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The Instruments of the Orchestra, Siepmann, CD1


#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Overture To 'Tannhauser' 2:07
2 Domna, Pos Vos Ay Chausida 0:29
3 We Don't Merely Use Instruments, We Play On Them. And They Play 1:20
4 Hungarian Dance No.7 1:40
5 The Violin Is One Of The Most Tender And Beautiful Instruments E... 0:46
6 Violin Concerto In D Major (Adagio) 1:09
7 But For A Long Time It Was Seen As The Instrument Of The Devil. 0:18
8 The Soldier's Tale: Triumphal March Of The Devil 0:46
9 The Manipulative Seductiveness Of The Gypsy Violin. 0:44
10 Csardas Music 3:34
11 The Violin And The Initiation Of Nature 0:24
12 The Four Seasons (Spring, Mvt 1) 0:36
13 Birds Are Again Evoked In The Second Concerto, Especially Music'... 0:10
14 The Four Seasons (Summer, Mvt 1) 0:42
15 Like The Devil, The Violin Is A Master Of Disguise. 0:19
16 Old Viennese Dance No.3 'Schon Rosmarin' 1:56
17 The Menacing Sensuality Of Ravel's Tzigane: A Very Different Sid... 0:16
18 Tzigane 0:52
19 Do We Now Have The True Measure Of This Instrument? Not Just Yet... 0:16
20 Caprice No.24 0:49
21 The Many Effects Of The String Tremolando 1:58
22 Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No.7) 1:07
23 Prokofiev's Tremolo In Romeo And Juliet Should Not Be Heard Just... 0:23
24 Romeo And Juliet: Act IV 0:47
25 Vivaldi Use It To Illustrate The Shivering Of Travellers Crossin... 0:15
26 The Four Seasons (Winter, Mvt 1) 0:58
27 The Violin Muted 0:32
28 Clair De Lune 1:42
29 The Gentleness Of Muted Strings Persists Even When A Whole Orche... 0:31
30 Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major, K.467 (Slow Mvt) 1:27
31 The Pizzicato Violin 0:39
32 Pizzicato Polka 2:30
33 In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, The Accompaniment Is Pizz... 0:27
34 Violin Concerto No.2 In G Minor (Slow Mvt) 2:03
35 Varieties Of Pizzicato 3:10
36 The Planets (Mars - The Bringer Of War) 1:28
37 The Technique Of Double-Stopping Enables The Violin To Play Duet... 2:10
38 Hungarian Dance No.4 3:52
39 Double-Stopping Is A Standard Feature Of A Lot Of Folk Music. 0:15
40 The Four Seasons (Autumn, Mvt 1) 0:38
41 Now The Same Technique, But The Sound Might Have Come From Anoth... 0:31
42 Bolero 0:50
43 Double-Stopping Can Only Approximate The Sound Of A Real Violin 0:21
44 Cadenza To The Violin Concerto By Brahms 0:45
45 Now Compare That With A Real Violin Duet. 0:13
46 Forty-Four Duos (No. 1: Teasing Song) 0:53
47 Another Duo By Bartok, Demonstrating The Violin's Rich Lower Reg... 0:11
48 Forty-Four Duos (No.2: Maypole Dance) 0:41
49 And Now What May Be The Most Beautiful Accompanied Violin Duet I... 0:18
50 Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo) 6:44
51 The Soul Of The Violin Is In Song; But What About This Weird Pas... 0:43
52 Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major (Mvt 2) 0:35
53 The Use Of Harmonies In The Orchestra Can Be Both Magical And Un... 0:30
54 Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 1, Opening) 1:34
55 Tchaikovsky's Use Of Harmonics In The Sleeping Beauty Is Both St... 0:12
56 The Sleeping Beauty (Act II, No.15: Entr'Acte) 0:34
57 Ravel's Harmonics In Mother Goose Effect A Magical Transformatio... 0:30
58 Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast) 0:37
59 Stravinsky's Harmonics In The Firebird Transport Us Almost Into 0:47
60 The Natural Upper Notes Of The Violins Have A Unique Emotional '... 0:33
61 Also Sprach Zarathustra (Of The Afterworldsmen) 0:56
62 Still In Their Upper Register, The Violins Unleash The Energy Of... 0:15
63 Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No. 4) 1:11
64 Elsewhere, Britten Uses The Same High Register To Create A Very 0:12
65 Four Sea Interludes (Dawn) From 'Peter Grimes' 1:09
66 To End This Outing With The Violins, A Charming Little Elfin Dan... 1:42
67 Elfenreigen 1:29
Total time 69:02