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Written by Darren Henley
Darren Henley
THE STORY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC
CONTENTS
Track List
Marin Alsop conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
4
CD-ROM Contents
29
Classical Music – from the notes on the page, through history,
to performance today
32
Biographies: Darren Henley and Aled Jones
36
About Classic FM
37
Aled Jones Feature
38
Historical Timeline
42
Other titles available from Naxos AudioBooks
53
How to use the CD-ROM
54
Acknowledgements
56
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CD 1
1
The Story of Classical Music
2
THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD (600–1490)
The Year 600 – Music in Churches
CD 1 (cont.)
Concerto: Duo seraphim from Vespers of the Blessed Virgin
2:14
The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
2:06
Music featured:
Recercar
Music featured:
Anonymous
Gregorian chant from the Proper of the Mass: Introitus – Adorate Deum
Nova Schola Gregoriana; Turco
Christopher Wilson, lute
8.550711
6
3
Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
2:31
4
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525/6–1594)
8.554003
London
2:10
Henry Purcell (1659–1695)
Joseph Payne, organ
Oxford Camerata; Summerly
8.550573
The Birth of Opera
3:45
8.550718
Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas
Kym Amps, soprano; The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Music featured:
‘Ecco pur ch’a voi’ from L’Orfeo
Cappella Musicale di S Petronio di Bologna; Vartolo
4
3:04
Music featured:
Voluntary in G
Music featured:
Missa Papae Marcelli
5
Aradia Baroque Ensemble; Mallon
7
2:37
THE BAROQUE PERIOD (1600–1750)
Into the 17th Century
Music featured:
Entrée from Ballet des plaisirs
8.550998
THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1490–1600)
Medieval to Renaissance
8.553694
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687)
Music featured:
O ignis spiritus
Oxford Camerata; Summerly
8.550662–63
Franciscus Bossinensis (fl.1510)
8.554094–95
5
8.553108
CD 1 (cont.)
8
Germany
CD 1 (cont.)
2:05
11
Johann Pachelbel (1653–1706)
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Music featured:
Canon
Tallis Chamber Choir; Royal Academy Consort; Summerly
Anna Holbling, violin; Capella Istropolitana; Krcek
Italy
2:04
Capella Istropolitana; Warchal
Music featured
Concerto grosso No. 8 ‘Christmas Concerto’
10
8.550109
La Réjouissance from Firework Music
Arcangelo Corelli (1653–1715)
Cologne Chamber Orchestra; Müller-Brühl
The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
(Choral Masterpieces)
László Czidra, recorder; Zsolt Harsányi, bassoon; Pál Kelemen, cello;
Zsuzsa Pertis, clavichord
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Music featured:
Toccata in D minor
12
Chorale: O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden from St Matthew Passion
Pavel Bogacz, violin; Capella Istropolitana; Edlinger
13
8.554607
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741)
8.554043
4:30
8.550056
Gloria in D major
Oxford Schola Cantorum; Northern Chamber Orchestra; Ward
6
8.553221
Music featured:
Spring from The Four Seasons
Takako Nishizaki, violin; Capella Istropolitana; Gunzenhauser
Air on the G string from Orchestral Suite No. 3
Capella Istropolitana; Dvořák
2:16
8.553257
Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
Cologne Chamber Orchestra; Müller-Brühl
Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1750)
8.550700
Music featured:
Adagio in G minor
8.550184
Hungarian Festival Choir; Hungarian SSO; Oberfrank
(Favourite Arias and Choruses)
8.550827
Presto from Recorder Sonata in G minor
6:51
Wolfgang Rübsam, organ
8.550109
Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah
8.551077
Germany
8.557003
Alla hornpipe from Water Music
8.553221
Capella Istropolitana; Warchal
9
8:03
Music featured:
Zadok the Priest
7
8.550767
CD 1 (cont.)
CD 1 (cont.)
14
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1750–1830)
The Classical Period – An Explanation
1:56
15
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
1:24
19
5:33
Music featured:
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525
Capella Istropolitana; Sobotka
Music featured:
Sinfonia No. 4 in G major
8.550026
Symphony No. 41 ‘Jupiter’
Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra; Lee
16
Mozart’s great works
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
8.553289
1:33
Music featured:
Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice
Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra; Ostman
Capella Istropolitana; Wordsworth
8.550299
Non più andrai from The Marriage of Figaro
Andrea Martin, baritone; Donna Robin, soprano; Capella Istropolitana; Wildner
(Operatic Arias and Duets)
8.550435
Piano Concerto in C major, K. 467
8.660064
Jenó´ Jandó, piano; Concentus Hungaricus; Ligeti
8.550434
Requiem
17
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)
6:21
8.550235
Piano Sonata in A major, K. 331
Music featured:
Symphony No. 94 ‘The Surprise’
Jenó´ Jandó, piano
Capella Istropolitana; Wordsworth
8.553222
8.550258
A Musical Joke
Jenó´ Keveházi, horn; Kodály Quartet
Symphony No. 45 ‘Farewell’
Capella Istropolitana; Wordsworth
8.553222
8.550437
Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja from The Magic Flute
Andrea Martin, baritone; Donna Robin, soprano; Capella Istropolitana; Wildner
(Operatic Arias and Duets)
Symphony No. 101 ‘The Clock’
Capella Istropolitana; Wordsworth
18
Soloists; Slovak Philharmonic Chorus; Slovak PO; Košler
8.553222
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
8
5:21
8.550435
Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Capella Istropolitana; Wordsworth
8.550299
9
CD 1 (cont.)
20
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
21
Beethoven’s great works
CD 2
4:22
1
The composer as a star
1:28
4:58
2
Nicolò Paganini (1782–1840)
2:48
Music featured:
Symphony No. 5
Music featured:
Caprice No. 24 in A minor
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia; Drahos
8.553476
Ilya Kaler, violin
Piano Sonata in C sharp minor ‘Moonlight’
Violin Concerto No. 1
Jenó´ Jandó, piano
8.550294
Egmont Overture
Ilya Kaler, violin; Polish NRSO; Gunzenhauser
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Slovak PO; Gunzenhauser
8.550072
Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia; Drahos
8.553474
Symphony No. 9 ‘Choral’
Soloists; Nicolaus Esterházy Chorus; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia; Drahos
8.553478
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)
2:04
Zagreb Festival Overture; Michael Halász
4
8.556683
Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826)
2:04
Music featured:
Clarinet Concerto No. 2
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1830–1900)
Background History
8.550649
Music featured:
Overture to William Tell
Symphony No. 1
22
8.550717
Ernst Ottensamer, clarinet; Slovak SPO, Kosice; Wildner
2:22
5
Total time on CD 1: 78:04
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
8.550378
4:48
Music featured:
Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning-Wheel)
Ruth Ziesak, soprano; Ulrich Eisenlohr, piano
8.554666
Piano Quintet in A major ‘Trout’
Jenó´ Jandó, piano; István Tóth, double bass; Kodály Quartet
10
11
8.550658
CD 2 (cont.)
CD 2 (cont.)
Symphony No. 8, ‘Unfinished’
Violin Concerto in E minor
Slovak PO; Halász
6
8.550145
Hector Berlioz (1803–1869)
4:13
Takako Nishizaki, violin; Slovak PO; Jean
9
Music featured:
Un bal from Symphonie fantastique
San Diego Symphony Orchestra; Talmi
8.553597
7
Fryderyk Chopin (1810–1849)
8.554494–95
2:02
Jenó´ Jandó, piano
10
8.554480
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
1:35
Music featured:
Piano Concerto in A minor
4:58
Music featured:
Nocturne in E Flat, Op. 9 No. 2
Jenó´ Jandó, piano; Budapest SO; Ligeti
Balász Szokolay, piano
8.550291
11
Prelude in D Flat ‘Raindrop’
Irina Zaritzkaya, piano
8.550018
Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
1:33
Music featured:
Romance, Op. 11 No. 1
8.550291
Piano Concerto No. 2
8
Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Music featured:
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 8
Dies irae from Requiem
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir; Elora Festival Orchestra; Edison
8.550153
Yoshiko Iwai, piano
István Szekely, piano; Budapest SO; Nemeth
8.550123
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
5:51
12
Music featured:
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Slovak PO, Bramall
8.554433
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
4:32
Music featured:
Intermezzo in C sharp minor
Idil Biret, piano
8.550354
Academic Festival Overture
Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Slovak PO, Bramall
8.553501
8.554433
Belgian Radio and Television PO, Rahbari
8.550281
Piano Concerto No. 1
The Hebrides
Slovak PO, Dohnányi
8.554433
12
Jenó´ Jandó, piano; Polish NRSO; Wit
8.553182
13
CD 2 (cont.)
13
Max Bruch (1838–1920)
CD 2 (cont.)
2:39
Soloists; Hungarian State Opera Chorus and Orchestra; Morandi
Music featured:
Violin Concerto No. 1
17
Takako Nishizaki, violin; Slovak PO; Gunzenhauser
14
Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
8.550195
8.554128
Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
18
The Waltz – The Strauss Family
8.550468
4:18
Johann Strauss I (1804–1849)
3:48
Music featured:
Kettenbrücke-Walzer
Music featured:
The Ride of the Valkyries from The Valkyrie
Slovak RSO; Mund
8.550944–45
1:16
Slovak SPO, Kosice; Walter
(Can-Can and Other Dances from the Opera)
Royal Scottish NO; Titner
Tanzquartette Wien
8.550211
8.555689
Radetzky March
Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
Slovak Philharmonic Chorus; Slovak RSO; Wildner
16
Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880)
Music featured:
Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld
1:37
Music featured:
Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’
15
Dies irae from Requiem
Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)
Budapest Strauss Ensemble; Bogar
8.550507
8.550900
Johann Strauss II (1825–1899)
4:13
Music featured:
The Blue Danube
Music featured:
Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore
Slovak Philharmonic Chorus; Slovak RSO; Dohnányi
19
Triumphal March and Chorus from Aida
Slovak Philharmonic Chorus; Slovak RSO; Dohnányi
8.550241
La donna è mobile from Rigoletto
Yordy Ramiro, tenor; Slovak RSO; Rahbari
8.554065
14
Strauss Festival Orchestra; Lenárd
8.550241
8.550152
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
4:42
Music featured:
The Carnival of the Animals
Soloists; Slovak RSO; Lenárd
8.550335
15
CD 2 (cont.)
20
Léo Delibes (1836–1891)
CD 2 (cont.)
1:04
25
Music featured:
Coppélia
Slovak RSO; Mogrelia
21
Vytautas Sondeckis, cello; Lithuanian CO; Geringas
(Romantic Music for Cello and Orchestra)
2:01
Music featured:
Overture from Carmen
23
Russia, the national voice and the ‘Mighty Handful’
Alexander Borodin (1833–1887)
Philharmonia Orchestra; Batiz
8.550727
2:10
1:25
Music featured:
In the Steppes of Central Asia
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8.550726
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
8.550051
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
4:28
Music featured:
Pictures at an Exhibition
8.553271
Swan Lake
Slovak PO; Halász
8.553271
The Nutcracker
Slovak PO; Halász
Jenó´ Jandó, piano
8.550044
5:16
Music featured:
The Sleeping Beauty
Slovak RSO; Lenárd
Slovak PO; Nazareth
24
8.554381
Sheherazade
Soloists; Slovak Radio Symphony Chorus and Orchestra; Rahbari
22
3:47
Music featured:
The Flight of the Bumble-Bee (arr. B. Traubas) from
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
8.553356–57
Georges Bizet (1838–1875)
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)
8.553271
Symphony No. 6 in B minor ‘Pathétique’
Polish NRSO; Wit
8.550782
Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrated Ravel)
Slovak PO; Nazareth
8.550051
Total time on CD 2: 79:12
Night on the Bare Mountain
Slovak PO; Nazareth
8.550051
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CD 3
1
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky continued
CD 3 (cont.)
‘Now give three cheers’ from HMS Pinafore
3:33
Soloists; D’Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra; Godfrey
Music featured:
Piano Concerto No. 1
5
Bernd Glemser, piano; Polish NRSO; Wit
Music featured:
Meditation from Thaïs
8.555923
János Selmeczi, violin; Camerata Transylvanica; Selmeczi
1812 Overture
NSO of Ukraine; Kuchar
2
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
6
Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’
3
Music featured:
Piano Concerto in A minor
8.550118
4
Slovak RSO; Clark
8.551108
England – Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
3:29
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
2:42
Music featured:
La Mer
8.550262
Golliwog’s Cake Walk from Children’s Corner
Idil Biret, piano
8.550885
Music featured:
Overture to HMS Pinafore
Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Penny
8.554165
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8.550765
8.550088
Belgian RTPO; Rahbari
In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt
CSFR State PO (Kosice); Gunzenhauser
2:17
Pavane, Op. 50
2:54
7
Jenó´ Jandó, piano; Budapest SO; Ligeti
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Oxford Schola Cantorum; Oxford Camerata, Summerly
8.550271
Norway – Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
8.554682
Music featured:
Pie Jesu from Requiem, Op. 48
8.550143
Slovak PO; Gunzenhauser
2:45
THE LATE ROMANTICS, IMPRESSIONISTS AND OTHERS
2:58
Music featured:
Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 No. 8
Slovak PO; Košler
France – Jules Massenet (1842–1912)
8.550819
8.110175
19
CD 3 (cont.)
8
Spain – Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909)
CD 3 (cont.)
2:04
13
Music featured:
El Puerto from Iberia
Guillermo González, piano
9
10
8.554311
Industrial progress
0:45
England – Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
English Northern Philharmonia; Daniel
14
5:25
Erik Satie (1866–1925)
1:54
Klára Körmendi, piano
8.553981
Maria Kliegel, cello; RPO; Halász
8.554463
Music featured:
Gymnopédie No. 1
15
Cello Concerto
8.550305
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
2:26
Music featured:
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
8.550503
François-Joël Thiollier, piano; Polish NRSO; Wit
Nimrod from Enigma Variations
English Northern Philharmonia; Daniel
8.553981
Italy – Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)
RPO; Leaper
16
Luba Organasova, soprano; Jonathan Welch, tenor; Slovak RSO; Humburg
8.550501
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
2:02
Music featured:
Also sprach Zarathustra
8.660003–04
Nessun dorma from Turandot
Slovak PO; Košler
Thomas Harper, tenor; Slovak RSO; Halász
8.550497
Austria – Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
1:53
Music featured:
Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’
17
8.550182
Finland – Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)
8.554265
8.550523–24
20
2:05
Music featured:
Finlandia
Iceland SO; Sakari
Polish NRSO; Wit
8.550753
Boléro
4:09
Music featured:
O soave fanciulla from La Bohème
12
1:26
Slovak RSO; Jean
Music featured:
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
11
France – Paul Dukas (1865–1935)
Music featured:
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
21
CD 3 (cont.)
18
England – Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
CD 3 (cont.)
3:06
22
Music featured:
Fantasia on Greensleeves
New Zealand SO; Judd
8.555867
BRT Philharmonic, Brussels; Rahbari
English Northern Philharmonia; Lloyd-Jones
Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
2:05
23
8.554060
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
6:04
Music featured:
Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet
RSNO; Lloyd-Jones
NSO of Ukraine; Mogrelia
8.555776
Russia – Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943)
8.553184–85
Troika from Lieutenant Kijé
3:33
Richard Hayman and his Orchestra
Music featured:
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
8.555029
Symphony No. 1 ‘Classical’
NSO of Ukraine; Kuchar
Bernd Glemser, piano; Polish NRSO; Wit
8.550809
8.553053
Peter and the Wolf
Piano Concerto No. 2
Dame Edna Everage, narrator; Melbourne SO; Lanchbery
Bernd Glemser, piano; Polish NRSO; Wit
8.550810
24
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE 20TH CENTURY
21
8.550472
Belgian RTPO; Rahbari
8.553955
Music featured:
Jupiter from The Planets
20
3:23
The Firebird
The Lark Ascending
19
Russia – Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Music featured:
The Sacrifice from The Rite of Spring
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
Ulster Orchestra; Yuasa
Peter Hill, piano
22
Belgian RTPO; Rahbari
25
8.550261
Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967)
8.554371
Music featured:
Suite from Háry János
8.553870
Hungarian SSO; Antál
Piano Pieces, Op. 11 No. 3
2:30
Music featured:
Concerto for Orchestra
2:05
Music featured:
Verklärte Nacht (arranged for string orchestra)
Hungary – Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
8.554170
1:10
8.550142
23
CD 3 (cont.)
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Austria – Anton Webern (1883–1945)
CD 4
2:25
1
Music featured:
Passacaglia
Ulster Orchestra; Yuasa
8.554841
8.554841
Carl Orff (1895–1982)
1:36
Slovak RSO; Gunzenhauser
2
Music featured:
O Fortuna from Carmina Burana
Soloists; Slovak RSO and Chorus; Gunzenhauser
Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–1999)
1:43
8.559088
AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR
3
8.554832
USA – George Gershwin (1898–1937)
Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
RSNO; Alsop
1:06
Norbert Kraft, guitar; Northern CO; Ward
8.550282
Music featured:
Adagio for strings
8.550196
Music featured:
Concierto de Aranjuez
29
8.550282
Fanfare for the Common Man
Ulster Orchestra; Yuasa
28
2:54
Slovak RSO; Gunzenhauser
Symphony
27
Aaron Copland (1900–1990)
Music featured:
Hoe Down from Rodeo
Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990)
1:56
Music featured:
Suite from West Side Story (Prologue)
5:06
Soloists; Nashville SO; Schermerhorn
Music featured:
An American in Paris
4
New Zealand SO; Judd
8.559107
Rhapsody in Blue
Kathryn Selby, piano; Slovak PO; Hayman
8.550295
8.559126
England – William Walton (1902–1983)
Music featured:
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue from The First of the Few
English Northern Philharmonia; Daniel
8.553869
Piano Concerto
Kathryn Selby, piano; Slovak PO; Hayman
8.550295
Total time on CD 3: 79:17
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2:39
25
CD 4 (cont.)
5
Russia – Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
CD 4 (cont.)
4:17
9
Music featured:
Romance from The Gadfly
NSO of Ukraine; Kuchar
8.553299
Boris Berman, piano
8.555949
MINIMALISM
Tahiti Trot
Russian SSO; Yablonsky
Piano Concerto No. 2
10
Michael Houstoun, piano; New Zealand SO; Lyndon-Gee
6
England – Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
8.553126
Slovak RSO; Lenárd
11
8.550499
France – Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
8.554345
England – John Tavener (b. 1944)
1:54
St. John’s College Choir, Cambridge; Robinson
USA – Philip Glass (b. 1937)
1:51
2:59
Adele Anthony, violin; Ulster Orchestra; Yuasa
Ile de France Vittoria Regional Choir; Orchestre de la Cité; Piquemal
Melbourne SO; Lanchbery
12
8.554170
COMPOSERS OF THE AVANT-GARDE
France and USA – Edgard Varèse (1883–1965)
2:19
Music featured:
Déserts
Polish NRSO; Lyndon-Gee
Hans Zimmer (b. 1957)
1:32
Music featured:
Suite from Gladiator
The City of Prague PO; Nic Rain; Bateman
The Fantasy Album, Silva Screen Records FILM 360CD
With kind permission from Silva Screen
8.554820
26
8.554568
FILM MUSIC
8.553176
The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant
8.555256
Music featured:
Violin Concerto
Music featured:
Gloria
8
1:52
Music featured:
Song for Athene
1:56
Music featured:
Theme from The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
7
USA – John Cage (1912–1992)
Music featured:
Piano Sonata V
27
CD 4 (cont.)
13
CD-ROM CONTENTS – ON CD 4
Howard Shore (b. 1946)
1:17
Music featured:
The Fellowship from Lord of the Rings
The City of Prague PO; Nic Raine; Bateman
The Fantasy Album, Silva Screen Records FILM 360CD
With kind permission from Silva Screen
14
John Williams (b. 1932)
1:43
Music featured:
Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter
The City of Prague PO; Nic Raine; Bateman
The Fantasy Album, Silva Screen Records FILM 360CD
With kind permission from Silva Screen
15
Epilogue
1:12
Music featured:
Maurice Ravel
Boléro
RPO, Leaper
8.550501
Total time on CD 4: 32:12
Total time on CDs 1–4: 4:28:45
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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop
CLASSICAL MUSIC
from the notes on the page, through history,
to performance today
What is classical music? It is the music that
has lasted through the centuries. If it has
lasted, it suggests that it is the best music,
or at least the best music that was written
down.
Music does survive in another way: the
oral tradition, where tunes are handed
down personally from musician to
musician, taught by listening and copying.
This is used for folk music, which can
survive very accurately, as well as be
refreshed by every generation. However, it
generally works only for music that
involves just one or two parts. After that, it
gets too complicated to remember. When
you have a piece involving about ten or
more parts, the only way to make it last is
to write it down. That is why musical
notation became so important.
As we learn on this recording, notation
began in the eighth century for music sung
in churches. It has developed a lot since
then to include different instruments,
different keys, and to show more
accurately things like the length of notes,
the speed, whether it’s loud or soft… even
silence can be notated: you just write lots
of rests instead of notes!
Notation made it possible for the music
of great composers to survive: the music of
Johann
Sebastian
Bach,
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van
Beethoven lives on today because of
notation. Of course, it is not just the paper
and the notes that made sure their music
survived: it had to be good! Everyone
knew, when Mozart was alive, that his
music was especially good – well, almost
everyone. When his opera The Magic Flute
was first performed, the Emperor of
Austria actually said to him: ‘Too many
notes, Mr Mozart!’ Not the nicest thing to
say to a composer immediately after a first
performance! And he was wrong. The
Magic Flute turned out to be a hit opera
for 200 years.
Everyone knew too that Beethoven was
the most important composer of his time.
Of course, he really needed notation
because his deafness stopped him from
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enjoying the music in the way we do – by
just listening to it. He could look at the
notes on the page and hear the music in
his head.
And Bach? Well, Bach was so busy
writing music and playing the organ that
he didn’t have much time to think about
the future of his music; but other people
came to know how valuable he was.
Mozart
studied
his
music,
then
Mendelssohn studied his music, and, later,
Bruckner did too. So did many others.
Once again, it was all thanks to musical
notation: all that scribbling done in Bach’s
time became like gold dust.
Notation was important also for
Schubert. Poor Schubert! Music poured
out of him – he had melodies in his head
all the time, and he wrote it down as fast
as he could, anywhere, on anything. In
one day alone, he wrote eight songs. But
only a few friends realised at the time
what a unique and talented composer he
was. He heard performed a lot of the
songs that he wrote and much of the
chamber music, but his symphonies were
never performed professionally for him –
though that didn’t stop him writing nine!
He simply had to compose: he had to put
down on paper the sounds he heard in his
head.
Schubert died just one year after
Beethoven, in 1828. His friends carried on
playing some of his music, but most of it
was beginning to be forgotten. Then one
day, Robert Schumann was browsing
through a library in Vienna, looking at old
manuscripts that were there, and he came
across Symphony No. 9 by Franz Schubert.
It was in Schubert’s own handwriting. He
started to look at it (he could hear the
sounds clearly in his head because he was
a pianist and composer himself). He
realised that there, sitting in a library box,
silent and forgotten, was a masterpiece. It
was exciting and full of bright tunes and
rhythms that stick inside your head. He
was so excited he got a copy made and
sent it straight off to Felix Mendelssohn,
telling him that this was such a remarkable
symphony it should be played. So
Mendelssohn agreed and arranged a
performance. He did this for some of
Bach’s pieces, too, which were being
neglected.
So in this way, music that is preserved
in silence on a page for years, sometimes
for generations or centuries, comes alive
again. It is not usually possible to play it
exactly as the composer wished, because
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every performance of a work is slightly
different. It depends on the players: some
violinists, for example, play without much
vibrato while others play with more; some
play slightly faster or more smoothly, while
others play more slowly or in a more
bouncy way. This is what performance is
about: making the music come alive here
and now. And this is the miracle of
classical music – that hundreds of years
after it was written, it still can sound as
fresh and lively as if it was written
yesterday.
Fashion does not really come into
classical music. Some music is very
fashionable for a time, but then is
forgotten: it is important only for the
people of a particular century or year, or
moment. Classical music, on the other
hand, is music that has lasted through the
centuries, and has been loved and played
by many different generations of people.
These people have worn different kinds of
clothes, behaved in different ways – but
still enjoyed the same classical works.
Bach, Mozart and Beethoven (and others)
have survived to the 21st century, so it is
likely they will go on to the 22nd, 23rd,
24th centuries and beyond… with the help
of musical notation.
New composers of today are adding to
classical music all the time. Some of this
will be forgotten in ten years’ time or even
sooner. Some will not even be noticed by
most people until well after the composer
is dead – but then, gradually, it will come
back to the concert hall, like a forgotten
friend coming out of the mist.
There is so much wonderful music to
discover from all the centuries, it is difficult
to know where to start. Hopefully, this
introduction will give you some pointers.
You might hear a composer or a style and
think you like that best: you can then listen
and discover more. You could even play
the music yourself: by playing the cello, or
perhaps the clarinet or the piano, you are
right in the middle of the musical
experience.
Aled Jones himself knew what it was
like to be in the centre of music-making
when he was a young boy. As a chorister,
he sang every morning, rehearsing and
then performing. He had to get up early,
but the musical standard was high and it
was fun. He was fortunate enough to have
a particularly beautiful voice and to be a
born performer: he really loved big
concerts and important moments. That is
why he had such an extraordinary career
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as a young musician, selling millions of
records and singing to audiences all over
the world. He even sang with the famous
conductor
and
composer
Leonard
Bernstein!
Now, as an adult, Aled is equally active.
He is still a singer (though his voice is
much lower now – somewhere between
baritone and tenor) and he travels the
world, performing. He is a radio and
television presenter too: he introduces
classical music to hundreds of thousands
on the British radio station Classic FM, and
introduces musical programmes on
television. For him, playing, introducing
and listening is all part of an active musical
life. He knows that classical music is a
journey that goes on for as long as you
listen and play.
Nicolas Soames
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Aled Jones is the presenter of the Sunday breakfast show on
Classic FM and a Sunday morning interview programme on BBC
Radio Wales. On television, he is one of the main presenters of
BBC One’s Songs of Praise and also hosts the BBC One Wales arts
programme On Show. As a boy soprano, he sold more than six
million records worldwide. In 2002, he returned to performing,
this time as a baritone. His new albums Aled and Higher have
each sold more than 300,000 copies.
Darren Henley is the Managing Editor of Classic FM. His radio
programmes have been honoured by the Sony Radio Academy
Awards, the New York International Radio Festival and the United
Nations. Darren writes regularly for the Classic FM Magazine, for
which he is editorial consultant. He was previously a journalist for
ITN and Invicta Radio in Kent. He is the co-author of all three titles
in the best-selling Classic FM Pocket Book series, published by
Boosey & Hawkes.
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Classic FM is the world’s largest classical music radio station, with 6.5 million listeners
tuning in every week. We believe that classical music can be an important part of
everybody’s life, no matter what their age or background. A further 500,000 children
also tune in to the radio station each week. Classic FM has a very active music education
programme, working across the UK to introduce as many children as possible to classical
music.
Classic FM broadcasts across the UK on 100-102 FM, on DAB Digital Radio, on Sky
Digital channel 856 and also on NTL and Telewest Digital cable services.
The radio station is also streamed live around the globe on www.classicfm.com
where you can find up-to-the-minute information about Classic FM’s programmes, along
with classical composers and performers.
Classic FM TV was launched at the beginning of 2003 and has already been enjoyed
by more than five million viewers. It broadcasts classical music videos 24 hours a day on
Sky Digital Channel 464 and ntl:digital channel 921.
The Classic FM Magazine is the biggest-selling classical music magazine in
newsagents across the UK. Published monthly, it provides readers with extensive
coverage of classical music CD releases, as well as big-name interviews and news about
classical music events around the country.
Classic FM’s boxed-set CDs have now sold more than 1.5 million copies, with albums
such as Smooth Classics: Do Not Disturb and Classic FM Hall of Fame Gold, regularly
achieving gold disc status.
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Aled Jones – A Voice in Action
the pop charts, is just a terrific thrill.”
“I’m so proud of that album. There’s
been an amazing reaction; it’s not just the
sales, but the letters I’ve had. Like people
saying they’ve lost loved ones and this
album has helped them get through it. It’s
had a deeper meaning for people and that
is so humbling.”
‘Aled’ has had sales in excess of
300,000. Its success has transformed Aled’s
professional life. All the years of uncertainty
after his voice broke at the age of 16
instantly disappeared. At the age of 32 he
is confident of his artistic direction in the
As a boy soprano Aled Jones was used to
recording and releasing albums. They were
all part of the job of being a child star,
notching up six million sales in a remarkable
eight-year career. In those days he took it
for granted his albums would go Top 5.
When it came to releasing his first
album as an adult he felt differently. He
was nervous about how it would be
received. The emotional commitment was
still there in the singing, but now he was
involved in the entire creative process from
choosing songs to the design of the CD
booklet. Within days of ‘Aled’ the album
being released in September 2002
apprehension was replaced by elation.
‘Aled’ went straight to number one in the
classical charts where it stayed for four
weeks, and entered the pop Top 20.
“I’m not massively ambitious. I don’t
want to conquer the world. I just wanted
the album to be liked by people. When
you’ve been quite successful as a
youngster,” says Aled Jones modestly, “and
you come back and release an album,
you’re waiting for everyone to knock it.
And the relief of knowing you’ve gone to
number one in the classical charts, and into
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knowledge that singing will truly be his
lifelong career. His new album ‘Higher’
continues in the same stylistic vein as its
predecessor, mixing classical with a few,
just two, pop tunes – ‘You Raise Me Up’ by
Secret Garden, and ‘San Damiano (Heart
And Soul)’, a hit in 1984 for Sal Solo. The
rest is a collection of traditional songs,
classical and sacred, guided on their way to
the heart by Aled’s pure, heartfelt and
unpretentious interpretations. “There are
so many people the industry describes as
‘crossover’,” says Aled. “I don’t understand
what that is because I’m singing the sort of
music I did as a boy, in exactly the same
way I did as a boy, but as a boy they called
me a classical artist. I’m in this for the long
term, it’s definitely not a flash in the pan
thing.”
There are no gimmicks, just a newly
svelte Aled. He’s lost a stone and a half in
the past year, not with the help of a trainer
or diets, simply because of his new fast
pace of life as the demand for his presence
has exploded internationally. In 2002 he
gave two public concerts. In 2003 there
was a 14-date autumn tour with orchestra
in the UK and in Australia, as well as
performing at open-air concerts and
festivals.
More fundamental than the weight loss
has been the change in Aled’s warm and
distinctive voice. His high baritone has got
higher, edging its way towards a tenor.
“My voice is changing timbre, it has
gained about four notes in pitch. On the
first day of recording the album, after
singing a few tracks my producer Robert
Prizeman, who worked with me on my first
album, said there was a real difference. It
was much more confident and rounded.”
As a boy Aled was an instinctive singer,
picking up a piece of music and being able
to interpret it almost immediately. But
when he started out again last year he hard
to work at it. “It was a hard slog. I had to
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really think about how I’d phrase a piece,
whereas now that’s come back to me, I can
just do it. And it’s so exciting for me
because then it means I can put the
emotion into a song.”
Aled wants to keep stretching the
boundaries of his ability. He plans to take
singing lessons, for the first time since his
comeback. “I think it would be interesting
to push it a little bit to see where it would
go.”
Insanely busy, he is combining his
singing career with an established career as
a TV and radio presenter. It was his
appearance on ‘Songs of Praise’ that
brought him to the attention of Universal
Classics and that job continues with Aled
presenting ‘Songs of Praise’ on a regular
basis.
He also presents a Sunday morning
show on Classic FM. Recent figures have
shown the station bringing in 500,000
listeners between the age of 15 and 24.
“I’m getting loads of letters and emails
from young people saying that they’ve
bought the album and they really like it.”
There’s also a recorded Sunday morning
show for BBC Radio Wales, and he presents
the arts programme ‘On Show’ for BBC
One Wales. Through all his work, whether
singing or presenting, the same philosophy
applies. “I hate this attitude that classical
music or the arts have to be highbrow. I
want everything I do to be accessible to
everyone. It has to be entertainment.”
Despite the crescendo of success, the
qualities that endeared Aled to the nation
and beyond are still there: his unfailing
politeness, generosity of spirit and
sensitivity. His life has changed dramatically
not just professionally. He and his wife
Claire now have a baby daughter Emilia,
born in February 2002.
“When the last album was launched I
was doing a concert in St. David’s Hall in
Cardiff – you know, small venue, no
pressure,” he jokes. “Songs of Praise were
filming. I was absolutely nervous. I had to
go on stage, present it and sing. And dad
came in with Emilia on a papoose, and she
just saw me and grinned, and I thought to
myself, God why am I worried about doing
this. This is what’s real.”
It’s a new Aled, and the world has had
to shift its perception of who he is. The
man himself feels privileged to be on this
incredible journey. “I’m having the time of
my life. I feel really fortunate I’ve been
given the opportunity to have a chance and
for it to go well. I’m on cloud nine.”
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B flat clarinet
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T I M E L I N E – M E D I E VA L / R E N A I S S A N C E P E R I O D S
600
800 1000 1020 1040 1060 1080 1100 1120 1140 1160 1180 1200 1500 1510 1520 1530 1540 1550 1560 1570 1580 1590
Hildegard of Bingen (German) 1098–1179
Pérotin (French)
1160–1220
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina (Italian) 1525/6–1594
Guillaume de Machaut
(French) 1300–1377
John Dunstable
(English) 1390–1453
William Byrd (English) 1543–1623
Guillaume Dufay
(French) 1398–1474
Thomas Tallis (English) c.1505–1585
Johannes Ockeghem
(Franco-Flemish)
1410–1497
Josquin Desprez
(Franco-Flemish)
1440–1521
Claudio Monteverdi
(Italian) 1567–1643
Alexander Agricola
(Franco-Netherlandish)
1446–1506
Jacob Obrecht
(Netherlandish)
1450–1505
800
Charlemagne
becomes Holy
Roman
Emperor
597
Pope Gregory,
who gave his
name to
Gregorian
Chant, sends
St Augustine to
convert the
English
1517
Martin Luther nails his condemnation of
Rome to the church door in Wittenburg
1520
Luther publicly burns the Papal Bill
excommunicating him;
1054
Eastern Orthodox
Church breaks with
Rome
c.1020
Guido of Arezzo devises
musical notation
1095
The First Crusade
1066
Norman invasion
of England
1075
Turks take Jerusalem
and other Holy places
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1149
Second Crusade
ends in failure
1170
Thomas
à Becket
murdered
1545–1563
The Council of Trent
1549
First English
prayer book issued
1558
Spread of Protestantism throughout Europe
Elizabeth I
1534
succeeds Mary
Henry VIII proclaims himself
Rejects authority
head of the Church of England
of Rome
Dissolution of the Monastries begins 1553
1529
Mary, a Catholic, becomes
Ottomans driven back
Queen of England
from gates of Vienna Persecution of Protestants follows
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1585
War between England
and Spain over trade
and religious
differences
1599
The Globe
Theatre built
in Southwark,
London
TIMELINE – BAROQUE/CLASSICAL PERIODS
1600 1610 1620 1630 1640 1650 1660 1670 1680 1690 1700 1710 1720 1730 1740 1750 1760 1770 1780 1790 1800 1810 1820
Jean-Baptiste Lully (French) 1632–1687
Christoph Willibald Gluck (German) 1714–1787
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (German) 1714–1788
William Byrd d.1623
Arcangelo Corelli (Italian) 1653–1713
Johann Pachelbel (German) 1653–1706
Franz Joseph Haydn (Austrian) 1732–1809
Henry Purcell (English) 1659–1695
Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1750)
Antonio Vivaldi (Italian) 1678–1741
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(Austrian) 1756–1791
Claudio Monteverdi d.1643
Johann Sebastian Bach (German) 1685–1750
Antonio Salieri (Italian) 1750–1825
George Frideric Handel (German) 1685–1759
Ludwig van Beethoven (German) 1770–1827
Domenico Scarlatti (Italian) 1685–1757
1618
Start of 30 Years War
Last attempt by
Catholics to stamp out
the Reformation
1603
Queen
Elizabeth I
dies
1605
Gunpowder Plot
1620
Pilgrim
Fathers
sail to
America
1701
1807
1660
1776
c.1730
1642
Britain, Holland and Austria
Slave trade
American Declaration of Independence
The first pianos are
English Civil War Restoration of the
form alliance to prevent
abolished in Britain
monarchy
and war with England
manufacturered in Saxony;
1649
France becoming strongest
Canaletto begins his
1789
1680
Charles I executed
power in Europe
paintings of Venice’s Grand
George Washington becomes
The Dodo
1665
1756–1763
England becomes
Canal
first
American
president;
1707
The Great becomes extinct
a republic
The Seven Years War
1720
French Revolution begins
Act of Union
Plague of London
1683
South
Sea
between
1773
1794
1654
The Ottoman Turks
Bubble
Scotland and
The Boston Execution of Robespierre ends
1666
1815
Louis XIV,
reach the gates of
financial crisis
England
Tea Party
1740–1748
Reign of Terror in France
Wellington
the Sun King, The Great Fire Vienna again
ruins thousands
The
War
of
of
London
defeats
crowned
1803
Austrian
c.1644
1713
1681
Napoleon at
Napoleonic the Battle of
succession
Antonio Stradivari,
William Penn establishes Pennsylvania War between the Alliance
Wars begin
violin maker, born
and France ends
as a refuge for persecuted Quakers
Waterloo
44
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TIMELINE – ROMANTIC PERIOD
1780
1790
1800
1810
1820
1830
Carl Maria von Weber (German) 1786–1826
1840
1850
1860
1870
1880
1890
1900
1910
Richard Wagner (German) 1813–1883
Arnold Schoenberg 1874–1951
Gioacchino Rossini (Italian) 1792–1868
Franz Liszt (Hungarian) 1811–1886
Franz Schubert (Austrian) 1797–1828
Modest Mussorgsky (Russian) 1839–1881
Fryderyk Chopin (Polish) 1810–1849
Gustav Mahler (Austrian) 1860–1911
Gaetano Donizetti (Italian) 1797–1848
Giacomo Puccini (Italian) 1858–1924
Georges Bizet (French) 1838–1875
Gabriel Fauré (French) 1845–1924
Hector Berlioz (French) 1803–1869
Felix Mendelssohn (German) 1809–1847
Anton Bruckner (Austrian) 1824–1896
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian) 1840–1893
Giuseppe Verdi (Italian) 1813–1901
Antonín Dvor̆ák (Czech) 1841–1904
Robert Schumann (German) 1810–1856
Johannes Brahms (German) 1833–1897
Isaac Albéniz 1860–1909
Edvard Grieg (Norwegian) 1843–1907
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian) 1844–1908
Camille Saint-Saëns (French) 1835–1921
Alexander Borodin (Russian) 1833–1887
1900
Freud writes his
1836
1864
Interpretation
of
1893
1839
Davy Crockett
Louis Pasteur invents
Dreams
Henry Ford builds
killed at the First Opium
pasteurisation
1872
his
first
car
War
Alamo
1854-6
Spanish Civil War
1896
Crimean War
1831
1876
1861
First modern Olympics
Pushkin completes
American Civil War 1869 Alexander Bell invents
held in Athens
Suez
the telephone
Eugene Onegin
1904
1866 Canal
1859
1837
1847
1877
War between
Nobel opens
Darwin publishes
Victoria becomes
California
Tomas Edison patents
Russia and Japan
The Origin of Species invents
Queen in Britain
Gold Rush
the phonograph
dynamite
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THE 20TH CENTURY – I
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
Edward Elgar (English) 1857–1934
Ralph Vaughan Williams (English) 1872–1958
Gustav Holst (English – of Swedish descent) 1874–1934
Sergei Prokofiev (Russian) 1891–1953
Sergei Rachmaninov (Russian) 1873–1943
Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian) 1906–1975
Béla Bartók (Hungarian) 1881–1945
Aaron Copland (American) 1900–1990
Samuel Barber (American) 1910–1981
Benjamin Britten (English) 1913–1976
Claude Debussy (French) 1862–1918
Richard Strauss (German) 1864–1949
Carl Nielsen (Danish) 1865–1931
Jean Sibelius (Finnish) 1865–1957
Joaquín Rodrigo (Spanish) 1901–1999
Manuel de Falla (Spanish) 1876–1946
Charles Ives (American) 1874–1954
John Adams (b. 1947)
1914
1924
1936-39
Panama Canal opened Stalin succeeds
Spanish Civil
Lenin
War
1914-18
1929
1912-13
First World War
The Wall Street Crash
Balkan wars
1939-1945
1926
1917
1933
Second World War
General Strike
Bolsheviks seize
Hitler becomes
in Britain
power in Russia
German Chancellor
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1950–53
Korean War
1956
Suez Canal
seized by Egypt
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
1969
1963
John F. Kennedy Neil Armstrong
assassinated becomes the first
man on the moon
1967
The Beatles release
Sergeant Pepper
1991
1983
First CD players go on sale Persian Gulf
War
1989
1980
Fall of the Berlin
John Lennon
1994
Wall
shot
End of Apartheid
in South Africa
49
New
millenium
2001
9/11 – World
Trade Centre
in New York
attacked and
destroyed
THE 20TH CENTURY – II
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian) 1874–1951
Alban Berg (Austrian) 1885–1935
Anton Webern (Austrian) 1883–1945
Maurice Ravel (French) 1875–1937
Igor Stravinsky (Russian) 1882–1971
Olivier Messiaen (French) 1908–1992
Leosˇ Janáček (Czech) 1854–1928
Henryk Górecki (Polish) 1933–
° (Czech) 1890–1959
Bohuslav Martinu
Francis Poulenc (French) 1899–1963
Darius Milhaud (French) 1892–1974
Edgard Varèse (French-American) 1883–1965
George Gershwin (American) 1898–1937
John Cage (American) 1912–1992
John Williams (b. 1932)
Hans Zimmer (b. 1957)
Steve Reich (American) (b. 1936)
György Ligeti (Hungarian) (b. 1923)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (German) (b. 1928)
Toru Takemitsu (Japanese) 1930–1997
Luciano Berio (Italian) 1925–2003
Pierre Boulez (French) (b. 1925)
Witold Lutosl/awski (Polish) 1913–1994
Arvo Pärt (Estonian) (b. 1935)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
With particular thanks to:
The Classic FM team – Darren Henley, Kate Juxon and Roger Lewis
Genevieve Helsby for her imaginative work in writing and editing the CD-ROM
Sarah Butcher for editing the words and music together in such a skilful manner
Silva Screen for permission to use tracks from The Fantasy Album (FILMXCD360)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for permission to use photographs of the orchestral
sections in action
John Myatt Woodwind and Brass, instrument specialists (57 Nightingale Road, Hitchin,
Hertfordshire – www.myatt.co.uk), for use of woodwind and brass instrument pictures
Hill & Co. (5 High Street, Welwyn, Hertfordshire) for violin and viola pictures
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Pictures by kind permission of
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Aled Jones