The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music (2009)

Track Listing

1. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: O Fortuna
2. Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air
3. Peer Gynt, incidental music, Op. 23: Morning Mood
4. Symphony No. 5 in C minor ("Fate"), Op. 67: Allegro con brio
5. Nocturne for piano No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109

1. Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: O Fortuna
2. Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air
3. Peer Gynt, incidental music, Op. 23: Morning Mood
4. Symphony No. 5 in C minor ("Fate"), Op. 67: Allegro con brio
5. Nocturne for piano No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109
6. Canon in D major, instrumental arrangement
7. Adagio for strings (or string quartet), Op. 11 (arr. from 2nd mvt. of String Quartet)
8. The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni), 4 concertos for violin, strings & continuo, Op. 8/1-4 ("Il cimento" Nos. 1-4): Spring. Allegro
9. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Ride of the Valkyries
10. Clair de lune, for piano (Suite Bergamasque No. 3), CD. 82/3 (L. 75/3)
11. Aida, opera: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves
12. The Planets, suite for orchestra & female chorus, Op. 32, H. 125: Jupiter
13. Symphony No. 9 in E minor ("From the New World"), B. 178 (Op. 95) (first published as No. 5): Largo
14. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048: Allegro
15. Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major ("Elvira Madigan") K. 467: Andante
16. Hungarian Dance for piano, 4 hands, in F sharp minor, WoO 1/5
17. Thaïs, opera in 3 acts: Meditation
18. Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, for orchestra in D major, Op. 39/1
19. Requiem for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K. 626: Lacrimosa
20. An der schönen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful, Blue Danube), waltz for orchestra (with chorus ad lib), Op. 314 (RV 314)
21. Bagatelle for piano in A minor ("Für Elise"), WoO 59
22. Carmen Suite for orchestra No. 2 (assembled by Ernest Guirard): Habanera
23. The Swan Lake, suite, Op. 20a: Scéne
24. Gymnopédie for piano No. 1
25. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ("Choral"), Op. 125: Ode to Joy
26. Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Overture
27. Ave Maria, for voice & piano, CG 89e (after Bach's Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
28. Peer Gynt, incidental music, Op. 23: In the Hall of the Mountain King
29. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor ("Moonlight"), Op. 27/2: Adagio sostenuto
30. Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik"), K. 525: Allegro
31. Adagio in G minor for strings & organ (previously attributed to Tomaso Albinoni)
32. Finlandia, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 26
33. Minuet in A major, arrangement (after String Quintet in E major, Op.11/5, G. 275)
34. Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550: Allegro molto
35. Cavatina (from "The Deer Hunter")
36. Slavonic Dance for orchestra No. 2 in E minor, B. 83/2 (Op. 46/2)
37. Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra ("Manzoni Requiem"): Dies irae - Tuba mirum
38. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor: Adagietto
39. Má Vlast (My Fatherland), symphonic poems (6), JB 1:112: Vitava
40. Pavane, for orchestra & chorus ad lib in F sharp minor, Op. 50
41. Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor ("Double"), BWV 1043: Vivace
42. Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts: Barcarolle
43. Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), opera, K. 620: Overture
44. Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major ("Alla Turca") K. 331 (K. 300i): Rondo Alla Turca
45. L' Arlésienne, suite for orchestra No. 1, from the incidental music: Prelude
46. Concerto Grosso in G minor ("Christmas Concerto"), Op. 6/8: Allegro
47. Radetzky-Marsch, for orchestra, Op. 228
48. Vocalise, instrumental arrangement, Op. 34/14
49. Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84: Overture
50. Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: Hallelujah Chorus