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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Adagio in G minor - Albinoni | |||
| 2. Nefeli - Einaudi | |||
| 3. Act II Entr'acte (Carmen) - Bizet | |||
| 4. Sarabande(Adapted for the TV Levi's Ad) - Handel | |||
| 5. Synphony No.5, 4th Movement, Adagietto - Mahler | |||
| 6. Adagio (Spartacus) - Khachaturian | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Romance for Violin and Orchestra, No 2 in F major - Beethoven | |||
| 2. Bailero(Songs of the Auvergne) - Canteloube | |||
| 3. Piano Concerto in F Minor, 2nd Movement, Largo - J.S.Bach | |||
| 4. The Walk to the Paradise Garden - Delius | |||
| 5. The Girl With The Flaxen Hair, Prelude No. 8 - Debussy | |||
| 6. Valse Triste - Sibelius | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Canon in D (arr. H.May) - Pachelbel | |||
| 2. At Church - Novak | |||
| 3. Piano Concerto No. 20, 2nd Movement, Romance - Mozart | |||
| 4. Missa Papae Marcelli Agnus Dei I & II - Palestrina | |||
| 5. Kinderszenen traumerei No. 7, Dreaming | |||
| 6. Romance for Viola and Orchestra - Bruch | |||
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On this CD:
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Adagio in G minor
Composed by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Performed by City of London Sinfonia
Conducted by Andrew Watkinson
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Nefeli
Composed by Ludovico Einaudi
with Ludovico Einaudi
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Carmen
Composed by Georges Bizet
Performed by Berlin Opera Chorus, Berlin Opera Orchestra
Conducted by Lorin Maazel
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(8) Suites for Keyboard, Set I
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Conducted by Paul Bateman
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Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
Composed by Gustav Mahler
Conducted by Daniele Gatti
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Spartacus_Ballet Suite No. 2
Composed by Aram Il'yich Khachaturian
Performed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Libor Pesek
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(The) Lamb, 'Little Lamb, who made thee?'
Composed by John Tavener
Performed by Cambridge Trinity College Choir
Conducted by Richard Marlow
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Concerto for Violin and Strings in A minor
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Scottish Chamber Orchestra
with Joji Hattori
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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov
with Evelyn Chen
Conducted by Leonard Slatkin
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Concierto de Aranjuez
Composed by Joaquín Rodrigo
Performed by Spanish National Orchestra
with Jose Maria Gallardo
Conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
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(26) Bagatelles
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
with Jenö Jandó
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Canon and Gigue in D
Composed by Johann Pachelbel
Performed by City of London Sinfonia
Conducted by Andrew Watkinson
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Slovak Suite
Composed by Vítezslav Novák
Performed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Libor Pesek
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D minor
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Moscow Virtuosi
with Evgeny Kissin
Conducted by Vladimir Spivakov
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Missa Papae Marcelli
Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Performed by Sixteen
with Harry Christophers
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Kinderszenen
Composed by Robert Schumann
with Howard Shelley
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Romance
Composed by Max Bruch
with Yuri Bashmet
Conducted by Neeme Järvi
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Le carnaval des animaux
Composed by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performed by Nash Ensemble
Conducted by Libor Pesek
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Farewell to Stromness
Composed by Peter Maxwell Davies
with Simon Mulligan
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Les contes d'Hoffmann
Composed by Jacques Offenbach
Performed by Bratislava CSR Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Keith Clarke
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Due tramonti
Composed by Ludovico Einaudi
with Ludovico Einaudi
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(The) Unforgettable Year 1919
Composed by Dmitry Shostakovich
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk
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Romances
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
with Joseph Swensen
Conducted by André Previn
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Chants d'Auvergne
Composed by Joseph Canteloube
with Lesley Garrett
Conducted by Andrew Greenwood
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Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings in F minor
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Andrei Gavrilov
Conducted by Neville Marriner
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(A) Village Romeo and Juliet
Composed by Frederick Delius
Conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes
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(24) Préludes
Composed by Claude Debussy
with David Helfgott
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Valse triste
Composed by Jean Sibelius
Performed by Ulster Orchestra
Conducted by Dimitry Sitkovetsky
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Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5, 'Spring' in F
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
with Marc Neikrug, Pinchas Zukerman
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Symphonie fantastique
Composed by Hector Berlioz
Performed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Jun'ichi Hirokami
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Liebesleid
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
with Joji Hattori, Joseph Seiger
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Orfeo ed Euridice
Composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Performed by City of London Sinfonia
Conducted by Andrew Watkinson
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Saving Private Ryan
Composed by John Williams
Performed by Crouch End Festival Chorus
Conducted by Paul Bateman
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Just when you thought you owned every possible calming/relaxing/smooth/chillout classical track, up pops Smooth Classics for Rough Days, a three-CD set from Classic FM. The format is familiar: slow movements (such as the gripping Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony No. 5) mixed with slushy pieces from the 19th century (such as Bruch's Romance for viola and orchestra), peppered with a few contemporary treats (witness one of Ludovico Einaudi's piano pieces).
The collection is, however, far from predictable. Music by Pachelbel, Albinoni, Handel, Mozart and Rachmaninov, typically the staples of this sort of collection, are interspersed with pieces from John Tavener (a slightly stodgy performance of "The Lamb"), Vitezslav Novak (a pupil of Dvorák) and Peter Maxwell Davies (the nostalgic Farewell to Stromness).
Considering that Smooth Classics for Rough Days is for "when the rain just won't stop falling… when the phone hasn't stopped ringing… bad hair days and bad mood days", it does seem ironic that so many of the pieces chosen have rather depressing themes, notably suicide (Delius' "The Walk to the Paradise Garden"), a dance of death (Sibelius' Valse Triste) and war (John Williams' "Hymn to the Fallen"). As always, this is a smartly presented box set from Classic FM which includes introductory notes to each of the 33 pieces. --Rebecca Agnew
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