The Best Classics... Ever!

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The Best Classics... Ever! is a compilation album released by EMI in late 2005. This compilation contains both short works and excerpts from longer works by renowned classical composers.

Track listing

CD 1

1. Erik Satie – "Gymnopédie 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 K. 626)
5. Sergei Rachmaninoff – "Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, part II: Adagio sostenuto" (opening)
6. Antonio Vivaldi – "Winter (The Four Seasons), part 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 Fauré – "Pavane" (arr. Craig Leon)
10. Edward Elgar – "Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, part 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, part IV: Adagietto" (conclusion)
13. Ludwig van Beethoven – "Moonlight Sonata, part 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, part I: Allegro"
2. Johann Strauss II – "On The Beautiful Blue Danube: Waltz, Op. 314" (extract)
3. Giuseppe Verdi – "La donna è mobile" (Rigoletto)
4. Antonio Vivaldi – "Concerto "L'estate", RV 315, part III: Presto"
5. Georges Bizet – "Prelude" (Carmen)
6. Maurice Ravel – "Boléro" (conclusion)
7. Giacomo Puccini – "Nessun dorma" (Turandot, Act III)
8. Léo Delibes – "Dôme épais" (Lakmé, Act I)
9. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23, part I: Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso (opening)
10. George Gershwin – "Rhapsody in Blue" (jazz band version – opening)
11. George Frideric Handel – "Lascia ch'io pianga" (Rinaldo) (arr. Craig Leon and Isobel Cooper)
12. Sergei Rachmaninoff – "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" (Op. 43 – Variation 18)
13. Vincenzo 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. Frédéric Chopin – "Mazurkas Op. 59, No. 3 in F sharp minor"
2. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – "Flight of the Bumblebee"
3. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – "Allegro Moderato" (Swan Lake)
4. Antonio Vivaldi – "Spring (The Four Seasons), part I: Allegro"
5. Johann Sebastian Bach – "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048, part I: Allegro moderato"
6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "Le nozze di Figaro" (Overture)
7. Jacques Offenbach – "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" (Barcarolle) (Les contes d'Hoffmann, Act IV)
8. Georges Bizet – "Au fond du temple saint" (Temple Duet) (Les pêcheurs de perles, 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 in A minor, Op. 16, part I: Allegro molto moderato"
12. Giuseppe Verdi – "Va, pensiero" (Chorus of Hebrew Slaves) (Nabucco, Act III)
13. Izzy – "Suo Gân"
14. George Frideric 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 and Juliet)
3. Ludwig van Beethoven – "Symphony No. 5 in C minor"
4. Richard Wagner – "Ride of the Valkyries" (Die Walküre)
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" (Roméo et Juliette)
11. Giacomo Puccini – "Un bel dì 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 Frideric Handel – "Hallelujah Chorus"

External links

• CD description (in Polish)