6 Most Scary Pieces of Classical Music
The world of Western Classical Music covers a vast array of extraordinary music to make every sense tingle. This article will take a brief look … Read more
The world of Western Classical Music covers a vast array of extraordinary music to make every sense tingle. This article will take a brief look … Read more
For the purposes of this article, I will confine my selection of violin works to the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods of music. Once you … Read more
When considering a particular set of works that cover most of a composer’s life, it really comes down to personal choice. Beethoven and his Symphonies … Read more
For the purposes of this article, I will broadly agree that the Romantic period of Western Classical Music runs from 1830 until the early 20th … Read more
When you take a long hard look at the work of W.A Mozart it is no minor challenge to have to select the best of … Read more
Periods of music are often hotly contested and accompanied by the notion that over-night one period of music magically transformed into the next. Imagine falling … Read more
This article is given over to some of the most well-known and well-loved pieces from the Romantic era of music. The Romantic era is one … Read more
The list of pieces for the above title could probably run for pages and cause all manner of consternation over what is considered to be … Read more
The following pieces are very much my personal choice of music from this great composer. There are many other astonishing pieces that Beethoven composed that … Read more
Live recording of Symphony No.2 A complete score is available here. In so many ways Gustav Mahler epitomises the Romantic composer. Born on the 7th … Read more
The Magic Flute was the last opera that Mozart composed. It was an extremely busy and demanding year for Mozart who worked extensively on the … Read more
Even if you claim not to like the music of Mozart, after a single hearing of this sublime piece, I doubt whether anyone would remain … Read more
This delightful work originally had five movements. Its title translates as A Little Night Music, although it is really called Serenade number thirteen and was … Read more
Following the immense success of Peter Shaffer’s play “Amadeus” (1979), and later the film (1984), Mozart’s Requiem began to be perceived by many in a … Read more
Before Pachelbel’s Canon in D is dismissed or eternally embraced, I propose we examine the work and its context a little closer. Johann Pachelbel was … Read more