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Classical Music Inspired by Poetry and Literature
Tracklist:
0:00:00 Gluck (arr. Siloti) - Orfeo ed Euridice: Melody
Vadim Chaimovich, piano
Inspired by: the myth of Orpheus (Virgil/Ovid)
0:04:04 Fauré - 3 Songs, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve
Massimiliano Martinelli, cello
Jonathan Floril, piano
Inspired by: an anonymous Italian poem freely adapted into French by Romain Bussine
0:07:28 Luke Faulkner - The Road to Casterbridge
Luke Faulkner, piano
Özgür Kaya, cello
Inspired by: the novels of Thomas Hardy
Alexander Litvinovsky - Pelléas and Mélisande
0:10:37 VI. Ballade. Les trois sœurs aveugles (Ballad. Three blind sisters)
0:13:47 X. Les ombres dans le jardin (Shadows in the garden)
0:16:52 IX. Mélisande au rouet (Mélisande at the spinning wheel)
0:19:54 I. Ils étaient comme des enfants (They were like children)
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov
Inspired by: the Symbolist play by Belgian playwright and author Maurice Maeterlinck
0:23:59 Tchaikovsky - The Snow Maiden, Op. 12 “Snégourotchka”: X. Melodrama
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov
Inspired by: the Russian fairy tale of the same name
Alexander Litvinovsky - Le Grand Cahier
0:28:22 I. La Forêt et la Rivière
0:31:10 IV. Nos Etudes
0:33:55 VI. Le Bain
0:36:08 VII. Les Pommes de Grand-Mère
0:38:26 VIII. Théâtre
0:41:08 IX. Accusations
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov
Inspired by: the 1986 novel of the same name by Hungarian-Swiss writer Agota Kristof
0:44:13 Schubert - Erlkönig (The Elf King), D. 328
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov
Inspired by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poem of the same name
Alexander Litvinovsky - Pelléas and Mélisande
0:47:51 III. Galliard. Navire dans la tempête (Galliard. Ship in a storm)
0:50:30 VIII. Menuet. Sous la fenêtre de la tour (Minuet. Under the tower window)
Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov
0:53:53 Liszt (arr. Skalmer) - Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 3, Oh Lieb, so lang du lieben kannst
Fulvia Mancini, cello
Jonathan Floril, piano
Inspired by: Ferdinand Freiligrath’s poem of the same name
0:58:18 Rachel (arr. Biffi) - A Diosa - No potho reposare
Pierpaola Porqueddu
Inspired by: Salvatore Sini’s poem of the same name, penned just before he departed to fight in WWI
1:03:42 Brahms - 4 Duets, Op. 61: No. 3, Phänomen (Love Hath Not Departed)
Anna Ouspenskaya, FamTrio
Inspired by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s poem of the same name
1:06:02 Debussy - Suite Bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de Lune
Pierpaola Porqueddu
Inspired by: Paul Verlaine’s poem of the same name
1:11:02 Schubert - Gretchen am Spinnrade, D. 118
Luigi Magistrelli, Sumiko Hojo
Inspired by: the text from Part One, scene 15 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust
1:14:46 Prokofiev - Cinderella, Op. 87: Oriental Dance
1:16:54 Prokofiev - 10 Pieces from Cinderella, Op. 97bis: No. 10, Adagio: The Prince and Cinderella
Anna Ouspenskaya, Igor Zubkovsky
Feinberg - 8 Romances after Pushkin, Op. 26
1:21:37 No. 3, Under the Blue Skies of Her Native Land
1:25:21 No. 5, Three Springs
Dimitri Malignan, Elizaveta Agrafenina
1:27:47 Dvořák - Rusalka, Op. 114: “Song to the Moon”
Musica Sancta Ensemble, Liran Mendel, Jovana Stosic, Elena Patsalidou
Inspired by: the plot of the opera contains elements which also appear in The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen and in Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and has been described as a “sad, modern fairy tale”
1:33:03 Dukas - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Budapest Scoring Symphonic Orchestra, Peter Pejtsik
Inspired by: a 1797 poem by Goethe
1:44:17 Mulè - La vendemmia, poema sinfonico
Opole Philharmonic Orchestra, Silvano Frontalini
1:53:41 Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 “Choral“: IV. Finale (Ode to Joy), Live
Orquesta Reino de Aragón, Ricardo Casero, Coro Amici Musicae
Inspired by: “An die Freude”, an ode written in the summer of 1785 by German