The Best Classics... Ever! vol. 2

The Best Classics... Ever! vol. 2 is a compilation album released by EMI in late 2007.

The Best Classics... Ever! vol. 2
Compilation album by
Various Artists
ReleasedOctober 12, 2007
Genreclassical
Lengthmore than 240 min
LabelEMI
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Track listing

CD 1 (Slavic)
  1. Modest Mussorgsky – "Promende: Allegro giusto, nel modo russico, senza allegrezza, ma poco sostenuto (Pictures at an Exhibition)"
  2. Mikhail Glinka – "Overture (Ruslan and Ludmila)"
  3. Antonín Dvořák – "Symphony No. 8, Op. 88"
  4. Stanisław Moniuszko – "Prząśniczka"
  5. Aram Khachaturian – "Sabre Dance (Gayaneh)"
  6. Henryk Górecki – "Symphony No. 3 Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
  7. Leoš Janáček – "Sinfonietta, Op. 60"
  8. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – "The Sea and Sindbad's Ship (Scheherazade)"
  9. Dmitri Shostakovich – "The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a"
  10. Alexander Borodin – "Polovtsian Dances. Introduction (Prince Igor)"
  11. Bedřich Smetana – "Vltava (Ma vlast)"
  12. Igor Stravinsky – "The Firebird" (conclusion)
  13. Antonín Dvořák – "Song to the Moon" (Rusalka)
  14. Frédéric Chopin – "Mazurka No. 2, Op. 63"
  15. Dmitri Shostakovich – "Jazz Suite No 1"
  16. Paweł Szymański – "Sarabande"
  17. Modest Mussorgsky – "Il vecchio castello: Andante (Pictures at an Exhibition)"
  18. Antonín Dvořák – "Slavonic Dances, Op. 72"

CD 2 (German)
  1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "Symphony No. 40 in G minor"
  2. Johann Strauss II – "Wiener Blut Op. 354" (extract)
  3. Robert Schumann – "Träumerei" (No. 7 from Kinderszenen)
  4. Gustav Mahler – "Symphony No. 3 in D minor"
  5. Johann Sebastian Bach – "Brandenburg Concertos, No. 1 in F BWV1046"
  6. Felix Mendelssohn – "Sonate pour violoncello & piano No. 2"
  7. Johannes Brahms – "Hungarian Dances No. 1 in G minor"
  8. Fritz Kreisler – "Liebesleid"
  9. Franz Schubert – "String Quartet No. 14 in D minor (Death and the Maiden)"
  10. Max Bruch – "Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46"
  11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "Piano Sonata No. 11, K. 331"
  12. Ludwig van Beethoven – "Für Elise"
  13. Johannes Brahms – "Violin Concerto, Op. 77"
  14. Joseph Haydn – "Symphony No. 83 The Hen"
  15. Richard Wagner – "Prelude (Tristan und Isolde)"

CD 3 (Latin)
  1. Pietro Mascagni – "O amore, o bella luce del core (L'amico Fritz)"
  2. Hector Berlioz – "Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14"
  3. Pietro Mascagni – "Cavalleria rusticana"
  4. Claude Debussy – "Jeux de vagues (La Mer)"
  5. Maurice Ravel – "Violin Sonata"
  6. Ennio Morricone – "Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission)"
  7. Joaquín Rodrigo – "Concierto de Aranjuez"
  8. Heitor Villa-Lobos – "Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2"
  9. Enrique Granados – "Danzas españolas"
  10. Isaac Albéniz – "Malagueña, Op. 165, No. 3"
  11. Camille Saint-Saëns – "The Swan (The Carnival of the Animals)"
  12. Manuel de Falla – "Canciones populares españolas"
  13. Jules Massenet – "Manon!... Avez-vous peur que mon visage frole? (Manon)"
  14. Charles Gounod – "Glorie immortele de nos aieux (Faust)"
  15. Giuseppe Verdi – "Se quel guerrier...Celeste Aida (Aida)"
  16. Jacques Offenbach – "Overture (Orpheus in the Underworld)"

CD 4 (Rest of the world)
  1. Māori Songs – "Tarakihi (The Locust)"
  2. Leonard Bernstein – "Overture (Candide)"
  3. Ralph Vaughan Williams – "A Sea Symphony, No. 1 Behold, the sea itself"
  4. Astor Piazzolla – "Decarismo"
  5. Franz Liszt – "La campanella"
  6. Edvard Grieg – "Norwegian Dances Op. 35"
  7. Benjamin Britten – "Now the hungry lions roars (A Midsummer Night's Dream)"
  8. Karl Jenkins – "Requiem: Lacrimosa"
  9. Ralph Vaughan Williams – "Fantasia on Greensleeves"
  10. Charles Wood – "Hail, gladdening light"
  11. John Tavener – "Song For Athene"
  12. Paul Dukas – "Scherzo (excerpt) (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)"
  13. William Walton – "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra"
  14. Gustav Holst – "Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets)"
  15. Edvard Grieg – "Cello Sonata Op. 36 / Intermezzo in A minor"
  16. Astor Piazzolla – "Concerto for Bandoneón and Orchestra – Muerte del Angel"
  17. Vanessa-Mae – "Happy Valley (The 1997 re-unification overture)"
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