It’s time to start thinking about making your choices for KDFC’s Classical All-Stars… you can vote until December 31. But with so many to choose from (here’s the link to the full ballot, and you can always write-in works if your favorites are missing) maybe this little montage might remind you of a title or two you’ve forgotten.
A KDFC Classical All-Stars Montage
Here’s a list of the pieces in the montage (click and scroll over the space below to reveal the names):
- Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (Simple Gifts)
- Aram Khachaturian: Adagio from Spartacus
- Leo Delibes: Lakme “Flower Duet”
- Edvard Grieg: “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from the Peer Gynt Suite
- Antonin Dvorak: Cello Concerto
- Georges Bizet: “Seguidilla” from Carmen
- Franz Schubert: “Trout” Quintet (mvt. 4: Theme and Variations)
- Giacomo Puccini: “Nessun Dorma” from Turandot
- Sergei Prokofiev: “Dance of the Knights” from Romeo and Juliet
- Bedrich Smetana: “The Moldau” from Ma Vlast
- George Frideric Handel: “Largo” from Xerxes
- Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Guitar in D Major
- Hector Berlioz: “Un Bal” from Symphonie Fantastique
- George Gershwin: An American in Paris
- Gustav Holst: “Jupiter” from The Planets
