Spectacular Classics

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Title: Spectacular Classics

Composer: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990); George Gershwin (1898 - 1937); Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899); Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958); Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827); Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843 - 1907); Aram Il'yich Khachaturian (1903 - 1978); Gustav(us Theodore von) Holst (1874 - 1934); Ron Goodwin (b 1925); Thomas (Augustine) Arne (1710 - 1778)

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Recomended Retail Price: 12.99 GBP

Label / Distributor: Virgin Records / EMI

Pieces in Set: 3

Genre(s): Stage works, Orchestral, Vocal and choral

Stereo: Stereo

SPAR Code: DDD

EAN: 724386472625

Work 1

Work Title: Candide

Excerpt(s): 1. Overture

Composer: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1956

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 2

Work Title: Porgy and Bess

Excerpt(s): 1. Summertime

Composer: George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1935

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 3

Work Title: An der schönen, blauen Donau, 'Blue Danube', Op. 314

Excerpt(s): 1. An der schönen, blauen Donau, 'Blue Danube', Op. 314

Composer: Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1867

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 4

Work Title: Rhapsody in Blue

Excerpt(s): 1. Opening
2. Andantino moderato (theme)

Composer: George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1924

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 5

Work Title: (The) Lark ascending

Excerpt(s): 1. Waltz 2
2. (The) Lark ascending

Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1914, rev 1920

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 6

Work Title: Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' in F, Op. 68

Excerpt(s): 1. Pavane, Op. 50
2. Allegro ma non troppo (Awakening of cheerful feelings...in the country)
3. Andante molto mosso (By the brook)
4. Allegro (Merry gathering of country folk)
5. Allegro (Thunderstorm)
6. Allegretto (Shepherds' Song. Happy & thankful feelings after the Storm)

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1808

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 7

Work Title: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor, Op. 16

Excerpt(s): 1. Boléro
2. Allegro molto moderato
3. Cadenza
4. Adagio
5. Allegro moderato molto e marcato

Composer: Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843 - 1907)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1868

Work 10

Genre: Stage works

Work 7

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 8

Work Title: Spartacus

Excerpt(s): 1. (The) Banks of Green Willow
2. EXCERPTS_ACT 1 - Introduction
3. The Triumph of Rome; The Slaves brought before Crassus; Spartacus
4. The Slave Market; Spartacus and Phrygia parting; Phrygia alone
5. The orgy at Crassus' villa; Scene-dance; Variation of Aegina; Final Bacchanalia scene
6. The fight of the Gladiators
7. Death of a Gladiator; The Gladiators rise up
8. ACT 2 - Introduction
9. The Appian Way; The Shepherd's dance; Spartacus' call to arms - The uprising; Spartacus proclaimed leader; Spartacus sea
10. Crassus' villa - The Feast; Dance of Aegina; The Feast continues; Crassus and Aegina - adagio; Variation; Dance and comi
11. ACT 3 - Introduction
12. Conspiracy; Crassus swears revenge; Aegina schemes to help Crassus
13. Spartacus' encampment; Phrygia - adagio; Phrygia and Spartacus - adagio
14. Treason; Spartacus prepares for the battle; Spartacus' anguish at the doubt of some of his captains; Oath of Loyalty; En
15. The Final Battle; Death of Spartacus; Lament of Phrygia and Requiem

Composer: Aram Il'yich Khachaturian (1903 - 1978)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1954 rev 1968

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 9

Work Title: (The) Planets, H125 (Op. 32)

Excerpt(s): 1. Colonel Bogey
2. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

Composer: Gustav(us Theodore von) Holst (1874 - 1934)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1916

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 10

Work Title: Where Eagles Dare

Excerpt(s): 1. Main Title (March)
2. Main Title

Composer: Ron Goodwin (b 1925)

Date Written: 1969

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 11

Work Title: (The) British grenadiers

Excerpt(s): 1. Battle of Britain Theme (main theme)
2. (The) British grenadiers

Composer: Thomas (Augustine) Arne (1710 - 1778)

Genre: Vocal & Choral

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 12

Work Title: Shepherd's Hey, BFMS16

Excerpt(s): 1. Allegro non troppo
2. Shepherd's Hey, BFMS16

Composer: (George) Percy (Aldridge) Grainger (1882 - 1961)

Genre: Orchestral

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 13

Work Title: Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39

Excerpt(s): 1. Jack's the Lad (Hornpipe)
2. No. 4 in G (1907)

Composer: Sir Edward (William) Elgar (1857 - 1934)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1901-1930

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 14

Work Title: Pictures at an Exhibition

Excerpt(s): 1. Rule Britannia
2. Baba-jaga

Composer: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1874

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 15

Work Title: Pictures at an Exhibition

Excerpt(s): 1. No. 1 in D (1901)
2. Great Gate at Kiev

Composer: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1874

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 16

Work Title: Ruslan and Lyudmila

Excerpt(s): 1. Jerusalem
2. Overture

Composer: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1842

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 17

Work Title: Prince Igor

Excerpt(s): 1. 1812, Op. 49
2. Polovtsian Dances

Composer: Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin (1833 - 1887)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1890

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 18

Work Title: Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

Excerpt(s): 1. Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1934

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 19

Work Title: Gianni Schicchi

Excerpt(s): 1. O mio babbino caro

Composer: Giacomo (Antonia Domenico Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini (1858 - 1924)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1918

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 20

Work Title: (Le) Carnaval des animaux, 'Carnival of the Animals'

Excerpt(s): 1. Introduction and royal march of the lion

Composer: (Charles) Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1886

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 21

Work Title: Crown Imperial

Excerpt(s): 1. Crown Imperial

Composer: William (Turner) Walton (1902 - 1983)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1937

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 22

Work Title: West Side Story

Excerpt(s): 1. Somewhere

Composer: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1957

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 23

Work Title: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23

Excerpt(s): 1. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso
2. Andantino semplice
3. Allegro con fuoco

Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1875 Revised 1879 and 1889

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 24

Work Title: Cavalleria rusticana

Excerpt(s): 1. Intermezzo

Composer: Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1890

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 25

Work Title: Masquerade

Excerpt(s): 1. SUITE - Waltz

Composer: Aram Il'yich Khachaturian (1903 - 1978)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1941

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 26

Work Title: Romeo and Juliet

Excerpt(s): 1. Suite No. 2, Op. 64b (1936) - Montagues and Capulets

Composer: Sergey (Sergeyevich) Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)

Genre: Stage works

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 27

Work Title: Concierto de Aranjuez

Excerpt(s): 1. Adagio

Composer: Joaquín Rodrigo (1901 - 1999)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1939

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 28

Work Title: Titanic

Excerpt(s): 1. My Heart Will Go On (Symphonic Version)

Composer: James Horner (b 1953)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1997

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 29

Work Title: (The) Dam Busters

Excerpt(s): 1. March

Composer: Eric Coates (1886 - 1957)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1954

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 30

Work Title: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

Excerpt(s): 1. Spitfire Prelude and Fugue

Composer: William (Turner) Walton (1902 - 1983)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1942

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 31

Work Title: (Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 2, '(Die) Walküre'

Composer: (Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1850

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 32

Work Title: (The) Firebird

Excerpt(s): 1. Finale

Composer: Igor (Fyodorovich) Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1919

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 33

Work Title: Symphony No. 9, 'Choral' in D minor, Op. 125

Excerpt(s): 1. Ode to Joy

Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1822-4

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 34

Work Title: Tahiti Trot, Op. 16

Excerpt(s): 1. Tahiti Trot, Op. 16

Composer: Dmitry (Dmitriyevich) Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1928

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 35

Work Title: Solomon, HWV67

Excerpt(s): 1. Sinfonia (Arrival of Queen of Sheba)

Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)

Genre: Vocal & Choral

Date Written: 1749

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 36

Work Title: (12) Concerti for Violin and Strings, '(Il) cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione', Op. 8

Excerpt(s): 1. Tempo impetuoso d'Estate

Composer: Antonio (Lucio) Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: Published 1725

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 37

Work Title: Karelia Suite, Op. 11

Excerpt(s): 1. No. 1, Intermezzo

Composer: Jean (Julius Christian) Sibelius (1865 - 1957)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1893

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 38

Work Title: Jazz Suite No. 2

Excerpt(s): 1. Waltz 2

Composer: Dmitry (Dmitriyevich) Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1938

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 39

Work Title: Pavane, Op. 50

Excerpt(s): 1. Pavane, Op. 50

Composer: Gabriel (Urbain) Fauré (1845 - 1924)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1887

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 40

Work Title: Boléro

Excerpt(s): 1. Boléro

Composer: (Joseph) Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1928

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 41

Work Title: (The) Banks of Green Willow

Excerpt(s): 1. (The) Banks of Green Willow

Composer: George (Sainton Kaye) Butterworth (1885 - 1916)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1913

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 42

Work Title: Colonel Bogey

Excerpt(s): 1. Colonel Bogey

Composer: Kenneth Joseph Alford (1881 - 1945)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: Published 1914

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 43

Work Title: (The) Great Escape

Excerpt(s): 1. Main Title (March)

Composer: Elmer Bernstein (b 1922)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1963

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 44

Work Title: 633 Squadron

Excerpt(s): 1. Battle of Britain Theme (main theme)

Composer: Ron Goodwin (b 1925)

Genre: Stage works

Date Written: 1963

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 45

Work Title: (4) English Dances, Op. 33

Excerpt(s): 1. Allegro non troppo

Composer: Malcolm (Henry) Arnold (1921-2006)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1951

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 46

Work Title: Fantasia on British Sea Songs

Excerpt(s): 1. Jack's the Lad (Hornpipe)

Composer: Sir Henry J(oseph) Wood (1869 - 1944)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1905

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 47

Work Title: Rule Britannia

Excerpt(s): 1. Rule Britannia

Composer: Thomas (Augustine) Arne (1710 - 1778)

Genre: Vocal & Choral

Date Written: 1740

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 48

Work Title: Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39

Excerpt(s): 1. No. 1 in D (1901)

Composer: Sir Edward (William) Elgar (1857 - 1934)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1901-1930

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 49

Work Title: Jerusalem

Excerpt(s): 1. Jerusalem

Composer: (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Parry (1848 - 1918)

Genre: Vocal & Choral

Date Written: 1916

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

Work 50

Work Title: 1812, Op. 49

Excerpt(s): 1. 1812, Op. 49

Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

Genre: Orchestral

Date Written: 1880

Main Performer: Claudio Abbado

Opera Part(s): Claudio Abbado

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