THE CLASSICAL MUSIC SINFONIAS
WEEKLY LISTENING HOME CONCERT PROGRAM

 Level 1: Beginners
 Level 2: Intermediate
 Level 3: Advanced

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Classical Music Glossary
Abbreviations of Composer Works by Catalogers

op. = opus

 Level 3: Advanced Listeners

THE CLASSICAL MUSIC SINFONIAS
WEEKLY LISTENING HOME CONCERT PROGRAM
Suggested by Demetris Loizos
 

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

75'

2

Ravel: Piano Concerto AND La Valse AND Piano Concerto for the Left hand

65'

3

Schnittke: Concerto grosso 3 AND Concerto grosso 4 or Symphony no 5

60'

4

Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire Op. 21 AND Variations for Orchestra Op. 31

60'

5

Prokofiev: Symphony no 5 AND Violin Concerto no 2 70'

6

Stockhausen: Zyklus AND Any one of his Klavierstück (preferbly no XI) AND Smetana String Quartet no 1

60'

7

Strauss: Metamorphosen AND Tod und Verklärung

60'

8

Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms AND Symphony in C 60'

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Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole AND Shéhérazade AND String Quartet

65'

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Schnittke: Cello Sonata no 1 AND Piano Quintet AND Violin Sonata no 1

70'

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CHORAL AND OPERA SUGGESTIONS
 

Week
 

COMPOSER AND OPUS TITLE

TOTAL LISTENING TIME
( approx. hours : minutes)

1

Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (opera) 2:40' - 3:20'
2 Puccini: Madama Butterfly (opera) 2 : 25'
3

Rameau Castor et Pollux (opera)

1 : 55'
4 Schubert Winterreise D911 (lieder) 1: 05'
5 Verdi: Il Trovatore (opera) 2 : 20'
6 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde 3 : 50'
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10 Puccini: Manon Lescaut (opera) 2 : 15'
11 Verdi: Aida (opera) 2: 10'
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*** Opera Libretti (originals and/pr translations)

DM's Opera Site AND Opera Folio AND

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