Summer in the Park

Summer is the season of music - from the chirping birds to the buzzing flies, the rushing river to the rustling of flowers in the breeze, that infinite stillness that hangs in the air as the sun sets behind the trees. Summer in the Park, the fourth release in EMI Classics' bestselling In the Park series, offers a collection of timeless recordings that celebrate the sounds of those hot summer days and cool summer nights. Opening with the majesty of Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite, the collection then takes the listener on a summer day's journey filled with the lazily-drifting rhythms of Debussy's En Bateau, the elegance of Saint-Saëns' The Swan, the skittering playfulness of Mussorgsky's Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks, before ending with serene stillness of Arvo Pärt's extraordinary Spiegel im Spiegel. Including renowned artists such as Sir Simon Rattle, Andre Previn, Ingrid Fliter, Sabine Meyer and more, Summer in the Park provides the perfect backdrop to the warmer months.

Summer is the season of music - from the chirping birds to the buzzing flies, the rushing river to the rustling of flowers in the breeze, that infinite stillness that hangs in the air as the sun sets behind the trees. Summer in the Park, the fourth release in EMI Classics' bestselling In the Park series, offers a collection of timeless recordings that celebrate the sounds of those hot summer days and cool summer nights.

Opening with the majesty of Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite, the collection then takes the listener on a summer day's journey filled with the lazily-drifting rhythms of Debussy's En Bateau, the elegance of Saint-Saëns' The Swan, the skittering playfulness of Mussorgsky's Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks, before ending with serene stillness of Arvo Pärt's extraordinary Spiegel im Spiegel.

Including renowned artists such as Sir Simon Rattle, Andre Previn, Ingrid Fliter, Sabine Meyer and more, Summer in the Park provides the perfect backdrop to the warmer months.

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Grofé, Ferde : Grand Canyon Suite :: Sunrise

Conductor: Felix Slatkin
Running Time: 5 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Written: 1931

Offenbach, Jacques : Les Contes d'Hoffmann :: Barcarolle

Conductor: Sir Marriner
Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Form: Opera/Operetta

Handel, George Frideric : Water Music Suite no 1 in F :: 8. Bourrée

Conductor: Hans-Martin Linde
Ensemble: Linde Consort
Notes: Composition written: 1717.
Running Time: 2 min. 14 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1717

Debussy, Claude : Petite Suite :: En bateau

Conductor: Jean-Bernard Pommier
Running Time: 3 min. 44 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1888-1889

Chopin, Frédéric : Waltz for piano no 6 in D flat major ("Minute"), Op. 64/1, CT. 212

Performer: Ingrid Fliter (Piano)
Running Time: 1 min. 51 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1846-1847

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : The Nutcracker :: Waltz of the Flowers

Conductor: Andre Previn
Running Time: 6 min. 55 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1892

Mussorgsky, Modest : Pictures at an Exhibition :: Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

Conductor: Simon Rattle
Running Time: 1 min. 15 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1874-1922

Saint-Saëns, Camille : Carnaval des animaux :: The Swan

Performers: Aline Brewer (Harp); Han-Na Chang (Cello)
Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1886

Bizet, Georges : Jeux d'enfants, for piano 4 hands, Op. 22 :: 1. Marche

Conductor: Järvi Paavo
Running Time: 2 min. 15 sec.
Period Time: Romantic
Written: 1871

Elgar, Edward : Salut d'amour

Conductor: Richard Hickox
Running Time: 3 min. 52 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Written: 1888

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A major, K 581 :: 1. Allegro

Performer: Sabine Meyer (Clarinet)
Running Time: 9 min. 21 sec.
Period Time: Classical
Form: Chamber Music
Written: 1789

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Orchestral Suite no 3 in D, BWV1068 :: 2. Air

Conductor: Philip Ledger
Running Time: 4 min. 48 sec.
Period Time: Baroque
Written: 1731

Delius, Frederick : Small Tone Poems (3) :: Summer Evening

Conductor: Richard Hickox
Running Time: 6 min. 32 sec.
Period Time: Post Romantic
Form: Orchestral
Written: 1890

Stravinsky, Igor : L'Oiseau de feu :: Disappearance of the Palace

Conductor: Simon Rattle
Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
Period Time: Modern
Form: Ballet
Written: 1910

Pärt, Arvo : Spiegel im Spiegel

Performers: Tasmin Little (Violin); Martin Roscoe (Piano)
Running Time: 8 min. 13 sec.
Period Time: Contemporary
Written: 1978

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