Ultimate Classical Spectacular - The Essential Masterpieces

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Album Summary

Performers

• Alan Loveday (Violin)
• Christopher Warren-Green (Violin)

Conductors

• Ashkenazy, Vladimir
• Dutoit, Charles
• Marriner, Sir Neville
• Salonen, Esa-Pekka

Ensemble

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Composers

• Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887)
• Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 - 1894)
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
• Mikhail Glinka (1804 - 1857)
• Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
• Mily Balakirev (1837 - 1910)
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
• Paul Dukas (Composer) (1865 - 1935)
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)

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Works Details

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : 1812 Overture, Op. 49

• Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Running Time: 17 min. 44 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1880

Balakirev, Mily : Oriental Fantasy for Piano, Op. 18 "Islamey"

• Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Running Time: 9 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1869

Borodin, Alexander : Prince Igor :: Polovtsian Dances. Dance of the Maiden

• Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1869-1887

Borodin, Alexander : Prince Igor :: Polovtsian Dances. Dances with Chorus

• Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Running Time: 11 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1869-1887

Borodin, Alexander : In the steppes of central Asia

• Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Notes: Composition written: 1880.
• Running Time: 8 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1880

Glinka, Mikhail : Ruslan and Lyudmila :: Ruslan and Ludmilla, G. xivov

• Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
• Running Time: 4 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1837-1842

Ravel, Maurice : Boléro

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 14 min. 35 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1928

Glinka, Mikhail : Capriccio brillante on the Jota Aragonesa (Spanish Overture no 1), for orchestra, G. ii3

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 8 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1845

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Capriccio italien, Op. 45

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 14 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1880

Chabrier, Emmanuel : España, rhapsody for orchestra (also vers. for 2 pianos)

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Notes: Composition written: 1883.
• Running Time: 6 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1883

Berlioz, Hector : La damnation de Faust, Op. 24

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 4 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 11/1845-10/1846

Ravel, Maurice : Pavane pour une infante défunte

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 6 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1899

Dukas, Paul [Composer] : The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier), symphonic scherzo for orchestra

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 11 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1897

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921) : Danse macabre in G minor, Op. 40

• Performer: Alan Loveday (Violin)
• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 6 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1874

Debussy, Claude : Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 10 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1894

Chabrier, Emmanuel : Joyeuse marche "Marche française"

• Conductor: Sir Marriner
• Running Time: 3 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: March
• Written: 1888

Mussorgsky, Modest : Khovanschina :: Prelude

• Conductor: Charles Dutoit
• Running Time: 5 min. 36 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1872-1880

Mussorgsky, Modest : Night on the Bare Mountain

• Conductor: Charles Dutoit
• Running Time: 11 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1886

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

• Conductor: Charles Dutoit
• Running Time: 14 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1888

Mussorgsky, Modest : Pictures at an exhibition

• Conductor: Charles Dutoit
• Running Time: 30 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1874-1922

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : Scheherazade

• Performer: Christopher Warren-Green (Violin)
• Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
• Running Time: 45 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1888

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o Tsare Saltane), musical pictures (suite) for orchestra, Op. 57

• Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
• Running Time: 19 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1901

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : Flight of the Bumblebee

• Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
• Running Time: 1 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1901