My Top 25 Favorite Moments in Classical Music...

It took a lot to make the composer and critic Virgil Thomson happy. He was famous for savaging new works he didn't like, and the truth is, he didn't like very many new works at all. One exception was Bohuslav Martinů's very first symphony, written in 1942. Thomson said this: "The ...  Show more

Thence the universe resounds With a joyful cry I AM. These are the final lines of Alexander Scriabin's epic Poem of Ecstasy, a 300-line poem that takes nearly 10 minutes to read aloud and is one of the most surreal texts in the world. Scriabin wrote a Poem of Ecstasy in text and ...  Show more

Tracklist: 00:00:00 Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 67 No. 4 (Chopin) 00:03:01 Song Without Words, Op. 2 No. 3 (Tchaikovsky) 00:06:20 Divertimento, K. 334: Menuet (Mozart) 00:10:29 Hungarian Dance No. 6, WoO 1 (Brahms) 00:13:42 Hungarian Dance No. 1, WoO 1 (Brahms) 00:16:40 Romance in A ...  Show more

Modern Classical Music Ep01 - Contemporary Classical Music ComposersTracklist: Georges Delerue - ConfessionsAbandoned Toys - Flowering ashesDmitry Evgrafov - My dear melonieSamantha Bouquin - Morning SketchesHior Chronik - Cold Winter Morning (feat. Luup)Wechsel Garland - Es Ware ...  Show more

1-3 Extra episodes on Patreon every week! https://www.patreon.com/bestclassicalmusicChopin - Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Andante 00:00 Debussy - Suite bergamasque, L. 75: No. 3, Clair de Lune 04:41 Satie - Trois gymnopédies: No. 1, Lent et doloreux 10:23 De Falla - 7 ...  Show more

Modern Classical Music Ep03 - Electroacoustic Classical CompositionsTracklist: Lucy Claire - No.1 Rituals in DustAbandoned Toys - Flickering EmbraceJohann Johannsson - Dying CityFrank Bretschneider - Stumm (Kein Worf)Bing and Ruth - Broad ChannelSamantha Bouquin - Tale for a Sunk ...  Show more