The History of Classical Music, Part 5: Modern: From Sibelius to Glass

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Tracklist

1▶Digital Media: Sibelius: Symphony no. 5 / Valse triste / Finlandia / Tapiola
2▶Digital Media: Ives: “Concord” Sonata / Central Park in the Dark / Three Places in New England / Barber: Adagio for Strings
3▶Digital Media: Janáček: Taras Bulba / Concertino / Sinfonietta
4▶Digital Media: Ravel: Boléro / Piano Concerto / Pavane / Ma mère l’oye
5▶Digital Media: Schönberg: Transfigured Night / Pierrot lunaire / Webern: 6 Pieces for Orchestra / Symphony, op. 21
6▶Digital Media: Berg: Violin Concerto / Lyric Suite / 3 Pieces for Orchestra
7▶Digital Media: Stravinsky: Petrushka / Apollo / Circus Polka
8▶Digital Media: Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring / Pulcinella
9▶Digital Media: Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no. 3 / Violin Concerto no. 1 / Lieutenant Kijé
10▶Digital Media: Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
11▶Digital Media: Hindemith: Symphony “Mathis der Maler” / Busoni: Doktor Faust / Pfitzner: Palestrina / Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
12▶Digital Media: Shostakovich: Symphony no. 5 / Cello Concerto no. 2
13▶Digital Media: Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings / Delius: 2 Pieces for Orchestra / Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending / Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
14▶Digital Media: Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Falla: El amor brujo / Noches en los jardines de España
15▶Digital Media: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Bernstein: “Candide” Overture / Symphonic Dances From “West Side Story”
16▶Digital Media: Messiaen: Turangalîla‐Symphonie
17▶Digital Media: Boulez: Le marteau sans maître / Stockhausen: Gruppen
18▶Digital Media: Lutosławski: Chain 3 / Novelette / Schnittke: Concerto grosso no. 1 / Ligeti: Chamber Concerto
19▶Digital Media: Górecki: Symphony no. 3
20▼Digital Media: Reich: Six Pianos / Adams: Shaker Loops / Glass: Violin Concerto
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1Six Pianos
piano:
Bob Becker (percussionist), Steve Chambers, Russell Hartenberger (percussionist), James Preiss, Steve Reich (American composer) and Glen Velez
performer:
Steve Reich and Musicians (in 1974-01)
recorded at:
DG-Musikstudio I in Hamburg, Germany (in 1974-01)
recording of:
Six Pianos (in 1974-01)
composer:
Steve Reich (American composer) (in 1973)
Steve Reich24:22
2Shaker Loops: I. Shaking and Trembling
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (in 1983-10)
conductor:
Edo de Waart (conductor) (in 1983-10)
recorded at:
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California, United States (in 1983-10)
recording of:
Shaker Loops: I. Shaking and trembling (in 1983-10)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer)
revised by:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 1983)
part of:
Shaker Loops (revised "string orchestra" version)
John Adams8:51
3Shaker Loops: II. Hymning Slews
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (in 1983-10)
conductor:
Edo de Waart (conductor) (in 1983-10)
recorded at:
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California, United States (in 1983-10)
recording of:
Shaker Loops: II. Hymning slews (in 1983-10)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer)
revised by:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 1983)
part of:
Shaker Loops (revised "string orchestra" version)
John Adams6:29
4Shaker Loops: III. Loops and Verses
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (in 1983-10)
conductor:
Edo de Waart (conductor) (in 1983-10)
recorded at:
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California, United States (in 1983-10)
recording of:
Shaker Loops: III. Loops and verses (in 1983-10)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer)
revised by:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 1983)
part of:
Shaker Loops (revised "string orchestra" version)
John Adams7:23
5Shaker Loops: IV. A Final Shaking
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (in 1983-10)
conductor:
Edo de Waart (conductor) (in 1983-10)
recorded at:
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California, United States (in 1983-10)
recording of:
Shaker Loops: IV. A final shaking (in 1983-10)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer)
revised by:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 1983)
part of:
Shaker Loops (revised "string orchestra" version)
John Adams3:36
6Violin Concerto: I. ♩ = 104 – ♩ = 120
recording engineer:
Rainer Maillard
producer:
Wolfgang Stengel
violin:
Gidon Kremer (violinist) (in 1992-02)
orchestra:
Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic) (in 1992-02)
conductor:
Christoph von Dohnányi (German conductor) (in 1992-02)
recorded at:
Wiener Musikverein: Großer Musikvereinssaal in Innere Stadt, Wien (Vienna), Austria (in 1992-02)
recording of:
Violin Concerto no. 1: I. ♩ = 104 — ♩ = 120 (in 1992-02)
composer:
Philip Glass (US composer & pianist) (in 1987)
part of:
Violin Concerto no. 1
Philip Glass6:36
7Violin Concerto: II. ♩ = ca. 108
recording engineer:
Rainer Maillard
producer:
Wolfgang Stengel
violin:
Gidon Kremer (violinist) (in 1992-02)
orchestra:
Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic) (in 1992-02)
conductor:
Christoph von Dohnányi (German conductor) (in 1992-02)
recorded at:
Wiener Musikverein: Großer Musikvereinssaal in Innere Stadt, Wien (Vienna), Austria (in 1992-02)
recording of:
Violin Concerto no. 1: II. ♩ = ca. 108 (in 1992-02)
composer:
Philip Glass (US composer & pianist) (in 1987)
part of:
Violin Concerto no. 1
Philip Glass8:46
8Violin Concerto: III. ♩ = ca. 150 – Coda. Poco meno ♩ = 104
recording engineer:
Rainer Maillard
producer:
Wolfgang Stengel
violin:
Gidon Kremer (violinist) (in 1992-02)
orchestra:
Wiener Philharmoniker (Vienna Philharmonic) (in 1992-02)
conductor:
Christoph von Dohnányi (German conductor) (in 1992-02)
recorded at:
Wiener Musikverein: Großer Musikvereinssaal in Innere Stadt, Wien (Vienna), Austria (in 1992-02)
recording of:
Violin Concerto no. 1: III. ♩ = ca. 150 — Coda. Poco meno, ♩ = 104 (in 1992-02)
composer:
Philip Glass (US composer & pianist) (in 1987)
part of:
Violin Concerto no. 1
Philip Glass9:30

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includes:Cello Concerto no. 2 / Symphony no. 5 by Shostakovich (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer); Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist/conductor), National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C. – refer to the UK one instead for musical theatre recordings), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor and composer)
Concord Sonata / Three Places in New England / Central Park in the Dark by Charles Ives (American composer); Roberto Szidon, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor and pianist), Seiji Ozawa (conductor and composer)
Le Sacre du printemps / Pulcinella by Igor Strawinsky (Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer); Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Ryland Davies (tenor), John Shirley‐Quirk (bass-baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta / Concerto for Orchestra by Bartók (Béla Bartók, composer); Lorin Maazel (conductor), Seiji Ozawa (conductor and composer)
Music from America by Gershwin (composer), Bernstein (Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, pianist); Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra), Kurt Masur (conductor), San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa (conductor and composer)
Musik aus England, II by Benjamin Britten (English composer, conductor, and pianist), Frederick Delius (English composer), Ralph Vaughan Williams (English composer); Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor), Daniel Barenboim (pianist and conductor)
Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts, I by Hindemith (German composer, 1895–1963), Weill (composer), Pfitzner (German composer), Busoni (Ferruccio Busoni, Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher); William Steinberg (conductor), David Atherton (conductor), Ferdinand Leitner (conductor)
Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts, II by Schnittke (Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer and pianist), Lutosławski (Polish composer), Ligeti (Austrian-Hungarian composer); Heinrich Schiff (cellist and conductor), Witold Lutosławski (Polish composer), Pierre Boulez (composer and conductor)
Petruschka / Apollon Musagète / Zirkuspolka by Igor Stravinsky (Russian composer); London Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor), Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Piano Concerto no. 3 / Violin Concerto no. 1 / Lieutenant Kijé by Prokofiev (Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer); Martha Argerich (Argentine pianist), Shlomo Mintz (violinist, violist and conductor), Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Falla: Night in the Gardens of Spain / El amor brujo by Rodrigo (Joaquín Rodrigo, Spanish composer and virtuoso pianist), Falla (Spanish composer); Narciso Yepes (classical guitarist), Margrit Weber (Swiss pianist), Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Sinfonietta / Taras Bulba / Concertino by Janáček (Czech composer); Rudolf Firkušný (pianist), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelík (conductor)
Symphony no. 3 by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki, Polish composer); Joanna Kozłowska (soprano), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (The Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra), Kazimierz Kord (conductor)
Symphony no. 5 / Valse Triste / Finlandia / Tapiola by Jean Sibelius (Finnish composer); Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Turangalîla‐Symphonie by Messiaen (composer and organist); Yvonne Loriod (pianist), Jeanne Loriod, Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille (alternate name of Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris between 1990–1994), Myung-Whun Chung (pianist and conductor)
Violin Concerto / 3 Pieces for Orchestra, op. 6 / Lyric Suite (excerpts) by Berg (Austrian composer); Henryk Szeryng (violinist), Rafael Kubelík (conductor), Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
part of:The History of Classical Music: From Gregorian Chant to Górecki (order: 5)