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Adagio: A Special Two-Hour Collection of Orchestral Classics

Neville Marriner · Claude Monteux · Georg Solti · George Szell · István Kertész · Piero Gamba · Pierre Monteux · Raymond Agoult · Richard Bonynge · Robert Thurston Dart

Decca Records1984Cat. 66.282711h 49m15 tracks
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Adagio: A Special Two-Hour Collection of Orchestral Classics (1984), CD, on Decca Records. Music by Edvard Grieg, Edward Elgar, Jules Massenet, Antonín Dvořák, performed by Neville Marriner, Claude Monteux, Georg Solti, George Szell; 15 tracks.

Composers

Edvard Grieg2Edward Elgar2Jules Massenet2Antonín Dvořák1Christoph Willibald von Gluck1George Frideric Handel1Giuseppe Martucci1Gustav Mahler1Johann Sebastian Bach1Maurice Ravel1Ralph Vaughan Williams1Samuel Barber1

Tracklist

Disc 1

01

Adagio From Piano Concerto in G major

Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G major

István Kertész, London Symphony Orchestra, Julius Katchen

9:30
02

Largo From Xerxes

George Frideric Handel - Serse, HWV 40: Atto I, no. 2. Arioso “Ombra mai fù” (Serse)

George Szell, London Symphony Orchestra

5:30
03

Air From Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068

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

Neville Marriner, Robert Thurston Dart, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

5:13
05

Invocation From Les Erinnyes

Jules Massenet - Les Érinnyes

Richard Bonynge, London Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Cummings

4:57
06

Elegy, op. 58

Edward Elgar - Elegy, op. 58

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

4:28
07

Solveigs Lied From Peer Gynt

Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite no. 2, op. 55

Walter Weller, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

4:02
08

Notturno, op. 70 no. 1

Giuseppe Martucci - 2 notturni, op. 70: No. 1 in G-flat major. Moderato

Piero Gamba, London Symphony Orchestra

6:35
09

Largo From Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 (New World)

Antonín Dvořák - Symfonie č. 9 e moll, op. 95 „Z Nového světa“

Zubin Mehta, Los Angeles Philharmonic

11:25

Disc 2

01

Dance of Blessed Spirits From Orfeo ed Euridice

Christoph Willibald von Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30: Ballet in D minor “Dance of the Blessed Spirits”

Claude Monteux, Pierre Monteux, London Symphony Orchestra

9:10
02

Dernier sommeil de la vierge From La Vierge

Jules Massenet - La Vierge: Scene 4. The Assumption: Dernier sommeil de la Vierge

Raymond Agoult, New Symphony Orchestra

4:54
03

Letzter Frühling, op. 34 no. 2 From Zwei elegische Melodien

Edvard Grieg - To elegiske melodier, op. 34: No. 2. Våren

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

5:29
04

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

15:09
05

Adagietto From Symphony no. 5 in C-sharp minor

Gustav Mahler - Symphony no. 5

Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

9:50
06

Adagio for Strings

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

8:39
07

Sospiri, op. 70

Edward Elgar - Sospiri, op. 70

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

4:52