Classical Music for Reading Poetry: Burning Feeling, Chopin, Beethoven and Liszt (3.5 Hours)

Music of longing, devotion and quiet fire from 13 composers, including Chopin, Beethoven and Liszt. A long programme for working late or resting well, with short notes on screen about the history of the music. 0:00:00 Chopin · Mazurka in A minor, Op. 7 No. 2 (Christoph Zbinden, CC BY) 0:02:53 Beethoven · Wind Sextet in E-flat major, Op. 71: III. Menuetto, Quasi allegretto (Skidmore Wind Ensemble) 0:05:13 Mendelssohn · Elijah, Op. 70: Draw near, all ye people (clarinets arr.) (Matthew Hughes, CC BY) 0:08:30 Chopin · Mazurka in A-flat major, Op. 41 No. 4 (Edward Neeman) 0:10:40 Beethoven · Symphony No. 4, Op. 60: I. Adagio, Allegro vivace (recorder arr.) (Papalin, CC BY) 0:12:13 Mozart · String Quartet No. 19 'Dissonant', K. 465: I. Adagio, Allegro (Musopen String Quartet) 0:20:45 Chopin · Mazurka in C minor, Op. 56 No. 3 (Christoph Zbinden, CC BY) 0:27:16 Beethoven · Piano Sonata No. 31, Op. 110: III. Adagio ma non troppo, Fuga (Donald Betts) 0:40:36 Liszt · 2 Konzertetüden, S. 145: No. 1, Waldesrauschen (Markus Staab, CC BY) 0:44:48 Chopin · Mazurka in C major, Op. 68 No. 1 (Edward Neeman) 0:46:31 Diabelli · Sonatina for Guitar and Piano, Op. 68 (Aaron Prillaman) 0:54:03 Schumann · Kreisleriana, Op. 16: VII. Sehr rasch (Aurelia Vișovan, CC BY) 0:56:16 Chopin · Mazurka in B minor, Op. 33 No. 4 (Christoph Zbinden, CC BY) 1:02:13 Haydn · Piano Sonata in B minor, Hob. XVI:32: I. Allegro moderato (Ivan Ilic, CC BY) 1:09:49 Liszt · Harmonies poétiques et religieuses III, S. 173: No. 8, Miserere (Aurelia Vișovan, CC BY) 1:13:30 Chopin · Mazurka in B-flat minor, Op. 24 No. 4 (Christoph Zbinden, CC BY) 1:18:03 Schumann · Papillons, Op. 2: Introduction and No. 1 (Greg Tait) 1:18:54 Bach · Flute Sonata in A minor, H. 562: III. Allegro (Marco Granados, CC BY) 1:23:05 Liszt · Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S. 274 (Mauro Tortorelli, CC BY) 1:30:21 Chopin · Polonaise in C-sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 1 (Tal Agam) 1:37:04 Wagner · Das Rheingold, WWV 86A: Prelude and Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla (United States Marine Band) 1:49:06 Schubert · Prometheus, D. 674 (Bernhard Sonnerstedt) 1:53:38 Chopin · Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 63 No. 3 (Edward Neeman) 1:56:21 Liszt · Preludes and Fugues by J.S. Bach, S. 462: 1. Prelude and Fugue in A minor (Raymond Smullyan, CC BY) 2:06:18 Beethoven · Piano Sonata No. 28, Op. 101: III. Adagio, ma non troppo; IV. Allegro (Paul Pitman) 2:17:08 Chopin · Mazurka in E major, Op. 6 No. 3 (Christoph Zbinden, CC BY) 2:18:57 Schubert · Piano Sonata No. 18 in G major, D. 894: II. Andante (Paul Pitman) 2:27:04 Liszt · Fantaisie romantique sur deux mélodies suisses, S. 157 (Christoph Zbinden, CC BY) 2:46:32 Chopin · Mazurka in A minor, Op. 67 No. 4 (Christoph Zbinden, CC BY) 2:49:33 Coste · Les soirées d'Auteuil, Op. 23: II. Scherzo (Edson Lopes, CC BY) 2:52:59 Beethoven · Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 12 No. 1: II. Variations; III. Rondo (Timothy Jones) 3:04:38 Chopin · Mazurka in A-flat major, Op. 50 No. 2 (Xuan He) 3:07:51 Berlioz · Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9 (US Army Band) 3:16:23 Beethoven · Piano Sonata No. 24, Op. 78: I. Adagio cantabile, Allegro ma non troppo (Paul Pitman) 3:21:31 Chopin · Mazurka in A minor, Op. 59 No. 1 (Xuan He) Recordings marked CC BY or attribution are used under their Creative Commons licence (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/), with the performer credited. Changes: loudness normalised and silence at start and end trimmed. All other recordings are in the public domain or CC0.