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More celebration of the Music of Edgar Leslie Bainton!
(February 14, 1880 – December 8, 1956)
Here is one of his most lovely, and popular, sacred hymns:
And I Saw a New Heaven
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyy7...

YouTube video by TheWelleszCompany Edgar Bainton: Symphony No.3 (1956)

Celebrating the Music of Edgar Leslie Bainton!
(February 14, 1880 – December 8, 1956)
English composer. He composed solid works, most notably sacred works – anthems and hymns – but also some excellent secular orchestral works. Here is the Adagio from his Symphony No. 3:
youtu.be/wDCxrOG-MgY?...

Edward Elgar - Salut d'Amour Op.12 YouTube video by MrJohannStraussViena

Happy Valentine’s Day, or … Here’s to Being in Love!
...with one of Elgar’s most lovely homages to his wife, Alice, and on being in love, his Salut d’Amor:
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Dargomyzhsky - Rusalka - Gypsy Dance YouTube video by anarchopreusse

Celebrating the Music of Alexander Dargomyzhsky!
(February 14, 1813 – January 17, 1869)
Russian composer. Here is his wonderfully spirited Gypsy Dance from his opera Rusalka: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Indeed I did. And thanks for saving me a chunk of my own budget... since you so kindly posted it already. :)

Really lovely! :) And what a fantastic ensemble! Thanks!

YouTube video by Johann Rufinatscha Juro Tkalčić: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 10

Celebrating the Music of Juro Tkalčić!
(February 13, 1877 – December 15, 1957)
Croatian cellist and composer. Here is the very moving middle movement, Elegie: Adagio of his Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 10:
youtu.be/ugpkXIDRluI?...

YouTube video by Marc Teicholz - Topic 6 Divertimentos, Op. 13: No. 6. March

Celebrating the Music of Fernando Sor!
(February 13, 1778 – July 10, 1839)
Spanish composer and guitar legend. Here is a delightful little March (No. 6 from 6 Divertimentos, Op. 13): www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ0u...

Dussek - Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor ("Elégie Harmonique"), Op. 61 - Constance Keene YouTube video by pianushko

Celebrating the Music of Jan Ladislav Dussek!
(February 12, 1760 – March 20, 1812)
Czech piano virtuoso and composer Here, the challenging and beautiful Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor (“Elégie Harmonique”), Op. 61:
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

YouTube video by Paul Wee - Topic Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 10: II. Adagio ma non troppo

Celebrating the Music of Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf!
(February 11, 1830 – November 3, 1913)
German virtuoso pianist and composer (aka Hans von Bronsart). Here is a beautiful, melancholic, searching Adagio from his Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 10:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ2K...

YouTube video by Medtnaculus Boris Pasternak ‒ Two Preludes

Celebrating the Music of Boris Pasternak!
(February 10, 1890 – May 30, 1960)
Russian novelist Pasternak was also a pretty fine composer. Here are two surprisingly well crafted, and lovely, Preludes (from 1906):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6DL...

Bror Beckman: Örtagårdsblomster nr II YouTube video by Florestan1207

Celebrating the Music of Bror Beckman!
(February 10, 1866 – July 22, 1929)
Swedish composer. Here is his fleet, wistful piece from his Örtagårdsblomster. Bagateller för piano opus 20, No. 2 “Vid en gammal förfallen herrgård, där man förr levt livets glada dagar”: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

YouTube video by Harald Genzmer Stiftung Harald Genzmer: Erste Sinfonietta für Streichorchester (1955) / GeWV 106

Celebrating the Music of Harald Genzmer!
(February 9, 1909 – December 16, 2007)
German musician, composer, and teacher. Here, his beautifully lyrical Largo from his Sinfonietta for Strings (1955):
youtu.be/79Yjv7jqFf0?...

Alban Berg - Liebesode YouTube video by pelodelperro

Celebrating the Music of Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg!
(February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935)
Austrian composer. Here, an early work - from his Seven Early Songs (orchestrated in 1928), a dreamy Liebesode (Ode to Love):
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

YouTube video by MrBeethovenfan QUINCY PORTER Ukrainian Suite

Celebrating the Music of Quincy Porter!
(February 7, 1897 – November 12, 1966)
American composer and teacher. Here’s an often overlooked piece for orchestra that should charm and move you, his Ukrainian Suite for Orchestra (1925): www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz6P...

YouTube video by Stenhammar Quartet - Topic String Quartet No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 14: II. Andante quasi adagio

More Celebration of the Music of Stenhammer!
... and here is a meltingly lovely example of one of those fine String Quartets:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HGK...

Stenhammar - I Seraillets Have (In The Seraglio Garden) YouTube video by stigekalder

Celebrating the Music of Wilhelm Stenhammer
(February 7, 1871 – November 20, 1927)
Swedish conductor and composer. Here’s a piece of singing beauty by this lyrical artist: I Seraillets Have (In The Seraglio Garden), number 2 in the set “Three Choral Songs” www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

YouTube video by Musical Musings - Classical Music Litolff - Piano Trio In D Minor Op. 47

More Celebration of the Music of Henry Charles Litolff!
(February 6, 1818 – August 6, 1891)
Litolff also had an abiding gift for chamber music – and here’s a great example, the Andante from his Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor:
youtu.be/9zhhwg3gIOY?...

Litolff - Scherzo from Concerto Symphonique No. 4 in D minor, Op. 102 YouTube video by musicanth

Celebrating the Music of Henry Charles Litolff!
(February 6, 1818 – August 6, 1891)
English music publisher, piano virtuoso, composer. Here is the Scherzo movement from his Concerto Symphonique No 4 in D minor, Op. 102 (the whole concerto is very worth listening to):
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

YouTube video by Pau NG Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736-1809) - Missa in C pro coronatione (1792)

Celebrating the Music of Johann Georg Albrechtsberger!
(February 3, 1736 – March 7, 1809)
Austrian composer, organist and theorist. His talent for melody and rich orchestration is evidenced here by the delightful Benedictus in Coronation Mass: youtu.be/JH8BDUOD1_I?...

YouTube video by Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra - Topic Lieder um den Tod (Songs About Death) , Op. 62: No. 6. Unverlierbare Gewahr (Inviolable Guarantee)

Celebrating the Music of Yrjö Kilpinen!
(February 4, 1892 – March 2, 1959)
Finnish composer, known as the "Arctic puritan.” Here is deeply moving Lieder um den Tod (Songs About Death), Op. 62: No. 6. Unverlierbare Gewahr (Inviolable Guarantee): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbAd...

YouTube video by TheWelleszCompany Luigi Dallapiccola: Piccola Musica Notturna (1954)

Celebrating the Music of Luigi Dallapiccola!
(February 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975)
Italian composer, pianist and teacher. Here is a haunting thing of night beauty, his Piccola Notturna Musica (1954): www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Asa...

YouTube video by ArtyClassical Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture (Abbado)

Celebrating the Music of Felix Mendelssohn!
(February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847)
Here is one of two masterpieces that put Mendelssohn on the musical map… written amazingly early in his life at age 17 – his Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0gH...

YouTube video by musicanth Guillaume Lekeu - Adagio pour Quatuor d'Orchestre (1891)

Celebrating the Music of Guillame Lekeu!
(January 20, 1870 – January 21, 1894)
Belgian composer. Here is Lekeu’s mystical and lush Adagio pour Quatuor d'Orchestre (1891, written at the age of 19): www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdOM...

YouTube video by Fans of Maurizio Machella Gottfried August Homilius (1714-1785): Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ

Celebrating the Music of Gottfried August Homilius!
(February 2, 1714 – June 2, 1785)
German organist and composer Homilius is generally considered the most important organist to follow JS Bach. Here is a tender Chorale Prelude, Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNtx...

Glière: Horn Concerto- mov. 3 YouTube video by dattrumpetboyCR

Celebrating the Music of Reinhold Glière!
(January 11, 1875 – June 23, 1956)
Russian composer. Here is another great musical moment from Glière, Movement 3 of his lyrical Horn Concerto:
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

YouTube video by Igor Františak William Yeates Hurlstone: Trio in G minor for clarinet, bassoon and piano

Celebrating the Music of William Yeates Hurlstone!
(January 7, 1876 – May 30, 1906)
English composer. Here is the work that won the celebrated student entry into the Royal Academy of Music, his Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Bassoon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY1G...

YouTube video by New York Philharmonic - Topic Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 23: Adagio

Celebrating the Music of John Knowles Paine!
(January 9, 1839 – April 25, 1906)
American composer. Here, a beautiful-brooding-fantastically lyrical Adagio from his Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 23 – (1875):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QrO...

YouTube video by huakinthoi Thalberg, Nocturne in A flat Major, op. 21 n. 1 (1837)

Celebrating the Music of Sigismond Thalberg!
(January 8, 1812 – April 27, 1871)
Austrian pianist and composer. Here’s a lovely thing by this piano genius, his Nocturne in A flat Major, op. 21 n. 1 (1837):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4bc...

YouTube video by olla-vogala Xaver Scharwenka - Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor

Celebrating the Music of Franz Xaver Scharwenka
(January 6, 1850 – December 8, 1924)
German pianist, conductor and teacher. Here is the high-spirited-plus-moody Intermezzo movement to his crowning piano concerto – No 4 in F minor:
youtu.be/zoUwY1H671k?...