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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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disc 1. Wellingtons Sieg oder Die Schlacht bei Vittoria, 'Battle symhony,' op. 91. The battle / Beethoven (8:12) -- Mazeppa. The battle at Poltava / Tchaikovksy (5:54) -- Guernica / Balada (11:20) -- Symphony no. 6, 'Gettysburg' Conflict / Harris (6:14) -- Alexander Nevsky, op. 78. The battle on the ice / Prokofiev (12:12) -- The planets, op. 32. Mars, the bringer of war / Holst (6:57) -- Háry János suite. Napoleon csatája / Kodály (4:04) -- The adventures of Robin Hood. The battle ; The duel ; The victory / Korngold (5:36) -- The battle of Stalingrad. For our motherland ; To the attack! Eternal glory to the heroes / Khachaturian (6:35) -- Ungarischer Sturnmarsch / Liszt (4:47) -- |
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disc 2. March : the dambusters / Coates (3:53) -- The fall of Berlin, op. 82. Storming Seelov Heights / Shostakovich (6:26) -- Berceuse héroique / Debussy (4:56) -- Taras Bulba, JW VI/15. Smrt Andrijova / Janáček (9:12) -- Beau geste. Battle / Newman (3:16) -- Má vlast. Šárka / Smetana (10:02) -- Coppélia. La discorde et la guerre / Delibes (3:39) -- The golden cockerel. King Dodon on the battlefied / Rimsky-Korsakov (4:21) -- Ein Heldenleben, op. 40. Des Helden Walstatt / R. Strauss (9:38) -- Caucasian sketches, suite no. 2, op. 42. Georgian war march / Ippolitov-Ivanov (4:53) -- They died with their boots on. Little big horn / Steiner (6:44) -- Die Walküre. Ride of the Valkyries / Wagner (5:26) |
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How to depict scenes of battle in music is a task that has long fascinated composers. From the dawning of the Renaissance the first successful programmatic works appeared from Susato, Dowland and Biber. But it was the nineteenth and twentieth century's that witnessed a true flourishing, when composers utilized the full resources of contemporary symphonism to evoke the tumult of battle. Later the medium of film, notably those produced in Hollywood, brought with it colorful and gripping scores |
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All selections previously released |
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Various orchestras and conductors |
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Hard copy version record |
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Orchestral music.
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Motion picture music -- Excerpts.
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Battles -- Songs and music
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Symphonies.
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Suites (Orchestra)
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Operas -- Excerpts.
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Battles.
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Motion picture music -- Excerpts.
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Operas -- Excerpts.
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Orchestral music.
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Suites (Orchestra)
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Symphonies.
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Streaming audio
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excerpts.
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Excerpts.
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Songs and music.
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Excerpts.
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Extraits.
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Streaming audio
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Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
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Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893
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Balada, Leonardo, 1933-
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Harris, Roy, 1898-1979.
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Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.
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Holst, Gustav, 1874-1934.
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Kodály, Zoltán, 1882-1967.
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Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957
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Khachaturi︠a︡n, Aram, 1903-1978
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Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886
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Coates, Eric, 1886-1957
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Shostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975
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Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918
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Janáček, Leoš, 1854-1928.
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Newman, Alfred, 1901-1970
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Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884.
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Delibes, Léo, 1836-1891
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Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, 1844-1908.
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Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949
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Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich, 1859-1935
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Steiner, Max, 1888-1971
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Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
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Symfonický orchester Čs. rozhlasu v Bratislave.
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Moskovskiĭ simfonicheskiĭ orkestr.
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Filharmonia Narodowa (Warsaw, Poland)
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Polskie Radio. Wielka Orkiestra Symfoniczna
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Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
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