Best Classics 100

Best Classics 100

Best Classics 100
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Performer: Ernest Blanc
Performer: John Shirley-Quirk
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Composer: Edvard Grieg
Composer: Jean Sibelius
Composer: Gustav Holst
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Composer: Sergey Prokofiev
Composer: Johann I [Senior] Strauss
Composer: Edward Elgar
Composer: Sergey Rachmaninov
Composer: Camille Saint-Saens
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composer: Johann Pachelbel
Composer: Tomaso Albinoni
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2004-08-10
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Handel: The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba
  2. Vivaldi: Spring (The Four Seasons)
  3. J.S. Bach: Toccata in D Minor
  4. Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E Flat
  5. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
  6. Tchaikovsky: '1812' Overture
  7. Beethoven: Ode To Joy (Symphony #9)
  8. Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor
  9. Sibelius: Alla Marcia (Karelia Suite)
  10. Holst: Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity
  11. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1
  12. Sibelius: Finlandia
  13. Verdi: Gloria All'egitto (Aida)
  14. Prokofiev: Montagues And Capulets (Romeo & Juliet)
  15. J. Strauss I: Radetzky March
  16. Elgar: Pomp And Circumstance March No.1
  17. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
  18. Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 'Organ'
Music CD 2
  1. J. S. Bach: Air 'On The G String'
  2. Gluck: Dance Of The Blessed Spirits
  3. Pachelbel: Canon
  4. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A
  5. J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
  6. Albinoni: Adagio
  7. Beethoven: Piano Sonata 'Moonlight'
  8. Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto in C
  9. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor
  10. Mozart: Piano Concerto 'Elivira Madigan'
  11. Dvorak: Symphony No. 9
  12. Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
  13. Elgar: Nimrod
  14. Rodrigo: Concierto De Aranjuez
  15. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
  16. Mahler: Symphony No. 5
  17. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody On A Theme of Paganini
Music CD 3
  1. Bizet: Au fond du temple saint (Les Pjcheurs de perles)
  2. Dvorak: Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
  3. Delibes: Dtme Epais (Lakmi)
  4. Bizet: La Fleur Que Tu M'avais Jetie (Carmen)
  5. Gluck: Che Farr Senza Euridice? (Orfeo & Euridice)
  6. Bellini: Casta Diva (Norma)
  7. Puccini: Che Gelida Manina (La Bohhme)
  8. Puccini: O Mio Babbino Caro (Gianno Schicchi)
  9. Trad: Baolhro
  10. Puccini: Vogliatemi Bene (Madama Butterfly)
  11. Verdi: Va, Pensiero (Nabucco)
  12. Lehar: Es Lebt' Eine Vilja (Die Lustige Witwe)
  13. Handel: Ombra Mai Fy (Serse)
  14. Schubert: Ave Maria
  15. Adam: Minuit, Chritiens (O Holy Night)
  16. Puccini: Nessun Dorma (Turandot)
Music CD 4
  1. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
  2. J.S. Bach: Jesus bleibet meine Freud
  3. Beethoven: Piano Concerto 'Emperor'
  4. Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary
  5. Gounod: Judex
  6. Rossini: La scala di Seta
  7. Handel: Sarabande
  8. Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers
  9. Prokofiev: Troika
  10. Williams: Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
  11. Debussy: Clair de lune
  12. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
  13. Myers: Cavatina
  14. Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1
  15. Horner: My Heart Will Go On
  16. Quarantotto: Time to Say Goodbye
  17. J. Strauss II: The Blue Danube
Music CD 5
  1. Mascagni: Intermezzo
  2. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2
  3. Grieg: Morning (Peer Gynt)
  4. Shostakovich: Romance
  5. Barber: Adagio For Strings
  6. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
  7. Massenet: Miditation
  8. Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
  9. Khachaturian: Adagio Of Spartacus And Phrygia
  10. Tchaikovsky: Romeo And Juliet Overture
  11. Beethoven: Symphony No.7
  12. J. S. Bach: Double Violin Concerto
  13. Williams: Schindler's List Theme
  14. Tchaikovsky: Dance Of The Reed Flutes
  15. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'
Music CD 6
  1. Handel: Zadok The Priest
  2. J. S. Bach: Zion Hvrt Die Wdchter
  3. Allegri: Miserere Mei, Deus
  4. Schubert: German Mass
  5. Franck: Panis Angelicus
  6. Berlioz: L'adieu Des Bergers
  7. Gounod: St Cecilia Mass
  8. Faure: In Paradisum
  9. Mozart: Laudate Dominum
  10. Faure: Cantique De Jean Racine
  11. Verdi: Ingemisco
  12. Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
  13. Handel: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
  14. Haydn: The Heavens Are Telling
  15. Faure: Pie Jesu
  16. Mozart: Lacrimosa (Requiem)
  17. Handel: Hallelujah Chorus

Music reviews of Best Classics 100

Music Review: A gateway drug, nothing more, nothing less.
Rating: 3 Stars

To say that this album constitutes a necessity for the classical music enthusiast would be a great big unarguable lie. It has nothing innovative to offer you as a listener, except for maybe the labelling of melodies such as "My Heart Will Go On" (that god-awful Love Theme from the gruesome film Titanic) as a worthy member of "Best Classics 100". But than again, every collection of things that does not naturally belong together, is bound to have at least one outcast where the connection clearly isn't based on anything but cost and sale-ability.

This might sound like the beginning of a CD-slaughter, or a snobbish review where only the Deutche Grammophone's recordings are meting my standards, but although I am fairly picky when it comes to musical collections, best of albums, and such horrifying destructions of the universality of the works and the intentions of the artist behind it, I am willing to give this collection another chance, since classical music is somewhere between Arabic and wine in degree of unmanageability. It also helps that all the tunes are familiar to almost every one of us, and the fact that the artists' intentions probably got killed by the hundreds of different conductors trying to convey their personal interpretation of the works.

What I am saying is that this CD can be to classical music enthusiast what 'absolute rock' can be to a rock enthusiast, or to someone slightly interested, with no conceptual frames of where to start the search for knowledge. "Best Classics 100" offers nothing except a selection of melodies where there's bound to be one for every taste, but where the album feeling, the entirety or completeness intended by the composer, or conductor, or performer is completely lost in a trade-off made with variety.

The collection is attempted organised by giving each CD a different theme, supposedly to describe the mood of the music, and the labeller succeeds only to a limited extent as we move from themes such as 'uplifting' and 'relaxing' towards 'golden'. I wonder what that golden feeling constitutes. It apparently is to be found in, amongst others, "Jesus Bleibet Meine Freunde", and in "My Heart Will Go On"?

But no matter how I try to describe this CD it will sound worse than it actually is. This because to me it works as a great reference to which I can always turn with my classical music questions. Was it Schumann or Schubert who were the sad one? Of all the -inis, which where which again? Who composed "O Mio Babbino Caro"? The starting point for finding out if you belong to the romantic or the renascence wing, lies within this assemblage, if you look with your ears.

If you feel that classical music is something you like, and you'd like to learn more about it, this is a way to get started. If used together with a book on classical music, or wikipedia, it can be a gateway drug, leading you towards the great different experiences to be found within the different genres of classical music, and within the different periods ranging from the 12th century, maybe even earlier, towards yesterdays and tomorrows spectacular compositions of melodies that conveys a feeling, a state of mind with much more precision than any other musical genre. Expect a fairly alright collection of classical prunes, and you won't be disappointed.
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