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Music : 100 Classical Hits
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028946255520
Format: Box set
Label: Belart
Manufacturer: Belart
Number Of Discs: 5
Publisher: Belart
Release Date: October 13, 2003
Running Time: 371 minutes
Sales Rank: 3316
Studio: Belart
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Disc 1:- 1. (Allegro) - Guy Touvron, Michael Copley, Heinz Holliger, Pina Carmirelli, Antonio Perez, Italo Colandrea, I Musici, Johann Sebastian Bach
- Habanera - Orchestre de Paris, Semyon Bychkov, Georges Bizet
- 1. Molto allegro - Frans Brüggen, Orchestra Of The 18th Century, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Variation 18 - Neeme Järvi, Bella Davidovich, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov
- 2. Menuetto - I Musici, Luigi Boccherini
- Jesu joy of man's desiring - St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, Neil Black, English Chamber Orchestra, Barry Rose, Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1. Adagio sostenuto - Claudio Arrau, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Dance of the Hours - Staatskapelle Dresden, Silvio Varviso, Amilcare Ponchielli
- Liebesfreud - Arthur Grumiaux, Istvan Hajdu, Fritz Kreisler
- Hungarian Dance No.5 in G minor - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur, Johannes Brahms
- 'Gloria all'Egitto' - Dresden State Opera Chorus, Chor der Staatsoper Dresden, Staatskapelle Dresden, Silvio Varviso, Giuseppe Verdi
- 4. Marche au supplice (Allegretto non troppo) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis, Hector Berlioz
- 1. Allegro molto appassionato - Henryk Szeryng, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Felix Mendelssohn
- Overture Orpheus in the Underworld - Philharmonia Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Jacques Offenbach
- 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' - Friedhelm Eberle, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur, Edvard Grieg
- 4. Sicilienne - Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, David Zinman, Gabriel Fauré
- Nulla in mundo pax, R.630 - Elly Ameling, English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate, Vittorio Negri, Antonio Vivaldi
- Recuerdos de la Alhambra - Pepe Romero, Francisco Tárrega
- Adagio from Spartacus: Onedin Line theme - Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev, Aram Il'yich Khachaturian
- Prelude (Sonnenaufgang) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Richard Strauss
- 13. Dance of the knights - Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev, Sergei Prokofiev
- Ouverture solennelle '1812,' Op.49 - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Disc 2:- Alla hornpipe - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum, George Frideric Handel
- Voices of Spring, Op.410 (Frühlingsstimmen) - Wiener Symphoniker, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Johann Strauss
- Boléro - Anna Barry, Hein Dekker, Orchestre de Paris, Semyon Bychkov, Maurice Ravel
- Le Cygne - Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Nelson Freire, Camille Saint-Saëns
- 4. Adagietto (Sehr langsam) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Gustav Mahler
- Nocturne No.2 in E flat, Op.9 No.2 - Claudio Arrau, Frédéric Chopin
- 1. Allegro moderato - Henryk Szeryng, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- No.2 Cavatina: 'Largo al factotum' - Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Philharmonia Orchestra, Ion Marin, Gioacchino Rossini, Anna Barry, Bram de Groot, Gosia Jankowska
- 1. Allegro con brio - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Overture - The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner, Gioacchino Rossini
- 'Pomp and Circumstance,' Op.39: March, No.1 in D - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Edward Elgar
- The Liberty Bell - Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell, John Philip Sousa
- L'Apprenti sorcier - Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, David Zinman, Paul Dukas
- 2. Largo - Federico Agostini, Michael Bremner, I Musici, Antonio Vivaldi, Ko Witteveen
- 2. Air - Bernd Runge, Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Peter Schreier, Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1. Allegro ma non tanto - Martha Argerich, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Riccardo Chailly, Sergey Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov
- 3. Sequentia: Dies irae - Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Peter Schreier, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 'La donna è mobile' - Neil Shicoff, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Giuseppe Verdi
- 2. Adagio cantabile - Claudio Arrau, Ludwig van Beethoven
- The Great Gate of Kiev - Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Disc 3:- Les toréadors - Orchestre de Paris, Semyon Bychkov, Georges Bizet
- 1. Allegro - I Musici, Pina Carmirelli, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Prelude: Morning Mood - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur, Edvard Grieg
- Liebestraum No.3 in A flat, S.541 No.3 - Arr. by Liszt from: O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst, S.298 - Claudio Arrau, Rupert Faustle, Ursula Singer, Volker Straus, Franz Liszt
- Adagio for Strings, Op.11 - I Musici, Samuel Barber
- Canon in D - I Musici, Johann Pachelbel
- 3. Alla Turca (Allegretto) - Claudio Arrau, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Entr'acte (Barcarolle) - Staatskapelle Dresden, Silvio Varviso, Jacques Offenbach
- No.9 Wedding March - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, George Szell, Felix Mendelssohn
- Ave Maria, 'Ellens Gesang III', D839 - Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin, Franz Schubert
- Jeux interdits (Romance) - Pepe Romero, Narciso Yepes
- Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 -'Für Elise' - Bella Davidovich, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Radetzky-Marsch, Op.228 - Wiener Volksopernorchester, Franz Bauer-Theussl, Johann Strauss
- Waltz No.6 in D flat, Op.64 No.1 -'Minute' - Nikita Magaloff, Frédéric Chopin
- Adagio for Strings and Organ in G minor - I Musici, Tomaso Albinoni
- No.1 - Costa Pilavachi, Reinbert de Leeuw, Rob Zimmerman, Erik Satie
- 1. Allegro - Federico Agostini, Michael Bremner, I Musici, Antonio Vivaldi, Ko Witteveen
- 'Vedi! le fosche notturne spoglie' (Anvil Chorus) - Chor der Staatsoper Dresden, Staatskapelle Dresden, Silvio Varviso, Giuseppe Verdi
Disc 4:- Marche hongroise - London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, Hector Berlioz
- 7. Badinerie - Bernd Runge, Irena Grafenauer, Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Peter Schreier, Johann Sebastian Bach
- Minuet in G, WoO 10 No.2 - I Musici, Ludwig van Beethoven
- 'Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate' - Chor der Staatsoper Dresden, Staatskapelle Dresden, Silvio Varviso, Giuseppe Verdi
- 2. Andante - Stephen Kovacevich, London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Pavane, Op.50 - Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Fournet, Gabriel Fauré
- An der schönen blauen Donau, Op.314 - Wiener Volksopernorchester, Franz Bauer-Theussl, Johann Strauss
- 1. Allegro - Ezio Servolo, Pepe Romero, Wilhelm Hellweg, I Musici, Antonio Vivaldi
- 1. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen - Claudio Arrau, Robert Schumann
- 7. Träumerei - Claudio Arrau, Robert Schumann
- 2. Allegretto - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Ludwig van Beethoven
- No.2 Valse (Corps de Ballet) - London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1. Allegro vivace - Orchestra Of The 18th Century, Frans Brüggen, Felix Mendelssohn
- Bacchanale - Staatskapelle Dresden, Silvio Varviso, Camille Saint-Saëns
- Rhapsody in Blue - Werner Haas, Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Edo de Waart, George Gershwin
- 42. 'Hallelujah' - Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Colin Davis, George Frideric Handel
- 4. Thema - Andantino - Variazioni I-V - Allegretto - Ingrid Haebler, Arthur Grumiaux, Georges Janzer, Eva Czako, Jacques Cazauran, Franz Schubert
- 3. Clair de lune - Zoltán Kocsis, Claude Debussy
- 'Nessun dorma' - José Carreras, London Symphony Orchestra, Jesús López-Cobos, Giacomo Puccini
- Gayaneh: Sabre Dance - Anna Barry, Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev, Aram Il'yich Khachaturian
Disc 5:- No.8 in G minor (Presto) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, AntonÃn Dvorák
- Ballet of the Chickens in Their Shells - Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
- 'Treulich geführt ziehet dahin' - Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Silvio Varviso, Richard Wagner, Marcus Herzog
- 1. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - - Martha Argerich, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Kyril Kondrashin, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 2. Largo - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis, AntonÃn Dvorák
- 2. Adagio - Alexandre Lagoya, Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Antonio de Almeida, Joaquin Rodrigo
- No. 13 Waltz of the Flowers - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Antal Doráti, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- No. 6 Andante grazioso in A 'Spring Song' - Werner Haas, Felix Mendelssohn
- 3. Rondo (Allegro) - Henryk Szeryng, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in D minor, S.359 No.2 (Corresponds with piano version no. 2 in C sharp minor) - Orch. Doppler - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Kurt Masur, Franz Liszt
- 4. Alla marcia (Allegro vivace assai) - - Netherlands Radio Chorus, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, Ludwig van Beethoven
- 2. Vltava (The Moldau) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Antal Doráti, Bedrich Smetana
- 3. Marche funèbre (Lento) - Nikita Magaloff, Frédéric Chopin
- Toccata - Daniel Chorzempa, Johann Sebastian Bach
- 2. Andante cantabile - I Musici, Franz Joseph Haydn
- Gloria in excelsis Deo - Vittorio Negri, Chorus Del Gran Teatro La Fenice, Orchestra Del Gran Teatro La Fenice, Antonio Vivaldi
- 4. Rondo (Allegro) - I Musici, Pina Carmirelli, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Polonaise No.3 in A, Op.40 No.1 - 'Military' - Nikita Magaloff, Frédéric Chopin
- 4. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Gustav Holst
- The Stars and Stripes Forever - Eastman Philharmonia, Howard Hanson, John Philip Sousa
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This is a great low cost box set which does exactly what it says on the box - it gives you 100 classical music hits, covering all the styles such as baroque, classical, romantic and modern, and includes music from all the popular composers.
Some of the tracks are simply excerpts from the full piece, for example Beethoven's Ninth symphony, originally over 60 minutes long, is reduced to a two and a half minute rousing chorus of the popular `Ode to Joy'. Likewise, Tchaikovsky's ... Read More
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If you are more inclined to call yourself serious about classical music, this box set will surely not bring you much in the way of new and exciting recordings. However, for a beginner (such as myself) this box set provides a good variety of perhaps the greatest and well known of classical pieces. It also gives you an idea of the different composers and their music, providing a foundation on which to build on. For beginners to classical music, highly recommended!!!
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Excellent way to get a good cross section of the popular classics at a great price.
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I've been a classical fan for many years and it has often been the case that classical compilation CDs that I've listened to have been short exerpts of composers' most famous works. This box set includes some of the best loved compositions and I really cannot fault the selection of the pieces. My main critique is that several tracks have been shortened to only what the makers consider to be 'the most famous bits' like the haunting opening to Bach's Toccata and Fugue, while leaving out some of the ... Read More
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