[ Warner Classics Vinyl / 2 LP ]
Release Date: Monday 1 June 2020
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
Originally released in 2001 to popular success, Classical Chillout was as well-known for its iconic cover artwork as it was for its innovative selection of music. A skilful blend of traditional classical pieces - many known from film and television - programmed alongside genre-defying 'modern classics' - from movie themes, club classics to modern minimalism (more recently defined as 'neoclassical').
Fast-forward 18 years and Classical Chillout has been given a 2019 makeover - many of the great tracks you know and love from the original album alongside fresh new sounds in keeping with the original album concept.
Available for the first time on vinyl and as a specially extended programme for download and stream, Classical Chillout is back!
The track listing includes pieces by Einaudi, Riopy and Helen Jane Long; recent hits by our frontline artists: Clair de lune by Alexandre Tharaud, Le cygne (The Swan) by Gautier Capuçon, Gabriel's Oboe from the movie The Mission by Renaud Capuçon (featured on his "Cinema" album) or The Deer Hunter cavatina by guitarist Thibaut Garcia; works by Martin Kohlstedt and by Carlos Cipa; catalogue milestones such as Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel and John Williams' Schindler List's Theme by violinist Tasmin Little (named BBC Music Magazine Personality of the Year in mid-April), and other Classics essentials: Moonlight Sonata, Fauré's Requiem In Paradisum, Lakmé's Flower duet, Satie's Gnossienne No. 1, etc.
SIDE A
LUDOVICO EINAUDI: I giorni 7.02
Dalal piano
GABRIEL FAURÉ: Requiem, Op. 48: VII. In Paradisum 3.28
Choir of King's College Choir, Cambridge
English Chamber Orchestra / Stephen Cleobury
PHILIP GLASS: Façades 7.49
John Harle & Simon Haram saxophones
London Chamber Orchestra / Christopher Warren-Green
RIOPY: Le Rêve d'une note 3.09
RIOPY piano
ARVO PÄRT: Spiegel im Spiegel (excerpt) 4.03
Tasmin Little violin
Martin Roscoe piano
SIDE B
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Clair de lune (from Suite bergamasque) 4.20
Alexandre Tharaud piano
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Le cygne (from Le carnaval des animaux) 3.27
(transcr. for cello and orchestra by Paul Vidal)
Gautier Capuçon cello
with Deborah Nemtanu violin
Orchestre de chambre de Paris / Douglas Boyd
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending: Opening (excerpt) 6.25
Hugh Bean violin
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult
ENNIO MORRICONE: Gabriel's Oboe (from "The Mission") 3.42
(orc. Lehn)
Renaud Capuçon violin
Brussels Philharmonic / Stéphane Denève
GIACOMO PUCCINI: Gianni Schicchi: "O mio babbino caro" (Lauretta) 2.07
Angela Gheorghiu soprano
London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano
JOHN WILLIAMS: Schindler's List Theme 5.05
Tasmin Little violin
New World Philharmonic / Iain Sutherland
SIDE C
STANLEY MYERS: The Deer Hunter: No. 1, Cavatina 3.20
Thibaut Garcia guitar
MARTIN KOHLSTEDT: AMSOMB 6.36
Martin Kohlstedt electronics, keyboards, piano
GewandhausChor • chorus master Gregor Meyer
ERIK SATIE: Gnossienne No. 1 3.27
Anne Queffélec piano
CARLOS CIPA: dark tree 6.36
Carlos Cipa upright piano, prepared grand piano, celesta, marimba, omnichord, harmonium, rhodes, Hohner guitaret, keyboards, synths & electronics
Teresa Allgaier violin • Sebastian Selke cello • Sina Herbst clarinet, bass-clarinet • Matthias Lindermayr trumpet • Martin Brugger synth, electronics
HENRYK GÓRECKI: Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs": II. Lento e largo (excerpt) 5.23
Stefania Woytowicz soprano
Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden / Ernest Bour
SIDE D
SAMUEL BARBER: Adagio for Strings 9.35
(arr. William Orbit)
William Orbit
HELEN JANE LONG: Porcelain 3.40
Helen Jane Long piano
LÉO DELIBES: Lakmé: Flower Duet: Dôme épais, le jasmin (Lakmé, Mallika) 3.31
Mady Mesplé soprano
Danielle Millet mezzo-soprano
Orchestre du Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique / Alain Lombard
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto (excerpt) 3.58
Dame Moura Lympany piano
STEVE REICH: Nagoya Marimbas, for 2 Marimbas 4.53
Colin Currie & Sam Walton marimbas