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Beethoven Für Elise

Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor (WoO 59 and Bia 515) for solo piano, commonly known as “Für Elise” (English: “For Elise”), is one of Ludwig van Beethoven’s most popular compositions. It is usually classified as a bagatelle, but it is also sometimes referred to as an Albumblatt.
It is not certain who (or what) “Elise” [...]

Les Preludes of Franz Liszt

Les préludes is the third of Franz Liszt’s twelve symphonic poems and the most popular one.
The full title “Les préludes (d’après Lamartine)” refers to an Ode of Alphonse de Lamartine’s Nouvelles méditations poétiques.

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Portrait of Ferenc Liszt (Franz Liszt), 1856.
Portrait of Ferenc Liszt (Franz Liszt), 1856. Credit Wilhelm von Kaulbach
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Granados: Spanish dance No.2 (Oriental)

Spanish dance no.2 from Enrique Granados. It is a piece for piano but it is usually played by guitars.
Choose your mood suitable tempo for guitars
Tempo: intense, fast played by Evangelos & Liza guitar duo.

Tempo: soft, slow played by Julian Bream & John Williams

Cello and Pianoo version. James Kreger, ‘cellist and David Golub, pianist.

Boccherini’s celebrated minuet – String Quintet in E Major, Op.11 No.5

Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. [...]

Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini Credit unknown
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnole, Op 34

Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, is the common Western title for an orchestral work based on Spanish folk melodies and written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 – 1907) in 1887. Rimsky-Korsakov originally intended to write the work for a solo violin with orchestra, but later decided that a purely orchestral work would do better justice to the [...]

Wenn soll es doch geschehen, cantata BWV 11 of J.S.Bach

Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (Praise God in his kingdoms), BWV 11, also known as the Ascension Oratorio, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, marked by him as Oratorium In Festo Ascensionis (Oratorio for the feast of the Ascension). It was probably composed in 1735 for the service for Ascension and first performed on [...]

Sarabande of Haendel – la folia later style

The fourth movement Sarabande of George Frideric Handel’s Keyboard suite in D minor (HWV 437) for solo harpsichord achieved modern popularity when an orchestrated version was used by Stanley Kubrick for his 1975 film Barry Lyndon. Later, Brian De Palma featured the same orchestration as the overture for his 2007 film Redacted. Also, in another [...]

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