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Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565a (1704 and the 1740s) – Johann Sebastian Bach 

The Toccata and Fugue in D minor is a haunting organ work that can sound as if the organist is playing the entire building. It is easy to imagine how overwhelming it would be to hear this music in a…

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The Hebrides (Overture) 1833 – Felix Mendelssohn

I had left Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides out of my music project, perhaps because I’d heard its opening so often in popular culture that I dismissed it as just another overplayed classical motif – much like his famous Wedding March. But…

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