Robert Powell Discography The History of Classical Music

The History of Classical Music

Featuring

Release date 1997

Tracklist

1

The Sound of Gregorian Chant

4:48

2

Plainsong: The Ambrosian Chant

0:58

3

The Dorian, Phrygian and Lydian Modes

1:25

4

Hildegard of Bingen

2:04

5

The Gothic Age…Léonin (Active c1160-c1180) and Pérotin (Active c1180-1236)

4:15

6

3:46

7

The Troubadour Tradition

5:48

8

Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377

2:34

9

The Madrigal - Francesco Landini 1325-1397

5:16

10

Guillaume Dufay 1400-1474 and Johannes Ockeghem c1420-1495

9:47

11

The Agincourt Carol - 1415

2:37

12

The Renaissance - Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina 1525-1594

5:56

13

The High Renaissance in England

9:10

14

The Madrigal in France, Italy and England

6:00

15

John Dowland 1536-1626

6:27

16

Andrea c1510-1586 and Giovanni Gabrieli 1557-1612 Sonata A 12 - 1597

3:11

17

The Birth of Opera

3:55

18

Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 and the Growth of Opera

9:38

19

Music in England - Henry Purcell 1659-1695

5:27

20

George Frederic Handel 1685-1759

2:04

21

Church Music in the Baroque - The Oratorio and the Cantata

4:25

22

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750

5:35

23

The Development of Keys

2:46

24

Music for Keyboards

5:52

25

2:45

26

The Development of the Solo Concerto

5:08

27

The Age of Reason - The Classical Period

1:52

28

2:44

29

3:19

30

Franz Joseph Haydn 1735-1782

7:05

31

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791

4:52

32

Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714-1787

5:36

33

Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827

6:27

34

The Concept of Romanticism

2:48

35

Hector Berlioz 1803-1869

4:32

36

Franz Schubert 1797-1828

5:46

37

1:23

38

Frederic Chopin 1810-1849

2:52

39

Robert Schumann 1810-1856

3:56

40

Antonin Dvořák 1841-1904

3:24

41

Eduard Grieg 1843-1907

2:55

42

France - César Franck 1822-1890

1:49

43

Russia - The Mighty Handful

3:19

44

Franz Liszt 1811-1886

2:28

45

Anton Bruckner 1824-1890

2:28

46

Johannes Brahms 1833-1897

2:37

47

Gustav Mahler 1860-1911

5:25

48

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893

4:35

49

Felix Mendelssohn and the Concerto 1809-1847

1:34

50

The Amateur Choral Tradition

1:59

51

Opera - Gioacchino Rossini 1791-1868

3:13

52

Grand Opera - Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791-1864

1:19

53

Bel Canto - Vincenzo Bellini 1801-1835 and Gaetano Donizetti 1797-1848

4:56

54

Jacques Offenbach 1819-1880

1:43

55

Georges Bizet 1838-1910

1:39

56

Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901

3:03

57

Giacomo Puccini 1858-1924

2:15

58

Opera in Germany - Carl Maria Von Weber 1786-1826

2:24

59

Richard Wagner 1813-1883

4:56

60

2:44

61

Claude Debussy 1862-1918 and Impressionism

3:20

62

1:49

63

Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971

4:27

64

Arnold Schönberg 1874-1951 and Serialism

5:03

65

Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992

1:00

66

Richard Strauss 1864-1949

3:19

67

Gustav Holst 1874-1934

2:34

68

Edward Elgar 1857-1934

2:56

69

Jean Sibelius 1865-1957

4:04

70

Ralph Vaughan Williams 1873-1958

0:52

71

Sergei Rachmaninov 1873-1943

2:11

72

Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975

3:46

73

Sergei Prokofiev 1890-1953

1:57

74

Post WWI France - Les Six

2:26

75

The Folk Music Heritage and Nationalism

1:05

76

Poland - Karol Szymanowski 1882-1945

1:06

77

Hungary - Béla Bartók 1882-1945

2:59

78

Czechoslovakia - Leoš Janáček 1854-1928 and Bohuslav Martinů 1890-1962

3:04

79

United States - Charles Ives 1874-1954 and Aaron Copland 1900-1990

4:06

80

South America - Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887-1959

1:34

81

Spain - Joaquin Rodrigo 1901-1999

1:10

82

Other Directions - The Far East and Film Music

3:12

83

New Sounds - Edgard Varèse 1883-1965, Pierre Boulez 1925-2016 et al

6:30

84

Minimalism - Steve Reich 1936-, Philip Glass 1937- and John Adams 1947-

1:06

85

Henryk Górecki 1933-2010

1:27

86

Michael Tippett 1905-1998

1:51

87

Benjamin Britten 1913-1976

3:31

88

At the Close of the 20th Century

3:56

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