THE CLASSICAL MUSIC SINFONIAS (Coming
Soon...)
FREE WEB LISTENING OPTIONS
YouTube TIP: Search with composer's last
name and work (e.g. Beethoven symphony 3) and choose complete / full length recordings
as indicated in the title or by the time length of the video BUY MUSIC FROM (a few popular stores & streaming sources)
Amazon [US and country specific stores] Streaming Berliner
Philharmoniker Digital Concerts (video streaming)
Classical Music Glossary op. = opus Level
3: Advanced Listeners THE
CLASSICAL MUSIC SINFONIAS
WEEK
COMPOSER AND OPUS TITLE
TOTAL LISTENING TIME (approx. minutes)
1
Schubert: String Quartet
No. 14 D810 'Death and the Maiden' AND Piano Trio No 1 Op 99 D 898
2
Ravel: Piano Concerto
AND La Valse AND Piano Concerto for the Left hand
3
Schnittke: Concerto
grosso 3 AND Concerto grosso 4 or Symphony no 5
4
Schoenberg: Pierrot
Lunaire Op. 21 AND Variations for Orchestra Op. 31
5
6
Stockhausen:
Zyklus AND Any one of his
Klavierstück (preferbly no XI) AND Smetana String Quartet no 1
7
Strauss: Metamorphosen
AND Tod und Verklärung
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
Ravel: Rapsodie
Espagnole AND Shéhérazade AND String Quartet
26
27
28
29
30
Schnittke: Cello Sonata no 1 AND Piano Quintet AND Violin Sonata no 1
31
32
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100 CHORAL AND OPERA SUGGESTIONS Week
COMPOSER AND OPUS TITLE
TOTAL LISTENING TIME 1
Rameau Castor et Pollux
(opera)
DM's Opera Site AND
Opera
Folio AND
WEEKLY LISTENING HOME CONCERT PROGRAM
Internet Archive:
Unlocked Recordings. TIP: search in the box under the number of results with
composer's last name and work (e.g. Beethoven symphony 3).
ArkivMusic (USA)
eclassical (download)
Europadisc (U.K.)
JPC (Germany)
Presto Classical (U.K.
& download)
Classical Archives
iTunes
Idagio
medici.tv (video streaming)
Naxos Music Library
Presto Music
Stage+ (Deutsche Grammophon, audio &
video streaming)
Abbreviations of
Composer Works by Catalogers
Back to Level 2: Intermediate
WEEKLY
LISTENING HOME CONCERT PROGRAM
Suggested by Demetris Loizos
75'
65'
60'
60'
Prokofiev: Symphony no 5 AND Violin Concerto no 2
70'
60'
60'
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms AND Symphony in C
60'
65'
70'
Back to Level 2: Intermediate
( approx. hours : minutes)
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (opera)
2:40' - 3:20'
2
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (opera)
2 : 25'
3
1 : 55'
4
Schubert Winterreise D911 (lieder)
1: 05'
5
Verdi: Il Trovatore (opera)
2 : 20'
6
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
3 : 50'
7
8
9
10
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (opera)
2 : 15'
11
Verdi: Aida (opera)
2: 10'
12
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Opera Libretti (originals and/pr translations)
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