The Big Classical Music Pieces XIX

George Frideric Handel, Germany and England, Baroque style, born 1685

Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Handel’s oratorio Solomon

A chamber orchestra plays it in a beautiful Dresden church (nice)

An all-female orchestra plays it (from :48)

A saxophone quartet plays it (note the four types of sax: soprano, alto, tenor,

and baritone)

A flute quartet plays it

Johann Sebastian Bach, Germany, Baroque style, born 1685 (same as Handel!)

Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, first movement (“Allegro Moderato”)

A baroque orchestra plays it

Another baroque orchestra plays it

Sergei Prokofiev, Russia,Romantic style, born 1891

Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf

The classic Disney version, Part 1 and Part 2 (turn up sound)

The more recent animated version

The End