Various Artists – The No.1 Classical Album CD (1996) Audio Quality Guaranteed

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Track Listing

Turandot, opera: Nessun dorma
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Overture
Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (“Manzoni Requiem”): Dies Irae (Excerpt)
Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Ride of the Valkyries
Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in E major (“La Primavera”), RV 269, Op. 8/1 (The Four Seasons; “Il cimento” No. 1): 1st movement
Méditation, for violin & orchestra (or other arrangement) (from opera “Thaïs”)
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air on a G String
Ode to Joy (An die Freude) (Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee)
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067: Badinerie
Canon in D major, instrumental arrangement
Les contes d’Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts: Barcarolle
Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Prelude
Symphony No. 3 in C minor (“Organ”), Op. 78: Finale (Excerpt)
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85: 1st Movement (Excerpt)
La forza del destino, opera: Overture (Excerpt)
The Flight of the Bumble Bee, musical picture for orchestra (from The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Gone With the Wind, film score: Main Title
Fantasia on Greensleeves, for harp, flute & strings (arranged by R. Greaves; from the opera “Sir John in Love”)
The Gadfly, suite from the film score, Op. 97a (assembled by Atovmyan): Romance
Zadok the Priest, coronation anthem No. 1 for chorus & orchestra, HWV 258
Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: O Fortuna
Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 (TrV 176): Excerpt
Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar & orchestra: Adagio (Excerpt)
Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act: Intermezzo
Orphée aux enfers, operetta: Can Can
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, for voice & 8 cellos, A. 389: Aria (Cantilena)
Gli uccelli (The Birds), suite for orchestra, P. 154: Prelude
Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2: Waltz 2
Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 (“Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”): Excerpt
Gloria
Blow the Wind–Pie Jesu
The Typewriter, for orchestra (with typewriters)
Four Variations for cello & orchestra (Theme from “The South Bank Show”)
Entry of the Gladiators (Einzug der Gladiatoren), march for orchestra, Op. 68
America, song (from “West Side Story”)
Misa Criolla, for tenor, piano, chorus & orchestra: Kyrie
Requiem for soloists, chorus & orchestra: Pie Jesu
The Third Man, theme from the film score (“Harry Lime Theme”)
The Liberty Bell, march for band
Granada, for voice & orchestra (with chorus ad lib)
Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope, film score: Main Theme
O sole mio, for voice & piano (or orchestra)