[ EMI / Virgin Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 2 November 2012
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With over 2.5 hours of classical favourites, this double album features the best and most popular names in classical music from the catalogues of both Virgin Classics and EMI Classics, including a number of brand new recordings by exciting young artists.
includes:
Beethoven:
Fidelio Overture Op. 72c
Otto Klemperer
Bizet:
Carmen: Prelude to Act I
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Les tringles des sistres tintaient (from Carmen)
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen)
Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
Delibes:
Les filles de Cadix
Tine Thing Helseth (trumpet)
Fauré:
Sicilienne, Op. 78
Gautier Capucon (cello)
Gluck:
Che faro' senza Euridice? (from Orfeo ed Euridice)
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Divinités du Styx (from Alceste)
Maria Callas (soprano)
Handel:
Atalanta: Overture
Alison Balsom (trumpet)
English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
Heggie:
This journey...This journey to Christ (from Dead Man Walking)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Leoncavallo:
Qual fiamma avea nel guardo!.... Hui! Stridono lassù (from I Pagliacci)
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Leontovich:
Carol of the Bells
Libera
Liszt:
Bist du!, S277
Diana Damrau (soprano)
Puccini:
Donde lieta usci (from La Bohème)
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Purcell:
Sound the trumpet, beat the drum, Z335
Alison Balsom (trumpet)
English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
Rachmaninov:
Vocalise, Op. 34 No. 14 - arrangement for orchestra
Vasily Petrenko
Rodgers, R:
The King And I: Overture
The John Wilson Orchestra, John Wilson
Verdi:
Ingemisco (from Requiem)
Rolando Villazon (tenor)
Vivaldi:
Vedro con mio diletto (from Giustino)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)