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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ABC Classics (Firm)
Language:Italian
English
French
Language and/or Writing System:
Vocal selections sung in English, French and Italian.
Published: Australia : ABC Classics, [2010]
Subjects:
Organ music.
Operas > Excerpts.
Piano music.
Orchestral music.
Concertos.
Oratorios > Excerpts.
Downloadable audio file.
Genre:
Excerpts.
Downloadable audio file.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Naxos Music Library)
Physical Description:1 streaming sound file (1 sound file)
Format: Electronic Audio
Contents:
  • Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV 565. Toccata / Johann Sebastian Bach (Michael Dudman, organ)
  • Die Walküre. Ride of the Valkyries / Richard Wagner (West Australian Symphony Orchestra ; David Measham, conductor)
  • Pagliacci. Vesti la giubba / Ruggero Leoncavallo (Rosario La Spina, tenor ; Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra ; Richard Mills, conductor)
  • Suite bergamasque. Clair de lune / Claude Debussy (Stephanie McCallum, piano)
  • Chants d'Auvergne, vol. 1. Bailero / Joseph Canteloube (Sara Macliver, soprano ; Queensland Orchestra ; Brett Kelly, conductor)
  • Ma vlast. Vltava / Bedrich Smetana (Queensland Orchestra ; Patrick Thomas, conductor)
  • Serenade no. 13 in G major, K. 525, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik." Allegro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra ; Geoffrey Lancaster, conductor)
  • Piano sonata no. 14 in C sharp minor, op. 27, no. 2, "Moonlight." Adagio sostenuto / Ludwig van Beethoven (Gerard Willems, piano)
  • Piano concerto no. 1 in B flat minor, op. 23. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso / Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Simon Tedeschi, piano ; Queensland Orchestra ; Richard Bonynge, conductor)
  • Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune / Claude Debussy (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ; Jorge Mester, conductor)
  • Messiah. He shall feed His flock like a shepherd / George Frideric Handel (Sara Macliver, soprano ; Alexandra Sherman, mezzo-soprano ; Orchestra of the Antipodes ; Antony Walker, conductor)
  • Symphony no. 3, op. 36, "Symfonia piesni zalosnych." Lento e largo / Henryk Gorecki (Yvonne Kenny, soprano ; Adelaide Symphony Orchestra ; Takuo Yuasa, conductor)
  • The planets, op. 32. Mars, the bringer of war / Gustav Holst (Adelaide Symphony Orchestra ; David Stanhope, conductor)
  • Piano concerto in A minor, op. 16. Allegro molto moderato / Edvard Grieg (Simon Tedeschi, piano ; Queensland Orchestra ; Richard Bonynge, conductor)
  • Carmen. Habanera / Georges Bizet (Sally-Anne Russell, mezzo-soprano ; Adelaide Symphony Orchestra ; Adelaide Vocal Project ; Nicholas Milton, conductor)
  • Spartacus. Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia / Aram Il'yich Khachaturian (Queensland Symphony Orchestra ; Patrick Thomas, conductor)
  • Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68, "Pastoral." Allegro ma non troppo / Ludwig van Beethoven (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra ; David Porcelijn, conductor)
  • Clarinet concerto in A major, K. 622. Rondo / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Craig Hill, basset clarinet ; Australian Brandenburg Orchestra ; Paul Dyer, conductor)
  • Swan Lake, op. 20. By the the lake / Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (West Australian Symphony Orchestra ; Benjamin Northey, conductor)
  • Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis / Ralph Vaughan Williams (Queensland Symphony Orchestra ; Patrick Thomas, conductor)
  • Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, op. 43. Andante cantabile / Sergei Rachmaninov (Ayako Uehara, piano ; Sydney Symphony Orchestra ; Edvard Tchivzhel, conductor)
  • Concerto symphonique no. 4 in D minor, op. 102. Scherzo / Henry Litolff (Ian Munro, piano ; Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra ; David Porcelijn, conductor)
  • The nutcracker, op. 71. Divertissement ; Trepak / Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Queensland Symphony Orchestra ; Werner Andreas Albert, conductor)
  • Cavalleria rusticana. Intermezzo / Pietro Mascagni (Orchestra Victoria ; Richard Divall, conductor)
  • Les pecheurs de perles. Au fond du temple saint / Georges Bizet (David Hobson, tenor ; Teddy Tahu Rhodes, baritone ; Sinfonia Australis ; Thomas Woods, conductor)
  • Guillaume Tell. Overture / Gioachino Rossini (West Australian Symphony Orchestra ; David Measham, conductor).