Opera

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ORCHESTRA

Dido's Lament: sadness and simplicity of Purcell's best-known song

When I Am Laid In Earth or Dido's Lament is probably one of the saddest songs of the Baroque era, written by the English...
ORCHESTRA

Les Indes Galantes: Rameau's controversial opera as the essence of Rococo style

Les Indes Galantes is Jean-Philippe Rameau's first stage work in the opéra-ballet form with a prologue and four entrées...
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Ombra mai fu: Handel's best-known melody of failed Serse opera

The highly acclaimed instrumental composition known as Handel's Largo comes from the opening aria of his 1738 opera...
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Lully's Passacaglia of Armide revised by Bear McCreary in Outlander score

The passacaglia is a slow dance that originated in Spain at the very beginning of the Baroque era, initially performed a...
Nature Sounds

8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms

Of all the meteorological phenomena, thunderstorms are perhaps one of the most imposing forces of nature, so it is not...
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Nicola Porpora: operatic composer made history as a music teacher of Haydn and Farinelli

Nicola Porpora was an Italian composer of the late Baroque period whose operas brimmed with an excellent orchestral... 1 comment
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The Flower Duet of Lakmé: the love drama of an Indian girl and a British soldier made airborne

The Flower Duet is a famous operatic duet which popularity has spread far beyond interests of classical music audience...
Choir

Gershwin's Summertime: the most recorded song draws inspiration from Ukrainian lullaby and African American spiritual

Written by the American composer George Gershwin in 1934, Summertime aria is now the most recorded song in the history... 3 comments
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Only 3 Mantras survived from Sanskrit opera Avatara by John Foulds

One of the greatest areas of music history still remaining largely uncharted is the influence of Indian philosophy on...
SONGWRITER

German roots of the Moon of Alabama

The Alabama Song first appeared in a collection of five poems published by German playwright Bertolt Brecht in 1927,...
FLUTE

Forest ranger's son fled home to reform the operatic world

Christoph Willibald Gluck was a revolutionary who moved the courtly genre of opera to the way beyond the narrow limits...
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Peter Grimes outdoor premiere at Benjamin Britten's home beach

Despite reports that Benjamin Britten paced nervously at the back of the Sadler’s Wells Theatre when Peter Grimes first...