HENLEY: The Story of Classical Music

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The Story of Classical Music (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


1.   The Story of Classical Music - 2:10


The Medieval Period (600-1490) (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


2.   The Year 600: Music in Churches - 2:10
3.   Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) - 2:33


The Renaissance Period (1490-1600) (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


4.   Medieval to Renaissance: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6-1594) - 2:41
5.   The Birth of Opera: Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) / Franciscus Bossinensis (fl. 1510) - 3:49


The Baroque Period (1600-1750) (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


6.   Into the 17th Century: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) - 3:03
7.   London: Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - 2:09
8.   Germany: Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) - 2:04
9.   Italy: Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1715) - 2:04
10.   Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - 6:48
11.   George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) - 8:01
12.   Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1750) - 2:21
13.   Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - 4:38


The Classical Period (1750-1830) (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


14.   The Classical Period: An Explanation - 1:58
15.   Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) - 1:32
16.   Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) - 1:35
17.   Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - 6:14
18.   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - 5:21
19.   Mozart's Great Works - 5:37
20.   Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - 4:31
21.   Beethoven's Great Works - 5:00


The Romantic Period (1830-1900) (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


22.   Background History - 2:25

The Romantic Period (Continued) (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


1.   The Composer as a Star - 1:39
2.   Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840) - 2:48
3.   Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) - 2:05
4.   Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) - 1:50
5.   Franz Schubert (1797-1828) - 4:48
6.   Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) - 4:10
7.   Fryderyk Chopin (1810-1849) - 5:00
8.   Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) - 5:53
9.   Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - 1:57
10.   Robert Schumann (1810-1856) - 1:36
11.   Clara Schumann (1819-1896) - 1:34
12.   Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - 4:31
13.   Max Bruch (1838-1920) - 1:51
14.   Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) - 1:42
15.   Richard Wagner (1813-1883) - 3:57
16.   Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) - 4:17
17.   Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) - 1:16
18.   The Waltz: The Strauss Family - 4:17
19.   Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) - 4:49
20.   Leo Delibes (1836-1891) - 1:06
21.   Georges Bizet (1838-1875) - 2:05
22.   Russia, the National Voice and the 'Mighty Handful' - 2:14
23.   Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) - 1:27
24.   Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) - 4:32
25.   Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) - 3:50
26.   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - 3:56

The Romantic Period (Continued) (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


1.   Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Continued) - 3:35
2.   Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) - 3:09
3.   Norway: Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) - 2:50
4.   England: Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) - 3:18
5.   France: Jules Massenet (1842-1912) - 2:51


The Late Romantics, Impressionists and Others (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


6.   Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) - 2:19
7.   Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - 2:38
8.   Spain: Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) - 1:50
9.   Industrial Progress - 0:45
10.   England: Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - 5:27
11.   Italy: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) - 4:11
12.   Austria: Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - 1:58
13.   France: Paul Dukas (1865-1935) - 1:25
14.   Erik Satie (1866-1925) - 1:52
15.   Maurice Ravel (1875-1837) - 2:35
16.   Richard Strauss (1864-1949) - 2:06
17.   Finland: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - 2:08
18.   England: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) - 3:09
19.   Gustav Holst (1874-1934) - 2:07
20.   Russia: Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) - 3:39


New Directions in the 20th Century (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


21.   Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) - 2:10
22.   Russia: Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) - 3:24
23.   Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - 6:09
24.   Hungary: Bela Bartok (1881-1945) - 2:35
25.   Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) - 1:12
26.   Austria: Anton Webern (1883-1945) - 2:31
27.   Carl Orff (1895-1982) - 1:37
28.   Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) - 1:08
29.   USA: Charles Ives (1874-1954) - 2:46
30.   Roy Harris (1898-1979) - 1:13

New Directions in the 20th Century (Contiinued) (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


1.   George Gershwin (1898-1937) - 4:46
2.   Aaron Copland (1900-1990) - 2:46
3.   Samuel Barber (1910-1981) - 1:46


After the Second World War (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


4. Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) - 2:03
5. England: William Walton (1902-1983) - 2:47
6. Russia: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) - 4:23
7. England: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) - 1:57
8. France: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - 3:00


Composers of the Avant-Garde (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


9. France and USA: Edgard Varese (1883-1965) - 2:21
10. USA: John Cage (1912-1992) - 1:52


Minimalism (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


11. England: John Tavener (b. 1944) - 1:25
12. USA: Philip Glass (b. 1937) - 1:55


Film Music (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


13. Hans Zimmer (b. 1957) - 1:32
14. Howard Shore (b. 1946) - 1:16
15. John Williams (b. 1932) - 1:42


Epilogue (more info)
Composed by: Phil Baggaley
Marin Alsop, narrator


16. Epilogue - 1:11

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