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Agnus Dei, Op. 11 (more info)
Composed by: Samuel Barber
Conducted by: Douglas Lawrence Maris Sirmais Donald Pearson Laurence Equilbey
Eric Plutz, organ
Jean Cioffi, soprano


1.   Agnus Dei, Op. 11 - 00:07:11


Elegie, Op. 24 (version for cello and orchestra) (more info)
Performed by: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Edmonton Symphony Orchestra Lyon National Orchestra
Composed by: Gabriel Faure Peter Dixon
Conducted by: Yan Pascal Tortelier Uri Mayer Emmanuel Krivine
Shauna Rolston, cello
Anne Gastinel, cello


2.   Elegie, Op. 24 (version for cello and orchestra) - 00:06:05


Rinaldo, HWV 7 (more info)
Performed by: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra London Baroque Moscow Chamber Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra Handel Festival Orchestra Budapest Camerata Teatro la Fenice Orchestra Mostly Mozart Orchestra Capella Leopoldina
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Hartmut Haenchen Christophe Rousset Laszlo Kovacs Kevin Mallon Charles Medlam Gerard Schwarz Alexander Weimann Daniel Taylor Constantine Orbelian John Fisher Howard Arman Holger Speck Heinz Fricke
Ewa Mallas-Godlewska, soprano
Cecilia Gasdia, soprano
Caterina Calvi, contralto
Cosetta Tosetti, soprano
Laura Whalen, soprano
Kimberley Barber, mezzo-soprano
Jennifer Ens Modolo, mezzo-soprano
Sean Watson, baritone
Nicole Bower, soprano
Catherine Affleck, soprano
Melinda Delorme, mezzo-soprano
Lenard Whiting, tenor
Nicolau De Figueiredo, harpsichord
Yosemeh Adjei, alto
Suzie Le Blanc, soprano
Sara Mingardo,
Niklas Eklund, trumpet
Maria Bayo, soprano
Natale de Carolis, baritone
Susanne Ryden, soprano
Carlo Colombara, bass
Constantine Orbelian, piano
Skip Sempe, harpsichord
Ingrid Kertesi, soprano
David DQ Lee,
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Christine Weidinger, soprano
Veronica Cangemi, soprano
Marion Newman, mezzo-soprano
Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
Ernesto Palacio,
Deborah York, soprano
Giles Tomkins, bass-baritone
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Barbara Hannigan, soprano
Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Ewa Podles, contralto
Claire Guimond, flute
Derek Lee Ragin, alto
Arleen Auger, soprano
Jochen Kowalski, counter-tenor
Axel Kohler, counter-tenor
Stephen Stubbs, lute
Lydia Vierlinger, alto
Jorg Zwicker, cello
Felix Wilde, trumpet
Friedhelm May, timpani
Jeroen Berwaerts, trumpet
Mizuhio Yoshii, oboe
Annette Schutz, oboe
Adam Rixer, trumpet
Susanne Sonntag, bassoon
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord
Recording date: 8-13 July 1996


3.   Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act II: Aria: Lascia ch'io pianga - 00:04:05


Adagio in G minor (arr. for chamber orchestra) (more info)
Performed by: Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum
Composed by: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni Anonymous
Conducted by: Karol Teutsch


4.   Adagio in G minor (arr. for chamber orchestra) - 00:03:22


Kreisleriana, Op. 16 (more info)
Composed by: Robert Schumann
Laurent Cabasso, piano
Paul Gulda, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
Michael Korstick, piano
Herbert Schuch, piano
Hideyo Harada, piano
Anton Kuerti, piano
Ana-Marija Markovina, piano
Recording date: 26-29 October 1990


5.   Kreisleriana, Op. 16: I. Ausserst bewegt - 00:02:45


Polifemo (more info)
Composed by: Nicola Porpora
Conducted by: Christophe Rousset
Ewa Mallas-Godlewska, soprano
Nicolau De Figueiredo, harpsichord
Veronica Cangemi, soprano
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Alan Curtis, harpsichord
Derek Lee Ragin, alto


6.   Polifemo: Alto Giove - 00:04:32


Don Juan (more info)
Composed by: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Conducted by: Giovanni Antonini


7.   Don Juan: Danza degli spettri e delle furie - 00:04:05


Nisi Dominus, RV 608 (more info)
Performed by: Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, La
Composed by: Antonio Vivaldi
Conducted by: Jean-Claude Malgoire Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Sara Mingardo,
James Bowman, alto
Philippe Jaroussky, contralto
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord


8.   Nisi Dominus, RV 608: Cum dederit - 00:04:40


24 Preludes, Op. 28 (more info)
Composed by: Alain Lefevre Ferruccio Busoni Fryderyk Chopin
Janusz Olejniczak, piano
Alfred Cortot, piano
Jakob Gimpel, piano
Leticia Gomez-Tagle, piano
Helene Tysman, piano
Rudolf Kerer, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Janina Fialkowska, piano
Eva Sukova, piano
Josef Lhevinne, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Mischa Levitzki, piano
Catherine Perrin, prepared piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Robert Lortat,
Jean-Francois Latour,
Peter Nagy, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Edna Stern, piano
Stanislav Bunin, piano
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
Irina Zaritzkaya, piano
Eduard Stan, piano
Grigory Sokolov, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Recording date: 1987-1988


9.   Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4 - 00:02:24


Lamento della ninfa (more info)
Composed by: Claudio Monteverdi
Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord


10.   Lamento della ninfa, 2a parte - Amor, dicea - 00:02:43


Requiem in D minor, K. 626 (more info)
Performed by: St. Clement Concert Orchestra Leipzig Chamber Orchestra Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra Italian Radio Orchestras West German Radio Symphony Orchestra English Chamber Orchestra Royal Thomson Hall Orchestra Vienna Volksoper Orchestra Kammerorchester Der Philharmonie Kosice Neue Orchester Wiener Volksoper Orchestra Vienna Volksoper Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Victor De Sabata
Conducted by: Peter Marschik Elmer Iseler Uwe Gronostay Zdenek Kosler Morten Schuldt-Jensen Randall Swanson Gary Bertini George Guest Klaus Donath Christoph Spering
Miriam Allan, soprano
Anne Buter, mezzo-soprano
Ferruccio Tagliavini, tenor
Steve Davislim,
Patrice Michaels Bedi, soprano
Amy Anderson, mezzo-soprano
Kurt Hansen, tenor
Robert Heitzinger, baritone
Pia Tassinari, mezzo-soprano
Ebe Stignani, mezzo-soprano
Italo Tajo, bass
Kwangchul Youn, baritone
Doris Soffel, mezzo-soprano
Vladimir Ruso, organ
Gotthold Schwarz, bass
Magdalena Hajossyova, soprano
Jaroslava Horska, contralto
Jozef Kundlak, tenor
Stefan Klimo, choirmaster
William Kendall, tenor
Yvonne Kenny, soprano
Peter Mikulas, bass
Iride Martinez,
David Wilson-Johnson, bass
Derek Lee Ragin, alto
Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Quasthoff, bass
Helen Donath, soprano
Marcus Ullmann, tenor
Robert Swensen, tenor
Sarah Walker, mezzo-soprano
Krisztina Laki, soprano
Michael Knapp, tenor
Max Emanuel Cencic, soprano
Martin Snell, baritone


11.   Requiem in D minor, K. 626: Sequence No. 6: Lacrimosa dies illa - 00:03:01


Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), K. 620 (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Berlin Symphony Orchestra Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna Mozart Orchestra Failoni Orchestra, Budapest Berlin State Opera Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Studio orchestra Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart State Orchestra Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra Linz Bruckner Orchestra Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra St. Petersburg Musical Theare Chamber Orchestra, Zazerkalye Bratislava Opera Orchestra
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart William Lawrence Arturo Toscanini
Conducted by: Marcus Creed Johannes Muller Rudolf Kempe Gottfried von der Goltz Selmar Meyrowitz Oliver Dohnanyi Peter Guth Michael Halasz Konrad Leitner Alexander Rahbari Johannes Wildner Carl Schuricht Joseph Keilberth Richard Bradshaw Lothar Zagrosek Thomas Beecham Bruno Seidler-Winkler David Parry Arthur Gruber Ivan Anguelov Gerhard Pfluger Frederic Chaslin Gerhard Wiesenhutter Pavel Bubelnikov
Miliza Korjus, soprano
Gottlob Frick, bass
Michael Bohnen, baritone
Werner Liebing, tenor
Lisa Otto, soprano
Arno Schellenberg, baritone
Richard Tauber, tenor
Elisabeth Schumann, soprano
Erna Berger, soprano
Erika Koth, soprano
Tiana Lemnitz, soprano
Alexander Kipnis, bass
John Dickie, tenor
Thomas Allen, baritone
Hellen Kwon, soprano
Ruth Ziesak, soprano
Miriam Gauci, soprano
Kurt Rydl, bass
Wilfried Gahmlich, tenor
Hans Hotter, bass-baritone
Erich Kunz, baritone
Joseph Schmidt, tenor
Kurt Marschner,
Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz, soprano
Annelies Kupper, soprano
Hanna Ludwig,
Elisabeth Lindermeier,
Lotte Leitner, soprano
Elfriede Trotschel, soprano
Susan Gritton, soprano
Herbert Lippert, tenor
Wilma Lipp,
Andrea Martin, baritone
Teresa Stich-Randall,
Josef Greindl, bass
Rudolf Schock, tenor
Gerhard Husch, baritone
Jarmila Novotna, soprano
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Karl Paul, bass
Donna Robin, soprano
Helge Rosvaenge, tenor
Michael Schade, tenor
Georg Tichy, baritone
Cornelia Ptassek, soprano
Peter Esser, tenor
Horst Otto Rainer, tenor
Kurt Lieck, narrator
Kathe Moller-Siepermann, soprano
Hilla Oppel, soprano
Gisela Litz, alto
Kristina Sert, soprano
Wilhelm Luckert, tenor
Walter Kreppel, bass
Hermann Thimig, narrator
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano
Fritz Wunderlich, tenor
Elisabeth Norberg Schultz, mezzo-soprano
Ruby Elzy, soprano
Elena Morozava, soprano
Katarina Kmetova, soprano
Russell Braun, baritone
Recording date: 8 March 1938


12.   Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), K. 620, Act II: Arie: Ach, ich fuhl's, es ist verschwunden - 00:04:36


King Arthur, Z. 628, "The British Worthy" (more info)
Performed by: English Baroque Soloists Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: Henry Purcell
Conducted by: John Eliot Gardiner Daniel Taylor David Parry
Stephen Varcoe, bass
Terence R. Charlston, harpsichord
Maggie Teyte, soprano
Francis Colpron, recorder
Yvonne Kenny, soprano
Gerald Moore, piano
Karina Gauvin, soprano


13.   King Arthur, Z. 628, 'The British Worthy', Act III: What power art thou, who from below, hast made me rise - 00:02:56


Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1 (more info)
Performed by: Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Jean Sibelius
Conducted by: Jorma Panula Kenneth Schermerhorn Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen Gabriel Chmura Pietari Inkinen Herbert Kegel


14.   Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1 - 00:04:41


Les Valseuses (arr. L. Korcia and J.E. Bavouzet) (more info)
Stephane Grappelli, violin
Laurent Korcia, violin
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano


15.   Les Valseuses (arr. L. Korcia and J.E. Bavouzet) - 00:02:20


IV. Sorge l'aurora (more info)
Performed by: Ulster Orchestra
Composed by: Philip Glass
Conducted by: Takuo Yuasa
Adele Anthony, violin
Recording date: 19th to 21st May, 1999


16.   Violin Concerto: II. — - 00:08:35

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