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- Original Release Date: 7 Nov 1999
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| Disc 1: | ||||||
| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. Peer Gynt, Op.23 - Incidental Music - No.13. Morning mood | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | 4:17 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 2. Canon and Gigue in D major - 1. Canon | Festival Strings Lucerne | 6:24 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 3. Le Carnaval des Animaux - Le Cygne | Wolfgang Herzer | 2:52 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Pavane, Op.50 | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 6:49 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 5. Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra - 2. Adagio | Göran Söllscher | 10:53 | £1.49 | ||
| Play | 6. Suite No.3 in D, BWV 1068 - 2. Air | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | 4:40 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 7. Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor - 4. Adagietto (Sehr langsam) | Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks | 9:47 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 8. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85 - 1. Adagio - Moderato | Pierre Fournier | 7:05 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 9. Adagio for Strings and Organ in G minor - Arr. Remo Giazotto/ Transcr. A. Lagoya | Eduard Kaufmann | 6:54 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 10. Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95 "From the New World" - 2. Largo | Berliner Philharmoniker | 5:12 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 11. Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act 4 - Entr'acte (Barcarolle) | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | 4:41 | £0.79 | ||
| Disc 2: | ||||||
| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Carmen Suite (excerpts from suites nos. 1 & 2) - Les toréadors | Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille | 2:05 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 2. Carmina Burana / Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi - "O Fortuna" | Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin | 2:36 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 3. Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46 - 4. In the Hall of the Mountain King | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | 2:58 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 4. Concerto for Violin and Strings in F minor, Op.8, No.4, R.297 "L'inverno" - 1. Allegro non molto - 2. Largo - 3. Allegro | Trevor Pinnock | 7:53 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 5. Pictures at an Exhibition - Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel - Promenade | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | 1:50 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 6. Ouverture solennelle "1812," Op.49 - Overture 1812 - Beginning | Churchbells of Gothenburg | 4:12 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 7. Romeo and Juliet, Op.64 / Act 1 - 13. Dance of the knights | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 5:24 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 8. Messa da Requiem - 2. Dies irae | Berliner Philharmoniker | 2:45 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 9. Die Walküre - Concert version / Dritter Aufzug - The Ride of the Walkyres | Orchestre De Paris | 4:55 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 10. Also sprach Zarathustra, Op.30 - Einleitung | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 1:58 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 11. Rhapsody in Blue | Siegfried Stockigt | 15:54 | £1.89 | ||
| Play | 12. Boléro | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 15:02 | £0.39 | ||
| Disc 3: | ||||||
| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Invitation to the Dance, Op.65 (Aufforderung zum Tanze) - Orchestrated by H. Berlioz (1803-1869) | Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | 10:25 | £1.49 | ||
| Play | 2. Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 - 21 - No. 1 in G minor, No. 3 in F and No. 6 in D flat | Wiener Philharmoniker | 8:21 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 3. Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy...Waltz of the Flowers | Berliner Philharmoniker | 8:51 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 4. Gaîté parisienne - Allegro - Cancan | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 1:40 | £0.39 | ||
| Play | 5. Water Music, Suites II & III in D/G (HWV 349/350) - 2. Alla Hornpipe | The English Concert | 4:15 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 6. Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat, K.495 - 3. Rondo (Allegro vivace) | David Jolley | 3:40 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 7. An der schönen blauen Donau, Op.314 | Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | 9:43 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 8. The Bartered Bride - Polka, Furiant and Dance of the Comedians | Wiener Philharmoniker | 13:13 | £1.89 | ||
| Play | 9. Polovtsian Dances, from: Prince Igor | Torgny Sporsen | 11:30 | £1.49 | ||
| Play | 10. Radetzky-Marsch, Op.228 - Arr. Ertl | Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | 2:19 | £0.79 | ||
| Disc 4: | ||||||
| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Piano Concerto No.21 in C, K.467 - 2. Andante | Géza Anda | 7:15 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. Nocturne No.5 in F sharp, Op.15 No.2 | Daniel Barenboim | 3:58 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 3. Kinderszenen, Op.15 - 7. Träumerei | Martha Argerich | 2:59 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 -"Für Elise" - Poco moto | Anatol Ugorski | 4:03 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 5. Suite bergamasque - 3. Clair de lune | Alexis Weissenberg | 5:08 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 6. Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight" - 1. Adagio sostenuto | Emil Gilels | 6:06 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 7. 13 Préludes op.32 - No.10 in B minor: Lento | Lilya Zilberstein | 5:03 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 8. The Flying Dutchman/Wagner: Ballade, Transcription S. 441 | Daniel Barenboim | 5:49 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 9. 24 Préludes, Op.28 - 15. in D flat major ("Raindrop") | Christoph Eschenbach | 5:33 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 10. Préludes - Book 1 - 8. La fille aux cheveux de lin | Alexis Weissenberg | 2:39 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 11. 13 Préludes op.32 - No.12 in g sharp minor: Allegro | Lilya Zilberstein | 2:26 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 12. 6 Moments musicaux, Op.94 D.780 - No.2 in A flat (Andantino) | Wilhelm Kempff | 5:44 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 13. Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488 - 2. Adagio | Géza Anda | 6:58 | £0.79 | ||
| Disc 5: | ||||||
| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Messiah / Part 2 - "Hallelujah" | The English Concert | 4:01 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 2. Fantasia on Greensleeves | Orpheus Chamber Orchestra | 4:29 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 3. Má Vlast (My Country) - 2. Vltava (The Moldau) | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 11:58 | £1.49 | ||
| Play | 4. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 | Simon Preston | 8:26 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 5. Finlandia, Op.26, No.7 - Andante sostenuto - Allegro moderato - Allegro | Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | 9:03 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 6. The Planets, op.32 - 4. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity | Boston Symphony Orchestra | 7:59 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 7. "West Side Story" - Symphonic Dances - 1. Prologue - 4. Mambo - 9. Finale | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | 9:38 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 8. The Hebrides, Op.26 (Fingal's Cave) - Allegro moderato | London Symphony Orchestra | 10:24 | £1.49 | ||
| Play | 9. "Pomp and Circumstance," Op.39: March, No.1 in D | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | 5:53 | £0.79 | ||
| Disc 6: | ||||||
| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
| Play | 1. Turandot / Act 3 - "Nessun dorma" | Plácido Domingo | 3:28 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. L'elisir d'amore / Act 2 - "Una furtiva lagrima" | Plácido Domingo | 4:38 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 3. Il Trovatore - Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano/Leonore Emanuele Bardare / Act 3 - "Di quella pira" | Carlo Bergonzi | 2:00 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 4. Nabucco / Act 3 - Coro: Introduzione - "Va pensiero, sull'ali dorate" | Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin | 5:02 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 5. Carmen / Act 2 - "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée" | Plácido Domingo | 3:58 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 6. Carmen / Act 1 - "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise) | Grace Bumbry | 4:00 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 7. La Bohème / Act 1 - "Che gelida manina" | Sándor Kónya | 5:00 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 8. Il Trovatore - Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano/Leonore Emanuele Bardare / Act 2 - "Vedi! le fosche notturne spoglie" (Anvil Chorus) | Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano | 2:57 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 9. Tristan und Isolde / Act 3 - "Mild und leise wie er lächelt" (Isoldes Liebestod) | Margaret Price | 7:28 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 10. Madama Butterfly / Act 2 - Un bel dì vedremo | Mirella Freni | 5:01 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 11. Die Zauberflöte, K.620 / Act 2 - "O Isis und Osiris, welche Wonne!" | Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin | 3:23 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 12. Cavalleria rusticana - Intermezzo sinfonico | Philharmonia Orchestra | 4:19 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 13. Aida / Act 1 - Se quel guerrier io fossi!..Celeste Aida | Plácido Domingo | 4:35 | £0.79 | ||
| Play | 14. Aida / Act 2 - "Gloria all'Egitto" | Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin | 5:10 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 15. William Tell - Overture | Rome Opera House Orchestra | 12:01 | £1.49 | ||
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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This 6 CD collection contains most of the popular classical music you could every want and is priced competitively. However many of the recordings are very old and the sound quality is at best adequate. A lot of the performances although technically excellent are dull and uninspiring. The packaging is bland with minimal information about the music or performers. If you want quality rather than quantity look elsewhere.
106 of 113 people found the following review helpful
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There are plenty of classical music samplers on the market, some better than others. This is very much a case of don't just mind the quality, feel the width. The fact that this set offers you six CD's means that you get a broad, eclectic range of the more popular classics. Of course, what you also get is a selection of the highlights from classic works - one of Grieg's best loved melodies, one of Orff's more dramatic moments.
This sampler, however, is largely restricted to the more melodic tunes. As someone who does like to have some background music playing when I'm reading or writing, I can't complain about that. The six CD's will give you a lot of very enjoyable music which you can have playing while you relax or concentrate on some task. There is enough variety in the selection to reward your ears even when you're not concentrating on the sounds.
But the real joy of a selection like this is that it might give you the confidence to delve deeper into classical music. There is so much pretension in the music world, if you have little musical knowledge to begin with, it can be a bit daunting trying to explore the mysteries of the classics. Ignore all the hype and all the flowery language. Allow yourself to sit back and listen to some of these tracks, then take yourself out and listen to the longer, full versions of your favourites. Let your ear be your guide - have a listen to Radio 3 instead of Classic FM!
An entertaining selection which should stimulate your ears, and excellent value ... which should reward your pocket!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I was feeling a bit suspicious about the CD Set of this Collection. Since similar types of the Collection always available everywhere, i thought it would be hocus pocus to order such a CD on net. But when i dispatched it, i explicitly did comprehend that not only was it cheapier than the domestic market price; but also it was a unique selection of Famous Classics.
I offer The Essential Classics Collection [BOX SET] to the Classical Music Fans, assuring them that they will enjoy with the recording, indeed.
I offer The Essential Classics Collection [BOX SET] to the Classical Music Fans, assuring them that they will enjoy with the recording, indeed.
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