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Audio Samples

Album Summary

Performers

• Gunter Kootz (Piano)
• Evelyn Lear (Soprano)
• Thomas Stewart
• Dieter Zechlin (Piano)
• Andreas Pistorius (Piano)
• Wladyslaw Kedra (Piano)
• Adele Stolte (Soprano)
• Annerose Schmidt (Piano)
• Rudolf Dunckel (Piano)
• Norman Shetler (Piano)

Conductors

• Fricke, Heinz
• Herbig, Gunther
• Koch, Helmut
• Masur, Kurt
• Neumann, Vaclav
• Rogner, Heinz
• Suitner, Otmar
• Wiesenhutter, Gerhard

Ensemble

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Composers

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
• Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
• Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
• Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
• Franz Schubert (Vienna) (1797 - 1828)
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
• Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Notes & Reviews:

As we've seen and heard these past months, Berlin Classics Basics offers the new classical listener a chance to collect the world's greatest music at low prices. At the same time seasoned collectors can avail themselves of treasured performances of the past. This disc, with a complete catalog, is a wonderful place for the novice to begin!

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Works Details

Handel, George Frideric : Der Messias :: Halleluja

• Conductor: Helmut Koch
• Running Time: 4 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1741

Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich : Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a :: Marsch

• Conductor: Heinz Rögner
• Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Ballet
• Written: 1892

Grieg, Edvard : Peer Gynt :: Solveig's Song

• Performer: Adele Stolte (Soprano)
• Conductor: Václav Neumann
• Running Time: 5 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1874-1875

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai : Flight of the Bumblebee

• Conductor: Gerhard Wiesenhutter
• Running Time: 3 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1901

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Concerto for Piano no 21 in C major, K 467 :: 2. Andante

• Performer: Annerose Schmidt (Piano)
• Conductor: Kurt Masur
• Running Time: 6 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1785

Handel, George Frideric : Water Music Suite no 1 in F major, HWV 348 :: Alla Hornpipe

• Conductor: Helmut Koch
• Notes: Composition written: 1717.
• Running Time: 4 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Written: 1717

Schubert, Franz : Winterreise, D 911/Op. 89

• Performer: Rudolf Dunckel (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1827

Brahms, Johannes : Hungarian Dances (21) for orchestra, WoO 1 :: no 5 in G minor

• Conductor: Václav Neumann
• Running Time: 2 min. 37 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Haydn, Franz Joseph : Symphony no 94 in G major, H 1 no 94 "Surprise" :: 2. Andante

• Conductor: Günther Herbig
• Running Time: 6 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Orchestral
• Written: 1791

Schumann, Robert : Kinderszenen, Op. 15

• Performer: Norman Shetler (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1838

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Bagatelle for piano in A minor ("Für Elise"), WoO 59

• Performer: Gunter Kootz (Piano)
• Running Time: 2 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1810

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Don Giovanni :: Là ci darem la mano

• Performers: Evelyn Lear (Soprano); Thomas Stewart
• Conductor: Heinz Fricke
• Running Time: 3 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1787

Beethoven, Ludwig van : Sonata for Piano no 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27/2 "Moonlight" :: Adagio sostenuto

• Performer: Dieter Zechlin (Piano)
• Running Time: 5 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Written: 1801

Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849) : Fantasy-Impromptu for piano in C sharp minor, Op. 66, CT. 46

• Performer: Andreas Pistorius (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 50 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1834

Liszt, Franz : Liebesträume for Piano, S 541

• Performer: Wladyslaw Kedra (Piano)
• Running Time: 3 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Written: 1843-1850

Verdi, Giuseppe : Nabucco :: Va pensiero, sull' al dorate (Prisoners' chorus)

• Conductor: Otmar Suitner
• Running Time: 4 min. 20 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Opera/Operetta
• Written: 1842

Debussy, Claude : Clair de lune

• Performer: Andreas Pistorius (Piano)
• Running Time: 4 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1890-1905