The Essential Guide to Classics
Colin Davis · Kurt Masur · Bernard Haitink · Eliahu Inbal · Frans Brüggen · Heinz Holliger · Jeffrey Tate · John Eliot Gardiner · José Luis García Asensio · Kirill Kondrashin
The Essential Guide to Classics (1992), CD, on Philips. Music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Edward Elgar, Francis Poulenc, performed by Colin Davis, Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink, Eliahu Inbal; 19 tracks.
Composers
Tracklist
Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
George Frideric Handel - Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. Sinfonia “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba”
Dido and Aeneas: Thy hand, Belinda: When I am laid in earth
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 37. Ground, Aria and Ritornello “When I am laid in earth” (Dido)
José Luis García Asensio, Raymond Leppard, English Chamber Orchestra
Concerto a cinque in D minor, no. 2: Allegro
Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K550: Molto allegro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K. 550 “Great”
Piano concerto in A, K448: Adagio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 23 in A major, K. 488
Symphony no. 94 in G "Surprise": Finale. Allegro di molto
Joseph Haydn - Symphony no. 94 in G major, Hob. I:94 “Surprise”
Piano Concerto no. 5 in E-flat, op. 73: Adagio
Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73 “Emperor”
Symphony no.6 in F, op. 68 "Pastoral": Lustiges zusammensein der Landleute (Allegro)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68 "Pastoral", S. 464 no. 6
Piano Quintet in A, D667 "Trout": Andantino (Tema con variazioni)
Piano concerto no. 1 in E minor, op.11: Romance. Larghetto
Frédéric Chopin - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in E minor, op. 11
Giuseppe Verdi - Il trovatore: Atto III, scena 2. “Di quella pira l’orrendo foco” (Manrico, Leonora, Ruiz, armed men)
Colin Davis, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, José Carreras
Variations on an original theme, op. 36: Nimrod
Edward Elgar - Variations on an Original Theme (‘Enigma’), op. 36
Piano concerto no. 2 in A: Allegro animato
Franz Liszt - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 2 in A major, S. 125
Kirill Kondrashin, London Symphony Orchestra, Sviatoslav Richter
Nutcracker Suite, op. 71a: March
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker (suite from the ballet), op. 71a