Robert Powell

The History of Classical Music

Featuring
Release date 1997

Tracklist

1
The Sound of Gregorian Chant
4:48
4:48
2
Plainsong: The Ambrosian Chant
0:58
0:58
3
The Dorian, Phrygian and Lydian Modes
1:25
1:25
4
Hildegard of Bingen
2:04
2:04
5
The Gothic Age…Léonin (Active c1160-c1180) and Pérotin (Active c1180-1236)
4:15
4:15
6
The Motet
3:46
3:46
7
The Troubadour Tradition
5:48
5:48
8
Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377
2:34
2:34
9
The Madrigal - Francesco Landini 1325-1397
5:16
5:16
10
Guillaume Dufay 1400-1474 and Johannes Ockeghem c1420-1495
9:47
9:47
11
The Agincourt Carol - 1415
2:37
2:37
12
The Renaissance - Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina 1525-1594
5:56
5:56
13
The High Renaissance in England
9:10
9:10
14
The Madrigal in France, Italy and England
6:00
6:00
15
John Dowland 1536-1626
6:27
6:27
16
Andrea c1510-1586 and Giovanni Gabrieli 1557-1612 Sonata A 12 - 1597
3:11
3:11
17
The Birth of Opera
3:55
3:55
18
Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 and the Growth of Opera
9:38
9:38
19
Music in England - Henry Purcell 1659-1695
5:27
5:27
20
George Frederic Handel 1685-1759
2:04
2:04
21
Church Music in the Baroque - The Oratorio and the Cantata
4:25
4:25
22
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
5:35
5:35
23
The Development of Keys
2:46
2:46
24
Music for Keyboards
5:52
5:52
25
The Violin
2:45
2:45
26
The Development of the Solo Concerto
5:08
5:08
27
The Age of Reason - The Classical Period
1:52
1:52
28
Sonata Form
2:44
2:44
29
The Symphony
3:19
3:19
30
Franz Joseph Haydn 1735-1782
7:05
7:05
31
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
4:52
4:52
32
Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714-1787
5:36
5:36
33
Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827
6:27
6:27
34
The Concept of Romanticism
2:48
2:48
35
Hector Berlioz 1803-1869
4:32
4:32
36
Franz Schubert 1797-1828
5:46
5:46
37
The Piano
1:23
1:23
38
Frederic Chopin 1810-1849
2:52
2:52
39
Robert Schumann 1810-1856
3:56
3:56
40
Antonin Dvořák 1841-1904
3:24
3:24
41
Eduard Grieg 1843-1907
2:55
2:55
42
France - César Franck 1822-1890
1:49
1:49
43
Russia - The Mighty Handful
3:19
3:19
44
Franz Liszt 1811-1886
2:28
2:28
45
Anton Bruckner 1824-1890
2:28
2:28
46
Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
2:37
2:37
47
Gustav Mahler 1860-1911
5:25
5:25
48
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
4:35
4:35
49
Felix Mendelssohn and the Concerto 1809-1847
1:34
1:34
50
The Amateur Choral Tradition
1:59
1:59
51
Opera - Gioacchino Rossini 1791-1868
3:13
3:13
52
Grand Opera - Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791-1864
1:19
1:19
53
Bel Canto - Vincenzo Bellini 1801-1835 and Gaetano Donizetti 1797-1848
4:56
4:56
54
Jacques Offenbach 1819-1880
1:43
1:43
55
Georges Bizet 1838-1910
1:39
1:39
56
Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901
3:03
3:03
57
Giacomo Puccini 1858-1924
2:15
2:15
58
Opera in Germany - Carl Maria Von Weber 1786-1826
2:24
2:24
59
Richard Wagner 1813-1883
4:56
4:56
60
Isms
2:44
2:44
61
Claude Debussy 1862-1918 and Impressionism
3:20
3:20
62
New Directions
1:49
1:49
63
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
4:27
4:27
64
Arnold Schönberg 1874-1951 and Serialism
5:03
5:03
65
Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992
1:00
1:00
66
Richard Strauss 1864-1949
3:19
3:19
67
Gustav Holst 1874-1934
2:34
2:34
68
Edward Elgar 1857-1934
2:56
2:56
69
Jean Sibelius 1865-1957
4:04
4:04
70
Ralph Vaughan Williams 1873-1958
0:52
0:52
71
Sergei Rachmaninov 1873-1943
2:11
2:11
72
Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975
3:46
3:46
73
Sergei Prokofiev 1890-1953
1:57
1:57
74
Post WWI France - Les Six
2:26
2:26
75
The Folk Music Heritage and Nationalism
1:05
1:05
76
Poland - Karol Szymanowski 1882-1945
1:06
1:06
77
Hungary - Béla Bartók 1882-1945
2:59
2:59
78
Czechoslovakia - Leoš Janáček 1854-1928 and Bohuslav Martinů 1890-1962
3:04
3:04
79
United States - Charles Ives 1874-1954 and Aaron Copland 1900-1990
4:06
4:06
80
South America - Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887-1959
1:34
1:34
81
Spain - Joaquin Rodrigo 1901-1999
1:10
1:10
82
Other Directions - The Far East and Film Music
3:12
3:12
83
New Sounds - Edgard Varèse 1883-1965, Pierre Boulez 1925-2016 et al
6:30
6:30
84
Minimalism - Steve Reich 1936-, Philip Glass 1937- and John Adams 1947-
1:06
1:06
85
Henryk Górecki 1933-2010
1:27
1:27
86
Michael Tippett 1905-1998
1:51
1:51
87
Benjamin Britten 1913-1976
3:31
3:31
88
At the Close of the 20th Century
3:56
3:56