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3 Etudes de concert, S144/R5 (more info)
Composed by: Franz Liszt Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Alfred Cortot, piano
Rafal Blechacz, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Elizabeth Hainen, harp
Solomon, piano
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Elena Bezprozvannykh,
Carlo Zecchi,
Frederic Lamond, piano
William Wolfram, piano
Martha Argerich, piano
Jane Coop, piano
Recording date: 27 November 1905


1.   3 Grand Concert Etudes, S144/R5: No. 3 in D flat major, "Un sospiro" - 6:19


Linden Lea (arr. for male choir) (more info)
Composed by: Anonymous Ralph Vaughan Williams
Conducted by: Jan Schumacher


2.   Un Sospiro (arr. H. Renié) - 6:30


Salut d'amour, Op. 12 (more info)
Performed by: Bournemouth Sinfonietta Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Schwanen Salon Orchestra
Composed by: Edward Elgar
Conducted by: Georg Huber Adrian Leaper
Norman Del Mar,


3.   Salut d'amour, Op. 12 (version for orchestra) - 3:26


La boheme (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden Stockholm Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orchestra Berlin City Opera Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Symphony Orchestra Montreal Opera Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Eugene Goossens Orchestra Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin State Opera Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra, Rome Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Eugene Goossens Cesare Sodero Enrico Caruso Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Will Humburg Gaetano Merola Gerhard Steeger Rudolf Kempe Alberto Erede Victor Trucco Izler Solomon Giuseppe Antonicelli Walter Goehr Walter B. Rogers Rosario Bourdon Umberto Berrettoni Renato Cellini Fritz Zweig Frieder Weissmann Jacques Lacombe Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Alexander Rahbari Robert Heger Tullio Serafin Joseph Rescigno Charles Rosekrans Antonino Votto Thomas Beecham Heribert Beissel Vincenzo Bellezza Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Constantine Orbelian David Parry Mikko Franck Gerhard Wiesenhutter Eugene Szenkar
Manon Feubel, soprano
John McCormack, tenor
Nellie Melba, soprano
Anna-Lisa Bjorling, soprano
Antoine Belanger, tenor
Etienne Dupuis, baritone
Gianna Corbisiero, soprano
Maria Cebotari, soprano
Lisa Otto, soprano
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Tatiana Menotti, mezzo-soprano
Afro Poli, baritone
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Leonard Warren, baritone
Erna Berger, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Maria Caniglia, soprano
Lucrezia Bori, soprano
Aurora Rettore, soprano
Robert Easton, bass
Titta Ruffo, baritone
Hilde Gueden, soprano
Tito Schipa, tenor
Landon Ronald, piano
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Hjordis Schymberg, soprano
Carlo Forti, bass
Fabio Previati, baritone
Carmen Gonzales, soprano
Ivan Urbas, bass
Boaz Senator, baritone
Maria Zamboni, soprano
Grace Moore, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Nicola Moscona, bass
George Cehanovsky, baritone
Giuseppe de Luca, baritone
Giacinto Prandelli, tenor
Giovanni Inghilleri, baritone
Fernando Corena, baritone
Piero De Palma, tenor
Melchiorre Luise, bass
Ildebrando Santafe, bass
Patrice Munsel, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Franco Ricciardi,
William Dazeley, baritone
Andrew Shore, bass
Robert Merrill, baritone
Dora Labbette,
Stella Andreva,
Robert Alva,
John Reardon, baritone
Giorgio Tozzi,
Lucine Amara,
William Nahr,
Thomas Powell,
George del Monte,
Stanislav Benacka, bass
Jiri Sulzenko, bass
Richard Novak, bass
Ladislav Hallon, tenor
Elfriede Trotschel, soprano
Victoria de los Angeles, soprano
Marie McLaughlin, soprano
Maria Callas, soprano
Rolando Panerai, baritone
Heddle Nash, tenor
Browning Mummery, tenor
Frederic Collier, bass
Edouard Cotreuil, bass
Valerian Ruminski, bass
Mario Sammarco, baritone
Diana Soviero, soprano
Edward Johnson, tenor
Bidu Sayao, soprano
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Olga Guryakova, soprano
Carmen Dragon,
Raffaele Arie, bass
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Cynthia Haymon, soprano
Alastair Miles, bass
Renata Tebaldi, soprano
Manuel Spatafora, baritone
Carlo Badioli, bass
Anna Moffo, soprano
Eraldo Coda, bass
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Jonathon Welch, tenor
Agnieszka Piass, soprano
John Brownlee, baritone
Geraldine Farrar, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Marianne Fiset, soprano
Recording date: 12 December 1942


4.   Che gelida manina (La Boheme) - 4:28


Preludes, Book 1 (more info)
Composed by: Ignacy Jan Paderewski Chengzong Yin Claude Debussy
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Klara Kormendi, piano
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Noel Lee, piano
Francine Kay, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Jeff Mee, synthesizer
Francois-Joel Thiollier, piano
Jorge Federico Osorio, piano
Jack Richard Crossan, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Jane Coop, piano
Recording date: 25-28 November 1988


5.   Preludes, Book 1: No. 8: La fille aux cheveux de lin - 2:10


Lakme (more info)
Performed by: Victor Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Lamoureux Concert Association Orchestra Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin State Opera Orchestra Studio orchestra Paris Opera-Comique Orchestra Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Leo Delibes
Conducted by: Francois Ruhlmann Rosario Bourdon Albert Wolff Mario Bernardi Georges Sebastian Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Richard Bradshaw Bruno Seidler-Winkler Maurice Frigara David Parry Steven White
Diego Cossu, tenor
John McCormack, tenor
Alison McHardy, mezzo-soprano
Serena Lazzarini, soprano
Thelma Badaro, soprano
Anna Beretta, alto
Miliza Korjus, soprano
Claudine Collart, soprano
Feodor Chaliapin, bass
Mado Robin, soprano
Agnes Disney, mezzo-soprano
Simone LeMaitre, mezzo-soprano
Libero de Luca, baritone
Jean Borthayre, bass
Jacques Jansen, baritone
Pierre Germain, tenor
Jane Perriat, soprano
Edmond Chastenet, tenor
Camille Rouqetty, tenor
Leila Ben Sedira, soprano
Miguel Villabella, tenor
Robert Couzinou, baritone
Tito Schipa, tenor
Alessandra Ruffini, soprano
Bruno Pratico, bass-baritone
Aline Kutan, soprano
Mary Plazas, soprano
Bruce Ford, tenor
Dean Robinson, baritone
Adriana Kohutkova, soprano
Elizabeth Futtal, soprano
Maria Callas, soprano
Giuseppe Morino, tenor
Carlos Piantini,
Lily Pons, soprano
Barry Banks, baritone
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Monica Benvenuti, soprano
Diana Montague, mezzo-soprano
Marcel Wittrisch, tenor
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano
Carmelo Corrado Caruso, baritone
Tracy Dahl, soprano
Catherine Robbin, mezzo-soprano
Denisa Slepkovska, mezzo-soprano
Benjamin Butterfield, tenor
Recording date: 25 November 1925


6.   Lakme: Dome epais, "Flower Duet" - 5:24


3 Gymnopedies (arr. D. Sosin) (more info)
Composed by: Erik Satie
Judy Loman, harp
Donald Sosin,
Nora Shulman, flute


7.   Gymnopedie No. 1 (arr. for flute and harp) - 2:55


Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 (more info)
Composed by: Moriz Rosenthal Sergei Rachmaninov Fryderyk Chopin
Alfred Cortot, piano
Sandor Falvai, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Gergely Boganyi, piano
Jean-Francois Latour,
Idil Biret, piano
Balazs Szokolay, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Recording date: June 1989


8.   Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9, No. 2 - 4:24


String Quartet No. 2 in D major (more info)
Composed by: Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin
Recording date: 25-28 October 1993


9.   String Quartet No. 2 in D major: III. Notturno: Andante - 8:24


Turandot (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Laval Symphony Orchestra Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra Stockholm Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra RAI Symphony Orchestra, Turin Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Toronto Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra Czech Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Will Humburg Stanford Robinson Karl Bohm Walter Goehr Fritz Busch Dino Olivieri Mario Bernardi Franco Ghione Jacques Lacombe Fausto Cleva Nils Grevillius Michael Halasz Ondrej Lenard Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Richard Bradshaw Antonino Votto Constantine Orbelian David Parry Andrew Litton Ivan Anguelov Mikko Franck Frederic Chaslin Julian Bigg
Manon Feubel, soprano
Frances Ginzer, soprano
Mario Borriello, baritone
Renato Ercolani, tenor
Dennis O'Neill, tenor
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Clive Bayley, bass-baritone
Licia Albanese, soprano
Beniamino Gigli, tenor
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Giuseppe Nessi, tenor
Francesco Merli, tenor
Peter Dvorsky, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Magda Olivero, soprano
Gina Cigna, soprano
Thomas Harper, tenor
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Giovanna Casolla, soprano
Lando Bartolini, tenor
Masako Deguci, soprano
Francisco Heredia, tenor
Felipe Bou, bass
Armando Ariostini, baritone
Javier Mas, tenor
Jose Garcia-Quijada, baritone
Gorka Gerrikabeitia, tenor
Piero De Palma, tenor
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Galina Gorchakova,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Marc Hervieux, tenor
Nicola Zaccaria, bass
Mary Plazas, soprano
Peter Sidhom, baritone
Mark Le Brocq, tenor
Peter Wedd, tenor
Janez Lotric, tenor
Maria Callas, soprano
Giulio Mauri,
Jane Eaglen, soprano
Nicolai Gedda, tenor
Heinrich Tessmer, tenor
Hui He, soprano
Vicenc Esteve, tenor
Soile Isokoski, soprano
Jussi Bjorling, tenor
Eugenio Fernandi, tenor
Elisabetta Fusco, soprano
Pinuccia Perotti, soprano
Cornelia Ptassek, soprano
Paul Schoffler, baritone
Otto Sigmund, tenor
Anne Roselle, soprano
Simon Bailey, bass
Alessandra Marc, soprano
Richard Margison, tenor
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
John Oakman, tenor
Recording date: 14-15 September, 1938


10.   Nessun dorma (Turandot) - 3:01


Gianni Schicchi (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra Opera North Orchestra Prague Philharmonia Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra San Francisco Opera Orchestra San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Milan La Scala Orchestra Russian Philharmonia Metropolitan Orchestra
Composed by: Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by: Herbert von Karajan Arthur Fiedler Will Humburg Gaetano Merola Steven Mercurio Alexander Rahbari Tullio Serafin Johannes Wildner Charles Rosekrans Antonino Votto Constantine Orbelian David Parry Gareth Hancock
Anna-Lisa Bjorling, soprano
Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano
Felipe Bou, bass
Jose Garcia-Quijada, baritone
Galina Gorchakova,
Mary Plazas, soprano
Ana Maria Martinez, soprano
Colin Lee, tenor
Janez Lotric, tenor
Alberto Rinaldi, baritone
Tatiana Lisnic, soprano
Mabel Perelstein, contralto
Stefano Secco, tenor
Gerardo Lopez Gamez, tenor
Sara Galli, soprano
Celestino Varela, baritone
Carlos Ruiz, bass
Claudia Marchi, mezzo-soprano
Javier Zorilla, baritone
Antonio Torres Merino, bass
Maria Callas, soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Dennis Helmrich, piano
Eugenia Zukerman, flute
Alain Trudel, sackbut
Elisabeth Schwarkopf, soprano
Luba Orgonasova, soprano
Dorothy Warenskjold, soprano
Marianne Fiset, soprano
Joan Hammond, soprano


11.   Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro - 2:20


Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (more info)
Performed by: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra Philadelphia Robin Hood Dell Orchestra Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra Budapest Symphony Orchestra Scottish National Orchestra Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Sergei Rachmaninov Alain Lefevre
Conducted by: Leopold Stokowski Fritz Reiner Jascha Horenstein Gyorgy Lehel Basil Cameron Bryden Thomson Matthias Bamert Antoni Wit Walter Susskind
Arthur Rubinstein, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
William Kapell, piano
Bernd Glemser, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
Howard Shelley, piano
Earl Wild, piano
Idil Biret, piano


12.   Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation 18 - 2:52


Pavane pour une infante defunte (version for orchestra) (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Neville Marriner Maurice Ravel
Conducted by: James DePreist Bertrand de Billy Keith Clark Kenneth Jean Jansug Kakhidze
Alexander Tachman, horn


13.   Pavane pour une infante defunte (version for orchestra) - 6:56


Liebestraume, S541/R211 (more info)
Composed by: Eugen d' Albert Franz Liszt
Rafael Orozco, piano
Xiangdong Kong, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Eva Sukova, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
Walter Rummel,
Israela Margalit, piano
Elena Bezprozvannykh,
Dinara Nadzhafova, piano
Vladimir Bunin, piano
Balazs Szokolay, piano
Jack Richard Crossan, piano
Peter Szokolay, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Jane Coop, piano
Recording date: 1989


14.   Liebestraume, S541/R211: No. 3: Nocturne in A flat major - 4:21


2 Arabesques (more info)
Composed by: Alain Lefevre Claude Debussy
Kyoko Tabe, piano
Klara Kormendi, piano
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Balazs Szokolay, piano
Francois-Joel Thiollier, piano
Jack Richard Crossan, piano
Martin Souter, piano


15.   Arabesque No. 1 - 3:30


Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, "Pathetique" (more info)
Performed by: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra Russian National Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra Philharmonia Cassovia London Philharmonic Orchestra Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra Julio Martini Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky Arturo Toscanini
Conducted by: Mariss Jansons Willem Mengelberg Jose Serebrier Julio Martini Vladimir Jurowski Ondrej Lenard Eugene Ormandy Bystrik Rezucha Johannes Wildner Roger Norrington Antoni Wit Wilhelm Furtwangler Christoph Eschenbach Vladimir Spikakov
Joseph Banowetz, piano


16.   II. Allegro con grazia - 8:39

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