Instruments of the Orchestra Lyrics

Disc 1

1. Overture To 'Tannhauser'
2. Domna, Pos Vos Ay Chausida
3. We Don't Merely Use Instruments, We Play On Them. And They Play On Us.
4. Hungarian Dance No.7
5. The Violin Is One Of The Most Tender And Beautiful Instruments Ever Invented.
6. Violin Concerto In D Major
7. But For A Long Time It Was Seen As The Instrument Of The Devil.
8. The Soldier's Tale: Triumphal March Of The Devil
9. The Manipulative Seductiveness Of The Gypsy Violin.
10. Csardas Music
11. The Violin And The Initiation Of Nature
12. The Four Seasons
13. Birds Are Again Evoked In The Second Concerto, Especially Music's Natural Favourite.
14. The Four Seasons
15. Like The Devil, The Violin Is A Master Of Disguise.
16. Old Viennese Dance No.3 'Schon Rosmarin'
17. The Menacing Sensuality Of Ravel's Tzigane: A Very Different Side Of The Violin:
18. Tzigane
19. Do We Now Have The True Measure Of This Instrument? Not Just Yet.
20. Caprice No.24
21. The Many Effects Of The String Tremolando: Brandenburg Concerto No.4 /From Joy To Fright/Quartettsatz In C Minor/The String Tremolo Practically Spells The World Agitato.
22. Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge
23. Prokofiev's Tremolo In Romeo And Juliet Should Not Be Heard Just Before Bedtime.
24. Romeo And Juliet: Act IV
25. Vivaldi Use It To Illustrate The Shivering Of Travellers Crossing The Ice.
26. The Four Seasons
27. The Violin Muted
28. Clair De Lune
29. The Gentleness Of Muted Strings Persists Even When A Whole Orchestra Plays.
30. Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major, K.467
31. The Pizzicato Violin
32. Pizzicato Polka
33. In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, The Accompaniment Is Pizzicato.
34. Violin Concerto No.2 In G Minor
35. Varieties Of Pizzicato: Colas Breugnon /Now A Drier, Leaner, Hungrier Pizzicato. There's Not A Lot Of Comfort Here./Capriol Suite /The Use Of Pizzicato As 'Percussion'/Romeo And Juliet /Mahler Used Pizzicato...
36. The Planets
37. The Technique Of Double-Stopping Enables The Violin To Play Duets With Itself./Sonata No.3 In C Major For Unaccompanied Violin /Now A Later Example Of The Same Technique
38. Hungarian Dance No.4
39. Double-Stopping Is A Standard Feature Of A Lot Of Folk Music.
40. The Four Seasons
41. Now The Same Technique, But The Sound Might Have Come From Another World.
42. Bolero
43. Double-Stopping Can Only Approximate The Sound Of A Real Violin Duet.
44. Cadenza To The Violin Concerto By Brahms
45. Now Compare That With A Real Violin Duet.
46. Forty-Four Duos
47. Another Duo By Bartok, Demonstrating The Violin's Rich Lower Register
48. Forty-Four Duos
49. And Now What May Be The Most Beautiful Accompanied Violin Duet In History
50. Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins
51. The Soul Of The Violin Is In Song; But What About This Weird Passage?
52. Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major
53. The Use Of Harmonies In The Orchestra Can Be Both Magical And Unsettling.
54. Symphony No.1 'Titan'
55. Tchaikovsky's Use Of Harmonics In The Sleeping Beauty Is Both Strange And Darling.
56. The Sleeping Beauty
57. Ravel's Harmonics In Mother Goose Effect A Magical Transformation.
58. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose
59. Stravinsky's Harmonics In The Firebird Transport Us Almost Into Another World./The Firebird
60. The Natural Upper Notes Of The Violins Have A Unique Emotional 'Grab'.
61. Also Sprach Zarathustra
62. Still In Their Upper Register, The Violins Unleash The Energy Of A Young Colt.
63. Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge
64. Elsewhere, Britten Uses The Same High Register To Create A Very Different Mood.
65. Four Sea Interludes From 'Peter Grimes'
66. To End This Outing With The Violins, A Charming Little Elfin Dance
67. Elfenreigen

Disc 2

1. Introduction To The Viola
2. Viola Concerto
3. Khatchaturian Gets A Very Different Sound From It: Fuller, Fruitier, More Exotic.
4. Gayane Suite No.1
5. Very Nearly The Whole Of The Violin's Upper Register Is Also Available To The Viola.
6. Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'
7. The Viola Can Bring A Special, Rich Twanginess To Pizzicato That The Violins Lack./Don Quixote/Berlioz Drew Sounds From It That Retain Their Metallic Strangeness Even Today.
8. Harold In Italy
9. The Muted Viola: Intimate, Gentle, Poignant In Dvork
10. Cypresses
11. The Massed Violas Of The Modern Symphony Orchestra In Mahler
12. Symphony No.4
13. The 'Period' Viola In Bach
14. Brandenburg Concerto No.6
15. The Cello: A Voice Of Unique Nobility
16. Suite No.1 For Unaccompanied Cello
17. Brahms And The 'Soul' Of The Cello
18. Piano Concerto No.2 In B Flat Major
19. Most Orchestral Composers Tend To Emphasize The Cello's Lower Register.
20. Cantata 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben', BWV 147
21. In The Time Of Beethoven The Cello Remained As Fundamental As Ever.
22. Symphony No.3 'Eroica'
23. But The Cello Is Not Condemned To Spend Its Life In The Basement.
24. Elfentanz, Op.39
25. Not Only In Recital Showpieces Like That Is The Cello Is Used In Its Highest Register.
26. The Protecting Veil
27. A Cello With An Identity-Crisis: The Pizzicato Flamencan
28. Flamenco
29. Double-Stopping In The Lower Reaches Of The Cello's Range
30. Solo Suiet For Cello And Piano
31. It's In The Middle Register That The Cello Really Comes Into Its Own.
32. Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2
33. It Was To The Cellos That Beethoven Gave Two Of His Most Famous Themes./Symphony No.5 /Still More Famous Than That Theme Is This One From The Ninth Symphony.
34. Symphony No.9
35. Introduction To The Double-Bass
36. The Carnival Of The Animals
37. But The Double-Bass Can Be Intensely Expressive And Graceful.
38. Elegy No.1 In D Major
39. The Range Of The Double-Bass Is The Greatest Of All The String Instruments/Allegro Di Concerto, 'Alla Mendelssohn'/And It's Also Capable Of Very Considerable Virtuosity.
40. Capriccio Di Bravura
41. Double-Bass Solos In Orchestral Scores Are Rare But Often Memorable./Symphony No.1 'Titan' /In His Third Symphony Mahler Makes A Very Different Use Of The Instrument./Symphony No.3
42. The Double-Bass Muted In Prokofiev/Lieutenant Kije Suite /In Another Work Prokofiev Uses The Double-Bass To Enhance The Winds./Romeo And Juliet /And He Combines The Bass Clarinet With A Shivering Tremolo From The Double-Basses....
43. Symphony No.5 /So Much For The Strings/On Now To The Winds

Disc 3

1. The Antiquity And Magic Of The Flute
2. Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune
3. The Versatility And Agility Of The Flute
4. Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor
5. The Flute In Fifteenth-Century Spain
6. Sa'Dawi
7. Other Flutes: The Bass And Alto
8. Chamber Music No.II
9. The Piccolo - Aptly Named
10. La Naissance D'Osiris
11. From A Piccolo Of The Eighteenth Century To One Of Its Descendants In The Twentieth
12. Suite No.1 For Small Orchestra
13. A Variety Of Techniques
14. Chamber Music No.II
15. Flutter-Tonguing. But Tchaikovsky Got There Eighty Years Before.
16. The Nutcracker
17. From The Transverse To The Vertical: The Baroque Recorder
18. Recorded Suite In A Minor
19. An Unfamiliar, Early Vision Of The Instrument
20. Naelden, Naelden
21. The Bachian Oboe
22. Cantata 'Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott', BWV 80
23. Introduction To The Cor Anglais Or 'English Born'
24. Symphony No.9 'From The New World'
25. The Loneliness Of The Cor Anglais
26. The Swan Of Tuonela
27. The Cor Anglais Joins The French Horn In Haydn.
28. Symphony No.22 'The Philosopher'
29. Introduction To The Oboe D'Amore, Beloved Of Bach - But Also Of Ravel
30. Bolero
31. The Clarinet Family: Boxing The Compass, From The Depths Of The Bass Clarinet.../The Egyptian /...To The Raucous And Squealy.../Taras Bulba /...To The Shrill And Complaining...
32. Petrushka /...To The High Sprits Of A Playful Puppy./Symphonie Fantastique /And To The Downright Jazzy/Romeo And Juliet
33. As The High Clarinets Tend To Be Loud, So The Bass Tends To Be Soft:
34. Gayane Suite No.1
35. The Bass Clarinet Is Used By Most Composers Mainly As A Colouring Agent.../Petrushka /...But It Does Occasionally Get A Whole Tune To Itself./Iberia .
36. The Range Of The Normal Clarinet Parts Goes Quite High...
37. The Snow Maiden
38. ...And Quite Low.
39. Peter And The Wolf
40. The Clarinet As Concerto Soloist
41. Clarinet Concerto In A Major
42. But That's Not The Instrument Mozart Wrote It For; This Is:
43. Clarinet Concerto In A Major
44. Introduction To The Saxophone
45. Hary Janos Suite
46. The Soprano Saxophone Has Quite A Different Feel To It.
47. L'Arlesienne Suite No.1
48. The Little Sopranino Sax Goes Even Higher.
49. Bolero
50. The Most Famous Use Of The Saxophone Is In An Orchestration By Ravel.
51. Pictures At An Exhibition
52. The Saxophone Can Be Quite Contagiously Good-Humoured.
53. Sax-O-Phun
54. The Puffa-Puffa Image Of The Bassoon
55. Peter And The Wolf
56. The Bachian Bassoon, In Accompanimental Mode
57. Cantata 'Weichet Nur, Betrubte Schatten' , BWV 202
58. Bizet Leaves The Puffa-Puffa Image Out, Allowing The Bassoon To Sing./Carmen Suite No.1
59. And Ravel, Also In Spanish Mode, Does Likewise.
60. Bolero
61. The Bassoon As A Voice Of High Seriousness, Indeed Desolate Loneliness
62. Symphony No.3
63. The Eerie Bassoon In Its Highest Register
64. The Rite Of Spring
65. Stravinsky Now Draws On Its Lowest Register, Lonely And Melancholy.
66. The Firebird Suite
67. The Bassoon As Concerto Soloist, Avoiding All Exaggeration
68. Bassoon Concerto In G Minor
69. The Deep-Voiced Contra-Bassoon, As A Fairy-Tale Beast
70. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose
71. The French Horn Under Its Woodwind Hat
72. Wind Quintet, Op.43
73. Now A More Prominent Role, In A Woodwind Quintet From An Earlier Era
74. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5
75. The Horn In Harmonious Blend With Strings In Another Quintet
76. Horn Quintet, K.407

Disc 4

1. The Trumpet As Virtuoso Soloist
2. Brandenburg Concerto No.2
3. The Special Brillance Of Paired Trumpets
4. Concerto In C For Two Trumpets, RV537
5. The Ceremonial Trumpet
6. Fanfare For The Common Man
7. Trumpets And Drums - An Incomparable Alliance
8. Messiah
9. The Versatility Of The Trumpet, From The Most Public To The Most Lonely
10. Piano Concerto In F
11. The Trumpet As The Voice Of The City/An American In Paris/The Trumpet As Recruitment Officer/The Soldier's Tale /The Trumpet As Swaggerer
12. Carmen Suite No.2
13. The Trumpet As The Voice Of Strength And Courage
14. Carmet Suite No.2
15. The Trumpet Muted/Petrushka /Lieutenant Kije Suite /The Trumpet As The Voice Of Weariness
16. Billy The Kid
17. The Trumpet As Character Actor
18. Pictures At An Exhibition
19. The Trumpet As The Voice Of God
20. Mass In B Minor
21. The Birth Of The Trombone
22. Aenmerckt Nu Hier
23. The Birth Of The Brass As A Family
24. Canzon 12 In Double Echo
25. The Trombone In The Eighteenth Century
26. Trombone Concerto In B Flat Major
27. The Tone Of The Tenor Trombone/Romance For Trombone And Organ/The Memorable Voice Of The Bass Trombone/Requiem /But The Bass Trombone Is More Than An Instrumental Bullfrog.
28. Hosannah
29. The Trombones Become Part Of The Orchestra.
30. Symphony No.5
31. The Wagnerian Trombone:/Overture To 'Tannhauser'
32. The Trombone As Caricaturist
33. Pulcinella
34. The Trombone As Raspberry/Concerto For Orchestra
35. The Horn And The Hunt
36. Horn Concerto No.4 In E Flat, K.495
37. The Challenging Horn Of The Baroque
38. Abaris Ou Les Boreades
39. The Scarcity Of First-Rate Players In Handel's Time
40. Walter Music
41. The Horn As Magician/The Firebird Suite
42. Horns And The Sound Of Nobility
43. Overture To 'Tannhauser'
44. The Special Sound Of The Horn In Its Higher Register
45. Mass In B Minor
46. The Trumpet-Like Sound Of Massed Horns
47. Symphony No.3
48. The Tuba - Unfairly Maligned?
49. Symphony No.6
50. The Tuba Perfectly Cast By Ravel
51. Pictures At An Exhibition

Disc 5

1. Introduction. And We Begin With A Bang.
2. Fanfare For The Common Man/The Bass Drum On The Battlefields/Wellington's Victory, Op.91
3. At The Opposite Extreme Is The Triangle.
4. Piano Concerto No.1 In E Flat
5. Categories Of Percussion: Tuned And Untuned. The Side Drum
6. Overture To 'La Gazza Ladra' - The Thieving Magpie
7. The Side Drum In An Effective But Unexpected Role/Clarinet Concerto
8. The Tambourine. One Of The Oldest Instruments In The World
9. Den Hoboecken Dans
10. Even Older Is The Originally Oriental Gong.
11. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose
12. No Single Instrument Can Match The Gong In Evoking The Breaking Of Waves./Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'/But Gongs Don't Have To Be Struck To Be Effective.
13. Gymnopedie No.2
14. The Cymbals Are Generally Discovered Early In Life./The Sanguine Fan/And They Do More Than Clash Together Loudly. They Can Be Clashed Together Softly./Studio Example: But They Needn't Be Clashed Together At All/Studio Example: They Can Be Lightly...
15. Other Untuned Percussion Instruments Include The Whip.: Piano Concerto In G Major /And Here Are No Fewer Than Twenty, Cracked By Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
16. More Versatile Than The Whip Are The Wood Blocks.../Studio Example/...Which Crop Up All Over The Place In Twentieth-Century American Music.
17. Rodeo
18. Related To The Wood Blocks, By Sound, Are The Castanets./Jota Aragonesa/But The Castanets Were Also Used By Monteverdi Back In The Seventeenth Century.
19. Scherzi Musicali
20. A Still Earlier Example From Fifteenth-Century Spain
21. Yo M'Enamori D'Un Aire
22. The Birth Of The Bongo
23. Symphonic Dances From 'West Side Story'
24. From The Streets Of New York To The Blacksmith's Shop/Il Trovatore
25. Desert-Island Decibels: Grand Canyon Suite /Arcana
26. From One Vegetable To Another: The Humble Squash, Or Marrow/Huapango
27. Onwards To The Tuned Percussion. First, The Timpani
28. Also Sprach Zarathustra
29. But The Drum Roll Can Be More Effectively Frightening Than The Big Bang.: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection'
30. Not One Drum Roll, But Many/Grand Canyon Suite /Symphonie Fantastique
31. Taking Advantage Of Tunability
32. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste
33. The Russian Composer Rodion Shchedrin Takes A Downward Turn./Carmen Suite /Tuned, Yes; But For The Truly Melodic We Must Look Elsewhere.
34. Introducing The Glockenspiel/Carmen Suite
35. Saint-Saens And The Xylophone
36. The Carnival Of The Animals
37. Ravel And The Xylophone
38. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose
39. Introducing The Marimba/Carmen Suite
40. Introducing The Vibraphone
41. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
42. The Vibraphone Goes Russian.../Carmen Suite /...And Is Joined By The Marimba./Carmen Suite
43. Introducing The Hungarian Cimbalom
44. Folk Dances
45. The Cimbalom And The Symphony Orchestra
46. Hary Janos Suite
47. Introducing The Tubular Bells
48. Hary Janos Suite
49. A More 'Up-Front' Approach From Rodion Shchedrin
50. Carmen Suite
51. But The Bells Can Also Make The Sinister Even More Sinister./Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica'
52. Introducing The Celeste
53. The Nutcracker
54. Magic, In The Use Of Collective Percussion
55. Miroirs
56. Plucked Instruments: The 'Undercover Percussion'/Carmen Suite
57. A Prime Case In Point Is The Harp, Irresistible To The Romantics./The Nutcracker /The Non-Solo Harp As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Hungarian Rhapsody No.1
58. The Traditionally Subservient Role Of The Harpsichord In The Baroque Orchestra
59. Brandenburg Concerto No.2
60. The Piano: King Of The Tuned Percussion/Symphony No.3 'Organ' /And A Quarter Of A Century After That:
61. Petrushka
62. The Anti-Romantic Piano As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra
63. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste

Disc 6

1. Keyboard Instruments In The Orchestra - The Most Powerful Of Them All:
2. Symphony No.3 'Organ'
3. But Things In Handel's Day Were Very Different.
4. Organ Concerto In B Flat, Op.4 No.3
5. The Organ Is Difficult To Classify.
6. An Unexpected, Organ-related Guest
7. Concerto Pour Zampogna
8. Peasant-Fancying... And A Touch Of The Roaming Cowboy
9. Les Miserables
10. Outside Artefacts And The Power Of Association
11. Mahler's Sleighbells
12. Symphony No.4
13. A Roll-Call Of Some Unusual Guests/The Typewriter/Parade
14. Chains, And More/Integrales/An American In Paris/Sandpaper Ballet
15. Purpose-Built Oddities: Wind Machines/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica'
16. Don Quixote
17. National Calling Cards: The Guitar For Spain/Concierto De Aranjuez
18. And The Guitar's Poor American Relative, The Banjo/Washington Breakdown
19. And Poorer Still, The Mouth Organ/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
20. The Balalaika For Russia/Romeo And Juliet
21. The Maracas For Mexico/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
22. The Bongos And Congas And A Whole Wealth Of Other Drums For Africa And Central America/Studio Example
23. The Sitar Of India/Evening Raga: Bhapoli
24. The Accordion For France /Paris Canaille
25. The Zither For Vienna/The Third Man
26. The Cimbalom For Hungary/Folk Dances
27. The Guitar As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Rondena
28. There Are Whole Orchestras Of Balalaikas./Sveit Mesiats
29. The Effect Of The Wordless Human Voice, Used Purely As An Instrument/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica'
30. Nocturnes
31. Instruments And the Imitation Of Nature. The Clarinet As Cuckoo
32. The Carnival Of The Animals
33. The Flute As An All-purpose Aviary
34. The Carnival Of The Animals
35. The Oboe As Duck
36. Peter And The Wolf
37. The Recording Of Reality. Does It Work As Well?
38. The Pines Of Rome
39. The Recording Of Reality Electronically Reborn In New Guises
40. Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds And Orchesra
41. Beethoven Turns Avian: Cuckoo, Nightingale, And Quail
42. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral'
43. Some Improbable Casting: The Violin As Braying Donkey
44. The Carnival Of The Animals
45. A Truly Orchestral Hee-haw To Be Reckoned With
46. Overture To 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
47. A Thunderstorm In A Million
48. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral'
49. the Instrumental Depiction Of A Silent World
50. The Carnival Of The Animals
51. Saint-Saens' Menagerie Takes A Curtain Call.
52. The Carnival Of The Animals

Disc 7

1. The Grouping Of Instrumental Families. An Additive Approach. First, Two Violins
2. Forty-Four Duos
3. A Great Contrast, Of Both Pitch And Character: Violin And Viola
4. Duo For Violin And Viola In B Flat Major, K.424 /Studio Example
5. Arrival Of The Standard String Trio: Violin, Viola, And Cello
6. String Trio In B Flat
7. The String Quartet: Two Violins, Viola, And Cello
8. String Quartet In F, Op.18 No.1
9. The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Viola
10. String Quartet No.5 In D, K.593
11. The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Cello
12. String Quintet In C
13. The String Sextet: Two Violins, Two Violas, And Two Cellos
14. String Sextet In B Flat
15. The String Octet: The Standard String Quaret Times Two
16. Octet In E Flat, Op.20
17. Double The String Octet: A Fully Fledged String Orchestra
18. String Symphony No.2
19. The Massed Strings Of A Symphony Orchestra
20. Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis
21. Contrasts Of Pitch And Instrumental 'Colour' In The Woodwind Section
22. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5
23. In The First Variation It's The Horn That Gets The Lion's Share.
24. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 1
25. In Variation Two The Torch Is Handed To The Bassoon.
26. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 2
27. In Variation Three The Oboe Leads.
28. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 3
29. Variation Four: Conversation Before Returning To A Solo-dominated Texture
30. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 4
31. And Variation Five is Dominated By The Clarinet.
32. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 5
33. The Next To Be Featured Is The Virtuoso Flute.
34. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 6
35. Individual Farewells And A Closing Chorus
36. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 7
37. A Mixed Group: Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, String Quartet, And Double-Bass
38. Octet In F
39. The Early Classical Symphony Orchestra Of Haydn And Mozart
40. Symphony No.29 In A, K.201
41. Strings, Wind, But No Brass. What Haydn And Mozart Never Knew
42. Canzon 28
43. Beethoven's Fifth: Two Horns, Two Trumpets, And Three Trombones Join The Team.
44. Symphony No.5
45. From Beethoven To The Massive Orchestras Of Berlioz, Wagner, And Mahler
46. Beethoven Changed The Face Of The Symphony And The Orchestra Forever
47. Symphoy No.6 'Tragic'
48. The Cult Of Orchestral Elephantiasis Reaches Its Peak.
49. Symphony No.1 'Gothic'
50. When Large Doesn't Necessarily Mean Loud: Debussy
51. Images
52. A Crisis Of Confidence; The Orchestra's Survival Hangs In The Balance, But It Still Develops. The Ondes Martenot:
53. Turangalila Symphony
54. The Advent Of The 'Early Music' Movement Brings A New Vitality And Freshness.
55. Balle De Xerxes
56. Computer And Synthesiser: Friends Or Foes?
57. Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins
58. A Speculative Look Ahead/Mass In B Minor

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