The Music Pages | March 2009

The No. 1 Albums
	Cat. No.: 476 5882 Barcode: 0028947658825 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: March			MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA \|CHARLES DUTOIT The No. 1 Debussy Album ARTISTS Montreal Symphony Orchestra Charles Dutoit TRACK LISTING CD 1 La Mer Jeux Le Martyre de saint Sébastien Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune CD 2 Images for orchestra 3 Nocturnes Printemps RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 5879 Barcode: 0028947658795 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: March			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| The No. 1 Beethoven Album TRACK LISTING 24 of his greatest masterpieces, including excerpts from Symphonies 5, 6 “Pastoral”, 7, 8 and 9 “Choral” Violin Concerto Piano Concertos 2, 3 and 5 “Emperor” Fidelio “Moonlight”, “The Tempest” and “Pathétique” Piano Sonatas “Spring” Violin Sonata Septet String Quartet, op.130 plus Overture “Egmont” Romance No.2 for violin and orchestra Für Elise Bagatelle, op.12 no.6 Minuet No.11, WoO 7 In questa tomba oscura RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 5885 Barcode: 0028947658856 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: March			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| The No. 1 Vivaldi Album TRACK LISTING CD 1 The Four Seasons, op.8 nos.1–4 “La notte” (Night) Flute Concerto, op.10 no.2, RV 439 Concerto (Sinfonia) “alla rustica” in G major, RV 151 Guitar Concerto in D major, RV 93 Piccolo Concerto in C major, RV 443 CD 2 Gloria in D major, RV 589 Flute Concerto, op.10 no.1 “The Storm at Sea” (La tempesta di mare), RV 433 Concerto in B minor for 4 violins, op.3 no.10, RV 580 Bassoon Concerto in A minor, RV 498 Oboe Concerto in F major, RV 456 Concerto in C major for 2 trumpets, RV 537 RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 5888 Barcode: 0028947658887 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: March			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| The No. 1 Bach Album TRACK LISTING 29 well-known excerpts from Orchestral Suites 2 and 3 Brandenburg Concertos 2–5 Goldberg Variations Violin Concerto No.1 · Concerto for 2 violins Oboe Concerto · Concerto for oboe and violin Concerto in A minor for organ Keyboard Concertos 2, 4 and 5 · Italian Concerto Cello Suites 1 and 3 · Cello Sonata No.3 Partita No.1 · Violin Partita No.2 Lute Suite No.4 · French Suite No.5 Mass in B minor St Matthew Passion Christmas Oratorio plus Jesu, joy of man’s desiring Sleepers awake Sheep may safely graze Sanctify us by thy goodness Toccata in D minor Prelude in C major Prelude in D minor RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 5897 Barcode: 0028947658979 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: March			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| The No. 1 Verdi Album TRACK LISTING 40 famous arias, duets, choruses and orchestral excerpts, including La donna è mobile · Caro nome · Questa o quella · Bella figlia dell’amore Rigoletto Prelude · Brindisi · Un dì felice · Parigi, o cara La traviata Anvil Chorus · Soldiers’ Chorus · Di quella pira · Stride la vampa! · Tacea la notte Il trovatore Grand March · Celeste Aida · Ritorna vincitor! · O patria mia Aida Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves Nabucco Overture · Pace, pace, mio Dio! · Solenne in quest’ora The Force of Destiny Dio, che nell’alma infondere · O don fatale · Auto-da-fé Chorus Don Carlo Brindisi · Ah, la paterna mano · Patria oppressa Macbeth Di’ tu se fedele · Morrò, ma prima in grazia A Masked Ball Quando le sere al placido Luisa Miller Mercè, dilette amiche The Sicilian Vespers Ave Maria Otello RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 5900 Barcode: 0028947659006 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: March			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| The No. 1 Rachmaninov Album TRACK LISTING CD 1 Piano Concerto No.2 Vocalise Prelude in C sharp minor Pâques from Suite No.1 for two pianos Adagio from Symphony No.2 Largo from Piano Concerto No.4 Non allegro from Symphonic Dances CD 2 Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Allegro ma non tanto from Piano Concerto No.3 Adagio ma non troppo from Symphony No.3 Nunc dimittis from Vespers Prelude in G minor Romance in F minor (cello and piano) Liebesfreud (Kreisler, arr. Rachmaninov) Allegro con fuoco from Symphony No.1 RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 5903 Barcode: 0028947659037 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: March			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| The No. 1 Puccini Album TRACK LISTING 35 famous arias, including Un bel dì · Humming Chorus · Flower Duet · Addio, fiorito asil Madama Butterfly Che gelida manina · Sì, mi chiamano Mimì · Musetta’s waltz song La Bohème Nessun dorma · In questa reggia · Signore, ascolta! · Non piangere Liù · Tu, che di gel sei cinta Turandot Vissi d’arte · Recondita armonia · E lucevan le stelle Tosca O mio babbino caro Gianni Schicchi Senza mamma Suor Angelica Chi il bel sogno di Doretta La rondine Donna non vidi mai · Tra voi, belle · Sola, perduta, abbandonata Manon Lescaut Ch’ella mi creda libero La fanciulla del West RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 5907 Barcode: 0028947659075 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: March			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| The No. 1 Handel Album TRACK LISTING CD 1 Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Where’er you walk Water Music — Suite Dove sei Organ Concerto No.13 in F major, “Cuckoo and Nightingale” Sarabande from Suite No.11 in D minor Minuet from Overture to Berenice Waft her, angels See the conquering hero comes Largo from Xerxes Zadok the Priest CD 2 Music for the Royal Fireworks Return O God of Hosts+ Harp Concerto, op.4 no.6 Let the bright seraphim Concerto grosso in D major, op.3 no.6 The trumpet’s loud clangor March & Battle from Rinaldo Vivi tiranno For unto us a child is born, I know that my redeemer liveth, The trumpet shall sound & Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 5891 Barcode: 0028947658917 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: March			VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA \| SIR GEORG SOLTI The No. 1 Wagner Album ARTISTS Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Georg Solti TRACK LISTING CD 1 Overture Rienzi Overture The Flying Dutchman Prelude to Act I Tristan and Isolde Overture Tannhäuser Bacchanale Tannhäuser CD 2 Prelude to Act I Lohengrin Siegfried Idyll Prelude and Hymn, Act I The Mastersingers of Nuremberg Prelude to Act I Parsifal Siegfried’s Funeral March Götterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods) RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 5894 Barcode: 0028947658948 Label: Decca 2CD Release Date: March			VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA \| WILLI BOSKOVSKY The No. 1 Strauss Album ARTISTS Anton Karas Wiener Philharmoniker Willi Boskovsky TRACK LISTING Favourite waltzes by Johann and Josef Strauss CD 1 The Blue Danube Voices of Spring Music of the Spheres* Tales from the Vienna Woods You and You Wine, Women and Song Thousand and One Nights Where the Lemon Trees Blossom Love Songs CD 2 Vienna Blood Viennese Bonbons Artist’s Life Morning Papers Village Swallows from Austria* Roses from the South Emperor Waltz Accelerations RETURN TO THE TOP