : Concerto in a minor piano, op. 16
• George Frideric Handel : Messiah ; Water music
• Franz Josef Haydn : Symphony no. 94 in g major, "surprise" ; Symphony no. 101 in d major, "clock" ; Symphony no. 104 in d major, "London"
• Franz Liszt : Concerto no. 1 in e-flat major for piano
• Gustav Mahler : Symphony no. 1 in d major ; Symphony no. 4 in g major ; Symphony no. 9 in d major
• Felix Mendelssohn : Concerto in e minor for violin, op. 64 ; Symphony no. 3 in a minor, op. 56, "scotch" ; Symphony no. 4 in a major, op. 90, "Italian"
• Modest Moussorgsky : Pictures at an exhibition
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Concerto no. 20 in d minor for piano, e. 466 ; Quintet in a major for clarinet and strings, k. 581 ; Sinfonia concertante in e-flat major for violin and viola, k. 364 ; Symphony no. 35 in d major, k. 385, "Haffner"
• Symphony no. 39 in e-flat major, k. 543 ; Symphony no. 40 in g minor, k. 550 ; Symphony no. 41 in c major, k. 551, "Jupiter"
• Serge Prokofiev : Peter and the wolf, op. 67 ; Symphony no. 5, op. 100
• Sergei Rachmaninoff : Concerto no. 2 in c minor for piano, op. 18 ; Concerto no. 3 in d minor for piano, op. 30
• Maurice Ravel : Daphne and Chloe
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov : Scheherazade, op. 35
• Charles Camille Saint-Saens : Carnival of the animals ; Symphony no. 3 in c minor, op. 78, "organ"
• Franz Schubert : Quintet in a major, op. 114, d. 667, "trout" ; Quintet in c major, op. 163, d. 959 ; Symphony no. 8 in b minor, d. 759, "unfinished ; Symphony no. 9 in c major, d. 944, "the great"
• Robert Schumann : Concerto in a minor for cello and orchestra, op. 129 ; Concerto in a minor for piano and orchestra, op. 154 ; Symphony no. 1 in b-flat major, op. 38, "spring"
• Dmitri Shostakovich : Symphony no. 1 in f major, op. 10 ; Symphony no. 5, op. 47
• Jean Sibelius : Symphony no. 1 in e minor, op. 39 ; Symphony no. 2 in d major, op. 43 ; Symphony no. 5 in e-flat major, op. 82
• Bedrich Smetana : the Moldau (from Ma vlast)
• Richard Strauss : Don Juan, op. 20 ; Till Eulenspiegel, op. 28
• Igor Stravinsky : Petrouchka ; Le Sacre Du Printemps
• Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky : Concerto no. 1 in b-flat minor for piano and orchestra, op. 23 ; Concerto in d major for violin and orchestra, op. 35 ; The nutcracker, op. 71 ; Serenade in c major for strings, op. 48 ; Symphony no. 4 in f minor, op. 36 ; Symphony no. 5 in e minor, op. 64 ; Symphony no. 6 in b minor, op. 74, "pathetique"
• Antonio Vivaldi : The four seasons, op. 8