The best Classics ...Ever! - CD - Praca Zbiorowa
CD 1[edit]
Erik Satie – "Gymnopédie No. 1"
Johann Pachelbel – "Canon in D"
Johann Sebastian Bach – "Air" (on the G string)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "Lacrimosa" (Requiem in D minor K. 626)
Sergei Rachmaninoff – "Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, part II: Adagio sostenuto" (opening)
Antonio Vivaldi – "Winter (The Four Seasons), part II: Largo"
Michael Nyman – "The Heart Asks Pleasure First"/"The Promise" (The Piano)
Tomaso Albinoni – "Adagio in G minor (realised Giazotto)" (extract)
Gabriel Fauré – "Pavane" (arr. Craig Leon)
Edward Elgar – "Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, part I: Adagio – Moderato" (opening)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – "Swan Theme" (Swan Lake, Act II – No. 10 Scene)
Gustav Mahler – "Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor, part IV: Adagietto" (conclusion)
Ludwig van Beethoven – "Moonlight Sonata, part II: Adagio sostenuto" (extract)
Samuel Barber – "Adagio for Strings"
Karl Jenkins – "Agnus Dei" (The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace)
Gregorio Allegri – "Miserere mei, Deus" (vv.1-4 & 17-20)
Johannes Brahms – "Waltz No. 15 in A-flat"
CD 2[edit]
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "Eine kleine Nachtmusik, part I: Allegro"
Johann Strauss II – "On The Beautiful Blue Danube: Waltz, Op. 314" (extract)
Giuseppe Verdi – "La donna è mobile" (Rigoletto)
Antonio Vivaldi – "Concerto "L'estate", RV 315, part III: Presto"
Georges Bizet – "Prelude" (Carmen)
Maurice Ravel – "Boléro" (conclusion)
Giacomo Puccini – "Nessun dorma" (Turandot, Act III)
Léo Delibes – "Dôme épais" (Lakmé, Act I)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23, part I: Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso (opening)
George Gershwin – "Rhapsody in Blue" (jazz band version – opening)
George Frideric Handel – "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Rinaldo) (arr. Craig Leon and Isobel Cooper)
Sergei Rachmaninoff – "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" (Op. 43 – Variation 18)
Vincenzo Bellini – "Casta Diva" (Norma, Act I)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "Canzonetta sull'aria" (Le nozze di Figaro, Act III)
Giacomo Puccini – "O mio babbino caro" (Gianni Schicchi)
Franz Schubert – "Ave Maria" (Maria Callas)
John Williams – "Schindler's List Theme"
CD 3[edit]
Frédéric Chopin – "Mazurkas Op. 59, No. 3 in F sharp minor"
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – "Flight of the Bumblebee"
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – "Allegro Moderato" (Swan Lake)
Antonio Vivaldi – "Spring (The Four Seasons), part I: Allegro"
Johann Sebastian Bach – "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048, part I: Allegro moderato"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "Le nozze di Figaro" (Overture)
Jacques Offenbach – "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (Barcarolle) (Les contes d'Hoffmann, Act IV)
Georges Bizet – "Au fond du temple saint" (Temple Duet) (Les pêcheurs de perles, Act I)
Gustav Holst – "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" (conclusion) (The Planets)
George Gershwin – "Summertime" (Porgy and Bess)
Edvard Grieg – "Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, part I: Allegro molto moderato"
Giuseppe Verdi – "Va, pensiero" (Chorus of Hebrew Slaves) (Nabucco, Act III)
Izzy – "Suo Gân"
George Frideric Handel – "Zadok the Priest – Coronation Anthem"
Georges Bizet – "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Habanera) (Carmen, Act I)
Johann Sebastian Bach – "Goldberg Variations Aria"
CD 4[edit]
Richard Strauss – "Also sprach Zarathustra"
Sergei Prokofiev – "Montagues and Capulets" (Romeo and Juliet)
Ludwig van Beethoven – "Symphony No. 5 in C minor"
Richard Wagner – "Ride of the Valkyries" (Die Walküre)
Carl Orff – "O Fortuna" (Carmina Burana)
Antonio Vivaldi – "Concerto 'L'inverno', RV 297"
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – "Waltz of the Flowers" (The Nutcracker)
Gioachino Rossini – "Largo al factotum" (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Giuseppe Verdi – "La forza del destino" (Overture)
Charles Gounod – "Valse de Juliette" (Roméo et Juliette)
Giacomo Puccini – "Un bel dì vedremo" (Madama Butterfly)
Giuseppe Verdi – "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (Brindisi) (La traviata)
Pyotr Tchaikovsky – "1812: Festival Overture, Op. 49"
Ludwig van Beethoven – "Ode to Joy" (Choral Symphony)
George Frideric Handel – "Hallelujah Chorus"
