Instruments of the Orchestra [7 CD set]

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Instruments of the Orchestra [7 CD set]
Jeremy Siepmann (narrator) with various instrumental performers

[ Naxos Educational / 7 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Sunday 8 December 2002

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This is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present

Instruments of the orchestra, yes, but not just instruments in the orchestra. This is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present.

Tracks:

Disc 1

01. Overture to 'Tannhauser' 2:06
02. Domna, pos vos ay chausida 0:28
03. We don't merely use instruments, we play on them. And they play on us. 1:19
04. Hungarian Dance No.7 1:39
05. The violin is one of the most tender and beautiful instruments ever invented. 0:45
06. Violin Concerto in D major (Adagio) 1:08
07. But for a long time it was seen as the instrument of the devil. 0:17
08. The Soldier's Tale (Triumphal March of the Devil) 0:45
09. The manipulative seductiveness of the gypsy violin 0:43
10. Csardas Music 3:33
11. The violin and the imitation of nature 0:23
12. The Four Seasons (Spring, mvt 1) 0:35
13. Birds are again evoked in the second concerto, especially music's natural favourite 0:09
14. The Four Seasons (Summer, mvt 1) 0:41
15. Like the devil, the violin is a master of disguise. 0:18
16. Old Viennese Dance No.3 'Schon Rosmarin' 1:55
17. The menacing sensuality of Ravel's Tzigane; a very different side of the violin 0:15
18. Tzigane 0:51
19. Do we now have the true measure of this instrument? Not just yet. 0:15
20. Caprice No.24 0:48
21. Brandenburg Concerto No.4 (last mvt), Quartettsatz in C minor 1:57
22. Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (No.7) 1:06
23. Prokofiev's tremolo in Romeo and Juliet should not be heard just before bedtime 0:22
24. Romeo and Juliet 0:46
25. Vivaldi uses it to illustrate the shivering of travellers crossing the ice. 0:14
26. The Four Seasons (Winter, mvt 1) 0:57
27. The violin muted 0:31
28. Clair de lune 1:41
29. The gentleness of muted strings persists even when a whole orchestra plays. 0:30
30. Piano Concerto No.21 in C major, K.467 (slow mvt) 1:26
31. The pizzicato violin 0:38
32. Pizzicato Polka 2:29
33. In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, the accompaniment is pizzicato. 0:26
34. Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor (slow mvt) 2:02
35. Colas Breugnon (The People's Feast), Capriol Suite (Tordion), Romeo and Juliet (Act I) 3:09
36. The Planets (Mars - the bringer of War) 1:27
37. Sonata No.3 in C major for unaccompanied violin (Fugue) 2:09
38. Hungarian Dance No.4 3:51
39. Double-stopping is a standard feature of a lot of folk music. 0:14
40. The Four Seasons (Autumn, mvt 1) 0:37
41. Now the same technique, but the sound might have come from another world. 0:30
42. Bolero 0:49
43. Double-stopping can only approximate the sound of a real violin duet. 0:20
44. Cadenza to the Violin Concerto by Brahms 0:44
45. Now compare that with a real violin duet. 0:12
46. Forty-four Duos (No.1: Teasing Song) 0:52
47. Another duo by Bartok, demonstrating the violin's rich lower register 0:10
48. Forty-four Duos (No.2: Maypole Dance) 0:40
49. And now what may be the most beautiful accompanied violin duet in history 0:17
50. Concerto in D minor for two violins (Largo) 6:43
51. The soul of the violin is in song; but what about this weird passage? 0:42
52. Violin Concerto No.1 in D major (mvt 2) 0:34
53. The use of harmonics in the orchestra can be both magical and unsettling. 0:29
54. Symphony No.1 'Titan' (mvt 1, opening) 1:33
55. Tchaikovsky's use of harmonics in The Sleeping Beauty is both strange and daring. 0:11
56. The Sleeping Beauty (Act II, No.15: Entr'acte) 0:33
57. Ravel's harmonics in Mother Goose effect a magical transformation. 0:29
58. Ma Mere l'oye - Mother Goose (Beauty and the Beast) 0:36
59. The Firebird (Introduction) 0:32
60. The natural upper notes of the violins have a unique emotional 'grab'. 0:32
61. Also sprach Zarathustra (Of the Afterworldsmen) 0:55
62. Still in their upper register, the violins unleash the energy of a young colt. 0:14
63. Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (No.4) 1:10
64. Elsewhere, Britten uses the same high register to create a very different mood. 0:11
65. Four Sea Interludes (Dawn) from 'Peter Grimes' 1:08
66. To end this outing with the violins, a charming little elfin dance 0:12
67. Elfenreigen 1:29

Disc 2
01. Introduction to the viola 0:42
02. Viola Concerto (mvt 1) 2:46
03. Khatchaturian gets a very different sound from it: fuller, fruitier, more exotic. 0:14
04. Gayane Suite No.1 (Armen's Solo) 1:15
05. Very nearly the whole of the violin's upper register is also available to the viola. 0:39
06. Passacaglia, op.33b from 'Perer Grimes' 1:00
07. Dib Quixote 1:03
08. Harold in Italy (mvt 4) 2:00
09. The muted viola: intimate, gentle, poignant in Dvorak 0:34
10. Cypresses (No.9) 3:00
11. The massed violas of the modern symphony orchestra in Mahler 0:40
12. Symphony No.4 (mvt 3) 1:13
13. The 'period' viola in Bach 1:05
14. Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (last mvt) 5:18
15. The cello: a voice of unique nobility 0:28
16. Suite No.1 for unaccompanied cello (Prelude) 2:30
17. Brahms and the 'soul' of the cello 0:19
18. Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major (mvt 30 1:04
19. Most orchestral composers tend to emphasise the cello's lower register. 0:27
20. Cantata 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV 147 3:03
21. In the time of Beethoven the cello remained as fundamental as ever. 0:14
22. Symphony No.3 'Eroica' (finale) 0:46
23. But the cello is not condemned to spend its life in the basement. 0:33
24. Elfentanz, Op.39 2:55
25. Not only in recital showpieces like that is the cello is used in its highest register. 0:10
26. The Protecting Veil (opening) 2:54
27. A cello with an identity-crisis: the pizzicato Flamencan 0:15
28. Flamenco 2:48
29. Double-stopping in the lower reaches of the cello's range 0:31
30. Solo Suite for Cello and Piano (Sardana) 1:08
31. It's in its middle register that the cello really comes into its own. 0:21
32. Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2 1:32
33. Symphony No.5 (mvt 2) 0:54
34. Symphony No.9 (finale) 0:54
35. Introduction to the double-bass 0:43
36. The Carnival of the Animals (The Elephant) 1:32
37. But the double-bass can be intensely expressive and graceful. 0:10
38. Elegy No.1 in D major 2:37
39. Allegro di concerto, 'Alla Mendelssohn' 0:47
40. Capriccio di bravura 4:42
41. Symphony No.1 'Titan' (mvt 3), Symphony No.3 (mvt 1) 1:33
42. Lieutenant Kije Suite (Kije's Wedding), Romeo and Juliet (Act III) 2:25
43. Symphony No.5 (mvt 3) 1:20

Disc 3
01. The antiquity and magic of the flute 0:20
02. Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune 3:19
03. The versatility and agility of the flute 0:21
04. Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor (Badinerie) 1:18
05. The flute in fifteenth-century Spain 0:24
06. Sa'dawi 0:55
07. Other flutes: the bass and alto 0:29
08. Chamber Music No.II 1:12
09. The Piccolo - aptly named 0:19
10. La Naissance d'Osiris (mvt 6) 0:47
11. From a piccolo of the eighteenth century to one of its descendants in the twentieth 0:09
12. Suite No.1 for Small Orchestra (Valse) 0:54
13. A variety of techniques 0:19
14. Chamber Music No.II 0:31
15. Flutter-tonguing. But Tchaikovsky got there eighty years before. 0:28
16. The Nutcracker (Act II, No.2: Scene) 0:44
17. From the transverse to the vertical: the Baroque recorder 0:40
18. Recorder Suite in A minor (Menuet II) 2:12
19. An unfamiliar, early vision of the instrument 0:23
20. Naelden, Naelden 1:09
21. The Bachian oboe 0:35
22. Cantata 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott', BWV 80 (No.7: Duetto) 3:34
23. Introduction to the cor anglais or 'English horn' 0:41
24. Symphony No.9 'From the New World' (mvt 2) 1:24
25. The loneliness of the cor anglais 0:11
26. The Swan of Tuonela 1:49
27. The cor anglais joins the French horn in Haydn. 0:17
28. Symphony No.22 'The Philosopher' 1:43
29. Introduction to the oboe d'amore, beloved of Bach - but also of Ravel 0:22
30. Bolero 0:50
31. The Egyptian (Violence), Taras Bulba (The Death of Ostap) 0:37
32. Petrushka (No.8:Peasant with Bear), Symphonie fantastique (last mvt), Romeo and Juliet (Act II) 1:38
33. As the high clarinets tend to be loud, so the bass tends to be soft 0:18
34. Gayane Suite No.1 (mvt 5) 0:54
35. Pertushka (no.4: The Blackamoor), Iberia (Almeria) 1:44
36. The range of the normal clarinet parts goes quite high... 0:14
37. The Snow Maiden (Scene 5: Melodrama) 1:17
38. ....and quite low. 0:05
39. Peter and the Wolf (The Cat) 0:45
40. The Clarinet as concerto soloist 0:19
41. Clarinet Concerto in A major (Rondo) 2:48
42. But that's not the instrument Mozart wrote it for; this is: 0:16
43. Clarinet Concerto in A major (Rondo) 2:47
44. Introduction to the saxophone 2:47
45. Hary Janos Suite (mvt 4) 1:03
46. The soprano saxophone has quite a different feel to it 0:09
47. L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 (Minuet) 1:17
48. The little sopranino sax goes even higher 0:12
49. Bolero 0:53
50. The most famous use of the saxophone is in an orchestration by Ravel 0:16
51. Pictures at an exhibition (The Old Castle) 0:55
52. The saxophone can be quite contagiously good-humoured. 0:11
53. Sax-o-phun 0:22
54. The puffa-puffa image of the bassoon 0:25
55. Peter and the Wolf (Grandfather) 0:46
56. The Bachian bassoon, in accompanimental mode 0:20
57. Cantata "Weicher nur, betrubte Schatten" ('Wedding Cantata') 1:19
58. Carmen Suite No.1 (Les Dragons d'Alcala) 0:56
59. And Ravel, also in Spanish mode, does likewise 0:16
60. Bolero 0:59
61. The bassoon as a voice of high seriousness, indeed desolate loneliness 0:15
62. Symphony No.3 (opening) 1:03
63. Instruments of the Orchestra 0:15
64. The Rite of Spring (opening) 0:58
65. Stravinksy now draws on its lowest register, lonely and melancholy. 0:21
66. The Firebird Suite (1919, Berceuse) 1:01
67. The bassoon as concerto soloist, avoiding all exaggeration 0:14
68. Bassoon Concerto in G minor (finale) 2:02
69. The deep-voiced contra-bassoon, as a fairy-tale beast 0:28
70. Ma Mere l'oye-Mother Goose (Beauty and the Beast) 1:30
71. The French Horn under its woodwind hat 0:25
72. Wind Quintet, Op. 43 (last mvt) 1:42
73. Now a more prominent role, in a woodwind quintet from an earlier era 0:12
74. Wind Quintet in A Minor, op. 100 No.5 (mvt 2) 1:32
75. The horn in harmonious blend with strings in another quintet 0:16
76. Horn Quintet, K. 407 (finale) 3:55

Disc 4
01. The Trumpet as virtuoso soloist 1:02
02. Instruments of the Orchestra 2:37
03. The Special brilliance of paired trumpets 0:19
04. Concerto in C for two trumpets, RV537 (mvt 1) 2:54
05. The ceremonial trumpet 0:36
06. Fanfare for the Common Man 1:25
07. Trumpets and drums - an incomparable alliance 0:34
08. Messiah (The Trumpet Shall Sound) 4:10
09. The versatility of the trumpet, from the most public to the most lonely 0:38
10. Pianoo Concerto in F (slow mvt) 1:14
11. An American in Paris, The Soldier's Tale (The March) 2:05
12. Carmen Suite No. 2 (Habanera) 0:55
13. The trumpet as the voice of strength and courage 0:13
14. Carmen Suite No. 2 (Toreador's Song) 2:20
15. Petrushka (No. 4: The Blackamoor), Lieutenant Kije Suite (opening) 1:14
16. Billy the Kid 1:16
17. The trumpet as character actor 0:31
18. Pictures at an exhibition (No.6) 2:25
19. The trumpet as the voice of God 0:15
20. Mass in B minor ('Et exspecto') 4:35
21. The birth of the trombone 0:38
22. Aenmerckt nu hier 1:36
23. The birth of the brss as a family 1:24
24. Canzon 12 in double echo 3:18
25. The trombone in the eighteenth century 0:36
26. Trombone Concerto in B flat major (finale) 3:06
27. Romance for Trombone and Organ, Requiem (mvt 2) 2:18
28. Hosannah 1:20
29. The trombones become part of the orchestra 0:47
30. Symphony No.5 (finale) 2:46
31. Overture to 'Tannhauser' 1:04
32. The Trombone as caricaturist 0:13
33. Pulcinella (No.19: Vivo) 1:37
34. Concerto for Orchestra (Intermezzo) 1:46
35. The horn and the hunt 0:40
36. Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat, K, 495 (finale) 3:39
37. The challenging horn of the Baroque 0:42
38. Abaris ou les Boreades (Menuet) 1:20
39. The scarcity of first-rate players in Handel's time 0:24
40. Water Music (Minuct 1) 1:57
41. The Firebird Suite (1919, finale) 0:59
42. Horns and the sound of nobility 0:12
43. OVerture to 'Tannhauser' (opening) 0:56
44. The special sound of the horn in its higher register 0:11
45. Mass in B minor ('Quoniam ru solus sanctus') 4:15
46. The trumpet-like sound of massed horns 0:21
47. Symphony No.3 (mvt, opening) 0:38
48. The tuba - unfairly maligned 0:49
49. Symphony No.6 (mvt, opening) 1:07
50. The tuba perfectly cast by Ravel 0:26
51. Pictures at an exhibition (bydlo) 3:00

Disc 5
01. Introduction. And we begin with a bang. 1:02
02. Fanfare for the Common Man, Wellington's Victory. Op. 91 (Opening) 1:03
03. At the opposite extreme is the triangle. 0:26
04. Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat (Scherzo) 1:21
05. Categories of percussion: tuned and untuned . The side drum 0:36
06. Overture to 'La gazza ladra'-The Thieving Magpie (opening) 0:52
07. Clarinet Concerto (mvt 1) 1:08
08. The tambournie. One of the oldest instruments in the world 0:21
09. Den hoboecken dans 1:43
10. Even older is the originally oriental gong. 0:28
11. Ma Mere l'oye-Mother Goose (Laideronette) 1:00
12. Passacaglia, Op. 33b from 'Peter Grimes' 1:00
13. Gymnopedie No. 2 1:02
14. The Sanguine fan, But they needn't be clashed together at all 1:28
15. Piaono Concerto in G major (opening), The Nutcracker (Act I, Secene 5) 1:05
16. ...which crop all over the place in twentieth-century American music. 0:31
17. Rodeo (Hoe-Down) 0:44
18. Jota aragonesa 1:09
19. Scherzi musicali (Damigella tutta belle) 1:50
20. A still earlier example from fifteenth-century Spain 0:30
21. Yo m'enamori d'un aire 1:06
22. The birth of the bongo 0:33
23. Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story' 1:39
24. II trovatore ('Anvil Chorus') 1:08
25. Grand Canyon Suite (On the Trail), Arcana 1:27
26. Huapango 1:20
27. Onwards to the tuned percussion. First, the timpani 0:14
28. Also sprach Zarathustra (Introduction) 1:48
29. Symphony No.2 'Resurrection' (mvt 3) 0:29
30. Grand Canyon Suite (Sunrise), Symphonie fantastique (last mvt) 0:37
31. Taking advantage of tunability 0:22
32. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste (mvt 2) 2:25
33. Carmen Suite (Changing of the Guard) 1:01
34. Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance and Habanera) 1:15
35. Saint-Saens and the xylophone 0:16
36. The Carnival of the Animals (Fossils) 1:18
37. Ravel and the xylophone 0:11
38. Ma Mere l'oye - Mother Goose (Laidernotte) 2:37
39. Carmen Suite (First Intermezzo) 0:38
40. Introducing the vibraphone 0:20
41. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Narange dolce) 1:25
42. Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance and Habanera), Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance and Habanera) 0:57
43. Introducting the Hungarian cimbalom 0:23
44. Folk Dances 3:00
45. The cimbalom and the symphony orchestra 0:10
46. Hary Janos Suite (mvt 3) 1:30
47. Introducing the tubular bells 0:17
48. Hary Janos Suite (Viennese Musical Clock) 2:04
49. A more 'up-front' approach from Radion Shchedrin 0:06
50. carmen Suite (Introduction) 1:08
51. Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia antartica' (mvt 1) 0:38
52. Introducing the celeste 0:14
53. The Nutcracker (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy) 2:10
54. Magic, in the use of collective percussion 0:19
55. Miroirs (La Vallee des clothes) 1:39
56. Carmen Suite (Scene) 1:25
57. the Nutcracker (Act II, No.I: Scene), Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 1:16
58. The traditionally subservient role of the harpsichord in the Baroque orchestra 0:48
59. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (slow mvt) 3:11
60. Symphony No.3 'Organ' (mvt 3) 1:28
61. Petrushka (Russian Dance) 1:28
62. The anti-Romanic piano as an integral part of the orchestra 0:23
63. Music for Strings, Percussion and Celecte (last mvt) 5:06

Disc 6
01. Keyboard instruments in the orchestra-the most powerful of them all: 0:18
02. Symphony No.3 'Organ' (finale) 1:49
03. But things in Handel's day were very differenct. 0:15
04. Organ Concerto in B flat, Op. 4 No. 3 (last mvt) 3:44
05. The organ is difficult to classify 0:24
06. An unexpected, organ-related guest 0:14
07. Concerto pour Zampogna (last mvt) 0:14
08. Peasant-fancying....and a touch of the roaming cowboy 0:40
09. Les Miserables (Drink with Me) 1:02
10. German Dance, K.603 No.3 1:16
11. Symphony No. 4 (opening) 0:47
12. Symphony No.6 'Tragic' (mvt 1) 0:53
13. The Typewriter, Parade 2:46
14. Integrales, An American in Paris, Sandpaper Ballet 2:35
15. Symphony No.7 'Sinfornia antartica' (opening) 1:42
16. Don Quixote (Variation VIII) 1;13
17. Concierto de Aranjuez (finale) 0'56
18. Washington Breakdown 0:19
19. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Packing Up) 0:18
20. Romeo and Juliet 0:13
21. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (EI Desayuno) 0:18
22. The bongos and the congas and a whole wealth of other drums for Africa and Central America 0;26
23. Evening Raga: Bhapoli 0:17
24. Paris cancaille 0:20
25. The Third Man (Theme) 0:25
26. Folk Dances 0:21
27. Rondena 1:20
28. Svetit Mesiats 1:02
29. Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia antartica' (mvt 1) 1:27
30. Nocturnes (Sirenes) 4:15
31. Instruments and the imitation of nature. The clarinet as cuckoo 1:46
32. The Carnival of the Animals (The Cuckoo) 1:46
33. The flute as an all-purpose aviary 0:14
34. The Carnival of the Animals (The Aviary) 1:08
35. The oboe as duck 0:36
36. Peter and the Wolf (The Duck) 1:55
37. The recording of reality. Does it work as well? 0:12
38. The Pines of Rome (The Pines of the Janiculum) 1:17
39. The Recording of reality electronically reborn in new guises 1:17
40. Cantus arcticus - Concerto for Birds and Orchestra (mvt 2) 1:12
41. Beethoven turns avian: cuckoo, nightingale, and quail 0:26
42. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Andante molto mosso) 1:12
43. Some importable casting : the violin as braying donkey 0:33
44. The Carnival of the Animals (Persons with long Ears) 0:47
45. A truly orchestral hee-haw to be reckoned with 0:09
46. Overture to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' 0:29
47. A thunderstorm in a million 0:17
48. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Allegro-Allegretto) 3:57
49. The instrumental depiction of a silent world 2:07
50. The Carnival of the Animals (The Aquarium) 2:20
51. Saint-saens' menegerie takes a curtain call 0:24
52. The Carnival of the Animals (finale) 2:09

Disc 7
01. The grouping of instrumental families. An additive approach. First, two violins. 1:20
02. Forty-four Duos (No. 4) 0:47
03. A greater contrast, of both pitch adn character, violin and viola 0:27
04. Duo for Violin and Viola in B flat major, K. 424 (finale, Vars 1 & 2) 2:18
05. Arrival at the standard string trio: violin, viola and cello 0:12
06. String Trio in B flat (Menuetto) 1:09
07. The string quartet: two violins, viola and cello 0:12
08. String Quaartet in F, Op.18 No. 1 (mvt 3) 1:53
09. The string quintet -when the extra instrument is a second viola 0:30
10. String quintet No. 5 in D, K. 593 (Adagio) 2:21
11. The string quintet - when the extra instrument is a second cello 0:19
12. String Quintet in C (mvt 30 2:12
13. The string sextet: two violins, two violas, and two cellos 0:16
14. String Sextet in B flat (mvt 2) 1:27
15. The string octet: the standard string quaartet times two 0:20
16. Octet in E flat, Op.20 (mvt 1) 2:16
17. Double the string octet: a fully fledged string orchestra 0:15
18. String Symphony No.2 (finale) 2:12
19. The massed strings of a symphony orchestra 0:37
20. Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis 2:58
21. Contrasts of pitch and instrumental 'colour' in the woodwind section 0:44
22. Wind Quintet in A minor, Op. 100 /no. 5 (Theme) 1:10
23. In the First Variation it's the horn that gets the lion's share 0;05
24. Wind Quintet in A minor, Variation 1 1:28
25. In Variation Two the torch is handed to the bassoon 0:07
26. Wind Quintet in A minor, Variation 2 1:08
27. In Variation Three the oboe leads 0:13
28. Wind Quintet in A minor, Variation 3 1:12
29. Variation Four: conversation before returning to a solo-dominated texture 0:07
30. Wind Quintet in A minor, Variation 4 1:17
31. And Variation Five is dominated by the clarinet 0:04
32. Wind Quintet in A minor, Variation 5 1:12
33. The next to be featured is the virtuoso flute. 0:07
34. Wind Quintet in A minor, Variation 6 1:22
35. Individual farewells and a closing chorus 0:19
36. Wind Quintet in A minor, Variation 7 0:40
37. A mixed group: clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet, and double-bass 0:19
38. Octet in F (mvt 3) 2:01
39. The early classical symphony orchestra of Haydn and Mozart 0:34
40. Symphony No.29 in A, K. 201 (finale) 3:32
41. Strings, wind, but no brass. What Haydn and Mozart never knew 0:34
42. Canzon 28 1:39
43. Beethoven's Fifth : two horns, two trumpets, and three trombones join the team 0:58
44. Symphony No.5 (finale) 4:28
45. From Beethoven to the massive orchestras of Berlioz, Wagner, and Mahler 0:27
46. Beethoven changed the face of the symphony and the ordchestra forever. 0:47
47. Symphony No.6 'Tragic' (mvt 1) 1:44
48. The cult of orchestral elephantiasis reaches its peak 1:04
49. Symphony No.1 'Gothic' (VI: Te ergo quaesumus) 1:43
50. When large doesn't necessarily mean loud: Debussy 1:10
51. Images (Gigues) 1:50
52. A crisis of confidence; the orchestra' survival hangs in the balance, 2:41
53. Turangalila Symphony (Chant d'amour I) 1:14
54. The advent of the 'early music' movement brings a new vitality and freshness 0:57
55. Ballet de Xerxes (Gavotte en rondeau) 0:47
56. Computer and synthesiser: friends or foes? 1:35
57. Concerto in D minor for two violins (Largo) 2:13
58. Mass in B minor ('Dona nobis pacem') 3:24

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