Title:
The most relaxing piano album in the world-- ever!
Publication Information:
New York, NY : EMI Classics, p2003.
Physical Description:
2 sound discs : digital, stereo., mono. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Compact discs.
Reissued from recordings published 1957-2001.
Titles with #: "These pieces have been excerpted or arranged to accommodate them in this compilation."
Contents:
CD 1. Piano concerto no. 21 in C : Elvira Madigan : K467. II, Andante# / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Stephen Hough; Halle Orchestra; Bryden Thomson) -- Piano sonata no. 14 in C sharp minor : Moonlight : op. 27, no. 2. I, Adagio sostenuto# / Ludwig van Beethoven (Moura Lympany) -- Jesus bleibet meine Freude = Jesu, joy of man's desiring : from Cantata no. 147 / Johann Sebastian Bach ; arr. Hess (Moura Lympany) -- Nocturne no. 2 in E flat op. 9, no. 2 / Frederic Chopin (John Ogdon) -- Clair de lune : from Suite bergamasque / Claude Debussy (Moura Lympany) -- Piano concerto in A minor. II, Adagio / Edvard Grieg (Cecile Ousset; London Symphony Orchestra; Sir Neville Marriner) -- Tango op. 65, no. 2 / Isaac Albeniz ; arr. Godowsky (Moura Lympany) -- Liebestraum : no. 3 in A flat / Franz Liszt (John Ogdon) -- Waltz no. 9 in A flat op. 69, no. 1 / Chopin (Dmitri Alexeev) -- Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. Variation 18 / Sergei Rachmaninov (Cecile Ousset; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle) -- Traumerei : from Kinderszenen / Robert Schumann (Moura Lympany) -- La maja y el ruise~nor (Goyescas, no. 4) / Enrique Granados (Magda Tagliaferro) -- Nocturne no. 5 in F sharp minor op. 15, no. 2 / Chopin (Maurizio Pollini) -- Gymnopedie : no. 1 (Lent et douloureux) / Erik Satie (Aldo Ciccolini) -- Fur Elise (Bagatelle no. 25) / Beethoven (Moura Lympany) -- Etude in E : Tristesse : op. 10, no. 3 / Chopin (John Ogdon) -- Fruhlingslied (Lieder ohne Worte : no. 30 in A, op. 62, no. 6) / Felix Mendelssohn (Daniel Adni) -- Piano concerto no. 2 in F, op. 102. II, Andante / Dmitri Shostakovich (Dmitri Alexeev; English Chamber Orchestra; Jerzy Maksymiuk) --
CD 2. Piano sonata no. 8 in C minor : Pathetique : op. 13. II, Adagio cantabile / Beethoven (Walter Gieseking) -- Piano concerto no. 20 in D minor, K466. II, Romanze# / Mozart (Annie Fischer; Philharmonia Orchestra; Sir Adrian Boult) -- Goldberg variations : BWV988. Aria / J.S. Bach (Maria Tipo) -- Piano concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 11, II, Romance (Larghetto) (beginning) / Chopin (Garrick Ohlsson; Polish National Symphony Orchestra; Jerzy Maksymiuk) -- Granada (Suite espa~nola, no. 1) / Albeniz (Gonzalo Soriano) -- Waltz no. 15 in A flat / Johannes Brahms (Moura Lympany) -- Keyboard concerto no. 5 in F minor, BWV1056. II, Largo / J.S. Bach (Andrei Gavrilov; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Sir Neville Marriner) -- An den Fruhling (Lyric pieces : op. 43, no. 6) / Grieg (Daniel Adni) -- Nocturne, no. 10 in A flat op. 32, no. 2 / Chopin (Daniel Adni) -- Piano concerto no. 5 in E flat : Emperor : op. 73. II, Adagio un poco mosso# / Beethoven (Walter Gieseking; Philharmonia Orchestra; Alceo Galliera) -- La fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, book I) / Debussy (Moura Lympany) -- Cancons i dansas : no. 1 / Federico Mompou (Gonzalo Soriano) -- Piano concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18. II, Adagio sostenuto (opening) / Rachmaninov (Cecile Ousset; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle) -- Prelude no. 15 in D flat : Raindrop : op. 28, no. 15 / Chopin (Dmitri Alexeev) -- Gnossienne : no. 1 (Lent) / Satie (Aldo Ciccolini) -- Berceuse from Dolly suite : op. 56 / Faure (Jean-Philippe Collard & Bruno Rigutto) -- Minuet in G / Beethoven (Moura Lympany) -- Berceuse in D flat op. 57 / Chopin (Peter Donohoe).
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