Tracklist
Disc 1
1
The Sound of Gregorian Chant
The History of Classical Music
4:49
2
Plainsong: The Ambrosian Chant
The History of Classical Music
0:59
3
The Dorian, Phrygian and Lydian Modes
The History of Classical Music
1:25
4
Hildegard of Bingen
The History of Classical Music
2:05
5
The Gothic Age…Léonin (Active c1160-c1180) and Pérotin (Active c1180-1236)
The History of Classical Music
4:16
6
The Motet
The History of Classical Music
3:47
7
The Troubadour Tradition
The History of Classical Music
5:49
8
Guillaume de Machaut 1300-1377
The History of Classical Music
2:34
9
The Madrigal - Francesco Landini 1325-1397
The History of Classical Music
5:16
10
Guillaume Dufay 1400-1474 and Johannes Ockeghem c1420-1495
The History of Classical Music
9:47
11
The Agincourt Carol - 1415
The History of Classical Music
2:38
12
The Renaissance - Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina 1525-1594
The History of Classical Music
5:57
13
The High Renaissance in England
The History of Classical Music
9:10
14
The Madrigal in France, Italy and England
The History of Classical Music
6:01
15
John Dowland 1536-1626
The History of Classical Music
6:28
16
Andrea c1510-1586 and Giovanni Gabrieli 1557-1612 Sonata A 12 - 1597
The History of Classical Music
3:11
Disc 2
1
The Birth of Opera
The History of Classical Music
3:55
2
Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 and the Growth of Opera
The History of Classical Music
9:38
3
Music in England - Henry Purcell 1659-1695
The History of Classical Music
5:28
4
George Frederic Handel 1685-1759
The History of Classical Music
2:04
5
Church Music in the Baroque - The Oratorio and the Cantata
The History of Classical Music
4:26
6
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
The History of Classical Music
5:35
7
The Development of Keys
The History of Classical Music
2:46
8
Music for Keyboards
The History of Classical Music
5:52
9
The Violin
The History of Classical Music
2:45
10
The Development of the Solo Concerto
The History of Classical Music
5:09
11
The Age of Reason - The Classical Period
The History of Classical Music
1:52
12
Sonata Form
The History of Classical Music
2:45
13
The Symphony
The History of Classical Music
3:20
14
Franz Joseph Haydn 1735-1782
The History of Classical Music
7:06
15
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
The History of Classical Music
4:53
16
Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714-1787
The History of Classical Music
5:37
17
Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827
The History of Classical Music
6:28
Disc 3
1
The Concept of Romanticism
The History of Classical Music
2:48
2
Hector Berlioz 1803-1869
The History of Classical Music
4:33
3
Franz Schubert 1797-1828
The History of Classical Music
5:47
4
The Piano
The History of Classical Music
1:24
5
Frederic Chopin 1810-1849
The History of Classical Music
2:52
6
Robert Schumann 1810-1856
The History of Classical Music
3:56
7
Antonin Dvořák 1841-1904
The History of Classical Music
3:24
8
Eduard Grieg 1843-1907
The History of Classical Music
2:56
9
France - César Franck 1822-1890
The History of Classical Music
1:50
10
Russia - The Mighty Handful
The History of Classical Music
3:20
11
Franz Liszt 1811-1886
The History of Classical Music
2:29
12
Anton Bruckner 1824-1890
The History of Classical Music
2:28
13
Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
The History of Classical Music
2:37
14
Gustav Mahler 1860-1911
The History of Classical Music
5:25
15
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893
The History of Classical Music
4:35
16
Felix Mendelssohn and the Concerto 1809-1847
The History of Classical Music
1:35
17
The Amateur Choral Tradition
The History of Classical Music
1:59
18
Opera - Gioacchino Rossini 1791-1868
The History of Classical Music
3:14
19
Grand Opera - Giacomo Meyerbeer 1791-1864
The History of Classical Music
1:20
20
Bel Canto - Vincenzo Bellini 1801-1835 and Gaetano Donizetti 1797-1848
The History of Classical Music
4:57
21
Jacques Offenbach 1819-1880
The History of Classical Music
1:44
22
Georges Bizet 1838-1910
The History of Classical Music
1:40
23
Giuseppe Verdi 1813-1901
The History of Classical Music
3:03
24
Giacomo Puccini 1858-1924
The History of Classical Music
2:15
25
Opera in Germany - Carl Maria Von Weber 1786-1826
The History of Classical Music
2:24
26
Richard Wagner 1813-1883
The History of Classical Music
4:57
Disc 4
1
Isms
The History of Classical Music
2:44
2
Claude Debussy 1862-1918 and Impressionism
The History of Classical Music
3:20
3
New Directions
The History of Classical Music
1:50
4
Igor Stravinsky 1882-1971
The History of Classical Music
4:28
5
Arnold Schönberg 1874-1951 and Serialism
The History of Classical Music
5:04
6
Olivier Messiaen 1908-1992
The History of Classical Music
1:01
7
Richard Strauss 1864-1949
The History of Classical Music
3:20
8
Gustav Holst 1874-1934
The History of Classical Music
2:34
9
Edward Elgar 1857-1934
The History of Classical Music
2:56
10
Jean Sibelius 1865-1957
The History of Classical Music
4:04
11
Ralph Vaughan Williams 1873-1958
The History of Classical Music
0:53
12
Sergei Rachmaninov 1873-1943
The History of Classical Music
2:11
13
Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975
The History of Classical Music
3:47
14
Sergei Prokofiev 1890-1953
The History of Classical Music
1:57
15
Post WWI France - Les Six
The History of Classical Music
2:27
16
The Folk Music Heritage and Nationalism
The History of Classical Music
1:06
17
Poland - Karol Szymanowski 1882-1945
The History of Classical Music
1:07
18
Hungary - Béla Bartók 1882-1945
The History of Classical Music
2:59
19
Czechoslovakia - Leoš Janáček 1854-1928 and Bohuslav Martinů 1890-1962
The History of Classical Music
3:05
20
United States - Charles Ives 1874-1954 and Aaron Copland 1900-1990
The History of Classical Music
4:07
21
South America - Heitor Villa-Lobos 1887-1959
The History of Classical Music
1:34
22
Spain - Joaquin Rodrigo 1901-1999
The History of Classical Music
1:11
23
Other Directions - The Far East and Film Music
The History of Classical Music
3:13
24
New Sounds - Edgard Varèse 1883-1965, Pierre Boulez 1925-2016 et al
The History of Classical Music
6:30
25
Minimalism - Steve Reich 1936-, Philip Glass 1937- and John Adams 1947-
The History of Classical Music
1:06
26
Henryk Górecki 1933-2010
The History of Classical Music
1:27
27
Michael Tippett 1905-1998
The History of Classical Music
1:51
28
Benjamin Britten 1913-1976
The History of Classical Music
3:32
29
At the Close of the 20th Century
The History of Classical Music
3:56