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 CARL ORFF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN FRANZ SCHUBERT
Carmina Burana Orchestral Suite No. 2 9 Minute Waltz 1:37 14 Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III) 5:39
1 O Fortuna 2:36 5 Badinerie 1:32 Minutenwalzer · Valse minute arr. Ion Marin
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin Aurèle Nicolet flute Tamás Vásáry piano Cheryl Studer soprano
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin Münchener Bach-Orchester London Symphony Orchestra
Eugen Jochum Karl Richter Ion Marin
GUSTAV MAHLER
Symphony No. 5
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY RICHARD WAGNER 10 Adagietto 9:46
EDWARD ELGAR
Piano Concerto No. 1 Tristan und Isolde 15 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 5:53
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen
2 Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso 9:20 6 Mild und leise wie er lächelt 6:15 Rundfunks · Rafael Kubelik Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(excerpt) (Isoldes Liebestod) Norman Del Mar
Martha Argerich piano Birgit Nilsson soprano ERIK SATIE
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
11 Gymnopédie No. 1 3:53
WOLFGANG AMADEUS
Charles Dutoit Karl Böhm MOZART
Jean-Marc Luisada piano
Piano Sonata No. 11
WOLFGANG AMADEUS NARCISO YEPES 16 Rondo alla turca 3:35
MOZART 7 Romance from Jeux interdits 2:32
JEAN SIBELIUS Christoph Eschenbach piano
Symphony No. 40 12 Valse triste 6:13
Narciso Yepes guitar
Berliner Philharmoniker
3 Molto allegro 9:25 CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
Herbert von Karajan
Wiener Symphoniker GIUSEPPE VERDI The Carnival of the Animals
Ferenc Fricsay
Nabucco Der Karneval der Tiere
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Le Carnaval des animaux
8 Va’, pensiero 4:58
FRANZ LISZT Songs without Words op. 62
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves 17 The Swan 2:48
4 Liebestraum No. 3 4:35
Lieder ohne Worte
Gefangenenchor · Chœur des esclaves Der Schwan · Le Cygne
Romances sans paroles
Daniel Barenboim piano Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin Wolfgang Herzer cello
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin 13 No. 6 “Spring Song” 2:08
Alfons Kontarsky, Aloys Kontarsky piano
Giuseppe Sinopoli »Frühlingslied« · « Chant du printemps » Karl Böhm
Daniel Barenboim piano

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 HENRY PURCELL ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Dido and Aeneas 22 Sabre Dance from Gayane 2:13
18 Dido’s Lament 4:23 Säbeltanz · Danse du sabre
Didos Lamento · La Lamentation de Didon Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Anne Sofie von Otter mezzo-soprano Gennady Rozhdestvensky
The English Concert · Trevor Pinnock
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 23 Vocalise 5:26
Goldberg Variations Berliner Philharmoniker
19 Aria 4:43 Lorin Maazel
Rosalyn Tureck piano
GIUSEPPE VERDI
EDVARD GRIEG Aida
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 24 Gloria all’Egitto – Triumphal March 5:10
20 In the Hall of the Mountain King 2:27 Triumphmarsch · La Marche triomphale
In der Halle des Bergkönigs Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Dans le palais du roi de la montagne Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Bamberger Symphoniker Giuseppe Sinopoli
Richard Kraus
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
GIACOMO PUCCINI Piano Concerto No. 2
Tosca 25 Moderato (excerpt) 11:04
21 E lucevan le stelle 4:24 Sviatoslav Richter piano
Plácido Domingo (Cavaradossi) Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra Stanisław Wisłocki
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Sviatoslav Richter

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 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH FRANZ SCHUBERT
Cello Suite No. 1 30 Impromptu op. 90 no. 3 5:50
26 Prélude 2:50 Maria João Pires piano
Pierre Fournier cello
MAURICE RAVEL
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS 31 Pavane pour une infante défunte 6:14
Samson et Dalila Pavane for a Dead Princess
Pavane für eine tote Prinzessin
27 Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix 5:33
Grace Bumbry mezzo-soprano Charles Kavaloski horn
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Boston Symphony Orchestra
János Kulka Seiji Ozawa

GEORGES BIZET CLAUDE DEBUSSY

Johann Sebastian Bach
Franz Liszt
Carmen Suite No. 1 Préludes, Book 1
28 March of the Toreadors 2:05 32 La Fille aux cheveux de lin 2:48
Einzug der Toreros · Marche des Toréadors The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Das Mädchen mit dem flachsblonden Haar
Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille
Myung-Whun Chung Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli piano

MANUEL DE FALLA MODEST MUSSORGSKY

El amor brujo
Love, the Magician · Liebeszauber
29 Ritual Fire Dance
Ritueller Feuertanz · Danse rituelle de feu
arr. Gregor Piatigorsky
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Richard Wagner Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Lorin Maazel
Pictures at an Exhibition
Bilder einer Ausstellung
Tableaux d’une exposition
3:53
33 The Great Gate of Kiev 5:16
Das große Tor von Kiew
La Grande Porte de Kiev
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado

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 JOHANN STRAUSS II GEORGE GERSHWIN
34 Emperor Waltz 10:55 38 Rhapsody in Blue (excerpt) 5:56
Kaiserwalzer · Valse de l’empereur arr. Ferde Grofé
Wiener Philharmoniker James Levine piano
Karl Böhm Chicago Symphony Orchestra
James Levine

WOLFGANG AMADEUS
MOZART GUSTAV HOLST
Die Zauberflöte The Planets
The Magic Flute · La Flûte enchantée Die Planeten · Les Planètes
35 Der Hölle Rache 2:56 39 Jupiter 7:59

Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) Boston Symphony Orchestra

Berliner Philharmoniker William Steinberg
Karl Böhm Claudio Abbado
Karl Böhm
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY 12 Etudes op. 10
Sleeping Beauty Suite 40 No. 3 “Tristesse” 3:59
Dornröschen · La Belle au bois dormant Tamás Vásáry piano
36 Waltz 4:12
Walzer · Valse JOSEPH HAYDN
Wiener Philharmoniker String Quartet “Emperor”
James Levine »Kaiserquartett« · l’« Empereur »
41 Poco adagio, cantabile 7:31
GEORGES BIZET Amadeus Quartet
L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1
37 Prélude 7:10 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille Symphony No. 7 Carlos Kleiber Lorin Maazel
Myung-Whun Chung
42 Allegro con brio 8:36
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 WOLFGANG AMADEUS GIACOMO PUCCINI
MOZART Gianni Schicchi
Flute and Harp Concerto 47 O mio babbino caro 2:04
43 Andantino 7:43 Rita Streich soprano
Cadenza: Susan Palma, Bernard Rose Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Susan Palma flute · Nancy Allen harp Reinhard Peters
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
NICCOLÒ PAGANINI
MARC-ANTOINE 48 Caprice No. 24 4:23
CHARPENTIER Salvatore Accardo violin
Te Deum
44 Prélude 1:18 ROBERT SCHUMANN
Les Musiciens du Louvre Symphonische Etüden
Anne Sofie von Otter Plácido Domingo Marc Minkowski
Symphonic Etudes
Études symphoniques
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 49 Etüde XII (Finale) 5:42
Piano Sonata No. 8 “Pathétique” Ivo Pogorelich piano
45 Adagio cantabile 4:54
Wilhelm Kempff piano RICHARD WAGNER
Die Walküre
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL 50 Ride of the Valkyries 4:55
Solomon Walkürenritt
46 Arrival of the Queen of Sheba 3:07 La Chevauchée des Walkyries
Ankunft der Königin von Saba Orchestre de Paris
L’Arrivée de la reine de Saba Daniel Barenboim
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock
Rita Streich Cheryl Studer

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 50 MORE CLASSICAL MASTERWORKS
ON DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
This second digital compilation of 50 famous works by
outstanding composers is a perfect introduction to the
world of classical music. It draws exclusively on the
treasure trove of performances and artists that makes
up the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue. To both new
listeners and long-time fans, these acclaimed record-
ings offer ideal interpretations of the great classics,
reproduced to the highest prevailing technological
standards.
The Music
Our survey reaches as far back as the seventeenth
century with the tragic lament from Purcell’s opera
Dido and Aeneas and the festive Prelude by Charpen-
tier, used as the Eurovision signature tune. Bach is
represented by selections from his Goldberg Variations
and solo cello suites, Handel by the sprightly “Arrival
of the Queen of Sheba” from Solomon, which was fea-
tured in the 2012 London Olympics. Moving ahead to
the “Classical” era, we have selections from a sym-
phony, a concerto and a piano sonata by Mozart, as
well as the stately movement that gave Haydn’s
“Emperor” String Quartet its nickname. Beethoven’s
Herbert von Karajan
heroic vision is represented by the stirring finale of his
signs a Götterdämmerung LP booklet
Seventh Symphony.
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From the “Romantic” period there are evergreens
for solo piano such as Chopin’s so-called “Minute
Waltz” and his lovely Étude nicknamed “Tristesse”,
used as the 2012 London Olympics official theme and
the source of numerous pop songs. Other dreamy
piano pieces heard here are Schubert’s Impromptu
No.  3, Mendelssohn’s “Spring Song” and Liszt’s
“Liebestraum”, the inspiration for love songs as far
removed from the original as “Today, Tomorrow and
Forever”, sung by Elvis Presley in his 1964 movie Viva
Las Vegas.
The “devil’s fiddler” Paganini is represented by his
celebrated 24th Caprice, one of the most difficult
pieces ever written for solo violin. Its unforgettable
melody has been borrowed by many later composers,
most memorably by Brahms for a set of solo piano
variations and by Rachmaninov for his “Paganini Rhap-
sody” for piano and orchestra. The Waltz from Tchai-
kovsky’s Sleeping Beauty ballet became the main
theme of Walt Disney’s beautiful 1959 animated film of
the same name. Perhaps the noblest of all waltz com-
positions is the set entitled “Emperor”, written by
Johann Strauss II in 1889 to serve as a toast of friend-
ship between the rulers of Austria and Germany. A very
different kind of dance was derived from Saint-Saëns’s
Carnival of the Animals: with its luscious cello solo,
“The Swan” attained worldwide fame in 1905 as the
basis of a ballet entitled “The Dying Swan”, danced by
the legendary Anna Pavlova.
Moving closer to our own day, there is Falla’s siz-
zling “Ritual Fire Dance” and Rachmaninov’s lush
Piano Concerto No. 2, memorably used in David Lean’s
Brief Encounter but also in other movies as diverse as
Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch and Clint Eastwood’s
Hereafter. The Adagietto from Mahler’s Fifth Symphony
is also indelibly linked with a film, Visconti’s Death in
Venice. French impressionism is represented by
Debussy’s lovely piano prelude “The Girl with the
Flaxen Hair”. The haunting – and hauntingly familiar –
Gymnopédie by Debussy’s colourful contemporary and
friend Erik Satie has been borrowed repeatedly by
musicians, including the jazz-rock group Blood, Sweat
and Tears, and for such films as My Dinner with André,
The Royal Tenenbaums and Man on Wire.
Two of the most recognizable pieces of all are “In
the Hall of the Mountain King” from Grieg’s score for
Ibsen’s Peer Gynt – used repeatedly in films, video
games and commercials, as well as in rock, rap and
heavy-metal arrangements – and Elgar’s Pomp and
Circumstance march – heard at innumerable gradua-
tion ceremonies and sung at every Last Night of the
Proms to the words “Land of Hope and Glory”.
Other favourites are Orff’s ever-popular Carmina
Burana, used in movies from Excalibur to Natural
Born Killers (not to mention a host of TV adverts), and
the “Sabre Dance” from Khachaturian’s ballet Gay-
ane – one the most recognizable of all classical
pieces – used often in figure skating and heard in
countless films, most memorably Billy Wilder’s Cold
War farce One, Two, Three, as well as Blues Brothers
2000 and Kung Fu Hustle, and on TV in the Jack
Benny and Benny Hill shows, The Simpsons and Two
and a Half Men.
From the world of opera there is Mozart’s fiery
Queen of the Night from The Magic Flute, Wagner’s
Ride of the Valkyries – think Apocalypse Now – and
Isolde’s ecstatic “Love-Death”. You’ll find Verdi of
course: the overwhelming “Triumphal March” from
Aida and the “Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves” from
Nabucco, which became a rallying cry for Italian reuni-
fication. From another biblical opera, this one by Saint-
Saëns, you’ll experience Delilah’s seduction of Sam-
son, “Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix”. There’s also Toreador
music from Bizet’s Carmen and, inevitably, favourites
by Puccini: the doomed hero’s “E lucevan le stelle”
from Tosca and the heroine’s charming “O mio babbino
caro” from Gianni Schicchi.
The Artists
Some of the finest musicians of the twentieth century
are featured in this collection of classical highlights.
Renowned conductors including Herbert von Karajan,
Eugen Jochum, Ferenc Fricsay, Karl Böhm, Rafael
Kubelik, William Steinberg, Lorin Maazel, Claudio
Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Carlos Kleiber, Daniel Barenboim,
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Giuseppe Sinopoli, James Levine, Myung-Whun
Chung, Trevor Pinnock and Marc Minkowski conduct
many of the world’s most celebrated orchestras: the
Berlin, Vienna and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Phil-
harmonic, the London, Boston and Chicago Symphony,
and two outstanding period-instrument ensembles –
The English Concert and Les Musiciens du Louvre;
there is also New York’s conductorless Orpheus Cham-
ber Orchestra.
The legendary instrumentalists performing in this
collection include pianists Rosalyn Tureck playing
Bach, Christoph Eschenbach in Mozart, Wilhelm
Kempff performing Beethoven, Maria João Pires play-
ing Schubert, Daniel Barenboim in Liszt and Mendels-
sohn, Tamás Vásáry in Chopin, Ivo Pogorelich in
Schumann, Martha Argerich in Tchaikovsky, Sviato-
slav Richter’s Rachmaninov and Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli’s Debussy. Violinist Salvatore Accardo
masters that diabolical Paganini caprice, and you’ll
also hear cellist Pierre Fournier’s peerless solo Bach
and the famed Spanish guitarist Narciso Yepes play-
ing the poignant Romance featured in the classic film
Forbidden Games.
Last but not least are the great vocal artists adorn-
ing this collection: Plácido Domingo is heroic as Puc-
cini’s Cavaradossi, Birgit Nilsson incomparable as
Wagner’s Isolde, Grace Bumbry sultry as Saint-Saëns’s
Delilah, Roberta Peters stratospheric as Mozart’s
Queen of the Night, and Anne Sofie von Otter heart-
rending as Purcell’s Dido.
The Label
This selection of 50 classical masterworks is simulta-
neously an illustration of Deutsche Grammophon’s
prestigious history, which began with the birth of
recording itself. In 1898, the company was founded in
Hanover along with the first record and gramophone
manufacturing works. But our anthology is above all an
image of the present and future. Listeners will dis-
cover some of the greatest performances captured on
disc since the appearance of stereo in the 1950s and
the first CD releases in the 1980s. Deutsche Gram-
mophon reached its centenary in 1998 as still the larg-
est and most successful classical record company. In
recognition of its remarkable achievements, the
UK’s prestigious Gramophone magazine declared:
“Deutsche Grammophon stands for all that is best
about classical music.” In this new set of 50 essential
masterworks, the selection, the artists and the engi-
neering again combine to confirm that accolade.
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1967 (12, 16), 1968 (1), 1971 (2, 10, 39), 1973 (34), 1974 (13), 1975 (17, 31), 1976 (15, 42), 1978 (32, 48),
1981 (4), 1982 (49), 1983 (8), 1984 (23, 50), 1985 (24, 46), 1989 (7, 18, 43), 1991 (28, 37), 1992 (14, 21),
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