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50 Essential Classical Pieces

by Various Artists
50 SONGS
Jan 2011
R. Strauss: Also sprache Zarathustra, Op.30
Lorin Maazel
J.S. Bach: Air (Suite No.3 in D, BWV 1068)
Münchener Bach-Orchester & Karl Richter
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K.525 (Excerpt)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Karl Böhm
Grieg: Morning Mood (Peer Gynt, Op.23) (Excerpt)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi
Dvořák: Allegro con fuoco ("From the New World", Op.95) (Excerpt)
Rafael Kubelik
Schumann: Träumerei, Op.15,7
Daniel Barenboim
Paganini: La campanella (Excerpt)
Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Charles Dutoit
Verdi: "Vedi! le fosche notturne spoglie" (Il Trovatore)
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Carlo Maria Giulini
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Flight of the Bumble-Bee
Irina Saizewa, Violin Ensemble of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow & Julij Rejentowitsch
Beethoven: Adagio sostenuto (Moonlight Sonata)
Wilhelm Kempff
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Spring, Violin Concerto in E Major, RV 269, Op. 8 No. 1: Allegro ("La Primavera") (Live)
Isaac Stern, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Zubin Mehta
Offenbach: Can-Can (Live)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Lorin Maazel
Boccherini: Menuetto (String Quintet, Op.11, No.5)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No.5
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester & John Eliot Gardiner
Smetana: The Moldau (Excerpt)
Rafael Kubelik
Chabrier: Espana
Wiener Philharmoniker & John Eliot Gardiner
Gershwin: An American in Paris (Excerpt)
James Levine
Ravel: Boléro (Excerpt)
Boston Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Allegro con brio (Symphony No.5) (Excerpt)
Berliner Philharmoniker & Lorin Maazel
Verdi: Rigoletto, Act III: "La donna è mobile" (Rigoletto)
Plácido Domingo, Wiener Philharmoniker & Carlo Maria Giulini
Massenet: Meditation (Thais)
Christer Thorvaldsson, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra & Neeme Järvi
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 / Act I: Dance of the knights (Romeo and Juliet)
Boston Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa
J. Strauss I: Radetzky-Marsch, Op.228 (Recorded 1980)
Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez (Excerpt)
Narciso Yepes, Orquesta Sinfónica de Radiotelevisión Española & Odón Alonso
Mozart: Lacrimosa (Requiem, K.626) (Recorded 1975)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Singverein
Offenbach: Barcarolle (Gaité parisienne)
Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan
Bizet: "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Carmen)
Teresa Berganza, Ambrosian Singers & Claudio Abbado
Puccini: "Nessun dorma" (Turandot) (Concert Ending)
Plácido Domingo, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Staatsopernchor
Verdi: Dies irae (Requiem)
Ernst Senff Chor, Berliner Philharmoniker & Carlo Maria Giulini
Rossini: "Largo al factotum" (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Hermann Prey, London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado
Handel: Alla hornpipe (Water Music)
Wolfgang Meyer, Berliner Philharmoniker & Rafael Kubelik
J.S. Bach: Prelude, BWV 846
Wilhelm Kempff
Fauré: Pie Jesu (Requiem)
Kathleen Battle, Timothy Farrell, Philharmonia Orchestra & Carlo Maria Giulini
J.S. Bach: Toccata, BWV 565
Helmut Walcha
Handel: "Hallelujah" (Messiah)
John Alldis Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Karl Richter
Mozart: Andante (Piano Concerto, K.467)
Géza Anda & Camerata Salzburg
J. Strauss II: Blue Danube (Excerpt / Conclusion)
Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan
Chopin: Tristesse, Op.10,3
Tamás Vásáry
J.S. Bach: "Jesus bleibet meine Freude", BWV 147
Münchener Bach-Chor, Solistengemeinschaft Der Bachwoche Ansbach & Karl Richter
Verdi: "Gloria all'Egitto" (Aida)
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Giuseppe Sinopoli & Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Falla: Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo) (Excerpt)
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Lorin Maazel
Debussy: Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)
Tamás Vásáry
J.S. Bach: Badinerie, BWV 1067
Aurèle Nicolet, Münchener Bach-Orchester & Karl Richter
Liszt: Liebestraum No.3, S.541
Daniel Barenboim
Saint-Saëns: Le Cygne (Le Carnaval des Animaux)
Wolfgang Herzer, Alfons Kontarsky, Aloys Kontarsky & Karl Böhm
Beethoven: Für Elise, WoO 59
Anatol Ugorski
Daquin: Le coucou
Trevor Pinnock
Paganini: Caprice, Op.1,24
Salvatore Accardo
Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op.34,14
Berliner Philharmoniker & Lorin Maazel
Saint-Saëns: "Mon coeur s#ouvre à ta voix" (Samson et Dalila)
Grace Bumbry, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Janos Kulka