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The No. 1 Classical Album

Herbert von Karajan · Neville Marriner · Riccardo Chailly · Frederick Fennell · Leonard Bernstein · Zubin Mehta · Barry Wordsworth · Elgar Howarth · Georg Solti · Gianandrea Gavazzeni

PolyGram TV1996Cat. 456 195-22h 2m36 tracks

Composers

Tracklist

Disc 1

01

Giacomo Puccini - Turandot: Atto III, scena 1. Aria “Nessun dorma” (Calaf)

John Alldis, Zubin Mehta

3:00

02

Overture from The Marriage of Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Sinfonia

4:20

03

Dies irae from Requiem (exc)

Giuseppe Verdi - Messa da requiem: IIa. Dies irae: Dies irae (coro)

Herbert von Karajan, Walter Hagen-Groll, Vienna Philharmonic

2:21

04

Ride of the Valkyries

Richard Wagner - Excerpt from Die Walküre, WWV 86B: Akt III, Scene I, Walkürenritt

Georg Solti, Vienna Philharmonic

3:06

05

Spring from The Four Seasons (exc)

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in E major, op. 8 no. 1, RV 269 “La primavera”

Iona Brown, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

3:19

06

Jules Massenet - Thaïs: Acte II. Entr’acte “Méditation”

Nigel Kennedy, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra

5:42

07

Air on a G String

Johann Sebastian Bach - Orchestersuite Nr. 3 D-Dur, BWV 1068

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

4:41

08

Ode to Joy from Symphony no. 9

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 in D minor, op. 125 “Choral”

Leonard Bernstein, Vienna Philharmonic

2:49

09

Badinerie from Orchestral Suite no. 2

Johann Sebastian Bach - Orchestersuite Nr. 2 h-Moll, BWV 1067

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

1:34

10

Johann Pachelbel - Canon and Gigue in D major, P. 37, T. 337

Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic

5:08

11

Jacques Offenbach - Gaîté parisienne

Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic

3:36

12

Prelude from Suite no. 1

Johann Sebastian Bach - Orchestersuite Nr. 1 C-Dur, BWV 1066

2:24

13

Organ Symphony (exc)

Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony no. 3 in C minor “avec orgue”, op. 78

Myung-whun Chung, Michael Matthes

3:09

14

Cello Concerto (extract from 1st movement)

Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85

Yehudi Menuhin, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber

3:34

15

Overture to The Force of Destiny (exc)

Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino: Sinfonia

3:24

16

The Flight of the Bumble Bee

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Полёт шмеля

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philharmonia Orchestra

1:20

18

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on “Greensleeves”

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

4:47

19

Romance from The Gadfly

Dmitri Shostakovich - The Gadfly, op. 97

Riccardo Chailly, Philadelphia Orchestra

3:01

20

Zadok the Priest

George Frideric Handel - The Four Coronation Anthems: “Zadok the Priest”, HWV 258

Simon Preston, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert

5:17

21

O Fortuna from Carmina Burana

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

Riccardo Chailly, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

2:36

Disc 2

01

Also sprach Zarathustra

Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30

Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic

1:40

02

Concierto de Aranjuez (exc)

Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

5:19

03

Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo

Gianandrea Gavazzeni, National Philharmonic Orchestra

3:15

04

Jacques Offenbach - Orphée aux Enfers: Acte II, Scene 2. Galop Infernal

Paul Paray, Detroit Symphony Orchestra

2:07

05

Aria (Cantilena)

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras nº 5, W389

3:30

06

Prelude from The Birds

Ottorino Respighi - Gli uccelli, P. 154

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

2:50

07

Dmitri Shostakovich - Suite for Variety Orchestra

Riccardo Chailly, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

3:44

08

Symphony no. 3 (extract from 2nd movement)

Henryk Górecki - Symphony no. 3, op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"

Kazimierz Kord, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra

4:29

11

Leroy Anderson - The Typewriter

Frederick Fennell, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

1:44

12

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Variations 1–4

Barry Wordsworth, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Julian Lloyd Webber

3:14

13

Entry of the Gladiators

Julius Fučík - Vjezd gladiátorů, op. 68

Elgar Howarth, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

3:01

14

America from West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein - West Side Story: America

Leonard Bernstein

2:29

16

Pie Jesu from Requiem

Andrew Lloyd Webber - Requiem: Pie Jesu

James Lancelot, Lorin Maazel, Martin Neary

3:56

18

John Philip Sousa - The Liberty Bell

Frederick Fennell

3:28

20

Star Wars Theme

John Williams - Main Title

5:39

21

Eduardo Di Capua - ’O sole mio

Plácido Domingo, Zubin Mehta, Stabile Orchestrale Fiorentina

2:44