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Favourite Orchestral Classics
ARIADNE 5012 (SOMM Recordings, CD)
AAD
DIGITALLY REMASTERED (21 May 2021)
Playing time: 78'25"
Tracks: 19
Booklet pages: 12
℗ 2021 SOMM Recordings
© 2021 SOMM Recordings
Main country of recording: Germany
Country of manufacture: European Union
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Favourite Orchestral Classics published on 11 August 2021
Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Iain Sutherland, conductor
Marc-Antoine Charpentier:
1 Prelude (Te Deum)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor:
2 Le Caprice de Nanette (Petite Suite de Concert)
Sergei Prokofiev:
3 The Young Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
Pietro Mascagni:
4 Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)
Georges Bizet:
5 Minuetto (L'Arlésienne)
Edvard Grieg:
6 Norwegian Rustic March (Lyric Suite)
Frederick Delius:
7 On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Felix Mendelssohn:
8 Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
J S Bach, arranged by William Walton:
9 Sheep May Safely Graze
Manuel de Falla:
10 Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)
Igor Stravinsky:
11 Lullaby (The Firebird)
Aaron Copland:
12 Hoe-Down (Rodeo)
Giacomo Puccini:
13 Intermezzo (Suor Angelica)
Edvard Grieg:
14 Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Frederick Delius:
15 The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
Aram Khachaturian:
16 Galop (Masquerade Suite)
Claude Debussy:
17 En bateau (Petite Suite)
Aram Khachaturian:
18 Sabre Dance (Gayane)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
19 Scene (Swan Lake)
Recorded in June 1988 at BR Studios, Munich, Germany and in December 1992 at NDR Studios, Hanover, Germany