MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Discovering the Classics: Classics for Eternity [4 CD set]

 
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Discovering the Classics: Classics for Eternity [4 CD set]
National Philharmonic, Charles Gerhardt / New Symphony Orchestra of London, Douglas Gamley / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin

[ Reader's Digest / 4 CD Box Set ]

Release Date: Wednesday 2 February 1994

A wide reaching collection of work that acts as a good sampler for those wishing to do a bit of discovery. More like a greatest hits compilation though, so don't expect too many surprises.

Tracks:

Disc 1 -
1. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro): Overture
2. Pachelbel: Canon in D
3. Haydn: String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 1/5, H. 3/5: Serenade
4. Boccherini: Minuet in A major, arrangement (after String Quintet in E major, Op.11/5)
5. Handel: Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
6. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3: Air for the G String
7. Berlioz: Marche de Rákóczy (Rákóczy March), for orchestra (Le damnation de Faust), H. 109
8. Paganini: Moto perpetuo, for violin & guitar (or orchestra) in C major, Op. 11, MS 72
9. Bellini: Norma: Casta Diva
10. Strauss: Radetzky-Marsch, for orchestra, Op. 228
11. Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville): Largo al Factotum
12. Schubert: Marche Militaire for piano, 4 hands in D major
13. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor ("Moonlight"), Op. 27/2: 1st Movement
14. Chopin: Polonaise for piano No. 3 in A major ("Military"), Op. 40/1, CT. 152
15. Liszt: Liebesträume, notturno for piano No. 3 in A flat major ("O Lieb, so lang du lieben kannst"), S. 541/
16. Schumann: Kinderszenen No. 7 ("Träumerei"), for piano, Op. 15/7
17. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music: Scherzo
18. Verdi: Aida: Triumphal March

Disc 2 -
1 Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkure)
2 Offenbach: Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffmann)
3 Gounod: Grand March (The Queen of Sheba)
4 Johann Strauss: On the Beautiful Danube
5 Borodin: Scherzo From String Quartet No. 2
6 Light Cavalry Overture (Excerpt)
7 Rubinstein: Melody in F, Op 3, No. 1
8 Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
9 Smetana: Dance of the Comedians
10 Delibes: Waltz (Coppelia)
11 Franck: Panis angelicus
12 The Skaters Waltz
13 Saint-Saens: The Swan
14 Bizet: Habanera (carmen)
15 Mussorgsky: The Great Gate at Kiev
16 Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Nutcracker)

Disc 3 -
1 Chabrier: Espana Rhapsody
2 Dvorak: Humoresque
3 Debussy: Reverie
4 Grieg: Solvieg's Song (Peer Gynt)
5 Faure: Berceuse
6 Mascagni: Intermezzo From Cavalleria Rusticana
7 MacDowell: To a Wild Rose
8 Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever
9 Puccini: O mio babbino caro
10 Albeniz: Tango in D
11 Rimsky-Korsakov: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship Theme
12 Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Excerpt)
13 Massenet: Meditation (Thais)
14 Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
15 Sibelius: Valse triste
16 Coates: Knightsbridge March
17 Alfven: Swedish Rhapsody
18 Vaugahn Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves

Disc 4 -
1 Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
2 Granados: The Maiden and the Nightingale
3. Kreisler: Liebesfreud
4 Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess (Excerpt)
5 Falla: Ritual Fire Dance
6 Respighi: The Pines of the Appian Way
7 Prokofiev: Troika
8 Vilia-Lobos: The little train of the Brazilian countryman
9 Khachaturian: Sabre Dance
10 Stravinsky: Fireworks
11 Villa -Lobos: The Little Train of the Brazilian Countryman
12 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
13 Shostakovich: Romance From The Gadfly
14 Bernstein: Overture From Candide
15 Grofe: On the Trail From Grand Canyon Suite
16 Anderson: Sleigh Ride
17 Gould: Tropical
18 Copland: Simple Gifts From Appalachian Spring