The Classical Era (c.1750 to c.1820)

The age of innovation

Music of the English Renaissance

Music from England’s Golden Age: sublime sacred music soaring above intrigues of church and state, and…

Music of the Italian Baroque

The power of poetry inspires a musical revolution: from the opera stage to the music rooms of the…

Pergolesi — Stabat mater

A transcendently beautiful meditation on suffering and redemption, written by…

Baroque & Before (c.1000 to c.1750)

The era of the church and the court

Sacred Music of the Renaissance

Works which defied the authorities, stretched the limits of music —…

Gregorian Chant

Exquisitely pure melodies from the earliest days of Western music.

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The Modern Era (c.1900 to the present)

A world of fragmentation and a flourishing of diversity

Viennese Waltzes

Vienna is the home of the waltz, and in the 1800s, it seemed the whole city was dancing to the music of Johann Strauss, father…

Orff: Carmina Burana

Carl Orff brings the Middle Ages into the modern era with Carmina Burana, one of the best-loved choral works of the 20th…