Tag: Classical

French baroque-period composer Jean-Féry Rebel's "Le Cahos" from his ballet Les élémens. The opening sounds astonishingly modernist in its dramatic dissonance. Source link

This sounds very much ahead of its time: Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor, performed by Maria João Pires. Source link

J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, performed by Armenian harpist Ashkhen Gavorkian. Source link

Georg Philipp Telemann's Sonata in D Major. Source link

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra on Arabian Themes, by Fikret Amirov and Elmire Nazirova (performed by Khatia Buniastishvili and the Orchestre Philhamonique de Monte-Carlo). Source link

Ernst Krenek's String Quartet, No. 1. Source link

Alexander Glazunov's Concert Waltz No. 1 (the Russian National Orchestra, under the direction of Mikhail Pletnev. Source link

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli performs several brief sonatas by the Italian baroque-era composer Domenico Scarlatti. Source link

"The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba", from Handel's oratorio, Solomon. Source link

Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1, by Vaughan Williams (performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra).Bonus video! Geez, I was sure it would fit in the overhead compartment. Source link