- Composer: Alexandre Desplat, Antonio Vivaldi, Antonín Dvorák, Arvo Pärt, Camille Saint-Saëns, et al.
- Audio CD (8 Nov 2004)
- Number of Discs: 4
- Format: Box set
- Label: Bmg
- ASIN: B00069I7A0
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 48,811 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
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| 1. Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.14 in C# Minor ‘Moonlight’ - 1st movement | |||
| 2. Grieg - Morning (from Peer Gynt Suite No.1) | |||
| 3. Morricone - The Mission – Main Theme | |||
| 4. Schubert - Ave Maria | |||
| 5. Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 in A major “Italian” - 2nd movement | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major “Pastoral” -1st movement | |||
| 2. Barry - Out of Africa – Main Title | |||
| 3. Canteloube - Bailero (from Songs of the Auvergne) | |||
| 4. Traditional - Suo Gan | |||
| 5. Stravinsky - The Princesses’ Round Dance (from The Firebird) | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Saint-Saens - The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals) | |||
| 2. Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor - 2nd movement | |||
| 3. Tavener - Hymn to the Mother of God | |||
| 4. Newman - Road to Perdition – Road to Chicago | |||
| 5. Elgar - Nimrod (from the Enigma Variations) | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor - 2nd movement | |||
| 2. Elgar - Serenade in E minor for Strings - 2nd movement | |||
| 3. Chopin - Etude in E major Opus 10 No.3 “Tristesse” | |||
| 4. Rutter - Requiem Aeternum (from the Requiem) | |||
| 5. Puccini - “O Mio Babbino Caro” (from Gianni Schicchi) | |||
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Product Description
Album Description
Classic FM: Relax & Escape is a soothing mix of the finest classical music as heard on Classic FM. Over 3 hours of music split across four CDs and themed for different moods of relaxation featuring some of today's best-loved composers.
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
42 of 42 people found the following review helpful
I'll be honest - I don't know the first thing about classical music, but these CDs are ideal for relaxation. I got them for listening on the tube, and can happily say that even for a non-classical listener, these CDs give a nice range of music to keep the blood pressure down, even when the idiot next to you is trying to take over three seats with his newspaper.
This has also served as a nice starting point to get me looking at more complete works by folks like Dvorak and Morricone. If you don't know classical, you'll find you recognise plenty of the music on these CDs, and may find yourself saying "aha, so that's who this is..."
39 of 44 people found the following review helpful
If there's one objection one could have to the regular appearance of the Classic FM box-set, its that all the music is designed to soothe and relax you - where are the upbeat, adrenaline powering numbers? Not all composers spend their time soothing the listener to sleep.
Having said that, this collection is a great way to unwind and contains a number of pieces even the classical music buff might not already have in their collection, Talbot's Cumulonimbus for example, or Reade's Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite (which was indeed the theme music for the programme of the same name, but is a lovely, typically English piece nonetheless and deserving of wider recognition).
Even among the "standards" there are a few surprises - Bailero played on cello rather than being sung, and Che Gelida Manina done orchestrally. As ever there are hits and misses but overall this is the best of the sets thus far in my view, and should set anyone on the road to more lovely music by new composers as well as providing a handy anthology of old favourites.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I know nothing about classical music, by buying these box sets from classical FM my knowledge has increased greatly.
I started to buy these box sets because of the increasing number of guilt inducing charity ads on classic FM which stopped me unwinding after work. I have several Classic FM box sets, this is the one I keep coming back to over and over again.
After a bad day at work or a bad bit of news that leaves you low this is the box set to help you relax and put things into perspective. A glass of red, a comfortable chair and a darkened room alongside this music let's your troubles melt away.
You won't regret it.
I started to buy these box sets because of the increasing number of guilt inducing charity ads on classic FM which stopped me unwinding after work. I have several Classic FM box sets, this is the one I keep coming back to over and over again.
After a bad day at work or a bad bit of news that leaves you low this is the box set to help you relax and put things into perspective. A glass of red, a comfortable chair and a darkened room alongside this music let's your troubles melt away.
You won't regret it.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
great selection
this was a present for a 65 year old woman who lives in france and if she had classic fm, she'd listen to it. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2010 by Ms. J. Valentine
Excellent variety of classical relaxation
There are numerous great value compilation sets of classical music claiming to have the power of relaxation - Classic FM alone have a few variants such as `Relax', `Relax More' and... Read more
Published on 29 July 2008 by Mart Music
not for snobs
I bought this because I know next to nothing about classical music and thought that it would serve as an a starting point from which to explore works by composers I liked. Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2006 by Cloud 9
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