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).
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