Classical Moments 3: Classical Music To Relax To

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Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (more info)
Performed by: French National Orchestra Belgian Radio and Television Philharmonic Orchestra Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Ulster Orchestra Dresden Staatskapelle Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra Lyon National Orchestra Belgium Radio and TVs Philharmonic Orchestra Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Igor Markevitch Claude Debussy Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht
Conducted by: Sylvain Cambreling James DePreist Yan Pascal Tortelier Rudolf Kempe Mario Bernardi Yakov Kreizberg Bertrand de Billy Alexander Rahbari Gary Bertini Jun Markl Max Pommer
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Jan van Reeth, flute
Robert Cram, flute
Recording date: 16-18 November 1989


1.   Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune - 10:31


Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 (more info)
Performed by: St. Petersburg Symphonic Chamber Orchestra Paris Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Orchestra Concertgebouw Orchestra Moscow Chamber Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Collegium Musicum 90 Tapiola Sinfonietta Stuttgart Bach Collegium Studio orchestra RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra Cis Collegium Mozarteum Salzburg Camerata Romana
Composed by: Efrem Zimbalist Johann Sebastian Bach Franz Waxman George Enescu
Conducted by: Willem Mengelberg Volker Hartung Walter Goehr Walter B. Rogers Pierre Monteux Oliver Dohnanyi Richard Edlinger Helmut Muller-Bruhl Helmuth Rilling Constantine Orbelian Eugen Duvier
Simon Standage, violin
Micaela Comberti, violin
Benjamin Schmid, violin
Quido Holbling, violin
Joseph Szigeti, violin
Ferdinand Helman, violin
Jaakko Kuusisto, violin
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Anna Holbling, violin
Alexander Jablokov, violin
Jurgen Geise,
Yehudi Menuhin, violin
Louis Zimmermann, violin
Helge Rosenkranz, violin
Takako Nishizaki, violin
Christine Pichlmeier, violin
Pavel Bereslavtsev, violin
Alexei Strelnikov, violin
Isabelle Faust, violin
Christoph Poppen, violin
Lisa Stewart, violin
Gunther Korner, violin
Carl Flesch, violin
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
Fritz Kreisler, violin
Richard Lester, harpsichord


2.   Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043: II. Largo ma non tanto - 6:49


3 Gymnopedies (orch. Debussy) (more info)
Performed by: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice CSR Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Erik Satie Peter Breiner Claude Debussy Gerald Garcia
Conducted by: James DePreist Jerome Kaltenbach Ondrej Lenard


3.   Gymnopedie No. 1 (arr. Debussy for orchestra) - 2:49


The Telephone (more info)
Performed by: Milan Chamber Orchestra
Composed by: Gian Carlo Menotti
Conducted by: Paolo Vaglieri
Gianluca Ricci, bass
Anne Victoria Banks, soprano


4.   Gymnopedies I - 2:52


Sinfonietta, JW VI/18: IV. Allegretto (more info)
Composed by: Alain Lefevre Ignacy Jan Paderewski Ludwig van Beethoven
Silvia Capova, piano
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
Mari Kodama, piano
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano
Artur Schnabel, piano
Benno Moiseiwitsch, piano
Eva Sukova, piano
Ignaz Friedman, narrator
Jeno Jando, piano
Louis Lortie, piano
Israela Margalit, piano
Peter Nagy, piano
Michael Korstick, piano
Anton Kuerti, piano
Idil Biret, piano
Istvan Szekely, piano
Eugene Mursky, piano
Timothy Ehlen, piano
Martin Souter, piano
Recording date: 7 September 1926


5.   Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto - 5:15


Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (more info)
Performed by: CBC Vancouver Orchestra Detroit Symphony Orchestra Royal Scottish National Orchestra Scottish National Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Musici de Montreal, I New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Orchestra
Composed by: Samuel Barber
Conducted by: Marin Alsop Mario Bernardi Geoffrey Simon Adrian Leaper Neeme Jarvi Andrew Schenck
Janos Balint, flute
Yuli Turovsky, cello
Bela Banfalvi, violin
Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet
Lajos Lencses, oboe


6.   Adagio for Strings - 7:44


Requiem, Op. 48 (more info)
Performed by: Indianapolis Festival Orchestra Maastricht Limburg Symphony Orchestra BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Thomson Hall Orchestra London Musici
Composed by: Gabriel Faure Rachel Laurin
Conducted by: Frederick Burgomaster Elmer Iseler Yan Pascal Tortelier Ed Spanjaard Jeremy Summerly Gilbert Patenaude Laurence Equilbey
Colm Carey, organ
Meirion Carey, organ
Stephane Degout, baritone
Richard Marlow, organ
Luc Hery, violin
Christophe Henry, organ
William Ferguson-Wagtaffe, treble
Stanley Irwin, bass-baritone
Libby Crabtree, soprano
Harry Peeters, baritone
Nicholas Gedge, bass-baritone
Jonathan Scott, harmonium
James Rutherford, bass
Lisa Beckley, soprano
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Angele Dubeau, violin
Christiane Oelze, soprano


7.   Requiem, Op. 48: In paradisum - 3:23


Adagio in G minor (attrib. to Albinoni) (more info)
Performed by: Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum Cologne Chamber Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Remo Giazotto
Conducted by: Karol Teutsch Richard Edlinger Helmut Muller-Bruhl Raymond Dessaints Iona Brown Herbert Kegel
Jean-Francois Gauthier, organ
Johanne Arel, violin
Pavel Bogacz, violin


8.   Adagio in G minor - 11:27


Irmelin (more info)
Performed by: Symphony Nova Scotia Bournemouth Sinfonietta London Philharmonic Orchestra New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Composed by: Frederick Delius
Conducted by: Myer Fredman Georg Tintner Thomas Beecham
Norman Del Mar,
Recording date: 18 July 1938


9.   Irmelin: Prelude - 5:07


Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, "Elvira Madigan" (more info)
Performed by: Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum London Mozart Players Mozart Festival Orchestra Zurich Chamber Orchestra Concentus Hungaricus Prague Chamber Orchestra Moscow Chamber Orchestra Capella Istropolitana CBC Radio Orchestra Vienna Mozart Orchestra Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra Cappella Coloniensis
Composed by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fazil Say
Conducted by: Marco Bertone Mario Bernardi Howard Griffiths Nicholas Kraemer Konrad Leitner Andras Ligeti Christoph Eberle Matyas Antal Constantine Orbelian Herbert Kraus Alexander von Pitamio
Jan Stanienda, violin
Ewa Poblocka, piano
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Jeno Jando, piano
Christophe Coin,
Howard Shelley, piano
Peter Lang, piano
Paul Badura-Skoda,
Carol Rosenberger, piano
Linda Nicholson, fortepiano
Patrick Cohen, piano
Vilmos Fischer, piano


10.   Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467, "Elvira Madigan": II. Andante - 6:43


Pan Earthquake (arr. for steelband) (more info)
Performed by: Amoco Renegades Steel Orchestra
Composed by: Aldwin Roberts
Jit Samaroo,


11.   Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467: Andante - 6:43


Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, "Organ" (more info)
Performed by: Philadelphia Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Moscow Symphony Orchestra Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Ulster Orchestra
Composed by: Camille Saint-Saens
Conducted by: Yan Pascal Tortelier Eduardo Mata Stephen Gunzenhauser Antonio de Almeida Christoph Eschenbach
Ludmilla Golub, organ
Philippe Belanger, organ
Yannick Nezet-Seguin,
Gillian Weir,
Olivier Latry, piano
Imrich Szabo, organ
Jean Victor Arthur Guillou, organ


12.   Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, "Organ": I. Allegro moderato - Poco adagio (excerpt) - 11:04

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