The Best Classics... Ever! vol. 2
| The Best Classics... Ever! vol. 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ||||
| Compilation album by Various Artists | ||||
| Released | October 12, 2007 | |||
| Genre | classical | |||
| Length | more than 240 min | |||
| Label | EMI | |||
| Various Artists chronology | ||||
| ||||
| The Best Classics... Ever! series chronology | ||||
| ||||
The Best Classics... Ever! vol. 2 is a compilation album released by EMI in late 2007.
Track listing[]
CD 1 (Slavic)[]
- Modest Mussorgsky- "Promende: Allegro giusto, nel modo russico, senza allegrezza, ma poco sostenuto (Pictures at an Exhibition)"
- Mikhail Glinka- "Overture (Ruslan & Ludmila)"
- Antonín Dvořák- "Symphony No 8 in G, Op. 88"
- Stanisław Moniuszko- "Prząśniczka"
- Aram Khachaturian- "Sabre Dance (Gayaneh)"
- Henryk Górecki- "Symphony Nr 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’"
- Leoš Janáček- "Sinfonietta Op. 60"
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov- "The Sea and Sindbad's Ship (Scheherazade)"
- Dmitri Shostakovich- "The Gadfly, Suite Op. 97a"
- Alexander Borodin- "Polovtsian Dances. Introduction (Prince Igor)"
- Bedřich Smetana- "Vltava (Ma vlast)"
- Igor Stravinsky- "The Firebird" (conclusion)
- Antonín Dvořák- "Song To The Moon" (Rusalka)
- Frédéric Chopin- "Mazurek No 2 Op. 63 F"
- Dmitri Shostakovich- "Jazz Suite No 1"
- Paweł Szymański- "Sarabande"
- Modest Mussorgsky- "Il vecchio castello: Andante (Pictures at an Exhibition)"
- Antonín Dvořák- "Slavonic Dances, Op. 72"
CD 2 (German)[]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- "Symphony No. 40 in G minor"
- Johann Strauss II- "Wiener Blut Op. 354" (extract)
- Robert Schumann- "Traumerei"
- Gustav Mahler- "Symphony No. 3 in D minor"
- Johann Sebastian Bach- "Brandenburg Concertos, No. 1 in F BWV1046"
- Felix Mendelssohn- "Sonate pour violoncello & piano No 2"
- Johannes Brahms- "Hungarian Dances No. 1 in G minor"
- Fritz Kreisler- "Liebesleid"
- Franz Schubert- "String Quartet No. 14 in D minor (Death And the Maiden)"
- Max Bruch- "Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- "Piano Sonata in A K331"
- Ludwig van Beethoven- "Fur Elise"
- Johannes Brahms- "Violin concerto in D Op. 77"
- Joseph Haydn- "Symphony No. 83 in G minor "The Hen""
- Richard Wagner- "Prelude (Tristan & Isolde)"
CD 3 (Latin)[]
- Pietro Mascagni- "O amore, o bella luce del core (L’amico Fritz)"
- Hector Berlioz- "Symphonie Fatastique, Op. 14"
- Pietro Mascagni- "Cavalleria rusticana"
- Claude Debussy- "Jeux de vagues (La Mer)"
- Maurice Ravel- "Violin Sonata"
- Ennio Morricone- "Gabriel's Oboe (Mission)"
- Joaquín Rodrigo- "Concierto de Aranjuez"
- Heitor Villa-Lobos- "Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2"
- Enrique Granados- "Danzas espanolas"
- Isaac Albéniz- "Malaguena, Op. 165 No. 3"
- Camille Saint-Saëns- "The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)"
- Manuel de Falla- "Canciones populares Espanola"
- Jules Massenet- "Manon!... Avez-vous peur que mon visage frole? (Manon)"
- Charles Gounod- "Glorie Immortele De Nos Aieux (Faust)"
- Giuseppe Verdi- "Se quel guerrier...Celeste Aida (Aida)"
- Jacques Offenbach- "Overture (Orpheus in the Underworld)"
CD 4 (Rest of the world)[]
- Māori Songs- "Tarakihi (The Locust)"
- Leonard Bernstein- "Overture (Candide)"
- Ralph Vaughan Williams- "A Sea Symphony No. 1 Behold, the sea itself"
- Ástor Piazzolla- "Decarismo"
- Franz Liszt- "La campanella"
- Edvard Grieg- "Norwegian Dances Op. 35"
- Benjamin Britten- "Now the hungry lions roars (A Midsummer Night's Dream)"
- Karl Jenkins- "Requiem: Lacrimosa"
- Ralph Vaughan Williams- "Fantasia on Greensleeves"
- Charles Wood- "Hail, gladdening light"
- John Tavener- "Song For Athene"
- Paul Dukas- "Scherzo (excerpt) (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)"
- William Walton- "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra"
- Gustav Holst- "Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets)"
- Edvard Grieg- "Cello Sonata Op. 36 / Intermezzo in A minor"
- Ástor Piazzolla- "Concerto for Bandoneón and Orchestra - Muerte del Angel"
- Vanessa-Mae- "Happy Valley (The 1997 re-unification overture)"
External links[]
- Album description (in Polish)
Categories:
- The Best... Ever!
- 2007 compilation albums