The #1 Classical Album
Karl Münchinger · Herbert von Karajan · Neville Marriner · Riccardo Chailly · Vladimir Ashkenazy · Willi Boskovsky · Charles Dutoit · Georg Solti · Richard Bonynge · Zubin Mehta
The #1 Classical Album (2002), CD, on Decca Classics. Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonín Dvořák, performed by Karl Münchinger, Herbert von Karajan, Neville Marriner, Riccardo Chailly; 35 tracks.
Composers
Tracklist
Disc 1
William Tell Overture - Finale
Gioachino Rossini - William Tell Overture: Finale, March of the Swiss Soldiers (allegro vivace)
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: I. Morning
Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt, op. 23: 4. akt, prelude: Morgenstemning
Eduardo Di Capua - ’O sole mio
Giancarlo Chiaramello, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Luciano Pavarotti
Suite #2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 - Badinerie
Johann Sebastian Bach - Orchestersuite Nr. 2 h-Moll, BWV 1067
Karl Münchinger, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Wolfgang Schulz
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 “Elvira Madigan”: II. Andante
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Piano no. 21 in C major, K. 467
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26: Adagio
Serenade No. 13 in G major, K. 525 “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”: I. Allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Serenade no. 13 for Strings in G major, K. 525 „Eine kleine Nachtmusik“
Waltz for Piano in D Flat, Op. 64/1, CT 212, “Minute”
Frédéric Chopin - Waltz no. 6 in D‐flat major, op. 64 no. 1 “Minute Waltz”
Cantata #208, BWV 208, “Hunting Cantata” - Sheep May Safely Graze
Johann Sebastian Bach - Kantate, BWV 208 “Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!”
Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Barcarolle
Jacques Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Acte III. Entracte (Orchestre) - "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (Barcarolle) (une voix, Giulietta, Chœur)
Disc 2
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, William Bennett
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in E major, op. 8 no. 1, RV 269 “La primavera”
Neville Marriner, Simon Preston, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Johann Pachelbel - Canon and Gigue in D major, P. 37, T. 337
Karl Münchinger, Martin Haselböck, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight”: I. Adagio sostenuto
Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata for Piano no. 14 in C‐sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 “Moonlight”
‘New World’ Symphony (II Largo excerpt)
Antonín Dvořák - Symfonie č. 9 e moll, op. 95 „Z Nového světa“
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Щелкунчик, op. 71: Действие II, Картина III, no. 14c. Па-де-де: Вариация II: Танец Феи Драже
Solomon (Arrival of the Queen of Sheba)
George Frideric Handel - Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. Sinfonia “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba”