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In 2004, listeners to the BBC Radio's Today program voted Adagio for Strings the "saddest classical" work ever, ahead of "Dido's Lament" from Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, the Adagietto from Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony, Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss, and Gloomy Sunday as sung by Billie Holiday. [20] [21]
During the Classical era, C minor was used infrequently and often for works of a particularly turbulent cast. [citation needed] Mozart, for instance, wrote only very few works in this key, but they are among his most dramatic ones (the twenty-fourth piano concerto, the fourteenth piano sonata, the Masonic Funeral Music, the Adagio and Fugue in C minor and the Great Mass in C minor, for instance).
Valse triste (literal English translation: Sad Waltz), Op. 44/1, is a short orchestral work by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.It was originally part of the incidental music he composed for his brother-in-law Arvid Järnefelt's 1903 play Kuolema (Death), but is far better known as a separate concert piece.
12 Variations in E♭ major on the Romance "Je suis Lindor" from "Le Barbier de Seville" by Pierre Beaumarchais, music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron, K. 354 (Paris, 1778) 6 Variations in F major on the aria "Salve tu, Domine" from the opera "I filosofi immaginarii" by Giovanni Paisiello , K. 398 (Vienna, 1783)
The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music is a compilation of classical works recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor David Parry. [2] Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Royal Festival Hall and Henry Wood Hall in London, the compilation was released in digital formats in November, 2009 and as a 4-CD set in 2011. [3]
Rhapsody in Blue (1924), Gershwin's most famous classical work, a symphonic jazz composition for Paul Whiteman's jazz band & piano, premiered at Aeolian Hall, New York City, better known in the form orchestrated for full symphonic orchestra. Both versions were orchestrated by Ferde Grofé. Featured in numerous films and commercials.
[2] 21 sonatas — numbering of Schubert's piano sonatas as most encountered on recordings etc., for instance on the Schubert page at Classical Archives. Also IMSLP follows this numbering for their page names of Schubert's piano sonatas. Wiener Urtext Edition follows the same numbering, except that Op. 122 is No. 8, the ensuing D. 571, 575, 613 ...
solo voice and piano 1900 "Night" solo voice and piano 1900: Paraphrase of Bizet: Minuet from L'Arlésienne, revised 1922: piano 1900–1: 17: Suite No. 2: two pianos 1900–1: 18: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor: piano concerto 1901: 19: Cello Sonata in G minor: cello and piano 1902: 20: Spring Cantata: baritone solo, chorus, and orchestra ...
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