The World's Favourite Classics - CD

Enter a world of emotion, enchantment and beauty with this stellar collection of best-loved classics

 

For the deepest musical enjoyment, there's simply nothing to match the melody, magic and passion of the classics. Here are the melodies you've known and cherised for years - musical masterpieces familiar from many a film or TV soundtrack and the inspiration for many a popular song . . . tunes rich in romance and memories.

Reflection & Meditation: Morning from ‘Peer Gynt’ (Grieg) • Largo From Symphony No. 9 (‘From The New World’) (Dvorák) • Fantasia On Greensleeves (Vaughan Williams) • Nimrod from ‘Enigma Variations’ (Elgar) • Sleepers Awake (Bach) • Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte (Ravel) • Méditation From ‘Thaïs’ (Massenet) • and more!

Romance & Passion: Moonlight Sonata – 1st Movement (Beethoven) • Clair De Lune (Debussy) • Für Elise (Beethoven) • Flower Duet from ‘Lakmé’ (Delibes) • Au Fond Du Temple Saint (‘Pearl Fishers’ Duet) (Bizet) • Intermezzo From ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ (Mascagni) • and more!

Power & Glory: Fanfare For The Common Man (Copland) • Toccata And Fugue In D Minor (Bach) • Hallelujah Chorus (Handel) • Ode To Joy (Beethoven) • Mars, The Bringer Of War (Holst) • O Fortuna from ‘Carmina Burana’ (Orff) (music from the Carlton Draught TV commercial) • Dies Irae from ‘Requiem’ (Verdi) • and more!

Grace & Elegance: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – 4th Movement (Mozart) • Summer from ‘The Four Seasons’ (Vivaldi) • Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba (Handel) • Overture To ‘The Magic Flute’ (Mozart) • Hornpipe from ‘The Water Music’ Suite (Handel) • Trumpet Tune And Air (Purcell) • and more!

Sound & Spectacle: Sunrise from ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’ (R. Strauss) (Featured in the film ‘2001 – A Space Odyssey’) • ‘The Hebrides’ Overture (Fingal’s Cave) (Mendelssohn) • The Moldau from ‘Ma Vlast’ (Smetana) • ‘William Tell’ Overture (Rossini) • Montagues And Capulets from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Prokofiev) • and more!

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