Classic Moods

The Swan of Tuonela

Jean Sibelius - Lemminkäis-sarja (Neljä legendaa), op. 22

Horst Stein, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Adagio from String Quintet in C major, D. 956 (excerpt)

Franz Schubert - String Quintet in C major, D. 956

Miklós Perényi

Elegiac Melody no. 2 (The Last Spring)

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

Willi Boskovsky, National Philharmonic Orchestra

Elegy for Strings

Edward Elgar - Elegy, op. 58

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Adagio from Piano Sonata in D, K. 576

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata for Piano no. 18 in D major, K. 576 "Trumpet", "Hunt"

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Andante from Concerto in D minor for Oboe and Strings

Alessandro Marcello - Concerto per oboe, archi e continuo in re minore, S D935

Heinz Holliger, I Musici

Adagio for Strings

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

David Zinman, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Andante from Guitar Concerto in D, RV 93

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto for Lute in D major, RV 93

English Chamber Orchestra, Eduardo Fernández, George Malcolm

The Infinate Complexities of Christmas (From the Film "Carrington")

Michael Nyman - Carrington: The infinite complexities of Christmas

Michael Nyman, Nicholas Ward, Jamie Talbot

Sospiri for Strings, Harp and Organ

Edward Elgar - Sospiri, op. 70

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Aria from "Goldberg Variations"

Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988

András Schiff

Romance from The Gadfly

Dmitri Shostakovich - The Gadfly Suite, op. 97a

Owain Arwel Hughes, The Hallé

Adagio from Fantasia for a gentleman

Joaquín Rodrigo - Fantasía para un gentilhombre

Charles Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Prelude to the afternoon of a faun (opening)

Claude Debussy - Prélude à l’après‐midi d’un faune, L. 86, CD 87

Charles Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Love's dream after the ball

Alphons Czibulka - Love's Dream After the Ball, op. 356

Richard Bonynge, London Symphony Orchestra

Barcarolle

Jacques Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Acte III. Entracte (Orchestre) - "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (Barcarolle) (une voix, Giulietta, Chœur)

Richard Bonynge, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

Adagio from Third Symphony (opening)

Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony no. 3 in C minor “avec orgue”, op. 78

Charles Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Peter Hurford

Prelude to Le Villi

Giacomo Puccini - Le Villi: Atto I. Preludio

Riccardo Chailly, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Aladdin's dream and dance of the morning mist

Carl Nielsen - Aladdin Suite, op. 34

Herbert Blomstedt, San Francisco Symphony

Sicilenne

Gabriel Fauré - Pelléas et Mélisande, op. 80

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Adagietto from Fifth symphony

Gustav Mahler - Symphony no. 5

Zubin Mehta, Los Angeles Philharmonic

Intermezzo and Serenade from Hassan

Frederick Delius - Hassan Suite: Intermezzo

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Andante from Second piano concerto

Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto no. 2 in F major, op. 102

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Ecstasy

Henri Duparc - Extase

Leopold Stokowski, London Symphony Orchestra

Intermezzo from Carmen

Georges Bizet - Carmen Suite no. 1

Charles Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Orchestra

Last sleep of the virgin

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

Raymond Agoult, New Symphony Orchestra

Adagio from Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 (conclusion)

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony no. 2 in E minor, op. 27

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra