Jun 28
Gateway to Classical Music
The title of this blog entry is the same as the CD I am recommending this Sunday. Gateway to Classical Music: The Late Classical Era is an EMI single CD recording so the price should come in around $10 to $15. The Amazon prices for these CD’s is for the eight CD package. The Late Classical Era includes composers such as Rossini, Pagannini, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Beethoven, and Weber.
Inside the jacket we read these words.
“It is ironic, that the Classical period in music, which generally paralleled the Age of Enlightenment, settled nothing. Music, like everything else in Europe, simply edged closer and closer to revolution. The cataclysmic French Revolution and its endless fallout shattered the aristocratic calm of 18th-century Europe, and the principles that inspired it touched every aspect of human existence. At the turn into the 19th century, with Napoleon on the loose in France and beyond, the future was anybody’s guess. So it was with music.”
If you are new to classical music, this series of EMI Classics is a great place to break into this genre.
Lowell Herr
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