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Very Best of Desert Island Discs [Box set]

~ Various Artists (Artist)
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Disc: 1
1. Soave Sia Il Vento from Cosi Fan Tutte - Mozart
2. Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni
3. Dies Irae from Requiem - Verdi
4. The Oath Duet from Don Carlos - Verdi
5. Agnus Dei from Missa Criolla - Ramirez
6. Bailero from Songs Of The Auvergne - Canteloube
See all 14 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Cello Concerto - 1st Movement - Elgar:
2. Symphony No.6 "Pastoral" - The Shepherds' Song - Beethoven
3. Gymnopedie No.1 - Satie
4. The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams
5. Clarinet Quintet - 1st Movement - Mozart
6. Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini - Rachmaninov
See all 9 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. Double Violin Concerto - 1st Movement - Bach
2. Piano Quintet in A "The Trout" - 4th Movement - Schubert
3. Piano Concert No.5 "The Emperor" - 2nd Movement - Beethoven
4. Concerto De Aranjuez - Adagio - Rodrigo
5. Violin Concerto - 1st Movement - Mendelssohn
6. Piano Concerto No.21 - 2nd Movement ("Elvira Madigan") - Mozart
See all 7 tracks on this disc

On this CD:
  1. Così fan tutte
    Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performed by Capella Istropolitana
    Conducted by Johannes Wildner

  2. Messa da Requiem
    Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
    Performed by Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
    Conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi

  3. Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' in D minor
    Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
    Performed by Sinfonia Chorus, Northern Sinfonia
    Conducted by Richard Hickox

  4. Nabucco
    Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
    Performed by Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
    Conducted by Oliver Dohnányi

  5. Carmina Burana
    Composed by Carl Orff
    Performed by Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Bratislava CSR Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Stephen Gunzenhauser

  6. Chants d'Auvergne
    Composed by Joseph Canteloube
    Performed by Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
    with Denisa Slepkovská
    Conducted by Johannes Wildner

  7. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor
    Composed by Sir Edward Elgar
    Performed by Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    with Ralph Kirshbaum
    Conducted by Sir Alexander Gibson

  8. Trois Gymnopédies
    Composed by Erik Satie
    with Joanna MacGregor

  9. The lark ascending
    Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    with Iona Brown
    Conducted by Neville Marriner

  10. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
    Composed by Gustav Mahler
    Performed by Polish National Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Antoni Wit

  11. Concerto for Two Violins and Strings in D minor
    Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performed by Capella Istropolitana
    with Alexander Jablokov, Takako Nishizaki
    Conducted by Oliver Dohnányi

  12. Piano Quintet, "Trout" in A
    Composed by Franz Schubert
    Performed by Nash Ensemble

  13. Concierto de Aranjuez
    Composed by Joaquín Rodrigo
    Performed by Northern Chamber Orchestra
    with Norbert Kraft
    Conducted by Nicholas Ward

  14. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor
    Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
    Performed by Bournemouth Sinfonietta
    with Ronald Thomas

  15. Rhapsody in Blue
    Composed by George Gershwin
    with Howard Shelley
    Conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier


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Amazon.co.uk Review

The BBC's desert island--subject of this three-CD compilation--must be a bit crowded by now. Sue Lawley has packed 550 people off with their gramophones and eight discs to meet the hordes despatched by Roy Plomley since the programme started in the 1940s. In her note, Sue Lawley writes: "to hear a piece of music that youlove, linked to an experience that belongs to someone else creates a link between you and the person who's chosen it". The BBC is evidently less impressed by this notion, since it does not let us know who chose what. The other odd thing about this selection of 30 of the anonymous castaways' choices is the lack of that familiar signature tune--not a seagull to be heard. But what you do get in the value-for-money set is three and three-quarter hours of some of the pieces you would probably have chosen for your turn on the island. There are no great surprises--you wouldn't expect to hear much Birtwistle blasting out from behind a palm tree--but there is certainly great potential for arguing over how to whittle down the 30 to eight for your own game of castaways. --Keith Clarke

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