A Treasury of All-Time Classics
~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 2 available)
Annotation
– Edvard Grieg Edvard Grieg
– Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius
Annotation last modified on 2024-03-20 14:52 UTC.
Tracklist
| |Grace and Elegance / Beauty and Gaiety (Part 1) RDCD 771 CD 1: | ||||
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# | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
1 | Overture to 'The Magic Flute'
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 6:50 | |
2 | Canon
| Johann Pachelbel | 3:48 | |
3 | Serenade
| Joseph Haydn | 2:40 | |
4 | Arrival of The Queen of Sheba from 'Solomon'
| George Frideric Handel | 3:17 | |
5 | Fifth Symphony - 1st Movement (excerpt)
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 2:48 | |
6 | Air on a G String
| Johann Sebastian Bach | 4:05 | |
7 | Spring from 'The Four Seasons'
| Antonio Vivaldi | 10:18 | |
8 | Una furtiva lagrima from 'L'Elisir d'amore'
| Gaetano Donizetti | 4:08 | |
9 | Serenade
| Franz Schubert | 2:06 | |
10 | Casta Diva from 'Norma'
| Vincenzo Bellini | 3:09 | |
11 | Dances from 'William Tell'
| Gioachino Rossini | 5:16 | |
12 | Invitation to the Dance
| Carl Maria von Weber | 8:41 | |
13 | Barcarolle from 'The Tales of Hoffmann'
| Jacques Offenbach | 4:09 |
Beauty and Gaiety (Concluded) / Inspiration and Grandeur (Part 1) RDCD 772 CD 2: | ||||
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# | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
1 | Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture
| Mikhail Glinka | 5:49 | |
2 | Scherzo from 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'
| Felix Mendelssohn | 4:50 | |
3 | Liebestraum
| Franz Liszt | 2:30 | |
4 | Waltz from 'Les Patineurs'
| Giacomo Meyerbeer | 2:53 | |
5 | Fantaisie - Impromtu
| Fryderyk Chopin | 2:36 | |
6 | Funeral March of a Marionette
| Charles‐François Gounod | 3:58 | |
7 | Ballet of the Sylphs from 'The Damnation of Faust'
| Hector Berlioz | 2:21 | |
8 | Dedication
| Robert Schumann | 2:31 | |
9 | Overture to 'The Merry Wives of Windsor'
| Otto Nicolai | 8:35 | |
10 | Blue Danube Waltz
| Johann Strauss II | 4:50 | |
11 | Scherzo from String Quartet no. 2
| Alexander Borodin | 4:18 | |
12 | Overture to 'Light Cavalry'
| Franz von Suppé | 4:28 | |
13 | Romance
| Anton Rubinstein | 3:31 | |
14 | Hungarian Dance no. 5
| Johannes Brahms | 2:39 | |
15 | Grand March from 'Tannhäuser'
| Richard Wagner | 6:11 |
Inspiration and Grandeur (Concluded) / Pride and Tenderness RDCD 773 CD 3: | ||||
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# | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
1 | Champagne Galop
| Hans Christian Lumbye | 2:09 | |
2 | Skaters Waltz
| Émile Waldteufel | 6:51 | |
3 | Panis Angelicus
| César Franck | 4:12 | |
4 | Waltz from 'Coppelia'
| Léo Delibes | 3:14 | |
5 | Triumphal March from 'Aida'
| Giuseppe Verdi | 5:46 | |
6 | Overture to 'The Bartered Bride'
| Bedřich Smetana | 6:35 | |
7 | Humoresque
| Antonín Dvořák | 3:39 | |
8 | Habanera from 'Carmen'
| Georges Bizet | 2:31 | |
9 | The Maiden and the Nightingale from 'Goyescas'
| Enrique Granados | 4:38 | |
10 | Anitra's Dance from 'Peer Gynt'
| Edvard Grieg | 3:41 | |
11 | Dance of the Water Nymphs from 'The Lorelei'
| Alfredo Catalani | 7:02 | |
12 | Waltz from 'Swan Lake'
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 4:49 | |
13 | Song of India from 'Sadko'
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 3:11 | |
14 | March of the Little Lead Soldiers
| Gabriel Pierné | 3:23 | |
15 | A Night on the Bare Mountain
| Modest Mussorgsky | 9:01 |
Triumph and Passion / Joy and Splendour (Part 1) RDCD 774 CD 4: | ||||
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# | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
1 | España
| Emmanuel Chabrier | 6:33 | |
2 | O mio babbino caro from 'Gianni Schicchi'
| Giacomo Puccini | 2:43 | |
3 | To a Water Lily
| Edward MacDowell | 3:12 | |
4 | Golliwogg's Cakewalk
| Claude Debussy | 2:44 | |
5 | Polka from 'Schwanda the Bagpiper'
| Jaromír Weinberger | 2:25 | |
6 | Depuis le jour from 'Louise'
| Gustave Charpentier | 4:03 | |
7 | Intermezzo from 'Cavalleria rusticana'
| Pietro Mascagni | 4:00 | |
8 | Nimrod from 'Enigma Variations'
| Edward Elgar | 3:26 | |
9 | Dance of the Seven Veils from 'Salome'
| Richard Strauss | 9:03 | |
10 | Intermezzo from 'Karelia' Suite
| Jean Sibelius | 4:01 | |
11 | Dambusters March
| Eric Coates | 4:21 | |
12 | Overture to 'Susanna’s Secret'
| Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari | 2:55 | |
13 | Demande et réponse from 'Petite Suite de Concert'
| Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | 4:43 | |
14 | March of the Toys from 'Babes in Toyland'
| Victor Herbert | 2:46 |
Joy and Splendour (Concluded) / Romance and Patriotism (Part 1) RDCD 775 CD 5: | ||||
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# | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
1 | Stars and Stripes Forever
| John Philip Sousa | 3:36 | |
2 | Berceuse from 'Dolly' Suite
| Gabriel Fauré | 3:17 | |
3 | The Swan from 'Carnival of the Animals'
| Camille Saint‐Saëns | 3:31 | |
4 | Musical Snuffbox
| Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov | 2:09 | |
5 | Zigeunerweisen
| Pablo de Sarasate | 5:12 | |
6 | Autumn Festival from 'The Seasons'
| Alexander Glazunov | 4:26 | |
7 | Slow Movement from 'Ballet Egyptien'
| Alexandre Luigini | 4:40 | |
8 | Overture to 'The Yeomen of the Guard'
| Arthur Sullivan | 5:09 | |
9 | Méditation from 'Thaïs'
| Jules Massenet | 4:26 | |
10 | Swedish Rhapsody
| Hugo Alfvén | 3:12 | |
11 | Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, 18th Variation
| Sergei Rachmaninov | 3:21 | |
12 | Rustle of Spring
| Christian Sinding | 2:31 | |
13 | Love’s Joy
| Fritz Kreisler | 3:52 | |
14 | Pavane for a Dead Princess (excerpt)
| Maurice Ravel | 5:38 | |
15 | Ritual Fire Dance from 'El amor brujo'
| Manuel de Falla | 3:46 | |
16 | Pines of the Appian Way from 'The Pines of Rome'
| Ottorino Respighi | 5:10 |
Romance and Patriotism (Concluded) / Excitement and Enchantment RDCD 776 CD 6: | ||||
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# | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
1 | Galop from 'The Comedians'
| Dmitri Kabelevsky | 1:36 | |
2 | Marching Song
| Gustav Holst | 4:11 | |
3 | Folk Songs from Somerset March
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | 3:15 | |
4 | Touch Her Soft Lips and Part from the Film 'Henry V'
| William Walton | 1:34 | |
5 | On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
| Frederick Delius | 6:36 | |
6 | Hora Staccato
| Grigoraș Dinicu | 2:16 | |
7 | Sabre Dance from 'Gayaneh'
| Aram Khachaturian | 2:35 | |
8 | Rhapsody in Blue (shortened version)
| George Gershwin | 2:54 | |
9 | Fireworks
| Igor Stravinsky | 4:00 | |
10 | Finale to 'the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'
| Benjamin Britten | 2:50 | |
11 | Little Train of the Brazilian Countryman
| Heitor Villa‐Lobos | 3:27 | |
12 | March from 'The Love of Three Oranges'
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1:28 | |
13 | Gypsy Love Waltz
| Franz Lehár | 3:06 | |
14 | Intermezzo from 'Háry János'
| Zoltán Kodály | 5:02 | |
15 | Overture to 'Candide'
| Leonard Bernstein | 4:23 | |
16 | On the Trail from 'The Grand Canyon' Suite
| Ferde Grofé | 4:58 | |
17 | Sleigh Ride
| Leroy Anderson | 3:07 | |
18 | Tropical
| Morton Gould | 3:12 | |
19 | Simple Gifts from 'Appalachian Spring'
| Aaron Copland | 4:40 |