Official Charts Company Classical Artist Albums Chart. ^ "Official Classical Artist Albums Chart Top 50".^ "Chart Log UK – Weekly Updates Sales 2011".^ a b "The London Philharmonic Orchestra – The 50 Greatest Pieces Of Classical Music" (in Dutch).^ "Searching search engines for the sound of music"."The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music". ^ Sanderson, Blair (November 23, 2009).^ The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music at AllMusic.5 in C-sharp minor: Adagiettoīelgian Classical Albums ( Ultratop Flanders) Giuseppe Verdi – Messa da Requiem: Dies irae – Tuba mirum.Arcangelo Corelli – Concerto Grosso No.Johann Strauss I – Radetzky March, Op.Georges Bizet – L'Arlésienne Suite No.Johann Sebastian Bach – Double Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043: Vivace.George Frideric Handel – The Messiah, HWV 56: Hallelujah Chorus.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute, K.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No.Charles Gounod – Ave Maria (after J.S.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No.Luigi Boccherini – String Quintet in E major, Op.Bedřich Smetana – Má Vlast (My Fatherland): Vltava (The Moldau River).27:2, "Moonlight Sonata": Adagio sostenuto Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No.Gioachino Rossini – The Barber of Seville: Overture.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Serenade No.Remo Giazotto – Adagio in G minor for Strings and Organ (after T.Jacques Offenbach – The Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle.Edward Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance, Op. Ludwig van Beethoven – Bagatelle in A minor, Wo Op.Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake Suite, Op.Johann Strauss II – On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op.Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto No.Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate).Claude Debussy – Suite bergamasque, L 75: Clair de lune.Johann Sebastian Bach – Orchestral Suite No.Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons, Op.Richard Wagner – The Valkyrie: Ride of the Valkyries.The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music has sold over 200,000 copies and spent over three days as one of the top 10 classical albums on iTunes. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Royal Festival Hall and Henry Wood Hall in London, the album was released in digital formats in November, 2009 and as a 4-CD set in 2011. Her younger daughter, Nicola LeFanu, is now a prominent composer.The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music is a selection of classical works recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor David Parry. She juggled her composing with a traditional family life, raising two daughters, making jam and sometimes falling asleep over her work. She once remarked: “For me, the best music is an impassioned argument.” In 1930 she married William LeFanu, who nursed her through when she fell seriously ill with tuberculosis. Though no stranger to hints of romanticism, reflected in works such as her Nocturne for Orchestra, she was in her element writing with cool-headed clarity for chamber ensemble and created a cycle of 13 string quartets that are sometimes likened in significance to Shostakovich’s. Her admiration for that composer’s music and her adoption of influences from central Europe fed into a personal language that possessed a refined, clear-edged modernism. Nevertheless, he “quietly suffocated” Maconchy’s longing to study with Bartók. ‘RVW’ notably accepted female composition students in an era when they were still rare – he also taught Grace Williams and Ina Boyle, among others. Her musical voice is extremely different from Robert’s, perhaps closer to Mendelssohn or Chopin, but indubitably her own.Ĭlick to load video Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)īorn in Hertfordshire in 1907, Elizabeth Maconchy grew up in England and Ireland before becoming a pupil of Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Royal College of Music, aged 16. Sadly, after Robert’s death she virtually gave up composing the mix of agonising bereavement and the pressures of providing for seven children meant she had neither the time nor the inclination. While still in her teens she wrote a plethora of solo piano pieces and songs, and in her thirties pieces for violin and piano plus a superb Piano Trio. She began to write a demanding and groundbreaking piano concerto when she was just 13 – the slow movement, featuring a solo cello, may later have influenced her friend Brahms, who used one in his Piano Concerto No. She had been an internationally lauded virtuoso pianist since her early teens, a prodigy whose competitor in chief was Franz Liszt himself. Far from being mere sidekick to her famous husband Robert, Clara, one of the best female composers, was more celebrated than he was when they married.
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