My First Classical Music Album

There is a BIG hall filled with hundreds of people. They are just getting comfortable in their seats when the musicians walk onto the stage, carrying instruments. There are the string instruments: the violins, violas, cellos and large double basses, which are heavy to carry.

There are the brass instruments: horns, trumpets, trombones and a tuba. And there are the woodwind instruments: flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons. The percussionists walk onto the stage too, but they are not carrying anything because their instruments – drums, triangles, timpani, xylophone and bells – are already set up.

The musicians sit in their places, making a semi-circle on the stage and leaving a space in the front for the conductor. Then you can hear a long, clear note – an ‘A’ – from the oboe.

All the musicians in the orchestra copy that note, making sure they are all in tune.

When they are quiet and ready, the conductor walks onto the stage, carrying with him the little stick called a baton. He steps up onto the podium so that he’s a bit taller, bows to the audience, and everyone claps. He turns around to face the orchestra and lifts up his baton.

Everyone is silent. All the musicians are looking at that stick, with their instruments ready.

Suddenly, down it goes and the whole orchestra starts to play! The concert has begun!

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Music Tracks and Information:
TR 1 ( 00:03:31 ) Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Overture: Finale
Composer: Rossini, Gioachino | Performer: Zagreb Festival Orchestra; Halász, Michael
TR 2 ( 00:05:49 ) Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act I: The terrace in front of the palace of Prince Siegfried: No. 2. Valse
Composer: Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich | Performer: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Halász, Michael; Bogacz, Josef
TR 3 ( 00:03:34 ) The Four Seasons: Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring): I. Allegro
Composer: Vivaldi, Antonio | Performer: Capella Istropolitana; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Nishizaki, Takako
TR 4 ( 00:03:31 ) Berceuse, Op. 16 (version for violin and piano)
Composer: Fauré, Gabriel | Performer: Kang, Dong-Suk; Devoyon, Pascal
TR 5 ( 00:01:23 ) Overture (Suite) No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067: VII. Badinerie
Composer: Bach, Johann Sebastian | Performer: Cologne Chamber Orchestra; Müller-Brühl, Helmut; Kaiser, Karl
TR 6 ( 00:05:48 ) Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio
Composer: Beethoven, Ludwig van | Performer: Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia; Drahos, Béla
TR 7 ( 00:02:23 ) Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King
Composer: Grieg, Edvard | Performer: Norrköping Symphony Orchestra; Rondin, Mats
TR 8 ( 00:00:34 ) Román népi táncok (Romanian Folk Dances), BB 68 (excerpts) - No. 2. Brâul
Composer: Bartók, Béla | Performer: Jandó, Jenő
TR 9 ( 00:00:51 ) Román népi táncok (Romanian Folk Dances), BB 68 (excerpts) - No. 3. Topogó (Pê-loc)
Composer: Bartók, Béla | Performer: Jandó, Jenő
TR 10 ( 00:04:38 ) Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major, Hob.VIIe:1: III. Finale: Allegro
Composer: Haydn, Franz Joseph | Performer: Cologne Chamber Orchestra; Müller-Brühl, Helmut; Schuster, Jürgen
TR 11 ( 00:02:16 ) 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: Hungarian Dance No. 5 (orch. Schmeling)
Composer: Brahms, Johannes | Performer: Budapest Symphony Orchestra; Bogár, István
TR 12 ( 00:03:09 ) Carnival of the Animals: XIII. The Swan
Composer: Saint-Saëns, Camille | Performer: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Lenárd, Ondrej; Lapšanský, Marián; Toperczer, Peter
TR 13 ( 00:01:11 ) Etude No. 21 in G-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9, "Butterfly's Wings"
Composer: Chopin, Fryderyk | Performer: Biret, Idil
TR 14 ( 00:03:06 ) Children's Corner: VI. Golliwogg's Cakewalk
Composer: Debussy, Claude | Performer: Thiollier, François-Joël
TR 15 ( 00:04:08 ) L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) (excerpt)
Composer: Dukas, Paul | Performer: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Jean, Kenneth
TR 16 ( 00:04:36 ) Slavonic Dances, Series 1, Op. 46, B. 83: No. 8 in G Minor
Composer: Dvořák, Antonín | Performer: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Košler, Zdeněk
TR 17 ( 00:02:56 ) Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620, Act I: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja
Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra; Halász, Michael; Tichy, Georg
TR 18 ( 00:01:43 ) Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67: The Cat
Composer: Prokofiev, Sergey | Performer: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Lenárd, Ondrej
TR 19 ( 00:02:00 ) Divertimento in F Major, K. 138, "Salzburg Symphony No. 3": III. Presto
Composer: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | Performer: Éder Quartet
TR 20 ( 00:01:36 ) Carnival of the Animals: V. The Elephant
Composer: Saint-Saëns, Camille | Performer: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Lenárd, Ondrej; Lapšanský, Marián; Toperczer, Peter
TR 21 ( 00:01:34 ) Kinderszenen (Scenes of childhood), Op. 15: I. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Of Foreign Lands and People)
Composer: Schumann, Robert | Performer: Jandó, Jenő