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The Best Proms Album in the World...Ever!

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Product details

  • Audio CD (28 Aug 2000)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Virgin TV
  • ASIN: B00004W3LU
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 99,587 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Disc: 1
1. Hallelujah Chorus - Handel: Messiah
2. Hungarian March - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
3. Non più andrai - Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
4. Pomp and Circumstance March No.4 - Elgar
5. Magnificat - Bach
6. Overture - Mozart: The Magic Flute
7. Andante - Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.2
8. Morning - Grieg: Peer Gynt
9. Introduction and Royal March of the Lion - Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
10. Pavane - Fauré
See all 17 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Overture - Bernstein: Candide
2. O Fortuna - Orff: Carmina Burana
3. Fanfare for the Common Man - Copland
4. Summertime - Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
5. Irish tune from County Derry - Grainger
6. When Britain really ruled the waves - Gilbert & Sullivan: Iolanthe
7. Allegretto - Beethoven: Pastoral Symphony
8. Four Sea Interludes - Britten: Peter Grimes
9. The Incarnation - Tavener: The Protecting Veil
10. Variation 18 - Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
See all 16 tracks on this disc

On this CD:
  1. Messiah
    Composed by George Frideric Handel
    Performed by Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra
    Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras

  2. La damnation de Faust
    Composed by Hector Berlioz
    Performed by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Louis Frémaux

  3. (Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro'
    Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    with Claudio Desderi
    Conducted by Bernard Haitink

  4. Pomp and Circumstance
    Composed by Sir Edward Elgar
    Conducted by Adrian Boult

  5. Magnificat in D
    Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performed by Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus
    Conducted by Neville Marriner

  6. (Die) Zauberflöte, '(The) Magic Flute'
    Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Conducted by Colin Davis

  7. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F
    Composed by Dmitry Shostakovich
    Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
    with Dmitri Alexeev
    Conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk

  8. Peer Gynt
    Composed by Edvard Grieg
    Performed by Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conducted by Mariss Jansons

  9. Le carnaval des animaux
    Composed by Camille Saint-Saëns
    Performed by City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    with John Ogdon, Brenda Lucas
    Conducted by Louis Frémaux

  10. Pavane
    Composed by Gabriel Fauré
    Performed by New Philharmonia Orchestra
    with Gareth Morris
    Conducted by David Willcocks

  11. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor
    Composed by Sir Edward Elgar
    with Jacqueline Du Pré
    Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

  12. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
    Composed by Gustav Mahler
    Performed by New Philharmonia Orchestra
    Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli

  13. Karelia Suite
    Composed by Jean Sibelius
    Performed by Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conducted by Mariss Jansons


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Amazon.co.uk Review

In order to make this attractive two-CD compilation set, the BBC has raided the EMI and Virgin Classics back catalogues and put together a selection of pieces which are frequently heard at the Proms, or have some special Proms connection. Falling neatly into the latter category is John Tavener's ecstatic piece for cello and strings The Protecting Veil, which was a BBC Proms commission in 1989, here performed by its dedicatee Steven Isserlis. The collection finishes with a live Last Night recording (including the sound of party-poppers, whistles and sirens) of "Land of Hope and Glory" Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, "Jerusalem" and "Rule, Britannia!" with Bryn Terfel. Before this the collection offers Jacqueline du Pré playing the opening of Elgar's Cello Concerto, Neville Marriner conducting the opening chorus of Bach's Magnificat and the overture to Candide brilliantly played by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Sometimes the programming is a little samey in tone--Carmina Burana followed by Fanfare for the Common Man, for example--but overall this is a fine collection of well-performed excerpts. --Warwick Thompson

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Paitriotic - But Some That's Not So Good, 8 Nov 2003
About everyone enjoys the Last Night of the BBC Proms. Many love the old songs like 'Rule Britannia' and 'Jerusalem'. Yet there is so much more here like Shostakovitch's 'Tea For Two' and Berlioz's 'Hungarian March' to enjoy. But it loses that final star for having to many omissions like Holst's 'Mars' and Elgar's 'Nimrod' which could have made this a perfect set.
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10 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER COMPILATION THAT COULD BE BETTER, 21 Sep 2000
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IF THIS IS YOUR KIND OF MUSIC THEN, EVEN THEN YOU STILL MIGHT NOT BE SATISFIED WITH THIS CD. IT HAS THE CLASSIC TRACKS THAT YOU WOULD DEFINATELY EXPECT TO HEAR AT THE PROMS, SUCH AS JERUSALEM, BUT ESSENTIALLY IT IS NO DIFFERENT TO ANY OTHER CLASSICAL COMPILATION.

ANOTHER CHANCE GONE BEGGING FOR YOU TO PART WITH YOUR WELL EARNT MONEY. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR YOU TO MAKE A CORPERATE MUSIC COMPANY RICHER. THE ONLY REASON TO BUY THIS CD IS IF YOU HAVE NO CLASSICAL MUSIC AND WANT A COMPILATION. BUT IF YOU ARE A CLASSICAL LOVER GIVE THIS ONE A MISS!

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