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Discover Music of the Romantic Era / Various

Various Artists (Artist), Mikhail Glinka (Composer), Johannes Brahms (Composer), Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Movement 1: Allegro Con Brio - Bela Drahos
2 Movement 4: Marche Au Supplice (March to the Scaffold) - San Diego Symphony Orchestra
3 Movement 1: Allegor Maestoso - Tempo Giusto - Joseph Banowetz
4 Polonaise in D minor, Op.71 No.1 - Idil Biret
5 Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel - Lynda Russell
6 The Hebrides - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
7 Movement 4: Allegro, Ma Non Troppo - Jeno Jando
8 Intermezzo in a Major, Op.118 No.2 - Idil Biret
9 Nacqui All'affanno E Al Pianto - Hungarian State Opera Chorus
10 Spargi D'amaro Pianto - Luba Orgonasova
11 E Lui... Dio Che Nell'alma Infondere - Giacomo Aragall

Disc: 2

1 Prelude and Liebstod - Johannes Wildner
2 Kamarinskaya - Anthony Bramall
3 Movement 1: Allegro - Stephen Gunzenhauser
4 Movement 2: Allegro Con Grazia - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
5 Vltava - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
6 Slavonic Dance in C Major, Op.46 No.1 - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
7 Romance in B Flat for Violin and Piano - Pascal Devoyon
8 In the Hall of the Mountain King - Jerzy Maksymiuk
9 Solemn and Measured, Without Dragging - Michael Halasz
10 Prelude in C Sharp minor, Op.3 No.2 - Idil Biret
11 Variation 9: Nimrod - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Product details

  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 5 x 0.79 inches; 9.24 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Naxos Educational
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 1768155
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2005
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 12, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Naxos Educational
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0006OL5EU
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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JP in MO
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Music
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2011
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Terrific selection of classical music. I especially love Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan": Symphony No. 1 in D major, "Titan": III by Mahler, and this CD collection is one of the few that has it!
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Charles
5.0 out of 5 stars and have recommended it for purchase to my students
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2014
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I am using this for a class I teach, and have recommended it for purchase to my students.
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Severian
3.0 out of 5 stars Not As Useful As Might Be Hoped, But A Good Bargain
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2012
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I was hoping this would be a combination of musical analysis and biographies of prominent composers of the Romantic Era.

Instead, it is more a series of written biographical sketches, well written and entertaining, but there is minimal linkage between the text and the musical excerpts. Generally, the bios of each composer will have maybe a sentence or two that mention the excerpted track. I was hoping for something like "Classical Music for Dummies" where the excerpts are closely analyzed to help illustrate musical concepts and, more importantly, to show why the composer being excerpted is unique. Of course, this is a two disc set versus the single disc "Dummies" book, so you do get more music here, but as these are all chopped-up excerpts anyway, the extra music adds little value without more cogent and detailed analysis.

There is a lot that's good here - the text is well done in terms of biography and general cultural assessment of the era, and Naxos has a lot of good quality music here in a well-produced CD. I personally think hearing 4 minutes of a single Liszt concerto does very little for me in terms of telling me whether or not I should hear more of him, but some others may find these piecemeal excerpts to be of use. The real wasted opportunity here is how the text and the music do not link up well.

If you want more detailed biographies of the composers, Jan Swafford's Vintage Guide to Classical Music is more detailed and covers the entire history of the subject, and if you want musical analysis of CD excerpts linked to a good introductory text, the Dummies guide mentioned above is surprisingly good, though it does not focus exclusively on the Romantic Era.

The appeal of this specific Naxos disc is that it give you decent bios of the major players along with actual excerpts to get your feet wet in musical terms for much less than either of the options mentioned above. The appealingly low price makes this a good combo, but a little more detailed analysis of the actual works included would have made this a better package overall.
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Luc REYNAERT
5.0 out of 5 stars Art is subversive to the State (Plato)
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2016
The two CDs in this Naxos ‘Discover’ series contain exemplary excerpts of ‘romantic’ music in very decent interpretations.
In the accompanying booklet, David McCleery presents a short but perfect explanation of Romanticism, its origin, and its political (nationalism) and philosophical (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) context, together with a short sketch of the lives and works of 22 romantic composers.

Romanticism
The term ‘romantic’ comes from the old French word ‘romanz’, which refers to medieval stories of heroism, chivalry and passion. Romanticism sets the ‘heart’ against the ‘head’. It expresses deference to the Church and the State and to the belief that the world can be fully explained by science and reason. It stresses the importance of the individual (the virtuoso), of national identity, of the wild nature and of folk traditions against the impact of city life and its elites.

Music
Romantic music is a breakaway from the ‘classical’ structures of music. Its composers invented programme music and the symphonic poem, which are both inspired by non-musical ideas (e.g., literature or a landscape).
The first one to break the classical conventions was Beethoven with his ‘Eroica’ symphony and its dramatic climaxes and emotional intensity. His ‘Pastoral’ symphony can be seen as the first example of programme music.
Berlioz smashed all classical rules in his autobiographical ‘Symphonie fantastique’ with an ‘idée fixe’ (a leitmotiv) which appears in all the movements.
Another romantic musical theme was nationalism (folksongs and dances), with composers like Chopin (polonaises, mazurkas), Wagner (Germanic mythology), Glinka, Borodin and Tchaikovsky (Russian melodies), Smetana and Dvořák (Czech tunes), and, Grieg and Sibelius (Scandinavian moods).
Pure romantic expressions continued in the 20th century with Puccini and Rachmaninov. But, Richard Strauss announced the end of ‘lavish and sweeping melodies’ (‘I employ cacophony to outrage people’), while Schoenberg buried Romanticism with the absolute atonality of his ‘twelve-tone’ music.

A splendid set by Naxos.
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Luc REYNAERT
5.0 out of 5 stars Art is subversive to the State (Plato)
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2016
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The two CDs in this Naxos ‘Discover’ series contain exemplary excerpts of ‘romantic’ music in very decent interpretations.
In the accompanying booklet, David McCleery presents a short but perfect explanation of Romanticism, its origin, and its political (nationalism) and philosophical (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) context, together with a short sketch of the lives and works of 22 romantic composers.

Romanticism
The term ‘romantic’ comes from the old French word ‘romanz’, which refers to medieval stories of heroism, chivalry and passion. Romanticism sets the ‘heart’ against the ‘head’. It expresses deference to the Church and the State and to the belief that the world can be fully explained by science and reason. It stresses the importance of the individual (the virtuoso), of national identity, of the wild nature and of folk traditions against the impact of city life and its elites.

Music
Romantic music is a breakaway from the ‘classical’ structures of music. Its composers invented programme music and the symphonic poem, which are both inspired by non-musical ideas (e.g., literature or a landscape).
The first one to break the classical conventions was Beethoven with his ‘Eroica’ symphony and its dramatic climaxes and emotional intensity. His ‘Pastoral’ symphony can be seen as the first example of programme music.
Berlioz smashed all classical rules in his autobiographical ‘Symphonie fantastique’ with an ‘idée fixe’ (a leitmotiv) which appears in all the movements.
Another romantic musical theme was nationalism (folksongs and dances), with composers like Chopin (polonaises, mazurkas), Wagner (Germanic mythology), Glinka, Borodin and Tchaikovsky (Russian melodies), Smetana and Dvořák (Czech tunes), and, Grieg and Sibelius (Scandinavian moods).
Pure romantic expressions continued in the 20th century with Puccini and Rachmaninov. But, Richard Strauss announced the end of ‘lavish and sweeping melodies’ (‘I employ cacophony to outrage people’), while Schoenberg buried Romanticism with the absolute atonality of his ‘twelve-tone’ music.

A splendid set by Naxos.
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