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Title Ultimate classical dreams.

Publication Info. London, England : Decca, [2009]
℗2009

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 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CD CLASSICAL ULTIMATE CLASSICAL DREAMS    Check Shelf
Description 5 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Performer Various performers.
Note All selections previously released.
Compact discs.
Contents Disc 1. Suite bergamasque. Clair de lune / Debussy ; orch. Mouton (Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra ; Frederick Fennell, conductor) -- Adagio for strings / Barber (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ; David Zinman, conductor) -- Concierto de Aranjuez. Adagio (excerpt) / Rodrigo ; arr. Rodrigo (Marisa Robles, harp ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) -- Cavalleria rusticana. Intermezzo / Mascagni (National Philharmonic Orchestra ; Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor) -- Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Romance / Mozart (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Neville Marriner, conductor) -- Pavane / Fauré (Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus ; Montreal Symphony Orchestra ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) -- Nocturne no. 2 / Chopin (Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano) -- Carnaval des animaux. Le cygne / Saint-Saëns (Heinrich Schiff, violoncello ; Samuel Sanders, piano) -- String quintet in C major. Adagio (excerpt) / Schubert (Weller Quartet with Dietfried Gurtler, violoncello) -- Orchestral suite no. 3. Air : air on the G string / J.S. Bach (Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra ; Karl Münchinger, conductor) -- Gypsy melodies. Songs my mother taught me / Dvořák (Arthur Grumiaux, violin ; István Hajdu, piano -- Romance / Yepes (Pepe Romero, guitar) -- Nocturne no. 1 / Fauré (Pascal Rogé, piano) ; Gran partita. Adagio / Mozart (Members of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Neville Marriner, conductor -- Sospiri / Elgar (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Neville Marriner, conductor) ; Songs of the Auvergne. Bailero / Canteloube (Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano ; English Chamber Orchestra ; Jeffrey Tate, conductor) --
Disc 2. Moonlight sonata. Adagio sostenuto / Beethoven (Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano) -- Clarinet concerto. Adagio / Mozart (Jack Brymer, clarinet ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Colin Davis, conductor) -- A midsummer night's dream. Nocturne / Mendelssohn (Montreal Symphony Orchestra ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) -- Impromptu in G flat major, D899 no. 3 / Schubert (Radu Lupu, piano) -- String quartet no. 2. Notturno / Borodin (Borodin Quartet) -- Oboe concerto in D minor. Adagio (excerpt) / Marcello (Heinz Holliger, oboe ; I Musici) ; Trout quintet. Andante (excerpt) / Schubert (Clifford Curzon, piano ; Willi Boskovsky, violin ; Günther Breitenbach, viola ; Nikolaus Hübner, violoncello ; Johann Krump, double bass) -- Concerto for flute and harp. Andantino / Mozart (Irena Grafenauer, flute ; Maria Graf, harp ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Neville Marriner, conductor) ; Guitar concerto in D major, RV 93. Largo / Vivaldi ; arr. Malipiero (Eduardo Fernández, guitar ; English Chamber Orchestra ; George Malcolm, conductor) ; Serenade. Andante cantabile / Hofstetter (I Musici) -- The gadfly. Romance / Shostakovich (Alexander Kerr, violin ; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ; Riccardo Chailly, conductor) -- Suite for 2 violins, cello and piano, left hand. Lied / Korngold (Uif Forsberg, Kjell Lysell, violins ; Mats Lidström, violincello ; Bengt Forsberg, piano) ; Double violin concerto. Largo ma non tanto / J.S. Bach (Henryk Szeryng, Maurice Hasson, violins ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Neville Marriner, conductor) -- Cosi fan tutte. Soave sia il vento : trio / Mozart (Lucia Popp, soprano ; Brigitte Gassbaender, mezzo-soprano ; Tom Krause, baritone ; Vienna Haydn Orchestra ; István Kertész, conductor) --
Disc 3. Cantata, BWV 147. Jesu, joy of man's desiring / Bach ; arr. Münchinger (Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra ; Karl Münchinger, conductor) -- Thaïs. Méditation / Massenet (Nigel Kennedy, violin ; National Philharmonic Orchestra ; Richard Bonynge, conductor) -- Requiem. In paradisum / Fauré (Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus ; Montreal Symphony Orchestra ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) -- Gymnopédie : no. 1 / Satie ; orch. Debussy (Montreal Symphony Orchestra ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) -- Lakme. Dôme épais le jasmin : flower duet / Delibes (Joan Sutherland (Lakmé) ; Jane Berbié (Mallika) ; L'orchestre national de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo ; Richard Bonynge, conductor) -- Carnaval des animaux. Le cygne / Saint-Saëns (Jascha Silberstein, violoncello ; Marie Goossens, harp) -- Cantata, BWV 645. Sleepers awake / J.S. Bach ; arr. Bantock (New Symphony Orchestra of London ; Raymond Agoult, conductor) ; Madama Butterfly. Humming chorus / Puccini (Vienna State Opera Chorus ; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor) -- Enigma variations. Nimrod / Elgar (Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; Sir George Solti, conductor) -- A village Romeo and Juliet. Walk to the paradise garden / Delius (Orchestra of Welsh National Opera ; Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor) -- Pavane / Fauré (Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus ; Montreal Symphony Orchestra ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) -- Panis angelicus / Franck ; arr. Cullen (Julian Lloyd Webber, violoncello ; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; James Judd, conductor) ; Serse. Ombra mai fu : largo / Handel (Anthony Way, treble ; Choir of Uppingham School ; Daniel Phillips, organ ; English Sinfonia ; Neil Page, conductor) ; The lark ascending / Vaughan Williams (Iona Brown, violin ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Neville Marriner, conductor) --
Disc 4. Orchestral suite no. 3. Air : air on the G string / J.S. Bach (Henryk Szeryng, violin ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Neville Marriner, conductor) -- Piano concerto no. 23. Adagio / Mozart (Clifford Curzon, piano ; London Symphony Orchestra ; István Kertész, conductor) -- Symphony No. 2. Adagio / Rachmaninov (Concertgebouw Orchestra ; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor) -- Pathétique sonata. Adagio cantabile / Beethoven (Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano) -- Crisantemi = Chrysanthemums / Puccini (Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (RSO) ; Riccardo Chailly, conductor) -- Violin concerto. Adagio / Brahms (Joshua Bell, violin ; the Cleveland Orchestra ; Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor) -- L'arlésienne : suite no. 1. Adagietto / Bizet (Montreal Symphony Orchestra ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) ; Carmen suite : no. 1. Intermezzo / Bizet ; arr. Hoffman (Montreal Symphony Orchestra ; Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor) -- Piano concerto no. 1. Largo / Beethoven (Radu Lupu, piano ; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ; Zubin Mehta, conductor) -- Horn concerto no. 4. Romanza / Mozart (Barry Tuckwell, horn and conductor ; English Chamber Orchestra) -- Étude in E, op. 10, no. 3 / Chopin (Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano) -- Romeo and Juliet overture. Love theme / Tchaikovsky (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor) --
Disc 5. Tristan und Isolde. Prelude / Wagner (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra ; Sir George Solti, conductor) -- The sleeping beauty. Rose adagio / Tchaikovsky (National Philharmonic Orchestra ; Richard Bonynge, conductor) -- Romance no. 2 / Beethoven (Arthur Grumiaux, violin ; Concertgebouw Orchestra ; Bernard Haitink, conductor) -- Double violin concerto. Largo ma non tanto / J.S. Bach (Jaap Schröder, Christopher Hirons, violins ; The Academy of Ancient Music ; Christopher Hogwood, conductor) -- Cello concerto. Adagio / Elgar (Julian Lloyd Webber ; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; Yehudi Menuhin, conductor) -- Liebestraum : no. 3 / Liszt (Misha Dichter, piano) -- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune / Debussy (Jeffrey Khaner, flute ; The Cleveland Orchestra ; Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor) -- Piano concerto in A minor. Adagio / Grieg (Jorge Bolet, piano ; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (RSO) ; Riccardo Chailly, conductor) ; Vocalise / Rachmaninov (Lynn Harrel, violoncello ; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano) -- Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis / Vaughan Williams (London Philharmonic ; Roger Norrington, conductor).
Language Principally instrumental music; vocal works sung in French and Italian.
Note GMD: sound recording.
Subject Music.
Music -- 18th century.
Music -- 19th century.
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