20th CENTURY CLASSICS Best 100 6CDs

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Covers many of the most popular works composed between 1900 & 1999. Incs Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Falla, Holst, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Rodrigo, Stravinsky, Webern, Berg, Schoenberg, Bartok, Britten, Messiaen, Turnage, Tavener, Cage, Adams, Ravel, Boulez, Part, Rutter and many more (EMI)

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100 BEST 20th CENTURY CLASSICS
CD 1 THE LAST OF THE ROMANTICS
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
1 I. Moderato opening
Jean-Bernard Pommier piano
Hallé Orchestra / Lawrence Foster
PROKOFIEV
2 Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet)
London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn
KHACHATURIAN
3 Waltz (Masquerade)
Philharmonia Orchestra / Efrem Kurtz
PROKOFIEV
4 Troika (Lieutenant Kijé Suite)
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Klaus Tennstedt
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor
5 I. Allegro ma non tanto opening
Mikhail Rudy piano
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra / Mariss Jansons
RODRIGO
Concierto de Aranjuez
6 II. Adagio opening
Julian Bream guitar
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
KHACHATURIAN
7 Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia extract (Spartacus)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Yuri Temirkanov (P) 1986
ELGAR
Cello Concerto
8 I. Adagio – Moderato
Jacqueline du Pré cello
LSO / Sir John Barbirolli
RACHMANINOV
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
9 Variation 18
Cécile Ousset piano
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
DEBUSSY
Images
10 II. Iberia: 3. Le matin d’un jour de fête
London Symphony Orchestra / Andre Previn
SIBELIUS
11 Valse triste (Kuolema Incidental Music)
Hallé Orchestra / Sir John Barbirolli
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
12 The Lark Ascending opening
Hugh Bean violin
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult
FALLA
Nights in the Gardens of Spain
13 I. In the Generalife extract
Gonzalo Soriano piano
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
SZYMANOWSKI
14 Harnasie extract (Rural Scene)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra of Krakow / Antoni Wit
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concerto No.2 in F
15 II. Andante
Dmitri Alexeev (piano) · English Chamber Orchestra / Jerzy Maksymiuk (P) 1983
HOLST
16 Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity conclusion (The Planets)
Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle

CD 2 INNOVATORS
JANÁČEK
Sinfonietta
1 IV. Allegretto
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa
WEBERN
6 Orchestral Pieces Op.6 (Revised version)
2 VI. Langsam
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
SCHOENBERG
5 Orchestral Pieces Op.16 (Original version)
3 IV. Peripetie (Sehr rasch)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
BERG
Lulu-Suite
4 IV. Variationem: Moderato
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
STRAVINSKY
Petrushka
5 Russian Dance (1st Tableau)
Peter Donohoe piano
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
BRITTEN
6 Four Sea Interludes (Sunday Morning) (Peter Grimes)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Libor Pešek
NIELSEN
Symphony No.5 Op.50
7 II. Allegro conclusion
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Herbert Blomstedt
POULENC
8 Rondeau (Les Biches)
Philharmonia Orchestra / Georges Prêtre
BARTÓK
Concerto for Orchestra
9 IV. Intermezzo interotto (Allegretto)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa
WALTON
Violin Concerto (1939 rev.1943)
10 II. Presto capriccioso alla napolitana & Trio (Canzonetta)
Yehudi Menuhin violin
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir William Walton
RESPIGHI
11 I pini di Villa Borghese (Pini di Roma)
London Symphony Orchestra / Lamberto Gardelli
ZEMLINSKY
Sinfonietta Op.23
12 Rondo. Sehr lebhaft
Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker / James Conlon
STRAVINSKY
Le Sacre du printemps
13 L’adoration de la terre opening
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
WEILL
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Suite
14 II. Moderato assai
Berliner Philharmoniker / Mariss Jansons
Live recording
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
15 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis opening
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult
HONNEGER
16 Pacific 231
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra / Mariss Jansons
HINDEMITH
Kammermusik No.1
17 IV. Finale: 1921. Lebhaft
Berliner Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado
RAVEL
18 Bolero conclusion
London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn

CD 3 BRAVE NEW WORLD
PÄRT
1 Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Richard Studt
TOYAMA
2 Dance of Men (Ballet Suite–Yugen)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra / Mariss Jansons
TAKEMITSU
Cassiopeia
3 Scene
Stomu Yamash’ta percussion
Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra / Seiji Ozawa
GORÉCKI
Symphony No.3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
4 II. Lento e largo, tranquillissimo extract
Zofia Kilanowicz (soprano)
Kraków Symphony Orchestra/Jacek Kasprzyk
PENDERECKI
5 Anaklasis for strings & percussion (1959)
London Symphony Orchestra / Krzysztof Penderecki
HENZE
Symphony No.8
6 II. Ballabile conclusion
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
MESSIAEN
Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum
7 Des profondeurs de l’abîme’
Ensemble de Percussion de l’Orchestre de Paris / Orchestre de Paris / Serge Baudo
TURNAGE
8 Drowned Out excerpt
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
LUTOSLAWSKI
Symphony No.1
9 I. Allegro giusto
Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra / Witold Lutoslawski
ARNOLD
Guitar Concerto
10 I. Allegro
Julian Bream guitar
Members of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle
NYMAN
11 The Heart asks Pleasure First / The Promise (The Piano) Music composed, directed and produced by Michael Nyman
TAKEMITSU
12 Rain Coming (1982)
London Sinfonietta / Oliver Knussen
TAVENER
The Protecting Veil
13 The Incarnation
Steven Isserlis cello
London Symphony Orchestra / Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
GUBAIDULINA
14 The Canticle of the Sun extract
Mstislav Rostropovich cello · Simon Carrington & Neil Percy percussion
London Voices / Ryusuke Numajiri
ADÈS
Asyla
15 IV.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
KNUSSEN
16 Flourish with Fireworks
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle

CD 4 AMERICA
BERNSTEIN
1 Candide – Overture
London Symphony Orchestra / André Previn
IVES
A Set of Pieces for Theatre or Chamber Orchestra
2 No.3. In the Night
Ensemble Modern / Ingo Metzmacher
GLASS
3 Façades
John Harle & Simon Haram soprano saxophones
London Chamber Orchestra / Christopher Warren-Green
JOHN WILLIAMS
4 Schindler’s List Main Theme
Tasmin Little violin
New World Philharmonic / Iain Sutherland
COPLAND
5 Fanfare for the Common Man
Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra / Enrique Bátiz
BARBER
6 Adagio for Strings
Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy
HORNER
7 My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)
Orchestra / David Abel
REICH
8 Nagoya Marimbas
Colin Currie & Sam Walton marimbas
CARTER
9 A Celebration of some 100 X 150 Notes
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
BARBER
Cello Concerto
10 II. Andante sostenuto
Ralph Kirshbaum cello
Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Jukka-Pekka Saraste
ADAMS
Shaker Loops
11 IV. A Final Shaking
London Chamber Orchestra / Christopher Warren-Green
COPLAND
12 Hoe-Down (Rodeo)
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin
GERSHWIN
13 Rhapsody in Blue (jazzband version arr. Grofé) opening
Wayne Marshall piano
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
CAGE
Three Dances for two amplified prepared pianos
14 Dance No.1
Ralph Grierson, Michael Tilson Thomas prepared pianos
NEWMAN
15 Any Other Name (American Beauty)
Produced and performed by Nikolaj Bloch & Sally Herbert
ADAMS
16 Short Ride in a Fast Machine
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle

CD 5 INSTRUMENTAL & CHAMBER
FALLA
1 Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
Dame Moura Lympany piano
SCRIABIN
Two Poèmes Op.63
2 II. Étrangeté
John Ogdon piano
DEBUSSY
Estampes
3 II. Pagodes
Cécile Ousset piano
SHOSTAKOVICH
4 Romance (The Gadfly)
Tasmin Little violin · Piers Lane piano
KREISLER
5 Liebesfreud
Maxim Vengerov violin · Ian Brown piano
BARTÓK
44 Duos for 2 violins
6 No.28 Sorrow
Yehudi Menuhin, Nell Gotkovsky violins
PÄRT
7 Spiegel im Spiegel
Tasmin Little violin · Martin Roscoe piano
VILLA-LOBOS
8 Chôros No.1 in E minor
Manuel Barrueco guitar
TAKEMITSU
All in Twilight
9 I. ♪ = 80
Julian Bream guitar
SAINZ DE LA MAZA
10 Zapateado
Sharon Isbin guitar
LIGETI
String Quartet No 1 ‘Metamorphoses Nocturnes’
11 I. Allegro grazioso
Artemis Quartet
BERG
Lyric Suite
12 III. Allegro misterioso
Alban Berg Quartett
SCHOENBERG
13 Verklärte Nacht
Artemis Quartet
Thomas Kakuska viola · Valentin Erben cello (Alban Berg Quartett)
MESSIAEN
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
14 I. Liturgie de cristal
Christopher Poppen violin · Manuel Fischer-Dieskau cello
Wolfgang Meyer clarinet · Yvonne Loriod piano
SCHNITTKE
15 Menuet
Gidon Kremer violin · Yuri Bashmet viola
Mstislav Rostropovich cello
RAVEL
String Quartet in F
16 Assez vif (Très rythmé)
Belcea Quartet

CD 6 CHORAL & VOCAL
ORFF
1 O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra / Riccardo Muti
PÄRT
2 Beatus Petronius
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent & Ene Salumäe organs
Tõnu Kaljuste
BURGON
3 Nunc dimittis (1979)
James Bowman countertenor · Crispian Steele Perkins trumpet
City of London Sinfonia / Richard Hickox
LLOYD WEBBER
4 Pie Jesu (Requiem)
Jane Gilchrist soprano · Fergus Thirlwell boy soprano
Simon Gibson organ · Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Kirk Trevor
KARL JENKINS
5 Agnus Dei (The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace)
National Youth Choir of Great Britain musical director: Mike Brewer
Paul Beniston principal trumpet · London Philharmonic Orchestra / Karl Jenkins
Taken from the album ‘The Armed Man (A Mass for Peace)’
TAVENER
6 Song for Athene
Winchester Cathedral Choir / David Hill
RUTTER
7 Pie Jesu (Requiem)
Edward Saklatvala treble · Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
City of London Sinfonia / Stephen Cleobury
McCARTNEY
Ecce Cor Meum
8 II. Gratia extract
Kate Royal soprano · London Voices director: Terry Edwards
Boys of Magdalen College Choir & King’s College Choir, Cambridge
Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Gavin Greenaway
RACHMANINOV
9 Vocalise
Natalie Dessay soprano
Berlin Symphony Orchestra / Michael Schønwandt
BUSONI
10 Wie ist ihr Schlaf, Madame? (Arlecchino)
Ernst Theo Richter baritone · Suzanne Mentzer mezzo-soprano
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon / Kent Nagano
BERIO
11 Ballo
Linda Hirst mezzo-soprano
London Sinfonietta / Diego Masson
CANTELOUBE
12 Baïlèro (Chants d’Auvergne)
Arleen Augér soprano
English Chamber Orchestra / Yan Pascal Tortelier
RICHARD STRAUSS
13 Beim schlafengehen (Vier letzte Lieder)
Nina Stemme soprano
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Antonio Pappano
VILLA-LOBOS
Bachianas brazileiras No.5
14 I. Aria (Cantilena): Adagio
Barbara Hendricks soprano
Cellos of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Enrique Batiz
BOULEZ
Le Soleil des eaux
15 La Sorgue
Joséphine Nendick soprano · Barry McDaniel tenor · Louis Devos bass
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Pierre Boulez
PUCCINI
16 O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
Angela Gheorghiu soprano
London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano
KORNGOLD
17 Glück, das mir verblieb (Die tote Stadt)
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra / Julius Rudel
PUCCINI
18 Nessun dorma (Turandot)
José Carreras tenor
Choeurs de l’Opéra du Rhin / Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Alain Lombard