Every step is an end,  and every step is a fresh beginning. 
-Goethe

First Steps and Stepping Stones

The Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K. 525 was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787. The work is more commonly known by the title Eine kleine Nachtmusik. The German title means "a little serenade", though it is often rendered more literally but less accurately as "a little night music". The work is written for a chamber ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello with optional double bass, but is often performed by string orchestras.

Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Richard Wagner / Lohengrin-Prelude (Act I) - all VSL (strings are DS, Solo and Orchestral Strings)

Englebert Humperdinck - Overture to 'Hansel And Gretel' (arr. Matt Johnston)

Programmed using Vienna Symphonic Library tools

Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op. 46 / Morning Mood (performed using Vienna Symphonic Library)

Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Recorded at the Sydney Opera House on Friday 19 April 2015
Audio kindly supplied by Silver Partner ABC Classic FM

FRANCK Symphony in D minor: 3. Allegro non troppo

Russian National Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Pletnev
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 478 3616
Audio kindly supplied by Silver Partner Universal Music

BEETHOVEN Symphony No.1 in C, Op.21:  4th movement

David Loebel conducts the New England Conservatory Philharmonia in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony no 8 in F major, Op. 93. Recorded live in Jordan Hall, Boston November 4, 2015.

Beethoven: Symphony no 8 in F major, Op. 93 Allegro vivace

Wagner - Tristan und isolde prelude

Franz Schubert - String Quartet No.13 in A minor, 'Rosamunde', D.804 - I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo

Sam Van Hallgren explores Tchaikovsky's letters to Baroness von Meck regarding his Symphony No. 4. He talks with the Charlotte Symphony's Christopher Warren-Green.

Romance2Revolution - Tchaikovsky's Fourth

Dvorak - New World Symphony - Part One 4th Movement Dublin Philharmonic Conductor Derek Gleeson

David Loebel conducts the New England Conservatory Symphony in a performance of Schubert's  Symphony no 8 in B minor, D 759 "Unfinished". Recorded live February 1, 2012 in NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston.
For more info: http://necmusic.edu

Schubert: Symphony no 8 in B minor, D 759 "Unfinished"-  Allegro moderato

Richard Wagner/ Die Meistersinger Prelude
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic
Walter Morales, conductor
October 15, 2004
Great Hall of the College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University
Oakland, Pittsburgh

Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger Prelude

PI Tchaikovsky's Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy, my favourite Christmas music piece.

Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, III. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy

Royal Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra directed or conducted by Mark Wigglesworth, Concertgebouw Amsterdam 6 January 2013. (iPhone voice memos - live recorded)

Richard Wagner Overture Tannhäuser

Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 1, op.2 by Stephanie Zhou 2013 - Solo Grand Piano Recital (Classical)

Peter and the Wolf - Prokofiev
Narrator: Dr. Michael Fend.
Ensemble Novus, conducted by Bertram Yap.
As recorded in 'Ensemble Novus Presents: Peter & the Wolf' at the Great Hall, KCL, 19/3/2013.

First Steps and Stepping Stones

Jonah Freed The Slaves