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Tracks:

1. Overture To 'Tannhauser'
2. Domna, Pos Vos Ay Chausida
3. We Don't Merely Use Instruments, We Play On Them. And They Play On Us.
4. Hungarian Dance No.7
5. The Violin Is One Of The Most Tender And Beautiful Instruments Ever Invented.
6. Violin Concerto In D Major (Adagio)
7. But For A Long Time It Was Seen As The Instrument Of The Devil.
8. The Soldier's Tale: Triumphal March Of The Devil
9. The Manipulative Seductiveness Of The Gypsy Violin.
10. Csardas Music
11. The Violin And The Initiation Of Nature
12. The Four Seasons (Spring, Mvt 1)
13. Birds Are Again Evoked In The Second Concerto, Especially Music's Natural Favourite.
14. The Four Seasons (Summer, Mvt 1)
15. Like The Devil, The Violin Is A Master Of Disguise.
16. Old Viennese Dance No.3 'Schon Rosmarin'
17. The Menacing Sensuality Of Ravel's Tzigane: A Very Different Side Of The Violin:
18. Tzigane
19. Do We Now Have The True Measure Of This Instrument? Not Just Yet.
20. Caprice No.24
21. The Many Effects Of The String Tremolando: Brandenburg Concerto No.4 (Last Mvt)/From Joy To Fright/Quartettsatz In C Minor/The String Tremolo Practically Spells The World Agitato.
22. Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No.7)
23. Prokofiev's Tremolo In Romeo And Juliet Should Not Be Heard Just Before Bedtime.
24. Romeo And Juliet: Act IV
25. Vivaldi Use It To Illustrate The Shivering Of Travellers Crossing The Ice.
26. The Four Seasons (Winter, Mvt 1)
27. The Violin Muted
28. Clair De Lune
29. The Gentleness Of Muted Strings Persists Even When A Whole Orchestra Plays.
30. Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major, K.467 (Slow Mvt)
31. The Pizzicato Violin
32. Pizzicato Polka
33. In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, The Accompaniment Is Pizzicato.
34. Violin Concerto No.2 In G Minor (Slow Mvt)
35. Varieties Of Pizzicato: Colas Breugnon (The People's Feast)/Now A Drier, Leaner, Hungrier Pizzicato. There's Not A Lot Of Comfort Here./Capriol Suite (Tordion)/The Use Of Pizzicato As 'Percussion'/Romeo And Juliet (Act I)/Mahler Used Pizzicato...
36. The Planets (Mars - The Bringer Of War)
37. The Technique Of Double-Stopping Enables The Violin To Play Duets With Itself./Sonata No.3 In C Major For Unaccompanied Violin (Fugue)/Now A Later Example Of The Same Technique
38. Hungarian Dance No.4
39. Double-Stopping Is A Standard Feature Of A Lot Of Folk Music.
40. The Four Seasons (Autumn, Mvt 1)
41. Now The Same Technique, But The Sound Might Have Come From Another World.
42. Bolero
43. Double-Stopping Can Only Approximate The Sound Of A Real Violin Duet.
44. Cadenza To The Violin Concerto By Brahms
45. Now Compare That With A Real Violin Duet.
46. Forty-Four Duos (No. 1: Teasing Song)
47. Another Duo By Bartok, Demonstrating The Violin's Rich Lower Register
48. Forty-Four Duos (No.2: Maypole Dance)
49. And Now What May Be The Most Beautiful Accompanied Violin Duet In History
50. Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
51. The Soul Of The Violin Is In Song; But What About This Weird Passage?
52. Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major (Mvt 2)
53. The Use Of Harmonies In The Orchestra Can Be Both Magical And Unsettling.
54. Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 1, Opening)
55. Tchaikovsky's Use Of Harmonics In The Sleeping Beauty Is Both Strange And Darling.
56. The Sleeping Beauty (Act II, No.15: Entr'Acte)
57. Ravel's Harmonics In Mother Goose Effect A Magical Transformation.
58. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
59. Stravinsky's Harmonics In The Firebird Transport Us Almost Into Another World./The Firebird (Introduction)
60. The Natural Upper Notes Of The Violins Have A Unique Emotional 'Grab'.
61. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Of The Afterworldsmen)
62. Still In Their Upper Register, The Violins Unleash The Energy Of A Young Colt.
63. Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No. 4)
64. Elsewhere, Britten Uses The Same High Register To Create A Very Different Mood.
65. Four Sea Interludes (Dawn) From 'Peter Grimes'
66. To End This Outing With The Violins, A Charming Little Elfin Dance
67. Elfenreigen

Tracks:

1. Introduction To The Viola
2. Viola Concerto (Mvt 1)
3. Khatchaturian Gets A Very Different Sound From It: Fuller, Fruitier, More Exotic.
4. Gayane Suite No.1 (Armen's Solo)
5. Very Nearly The Whole Of The Violin's Upper Register Is Also Available To The Viola.
6. Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'
7. The Viola Can Bring A Special, Rich Twanginess To Pizzicato That The Violins Lack./Don Quixote/Berlioz Drew Sounds From It That Retain Their Metallic Strangeness Even Today.
8. Harold In Italy (Mvt 4)
9. The Muted Viola: Intimate, Gentle, Poignant In Dvork
10. Cypresses (No.9)
11. The Massed Violas Of The Modern Symphony Orchestra In Mahler
12. Symphony No.4 (Mvt 3)
13. The 'Period' Viola In Bach
14. Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (Last Mvt)
15. The Cello: A Voice Of Unique Nobility
16. Suite No.1 For Unaccompanied Cello (Prelude)
17. Brahms And The 'Soul' Of The Cello
18. Piano Concerto No.2 In B Flat Major (Mvt 3)
19. Most Orchestral Composers Tend To Emphasize The Cello's Lower Register.
20. Cantata 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben', BWV 147 (Soprana Aria: Bereite Dir, Jesu)
21. In The Time Of Beethoven The Cello Remained As Fundamental As Ever.
22. Symphony No.3 'Eroica' (Finale)
23. But The Cello Is Not Condemned To Spend Its Life In The Basement.
24. Elfentanz, Op.39
25. Not Only In Recital Showpieces Like That Is The Cello Is Used In Its Highest Register.
26. The Protecting Veil (Opening)
27. A Cello With An Identity-Crisis: The Pizzicato Flamencan
28. Flamenco
29. Double-Stopping In The Lower Reaches Of The Cello's Range
30. Solo Suiet For Cello And Piano (Sardana)
31. It's In The Middle Register That The Cello Really Comes Into Its Own.
32. Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2
33. It Was To The Cellos That Beethoven Gave Two Of His Most Famous Themes./Symphony No.5 (Mvt 2)/Still More Famous Than That Theme Is This One From The Ninth Symphony.
34. Symphony No.9 (Finale)
35. Introduction To The Double-Bass
36. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Elephant)
37. But The Double-Bass Can Be Intensely Expressive And Graceful.
38. Elegy No.1 In D Major
39. The Range Of The Double-Bass Is The Greatest Of All The String Instruments/Allegro Di Concerto, 'Alla Mendelssohn'/And It's Also Capable Of Very Considerable Virtuosity.
40. Capriccio Di Bravura
41. Double-Bass Solos In Orchestral Scores Are Rare But Often Memorable./Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 3)/In His Third Symphony Mahler Makes A Very Different Use Of The Instrument./Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1)
42. The Double-Bass Muted In Prokofiev/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Kije's Wedding)/In Another Work Prokofiev Uses The Double-Bass To Enhance The Winds./Romeo And Juliet (Act III)/And He Combines The Bass Clarinet With A Shivering Tremolo From The Double-Basses....
43. Symphony No.5 (Mvt 3)/So Much For The Strings/On Now To The Winds

Tracks:

1. The Antiquity And Magic Of The Flute
2. Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune
3. The Versatility And Agility Of The Flute
4. Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor (Badinerie)
5. The Flute In Fifteenth-Century Spain
6. Sa'Dawi
7. Other Flutes: The Bass And Alto
8. Chamber Music No.II
9. The Piccolo - Aptly Named
10. La Naissance D'Osiris (Mvt 6)
11. From A Piccolo Of The Eighteenth Century To One Of Its Descendants In The Twentieth
12. Suite No.1 For Small Orchestra (Valse)
13. A Variety Of Techniques
14. Chamber Music No.II
15. Flutter-Tonguing. But Tchaikovsky Got There Eighty Years Before.
16. The Nutcracker (Act II, No.2: Scene)
17. From The Transverse To The Vertical: The Baroque Recorder
18. Recorded Suite In A Minor (Menuet II)
19. An Unfamiliar, Early Vision Of The Instrument
20. Naelden, Naelden
21. The Bachian Oboe
22. Cantata 'Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott', BWV 80 (No.7: Duetto)
23. Introduction To The Cor Anglais Or 'English Born'
24. Symphony No.9 'From The New World' (Mvt 2)
25. The Loneliness Of The Cor Anglais
26. The Swan Of Tuonela
27. The Cor Anglais Joins The French Horn In Haydn.
28. Symphony No.22 'The Philosopher' (Opening)
29. Introduction To The Oboe D'Amore, Beloved Of Bach - But Also Of Ravel
30. Bolero
31. The Clarinet Family: Boxing The Compass, From The Depths Of The Bass Clarinet.../The Egyptian (Violence)/...To The Raucous And Squealy.../Taras Bulba (The Death Of Ostap)/...To The Shrill And Complaining...
32. Petrushka (No.8: Peasant With Bear)/...To The High Sprits Of A Playful Puppy./Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)/And To The Downright Jazzy/Romeo And Juliet (Act II)
33. As The High Clarinets Tend To Be Loud, So The Bass Tends To Be Soft:
34. Gayane Suite No. 1 (Mvt 5)
35. The Bass Clarinet Is Used By Most Composers Mainly As A Colouring Agent.../Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/...But It Does Occasionally Get A Whole Tune To Itself./Iberia (Almeria).
36. The Range Of The Normal Clarinet Parts Goes Quite High...
37. The Snow Maiden (Scene 5: Melodrama)
38. ...And Quite Low.
39. Peter And The Wolf (The Cat)
40. The Clarinet As Concerto Soloist
41. Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
42. But That's Not The Instrument Mozart Wrote It For; This Is:
43. Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
44. Introduction To The Saxophone
45. Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 4)
46. The Soprano Saxophone Has Quite A Different Feel To It.
47. L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 (Minuet)
48. The Little Sopranino Sax Goes Even Higher.
49. Bolero
50. The Most Famous Use Of The Saxophone Is In An Orchestration By Ravel.
51. Pictures At An Exhibition (The Old Castle)
52. The Saxophone Can Be Quite Contagiously Good-Humoured.
53. Sax-O-Phun
54. The Puffa-Puffa Image Of The Bassoon
55. Peter And The Wolf (Grandfather)
56. The Bachian Bassoon, In Accompanimental Mode
57. Cantata 'Weichet Nur, Betrubte Schatten' ('Wedding Cantata'), BWV 202 (Aria No.1)
58. Bizet Leaves The Puffa-Puffa Image Out, Allowing The Bassoon To Sing./Carmen Suite No.1 (Les Dragons D'Alcala)
59. And Ravel, Also In Spanish Mode, Does Likewise.
60. Bolero
61. The Bassoon As A Voice Of High Seriousness, Indeed Desolate Loneliness
62. Symphony No.3 (Opening)
63. The Eerie Bassoon In Its Highest Register
64. The Rite Of Spring (Opening)
65. Stravinsky Now Draws On Its Lowest Register, Lonely And Melancholy.
66. The Firebird Suite (1919, Berceuse)
67. The Bassoon As Concerto Soloist, Avoiding All Exaggeration
68. Bassoon Concerto In G Minor (Finale)
69. The Deep-Voiced Contra-Bassoon, As A Fairy-Tale Beast
70. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
71. The French Horn Under Its Woodwind Hat
72. Wind Quintet, Op.43 (Last Mvt)
73. Now A More Prominent Role, In A Woodwind Quintet From An Earlier Era
74. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Mvt 2)
75. The Horn In Harmonious Blend With Strings In Another Quintet
76. Horn Quintet, K.407 (Finale)

Tracks:

1. The Trumpet As Virtuoso Soloist
2. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Last Mvt)
3. The Special Brillance Of Paired Trumpets
4. Concerto In C For Two Trumpets, RV537 (Mvt 1)
5. The Ceremonial Trumpet
6. Fanfare For The Common Man
7. Trumpets And Drums - An Incomparable Alliance
8. Messiah (The Trumpet Shall Sound)
9. The Versatility Of The Trumpet, From The Most Public To The Most Lonely
10. Piano Concerto In F (Slow Mvt)
11. The Trumpet As The Voice Of The City/An American In Paris/The Trumpet As Recruitment Officer/The Soldier's Tale (The March)/The Trumpet As Swaggerer
12. Carmen Suite No.2 (Habanera)
13. The Trumpet As The Voice Of Strength And Courage
14. Carmet Suite No.2 (Toreador's Song)
15. The Trumpet Muted/Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Opening)/The Trumpet As The Voice Of Weariness
16. Billy The Kid
17. The Trumpet As Character Actor
18. Pictures At An Exhibition (No.6)
19. The Trumpet As The Voice Of God
20. Mass In B Minor ('Et Exspecto')
21. The Birth Of The Trombone
22. Aenmerckt Nu Hier
23. The Birth Of The Brass As A Family
24. Canzon 12 In Double Echo
25. The Trombone In The Eighteenth Century
26. Trombone Concerto In B Flat Major (Finale)
27. The Tone Of The Tenor Trombone/Romance For Trombone And Organ/The Memorable Voice Of The Bass Trombone/Requiem (Mvt 2)/But The Bass Trombone Is More Than An Instrumental Bullfrog.
28. Hosannah
29. The Trombones Become Part Of The Orchestra.
30. Symphony No.5 (Finale)
31. The Wagnerian Trombone:/Overture To 'Tannhauser'
32. The Trombone As Caricaturist
33. Pulcinella (No.19: Vivo)
34. The Trombone As Raspberry/Concerto For Orchestra (Intermezzo)
35. The Horn And The Hunt
36. Horn Concerto No.4 In E Flat, K.495 (Finale)
37. The Challenging Horn Of The Baroque
38. Abaris Ou Les Boreades (Menuet)
39. The Scarcity Of First-Rate Players In Handel's Time
40. Walter Music (Minuet 1)
41. The Horn As Magician/The Firebird Suite (1919, Finale)
42. Horns And The Sound Of Nobility
43. Overture To 'Tannhauser' (Opening)
44. The Special Sound Of The Horn In Its Higher Register
45. Mass In B Minor ('Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus')
46. The Trumpet-Like Sound Of Massed Horns
47. Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1, Opening)
48. The Tuba - Unfairly Maligned?
49. Symphony No.6 (Mvt 3)
50. The Tuba Perfectly Cast By Ravel
51. Pictures At An Exhibition (Bydlo)

Tracks:

1. Introduction. And We Begin With A Bang.
2. Fanfare For The Common Man/The Bass Drum On The Battlefields/Wellington's Victory, Op.91 (Opening)
3. At The Opposite Extreme Is The Triangle.
4. Piano Concerto No.1 In E Flat (Scherzo)
5. Categories Of Percussion: Tuned And Untuned. The Side Drum
6. Overture To 'La Gazza Ladra' - The Thieving Magpie (Opening)
7. The Side Drum In An Effective But Unexpected Role/Clarinet Concerto (Mvt 1)
8. The Tambourine. One Of The Oldest Instruments In The World
9. Den Hoboecken Dans
10. Even Older Is The Originally Oriental Gong.
11. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
12. No Single Instrument Can Match The Gong In Evoking The Breaking Of Waves./Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'/But Gongs Don't Have To Be Struck To Be Effective.
13. Gymnopedie No.2
14. The Cymbals Are Generally Discovered Early In Life./The Sanguine Fan/And They Do More Than Clash Together Loudly. They Can Be Clashed Together Softly./Studio Example: But They Needn't Be Clashed Together At All/Studio Example: They Can Be Lightly...
15. Other Untuned Percussion Instruments Include The Whip.: Piano Concerto In G Major (Opening)/And Here Are No Fewer Than Twenty, Cracked By Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act I, Scene 5)
16. More Versatile Than The Whip Are The Wood Blocks.../Studio Example/...Which Crop Up All Over The Place In Twentieth-Century American Music.
17. Rodeo (Hoe-Down)
18. Related To The Wood Blocks, By Sound, Are The Castanets./Jota Aragonesa/But The Castanets Were Also Used By Monteverdi Back In The Seventeenth Century.
19. Scherzi Musicali (Damigella Tutta Belle)
20. A Still Earlier Example From Fifteenth-Century Spain
21. Yo M'Enamori D'Un Aire
22. The Birth Of The Bongo
23. Symphonic Dances From 'West Side Story'
24. From The Streets Of New York To The Blacksmith's Shop/Il Trovatore ('Anvil Chorus')
25. Desert-Island Decibels: Grand Canyon Suite (On The Trail)/Arcana
26. From One Vegetable To Another: The Humble Squash, Or Marrow/Huapango
27. Onwards To The Tuned Percussion. First, The Timpani
28. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
29. But The Drum Roll Can Be More Effectively Frightening Than The Big Bang.: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection' (Mvt 3)
30. Not One Drum Roll, But Many/Grand Canyon Suite (Sunrise)/Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)
31. Taking Advantage Of Tunability
32. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Mvt 2)
33. The Russian Composer Rodion Shchedrin Takes A Downward Turn./Carmen Suite (Changing Of The Guard)/Tuned, Yes; But For The Truly Melodic We Must Look Elsewhere.
34. Introducing The Glockenspiel/Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
35. Saint-Saens And The Xylophone
36. The Carnival Of The Animals (Fossils)
37. Ravel And The Xylophone
38. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
39. Introducing The Marimba/Carmen Suite (First Intermezzo)
40. Introducing The Vibraphone
41. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Narange Dolce)
42. The Vibraphone Goes Russian.../Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)/...And Is Joined By The Marimba./Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
43. Introducing The Hungarian Cimbalom
44. Folk Dances
45. The Cimbalom And The Symphony Orchestra
46. Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 3)
47. Introducing The Tubular Bells
48. Hary Janos Suite (Viennese Musical Clock)
49. A More 'Up-Front' Approach From Rodion Shchedrin
50. Carmen Suite (Introduction)
51. But The Bells Can Also Make The Sinister Even More Sinister./Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
52. Introducing The Celeste
53. The Nutcracker (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy)
54. Magic, In The Use Of Collective Percussion
55. Miroirs (La Vallee Des Cloches)
56. Plucked Instruments: The 'Undercover Percussion'/Carmen Suite (Scene)
57. A Prime Case In Point Is The Harp, Irresistible To The Romantics./The Nutcracker (Act II, No.1: Scene)/The Non-Solo Harp As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Hungarian Rhapsody No.1
58. The Traditionally Subservient Role Of The Harpsichord In The Baroque Orchestra
59. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Slow Mvt)
60. The Piano: King Of The Tuned Percussion/Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Mvt 3)/And A Quarter Of A Century After That:
61. Petrushka (Russian Dance)
62. The Anti-Romantic Piano As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra
63. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Last Mvt)

Tracks:

1. Keyboard Instruments In The Orchestra - The Most Powerful Of Them All:
2. Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Finale)
3. But Things In Handel's Day Were Very Different.
4. Organ Concerto In B Flat, Op.4 No.3 (Last Mvt)
5. The Organ Is Difficult To Classify.
6. An Unexpected, Organ-related Guest
7. Concerto Pour Zampogna (Last Mvt)
8. Peasant-Fancying... And A Touch Of The Roaming Cowboy
9. Les Miserables (Drink With Me)
10. Outside Artefacts And The Power Of Association
11. Mahler's Sleighbells
12. Symphony No.4 (Opening)
13. A Roll-Call Of Some Unusual Guests/The Typewriter/Parade
14. Chains, And More/Integrales/An American In Paris/Sandpaper Ballet
15. Purpose-Built Oddities: Wind Machines/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Opening)
16. Don Quixote (Variation VIII)
17. National Calling Cards: The Guitar For Spain/Concierto De Aranjuez (Finale)
18. And The Guitar's Poor American Relative, The Banjo/Washington Breakdown
19. And Poorer Still, The Mouth Organ/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Packing Up)
20. The Balalaika For Russia/Romeo And Juliet (Act II: No.14)
21. The Maracas For Mexico/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (El Desayuno)
22. The Bongos And Congas And A Whole Wealth Of Other Drums For Africa And Central America/Studio Example
23. The Sitar Of India/Evening Raga: Bhapoli
24. The Accordion For France (Especially Paris)/Paris Canaille
25. The Zither For Vienna/The Third Man (Theme)
26. The Cimbalom For Hungary/Folk Dances
27. The Guitar As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Rondena
28. There Are Whole Orchestras Of Balalaikas./Sveit Mesiats
29. The Effect Of The Wordless Human Voice, Used Purely As An Instrument/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
30. Nocturnes
31. Instruments And the Imitation Of Nature. The Clarinet As Cuckoo
32. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Cuckoo)
33. The Flute As An All-purpose Aviary
34. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aviary)
35. The Oboe As Duck
36. Peter And The Wolf (The Duck)
37. The Recording Of Reality. Does It Work As Well?
38. The Pines Of Rome (The Pines Of The Janiculum)
39. The Recording Of Reality Electronically Reborn In New Guises
40. Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds And Orchesra (Mvt 2)
41. Beethoven Turns Avian: Cuckoo, Nightingale, And Quail
42. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Andante Molto Mosso)
43. Some Improbable Casting: The Violin As Braying Donkey
44. The Carnival Of The Animals (Persons With Long Ears)
45. A Truly Orchestral Hee-haw To Be Reckoned With
46. Overture To 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
47. A Thunderstorm In A Million
48. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral (Allegro-Allegretto)
49. the Instrumental Depiction Of A Silent World
50. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aquarium)
51. Saint-Saens' Menagerie Takes A Curtain Call.
52. The Carnival Of The Animals (Finale)

Tracks:

1. The Grouping Of Instrumental Families. An Additive Approach. First, Two Violins
2. Forty-Four Duos (No.4)
3. A Great Contrast, Of Both Pitch And Character: Violin And Viola
4. Duo For Violin And Viola In B Flat Major, K.424 (Finale, Vars 1 & 2)/Studio Example
5. Arrival Of The Standard String Trio: Violin, Viola, And Cello
6. String Trio In B Flat (Menuetto)
7. The String Quartet: Two Violins, Viola, And Cello
8. String Quartet In F, Op.18 No.1 (Mvt 3)
9. The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Viola
10. String Quartet No.5 In D, K.593 (Adagio)
11. The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Cello
12. String Quintet In C (Mvt 3)
13. The String Sextet: Two Violins, Two Violas, And Two Cellos
14. String Sextet In B Flat (Mvt 2)
15. The String Octet: The Standard String Quaret Times Two
16. Octet In E Flat, Op.20 (Mvt 1)
17. Double The String Octet: A Fully Fledged String Orchestra
18. String Symphony No.2 (Finale)
19. The Massed Strings Of A Symphony Orchestra
20. Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis
21. Contrasts Of Pitch And Instrumental 'Colour' In The Woodwind Section
22. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Theme)
23. In The First Variation It's The Horn That Gets The Lion's Share.
24. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 1
25. In Variation Two The Torch Is Handed To The Bassoon.
26. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 2
27. In Variation Three The Oboe Leads.
28. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 3
29. Variation Four: Conversation Before Returning To A Solo-dominated Texture
30. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 4
31. And Variation Five is Dominated By The Clarinet.
32. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 5
33. The Next To Be Featured Is The Virtuoso Flute.
34. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 6
35. Individual Farewells And A Closing Chorus
36. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 7
37. A Mixed Group: Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, String Quartet, And Double-Bass
38. Octet In F (Mvt 3)
39. The Early Classical Symphony Orchestra Of Haydn And Mozart
40. Symphony No.29 In A, K.201 (Finale)
41. Strings, Wind, But No Brass. What Haydn And Mozart Never Knew
42. Canzon 28
43. Beethoven's Fifth: Two Horns, Two Trumpets, And Three Trombones Join The Team.
44. Symphony No.5 (Finale)
45. From Beethoven To The Massive Orchestras Of Berlioz, Wagner, And Mahler
46. Beethoven Changed The Face Of The Symphony And The Orchestra Forever
47. Symphoy No.6 'Tragic' (Mvt 1)
48. The Cult Of Orchestral Elephantiasis Reaches Its Peak.
49. Symphony No.1 'Gothic' (VI: Te Ergo Quaesumus)
50. When Large Doesn't Necessarily Mean Loud: Debussy
51. Images (Gigues)
52. A Crisis Of Confidence; The Orchestra's Survival Hangs In The Balance, But It Still Develops. The Ondes Martenot:
53. Turangalila Symphony (Chant D'amour 1)
54. The Advent Of The 'Early Music' Movement Brings A New Vitality And Freshness.
55. Balle De Xerxes (Gavotte En Rondeau)
56. Computer And Synthesiser: Friends Or Foes?
57. Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
58. A Speculative Look Ahead/Mass In B Minor ('Dona Nobis Pacem')

Customer Reviews:

Instruments of the Orchestra - Great Reference Material!.......2007-04-04

This set lends itself to greatly enhancing one's knowledge of the orchestra, instruments in it, and their usage. I am a huge music buff, and I still picked up a great deal I previously did not know. I highly recommend this for all who wish to understand the origin of music, as well as the processes that are employed to create music!

Beginner or Expert.......2007-03-12

This CD is excellent for the beginner or expert! To be able to haear the instrumets separately and then together really provides a good education. and/or refresher. The book thaty comes with the CD is alomost worth the price by itself!

Very Informative and Enjoyable.......2006-11-20

Whether you're a music novice or pro, "The instruments of the Orchestra" is a very worthwhile purchase. The 7 CDs, with a total of 8 hours, are expertly narrated by Jeremy Siepmann. He's a great speaker, very much like the late Leonard Bernstein was. Mr. Siepmann takes you on an unforgetable musical journey covering the origins and use of the various orchestral instruments throughout musical history. The balance between his narration and a wealth of musical examples, which range from snippets to entire movements, is superb. The comprehensive enclosed booklet is excellent and faithfully follows the 7 CDs in content. Even with my 40+ years of music training I still learned new things from this wonderful collection. Considering the excellence of the content, and a cost that translates to about $5 per disc, this collection is a great value. Grab it, you won't regret that you did. Five solid stars!

Frank's view.......2006-08-19

This boxed set of CD's with booklet achieved all I had hoped that it would. There are good samples of individual instruments and well done commentary on each. The only drawback was that some of the samples were too brief and could have been longer, hoiwever I guess this fits in with time constraints of the medium. It has given me a lot of clues as to future purchases of CD's for listening to individual instruments. Altogeth a satisfactory purchase and a welcome addition to my collection.

Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra.......2003-11-08

I've listened to classical music for years and am interested in composition. I bought this CD set to learn how an orchestra and its instruments work. I thought the CDs would be a nice but boring lecture. They aren't! Not only are they FUN but they are informative as well. I learned a huge amount from each CD and couldn't wait to listen to the next one.

The narrator and writer is a great speaker and holds your attention well. He is definitely knowledgeable. He provides musical examples for each point he makes, so you get to "hear" what he just talked about. I'd say the CDs are about 65% music and 35% narration. You'll learn about the range of instruments, some history, different ways to play them, how they sound, and how they are used in the orchestra. This CD set was a great learning experience and is sold at such a low price!

I recommend this CD for those who want to learn about classical music and those who know about it but are interested in learning more about the inner workings of an orchestra. You'll learn much useful information. For instance, the Rite of Spring (with that eerie start) is written for bassoon! I never knew a bassoon could sound like that but now I do.

The one complaint I have is the last CD. This deals with the orchestra. I wanted more of a tour of how the orchestra has been used through history up to the present. Instead, it was a tour of how different groups of instruments sound. I thought it could have been better. The other 6 CDs are excellent.

Average customer rating: A little too much and poor sound quality And now, honored ladies and gentlemen, may we present...!

Imperial Fanfares Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Biber | Biber, Heinrich Ignaz | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Charpentier | Charpentier, Marc-Antoine | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Lully | Lully, Jean-Baptiste | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Monteverdi | Monteverdi, Claudio | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Salieri | Salieri, Antonio | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schmelzer | Schmelzer, Johann H. | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Zelenka | Zelenka, Jan Dismas | ( Z ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music $6.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Biber, Heinrich Ignaz | ( B ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Charpentier, Marc-Antoine | ( C ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Lully, Jean-Baptiste | ( L ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Monteverdi, Claudio | ( M ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Salieri, Antonio | ( S ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Schmelzer, Johann H. | ( S ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Zelenka, Jan Dismas | ( Z ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Fanfare, British Music for Symphonic Brass Ensemble Music from the Royal Court Ceremonial Music for Trumpet & Symphonic Organ Lully: Les Divertissements de Versailles Music for Organ, Brass & Percussion ASIN: B00008MLVK Release Date: 2003-07-15

Tracks:

1. Imperial Fanfare
2. Royal Entry
3. Ceremonial Procession
4. Heroic Procession
5. Festive Procession
6. Elector's Procession
7. Elector's Procession
8. Majestic Procession
9. Priere Du Matin
10. Intrada
11. Largo - Allegretto
12. Intrada
13. Festive Overture
14. Toccata (Prelude To Orfeo)
15. Courante For The Entry Of His Imperial Majesty And All The Cavalry
16. Follia For New Entry Of The Sprinter And Other Equestrian Manoeuvres
17. Sarabande For The End Of The Ballet
18. Trumpet Duet
19. Intrada For The Trombet Und Musicalischen Tafeldienst
20. Menuet (Trumpet Duet No. 82)
21. Trumpet Duet No. 8
22. 1812 Overture, Op. 49
23. Festive Table Music No. 1
24. Festive Table Music No. 2
25. Procession At The Imperial Court
26. Procession No. 3
27. Festive Procession: The Entry Of The Emperor, 1631
28. Intrada From Bruck An Der Mur
29. Procession No. 4
30. Procession No. 1
31. Procession (Brilliant, Bright)
32. Marche Des Nations De Flore
33. 2e Air Du Combat De Lance D?Amadis
34. La Descente De Mars
35. La Marche Italienne
36. Prelude Des Divertissements
37. Chaconne Du Palais Royal
38. Menuet Royal
39. Marche Pour Les Trompettes Seules
40. Bruit De Trompettes
41. L?Etendard
42. Fanfare A Deux Trompettes
43. Bruit De Guerre
44. Allemande
45. Molto Moderato
46. Signature Tune Of The Old Town Of Bratislava
47. Fanfara 1
48. Fanfara 2
49. Marcia Per La Cavalleria, No. 1
50. Entree Fanfare
51. Modern Fanfare
52. Signature Fanfare
53. Convention
54. Fanfare Solo I
55. Fanfare Solo II
56. Fanfare Solo III
57. Fanfare Solo IV
58. Fanfare Solo V
59. Fanfare Solo VI
60. Opening Fanfare
61. New Palace Fanfare
62. Welcome Fanfare
63. Excitement
64. Short and Concise
65. Short Fanfare No. 1
66. Short Fanfare No. 2
67. Short Fanfare No. 3
68. Short Fanfare No. 4
69. Flourish
70. Il Giorno Del Silenzio
71. Fanfare For Solo Trumpet And Drum - V
72. Fanfare For Solo Trumpet And Drum - II
73. Wrapped In Mystery
74. Marcia Maestoso
75. Imperial Procession In Vienna
76. Procession No. 8: Allegretto

Customer Reviews:

A little too much and poor sound quality.......2006-11-10

Even though this was recorded just a couple of years ago the sound quality is not that good. It sounds like it was recorded in the 70s and outside with the microphones far away. There is nothing too deep here and all the fanfares are fairly short, just lasting a few seconds it seems. I got tired of this pretty quickly and it doesn't stand up to repeated listenings and to be honest a lot of the stuff on here sounds the same. The performances are ok, but nothing special, they sound kind of flat, and they don't really do anything to make this sound exciting like it should. Maybe if the performance and sound was better I would of enjoyed this more.

And now, honored ladies and gentlemen, may we present...!.......2003-07-17

This is what you'd have to call a specialty CD. It consists entirely of fanfares--nothing but fanfares--some of them as short as 10 seconds long. An interesting idea for a CD, perhaps, but I would guess it is primarily for directors of costume dramas, period pieces, and ceremonies of various sorts.

There are 76 fanfares on the disc covering composers ranging from Monteverdi to a trio of modern composers, all of the latter associated with the CD itself. They are played by an outfit called 'The Art of the Trumpet,' a coalescence of 24 Austrian trumpeters and a couple of timpanists (and on occasion a single trombone). Some of the fanfares use the whole group, there are others for solo trumpet, and for all combinations in between. They are led by a trumpeter from Vienna named Leonhard Leeb who is not only one of the trumpeters but also one of the composers--the other two modern composers are Leon Bolten and Joel Modart (I almost typed 'Mozart' but no!...).

Other composers include Salieri, Lully, Biber, J.H. Schmelzer, Pezel (often spelled Petzel here in America), Philidor (yes, the chess master of that name), Marc-Antoine Charpentier, and the multi-talented A. Nony Mous.

The performances are appropriately stirring, ceremonial, attention-grabbing, even mournful (one, Bolten's 'Wrapped in Mystery,' was dedicated to the victims of the World Trade Center tragedy of September 11, 2001). I would strongly suggest you not listen to the whole CD at one sitting--actually, it's hard to imagine anyone would--because too much B flat can fry your brain unless you yourself are a brass player or bagpiper.

For what it is, though, this CD is excellent.

Review by Scott Morrison

Average customer rating: FABULOUS

Violins No End Stephane Grappelli w , and Stuff Smith Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hot Jazz Violin: 1930-1940 Cat on a Hot Fiddle Jazz Violin Summit Stuff Smith-Dizzy Gillespie-Oscar Peterson Stuff and Steff ASIN: B000000Z2B Release Date: 1996-03-19

Tracks:

1. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
2. Chapeau Blues
3. No Points Today
4. The Lady Is A Tramp
5. Desert Sands
6. How High The Moon
7. Moonlight In Vermont

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FABULOUS.......2006-11-10

If asked to choose the ideal group of musicians for a jazz album, I would probably come up with this list! They don't disappoint. This is one fantastic album.

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Tracks:

1. Beatus Vir
2. Canzon duo decimi A10
3. Musica Dei donum
4. Royall Consort No.6 In D: Ecco
5. Royall Consort No.6 In D: Aire Morriss
6. Maria plena virtute (End)
7. Le Grand: Concerts Royaux - No.3 In A - Muzette
8. Suite In G - Gigue a l'angloise
9. Mass 'Dum Sacrum Mysterium' A10 - Gloria (Opening)
10. Pieces pour clavecin - La Victoire
11. Ave Regina Caelorum
12. Divisions On A Ground In F
13. The First Booke Of Songes - Can She Excuse My Wrongs?
14. Sonata In G, Op.9 No.7 - 4th Mvt. Giga
15. Angeli, Archangeli
16. String Quartet Op.1 No.3 - 4th Mvt. Polonaise
17. Ave cuius conceptio
18. Violin Concerto In E 'L'Amoroso' - 1t. Mvt. Allegro
19. Psalm III 'Beatus Vir' (Opening)

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Classics Explained: Rite of Spring Stravinsky , Rahbari , and Brt Po Brussels Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Classics Explained: Pastoral Symphony Classics Explained: Brandenburg Concertos 4 & 5 An Introduction to Ravel's "Boléro" and "Ma mère l'oye" An Introduction to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 Symphony 9: Introduction to Dvorak ASIN: B00007FPFN Release Date: 2003-07-15

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Violins No End Stephane Grappelli w , and Stuff Smith Manufacturer: Pablo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000E0N3 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
2. Chapeau Blues
3. No Points Today
4. Lady Is a Tramp
5. Desert Sands
6. How High the Moon
7. Moonlight in Vermont

Average customer rating: Fulfilling Overview of the Baroque Era in Music and Words An Excellent Introduction to the Music of the Baroque Era

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Fulfilling Overview of the Baroque Era in Music and Words.......2005-05-09

Yet another great bargain-priced package from Naxos effectively provides an overview of the rich Baroque period with two discs containing more than 2 ½ hours of music and a comprehensive, 140-page primer booklet. Compiled by music historian Clive Unger-Hamilton, the collection is well-chosen to represent the many different facets of the era without recycling the more obvious candidates like Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons". The quality of the playing and singing is top-notch throughout, and the program contains quite a smorgasbord of pieces from dramatic opera arias to harpsichord pieces (sometimes played on authentic instruments, other times on modern grands) to full-blown choruses. Standout tracks include Allegri's "Miserere mei" with an ethereal boy treble soloist; two arias sung by soprano Ingrid Kertesi, in particular, Almirena's lament, "Lascia ch'io pianga" from Handel's "Rinaldo"; and a lovely "When I am laid in earth" from Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" performed by soprano Kym Amps. The choral pieces can be astounding from Bach's "St Matthew Passion (BWV 244)" performed by the large Hungarian Festival Chorus and full symphony orchestra to the eight voices that wrap themselves around "For unto us a child is born" from Handel's "Messiah".

The booklet itself provides great value as you listen to the selections. There is a well written 85-page essay by Unger-Hamilton, who manages to encapsulate an enormous amount of information about this period which leaves a novice like me with a more solid basis of understanding the music of the Baroque era. In fact, what is quite valuable is that Unger-Hamilton provides a specific historical reference for each piece on the recording in his essay. There is also a very helpful glossary and an intriguing timeline which covers musical milestones relative to similar milestones in history, arts and architecture and literature. Moreover, there is an alphabetical list of the key Baroque composers and an accompanying map of Europe with important music centers and the composers associated with these cities. The thoughtful presentation of this package really makes the $8.98 price tag one of the great bargains here.

An Excellent Introduction to the Music of the Baroque Era.......2005-04-04

This is one of a series of the 'Discover ...' 2 CD sets -- at super-budget price -- from Naxos that makes use of complete movements of music from the era in question. It is accompanied by an excellent booklet - a thick one! - with an explanatory essay that gives background on the music as well as blow-by-blow descriptions of the music being presented. All the selections (from such composers as Monteverdi, Handel, Bach, Scarlatti, Schütz, Purcell, Corelli, Pachelbel, Charpentier, et al.) are from Naxos's extensive library of recorded music and as far as I can tell all the performances are top-notch.

In addition there is a Timeline of the Baroque Era that includes material about the music, history, art, architecture and literature of the times. There is a map of Europe that shows where various composers lived and worked. There is a list of composers (more than just those whose music provides the audio examples) with their dates and locations. There is a glossary of common musical terms. There is also an extensive list of music suggested for further listening. I can easily imagine this set being the springboard for a newcomer to baroque music to begin a lifetime of enjoyment of these and similar works.

The presentation is thoughtfully done and the whole thing is in a slipcase that will preserve the CDs as well as the booklet for years to come.

Scott Morrison

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Haydn and his English Friends (English Orpheus, Vol 48) /Psalmody * Parley of Instruments * Holman Charles Burney , Johan Arnold Dahmen , John Foster , Franz Joseph Haydn , William Shield , John Stafford Smith , Samuel Webbe , Parley of Instruments , and Peter Holman Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Franz Joseph Haydn | Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Smith, John Stafford | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Cantatas | Romances General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004WMWP Release Date: 2000-10-10

Tracks:

1. What Art Expresses (Dr. Harrington's Compliment)
2. Blest Be The Name Of Jacob's God
3. Maker Of All! Be Thou My Guard
4. O Let Me In Th' Accepted Hour
5. Horrible Is The End Of Th' Unrighteous Generation
6. Tell Us, O Women
7. The Emperor's Hymn
8. Give To God Our Thankful Songs
9. Where, Lord, Shall I My Refuge See?
10. My God, My King, With Joyful View
11. Hear My Prayer, O Lord
12. O Thou That Dwellest In The Highest Heavens
13. Ye Winged Inhabitants Of The Grove
14. Long Life Shall Israel's King Behold
15. How Oft, Instinct With Warmth Divine
16. The Lord, Th' Almighty Monarch, Spake
17. The God Of Gods, The Lord, Hath Call'd

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Tracks:

1. Two Almaines
2. Fant
3. Walsingham
4. Mignarda
5. Almaine
6. Galliard
7. Greensleeves
8. Galliard Upon A Galliard Of Daniel Bachelar
9. Pavan
10. Carman's Whistle
11. Pavan
12. Monsieur's Almaine
13. Pavan
14. Batell Galliard
15. Galliard
16. Pavana Bray
17. Galliard
18. Pavan
19. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home
20. Captain Piper's Galliard
21. Queen Elizabeth's Galliard
22. Sir John Langton's Pavan
23. Tarleton's Ressurection
24. Lady Clifton's Spirit

Tracks:

1. Landgrave Of Hesse: Pavan
2. Saltarello
3. Ballo Detto Il Conte Orlando
4. Saltarello
5. Fant
6. Chromatic Pavan And Galliard: Pavan
7. Chromatic Pavan And Galliard: Galliard
8. Fant
9. Queen Elizabeth's Galliard
10. Fant
11. Fant
12. Finale
13. Villanella No.1
14. Villanella No.2
15. Finale 2
16. Pavan
17. Mein Herz Hat Sich Mit Lieb' Verpflicht
18. Hie' Folget Ein Welscher Tanz
19. Ich Klag' Den Tag
20. Der Juden Tanz
21. Fant
22. Air De Cour
23. Branle
24. Guillemette
25. Volte
26. Forlorn Hope Fancy
27. My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home (For Two Lts)

Tracks:

1. The Earl Of Essex Galliard
2. Lachrimae Antiquae
3. Galliard To Lachrimae
4. My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe
5. Lord De L'Isle's Galliard
6. The Frog Galliard
7. Lachrimae Verae
8. The Shoemaker's Wife
9. Lady Rich, Her Galliard
10. Unnamed Piece (Almaine)
11. Sir John Smith's Almaine
12. Melancholy Galliard
13. Sir Henry Gifford's Almaine
14. Dowland's First Galliard
15. Mrs Vaux's Gigge
16. The Earl Of Derby, His Galliard
17. Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens
18. Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
19. My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard
20. Mr Langton's Galliard
21. Sir John Souche's Galliard
22. Piper's Pavan
23. Resolution

Tracks:

1. The Woods So Wild
2. Fant I in c
3. Packington's Pound
4. Fant II in F
5. Walsingham
6. Fant III in g
7. The Fairy Round
8. Heigh Ho Holiday
9. Fant IV (La Campagna)
10. Go From My Window
11. Fant V in C
12. Greensleeves
13. Fant VI in F
14. Bonny Sweet Robin
15. Fant VII in F
16. Heart's Ease
17. Fant VIII in G
18. Loth To Depart
19. A Fancy
20. A Fancy
21. Farewell

Tracks:

1. Con in D, RV 93: Allegro Giusto - Juliam Bream
2. Con in D, RV 93: Largo - Juliam Bream
3. Con in D, RV 93: Allegro - Juliam Bream
4. Con in F: Allegro - Juliam Bream
5. Con in F: Adagio - Juliam Bream
6. Con in F: Tempo Di Menuetto - Juliam Bream
7. Con in B flat, Op.4 No.6: Allegro - Juliam Bream
8. Con in B flat, Op.4 No.6: Larghetto - Juliam Bream
9. Con in B flat, Op.4 No.6: Allegro Moderato - Juliam Bream
10. Con in G, RV 532: Allegro - Juliam Bream
11. Con in G, RV 532: Andante - Juliam Bream
12. Con in G, RV 532: Allegro - Juliam Bream
13. Son in C, RV 82: Allegro Non Molto - Julian Bream/George Malcom
14. Son in C, RV 82: Larghetto - Julian Bream/George Malcom
15. Son in C, RV 82: Allegro - Julian Bream/George Malcom
16. Son in g, RV 85: Andante Molto - Julian Bream/George Malcom
17. Son in g, RV 85: Larghetto - Julian Bream/George Malcom
18. Son in g, RV 85: Allegro - Julian Bream/George Malcom

Tracks:

1. Monsieur's Almaine - The Julian Bream Consort
2. Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
3. My Lord Of Oxenford's Maske - The Julian Bream Consort
4. The Flatt Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
5. The Bachelar's Delight - The Julian Bream Consort
6. Kemp's Jig - The Julian Bream Consort
7. Phillips Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
8. O Mistress Mine - The Julian Bream Consort
9. Fant: La Rondinella - The Julian Bream Consort
10. Joyne Hands - The Julian Bream Consort
11. Lachrimae Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
12. Fant - The Julian Bream Consort
13. De La Tromba Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
14. It Fell On A Summer's Day - The Julian Bream Consort
15. Dowland's Adew - The Julian Bream Consort
16. The Frog Galliard - The Julian Bream Consort
17. La Rosignol - The Julian Bream Consort
18. Tarleton's Resurrection - The Julian Bream Consort
19. Galliard-Can She Excuse - The Julian Bream Consort
20. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: March - The Julian Bream Consort
21. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: Corante - The Julian Bream Consort
22. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: Pavan - The Julian Bream Consort
23. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: Morris Dance - The Julian Bream Consort
24. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: Galliard - The Julian Bream Consort
25. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: La Volta - The Julian Bream Consort
26. Gloriana-Courtly Dances: March (Finale) - The Julian Bream Consort
27. Con in D, RV 93: Allegro - The Julian Bream Consort
28. Con in D, RV 93: Largo - The Julian Bream Consort
29. Con in D, RV 93: Allegro - The Julian Bream Consort

Tracks:

1. Joyne Hands - The Julian Bream Consort
2. Phillips Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
3. The Frog Galliard - The Julian Bream Consort
4. The Jew's Dance - The Julian Bream Consort
5. Fant - The Julian Bream Consort
6. The Bachelar's Delight - The Julian Bream Consort
7. The Sacred End Pavin And Galliard: Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
8. The Sacred End Pavin And Galliard: Galliard - The Julian Bream Consort
9. De La Tromba Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
10. Thirsis And Milla - The Julian Bream Consort
11. Alison's Knell - The Julian Bream Consort
12. Grimstock - The Julian Bream Consort
13. Go From My Window - The Julian Bream Consort
14. Go Nightly Cares - The Julian Bream Consort
15. Daniel's Almain - The Julian Bream Consort
16. In Nomine Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
17. Come Again - The Julian Bream Consort
18. Lachrimae Pavin - The Julian Bream Consort
19. Can She Excuse - The Julian Bream Consort

Tracks:

1. Chor No.1 - Juilian Bream
2. Etude in e - Juilian Bream
3. Etude in c# - Juilian Bream
4. Prld in e - Juilian Bream
5. Schottische-Choro (From Ste Popolar Brasileira) - Juilian Bream
6. Madronos - Juilian Bream
7. Homenaje, Pour Le Tombeau De Debussy - Juilian Bream J
8. The Miller's Dance (From The Three-Cornered Hat) - Juilian Bream
9. Fandanguillo - Juilian Bream J
10. El Testament D'Amelia - Juilian Bream
11. Canarios - Juilian Bream
12. Son - Juilian Bream
13. En Los Trigales - Juilian Bream
14. Larghetto - Juilian Bream
15. Allegro, K.Anh.229 - Juilian Bream
16. Son in C, Op.15, Allegro - Juilian Bream
17. Rossiniana No.1, Op.119 - Juilian Bream

Tracks:

1. Pavanas
2. Galliardas
3. Passacalles
4. Canarios
5. Villano
6. Canario
7. Prld in d, BWV 999
8. Fugue in a, BWV 1000
9. Passacaille
10. Fant
11. Tombeau Sur La Mort De M. Comte De Logy
12. Ste in d: Prld
13. Ste in d: Allemande
14. Ste in d: Courante
15. Ste in d: Sarabande
16. Ste in d: Gavotte
17. Ste in d: Menuets I And II
18. Ste in d: Bourree
19. Ste in d: Gigue
20. Aria Con Var Detta La Frescobalda
21. Son in e, K.11
22. Son in e, K.87
23. Son in c#
24. Son in A

Tracks:

1. Grand Ov, Op.61
2. Grand Solo, Op.14: Intro
3. Grand Solo, Op.14: Allegro
4. Son in A: Allegro Moderato
5. Son in A: Andante Sostenuto
6. Son in A: Menuet-Scherzo
7. Son in A: Rondo (Allegretto)
8. Rossiniana No.3, Op.121
9. Son in C, Op.25: Andante Largo; Allegro Non Troppo
10. Son in C, Op.25: Andantino Grazioso
11. Son in C, Op.25: Minuetto & Trio/Allegro

Tracks:

1. Grand Son in A: Allegro Risoluto
2. Grand Son in A: Romanze
3. Grand Son in A: Andantino Variato
4. Son in G, Op.78, D.894, Menuetto
5. Song Without Words, Op.19, No.6 ('Venetian Boating Song')
6. Str Qt, Op.12: Conzanetta
7. Homenaje, Pour Le Tombeau De Debussy
8. Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte
9. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Granada
10. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Leyenda (Asturias)
11. Lagrima (Prld)
12. Three Mazurkas: Adelita
13. Three Mazurkas: Mazurka in G
14. Three Mazurkas: Marieta

Tracks:

1. Sonatina, Op. 52, No.1: Allegretto
2. Sonatina, Op. 52, No.1: Lento
3. Sonatina, Op. 52, No.1: Rondo
4. Segovia, Op.29
5. El Polifemo De Oro (Four Fragments): Ben Adagio
6. El Polifemo De Oro (Four Fragments): Allegretto
7. El Polifemo De Oro (Four Fragments): Largo
8. El Polifemo De Oro (Four Fragments): Ritmico E Vivo
9. Quatre Pieces Breves: Prld
10. Quatre Pieces Breves: Air
11. Quatre Pieces Breves: Plainte
12. Quatre Pieces Breves: Comme Une Gigue
13. Drei Tentos (From 'Kammermusik'): 'Du Schones Bachlein' (Tranquilmente)
14. Drei Tentos (From 'Kammermusik'): 'Es Findet Das Aug' Oft' (Allegro Rubato)
15. Drei Tentos (From 'Kammermusik'): 'Sohn Laios' (Lento)
16. Elegy
17. Five Bagatelles: Allegro
18. Five Bagatelles: Lento/Tempo Di Valse
19. Five Bagatelles: Alla Cubana
20. Five Bagatelles: Sempre Espressivo
21. Five Bagatelles: Con Slancio
22. Theme And Vars, Op.77

Tracks:

1. Ste Compostellana: Prd
2. Ste Compostellana: Coral
3. Ste Compostellana: Cuna
4. Ste Compostellana: Recitativo
5. Ste Compostellana: Cancion
6. Ste Compostellana: Muneira
7. Tiento
8. Son: Allegretto
9. Son: Andante
10. Son: Allegro
11. Fant
12. Ste Populaire Bresilienne: Mazurka-Choro
13. Ste Populaire Bresilienne: Schottisch-Choro
14. Ste Populaire Bresilienne: Valse-Choro
15. Ste Populaire Bresilienne: Gavotte-Choro
16. Etude No.5 in C
17. Etude No.7 in E

Tracks:

1. Five Impromptus: Recitative
2. Five Impromptus: Agitato
3. Five Impromptus: Elegiaco
4. Five Impromptus: Con Fuoco
5. Five Impromptus: Arioso
6. Five Bagetelles: Allegro
7. Five Bagetelles: Lento
8. Five Bagetelles: Alla Cubana
9. Five Bagetelles: Sempre Espressivo
10. Five Bagetelles: Con Slancio
11. Hill Runes
12. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Gloucester (Majestically)
13. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Romeo And Juliet (Singing Slowly, With Tenderness)
14. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Ariel (Swiftly, Gently, Mysteriously)
15. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Ophelia (Slowly)
16. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Touchstone, Audrey And William (With Humor)
17. Son No.1, Royal Winter Music: Oberon (Majestically)

Tracks:

1. Gtr Con, Op.67: Allegro
2. Gtr Con, Op.67: Lento
3. Gtr Con, Op.67: Con Brio
4. Con: Lento E Rubato/Vivo
5. Con: Andante Lento
6. Con: Con Brio
7. Concierto De Aranjuez: Allegro Con Spirito
8. Concierto De Aranjuez: Adagio
9. Concierto De Aranjuez: Allegro Gentile

Tracks:

1. Gtr Qnt in e, G.451: Allegro Moderato
2. Gtr Qnt in e, G.451: Adagio
3. Gtr Qnt in e, G.451: Menuetto
4. Gtr Qnt in e, G.451: Allegretto
5. Gtr Qnt in D, G.448: Intro And Fandango - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
6. Qt in E, Op.2 No.2: Allegro
7. Qt in E, Op.2 No.2: Adagio
8. Qt in E, Op.2 No.2: Menuetteo E Trio
9. Qt in E, Op.2 No.2: Finale: Presto
10. Gtr Con in A, Op.30: Allegro Maestoso
11. Gtr Con in A, Op.30: Andantino Siciliano
12. Gtr Con in A, Op.30: Alla Polacca

Tracks:

1. My Lady Hundson's Puffe - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
2. 'If Music And Sweey Poetry Agree' (Sonnet From The Passionate Pilgrim) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
3. The King Of Denmark's Galliard - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
4. Envoi To The Phoenix And The Turtle - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
5. Mignarda - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
6. 'The Courser And The Genet' (From Venus And Adonis) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
7. Queen Elizabeth's Galliard - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
8. Loth To Depart - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
9. 'She Looks Upon His Lips' (Death of Adaonis From Venus And Adonis) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
10. The Earl Of Derby's Galliard - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
11. 'Orpheous With His Lute' (From King Henry VIII, Act III, Scene 1) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
12. Lachrimae Pavin - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
13. 'Weary With Toil' (Sonnet No.27) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
14. 'Is It Thy Will?' (Sonnet No.61) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
15. 'O, Never Say That I Was False Of Heart' (Sonnet No.109) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
16. Tarleton's Resurrection - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
17. 'My Mother Had A Maid Call'd Barbara' (From Othello, Act IV, Scene 3) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
18. Tarleton's Resurrection - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
19. 'Come Away, Come Away, Death' (From Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 4) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
20. A Fancy - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
21. 'Two Loves I Have' (Sonnet No.144) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
22. 'The Expense Of Spirit' (Sonnet No.129) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
23. Melancholy Galliard - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
24. 'But She Hath Lost A Dearer Thing Than Life' (From The Rape Of Lucrece) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
25. 'Ev'n In This Thought' (From The Rape Of Lucrece) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
26. Semper Dowland, Semper Dolens - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
27. 'What Potions Have I Drunk' (Sonnet No.119) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
28. 'When To The Sessions' (Sonnet No.30) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
29. Orlando Sleepeth - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream
30. 'Fear No More' (Dirge For Fidele From Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene 2) - Dame Peggy Ashcroft/Julian Bream

Tracks:

1. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: The Big Chariot - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
2. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: The Old Lute - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
3. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: The Autumn Wind - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
4. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: The Herd-Boy - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
5. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: Depression - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
6. Songs From The Chinese, Op.58: Dance Song - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
7. Folk Song Arrangements: Master Kilby - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
8. Folk Song Arrangements: The Shooting Of His Dear - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
9. Folk Song Arrangements: Sailor-Boy - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
10. Folk Song Arrangements: I Will Give My Love An Apple - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
11. Folk Song Arrangements: The Soldier And The Sailor - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
12. Gloriana: The Second Lt Song Of The Earl Of Essex - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
13. Anon In Love: Fain Would I Change That Note - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
14. Anon In Love: O Stay, Sweet Love - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
15. Anon In Love: Lady, When I Behold The Roses - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
16. Anon In Love: My Love In Her Attire - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
17. Anon In Love: I Gave Her Cakes And I Gave Her Ale - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
18. Anon In Love: To Couple Is A Custom - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
19. Four French Folk Songs: Reveillez-Vous - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
20. Four French Folk Songs: J'Ai Descendu - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
21. Four French Folk Songs: Le Rossignol - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
22. Four French Folk Songs: Marguerite, Elle Est Malade - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
23. O Mistress Mine - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
24. Nocturnal, Op.70 - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears

Tracks:

1. Absence - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
2. What Then Is Love? - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
3. I Saw My Lady Weep - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
4. If She Forsake Me - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
5. Dear, If You Change - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
6. Come, Phyllis - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
7. Stay, Time - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
8. It Was A Lover And His Lass - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
9. Weep You No More - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
10. When Laura Smiles - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
11. Fair, Sweet, Cruel - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
12. Shall I Sue? - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
13. Sweet, Stay Awhile - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
14. Who Is It? - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
15. Can She Excuse? - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
16. Come, Heavy Sleep - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
17. Wilt Thou Unkind, Thus Leave Me? - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
18. Sorrow, Stay - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
19. The Lowest Trees Have Tops - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
20. Time's Eldest Son, Old Age - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
21. In Darkness Let Me Dwell - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears
22. Say, Love, If Ever Thou Did'st Find - Julian Bream/Sir Peter Pears

Tracks:

1. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Prld
2. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Allemande
3. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Courante
4. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Sarabande
5. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Bourree
6. Lt Ste No.1, BWV 996: Gigue
7. Lt Ste No.2, BWV 997: Prld
8. Lt Ste No.2, BWV 997: Fugue
9. Lt Ste No.2, BWV 997: Sarabande
10. Lt Ste No.2, BWV 997: Gigue
11. Trio Son No.1 in E flat, BWV 525: Allegro Moderato - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
12. Trio Son No.1 in E flat, BWV 525: Adagio - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
13. Trio Son No.1 in E flat, BWV 525: Allegro - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
14. Trio Son No.5 in C, BWV 529: Allegro - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
15. Trio Son No.5 in C, BWV 529: Largo - Julian Bream/George Malcolm
16. Trio Son No.5 in C, BWV 529: Allegro - Julian Bream/George Malcolm

Tracks:

1. Con: Allegro Preciso
2. Con: Andantino E Andante/Cadenza
3. Con: Allegretto Non Troppo
4. Five Prlds: No.1 in e: Andantino Espressivo
5. Five Prlds: No.5 in E: Andantino
6. Five Prlds:No.3 in a: Andante/Molto Adagio/Andante
7. Five Prlds: No.4 in e: Lento/Animato/Moderato/Lento
8. Five Prlds: No.2 in D: Poco Animato
9. Twelve Etudes: No.1: Allegro Non Troppo/Lento
10. Twelve Etudes: No.2: Allegro
11. Twelve Etudes: No.3: Allegro Moderato
12. Twelve Etudes: No.4: Poco Moderato/A Tempo/Grandioso
13. Twelve Etudes: No.5: Andantino
14. Twelve Etudes: No.6: Poco Allegro
15. Twelve Etudes: No.7: Tres Anime/Piu Mosso
16. Twelve Etudes: No.8: Moderato
17. Twelve Etudes: No.9: Tres Peu Anime
18. Twelve Etudes: No.10: Tres Anime/Vif/Un Peu Anime/Vif
19. Twelve Etudes: No.11: Lent/Anime
20. Twelve Etudes: No.12: Anime

Tracks:

1. Concierto De Aranjuez: Allegro Con Spirito
2. Concierto De Aranjuez: Adagio
3. Concierto De Aranjuez: Allegro Gentile
4. Gtr Con: Andantino; Allegretto
5. Gtr Con: Lento
6. Gtr Con: Allegro Con Brio
7. Gtr Con No.3, Con Elegiaco: Tranquillo
8. Gtr Con No.3, Con Elegiaco: Interlude
9. Gtr Con No.3, Con Elegiaco: Finale: Toccata

Tracks:

1. El Maestro: Pavana I
2. El Maestro: Pavana V
3. El Maestro: Pavana VI
4. El Maestro: Fant XII
5. El Maestro: Fant VIII
6. El Maestro: Fant IX
7. El Maestro: Tento I
8. El Maestro: Pavana IV
9. El Maestro: Fant XVI
10. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book I: Fant V
11. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book II: Fant V
12. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book III: La Cancion Del Emperador
13. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Fant VI
14. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book V: Arde Coracon Arde
15. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book V: Ya Se Asiente El Rey Ramiro
16. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book IV: O Gloriosa Domina (Seys Diferencias)
17. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book VI: Conde Claros
18. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book VI: Guardame Las Vacas
19. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book VI: Tres Diferencias Por Otra Parte
20. Los Seys Libros Del Delphin De Musica: Book VI: Baxa De Contrapunto
21. Fant

Tracks:

1. Fant, Op.30: Intro: Lentemente
2. Fant, Op.30: Theme: Allegretto
3. Fant, Op.30: Vars 1 To 5
4. Fant, Op.7: Largo Non Tanto
5. Fant, Op.7: Theme: Andante
6. Fant, Op.7: Vars 1 To 7
7. Vars On A Theme By Mozart, Op.9: Intro: Andante Largo
8. Vars On A Theme By Mozart, Op.9: Theme: Andante Moderato
9. Vars On A Theme By Mozart, Op.9: Vars 1 To 5
10. Adagio, Op.2, No.1
11. Polonaise, Op.2, No.2
12. Intro And Rondo, Op.2, No.3: Andante/Allegro Moderato

Tracks:

1. Cuentos Para La Juventud: Dedicatoria
2. La Maja De Goya (Tonadilla)
3. Danza Espanola No.4 (Villanesca)
4. Valses Poeticos
5. Danza Espanola No.5
6. Mallorca, Op.202
7. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Cataluna
8. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Granada
9. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Sevilla
10. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Cadiz
11. Cantos De Espana, Op.232 No.4: Cordoba

Tracks:

1. Mazurka in G
2. Etude in A
3. Marieta
4. Capricho Arabe
5. Prld in a
6. Recuerdos De La Alhambra
7. Serenata
8. Tango Espagnol
9. Guajira
10. Popular Catalan Songs: The Night Of Christmas
11. Popular Catalan Songs: The Nightingale
12. Popular Catalan Songs: The Master
13. Popular Catalan Songs: The Girl At The Spinning Wheel
14. Popular Catalan Songs: Amelia's Will
15. Popular Catalan Songs: The Thief's Song
16. Popular Catalan Songs: Lament
17. Popular Catalan Songs: The Son Of The Virgin
18. Popular Catalan Songs: Riera's Heir
19. Fandanguillo, Op.36
20. Sevillana, Op.29
21. Homenaje A Tarrega, Op.69: Soleares
22. Homenaje A Tarrega, Op.69: Garrotin

Tracks:

1. Fant XIV
2. Fant XXII
3. La Cancion Del Emperador
4. Conde Claros
5. Fant X
6. Prld And Allegro
7. Gtr Qnt in D, G.448: Fandango
8. Grand Solo, Op.14: Fernando Sor
9. Rondo in a, Op.2 No.3

Customer Reviews:

Too beautiful for words.......2004-05-25

If Julian Bream's recordings were letters, his would all be hand written rather than typed.

Guitar History.......2004-02-15

Julian Bream not only plays the guitar, and the lute
(although purists and I suspect Bream himself would say rather unconventionally), but most of all, Bream plays MUSIC. This is very, very important. There are many fine guitarists around today, but I doubt any could match Bream's sheer musicality when these recordings were made.
This 28 CD box set is a lesson in music making, regardless of what instrument is being played. The recordings are the complete RCA Bream catalogue from 1959 to 1989. If you can find the complete box set or even any of the individual volumes, I suggest you make the purchase. (Shame on RCA and BMG for not keeping this box set and "all" the individual volumes in print.)
Some of the higlights of Breams remarkable talent are his
interpretations of Britten's "Nocturnal", Walton's "Five Bagatelles", the instrumental and vocal works (with tenor Peter Pears) of Dowland, the "first" complete guitar works of Villa-Lobos, a thorough history of the guitar in Spain from the Renaissance to the Present on period instruments, plus all the works that have become classical guitar standards by Bach, Sor,