Masters of the Classical Period

8 hours of great music by 10 leading composers

“A black-clad figure which seemed to have ascended from Hades”  is how Heinrich Heine described Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini.  As a sickly four-year-old he was thought dead, wrapped in a shroud and almost buried alive.  By 16, he had to pawn his violin to cover his gambling losses.

The second violin concerto, called ‘La Campanella’, composed by Niccolò Paganini at the peak of his career, is just one of the 26 works, almost 80 tracks, included in this unique compilation of 8 hours of great music from the Classical Period.

imagineear has worked with musicologists and experts from the renowned music publisher Classical.com to bring you works of 10 of the great composers from this period:  Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Paganini, Schubert, Rossini, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, Donizetti, Gluck and Boccherini.  Orchestral works, solo concertos, chamber music, piano solos, opera overtures and a sprinkling of arias provide a thorough tour d’horizon of the music composed in this period.  The selection will appeal both to classical music lovers and to listeners who are just starting to discover the defining musical masterworks of this period.

There are two ways to purchase this product.

Music Player Package

Our unique, ready-to-play pre-loaded music player package containing:

• Your personal, reusable MP3 player (the audioPorter™) with 1GB memory;

• Earphones for two people to listen simultaneously;

• An attractive 8-page booklet with anecdotes on each composer and a short track list (in pdf format);

• Extended biographies of the ten composers (in pdf format);

• A detailed track list (in pdf format); and

• The complete sheet music (in pdf format)for Mozart’s Piano concerto no. 20 in D minor, KV 466.

As a download, the offer comprises:

• The playlist, containing 76 audio tracks;

• An attractive 8-page booklet with anecdotes on each of the composers and a short track list (in pdf format);

• Extended biographies of the ten composers (in pdf format);

• A detailed track list (in pdf format); and

• The complete sheet music (in pdf format)for Mozart’s Piano concerto no. 20 in D minor, KV 466.