The Best of Joseph Haydn

Eighteen Downright Bizarre Classical Music Facts

How many pieces of wood in a violin? What's the most expensive opera costume of all time? Which orchestra was booked to sail on the Titanic? Discover these random, bizarre and thoroughly interesting facts from the world of classical music.

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Haydn's skull

There are two skulls in Haydn’s tomb. His head was stolen by phrenologists and a replacement skull was put in his tomb. In 1954, the real skull was restored but the substitute was not removed.

James Last & His Orchestra - The Blue Danube (Strauss) [1990].wmv

James Last Once on a Sunday Morning - HM

Camille Saint-Saëns - Le Carnaval des animaux, The Carnival Of The Anima...

Let's do it : Cole Porter.( Midnight in Paris )

Georg Friedrich Händel: Feuerwerksmusik/Fireworks Music

Lang Lang —— BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 - Klavierkonzert Nr. 5

Brahms: Violinkonzert ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Hilary Hahn ∙ Paavo Järvi

Anton Dvorak - Romance for piano and violin, Op.11

The Great Conductors in Rehearsal

Those intense rehearsal moments captured - with history's finest conductors and composers at the podium.

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Riccardo Chailly

(C) Classic FM London

Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (Orchestra version)

Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto E Minor OP.64 (Full Length) : Hilary Hahn

Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No 1 b-flat minor / Martha Argerich, piano

Carl Zeller - His Music and His Life

The Austrian Carl Zeller was born on June 19, 1842 in St. Peter in der Au. He became a Viennese vocalist boy and later a jurist. Since 1873, Zeller was art consultant of the Austrian Department of Education. Music remained just as a hobby during that time.

Then suddenly, Carl Zeller started composing mall chorals, a comique opera and begun with operettas sometime in 1890. 1891, Zeller succeeded his "Der Vogelhaendler" ("The Birdseller"), followed by "Der Obersteiger" ("The Upper Foreman", in 1894). Those operettas became musical universal history because of enticing traditionalism.

In some compositions Zeller showed a terrible sentimental Austrian mawkishness. He passed away in Baden nearby Vienna on August 17, 1898.