Music as a mirror of history, Discs 1, 2, 3 (Great courses (DVD) Music & fine arts)
by Greenberg, Robert, 1954- (Author, lecturer.)
Summary
Explore the fascinating and surprising connections between famous music and historic events. Course guidebook available at the Reference Desk. Full description
- Disc 1.
- Music and history, madrigals and maps
- Handel: Water music
- Mozart: The abduction from the harem
- Haydn: Mass in the time of war
- Disc 2.
- Beethoven: The farewell sonata
- Beethoven: Wellington's victory
- Berlioz/de L'Isle: La Marseillaise
- Chopin: Etude in C minor, op.10, no. 12
- Disc 3.
- Glinka: A life for the Tsar
- Strauss Sr.: Radetzky march
- Brahms: Piano quartet in G minor, op. 25
- Gottschalk: The Union
- Disc 4.
- Verdi: Nabucco
- Wagner: The Ring
- Dvořák: From the New World symphony
- Balakirev: Symphony no. 1
- Disc 5.
- Janáček: Piano sonata I.X.1905
- Rimsky-Korsakov: The golden cockerel
- Holst: Ode to death
- Berg: Wozzeck
- Shostakovitch: Symphony no. 13
- Copland: Symphony no. 3
- Górecki: Symphony no. 3
- Crumb: Black angels.