| Description |
2 audio discs : digital, 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Compact disc. |
| Contents |
CD 1. Jesu, joy of man's desiring / Bach -- Thaïs. Méditation / Massenet -- Requiem. In paradisum / Fauré -- Gymnopédie no. 1 / Satie -- Lakmé. Flower duet / Delibes -- Carnival of the Animals. The swan / Saint-Saëns -- Sleepers awake / Bach -- Madama Butterfly. Humming chorus / Puccini -- Enigma Variations. Nimrod / Elgar -- A village Romeo and Juliet. Walk to the paradise garden / Delius -- Pavane / Fauré -- Panis angelicus / Franck -- Serse. Ombra mai fu (largo) / Handel -- The lark ascending / Vaughan Williams. |
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CD 2. Clair de lune / Debussy -- Sheep may safely graze / Bach -- Symphony no. 3 (second movement excerpt) / Górecki -- Stabat Mater. Stabat mater / Pergolesi -- Ave Maria / Caccini -- String quintet (Adagio exerpt) / Schubert -- Ave verum corpus / Mozart -- "Pastoral" Symphony (Scene by the brook excerpt) / Beethoven -- Orfeo ed Euridice. Dance of the blessed spirits / Gluck -- "New World" Symphony (largo excerpt) / Dvořák -- Lullaby / Brahms -- Symphony no. 2 (Adagio excerpt) / Rachmaninov -- Orchestral suite No. 3. Air on a G string / Bach. |
| Performer |
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Herbert von Karajan, Nigel Kennedy, Kirov Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Karl Münchinger, L'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Marisa Robles, Pascal Rogé, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Joan Sutherland, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, St. John's College Choir, Cambridge, Takács Quartet, Anthony Way, Wiener Philharmoniker. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Orchestral music.
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| ISBN |
$17.98 |
| Music No. |
B0001496-02 Decca |
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