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Café Classics: Music for Reflecting, Relaxing and Watching the World Go By

Leonard Bernstein · Cannonball Adderley · Carlo Maria Giulini · Esa-Pekka Salonen · George Szell · Gil Evans · Gunther Schuller · Isaac Stern · John Williams · José Buenagu

Sony Masterworks1995Cat. 481392 21h 45m17 tracks

Café Classics: Music for Reflecting, Relaxing and Watching the World Go By (1995), CD, on Sony Masterworks. Music by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Frédéric Chopin, Antonio Vivaldi, performed by Leonard Bernstein, Cannonball Adderley, Carlo Maria Giulini, Esa-Pekka Salonen; 17 tracks.

Composers

Claude Debussy3 Maurice Ravel3 Frédéric Chopin2 Antonio Vivaldi1 George Gershwin1 Giuseppe Verdi1 Heitor Villa-Lobos1 Jean Sibelius1 Joaquín Rodrigo1 Johann Sebastian Bach1 Ludwig van Beethoven1 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1

Tracklist

Disc 1

02

"Dawn" from Daphnis et Chloe

Maurice Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé, Suite no. 2

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic

5:40

04

La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune

Claude Debussy - Préludes, Livre II, L. 123

4:23

06

“Summertime”

George Gershwin - Summertime

Cannonball Adderley, Gil Evans, Gunther Schuller

3:20

07

Pavane pour une Infante defunte

Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte

Philippe Entremont

6:27

08

Andantino from String Quartet

Giuseppe Verdi - Quartetto in E minor

Robert Mann, Joel Krosnick

7:04

09

Prélude à l’après‐midi d’un faune

Claude Debussy - Prélude à l’après‐midi d’un faune, L. 86, CD 87

Carlo Maria Giulini, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

10:49

10

Allegro from String Serenade

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings in C major, op. 48

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic

11:09

11

“Rain” from “The Four Seasons: Winter”

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in F minor, op. 8 no. 4, RV 297 “L’inverno”

Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, János Rolla, Jean-Pierre Rampal

1:58

12

“Raindrop” Prelude

Frédéric Chopin - Prélude no. 15 in D‐flat major, op. 28 “Raindrop”: Sostenuto

Cyprien Katsaris

6:02

Disc 2

02

Prelude from English Suite no. 2

Johann Sebastian Bach - Englische Suite Nr. 2 a-Moll, BWV 807

4:31

04

Nocturne, op. 9 no. 1

Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne no. 1 in B‐flat minor, op. 9 no. 1: Larghetto

4:56

05

Adagio from “Emperor” Piano Concerto

Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73 “Emperor”

George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra, Leon Fleisher

8:25

06

Jean Sibelius - Valse triste, op. 44 no. 1

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

4:30

07

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras nº 5, W389

Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Netania Davrath

6:47

09

Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez

Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez

John Williams, José Buenagu, Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra

10:56

11

Oiseaux tristes

Maurice Ravel - Miroirs

Philippe Entremont

4:02

12

Claude Debussy - Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune

Isaac Stern, Milton Katims, Columbia Symphony Orchestra

4:44