Recording: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Score: From IMSLP
Poem: Stéphane Mallarmé – L’Après-midi d’un faune
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Puccini – Madama Butterfly
Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
Recording: Sir Colin Davis and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Rêveries – Passions
- Un bal
- Scène aux champs
- Marche au Supplice
- Songe d’une Nuit du Sabbat
Score: (Urtext edition only public domain in Germany, Canada)
Program Notes: English translation of both versions
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Chopin – Polonaise opus 53
Recording: by Vladimir Horowitz
Score: From IMSLP
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Schubert – Erlkönig
Recording: Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake (with animation)
Score: From IMSLP
Text: Available on Wikisource
Beethoven – Symphony No. 5
Recordings:
- Movement I: Leonard Bernstein – Vienna Philarmonic
- Movement II: Leonard Bernstein – Vienna Philarmonic
- Movement III: Leonard Bernstein – Vienna Philarmonic
- Movement IV: Leonard Bernstein – Vienna Philarmonic
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Haydn – String Quartet Op 76 no. 2
Bach – The Well Tempered Clavier
Recordings:
- WTC I – C major (performed by Andras Schiff)
- WTC I – C minor (performed by Glenn Gould)
- WTC I – F major (performed by Andras Schiff)
Scores:
- WTC I – Prelude and Fugue in C major
- WTC I – Prelude and Fugue in C minor
- WTC I – Prelude and Fugue in F major
Analysis: an old but quality site (requires Adobe Shockwave)
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Handel – Messiah
Recording: By the Choir of King’s College in Cambridge
Score: From IMSLP
Excerpts (part 1, scene 1, 4-5, part 2, scene 7):
- Sinfonia (Overture) – 1’57”
- Recitative “There were shepherds” – 41’44”
- Chorus “Glory to God” – 43’23”
- Air “Rejoice greatly” – 45’22”
- Chorus “Hallelujah” – 111’20”
A true English tradition, Handel’s best known oratorio was composed in just under a month. More…
Vivaldi – La Primavera
Recording: Performed by the Venice Baroque Orchestra
Scores: From IMSLP
Sonnet text: From Wikisource
- Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, La Primavera (Spring)
- L’estate (Summer) – 9’18”
- L’autunno (Autumn) – 18’54”
- L’inverno (Winter) – 29’45”
Antonio Vivaldi’s “Spring” from The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni). Second in popularity only to Pachelbel’s Canon in D, the original one hit wonder, this staple of easy listening lists has a lot going on after its unmistakable opening theme. More…