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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]
In the South is less often heard in the concert hall than many of Elgar's other major orchestral works. Remarking on the fact, The Musical Times speculated in 1973, "Why has Elgar's In the South failed to catch on even with today's enthusiasm for his music? The subtitle 'Alassio' and the modest description 'concert overture' for what is ...
Herbert von Karajan conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra – Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hindemith: Mathis der Mahler; Bruno Walter conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra – Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major; Wagner: Tannhauser Overture and Venusberg Music
After the original music was written, the words were added by the Choral Association's poet, Joseph Weyl. [1] [3] Strauss later added more music, and Weyl needed to change some of the words. [4] Strauss adapted it into a purely orchestral version for the 1867 Paris World's Fair, and it became a great success in this form. [1]
one of the beautiful orchestral works of the pre-war period, and one of the last testimonies of symphonic art, which, after 1918, no longer found the favour it had enjoyed at the junction of the two centuries: [7] Louis Vierne's symphony is, along with those of Paul Dukas, Vincent d'Indy and Albéric Magnard, a fine example of the generous and ...
The orchestral program music tradition is also continued in some pieces for jazz orchestras. For narrative or evocative popular music, please see Concept Album . Any discussion of program music brings to mind Walt Disney 's animated features Fantasia (1940) and Fantasia 2000 (1999), in which the Disney animators provided graphic visualisation ...
Frédéric Chopin's compositions for piano and orchestra originated from the late 1820s to the early 1830s, and comprise three concert pieces he composed 1827–1828, while a student at the Central School of Music in Warsaw, [1] two piano concertos, completed and premièred between finishing his studies (mid 1829) and leaving Poland (late 1830 ...
Stravinsky's music is typically divided into three style periods: the Russian period (c. 1907–1919), the neoclassical period (c. 1920–1954), and the serial period (1954–1968). Stravinsky's Russian period is characterized by the use of Russian folk tunes and the influence of Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky , Glazunov , and Taneyev .