| Description |
2 sound discs (CDs) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Program notes in booklet. |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Summary |
This stunning collection showcases the greatest stars of classical music with dazzling performances from Cecilia Bartoli, Lang Lang, Renee Fleming, Hilary Hahn, Rolando Vill zon, Patricia Petibon, to name but a few... Includes both vocal and instrumental performances. |
| Contents |
disc 1. Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339. Laudate Dominum / Mozart (Cecilia Bartoli) (5:01) -- Prelude in G minor, op. 23, no. 5 / Rachmaninov (Lang Lang, piano) (4:25) -- Carmen. La fleur que tu m'avais jetée / Bizet (Andrea Bocelli, tenor) (3:41) -- Nel chiuso centro / Pergolesi (Anna Netrebko, soprano) (2:03) -- Suite española, op. 47. Granada / Albéniz ; arr. Lewin (Milos̆ Karadaglic, guitar) (5:51) -- Adriana lecouvreur. La dolcissima effigie / Cilea (Jonas Kaufmann, tenor) (2:27) -- Symphony no. 5 in E minor. Valse (Allegro moderato) / Tchaikovsky (Gustavo Dudamel, conductor) (6:17) -- Suor Angelica. Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto / Puccini (Renée Fleming, soprano) (4:29) -- Symphony no. 8 in F major. Allegretto scherzando / Beethoven (Riccardo Chailly, conductor) (3:40) -- Rigolette. La donna è mobile / Verdi (Rolando Villazón) (2:10) -- Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth. / Chopin (Benjamin Grosvenor, piano) (3:46) -- Carmen. Près des remparts de Séville / Bizet (Elīna Garanča, mezzo-soprano) (4:37) -- Orfeo ed Euridice. Dance of the blessed spirits / Gluck (Herbert von Karajan, conductor) (6:44) -- Les pêcheurs de perles. Je crois entendre encore / Bizet (Joseph Calleja) (3:20) -- Missa "Ecco sì beato giorno." Agnus Dei / Hollingworth (I Fagiolini) (2:01) -- Piano concerto no. 1 in D-flat major. Andante assai / Prokofiev (Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano) (4:36) -- Core 'ngrato / Cardillo ; arr. Chiaramello (Luciano Pavarotti, tenor) (4:53) -- Suite bergamasque / Debussy ; arr. Roelens (Janine Jansen, violin) (4:20) -- Wiegenlied, op. 49, no. 4 / Brahms ; arr. Hazell (Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone) (2:02) -- Redetzky March, op. 228 / J. Strauss ; arr. Weninger (Franz Welser-Möst, conductor) (3:25) -- |
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disc 2. Das Land des Lächelns. Dein ist mein ganzes Herz! / Lehár (Plácido Domingo, tenor) (3:31) -- Bachianas brasileiras no. 5. Aria (Cantilena) / Villa-Lobos (Patricia Petibon, soprano) (5:34) -- Berceuse in D-flat major, op. 57 / Chopin (Daniel Barenboim, piano) (4:31) -- Cantata, BWV 169. Gott soll allein mein Herze haben. Arioso / Bach (Andreas Scholl, countertenor) (2:48) -- Rondo a capriccio in G major, op. 129 / Beethoven (Alice Sara Ott, piano) (6:17) -- Kyrie. Misa criolla / Ramírez (Juan Diego Flórez, tenor) (4:29) -- Schwanengesang, D. 957, no. 4 "Ständchen" / Schubert (Nicola Benedetti, violin) (4:10) -- Die Fledermaus. Mein Herr Marquis / J. Strauss (Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano) (3:20) -- Violin concerto no. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041. Allegro moderato / Bach (Hilary Hahn, violin) (3:22) -- Sonno, se pur sei sonno / Vivaldi (Magdalena Koz̆ená, mezzo-soprano) (2:51) -- Consolations, S. 172. No. 3 / Liszt (Jorge Bolet, piano) (3:49) -- Rusalka. Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém = Song to the moon / Dvořak (Anna Prohaska, soprano) (4:58) -- La traviata. Prelude, Act I / Verdi (Sir Georg Solti, conductor) (3:33) -- I vespri siciliani. Mercè, dilette amiche / Verdi (Angela Gheorghiu, soprano) (4:00) -- The sleeping beauty, op. 66. Valse / Tchaikovsky (Valery Gergiev, conductor) (4:45) -- Werther. Pourquoi me réveiller, ô souffle du printemps? / Massenet (Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor) (3:07) -- Sicilienne and rigaudon / Kreisler (Joshua Bell, violin) (3:58) -- Lucrezia (based on fragments of the aria "Gia nel seno) / Handel (Danielle de Niese, soprano) (2:57) -- Coppélia. Valse / Delibes (Richard Bonynge, conductor) (2:03) -- Martha. The last rose of summer / Flotow (Joan Sutherland, soprano) (3:18). |
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Music -- Sound recordings.
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Orchestral music -- Sound recordings.
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Compact discs
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| Standard No. |
028947830368 |
| Music No. |
10717571 |
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478 3036 Decca (set) |
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478 3037--478 3038 Decca (discs) |
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