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Categories: Concerto; Orchestral; Chamber Music; Vocal; Instrumental; Opera
Composers:
Beethoven, Ludwig van; Berlioz, Hector; Borodin, Alexander Porfir'yevich; Brahms, Johannes; Chopin, Fryderyk; Donizetti, Gaetano; Dvořák, Antonín; Elgar, Edward; Fauré, Gabriel; Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich; Grieg, Edvard; Liszt, Franz; Mahler, Gustav; Mendelssohn, Felix; Rachmaninov, Sergey; Rossini, Gioachino; Schubert, Franz; Schumann, Robert; Smetana, Bedřich; Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich; Verdi, Giuseppe; Wagner, Richard
Lyricists:
Cammarano, Salvadore; Du Locle, Camille; Ferretti, Jacopo; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Méry, François-Joseph
Artists:
Aragall, Giacomo; Banowetz, Joseph; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Biret, Idil; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Bramall, Anthony; Devoyon, Pascal; Dohnányi, Oliver von; Drahos, Béla; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Halász, Michael; Hill, Peter; Humburg, Will; Hungarian State Opera Chorus; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Hurst, George; Jandó, Jenő; Kang, Dong-Suk; Kodály Quartet; Košler, Zdeněk; Maksymiuk, Jerzy; Morandi, Pier Giorgio; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia; Orgonášová, Luba; Podleś, Ewa; Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Russell, Lynda; San Diego Symphony Orchestra; Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Talmi, Yoav; Tumagian, Eduard; Wildner, Johannes; Wit, Antoni
Label: Naxos Educational
Catalogue No.: 8.558155-56
Release Date: 01 January 2005

Discover Music of the Romantic Era

The 'Discover' series opens the door to key areas of classical music. Through a combination of illustrative music tracks and a richly filled booklet, the exploration is both revealing and enjoyable.

Includes music by Beethoven, Berlioz, Liszt, Chopin, Schubert, Brahms, Rossini. Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Rachmaninov, and many others.
Author: David McCleery
2 CDs with 160-page booklet:

20,000-word essay
Timeline of events in music, history, art & literature
Illustrated throughout

Amidst a background of wars and revolution, the nineteenth century produced many of the world's best-loved composers. Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin and Tchaikovsky are just some of the many familiar names whose music was shaped by the events of period: Discover Music of the Romantic Era charts the course of music through these turbulent but exhilarating times. The 160-page booklet includes a light-hearted but authoritative essay telling the fascinating, often scandalous life-stories of the nineteenth century's greatest composers. It describes how they created musical history, and their many different styles are illustrated by two-and-a-half hours of carefully chosen music contained on two CDs.