The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works
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These 30 masterworks form an essential foundation for any music collection and a focal point for understanding the orchestral medium and deepening your insight into the communicative power of music
The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works
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In The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works, Great Courses favorite Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances takes you on a sumptuous grand tour of the symphonic pieces he counts, as a highly respected composer and music historian, as being among the very greatest ever written – inviting you to an in-depth contemplation of what makes these works so memorable, and why they live at the center of our musical culture.
These 30 masterworks form an essential foundation for any music collection and a focal point for understanding the orchestral medium and deepening your insight into the communicative power of music. While seasoned music lovers will find the lectures a fascinating and revealing journey through the repertoire, the course welcomes newcomers to orchestral music, offering a very accessible point of entry to this magnificent repertoire.
Lecturer: Robert Greenberg
Lectures:
1. Game Plan and Preliminaries
2. Vivaldi – The Four Seasons
3. Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
4. Bach – Violin Concerto in E Major
5. Haydn – Symphony No. 104
6. Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor
7. Mozart – Symphony in C Major, “Jupiter”
8. Beethoven – Symphony No. 3
9. Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 4
10. Beethoven – Symphony No. 9
11. Schubert – Symphony No. 9
12. Mendelssohn – “Italian” Symphony
13. Schumann – Symphony No. 3
14. Brahms – Symphony No. 4
15. Brahms – Violin Concerto
16. Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4
17. Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto
18. Bedrich Smetana – Má Vlast
19. Dvorák – Symphony No. 8
20. Dvorák – Concerto for ‘Cello
21. Rimsky-Korsakov – Scheherazade
22. Richard Strauss – Thus Spoke Zarathustra
23. Mahler – Symphony No. 5
24. Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 2
25. Debussy – La Mer
26. Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
27. Ives – Three Places in New England
28. Holst – The Planets
29. Copland – Appalachian Spring
30. Shostakovich – Symphony No. 5
31. Shostakovich – Symphony No. 10
32. The Ones That Got Away
