The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Carmina Burana: O Fortuna

  Carl Orff
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Orchestral Suite no. 3: Air

  Johann Sebastian Bach
  4:14
• 3
  Peer Gynt: Morning Mood

  Edvard Grieg
  3:44
• 4
  Symphony no. 5: Allegro con brio

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  7:28
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Nocturne no. 2

  Fryderyk Chopin
  4:53
• 6
  Canon

  Johann Pachelbel
  3:30
  4.2 ★
• 7
  Adagio for Strings

  Samuel Barber
  8:22
• 8
  The Four Seasons, “Spring”: Allegro

  Antonio Vivaldi
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Ride of the Valkyries

  Richard Wagner
  5:11
  3.5 ★
• 10
  Clair de lune

  Claude Debussy
  5:13
• 11
  Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves

  Giuseppe Verdi
  4:59
• 12
  The Planets: Jupiter

  Gustav Holst
  7:45
• 13
  Symphony no. 9 “From the New World”: Largo

  Antonín Dvořák
  12:49
• CD 2
• 1
  Brandenburg Concerto no. 3: Allegro

  Johann Sebastian Bach
  5:44
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Piano Concerto no. 21: Andante

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  7:18
• 3
  Hungarian Dance no. 5

  Johannes Brahms
  2:38
  3.5 ★
• 4
  Thaïs: Meditation

  Jules Massenet
  5:01
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Pomp and Circumstance: March no. 1

  Edward Elgar
  5:45
  2.5 ★
• 6
  Requiem Mass: Lacrimosa

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  2:49
• 7
  The Beautiful Blue Danube

  Johann Strauss
  5:51
• 8
  Für Elise

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  3:16
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Carmen Suite: Habanera

  Georges Bizet
  2:12
  4.5 ★
• 10
  Swan Lake Suite: Scene

  Пётр Ильич Чайковский
  3:01
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Gymnopedie no. 1

  Erik Satie
  3:40
  2.0 ★
• 12
  Symphony no. 9 “Choral”: Ode to Joy

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  2:32
  2.5 ★
• CD 3
• 1
  The Barber of Seville: Overture

  Gioachino Rossini
  6:58
  3.8 ★
• 2
  Ave Maria (after J.S. Bach)

  Charles‐François Gounod
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Peer Gynt: In the Hall of the Mountain King

  Edvard Grieg
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Moonlight Sonata: Adagio sostenuto

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  5:36
• 5
  Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Allegro

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5:51
• 6
  Adagio in G minor, Albinoni’s Adagio

  Remo Giazotto
  8:32
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Finlandia

  Jean Sibelius
  8:01
  0.2 ★
• 8
  String Quintet: Minuet

  Luigi Boccherini
  3:48
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Symphony no. 40: Allegro molto

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  7:02
• 10
  Cavatina

  Stanley Myers
  3:59
• 11
  Slavonic Dance no. 2

  Antonín Dvořák
  5:35
  1.0 ★
• 12
  Messa de Requiem: Dies irae – Tuba mirum

  Giuseppe Verdi
  3:54
• 13
  Symphony no. 5: Adagietto

  Gustav Mahler
  10:49
  1.0 ★
• CD 4
• 1
  Má Vlast: Vltava

  Bedřich Smetana
  11:26
  2.5 ★
• 2
  Pavane

  Gabriel Fauré
  5:07
  0.2 ★
• 3
  Double Violin Concerto: Vivace

  Johann Sebastian Bach
  3:38
• 4
  The Tales of Hoffman: Barcarolle

  Jacques Offenbach
  3:33
  3.5 ★
• 5
  The Magic Flute: Overture

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  6:24
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Piano Sonata no. 11: Rondo Alla Turca

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  3:25
• 7
  L’arlesienne Suite no. 1: Prelude

  Georges Bizet
  6:53
  0.5 ★
• 8
  Christmas Concerto: Allegro

  Arcangelo Corelli
  2:27
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Radetzky March

  Johann Strauss I
  3:05
• 10
  Vocalise

  Сергей Васильевич Рахманинов
  5:50
  0.5 ★
• 11
  Egmont Overture

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  7:57
• 12
  Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus

  George Frideric Handel
  3:32
  0.5 ★

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Release credits

• Craig Ogden
  classical guitar [10]
• David Parry
  conductor [2.1-7, 2.9-10, 2.12, 4.1-5, 4.7-12, 3.1-3, 3.5-9, 3.11-13, 1.1-4, 1.6-9, 1.11-13]
• Finghin Collins
  piano [2.2, 2.8, 2.11, 3.4, 4.6, 1.5, 1.10]
• London Philharmonic Choir
  choir vocals [1.1, 1.11, 3.2, 3.12, 4.12, 2.6, 2.12]
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
  performing orchestra [3.1-3, 3.5-9, 3.11-13, 2.1-7, 2.9-10, 2.12, 4.1-5, 4.7-12, 1.1-4, 1.6-9, 1.11-13]
• Pieter Schoeman
  violin [2.4, 1.8, 4.3, 4.10]
• The London Chorus
  choir vocals [3.12, 1.1, 1.11, 2.12]
• Vesselin Gellev
  violin [3]

Issues

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  (Combined release view)
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  The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music

  Digital Media
  23 November 2009
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  The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music

  4x CD
  October 2011
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  The 50 Greatest Pieces of Classical Music

  4x CD (2019 rerelease)
  2019