The Best Classical Album in the World... Ever! (disc 1)

The Four Seasons

Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in E major, op. 8 no. 1, RV 269 “La primavera”

Nigel Kennedy, English Chamber Orchestra

Requiem

Giuseppe Verdi - Messa da requiem: IIh. Dies irae: Ingemisco (tenore)

Giulio Bertola, Riccardo Muti, Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Fifth Symphony

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67

Kurt Sanderling, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Philharmonia Orchestra

Cello Concerto

Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85

John Barbirolli, London Symphony Orchestra

Nessun Dorma

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

Alain Lombard, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg

Piano Concerto

Edvard Grieg - Concerto in A minor for Piano and Orchestra, op. 16

Neville Marriner, London Symphony Orchestra

La Mamma Morta

Umberto Giordano - Andrea Chénier: Atto III. “La mamma morta” (Maddalena, Gérard)

Tullio Serafin, Philharmonia Orchestra

Minute Waltz

Frédéric Chopin - Waltz no. 6 in D‐flat major, op. 64 no. 1 “Minute Waltz”

John Ogdon

Habanera

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

Georges Prêtre, Orchestre National de France

Horn Concerto No.4

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Horn no. 4 in E-flat major, K. 495

Herbert von Karajan, Philharmonia Orchestra, Dennis Brain

Canon

Johann Pachelbel - Canon and Gigue in D major, P. 37, T. 337

Iona Brown, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

New World Symphony

Antonín Dvořák - Symfonie č. 9 e moll, op. 95 „Z Nového světa“

Klaus Tennstedt, Berlin Philharmonic

Brindisi

Giuseppe Verdi - La traviata: Atto I. Brindisi “Libiamo, ne’ lieti calici” (Alfredo, Coro, Violetta)

Plácido Domingo

O Fortuna

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi

André Previn, Arthur Oldham, London Symphony Orchestra