40 MOST BEAUTIFUL SPRING CLASSICS

 

CD 1

1. Vivaldi           The Four Seasons: La primavera (Spring): Allegro           

Marieke Blankestijn

2. Vivaldi           The Four Seasons: La primavera (Spring): Largo            

Marieke Blankestijn

3. Vivaldi           The Four Seasons: La primavera (Spring): Allegro, Danza pastorale         

Marieke Blankestijn

4. Glazunov       The Seasons: Spring: Scene                 

Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Jose Serebrier

5. Tchaikovsky   The Seasons: March - Chant de l'alouette            

Viktoria Postnikova

6. Tchaikovsky   The Seasons: April - Perce-Neige            

Viktoria Postnikova

7. Tchaikovsky   The Seasons: May - Les nuits de mai                  

Viktoria Postnikova

8. Vaughan Williams   Fantasia on Greensleeves                          

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis

9. Respighi        The Birds: The Cuckoo                           

I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone

10. Saint-Saens Carnival des Animaux: The Cuckoo in the depths of the wood        

Instrumental Ensemble/Gennadi Rojdestvenski

11. Delius          On hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring                  

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis

12. Bach            Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor BWV1067 : VII Badinerie

Jean-Pierre Rampal/Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Ton Koopman

13. Mozart         Horn Concerto No.4 in Eb Major KV495 - Rondo                

David Pyatt horn/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/NevilleMarriner

14. Schubert      Im Fruhling                               

Soile Isokoski soprano/Marita Viitasalo piano

15. Grieg           Two Elegiac Melodies, op.34 :Last Spring             

Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra/Juha Kangas

16. Schubert      Winterreise D911: Fruhlingstraum                       

Christoph Pregardien/Andreas Staier

17. Piazolla        The Four Seasons: Primavera Porteno                 

Daniel Barenboim/Rodolfo Mederos/Hector Console

18. Sibelius        Suite in D Minor for violin & string orchestra: Evening in Spring     

Jari Valo/Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra/Juha Kangas

19. Stravinsky   The Rite of Spring: Introduction/the Augurs of Spring/Ritual of Abduction   

Philharmonia Orchestra/Eliahu Inbal

20. Orff             Carmina Burana: O Fortuna                    

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Zubin Mehta

 

CD 2

1. Beethoven     Violin Sonata no 5 in F 'Spring': 1st movement: Allegro    

Maxim Vengerov/Itamar Golan

2. Copland         Appalachian Spring: Allegro, vigoroso                 

St Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff

3. Copland         Appalachian Spring: Thema and Variations ("The Gift to be simple")          

St Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff

4. Copland         Appalachian Spring: Broadly                  

St Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff

5. Copland         Appalachian Spring: Moderato (Like a Prayer)                  

St Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff

6. Copland         Appalachian Spring: Andante (very calm)            

St Paul Chamber Orchestra/Hugh Wolff

7. Mendelssohn  Spring Song                              

Roger Woodward piano

8. Strauss, J II   Fruhlingsstimmen                                  

Sumi Jo/Wienervolksoper Orchestra/Prof J. Bibl

9. Handel           Organ Concerto No. 13 (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale):I: Larghetto       

Ton Koopman (organ)/ Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

10. Handel         Organ Concerto No. 13 (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale):II: Allegro          

Ton Koopman (organ)/ Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

11. Handel         Organ Concerto No. 13 (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale):III: Larghetto     

Ton Koopman (organ)/ Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

12. Handel         Organ Concerto No. 13 (The Cuckoo and the Nightingale):IV: Allegro         

Ton Koopman (organ)/ Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

13. Mendelssohn   Fruhlingslied                           

Barbara Bonney soprano/Geoffrey Parsons piano

14. Sinding        Rustle Of Spring arr Hans Sitt                 

Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Ari Rasilainen

15. Vaughan Williams     The Wasps: Overture                             

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis

16. Beethoven   Symphony no 6 "Pastoral": Allegro-Allegro-Allegretto (excerpt)     

New Philharmonia Orchestra/Theodor Guschlbauer

17. Schumann    Symphony  no.1 "Spring": Larghetto                   

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Kurt Masur

18. Mozart         String Quartet in G K387 "Spring": 3rd movement Andante cantabile         

Alban Berg Quartett

19. Handel         Solomon: Arrival of the queen of Sheba              

il Giardino Armonico

20. Mussorgsky  Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of Chicks in their Shells    

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra/James Conlon

 

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