Galante Era

The Galante Era, broadly spanning the 18th century, marks a period in Western classical music that emphasized elegance, accessibility, and a graceful melodic simplicity. It arose as a reaction against the complex, highly ornamented baroque style, favoring instead a clear and lyrical line, homophonic textures, and a refined expressiveness aimed at pleasing the senses. Connecting with the broader Enlightenment ideals of clarity and natural beauty, the music of this era showcased composers like Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Christoph Willibald Gluck, who made significant contributions with their more intuitive, emotive approach that paved the way for the Classical era. The Galante style is often characterized by a conversational interplay among instruments, lightness in form and ornamentation, and a focus on the aesthetic of courtly sophistication.

Bach: Magnificat - Vivaldi: Gloria - Handel: Water Music - Mozart: Toy Symphony & Laudate Dominum - Boccherini: Minuet - Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee & Other Classical Hits

Sir Neville Marriner•

Alexander Borodin•

Antonio Vivaldi•

Edvard Grieg•

Franz Lehár•

Franz Schubert•

Franz von Suppé•

Frederick Delius•

Georg Philipp Telemann•

George Frideric Handel•

Georges Bizet•

Gioachino Rossini•

Giuseppe Tartini•

Gustav Holst•

Hector Berlioz•

Henry Purcell•

Igor Stravinsky•

Johann Sebastian Bach•

Joseph Haydn•

Jules Massenet•

Leopold Mozart•

Ludwig van Beethoven•

Luigi Boccherini•

Manuel de Falla•

Marc-Antoine Charpentier•

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov•

Ottorino Respighi•

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky•

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Album - 56 Tracks - Released July 28, 2025