Carols From King’s – The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (Full Album)
Carols From King’s – The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge (Full Album)
Playlist:
00:00:00 Once in royal David’s city
00:04:41 Rejoice and be merry
00:06:11 Ding dong, merrily on high
00:08:19 What Sweeter Music
00:12:37 O little town of Bethlehem
00:16:17 A Spotless Rose
00:19:25 Heer Jezus heeft een hofken (organ variations)
00:26:44 King Jesus hath a garden
00:30:10 The Lamb
00:33:39 Bogoróditse Dyévo
00:34:55 Infant holy, infant lowly
00:36:43 Illuminare, Jerusalem
00:39:12 While shepherds watched
00:41:54 Quittez, pasteurs
00:45:05 In dulci jubilo (organ prelude)
00:48:06 In dulci jubilo
00:50:46 The First Nowell
00:56:09 Coventry Carol
00:59:17 Personent hodie
01:01:49 O come all ye faithful
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Christmas Classics (Full Album) - London Symphony Orchestra
Christmas Classics (Full Album) - London Symphony Orchestra
[00:00] Jingle Bells (One Horse Open Sleigh)
[01:01] We Wish You a Merry Christmas
[02:12] Deck The Halls (Welsh Melody)
[03:41] Adeste Fideles (O come, All Ye Faithful)
[05:59] Silent Night
[08:42] Joy to the World
[10:15] It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
[11:45] Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem
[13:33] The First Noel
[15:16] O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum)
[16:43] Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
[19:20] Away in a Manger
[20:46] What Child Is This
[22:38] God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
[24:33] Angels, We Have Heard On High
[27:00] Every Year Again (Alle Jahre Wieder)
[30:15] Good King Wenceslas
[31:06] We Three Kings
[32:15] Up on the House Top
[33:28] Oh Come Little Children (Ihr Kinderlein, Kommet)
[35:50] Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
[36:31] Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming (Es ist ein Ros entsprungen)
[40:36] While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
[42:23] From Heaven Above to Earth I Come (Vom Himmel Hoch)
[45:17] Maria Walks Amid the Thorns (Maria Durch Ein' Dornwald Geht)
[47:59] Ich Steh an Deiner Krippen Hier
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Beautiful 1h ClassicalMusic4You - Antonio Vivaldi
Beautiful 1h ClassicalMusic4You - Antonio Vivaldi
Welcome and Enjoy 🙏☺️
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🎶 Top 20 Iconic Violin Pieces of All Time [HQ] 🎶
🎶 Top 20 Iconic Violin Pieces of All Time [HQ] 🎶
Intro piece: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3: 3rd movement - Bach
20. Concerto grosso Op. 6, No. 8 - Corelli
19. Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E major - Mozart
18. Violin Concerto in A minor (L'Estro Armonico Op. 3, No. 6) - Vivaldi
17. Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major (Kreutzer) - Beethoven
16. Double Violin Concerto in D minor - Bach
15. Violin Concerto in D major - Tchaikovsky
14. Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major - Mozart
13. Violin Concerto in D minor - Sibelius
12. Violin Sonata in G minor (Devil's Trill) - Tartini
11. Meditation from Thais - Massenet
10. Violin Concerto in D major - Brahms
9. The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams
8. Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor - Max Bruch
7. Zigeunerweisen (Aires Gitanos) - Sarasate
6. Violin Concerto in E minor - Mendelssohn
5. Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2 - Bach
4. Caprice No. 24 in A minor - Paganini
3. Violin Concerto in D major - Beethoven
2. Canon in D Major - Pachelbel
1. The Four Seasons - Vivaldi
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, MOVEMENT II, K. 421
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, MOVEMENT II, K. 421
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, MOVEMENT I, K. 421
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, MOVEMENT I, K. 421
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, MOVEMENT IV, K. 421
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, MOVEMENT IV, K. 421
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Mozart's String Quartet No. 19 in C (Dissonance), K. 465
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - Mozart's String Quartet No. 19 in C (Dissonance), K. 465
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JOHANNES BRAHMS - Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Mov. I, Op. 90
JOHANNES BRAHMS - Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Mov. I, Op. 90
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JOHANNES BRAHMS - Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Mov. II, Op. 90
JOHANNES BRAHMS - Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Mov. II, Op. 90
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JOHANNES BRAHMS - Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Mov. III, Op. 90
JOHANNES BRAHMS - Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Mov. III, Op. 90
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JOHANNES BRAHMS - Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Mov. IV, Op. 90
JOHANNES BRAHMS - Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Mov. IV, Op. 90
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ALEXANDER BORODIN - Borodin's String Quartet No. 1 in A Major
ALEXANDER BORODIN - Borodin's String Quartet No. 1 in A Major
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🌜Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata 🌛 - Classical Music for studying concentration and reading
🌜Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata 🌛 (60 minutes) - Classical Music for studying concentration and reading
Moonlight Sonata (60min Piano) from Beethoven to study to read to concentrate as background
Musique classique pour etudier, pour lire ou pour se relaxer
Performed by Paul Pitman
The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1801 and dedicated in 1802 to his pupil, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, it is one of Beethoven's most popular compositions for the piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (lʊdvɪɡ væn ˈbeɪ.toʊvən; baptised 17 December 1770 -- 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quartets. He also composed other chamber music, choral works (including the celebrated Missa Solemnis), and songs
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The Best of Classical Music (125 min) 🎻 Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss II, Bizet, Rossini, Satie, Liszt
The Best of Classical Music (125 min) 🎻 Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss II, Bizet, Rossini, Satie, Liszt
The best of classical music era in a playlist with the greatest composers of all time such as Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Handel, Wagner, Grieg and many more.
Classical music Composers Playlist:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Georges Bizet (1838 - - 1875)
Richard Wagner ( 1813 - 1883)
Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
George Handel (1685 - 1759)
Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
Franz Liszt (1811 - -1886)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
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Edvard Grieg - Op.46, In The Hall Of Mountain King
Edvard Grieg - Op.46, In The Hall Of Mountain King
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Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Full with Cannons)
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Full with Cannons)
WARNING: Cannons may make dogs bark, scare your mom, leave your neighbor dumbfounded, make cats panic, wake you up in the middle of the night shouting at the top of your lungs because you think you are being robbed, scare the crap out of you, and/or blow up your ears and brains; among other things...
The 1812 Overture, composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1880. This version with cannons!
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Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.
The composition is based upon a poem by Henri Cazalis, on an old French superstition:
Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence,
Striking with his heel a tomb,
Death at midnight plays a dance-tune,
Zig, zig, zig, on his violin.
The winter wind blows and the night is dark;
Moans are heard in the linden trees.
Through the gloom, white skeletons pass,
Running and leaping in their shrouds.
Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking,
The bones of the dancers are heard to crack—
But hist! of a sudden they quit the round,
They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.
According to the ancient superstition, "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death has the power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (represented by a solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an example of scordatura tuning). His skeletons dance for him until the first break of dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.
The piece opens with a harp playing a single note, D, twelve times to signify the clock striking midnight, accompanied by soft chords from the string section. This then leads to the eerie E flat and A chords (also known as a tritone or the "Devil's chord") played by a solo violin, representing death on his fiddle. After which the main theme is heard on a solo flute and is followed by a descending scale on the solo violin. The rest of the orchestra, particularly the lower instruments of the string section, then joins in on the descending scale. The main theme and the scale is then heard throughout the various sections of the orchestra until it breaks to the solo violin and the harp playing the scale. The piece becomes more energetic and climaxes at this point; the full orchestra playing with strong dynamics.Towards the end of the piece, there is another violin solo, now modulating, which is then joined by the rest of the orchestra. The final section, a pianissimo, represents the dawn breaking and the skeletons returning to their graves.
The piece makes particular use of the xylophone in a particular theme to imitate the sounds of rattling bones. Saint-Saëns uses a similar motif in the Fossils part of his Carnival of the Animals.
[from Wikipedia]
Artwork: Remedios Varo "Les Feuilles Mortes".
Played by: National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski
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Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz
Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz
Title : Johann Strauss II , The Blue Danube Waltz
Date : 1867
From Wikipedia,The Blue Danube is the common English title of An der schönen blauen Donau op. 314 (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), a waltz by Johann Strauss II, composed in 1867. Originally performed 9 February 1867 at a concert of the Wiener Männergesangsverein (Vienna Men's Choral Association), it has been one of the most consistently popular pieces of music in the classical repertoire. Its initial performance was only a mild success, however, and Strauss is reputed to have said "The devil take the waltz, my only regret is for the coda -- I wish that had been a success!"
The waltz originally had an accompanying song text written by Josef Weyl. Strauss adapted it into a purely orchestral version for the World's Fair in Paris that same year, and it became a great success in this form. The instrumental version is by far the most commonly performed today. An alternate text by Franz von Gernerth, Donau so blau (Danube so blue), is also used on occasion.
The sentimental Viennese connotations of the piece have made it into a sort of unofficial Austrian national anthem. It is a traditional encore piece at the annual Vienna New Year's Concert. The first few bars are also the interval signal of Osterreich Rundfunk's overseas programs.
It is reported by composer Norman Lloyd in his "Golden Encyclopedia of Music" that when asked by Frau Strauss for an autograph, the composer Johannes Brahms autographed Mrs. Strauss's fan by writing on it the first few bars of the Blue Danube. Under it he wrote "Unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms".The work commences with an extended introduction in the key of A major with shimmering (tremolo) violins and a French horn spelling out the familiar waltz theme, answered by staccato wind chords, in a subdued mood. It rises briefly into a loud passage but quickly dies down into the same restful nature of the opening bars. A contrasting and quick phrase in D major anticipates the waltz before 3 quiet downward-moving bass notes "usher in" the first principal waltz melody.
The first waltz theme is familiar gently rising triad motif in cellos and horns in the tonic D major, accompanied by harps; the Viennese waltz beat is accentuated at the end of each 3-note phrase. The Waltz 1A triumphantly ends its rounds of the motif, and waltz 1B follows in the same key; the genial mood is still apparent.
Waltz 2A glides in quietly (still in D major) before a short contrasting middle section in B flat major. The entire section is repeated.
A more dour waltz 3A is introduced in G major before a fleeting eighth-note melodic phrase (waltz 3B). An loud Intrada (introduction) is then played. Waltz 4A starts off in a romantic mood (F major) before a more joyous waltz 4B in the same key.
After another short Intrada in A, cadencing in F-sharp minor, sonorous clarinets spell out the poignant melody of waltz 5A in A. Waltz 5B is the climax, punctuated by cymbal crashes. Each of these may be repeated at the discretion of the performer.
The coda recalls earlier sections (3A and 2A) before furious chords usher in a recap of the romantic Waltz 4A. The idyll is cut short as the waltz hurries back to the famous waltz theme 1A again. This statement is cut short, however, by the final codetta: a variation of 1A is presented, connecting to a rushing eighth-note passage in the final few bars: repeated tonic chords underlined by a snare drumroll and a bright-sounding flourish.
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Julius Fucik - Entry of the Gladiators
Julius Fucik - Entry of the Gladiators
"Entrance of the Gladiators" op. 68 or "Entry of the Gladiators" is a military march composed in 1897 by the Czech composer Julius Fučík.
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Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
Night on Bald Mountain, also known as Night on the Bare Mountain, is a series of compositions by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
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Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich - Waltz No. 2
The Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 is a suite by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was written in 1938 for the newly founded State Jazz Orchestra of Victor Knushevitsky, and was premiered on 28 November 1938 in Moscow (Moscow Radio) by the State Jazz Orchestra.
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🔔🎄 Christmas 🎄🔔 Silent Night - Carol Song - Silent Night
🔔🎄 Christmas 🎄🔔 Carol Song - Silent Night
Performed by United States Army Chorus
"Silent Night" (German: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. The song has been recorded by a large number of singers from every music genre. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the third best-selling single of all-time.
In 1859, the Episcopal priest John Freeman Young, then serving at Trinity Church, New York City, published the English translation that is most frequently sung today. The version of the melody that is generally used today is a slow, meditative lullaby, differing slightly (particularly in the final strain) from Gruber's original, which was a sprightly, dance-like tune in 6/8 time
Silent night, holy night,
all is calm, all is bright
round yon virgin mother and child.
Holy infant, so tender and mild,
sleep in heavenly peace,
sleep in heavenly peace.
Silent night, holy night,
shepherds quake at the sight;
glories stream from heaven afar,
heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ the Savior is born,
Christ the Savior is born!
Silent night, holy night,
Son of God, love's pure light;
radiant beams from thy holy face
with the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth,
Jesus, Lord, at thy birth.
Silent night, holy night,
wondrous star, lend thy light;
with the angels let us sing,
Alleluia to our King;
Christ the Savior is born,
Christ the Savior is born!
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Mozart - The Piano Concerto No. 2
Mozart - The Piano Concerto No. 2
The Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, was completed on 9 March 1785 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, four weeks after the completion of the previous D minor concerto, K. 466.
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MOZART - String Quartet No 15 In D Minor, K 421 - III. Minuetto
MOZART - String Quartet No 15 In D Minor, K 421 - III. Minuetto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421/417b is the second of the Quartets dedicated to Haydn and the only one of the set in a minor key. Though undated in the autograph, it is believed to have been completed in 1783. Constanze says rising string figures in the second movement corresponded to her cries from the other room.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 -- 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era.
Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. While visiting Vienna in 1781, he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security. During his final years in Vienna, he composed many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and portions of the Requiem, which was largely unfinished at the time of his death. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.
He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and his influence on subsequent Western art music is profound; Beethoven composed his own early works in the shadow of Mozart, and Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years.
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