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Assorted Images: Virgin Classics Compact Disc Sampler 1988

Andrew Litton · Carl Davis · Colin Davis · Diego Masson · Dmitry Sitkovetsky · Leonard Slatkin · Libor Pešek · Michael Tippett · Mikhail Pletnev · Philip Brunelle

Virgin Classics1988Cat. 259 34249m12 tracks

Composers

Aaron Copland1 Benjamin Britten1 Camille Saint-Saëns1 Carl Maria von Weber1 Edward Elgar1 Ernő Dohnányi1 John Jacob Niles1 Joseph Haydn1 Michael Tippett1 Sergei Prokofiev1 Sergei Rachmaninoff1 William Walton1

Tracklist

01

Portsmouth Point Overture

William Walton - Portsmouth Point Overture

Leonard Slatkin

5:20

02

Prologue From ’Paul Bunyan’ (excerpt)

Benjamin Britten - Paul Bunyan, op. 17: Prologue. It isn't very often the conservatives are wrong...

Philip Brunelle

3:11

04

Black Is the Colour

John Jacob Niles - Folk Songs

2:49

05

Adagio Cantabile From Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Michael Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Michael Tippett, Scottish Chamber Orchestra

9:25

06

Scherzo Vivacissimo From Violin Concerto No. 1

Sergei Prokofiev - Violin Concerto no. 1 in D major, op. 19

Colin Davis, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, London Symphony Orchestra

4:04

10

Menuet From Symphony No. 26

Joseph Haydn - Symphony no. 26 in D minor, Hob. I:26 “Lamentatione”

Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande

3:42

11

Rondo: Allegretto From Clarinet Concerto No. 1

Carl Maria von Weber - Konzert für Klarinette und Orchester Nr. 1 in f-Moll, op. 73

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

6:21

12

Camille Saint-Saëns - Le Carnaval des animaux

2:35

13

Ernő Dohnányi - Four Piano Pieces, op. 2: No. 4. Capriccio: Presto, agitato

2:25

16

Nimrod From the Enigma Variations

Edward Elgar - Variations on an Original Theme (‘Enigma’), op. 36

Andrew Litton, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

3:48

17

18th Variation From Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43: Variation XVIII

Libor Pešek, Mikhail Pletnev, Philharmonia Orchestra

3:13

18

Fanfare for the Common Man

Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man

3:08