MCCLEERY, D.: Discover Music of the Romantic Era (Unabridged)

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Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, "Eroica" (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony Nova Scotia Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
Composed by: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Hans Pfitzner Ludwig van Beethoven Arturo Toscanini
Conducted by: Herbert von Karajan Frederik IX (King of Denmark) Gunter Wand Rudolf Kempe Otto Klemperer Bertrand de Billy Bela Drahos Michael Halasz John Nelson Alexander Rahbari Georg Tintner Joseph Rescigno Wilhelm Furtwangler Felix Weingartner Herbert Kegel Alfred Scholz
Recording date: 28 October 1939


1. Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, "Eroica": I. Allegro con brio - 08:11


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2. Chapter 1: The Dawn of the Romantic Era - 07:35
3. The Rise of Romanticism - 06:56
4. Chapter 2: A Musical Revolution - 05:44
5. 200 years after the event, it is difficult to understand… - 04:59
6. Chapter 3: A Radical New Musical Language - 06:09
7. One of Berlioz's greatest legacies… - 08:26
8. As Liszt grew older… - 06:54
9. Chapter 4: The Classical Romantics - 04:17
10. His late, epic song-cycle Die Winterreise… - 00:30


Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 (more info)
Performed by: French National Orchestra Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra San Diego Symphony Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra World Philharmonic Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Orchestre de Paris Studio orchestra Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Hector Berlioz
Conducted by: Charles Munch Pierre Monteux Adrian Leaper Yutaka Sado Pinchas Steinberg Yoav Talmi Roger Norrington Gary Bertini Marek Janowski Christoph Eschenbach Massimo Freccia Zdenek Macal Andreas Sporri
Recording date: 5-7 December, 1987


11. Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: IV. Marche au Supplice: Allegretto non troppo - 04:57


Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124/R455 (more info)
Performed by: Nashville Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra Budapest Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Moscow Symphony Orchestra Gulbenkian Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bilkent Symphony Orchestra Hague Residentie Orchestra
Composed by: Emil Tabakov Franz Liszt
Conducted by: Henry Wood Konstantin Krimetz Malcolm Sargent Yakov Kreizberg Oliver Dohnanyi Andras Ligeti Leonard Slatkin Otto Ackermann Hans Graf George Pehlivanian Lawrence Foster Vasily Petrenko
Larissa Shilovskaya, piano
Walter Gieseking, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Landon Ronald, piano
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Earl Wild, piano
Joseph Banowetz, piano
Eldar Nebolsin, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Peng Peng, piano
Alfredo Perl,
Geza Anda, piano
Lise De la Salle, piano


12. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124/R455: Allegro maestoso - Tempo giusto - - 05:19


Polonaise No. 8 in D minor, Op. 71, No. 1 (more info)
Composed by: Fryderyk Chopin
Sandor Falvai, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Recording date: 1990 - 1991


13. Polonaise No. 8 in D minor, Op. 71, No. 1 - 06:11


Gretchen am Spinnrade, Op. 2, D. 118 (more info)
Composed by: Franz Schubert
Edwin Fischer, piano
Erno Balogh, piano
Ulrich Eisenlohr, piano
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Karita Mattila, soprano
Ruth Ziesak, soprano
George Reeves, piano
Peter Hill, piano
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Jeno Jando, piano
Lotte Lehmann, soprano
Lyne Fortin, soprano
Micheal MacMahon, piano
Lynda Russell, soprano
Tamara Takacs, mezzo-soprano
Mitsuko Shirai, soprano
Hartmut Holl, piano
Ilmo Ranta, piano
Recording date: 8-11 october 1991


14. Gretchen am Spinnrade, Op. 2, D. 118 - 03:19

The Hebrides, Op. 26, "Fingal's Cave" (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Scottish National Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Halle Orchestra Hamburg Symphony Orchestra Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra New Symphony Orchestra of London
Composed by: Felix Mendelssohn
Conducted by: Hans Vonk Adrian Boult John Barbirolli Anthony Bramall Oliver Dohnanyi Wilhelm Furtwangler Alexander Gibson Walter Weller Alois Springer
Recording date: 1930


1. The Hebrides, Op. 26, "Fingal's Cave" - 10:57


Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44 (more info)
Composed by: Robert Schumann
Claire-Marie Le Guay, piano
Bernd Glemser, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
Antonio de Secondi, violin
Igor Kamenz, piano
Clifford Curzon, piano


2. Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44: IV. Allegro, ma non troppo - 07:11


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3. When Schubert left the Stadtkonvikt… - 05:05
4. In 1835 Mendelssohn moved to Leipzig… - 08:23
5. In addition to being a composer… - 07:58
6. Chapter 5: Opera in the 19th Century - 01:09
7. Italian Opera - 01:55
8. In 1815 Rossini moved to Naples… - 03:31
9. Without any shadow of a doubt… - 05:04
10. In Verdi's last two operas… - 01:11


6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118 (more info)
Composed by: Johannes Brahms
Andrea Bonatta, piano
Antonin Kubalek, piano
Xiangdong Kong, piano
Ilona Eibenschutz, piano
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Luba Edlina, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Yorck Kronenberg, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Jane Coop, piano


11. 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2. Intermezzo in A major - 05:19


La Cenerentola (Cinderella) (more info)
Performed by: Latvian National Symphony Orchestra Zagreb Festival Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Composed by: Gioachino Rossini
Conducted by: Michael Halasz Pier Giorgio Morandi Alberto Zedda Heribert Beissel Alexandrs Vilumanis
Elina Garanca, soprano
Bruno Pratico, bass-baritone
Ewa Podles, contralto
Joyce DiDonato, soprano
Ji-Young Michel, mezzo-soprano
Jose Maria Zapata, tenor
Paolo Bordogna, baritone
Patrizia Cigna, soprano
Martina Borst, mezzo-soprano
Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone
Marco Bellei, harpsichord


12. La Cenerentola (Cinderella), Act II: Nacqui all'affanno e al pianto - 07:48


Lucia di Lammermoor (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Rosario Bourdon Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Fiorentino Maggio Musicale Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Bergamo Musica Festival Orchestra Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Vitaphone Orchestra
Composed by: Emil Tabakov Enrico Caruso Gaetano Donizetti
Conducted by: Lodovico Zocche Josef A. Pasternack Will Humburg Antonino Fogliani Giulio Setti Carlo Sabajno Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Renato Cellini Ugo Tansini Bruce Pullan Gustav Kuhn Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Richard Bradshaw Heribert Beissel Bruno Seidler-Winkler David Parry Herman Heller
Gary Relyea, bass-baritone
John McCormack, tenor
Louise Homer, contralto
Nellie Melba, soprano
Miliza Korjus, soprano
Matteo Barca, tenor
Tiziana Falco, soprano
Peter Rose, bass
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Igor Morozov, baritone
Clive Bayley, bass-baritone
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Enrico Giuseppe Iori,
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Robert Pomakov, bass
Lina Pagliughi, soprano
Giovanni Malipiero, tenor
Giuseppe Manacchini, baritone
Luciano Neroni, bass
Luisa Tetrazzini, soprano
Angelo Bada, tenor
Pasquale Amato, baritone
Marcel Journet, bass
Josephine Jacoby, mezzo-soprano
Gino Quilico, baritone
Riccardo Stracciari, baritone
Toti Dal Monte, soprano
Tito Schipa, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Charles Hackett, tenor
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Alan Opie, baritone
Robert Merrill, baritone
Hye Hun Chung Bennett, harp
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Stephen Chaundy, tenor
Amelita Galli-Curci, soprano
Minnie Egener, mezzo-soprano
Janez Lotric, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Desiree Rancatore, soprano
Luca Grassi, baritone
Roberto de Biasio, tenor
Ezio Pinza, bass
Maria Elena Barrientos, piano
Michael Schade, tenor
Charles K. North, flute
Raffaele Arie, bass
Valiano Natali, tenor
Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano
Gino Sarri, tenor
Andrea Morosini, choirmaster
Luigi Vellucci, tenor
Jose Mardones, bass
George Meader, tenor
Emma Noe, soprano
Vincenzo Maria Sarinelli, tenor
Marco Jentzsch, tenor
Michele Pertusi, bass-baritone
John Lemmone, flute
Jean Stilwell, mezzo-soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Tracy Dahl, soprano
Inga Nielsen, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Marion Talley, soprano
Russell Braun, baritone
Recording date: 10 April 1925


13. Lucia di Lammermoor, Act III: Spargi d'amaro pianto - 04:01


Don Carlo (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Trois-Rivieres Symphony Orchestra Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Rome Opera Orchestra Hungarian State Opera Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Enrico Caruso Giuseppe Verdi
Conducted by: Gabriele Santini Eri Klas Lawrance Collingwood Gilles Bellemare Carlo Sabajno Lorenzo Molajoli Renato Cellini Nicolas Braithwaite Frieder Weissmann Fausto Cleva Oliver Dohnanyi Michael Halasz Pier Giorgio Morandi Alexander Rahbari Charles Rosekrans Richard Bradshaw Alberto Hold-Garrido David Parry Ivan Anguelov
Antonio Scotti, baritone
Plinio Clabassi, bass
Mattia Battistini, tenor
Hao Jiang Tian, bass
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Frida Leider, soprano
Tommi Hakala, baritone
Marian Anderson, contralto
Thomas Allen, baritone
Nazzareno de Angelis, bass
Giacomo Aragall, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Jaakko Ryhanen, bass
Ingrid Tobiasson, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Marian Vach, choirmaster
Antonietta Stella,
Philip Tebb, bass
Orietta Moscucci,
Elena Nicolai,
Loretta Di Lelio,
Marina Mescheriakova, soprano
Robert Merrill, baritone
Lado Ataneli, baritone
Lars Cleveman, tenor
Peter Mattei, baritone
Bengt Rundgren, bass
Hillevi Martinpelto, soprano
Iwa Sorenson, soprano
Klas Hedlund, tenor
Martti Wallen, bass
Hilde Leidland, soprano
Tito Gobbi, baritone
Giulio Neri, bass
Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano
Boris Christoff, bass
Emil Markow, bass
Ezio Pinza, bass
Gwyn Hughes Jones, tenor
Mariusz Kwiecien, baritone
Meta Seinemeyer, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Mario Filippeschi, tenor
Paolo Caroli, tenor
Eduard Tumagian, baritone
Richard Margison, tenor
James Westman, baritone
Gretan Laperriere, baritone
Recording date: April 1925


14. Don Carlo, Act I: E lui ... Dio che nell'alma infondere - 07:31

Tristan und Isolde (more info)
Performed by: National Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra Oregon Symphony
Composed by: Richard Wagner
Conducted by: Leopold Stokowski James DePreist Yakov Kreizberg Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos Charles Gerhardt Leif Segerstam Johannes Wildner Carl Schuricht Wilhelm Furtwangler
Hedwig Fassbender, mezzo-soprano
Recording date: 4-9 december 1990


1. Tristan und Isolde, Act I: Prelude - 08:49


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2. German Opera - 09:18
3. As Verdi had unpredictably written a comic opera… - 02:13
4. Chapter 6: The Nationalists - 03:03
5. Glinka was the inspiration for a new generation… - 03:20
6. Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)… - 06:16
7. This was the work that Tchaikovsky loved… - 02:59
8. Bohemia - 04:43


Kamarinskaya (more info)
Performed by: Detroit Symphony Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Conducted by: Anthony Bramall Neeme Jarvi Vassily Sinaisky
Recording date: 13-16 December, 1987


9. Kamarinskaya - 06:18


Symphony No. 2 in B minor (more info)
Performed by: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra Vancouver Symphony Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Bramwell Tovey Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin
Conducted by: Carlos Kleiber Stephen Gunzenhauser Erich Kleiber Gennady Rozhdestvensky


10. Symphony No. 2 in B minor: I. Allegro - 06:57


Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, "Pathetique" (more info)
Performed by: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra Russian National Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra Philharmonia Cassovia London Philharmonic Orchestra Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra Julio Martini Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Arturo Toscanini
Conducted by: Mariss Jansons Willem Mengelberg Jose Serebrier Julio Martini Vladimir Jurowski Ondrej Lenard Eugene Ormandy Bystrik Rezucha Johannes Wildner Roger Norrington Antoni Wit Wilhelm Furtwangler Christoph Eschenbach Vladimir Spikakov
Joseph Banowetz, piano


11. Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, "Pathetique": II. Allegro con gracia - 08:40


Ma vlast (My Fatherland) (more info)
Performed by: National Philharmonic Orchestra Detroit Symphony Orchestra Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Philharmonia Cassovia Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Moscow State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Bedrich Smetana
Conducted by: Klaus-Peter Hahn Vaclav Talich Joel Spiegelman Erich Kleiber Charles Gerhardt Andrew Mogrelia Libor Pesek Reinhard Seifried Neeme Jarvi Antoni Wit Barry Wordsworth
Recording date: 25-29 January 1993


12. Ma vlast (My Fatherland): No. 2. Vltava (Moldau) - 13:21

Slavonic Dances, Series 1, Op. 46, B. 83 (more info)
Performed by: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra European New Philharmonic Orchestra Scottish National Orchestra Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Hungarian State Orchestra Quebec Symphony Orchestra South West German Radio Kaiserslautern Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra St. Petersburg Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Antonin Dvorak
Conducted by: Adam Fischer Volker Hartung Jiri Starek Vaclav Talich Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos Erich Kleiber Zdenek Kosler Yoav Talmi Neeme Jarvi Barry Wordsworth Stanislav Gorkovenko Stanislav Gorvenko


1. Slavonic Dances, Series 1, Op. 46, B. 83: No. 1 in C major - 03:50


Romance in B flat major, Op. 28 (more info)
Composed by: Gabriel Faure
Pascal Devoyon, piano
Dong-Suk Kang, violin
Gil Shaham, violin
Akira Eguchi, piano


2. Romance in B flat major, Op. 28 - 05:39


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3. When Smetana was appointed music director… - 03:15
4. Dvorak's growing reputation led to an invitation… - 03:07
5. Moving West - 03:58
6. From 1896 Faure was Professor at the Paris Conservatoire… - 01:37
7. Elsewhere in Scandinavia… - 01:43
8. Chapter 7: The Epic Austrian Symphonists - 09:11
9. In addition to composing… - 03:33
10. Chapter 8: The End of Romanticism - 06:17
11. Equally Romantic was the Italian composer, Giacomo Puccini… - 05:28
12. In any overview of 19th-century music… - 01:58
13. The wistful melody and predominance of the strings… - 01:31
14. Into a New Age… - 02:48


Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (more info)
Performed by: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Iceland Symphony Orchestra Oslo Camerata CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice Malmo Symphony Orchestra Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Ulster Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra London Festival Orchestra
Composed by: Neville Marriner Edvard Grieg
Conducted by: Stephan Barratt-Due Bjarte Engeset Stephen Gunzenhauser Jerzy Maksymiuk Libor Pesek Alexander Gibson Vernon Handley
Recording date: June 1988


15. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King - 02:38


Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan" (more info)
Performed by: Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Gustav Mahler
Conducted by: Rafael Kubelik Klaus Tennstedt Michael Halasz Zdenek Kosler Michael Gielen Roger Norrington Bernard Haitink Gerard Schwarz Gabriel Chmura Christoph Eschenbach


16. Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan": III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen - 10:06


Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3 (more info)
Composed by: Sergei Rachmaninov Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Dmitry Paperno, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
William Kapell, piano
Ethella Chuprik, piano
Bernd Glemser, piano
Josef Hofmann, piano
Rustem Hayroudinoff, piano
Elena Bezprozvannykh,
Eldar Nebolsin, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Konstantin Scherbakov, piano
Balazs Szokolay, piano
Margarete Babinsky, piano
Recording date: 11-20 January 1993


17. Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 2. Prelude in C sharp minor - 04:43


Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma" (more info)
Performed by: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Royal Albert Hall Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra English Northern Philharmonia
Composed by: Neville Marriner Edward Elgar Carl Davis
Conducted by: Paul Daniel George Hurst Adrian Leaper Bryden Thomson Bernard Haitink Alexander Gibson
Recording date: 7-8 September 1995


18. Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, "Enigma": Variation 9: Nimrod - 03:36

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