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Awesome Classics

Erich Kunzel · Walter Susskind · Alfred Scholz · Andrew Schenck · Donald Johanos · Frank Shipway · Hans Hagen · Harold Farberman · Heinrich Hollreiser · Jerzy Semkow

Vox2002Cat. SPJ 901041h 56m26 tracks

Awesome Classics (2002), CD, on Vox. Music by Giacomo Puccini, Gustav Holst, Johann Sebastian Bach, Aaron Copland, performed by Erich Kunzel, Walter Susskind, Alfred Scholz, Andrew Schenck; 26 tracks.

Composers

Tracklist

Disc 1

01

Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

Camille Saint-Saëns - Le Carnaval des animaux

Jörg Faerber, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn

3:10

03

Ave Maria (Arr'd from Bach Prelude in C)

Johann Sebastian Bach - Ave Maria

2:58

04

Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana)

Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo

London Symphony Orchestra

3:31

06

Hungarian Dance No.5

Johannes Brahms - 21 Hungarian Dances for Orchestra, WoO 1: No. 5 in G minor (Allegro)

Alfred Scholz, unknown composer author, Berliner Symphoniker

2:23

09

Night on Bald Mountain

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - A Night on the Bare Mountain

Leonard Slatkin, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

4:04

10

Gustav Holst - The Planets, op. 32

Walter Susskind, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

7:53

11

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

Andrew Schenck, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

9:11

13

Libera Me Domine

Gabriel Fauré - Requiem, op. 48

5:03

14

Adagietto (Symphony No.5)

Gustav Mahler - Symphony no. 5

Harold Farberman, London Symphony Orchestra

12:09

Disc 2

01

Fanfare for the Common Man

Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man

Donald Johanos, Dallas Symphony Orchestra

2:34

02

William Tell Overture (Finale)

Gioachino Rossini - William Tell Overture: Finale, March of the Swiss Soldiers (allegro vivace)

Thomas Schippers, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

3:41

03

Overture to Die Meistersinger

Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96: Vorspiel

Jerzy Semkow, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

9:50

04

Polovitsian Dances (Excerpt)

Alexander Borodin - Polovtsian Dances

Heinrich Hollreiser, Vienna Symphony

4:56

05

Hungarian Dance No.2

Franz Liszt - 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies, S. 244 / R. 106: No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S. 244 no. 2

4:38

06

Stars and Stripes Forever

John Philip Sousa - The Stars and Stripes Forever

3:40

07

Habanera from Carmen

Georges Bizet - Carmen : Acte I. No. 5 Habanera « L’amour est un oiseau rebelle » (Carmen, chœur)

2:14

09

Oboe Concerto in D minor (II Andante e spiccato)

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

Paul Angerer, Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Hucke

3:46

10

Un Bel Di from Madama Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Un bel dì, vedremo” (Butterfly)

Paul Popescu, Philharmonia Orchestra

3:53

11

Nessun Dorma from Turandot

Giacomo Puccini - Turandot: Atto III, scena 1. Aria “Nessun dorma” (Calaf)

The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

3:27

12

Meditation from Thais

Jules Massenet - Thaïs: Acte II. Entr’acte “Méditation”

Frank Shipway, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

5:09

14

Granada from Suite espanola

Isaac Albéniz - Suite española no. 1, op. 47

Konrad Ragossnig

4:02

16

Toccata in D minor

Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata in D minor, BWV 913

2:25

17

Also Sprach Zarathustra (Sunrise)

Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, op. 30

Walter Susskind, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

1:46

18

Mars from The Planets

Gustav Holst - The Planets, op. 32

Walter Susskind, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

2:57

19

Can-Can from Orpheus

Jacques Offenbach - Orphée aux enfers : Can-can (Ouverture / Acte II. Galop infernal)

1:26

20

Maurice Ravel - Boléro

Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Minnesota Orchestra

5:13