Category: Appreciating Classical Music

“Irish Tune from County Derby”- a beautiful rendition of Danny Boy as written by Australian composer Percy Grainger. Just gorgeous.

Have some fun and read the article below…then listen to one of the selections I’ve posted. Enjoy! CLASSICAL MUSIC MONTH -September 2023 – National Today

Listen to Beethoven’s 1st movement of his 6th Symphony. Beethoven indicated in the score that his Pastoral Symphony was “More the Expression of Feeling than …

Heard all over the world during Christmastime, the “Messiah” was originally an Easter oratorio. While it’s famous “Hallelujah Chorus” is the feature selection, today please …

OK…so it’s not “classical”, but it IS a classic. Sometimes you just need to dance!

Pines of Rome is structured in four movements played without pause so that the music flows uninterrupted from beginning to end. The first movement, “The Pines of Villa …

The flute’s gentle siren call emerges, solitary and alluring. It wanders freely from C-sharp down to G-natural and back again, drifting hazily into our consciousness, …

Part of “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi. Written @ 1723, it’s four mini-violin concertos written to depict each of the four seasons. In this …

In light on the incredible sadness and destruction going on in Ukraine, I thought this powerful peace matched my mood. If you only listen to …

Cavalleria rusticana (pronounced [kavalleˈriːa rustiˈkaːna]; Italian for “rustic chivalry“) is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name [it] and …