“Off the Beaten Track” – Romantic/Early 20th Century
- Franz Schreker - Chamber Symphony (1916):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxKWG1K29v0&t=4s - Leoš Janácek - Sinfonietta (1926):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV6GI3ROj8c - Emmanuel Chabrier - España (1883):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_aCpAcK4l8 - Emmanuel Chabrier - Joyeuse Marche (1888): h
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqrZfUl6d4k - Josef Suk - Scherzo Fantastique (1903):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TISaiU-fkAE - Igor Stravinsky - Feu d'artifice (1908):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWOAu_T5DuI - Antonín Dvořák - Symphonic Variations (1877):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKKU65NvvCI
“Contemporary” – Modernism, Experimentalism, Post-Tonal, Etc.
- Charles Ives - Three Places in New England (1903-29):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy5RsRLc8es - Edgard Varèse - Amériques (1918-21):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zXaEwWFbnA - Toru Takemitsu - Requiem [Strings only] (1957):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZqazBElZHg&t=12s - Dai Fujikura - My Butterflies [Winds only] (2012):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81PAaLR2PDk - Olivier Messiaen - Turangalîla-Symphonie (1946-48):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Qh9Tttngk - Olivier Messiaen - Des Canyons aux étoiles... (1972-74):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBRTJMKyvV0 - György Ligeti - KammerKonzert (1969-70) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYh9qDwBTE8 - Christophe Bertrand (1981-2010) - Scales (2008-09):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv6UV0iASNY
“Standards” – Good Things to Know
- Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring [Orchestral Suite] (1944-45): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVahuS9hk_s&t=902s
- Paul Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis (1943):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RthuLePDo3A - Igor Stravinsky - Dumbarton Oaks (1937-38):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6gqiA8iIMo - Ottorino Respighi - “Roman Trilogy” (1916-28):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWpQkNxGoGE - Alban Berg - Three Pieces for Orchestra (1913-15):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6U8AqRNyU8
“Just for Fun” – Music to Delight
- Igor Stravinsky - Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra (1921):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=385KhKIR-Gg - Arturo Márquez - Danzon No. 2 (1994) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnmQ2TFnafc - Dmitri Shostakovich - Suite for Variety Orchestra (post-1956):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcePNz4laI8&t=110s
Score-video Channels on YouTube:
21st Century/Experimental Focus
1.) belanna000 – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIfIMnhUfLBTZnheAF7Osrg
2.) Score Follower – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsCyncBPEzI6pb_pmALJ9Tw/featured
3.) Incipitsify – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZkBfgFnWZdr2Kcsgcjba4Q
4.) Dai Fujikura – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS260HeJI2k7hAHRLlJO8AQ
5.) Michael Seltenreich – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwtPIdWXQVLRnvdPHkLYP-w
Romantic/20th Century Focus
6.) tomekkobialka – https://www.youtube.com/user/tomekkobialka/videos
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21st Century/Experimental Focus
1.) belanna000 – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIfIMnhUfLBTZnheAF7Osrg
2.) Score Follower – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsCyncBPEzI6pb_pmALJ9Tw/featured
3.) Incipitsify – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZkBfgFnWZdr2Kcsgcjba4Q
4.) Dai Fujikura – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS260HeJI2k7hAHRLlJO8AQ
5.) Michael Seltenreich – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwtPIdWXQVLRnvdPHkLYP-w
Romantic/20th Century Focus
6.) tomekkobialka – https://www.youtube.com/user/tomekkobialka/videos
- Symphonies by Mahler (all of them!), Bax, Walton, Hindemith, Hanson, and Glazunov
- A variety of ballets, operas, tone poems
- Film score transcriptions
- Virtuosic piano music
- Emphasis on music by Messiaen, Holst, Grainger, Rautavaara, and Lili Boulanger
- Variety of tone poems, suites, concertos, overtures, etc.
- Piano music
- Handful of chamber music, art songs, and choral pieces
- Emphasis on music by Alkan, Ives, Schnittke, and Crumb
- Symphonies by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Ives, Shostakovitch, Bruckner, and Havergal Brian
- Non-canon virtuosic piano music
- Diverse selections (Brahms, Britten, Reich, Cage, Stockhausen, etc.)
- Some chamber music (E.g. Ligeti’s String Quartet No. 2 or Fauré’s Piano Trio)
- Symphonies by Stravinsky (all of them!) and Shostakovitch
- String quartets by Grieg, Hindemith, Mozart, Webern, etc.
- Variety of Chamber Music (E.g. Ligeti’s Horn Trio or Stravinsky’s Wind Octet)
- Sonatas and concertos for string instruments
- Diverse selections (Poulenc, Schoenberg, Ravel, Berg, Bartók, etc.)
- Just about everything, all-encompassing across genre and era
- Lots of “off the beaten track” chamber music (E.g. Villa-Lobos or Glazunov string quartets)
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- Just about everything, all-encompassing across genre and era
- Lots of “off the beaten track” chamber music (E.g. Vincent d'Indy's string quartets)
- Diverse selections (Martinů, Busoni, Scriabin, Debussy, Duruflé, etc.)
- Primarily 20th century chamber music, piano pieces, and some songs
- Very diverse and all-encompassing.
- Various orchestral scores (Focus on 20th century Russian composers)
- Piano and chamber music of Ives, Bartók, and Ligeti
- 20th Century piano music
- Some chamber music
- Piano Music and chamber music (Schubert, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Liszt, etc.)
- Lots of guitar music! Baroque to contemporary.
- Some percussion music
- Piano music of late 19th/20th century
- Handful of piano concertos and chamber music
- Piano music by Spanish Composers (de Falla, Albeniz, Mompou, Turina, Grandos, etc.)
- Piano music by the Schumanns (Robert and Clara)
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- Romantic/20th century piano music
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- Variety of piano music, classic and popular
- Uploads aren’t as good as they use to be (Go back a couple years to find Boulez, Xenakis, Kapustin, etc.)
- Every violin piece you didn't know existed!