MIDI sequences of classical orchestral pieces – why? In this age of CD and MP3 and god knows what that will finally take over from both, why revert to something like a player piano? Well, for fun basically. I enjoy sequencing; it gives me a chance to ‘conduct’, though it started with accompaniments for me to play the clarinet to. As to why anyone else should want to hear them, well, that’s up to you! Certainly the success of sites like the Classical MIDI Archives suggests that someone’s interested. In my case, it was buying an SB Live that persuaded me it was possible to get something approaching music out of MIDI (and I know you can get closer still by spending more), so I’m still trying to see how close I can get.
Sinfonia soundfont – version 3.6 (April 2003): Fellow Audigy 2 users, and others with soundfont-capable synths: it’s important to have suitable soundfonts to hear these sequences at their best. Why not try out my orchestral compilation Sinfonia?
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
8:11
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Overture to Goethe’s Egmont, Op. 84
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
8:34
(177k)
3:51
(45k)
5:44
(69k)
6:54
(139k)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
13:45
(242k)
Tragic Overture for Orchestra in D minor, Op. 81
Josef Haydn (1732-1809)
Symphony no. 76 in E flat major, Hob. I:76
5:38
(86k)
6:58
(67k)
8:13
(78k)
version including first-section repeat
3:15
(52k)
5:48
(81k)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Symphony no. 34 in C major, K.338
7:05
(108k)
7:12
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II. Andante di molto (più tosto allegretto)
5:16
(97k)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Symphony no. 1 in G minor, FS 16, Op. 7
9:35
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6:38
(111k)
8:07
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III. Allegro comodo - Andante sostenuto - Tempo I
Symphony no. 2 (‘The Four Temperaments’), FS 29, Op. 16
9:13
(241k)
4:25
(39k)
II. Allegro comodo e flemmatico
11:04
(134k)
7:12
(127k)
Little Suite for String Orchestra, FS 6, Op. 1
3:28
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I. Präludium: Andante con moto
5:31
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II. Intermezzo: Allegro moderato
6:49
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III. Finale: Andante con moto - Allegro con brio
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927)
Serenade for Orchestra in F major, Op. 31
6:39
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Thomas Tallis (c.1505-1585)
9:02
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Spem in alium: Motet in Forty Parts (n.b. requires 32 channels)
Sequences posted here are copyright Jeremy Dimmick. You are welcome to modify my arrangements for your own use, but please don’t distribute them except in their original form, and free of charge. Please contact me first if you want to use any sequence for some nefarious purpose of your own warped devising.
