CD 1: Favourite classics. Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67. Allegro con brio / Beethoven (Chamber Orchestra of Europe ; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor) (7:20) --
Bolero (extract) / Ravel (London Symphony Orchestra ; Kent Nagano, conductor) (5:29) --
Solomon : HWV 67. Act 3. Sinfonia / Handel (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor) (3:14) --
Le quattro stagioni = The four seasons. Violin concerto no. 1 in E, RV 269 : 'Spring'. Allegro / Vivaldi (Sir Yehudi Menuhin, violin ; Camerata Lysy Gstaad ; Alberto Lysy, conductor) (3:42) --
Symphony no. 9 in E minor, op. 95 : 'From the New World'. Allegro con fuoco / Dvořák (Philharmonia Orchestra ; Carl Maria Giulini, conductor) (11:20) --
Horn concerto no. 4 in E-flat, K. 495. Rondo-Allego vivace / Mozart (Barry Tuckwell, horn ; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor) (3:36) --
Symphony no. 9 in D minor, op. 125. Ode to joy / Beethoven (Barbara Bonney, soprano ; Birgit Remmert, contralto ; Kurt Streit, tenor ; Thomas Hampson, baritone ; City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus ; Wiener Philharmoniker ; Simon Rattle, conductor) (3:47) --
1812 overture : op. 49 [extract] / Tchaikovsky (Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra ; Mariss Jansons, conductor) (3:34) --
Piano concerto no. 3 in D minor, op. 30. Allegro ma non tanto (extract) / Rachmaninov (Mikhail Rudy, piano ; St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra ; Mariss Jansons, conductor) (2:54) --
Carmina Burana. Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi. O Fortuna / Orff (Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra ; Riccardo Muti, conductor) (2:43) --
Finlandia : op. 26 / Sibelius (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ; Paavo Berglund, conductor) (8:07) --
The planets : op. 32. Jupiter, the bringer of jollity (extract) / Holst (Philharmonia Orchestra ; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor) (4:51) --
Romeo and Juliet. Suite no. 2, op. 64b. Montagues and Capulets : (Dance of the knights) (extract) / Prokofiev (Philadelphia Orchestra ; Riccardo Muti, conductor) (1:53) --
Pomp and circumstance march : no. 1 in D. Land of hope and glory (conclusion) / Elgar (Royal Choral Society ; London Philharmonic Orchestra ; Sir Andrew David, conductor) (2:36) --
Suite in D. Trumpet voluntary : The Prince of Denmark's march / Clarke (Maurice André, trumpet ; Jane Parker-Smith, organ) (2:54) --
Aida. Triumphal chorus & grand march : "Gloria all'Egitto" / Verdi (Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; New Philharmonia Orchestra ; Riccardo Muti, conductor) (4:35) --
Radetzky march : op. 228 / J. Strauss I (Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester ; Willi Boskovsky, conductor) (2:52) --
CD 2: Relaxing classics. Piano sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27 no. 2 : 'Moonlight'. Adagio sostenuto / Beethoven (Maria-João Pires, piano) (5:31) --
Concerto for flute and harp in C, K. 299. Andantino / Mozart (Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute ; Lili Laskine, harp ; Ensemble instrumental Jean Marie-Leclair ; Jean François Paillard) (4:39) --
Peer Gynt : op. 23. No. 13 : Morning mood / Grieg (Estonian National Symphony Orchestra ; Paavo Järvi, conductor) (4:11) --
Adagio for strings, op. 11 / Barber (Philadelphia Orchestra ; Eugene Ormandy, conductor) (6:22) --
Concierto de Aranjuez. Adagio (opening) / Rodrigo (Julian Bream, guitar ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor) (4:46) --
Symphony no. 6 in F, op. 68 : "Pastoral". Allegro non troppo : Awakening of happy feelings on arriving in the country [extract] / Beethoven (Berliner Philharmoniker ; André Cluytens, conductor) (2:47) --
Piano concerto no. 21 in C, K. 467. Andante / Mozart (Christian Zacharias, piano ; Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks ; David Zinman, conductor) (5:15) --
Suite no. 3 in D, BWV 1068. Air / Bach (Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor) (3:33) --
Harpsichord suite no. 4 in D minor, HWV 437. Sarabande / Handel (Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields ; Alexander Briger, conductor) (3:24) --
Canon in D / Pachelbel (Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor) (5:00) --
Adagio in G minor (extract) / Albinoni ; arr. Giazotto (Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor) (5:52) --
Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV 1043. Largo, ma non tanto / Bach (Anne-Sophie Mutter, Salvatore Accardo, violins ; English Chamber Orchestra) (7:45) --
Clarinet concerto in A, K. 622. Adagio / Mozart (Sabine Meyer, clarinet ; Berliner Philharmoniker ; Claudio Abbado, conductor) (6:38) --
Symphony no. 7 in A, op. 92. Allegretto (extract) / Beethoven (Philharmonia Orchestra ; Kurt Sanderling, conductor) (3:56) --
Variations on an original theme : op. 36 : 'Enigma'. Nimrod / Elgar (London Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Adrian Boult, conductor) (3:58) --
Symphony no. 5 in C-sharp minor. Adagietto (conclusion) / Mahler (New Philharmonia Orchestra ; Sir John Barbirolli, conductor) (3:07) --
CD 3: Romantic classics. The nutcracker : op. 71. Act 2. No. 13 : Waltz of the flowers / Tchaikovsky (London Symphony Orchestra ; André Previn, conductor) (6:57) --
Violin concerto in E minor, op. 64. Andante (extract) / Mendelssohn (Yehudi Menuhin, violin ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Efrem Kurtz, conductor) (4:30) --
Piano concerto no. 5 in E-flat, op. 73 : 'Emperor'. Allegro (extract) / Beethoven (Emil Gilels, piano ; Cleveland Orchestra ; George Szell, conductor) (6:42) --
Piano concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11. Romance : Larghetto / Chopin (Martha Argerich, piano ; Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal ; Charles Dutoit, conductor) (3:51) --
Le carnaval des animaux. Le cygne = The swan / Saint-Saens (Gautier Capuçon, cello ; Frank Braley, piano) (3:07) --
Méditation de Thaïs / Massenet (Renaud Capuçon, violin ; Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen ; Daniel Harding, conductor) (5:19) --
Le quattro stagioni = The four seasons. Violin concerto no. 4 in F minor, RV 297 : 'Winter'. Largo / Vivaldi (Sir Yehudi Menuhin, violin ; Camerata Lysy Gstaad ; Alberto Lysy, conductor) (2:08) --
Orfeo ed Euridice : Wq. 41. Act 2. Dance of the blessed spirits / Gluck ; arr. Kreisley (Renaud Capuçon, violin ; Jérôme Ducros, piano) (3:45) --
Sleeping beauty : op. 66. Act 1 : The spell. Waltz / Tchaikovsky (Philharmonia Orchestra ; John Lanchbery, conductor) (4:59) --
Scheherazade : op. 35. The story of the Kalendar prince (opening) / Rimsky-Korsakov (Philadelphia Orchestra ; Riccardo Muti, conductor) (3:51) --
Fantasia on 'Greensleeves' / Vaughan Williams (Sinfonia of London ; Sir John Barbirolli, conductor) (4:40) --
Theme from Schindler's list / John Williams (New World Philharmonic ; Ian Sutherland, conductor) (5:04) --
Swan lake : op. 20. Act II. No. 10 : Scene (moderato) / Tchaikovsky (London Symphony Orchestra ; André Previn, conductor) (2:49) --
Wiegenlied = Lullaby / Brahms (Victoria de los Angeles, soprano ; Sinfonia of London ; Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor) (2:23) --
Waltz no. 9 in A-flat, op. 69 no. 1 / Chopin (Samson François, piano) (4:21) --
Symphony no. 3 in F, op. 90. Poco allegretto / Brahms (Berliner Philharmoniker ; Sir Simon Rattle, conductor) (6:47) --
An der schönen blauen Donau : op. 314 / J. Strauss II (Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester ; Willi Boskovsky, conductor) (3:14) --
CD 4: Vocal classics. Norma. Act 1. "Casta diva" / Bellini (Maria Callas, soprano ; Orchestra Teatro alla Scala di Milano ; Tullio Serafin, conductor) (5:37) --
Tosca. Act 2. "Vissi d'arte" (Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) (3:28) ; Gianni Schicchi. "O mio babbino caro" (London Symphony Orchestra) (2:07) / Puccini (Antonio Pappano, conductor) --
Nabucco. Act 3. Chorus of the Hebrew slaves : "Va pensiero, sull'ali dorate" / Verdi (Ambrosian Opera Chorus ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Riccardo Muti, conductor) (5:14) --
Turandot. Act 3. "Nessun dorma" / Puccini (José Carreras, tenor ; Chœurs de l'Opéra du Rhin ; Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg ; Alain Lombard, conductor) (4:13) --
Les contes d'Hoffmann. Act 4. Barcarolle : "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" / Offenbach (Jessye Norman, soprano ; Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano ; Brussels National Opera Chorus ; Orchestre Symphonique de l'Opéra National, Bruxelles ; Sylvain Cambreling, conductor) (4:22) --
Rusalka : op. 114. Act 1. "Song to the moon" / Dvořák (Lucia Popp, soprano ; Münchner Rundfunkorchester ; Stefan Soltesz, conductor) (5:56) --
Lakmé. Act 1. Flower duet : "Sous le dôme épais" / Delibes (Mady Mesplé, Danielle Millet, sopranos ; Orchestre du Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique ; Alain Lombard, conductor) (3:30) --
Don Giovanni : K. 527. Act 1. "Là ci darem la mano" (Barbara Bonney, soprano ; Thomas Hampson, baritone ; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ; Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor) (3:44) ; Die Zauberflöte : K. 620. Act 2. "Der Hölle Rache" (Natalie Dessay, soprano ; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ; Louis Langrée, conductor) (3:00) / Mozart --
Die lustige Witwe. "Lippen schweigen" / Lehár (Diana Damrau, soprano ; Rolando Villazón, tenor ; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra ; David Charles Abell, conductor) (3:09) --
Carmen. Act 1. "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" / Bizet (Victoria de los Angeles, soprano ; Chœurs & Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française ; Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor) (4:39) --
Serse. Act 1. "Ombra mai fu" / Handel (Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano ; Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne ; Jesús López-Cobos, conductor) (3:33) --
Orfeo ed Euridice : Wq. 30. Act 3. "Che farò senza Euridice?" / Gluck (Agnes Baltsa, mezzo-soprano ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Riccardo Muti, conductor) (5:29) --
Ellens Gesang III : D. 839. No. 6 : Ave Maria / Schubert (Barbara Bonney, soprano ; Geoffrey Parsons, piano) (6:19) --
Peer Gynt : op. 23. Act 4. Solveig's song / Grieg (Camilla Tilling, soprano ; National Male Choir of Estonia ; Estonian National Symphony Orchestra ; Paavo Järvi, conductor) (4:53) --
CD 5: Piano classics. Piano concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18. Moderato / Rachmaninov (Leif Ove Andsnes, piano ; Berliner Philharmoniker ; Antonio Pappano, conductor) (10:11) --
Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op. posth. / Chopin (Mikhail Pletnev, piano) (4:22) --
Bagatelle no. 25 in A minor, WoO 59 : 'Für Elise' / Beethoven (François-René Duchâble, piano) (2:30) --
Impromptu in G-flat, D. 899, no. 3 / Schubert (Maria-João Pires, piano) (2:00) --
Préludes, book 1, L. 117. No. 8 : La fille aux cheveux de lin / Debussy (Samson François, piano) (2:15) --
Keyboard concerto in F minor, BWV 1056. Adagio / Bach (David Fray, piano & conductor ; Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen) (3:12) --
Piano concerto no. 20 in D minor, K. 466. Romanze / Mozart (Yuri Egorov, piano ; Philharmonia Orchestra ; Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor) (8:58) --
Piano concerto in G, M. 83. Adagio assai / Ravel (Hélène Grimaud, piano ; Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ; David Zinman, conductor) (10:02) --
Prelude in E minor, op. 28 no. 4 / Chopin (Nikolai Lugansky, piano) (2:07) --
Goldberg variations : BWV 988. Aria / Bach (Daniel Barenboim, piano) (4:59) --
Piano concerto in A minor, op. 19. Allegro molto moderato (extract) / Grieg (Cécile Ousset, piano ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor) (4:29) --
Suite bergamasque : L. 75. Claire de lune / Debussy (Kun Woo Paik, piano) (5:45) --
Songs without words. Book 6, op. 67. Allegro leggiero / Mendelssohn (Alexandre Tharaud, piano) (1:59) --
Kinderszenen : op. 15. Träumerei / Schumann (Martha Argerich, piano) (2:51) --
Pictures at an exhibition. No. 10 : The great gate at Kiev / Mussorgsky (Alexis Weissenberg, piano) (4:59) --
The seasons : op. 37b. June : (Barcarolle) / Tchaikovsky (Mikhail Pletnev, piano) (4:39) --
Liebesträume : S 541. No. 3 in A-flat / Liszt (Kun Woo Paik, piano) (5:35) --
CD 6: Spiritual. Cantata : 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben' : BWV 147 : "Jesu, joy of man's desiring" / Bach ; arr. Marriner (Calia Nicklin, oboe ; Academy of St. Martin-In-The-Fields ; Sir Neville Marriner, conductor) (5:14) --
Zadok the priest : HWV 258 / Handel (Royal Choral Society ; London Philharmonic Orchestra ; Sir Andrew Davis, conductor) (6:04) --
Cantata, BWV 140 : "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" / Bach (Süddeutscher Madrigalchor ; Consortium Classicum ; Wolfgang Gönnenwein, conductor) (4:48) --
Miserere (extract) / Allegri (King's College Choir, Cambridge ; Stephen Cleobury, conductor) (5:46) --
Deutsche Messe : D. 872. Zum Sanctus : Heilig! heilig! heilig! / Schubert (Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks ; Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor) (2:28) --
Requiem in D minor, op. 48. Pie Jesu (3:39) ; In paradisum (3:22) / Fauré (Philippe Jaroussky, counter-tenor ; Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris ; Orchestre de Paris ; Paavo Järvi, conductor) --
Mass in B minor, BWV 232. Sanctus / Bach (Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks ; Eugen Jochum, conductor) (6:08) --
Vesperae solennes de confessore : K. 339. Laudate Dominum / Mozart (Edda Moser, soprano ; Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks ; Eugen Jochum, conductor) (5:08) --
Cantique de Jean Racine : op. 11 / Fauré (Chœur de l'Orchestre de Paris ; Orchestre de Paris ; Paavo Järvi, conductor) (4:48) --
Ave verum corpus : K. 618 / Mozart (Hilliard Ensemble ; King's College Choir, Cambridge ; Cambridge Classical Players ; Stephen Cleobury, conductor) (3:07) --
Messa da Requiem. Ingemisco / Verdi (Piotr Beczała, tenor ; Ildar Abdrazakov, bass ; Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris ; Philippe Jordan, conductor) (3:22) --
Messiah : BWV 56. Part 3. "I know that my Redeemer liveth" / Handel (Lucy Crowe, soprano ; Le Concert d'Astrée ; Emmanuelle Haïm, conductor) (6:01) --
L'enfance du Christ : op. 25. Part 2. The shepherds' farewell / Berlioz (Chœurs René Duclos ; Orchestre da la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire ; André Cluytens) (3:52) --
The Creation. Part 1. "The heavens are telling" / Haydn (Heather Harper, soprano ; Robert Tear, tenor ; John-Shirley Quirk, bass-baritone ; King's College Choir, Cambridge ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields ; Sir David Willcocks, conductor) (4:46) --
Requiem in D minor, K. 626. Lacrimosa / Mozart (Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra ; Carl Maria Giulini, conductor) (3:40) --
Messiah : HWV 56. Hallelujah / Handel (Ambrosian Singers ; English Chamber Orchestra ; Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor) (4:05).
