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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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