The Best Classics... Ever!

The Best Classics... Ever! is a compilation album released by EMI in late 2005. This compilation contains songs by greates composers like Ludwig van Beethoven.

Track listing

CD 1

1. Erik Satie- "Gymnopedie No.1"
2. Johann Pachelbel- "Canon In D"
3. Johann Sebastian Bach- "Air" (on the G string)
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- "Lacrimosa" (Requiem in D minor K626)
5. Sergei Rachmaninow- "Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor- II: Adagio sostenuto" (opening)
6. Antonio Vivaldi- "Winter (The Four Seasons)- II. Largo"
7. Michael Nyman- "The Heart Asks Pleasure First"/"The Promise" (The Piano)
8. Tomaso Albinoni- "Adagio in G minor (realised Giazotto)" (extract)
9. Gabriel Faure- "Pavane" (arr. Craig Leon)
10. Edward Elgar- "Cello Concerto in E minor Op. 85- I: Adagio- Moderato" (opening)
11. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky- "Swan Theme" (Swan Lake,Act II - No. 10 Scene)
12. Gustav Mahler- "Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor- IV. Adagietto" (conclusion)
13. Ludwig van Beethoven- "Moonlight Sonata- II: Adagio sostenuto" (extract)
14. Samuel Barber- "Adagio for Strings"
15. Karl Jenkins- "Agnus Dei" (The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace)
16. Gregorio Allegri- "Miserere mei, Deus" (vv.1-4 & 17-20)
17. Johannes Brahms- "Waltz No. 15 in A flat"

CD 2

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- "Eine kleine Nachtmusik- I: Allegro"
2. Johann Strauss II- "On The Beautiful Blue Danube- Waltz, Op.314" (extract)
3. Giuseppe Verdi- "La donna e mobile" (Rigoletto)
4. Antonio Vivaldi- "Concerto ”L’estate”, RV 315- III: Presto"
5. Georges Bizet- "Prelude" (Carmen)
6. Maurice Ravel- "Bolero" (conclusion)
7. Giacomo Puccini- "Nessun Dorma" (Turando, Act III)
8. Leo Delibes- "Dome Epais" (Flower Duet) (Lakme, Act I)
9. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky-Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor Op.23 I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso (opening)
10. George Gershwin- "Rhapsody in Blue" (jazzband version - opening)
11. George Friderich Handel- "Lascia Chíoi Pianga" (Rinaldo) (arr. Craig Leon & Isobel Cooper)
12. Rachmaninov- "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganani" (Op. 43 - Variation 18)
13. Bellini- "Casta Diva" (Norma, Act I)
14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- "Canzonetta sull’aria" (Le Nozze di Figaro, Act III)
15. Giacomo Puccini- "O mio babbino caro" (Gianni Schicchi)
16. Franz Schubert- "Ave Maria Maria Callas"
17. John Williams- "Schindler’s List Theme"

CD 3

1. Fryderyk Chopin- "Mazurkas Op. 59: No 3 in F sharp minor"
2. Rimsky, Karsakov- "The Flight Of The Bumble- Bee"
3. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky- "Allegro Moderato" (Swan Lake)
4. Antonio Vivaldi- "Spring (The Four Seasons)- I: Allegro"
5. Johann Sebastian Bach- "Branderburg Concerto No.3 in G BWV 1048- I: Allegro moderato"
6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- "Le nozze di Figaro' (Overture)
7. Jacques Ofenbach- "Belle Nuit, O Nuit D’Amour" (Barcarolle) (Les Contes D’Hoffmann, Act IV)
8. Georges Bizet- "Au fond du temple saint" (Temple Duet) (The Pearl Fisher, Act I)
9. Gustav Holst "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity" (conclusion) (The Planets)
10. George Gershwin- "Summertime" (Porgy and Bess)
11. Edvard Grieg- "Piano Concerto Op. 16 A minor Op.16 I: Allegro molto moderato"
12. Giuseppe Verdi- "Va, pensiero" (Chorus of Hebrew Slaves) (Nabucco, Act III)
13. Izzy- "Suo Gan"
14. George Friderich Handel- "Zadok the Priest - Coronation Anthem"
15. Georges Bizet- "L’amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Habanera) (Carmen, Act I)
16. Johann Sebastian Bach- "Goldberg Variations Aria"

CD 4

1. Richard Strauss- "Also sprach Zarathustra"
2. Sergei Prokofiev- "Montagues and Capulets" (Romeo & Juliet)
3. Ludwig van Beethoven- "Symphony No.5 in C minor"
4. Richard Wagner- "The Ride of the Valkyries" (Die Walkure)
5. Carl Orff- "O Fortuna" (Carmina Burana)
6. Antonio Vivaldi- "Concerto ”L’inverno", RV 297
7. Pyotr Tchaikovsky- "Waltz of the Flowers" (The Nutcracker)
8. Gioachino Rossini- "Largo al factotum" (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
9. Giuseppe Verdi- "La forza del destino" (Overture)
10. Charles Gounod- "Valse de Juliette" (Romeo & Juliette)
11. Giacomo Puccini- "Un bel di vedremo" (Madama Butterfly)
12. Giuseppe Verdi- "Libiamo ne’lieti calici" (Brindisi) (La Traviata)
13. Pyotr Tchaikovsky- "1812- Festival Overture Op. 49"
14. Ludwig van Beethoven- "Ode to Joy" (Choral Symphony)
15. George Friderich Handel- "Hallelujah Chorus"

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CD description (in Polish)

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