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The Legend Of The Orchestra

	Release Date: 10/20/2009 Label: Virgin Classics Catalog #: 94539 Spars Code: n/a Composer: Richard Strauss, Carl Orff, Edvard Grieg, Hector Berlioz, Samuel Barber, Georges Bizet, Claude Debussy, Alexander Borodin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Leonard Bernstein, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, Emmanuel Chabrier, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Sir Edward Elgar, Gabriel Fauré, Sergei Prokofiev, George Frideric Handel, Aram Khachaturian, Maurice Ravel, Benjamin Britten, Felix Mendelssohn, Camille Saint-Saëns, Igor Stravinsky, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jacques Offenbach Conductor: Rudolf Kempe, David Hill, Paavo Järvi, Georges Prêtre, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Michel Plasson, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Sir Charles Mackerras, André Cluytens, Edo De Waart, Dmitri Kitayenko, John Lanchbery, Sir Philip Ledger, Yehudi Menuhin, Paul Tortelier, Alex Briger, Igor Markevitch, Barry Wordsworth, Richard Stamp, Kent Nagano, Christopher Warren-Green, Herbert von Karajan Orchestra/Ensemble: Dresden Staatskapelle, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Society of the Conservatory Concerts Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of London, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra Number of Discs: 2 Recorded in: Stereo	CD $15.99 In Stock

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The thrilling sounds of the orchestra in its many incarnations from the 17th century to the 20th are captured on the 36 tracks of this collection …The mystery and splendour of the opening item, Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra … The elegiac beauty of Barber’s Adagio for Strings … The jazzy swagger of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story … The courtly dignity of Charpentier’s Te Deum (better known as the Eurovision theme tune) … The arrogant strides of the ‘Dance of the Knights’ from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet … The sweep and grace of the waltz from Swan Lake … All in all, the ultimate orchestral feast, featuring conductors such as Karajan, Menuhin, Prêtre, Kempe, Järvi, Plasson, Mackerras and Nagano.


Works on This Recording			Back to Top

1.	Also Sprach Zarathustra: Sunrise by Richard Strauss
	Conductor: Rudolf Kempe Orchestra/Ensemble: Dresden Staatskapelle Period: Romantic Written: 1895-1896; Germany	Length: 1 Minutes 53 Secs.


2.	Carmina Burana: Tanz by Carl Orff
	Conductor: David Hill Orchestra/Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1936; Germany	Length: 1 Minutes 46 Secs.


3.	Peer Gynt: Morning Mood by Edvard Grieg
	Conductor: Paavo Järvi Orchestra/Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1875/1892; Norway	Length: 4 Minutes 12 Secs.


4.	La Damnation de Faust: Hungarian March by Hector Berlioz
	Conductor: Georges Prêtre Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris Period: Romantic Written: 1845-1846; France	Length: 4 Minutes 48 Secs.


5.	Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 by Samuel Barber
	Conductor: Jukka-Pekka Saraste Orchestra/Ensemble: Scottish Chamber Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1936; Rome, Italy	Length: 7 Minutes 14 Secs.


6.	L'Arlésienne, Orchestral Suite No. 1: Overture by Georges Bizet
	Conductor: Michel Plasson Orchestra/Ensemble: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1872; France	Length: 3 Minutes 34 Secs.


7.	Petite Suote: Ballet by Claude Debussy
	Conductor: Jean-Bernard Pommier Orchestra/Ensemble: Northern Sinfonia Period: 20th Century Written: 1886-1889; France	Length: 3 Minutes 24 Secs.


8.	Polovtsian Dance No. 1 by Alexander Borodin
	Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1869-1887; Russia	Length: 2 Minutes 14 Secs.


9.	The Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
	Conductor: André Cluytens Orchestra/Ensemble: Society of the Conservatory Concerts Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1903; Russia	Length: 1 Minutes 18 Secs.


10.	Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Prologue by Leonard Bernstein
	Conductor: Edo De Waart Orchestra/Ensemble: Minnesota Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1960; USA	Length: 4 Minutes 26 Secs.


11.	L'apprenti sorcier by Paul Dukas
	Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko Orchestra/Ensemble: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1897; France	Length: 11 Minutes 25 Secs.


12.	Valse Triste by Jean Sibelius
	Conductor: Paavo Järvi Orchestra/Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1903-1904; Finland	Length: 4 Minutes 48 Secs.


13.	España by Emmanuel Chabrier
	Conductor: Michel Plasson Orchestra/Ensemble: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1883; France	Length: 6 Minutes 15 Secs.


14.	The Nutcracker: Sugar Plum Fairy by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
	Conductor: John Lanchbery Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1891-1892; Russia	Length: 2 Minutes 26 Secs.


15.	Night on the Bare Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky
	Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko Orchestra/Ensemble: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1866; Russia	Length: 12 Minutes 52 Secs.


16.	Jeux d'enfants, Op. 22: Le Bal (Galop) by Georges Bizet
	Conductor: Michel Plasson Orchestra/Ensemble: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1871; France	Length: 1 Minutes 43 Secs.


17.	Waltz No. 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich
	Conductor: Paavo Järvi Orchestra/Ensemble: Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1938; USSR	Length: 3 Minutes 53 Secs.


18.	Te Deum: Prelude by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
	Conductor: Sir Philip Ledger Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Period: Baroque	Length: 1 Minutes 47 Secs.


19.	Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 by Sir Edward Elgar
	Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1901; England	Length: 5 Minutes 53 Secs.


20.	Holberg Suite, Op. 40: Prelude by Edvard Grieg
	Conductor: Paavo Järvi Orchestra/Ensemble: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1884; Norway	Length: 2 Minutes 48 Secs.


21.	Pavane, Op. 50 by Gabriel Fauré
	Conductor: Paul Tortelier Orchestra/Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1887; France	Length: 5 Minutes 33 Secs.


22.	Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights by Sergei Prokofiev
	Conductor: Paavo Järvi Orchestra/Ensemble: Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1935-1936; Paris, France	Length: 3 Minutes 58 Secs.


23.	Sarabande by George Frideric Handel
	Conductor: Alex Briger Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Period: Baroque	Length: 3 Minutes 24 Secs.


24.	Gayaneh: Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian
	Conductor: Paavo Järvi Orchestra/Ensemble: Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1942/1957; USSR	Length: 2 Minutes 29 Secs.


25.	Pavane pour une infante défunte by Maurice Ravel
	Conductor: Jean-Bernard Pommier Orchestra/Ensemble: Northern Sinfonia Period: 20th Century Written: 1899; France	Length: 6 Minutes 36 Secs.


26.	Swan Lake: Waltz by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
	Conductor: John Lanchbery Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1875-1876; Russia	Length: 7 Minutes 45 Secs.


27.	The Young person's guide to the orchestra: Theme by Purcell by Benjamin Britten
	Conductor: Igor Markevitch Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris Period: 20th Century Written: 1946; England	Length: 1 Minutes 3 Secs.


28.	A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo by Felix Mendelssohn
	Conductor: Barry Wordsworth Orchestra/Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1842; Germany	Length: 4 Minutes 36 Secs.


29.	Le Carnaval des animaux: Aquarium by Camille Saint-Saëns
	Conductor: Richard Stamp Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of London Period: Romantic Written: 1886; France	Length: 2 Minutes 27 Secs.


30.	Danse macabre in G minor, Op. 40 by Camille Saint-Saëns
	Conductor: Michel Plasson Orchestra/Ensemble: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1874; France	Length: 7 Minutes 0 Secs.


31.	Peter and the Wolf: Peter's theme by Sergei Prokofiev
	Conductor: Richard Stamp Orchestra/Ensemble: Academy of London Period: 20th Century Written: 1936; USSR	Length: 0 Minutes 56 Secs.


32.	The Rite of Spring: The Augurs of Spring. Dances of the Young Girls by Igor Stravinsky
	Conductor: Kent Nagano Orchestra/Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra Period: 20th Century	Length: 3 Minutes 22 Secs.

	Notes: Composition written: Switzerland (1911 - 1913). Composition revised: USA (1943).


33.	Fantasia on Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams
	Conductor: Christopher Warren-Green Orchestra/Ensemble: London Chamber Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1934; England	Length: 4 Minutes 17 Secs.


34.	In the steppes of central Asia by Alexander Borodin
	Conductor: Georges Prêtre Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1880; Russia	Length: 5 Minutes 52 Secs.


35.	Pictures at an exhibition: no 9, Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks by Modest Mussorgsky
	Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1874; Russia	Length: 1 Minutes 15 Secs.


36.	Gaîté Parisienne: Can-Can by Jacques Offenbach
	Conductor: Herbert von Karajan Orchestra/Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: France	Length: 1 Minutes 4 Secs.

	Notes: 'Gaîté Parisienne' is a pastiche of various works by Jacques Offenbach, selected and arranged as a ballet score by Manuel Rosenthal.

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