Classics for the People, Vol. 2
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Classics for the People, Vol. 2
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes, Philip Ellis, John Rigby, Barry Wordsworth, Robin Stapleton
[ Brilliant Classics SACD / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 30 November 2014
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The second volume of this well‐received series again features some of the world's most popular masterpieces of classical music performed by the ever‐reliable Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and some of the most experienced British conductors of our day.
From the grand opening of Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, promising an atheist sunrise of new and clearer light, to the
kitsch‐folk fantasy of Borodin's imaginative recreation of the lives and loves of the Tartars and the people of the Steppes in Prince Igor, this generous collection includes the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Verdi's Nabucco), the good burghers of Nuremburg (Wagner's Meistersinger), Rossini's sparkling
and flirtatious Italian Girl in Algiers, Bizet's cigarette‐toting Sevillian femme fatale
(Carmen), Mendelssohn's impressions of the Hebrides and Grieg's poetic idea of a sunset over the Arabian desert (Peer Gynt); truly a world tour in music.
Tracks:
Classics for the People, Vol. 2
CD1
1 R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
2 SUPPÉ Light Cavalry (Overture)
3 SOUSA The Stars and Stripes Forever
4 GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
Lucy Parham piano
5 LEHÁR Gold and Silver Waltz
6 VERDI Nabucco (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)
7 GRIEG Peer Gynt (Morning)
8 SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals (The Swan)
Tim Gill cello • Roderick Elms piano
9 VERDI Rigoletto (La donna è mobile)
Wynne Evans tenor
10 HOLST The Planets ( Jupiter)
Total time 60'07
CD2
1 WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Overture)
2 TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty (Waltz)
3 J. STRAUSS II Pizzicato Polka
4 BIZET Carmen (Prélude and Aragonaise • Les Toréadors)
5 MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)
6 MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (The Great Gate of Kiev)
7 PUCCINI Gianni Schicchi (O mio babbino caro)
Deborah Norman soprano
8 ROSSINI L'italiana in Algeri (Overture)
9 KHACHATURIAN Gayane (Sabre Dance)
10 BLISS Things to Come (March)
11 BORODIN Prince Igor (Polovtsian Dances)
Goldsmiths' Choral Union
Total time 67'18
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors:
Owain Arwel Hughes (CD1: 1, 6, 9, 10; CD2: 6, 7, 11)
Philip Ellis (CD1: 2, 4; CD2: 4, 9)
John Rigby (CD1: 3, 7; CD2: 1, 2, 5, 8)
Barry Wordsworth (CD1: 5; CD2: 3)
Robin Stapleton (CD2: 10)
