The Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World… Ever!
Jerzy Maksymiuk · Neville Marriner · Simon Rattle · Adrian Boult · Alceo Galliera · Bryden Thomson · City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra · Philharmonia Orchestra · Academy of St Martin in the Fields · English Chamber Orchestra
The Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World… Ever! (2000), CD, on EMI Classics. Music by Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Claude Debussy, performed by Jerzy Maksymiuk, Neville Marriner, Simon Rattle, Adrian Boult; 35 tracks.
Composers
Tracklist
Disc 1
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
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”
Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring) from Cantata No. 147 (arr. Hess)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desire, from BWV 147
Nocturne No. 2 in E‐flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne no. 2 in E‐flat major, op. 9 no. 2
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16: II. Adagio
Edvard Grieg - Concerto in A minor for Piano and Orchestra, op. 16
Waltz No. 9 in A‐flat major, Op. 69 No. 1
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – Variation 18
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43: Variation XVIII
Simon Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Cécile Ousset
Nocturne No. 5 in F‐sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne no. 5 in F‐sharp major, op. 15 no. 2: Larghetto
Etude in E ‘Tristesse’ Op. 10 No. 3
Frédéric Chopin - Étude in E major, op. 10 no. 3: Lento ma non troppo
Disc 2
Sonata for Piano No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique”: II. Adagio cantabile
Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata for Piano no. 8 in C minor, op. 13 “Pathétique”
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466: II. Romanza
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Piano no. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11: II. Romance – Larghetto
Frédéric Chopin - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 1 in E minor, op. 11: II. Romance. Larghetto
Jerzy Maksymiuk, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Garrick Ohlsson
Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor: Largo
Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto no. 5 for Keyboard and Orchestra in F minor, BWV 1056
Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Andrei Gavrilov
Nocturne No. 10 in A‐flat major
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne no. 10 in A‐flat major, op. 32 no. 2: Lento
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in E‐flat major, Op. 73 “Emperor”: II. Adagio un poco mosso
Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73 “Emperor”
Piano Concerto No. 2: Adagio sostenuto
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18
Simon Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Cécile Ousset