Description: 2 sound discs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

Other Title: Additional title on container: Classical album 2011

Notes:

• Title from container.
• Compact discs.
• Various performers.
• Sung in French, German, Italian, Latin, or Spanish.

Contents:

• disc 1. Symphony no. 5 in C minor. Allegro con brio / Beethoven (Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra ; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor) (7:24)
• Norma. Casta diva / Bellini (Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano ; International Chamber Soloists ; Orchestra La Scintilla ; Adam Fischer, conductor) (6:42)
• Liebestraum no. 3 in A-flat major / Liszt (Lang Lang, piano) (4:44)
• Thaïs. Méditation / Massenet (Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin ; Wiener Philharmoniker ; James Levine, conductor) (6:42)
• Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro / Puccini (Anna Netrebko, soprano ; Mahler Chamber Orchestra ; Claudio Abbado, conductor) (2:50)
• Jazz suite no. 2. Waltz no. 2 / Shostakovich (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ; Riccardo Chailly, conductor) (3:41)
• Tosa. E lucevan le stelle / Puccini (Jonas Kaufmann, tenor ; Prague Philharmonic Orchestra ; Marco Armiliato, conductor) (3:21)
• La fille mal gardée. Clog dance / Hérold ; arr. Lanchbery (Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; John Lanchberry, conductor) (2:11)
• Waltz no. 6 in D-flat major, op. 64, no. 1, "Minute" / Chopin (Alice Sara Ott, piano) (1:54)
• Après un rêve / Fauré (Nicola Benedetti, violin ; Alexei Grynyuk, piano) (2:47)
• Hungarian dance no. 1 in G minor / Brahms (Budapest Festival Orchestra ; Iván Fischer, conductor) (3:11)
• Piano sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor. Adagio sostenuto, "Moonlight" / Beethoven (Daniel Barenboim, piano) (6:34)
• La bohème. Che gelida manina / Puccini (Roberto Alagna, tenor ; Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Riccardo Chailly, conductor) (4:37)
• The nutcracker. Chinese dance / Tchaikovsky (Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) (1:13)
• Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. Introduction ; Variations 1-6 / Rachmaninov (Tamás Vásáry, piano ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Yuri Ahronovitch, conductor) (3:34)
• Vesperae solennes de confessore. Laudate Dominum / Mozart (Danielle de Niese, soprano ; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ; Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor) (4:28)
• Le nozze di Figaro. Non più andrai / Mozart (Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; James Levine, conductor) (3:54)
• Gnossienne no.1 / Satie (Pascal Rogé, piano) (3:42)
• First book of clavichord pieces. Le coucou / Daquin (Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord) (1:57)
• The four seasons. Summer. Presto / Vivaldi (Alan Loveday, violin ; Simon Preston, organ, harpsichord ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor) (2:54)

• disc 2. O sole mio / Di Capua (Luciano Pavarotti, tenor ; National Philharmonic Orchestra ; Giancarlo Chiaramello, conductor) (3:25)
• Grandes études de Paganini. No. 3: La campanella / Liszt (Yundi Li, piano) (4:42)
• Madama Butterfly. Un bel dì vedremo / Puccini (Renée Fleming, soprano ; London Philharmonic Orchestra ; Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor) (4:52)
• Schindler's list. Main theme / Williams (Janine Jansen, violin ; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; Barry Wordsworth, conductor) (3:43)
• Frühlingsstimmen / Strauss II (Wiener Philharmoniker ; Willi Boskovsky, conductor) (6:02)
• Concerto for 2 violins in D minor. Largo ma non tanto / Bach (Julia Fischer, Alexander Sitkovetsky, violins ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields) (6:41)
• Nocturne no. 2 in E-flat major, op. 9, no. 2 / Chopin (Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano) (3:59)
• Trumpet concerto in E-flat major. Allegro / Haydn (Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor) (4:25)
• Granada / Lara (Plácido Domingo, tenor ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Marcel Peeters, conductor) (3:54)
• Recuerdo de la Alhambra / Tárrega (Eduardo Fernández, guitar) (4:43)
• Fantasia para un gentilhombre. Danza de las Hachas / Rodrigo (Carlos Bonell, guitar ; Orchestra symphonique de Montréal ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) (2:03)
• Die Walküre. Ride of the Valkyries / Wagner (Wiener Philharmoniker ; Sir Georg Solti, conductor) (3:03)
• Toccata and fugue in D minor. Toccata / Bach (Simon Preston, organ) (2:31)
• Carmina Burana. Ecce gratum / Orff (Rundfunkchor Berlin ; Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin ; Riccardo Chailly) (2:43)
• Piano concerto no. 5 in E-flat major. Adagio un poco mosso / Beethoven (Hélène Grimaud, piano ; Staatskapelle Dresden ; Vladimir Jurowski, conductor) (8:05)
• Le nozze di Figaro. Voi che sapete / Mozart (Magdalena Kožená, soprano ; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor) (3:06)
• Pelléas et Mélisande, op. 80. Sicilienne / Fauré (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor) (3:52)
• Kinderszenen. Träumerei / Schumann (Nelson Freire, piano) (2:30)
• Gayaneh. Sabre dance / Khachaturian (Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg ; Valery Gergiev, conductor) (2:10)
• Peer Gynt suite no. 1. In the hall of the mountain king / Grieg (San Francisco Symphony ; Herbert Blomstedt, conductor).

Publisher or Distributor Number: B0015662-02

Control Number: 807356

UPC: 028947829447

Subjects:

• Music.
• Operas -- Excerpts.