100 Greatest Classics

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1Semele: “Where’er You Walk”
tenor vocals:
Kenneth McKellar (tenor)
orchestra:
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
conductor:
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
Handel4:02
2Peer Gynt: Morning Mood
orchestra:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor:
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Grieg4:01
3Madama Butterfly: “One Fine Day”
producer:
Christopher Raeburn (producer) and James Walker (ballet/opera conductor, classical recordings producer for Decca)
soprano vocals [Butterfly]:
Renata Tebaldi (soprano) (in 1958-07)
orchestra:
Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma (Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia) (in 1958-07)
conductor:
Tullio Serafin (conductor) (in 1958-07)
performer:
Renata Tebaldi (soprano)
balance engineer:
Kenneth Wilkinson (engineer) (in 1958-07)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Decca Music Group Limited (not for release label use, for ℗ & © rights holder use only) (in 1958) and The Decca Record Company Limited (not a release label; for copyrights use only) (in 1958)
recorded at:
Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Roma (Rome), Roma, Lazio, Italy (in 1958-07)
recording of:
Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Che tua madre dovrà” (Butterfly) (in 1958-07)
composer:
Giacomo Puccini (Italian composer)
librettist:
Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
part of:
Madama Butterfly: Atto II (Madame Butterfly: Act II, also: Atto II, parte 1)
recording of:
Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Un bel dì, vedremo” (Butterfly) (in 1958-07)
composer:
Giacomo Puccini (Italian composer)
librettist:
Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
part of:
Madama Butterfly: Atto II (Madame Butterfly: Act II, also: Atto II, parte 1)
Puccini4:53
4The Blue Danube op. 314
orchestra:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor:
Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
Johann Strauss II8:47
5Samson and Delilah: “Softly Awakes My Heart”
soprano vocals:
Marilyn Horne (American operatic mezzo-soprano)
orchestra:
Vienna Opera Orchestra (Alfred Scholz pseudonym; also Vienna Strauss Orchestra)
conductor:
Henry Lewis (conductor)
Saint‐Saens6:29
6Symphony No 4 in A Major op. 90 ‘Italian’ -- First Movement
orchestra:
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Israeli orchestra)
conductor:
Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
Mendelssohn7:06
7The Marriage of Figaro: Overture
orchestra:
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor:
Sir Colin Davis (English conductor)
Mozart4:20
8Ave Maria
instruments:
Members of the Wiener Philharmoniker (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) (in 1961-06)
soprano vocals:
Leontyne Price (soprano) (in 1961-06)
conductor:
Herbert von Karajan (conductor) (in 1961-06)
arranger:
Carlo Sabatini
recorded at:
Sofiensaal in Landstraße, Wien (Vienna), Austria (in 1961-06)
recording of:
Ave Maria (catch-all for arrangements of the Bach / Gounod work) (in 1961-06)
composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach (German Baroque period composer & musician) and Charles Gounod (French composer)
publisher:
Lam Larghetto Music (from 1993 to present)
arrangement of:
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
Bach-Gounod2:42
9Liebestraum No 3 in A Flat Major
piano:
Pascal Rogé (pianist)
Liszt4:34
10Rosamunde: Overture
orchestra:
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Israeli orchestra)
conductor:
Zubin Mehta (conductor)
Schubert9:41
11Aida: Grand March
choir vocals:
Chorus of the Accademia Santa Cecilia, Rome (Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia)
orchestra:
Orchestra of the Accademia Santa Cecilia, Rome (Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia)
conductor:
Carlo Franci (Conductor, composer)
Verdi4:57
12Elias: “O Rest in the Lord”
contralto vocals:
Dame Janet Baker (mezzo‐soprano and alto)
orchestra:
New Philharmonia Orchestra (Philharmonia Orchestra, London orchestra, known as New Philharmonia Orchestra from 1964–1976)
conductor:
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (conductor)
Mendelssohn3:46
13Die Walküre: The Ride of the Valkyries
orchestra:
London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO; The Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra)
conductor:
Sir Adrian Boult (conductor)
Wagner5:22
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