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Macbeth Overture (more info)
Performed by: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composed by: William Henry Fry
Conducted by: Tony Rowe


1.   Overture to Macbeth - 10:37


Symphonie romantique, "La nuit des tropiques" (A Night in the Tropics) (more info)
Performed by: Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Conducted by: Richard Rosenberg


2.   Symphonie romantique, "A Night in the Tropics": Festa Criolla - 6:03


Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23 (more info)
Performed by: Ireland National Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra Westphalian Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Edward MacDowell Stephen Prutsman
Conducted by: Arthur Fagen Siegfried Landau Massimo Freccia
Earl Wild, piano
Eugene List,


3.   Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23: IV. Largo - Molto allegro - 7:36


Piano Quartet in C major, Op. 23 (more info)
Composed by: Arthur Foote
James Barbagallo, piano


4.   Piano Quartet in C major, Op. 23: I. Allegro comodo - 6:42


Angel of Death (more info)
Performed by: Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: George Whitefield Chadwick
Conducted by: Kenneth Schermerhorn


5.   Angel of Death - 13:30


Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 64, "North, East, South, and West" (more info)
Performed by: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Henry Hadley
Conducted by: John McLaughlin Williams


6.   Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 64: III. South (Allegretto giocoso) - 6:39


Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 45 (more info)
Performed by: Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Amy Beach
Conducted by: Kenneth Schermerhorn
Alan Feinberg, piano


7.   Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 45: III. Largo - 5:21


3 Preludes (more info)
Composed by: Charles T. Griffes
Michael Lewin, piano
Recording date: 24th-25th July 1999


8.   3 Preludes: Prelude No. 2 - 1:00


4 American Indian Songs, Op. 45: No. 1. From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water (arr. G. Yost) (more info)
Composed by: Gaylord Yost Charles Wakefield Cadman
Paul Posnak, piano
Peter Zazofsky, violin


9.   From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water, Op. 45, No. 1 - 2:31


Symphony No. 2 (more info)
Performed by: Detroit Symphony Orchestra Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Charles Ives
Conducted by: Kenneth Schermerhorn Neeme Jarvi


10.   Symphony No. 2: IV. Lento maestoso - 2:23


The Unanswered Question (more info)
Performed by: CBC Vancouver Orchestra Northern Sinfonia South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden
Composed by: Charles Ives
Conducted by: Mario Bernardi Michael Gielen James Sinclair
Gyula Csetenyi, flute
Bela Banfalvi, violin
Zoltan Gyongyossy, flute
Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet
Eniko Roman, flute


11.   The Unanswered Question - 4:37


Country Band March (more info)
Performed by: Northern Sinfonia
Composed by: Charles Ives
Conducted by: James Sinclair
Recording date: 06/19/00 – 06/20/00


12.   Country Band March - 4:15


King Cotton (more info)
Performed by: Royal Artillery Band
Composed by: John Philip Sousa
Conducted by: Keith Brion Peter Parkes E. W. Jeanes


13.   King Cotton - 2:55


Maple Leaf Rag (version for piano) (more info)
Composed by: Scott Joplin
Alexander Peskanov, piano
Richard Dowling, piano
Martin Souter, piano


14.   Maple Leaf Rag - 3:10

Cuban Overture (more info)
Performed by: Jazzogene Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Richard Hayman Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Richard Hayman George Gershwin
Conducted by: Jean-Luc Fillon John Baltimore James Judd Hans-Dieter Baum Andrew Litton


1.   Cuban Overture - 10:40


Symphony for 5 Instruments (second version) (more info)
Performed by: Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Composed by: George Antheil
Conducted by: Daniel Spalding


2.   Symphony for Five Instruments: III. Presto - 2:28


The Incredible Flutist (more info)
Performed by: Seattle Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Walter Piston
Conducted by: Gerard Schwarz Andrew Litton
Scott Goff, flute


3.   The Incredible Flutist: Spanish Waltz - 1:04


Billy the Kid Suite (more info)
Performed by: Seattle Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Aaron Copland
Conducted by: John Baltimore James Judd Eduardo Mata Gerard Schwarz


4.   Billy the Kid, Suite: Finale - 3:22


Kitten on the Keys (more info)
Composed by: Zez Confrey
Eteri Andjaparidze, piano


5.   Kitten on the Keys - 2:31


New England Triptych (more info)
Performed by: Seattle Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: William Schuman
Conducted by: Jose Serebrier Gerard Schwarz Andrew Litton


6.   New England Triptych: III. Chester - 3:16


Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24 (more info)
Performed by: Manitoba Chamber Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composed by: Samuel Barber
Conducted by: Marin Alsop Roy Goodman
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Measha Brueggergosman, soprano


7.   Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24: Orchestral Introduction - 'It has become that time of evening' - 3:40


Totem Ancestor (more info)
Composed by: John Cage
Boris Berman, piano


8.   Totem Ancestor - 2:03


West Side Story (more info)
Performed by: Nashville Symphony Orchestra Studio orchestra
Composed by: Leonard Bernstein Stephen Sondheim
Conducted by: Max Goberman Kenneth Schermerhorn
Mickey Calin, tenor
Larry Kert, vocals
Tony Mordente, vocals
David Winters, vocals
Grover Dale, vocals
Hank Brunjes, vocals
Tommy Abbott, vocals
Frank Green, vocals
Lowell Harris, vocals
Wilma Curley, vocals
Carole D'Andrea, vocals
Nanette Rosen, vocals
Marilyn D'Honau, vocals
Julie Oser, vocals
Lee Becker, vocals
Kenneth LeRoy, vocals
Carol Lawrence, vocals
Chita Rivera, vocals
Jamie Sanchez, vocals
George Marcy, vocals
Noel Schwartz, vocals
Al De Sio, vocals
Gene Gavin, vocals
Ronnie Lee, vocals
Jay Norman, vocals
Erne Castaldo, vocals
Marilyn Cooper, vocals
Carmen Gutierrez, vocals
Elizabeth Taylor, vocals
Lynn Ross, vocals
Liane Plane, vocals
Art Smith, vocals
Arch Johnson, vocals
William Bramley, vocals
John Harkins, vocals
Eddie Roll, vocals
Betsi Morrison, soprano
Mike Eldred, tenor
Reri Grist, soprano
Marianne Cooke, vocals
Robert Dean, vocals
Michael San Giovanni, vocals


9.   West Side Story, Act I: Tonight - 3:54


Piano Trio (more info)
Composed by: Gunther Schuller
Recording date: 1 - 11 November 1996


10.   Piano Trio: III. With Swing - 3:25


Symphony No. 22, Op. 236, "City of Light" (more info)
Performed by: Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Alan Hovhaness
Recording date: May 1992


11.   Symphony No. 22, Op. 236, "City of Light": II. Angel of Light (Largo) - 3:53


Piano Concerto (more info)
Performed by: Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: Elliott Carter
Conducted by: Kenneth Schermerhorn
Mark Wait, piano


12.   Piano Concerto: Movement I - 10:52


Violin Concerto (more info)
Performed by: Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: George Rochberg
Conducted by: Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin


13.   Violin Concerto (original version): Introduction - 6:51


Violin Concerto (more info)
Performed by: Ulster Orchestra
Composed by: Philip Glass
Conducted by: Takuo Yuasa
Adele Anthony, violin
Recording date: 19th to 21st May, 1999


14.   Violin Concerto: Movement III - 9:25


Short Ride in a Fast Machine (more info)
Performed by: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Composed by: John Adams
Conducted by: Marin Alsop


15.   Short Ride in a Fast Machine - 4:05


Rapture (more info)
Performed by: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Composed by: Michael Torke
Conducted by: Marin Alsop
Colin Currie, percussion


16.   Percussion Concerto, "Rapture": III. Metals (excerpt) - 6:29

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