Music Appreciation Listening List - Fall 2021
Week 1: Renaissance Inspiration (October 6th)
Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Week 2: Beyond the String Quartet (October 13th)
Schubert, Cello Quintet in C Major
Brahms, Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major
Mendelssohn, String Octet in E-Flat Major
Week 3: “Legacy Performers” #1 - János Starker, cellist (October 20th)
Kodály, Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello
Dvořák, Cello Concerto in b minor
Week 4: Death in Music (October 27th)
Strauss, Death and Transfiguration
Schubert, String Quartet in d minor “Death and the Maiden”
Week 5: The Requiem Mass (November 3rd)
Week 6: The Piano Quartet (November 17th)
Beethoven, Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major
R. Schumann, Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major
Brahms, Piano Quartet in g minor
Week 7: “Legacy Performers” #2 - Gyorgy Sébok, pianist (December 1st)
Bach-Busoni, Adagio from BWV 564
Bartók, Fifteen Hungarian Songs and Dances
Week 8: From the Ashes (December 8th)