Showing posts with label French Composers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Composers. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Darius Milhaud - Complete Chronological Collection

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" Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six - also known as The Group of Six - and one of the most...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Paris 1200: Complete Works of Pérotin on Spotify

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" Pérotin , French composer of sacred polyphonic music, who is believed to have introduced the composition of polyphony in four parts ...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Guillaume de Machaut: Complete Recordings on Spotify

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Notre-Dame de Reims (Our Lady of Rheims) Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 – 1377) was a Medieval French poet and composer. He is one of the...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Georges Bizet: Complete Thematic Catalogue

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"Known for one of the world's most popular operas, Carmen , Georges Bizet deserves attention as well for other works of remarkable...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Pierre Boulez as Composer & Mahler Conductor

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Two playlists to celebrate the 87th birthday of Pierre Boulez , French composer , conductor and winner of 26 Grammys . First one collects h...
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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Olivier Messiaen: Complete Chronological Catalogue on Spotify

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"A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasi...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Josquin des Prez: A Spotify Playlist

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Josquin des Prez (c. 1450 to 1455 –1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance. He was the...
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Monday, November 7, 2011

Gabriel Fauré: Complete Works on Spotify

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"It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that...
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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Jean-Baptiste Lully: Thematic Catalogue on Spotify

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"Authority is what French music was all about, and Lully's operas above all. They were the courtiest court operas that ever were....
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

François Couperin: Thematic Catalogue on Spotify

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From Wikipedia: François Couperin (1668 –1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Gran...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Thematic Catalogue

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"Before Rameau (1683–1764) there was instrumentation; after Rameau, there was orchestration." - An Amazon reviewer . Jean-Phili...
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Monday, October 31, 2011

Camille Saint-Saëns: Complete Works with Opus Number & A Little More

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"He knows everything, but lacks inexperience." - Berlioz on Saint-Saëns . This playlist covers Saint-Saëns's exceedingly l...
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Friday, October 28, 2011

Hector Berlioz: Complete Chronological Catalogue

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"With all his efforts to go stark mad he never once succeeds." - The well-tempered Mendelssohn on Hector Berlioz . Sounds mad, do...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Erik Satie: Complete Chronological Catalogue

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"I admire you: are you not the Great Stravinsky ? I am but little Erik Satie ." - Erik Satie , the measurer of sounds. "You...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Igor Stravinsky: Complete Chronological Catalogue

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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Pablo Picasso of classical music. The lord of dance of the 1910s avant-garde. The guy who forced m...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Maurice Ravel: Complete Chronological Catalogue

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See this Wikipedia page for a list of compositions by Maurice Ravel, another French impressionism master, melodist and orchestrator of the ...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Claude Debussy: Complete Works by Lesure Numbers

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This is a list of compositions by French impressionist composer Claude Debussy , organized in chronological order, created by musicologist ...
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