Orchestral Favourites

This video brings together the most famous, beloved and iconic symphonic works, melodies which are engraved in the consciousness of everyone, the canon of classical music as the world knows it. Artists: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): More Information: Classical hits from one of the world’s great orchestras: a fabulous introduction to the world of music. Zadok the Priest was written in 1727 for the Coronation of King George II, but it’s now more familiar to millions of football fans as the anthem for the Champions League. You may never have listened to a Wagner opera, but if you’ve seen Apocalypse Now, you’ll know The Ride of the Valkyries. Composing a slow movement for a string quartet, Samuel Barber could hardly have imagined that his Adagio would tap so deeply into universal feelings of grief and refl