The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World… Ever! II
Neville Marriner · Yehudi Menuhin · John Barbirolli · Riccardo Muti · Stephen Cleobury · Adrian Boult · Alberto Lysy · Charles Mackerras · Jerzy Maksymiuk · Lorin Maazel
The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World… Ever! II (1998), CD, on Virgin. Music by Antonio Vivaldi, Dmitri Shostakovich, Frédéric Chopin, Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Neville Marriner, Yehudi Menuhin, John Barbirolli, Riccardo Muti; 27 tracks.
Composers
Tracklist
Disc 1
Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor, op. 26: II. Adagio
Nocturne no. 2 in E-flat major, op. 9 no. 2
Frédéric Chopin - Nocturne no. 2 in E‐flat major, op. 9 no. 2
Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus
Stephen Cleobury, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Gerald Finley
Water Music - Air from Suite no. 1 in F major
George Frideric Handel - Water Music, Suite no. 1 in F major, HWV 348: IIIa. [Allegro]
’New World’ Symphony: II. Largo (opening)
Antonín Dvořák - Symfonie č. 9 e moll, op. 95 „Z Nového světa“
Concerto for Lute and Two Violins, RV 93: II. Largo
Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85: III. Adagio
Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85
John Barbirolli, London Symphony Orchestra, Jacqueline du Pré
Disc 2
The Four Seasons - Concerto no. 1 in E major "Spring": III. Allegro
Antonio Vivaldi - Concerto in E major, op. 8 no. 1, RV 269 “La primavera”
Christoph Willibald von Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30: Ballet in D minor “Dance of the Blessed Spirits”
Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1042: II. Largo ma non tanto (opening)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043
Pathétique Sonata, op. 13: II. Adagio cantabile
Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata for Piano no. 8 in C minor, op. 13 “Pathétique”
Liebestraum no. 3 in A-flat major
Franz Liszt - Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 3 Liebestraum As‐Dur “Oh Lieb, so lang du lieben kannst”
César Franck - Messe solennelle en la majeur, op. 12
Charles Mackerras, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus