TTC Video – The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works

These 30 masterworks form an essential foundation for any music collection and a focal point for understanding the orchestral medium and deepening your insight into the communicative power of music. While seasoned music lovers will find the lectures a fascinating and revealing journey through the repertoire, the course welcomes newcomers to orchestral music, offering a very accessible point of entry to this magnificent repertoire.

Lecturer: Robert Greenberg

Lectures:

1. Game Plan and Preliminaries
2. Vivaldi—The Four Seasons
3. Bach—Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
4. Bach—Violin Concerto in E Major
5. Haydn—Symphony No. 104
6. Mozart—Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor
7. Mozart—Symphony in C Major, “Jupiter”
8. Beethoven—Symphony No. 3
9. Beethoven—Piano Concerto No. 4
10. Beethoven—Symphony No. 9
11. Schubert—Symphony No. 9
12. Mendelssohn—”Italian” Symphony
13. Schumann—Symphony No. 3
14. Brahms—Symphony No. 4
15. Brahms—Violin Concerto
16. Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 4
17. Tchaikovsky—Violin Concerto
18. Bedrich Smetana—Má Vlast
19. Dvorák—Symphony No. 8
20. Dvorák—Concerto for ’Cello
21. Rimsky-Korsakov—Scheherazade
22. Richard Strauss—Thus Spoke Zarathustra
23. Mahler—Symphony No. 5
24. Rachmaninoff—Symphony No. 2
25. Debussy—La Mer
26. Stravinsky—The Rite of Spring
27. Ives—Three Places in New England
28. Holst—The Planets
29. Copland—Appalachian Spring
30. Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5
31. Shostakovich—Symphony No. 10
32. The Ones That Got Away