Your Hundred Best Tunes: The Top 20
Georg Solti · Vladimir Ashkenazy · George Guest · Neville Marriner · André Previn · Carlo Franci · Gervase de Peyer · Gianandrea Gavazzeni · Karl Münchinger · Lamberto Gardelli
Your Hundred Best Tunes: The Top 20 (1994), CD, on Decca Classics. Music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Frideric Handel, Giuseppe Verdi, performed by Georg Solti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, George Guest, Neville Marriner; 20 tracks.
Composers
Tracklist
Disc 1
Giuseppe Verdi - Aida: Atto II, scena 2. Gran Finale II “Gloria all’Egitto, ad Iside” (Popolo, Sacerdoti)
Carlo Franci, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Piano Concerto no. 5 "Emperor": 3rd movement
Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73 “Emperor”
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)
George Frideric Handel - Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. Sinfonia “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba”
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Cantata no. 147)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Kantate, BWV 147 “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben”: Teil II, X. Choral “Jesus bleibet meine Freude”
George Guest, Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Peter Gilbert White
Jules Massenet - Thaïs: Acte II. Entr’acte “Méditation”
Nigel Kennedy, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618
George Guest, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
Ode to Joy (Symphony no. 9 "Choral")
Ludwig van Beethoven - Ode an die Freude
Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus
Disc 2
George Frideric Handel - Messiah, HWV 56: Part II, no. 44. Chorus: “Hallelujah”
László Heltay, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Piano Concerto no. 21 "Elvira Madigan": 2nd movement
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Piano no. 21 in C major, K. 467
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Nabucco)
Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco: Parte III, scena 2. Coro “Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” (Coro)
Lamberto Gardelli, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor