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75. The Best of Classical Music - 50 Greatest Pieces: Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Bach...

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In my opinion, no musical education is ever complete until you've listened to each one of these musical pieces.

Like JFK, I remember exactly where I was when I first heard the Flight of the Bumblebee ( #49 - RIMSKY-KORSAKOV ). I was in the eight grade in a parochial school, and as the story goes, Nuns are notorious for trying to teach you shit you don't want to know about, but I thought this one was simply amazing!

TRACKLIST:

1 MOZART Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525: I. Allegro
2 VIVALDI The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 1 "Spring": I. Allegro
3 STRAUSS II An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314
4 RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2, Op. 27: III. Adagio
5 TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake: Scene by a Lake
6 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 14, "Moonlight Sonata": I. Adagio sostenuto
7 LISZT Consolations, S. 172: No. 3, Lento placido
8 SAINT-SAENS The Carnival of the Animals: XIII, The Swan
9 SCHUMANN 5 Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102: No. 2, Langsam
10 RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini: Var. XVIII
11 DEBUSSY 2 Arabesques: No. 1, Andantino con moto
12 CHOPIN Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 2
13 BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068: II. Air on the G String
14 HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 101: II. Adagio
15 TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings, Op. 48: II. Valse
16 GRIEG Holberg Suite, Op. 40: II. Sarabande
17 SIBELIUS Andante Festivo
18 TOSCA Vissi d’arte
19 TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo & Juliet: Fantasy Overture
20 MOZART Die Zauberflöte, K. 620: Ouverture
21 STRAUSS II Frühlingsstimmen, Op. 410
22 MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, Op. 90 "Italian": IV. Saltarello. Presto
23 VIVALDI The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 2, RV 315 "Summer": III. Presto
24 MOZART Symphony No. 40, K. 550: I. Molto allegro
25 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 ‘Eroica’: I. Allegro con brio
26 ROSSINI The Barber of Seville: Overture
27 MUSSORGSKY Night on a Bare Mountain
28 MOZART Symphony No., K. 551 "Jupiter": IV. Molto Allegro
29 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 "Pastoral": I. Allegro ma non troppo
30 WAGNER Siegfried Idyll
31 MOZART Le Nozze di Figaro: Voi che sapete
32 MOZART Don Giovanni: Non più andrai, farfallone amoroso
33 BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048: I. Allegro
34 TELEMANN Viola Concerto, TWV 51:G9: I. Largo
35 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7, Op. 92: II. Allegretto
36 SATIE Trois Gymnopedies: No. 1, Lent et doloreux
37 CHOPIN Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. Posth.
38 LISZT Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 3
39 SCHUMANN Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 7, Träumerei
40 CHOPIN 24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 15, "Raindrop"
41 DEBUSSY Suite bergamasque, L. 75: No. 3, Clair de lune​
42 CHOPIN Nocturnes, Op. 27: No. 2, Lento sostenuto
43 SATIE Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent​
44 MOZART Fantasia in D minor, K. 397
45 MOZART Piano Sonata No. 11, K 331: III. Alla Turca
46 LISZT Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 3, "La campanella"
47 CHOPIN Ballade No. 4, Op. 52 (live recording)
48 CHOPIN Études, Op. 10: No. 12, "Revolutionary"
49 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Tale of Tsar Saltan: Flight of the Bumblebee
50 SAINT-SAENS Danse Macabre


1, 20: Opole Philharmonic Orchestra, Werner Stiefel (1), Alexandr Tracz (20)
2, 5, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 25, 27, 33: Metamorphose String Orchestra, Pavel Lyubomudrov
Violin on The Four Seasons: Yuliya Lebedenko
Cello on 14: Mikael Samsonov
3: Donetsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Silvano Frontalini
4: Kyiv State Symphony Orchestra, Yurii Nykonenko
6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 44: Luke Faulkner
8: Sarah Joy, Kathy Hohstadt
9: Ignacy Gaydamovich, Janusz Grzelązka
13, 49, 50: Otri Trio
18: Ukrainian Philharmonic Orchestra, Silvano Frontalini
21: Vilnius Orchestra, Silvano Frontalini
22, 26, 28, 29, 30: Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Giuseppe Lanzetta
31, 32: Moldavian Symphony Orchestra, Silvano Frontalini
34: Giovanni Antonioni (viola), Orchestra Sinfonica Warmia, Silvano Frontalini
35: Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Giuseppe Lanzetta
36, 43: Carlo Balzaretti
37, 40, 47: Vadim Chaimovich
38, 39, 45: Giovanni Umberto Battel
41, 42, 46, 48: Rogerio Tutti
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