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

Leonard Bernstein · Philippe Entremont · Carlo Maria Giulini · Esa-Pekka Salonen · George Szell · Gunther Schuller · Isaac Stern · José Buenagu · Leon Fleisher · Milton Katims

Sony Masterworks1995Cat. 481392 21h 45m17 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

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

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

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, Leon Fleisher, Cleveland Orchestra

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

6:47

09

Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez

Joaquín Rodrigo - Concierto de Aranjuez

José Buenagu, Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, John Williams

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