Classical Music for Those Who Think Too Much | Beethoven, Mozart, Satie...

You get about an hour of quiet before the Tchaikovsky violin concerto turns up and takes over. Beethoven's fourth piano concerto runs almost twenty minutes of allegro, so close to forty minutes of this isn't background music. The last quiet piece before all that is Saint-Saëns' "The Swan," at 1:05:08. It comes from The Carnival of the Animals, which he wrote as a private joke, aimed mostly at other musicians. Then he decided the silliness would cost him his standing as a serious composer. So he banned public performances for the thirty-five years he had left, which is a long time to stay afraid of a joke. Hearing the full suite took an invitation. The private performances ran for decades, and the invitations were worth having. Liszt was at one. Even so, in 1887 Saint-Saëns published his own arrangement of "The Swan" for cello and piano, the only movement he let out while he lived. The rest waited for him to die. Then the public finally heard it all in 1922, the year after, and loved it. The set won't switch a racing mind off, but it gives it somewhere quiet to sit. What did you put it on for? 📌𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐀𝐩𝐩: https://app.essential-classics.com/ 🟢 Follow us and our playlists on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/cugate-music?si=2d9adbc210b64a2b 👉 Listen to Mozart on other streaming platforms. The links are below: 📌 𝟓𝟎 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐭: https://lnk.to/Classical-Composers-Collections-50-Best-of-Mozart 📌𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝: 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐟𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐮𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐭: https://lnk.to/Various-Artists-Classical-World-Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart 📌 𝐌𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫: https://lnk.to/Various-Artists-Mozart-for-Brain-Power 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓 -------------------- 00:00:00 Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo (13) (10) 00:03:24 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: II. Adagio (21) (16) 00:10:43 Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": II. Adagio cantabile (excerpt) (5) 00:14:04 Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61: II. Larghetto (6) (7) 00:23:47 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 18 in D Major, K. 576: II. Adagio (1) 00:28:33 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466: II. Romance (19) (14) 00:40:05 Franz Schubert - Ellens Gesang III, D. 839 "Ave Maria" (3) 00:46:08 Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1 (4) 00:48:54 Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria (11) 00:51:10 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 48: 3. Elegia. Larghetto elegiaco (17) 00:59:49 Antonín Dvořák - Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22: I. Moderato (15) 01:05:08 Camille Saint-Saëns - The Carnival of the Animals: XIII. The Swan (2) (18) 01:08:13 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: I. Allegro moderato (8) (18) 01:27:43 Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto (12) 01:35:07 Antonín Dvořák - Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22: IV. Larghetto (10) 01:39:49 Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58: I. Allegro moderato (5) (20) 01:59:10 Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G Major: II. Adagio assai (excerpt) (9) (20) Performers ---------------------- (1) Aleksandre Shubitidze (2) Alexei Massarsky (3) Capriccio Quintet (4) Double Duet Ma.Gr.Ig.Al (5) Elisso Bolkvadze (6) Isidora Schwarzberg-Romanoff (7) Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra (8) Lyudmila Malian (9) Manana Doidzhashvili (10) New Classical Orchestra Saint Petersburg (11) Nodar Gabunia (12) Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra (13) Oleg Malov (14) Orchestra New Philharmony Saint Petersburg (15) Saint Petersburg Festival Orchestra (16) Saint Petersburg Orchestra Classic Music Studio (17) Saint Petersburg Orchestra of the State Hermitage Museum Camerata (18) Saint Petersburg Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra (19) Sergei Uruvayev (20) Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra (21) Veronika Reznikovskaya Support us Just subscribe: @EssentialClassics Official URLs: Cugate: https://www.cugate.com Cumarket: http://www.cumarket.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CuGateClassicsClub Instagram: https://instagram.com/cugate_classics There's a new set every week. Subscribe and you won't have to go looking. info@cugate.com www.cugate.com Essential Classics is dedicated to sharing and promoting classical music. We strive to present the best classical music for you! Our hope is to make your days more beautiful and peaceful with classical music. All audio and visual content on Essential Classics is created by Cugate AG a well-known music company. We have all legal rights of the audiovisual materials used in this video and our music is protected by copyright laws. If you have any questions regarding copyright or cooperation, please contact us. #Atmospheric #CalmClassical #Satie #ClassicalMusic