Mad about The Classics

• Album Summary
• Notes & Reviews
• Also Purchased
• Works Details

Album Summary

Performers

• Mischa Maisky (Cello)
• Isaac Stern (Violin)

Conductors

• Abbado, Claudio
• Barenboim, Daniel
• Bernstein, Leonard
• Bychkov, Semyon
• Chung, Myung-Whun
• Giulini, Carlo Maria
• Jarvi, Neeme
• Karajan, Herbert von
• Levine, James
• Maazel, Lorin
• Mehta, Zubin
• Sinopoli, Giuseppe

Ensembles

• 
• Bastille Opera Orchestra
• Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Gothenburg Artillery Division
• Gothenburg Churchbells
• Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
• Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
• New York Philharmonic
• Orchestre de Paris
• Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Composers

• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
• Carl Orff (1895 - 1982)
• Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)
• Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904)
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
• Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
• Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
• Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
• Johann Pachelbel (1653 - 1706)
• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
• Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
• Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945)
• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
• Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887)
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Reviews

There are currently no reviews, be the first one!

Also Purchased

Works Details

Strauss, Richard : Also Sprach Zarathustra :: Sunrise

• Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli
• Ensemble: New York Philharmonic
• Running Time: 1 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1896

Orff, Carl : Carmina burana :: O Fortuana

• Conductor: James Levine
• Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1935-1936

Bizet, Georges : Carmen, opera :: March of the Toreadors

• Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung
• Ensemble: Bastille Opera Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1873-1874

Mascagni, Pietro : Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act :: Intermezzo

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 4 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic

Offenbach, Jacques : Gaîté Parisienne :: Can can

• Conductor: Lorin Maazel
• Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1858

Grieg, Edvard : Peer Gynt :: Morning Mood

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 4 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1874-1875

Rossini, Gioachino : Guillaume Tell :: Finale

• Conductor: Herbert Karajan
• Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1829

Antonin Dvorák (1841 - 1904) : Symphony no 9 in E minor, Op. 95/B 178 "From the New World" :: Largo

• Conductor: Lorin Maazel
• Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
• Notes: Composition written: 01/10/1893-05/24/1893.
• Running Time: 4 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral

Wagner, Richard : Die Walküre :: The Ride of the Valkyries

• Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
• Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
• Running Time: 4 min. 55 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1854-1856

Borodin, Alexander : Prince Igor :: Flowing Dance of the Polovtsian Maiden

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 3 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1869-1887

Brahms, Johannes : Hungarian Dances (21) for orchestra, WoO 1 :: Hungarian Dance No 06

• Conductor: Claudio Abbado
• Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) : Carnival of the animals

• Performer: Mischa Maisky (Cello)
• Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
• Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
• Running Time: 3 min. 52 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1886

Vivaldi, Antonio : Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"

• Performer: Isaac Stern (Violin)
• Conductor: Zubin Mehta
• Ensemble: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1725

Bach, Johann Sebastian : Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147 :: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring

• Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 07/02/1723

Pachelbel, Johann : Canon and Gigue for 3 Violins and Basso Continuo in D major :: Canon in D

• Running Time: 4 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1700

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Eine Kleine Nachtmusik :: Allegro

• Running Time: 5 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1787

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67 :: Allegro con brio

• Conductor: Carlo Giulini
• Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 7 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1808

Grieg, Edvard : Peer Gynt :: In the Hall of the Mountain King

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Running Time: 2 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1874-1875

Stravinsky, Igor : Firebird :: Finale

• Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
• Ensemble: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1919

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : 1812 Overture, Op. 49 :: Finale

• Conductor: Neeme Järvi
• Ensemble: Gothenburg Churchbells
• Running Time: 4 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1880