Absolute Classics - 500 Years of Hits - Part 1

~ Release by Various Artists (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

1▶CD: Volume One
2▶CD: Volume Two
3▼CD: Volume Three
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1Messiah - Hallelujah Chorus
George Frideric Handel4:07
2Peer Gynt - Morning (AEG ad)
Edvard Grieg4:04
3Symphony 5 - Adagietto (theme from 'Death in Venice')
recording of:
Symphony no. 5 in C-sharp minor: IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam
composer:
Gustav Mahler (composer) (from 1901 until 1902)
part of:
Symphony no. 5
Gustav Mahler9:43
4Slavonic Dance
Antonín Dvořák3:35
5Peter & The Wolf - Peters' Theme * (theme from 'Zoo-time')
Sergei Prokofiev1:01
6A Musical Joke - 4th movement (Horse of the Year show)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart4:27
7Etude ('So dep is the Night' - Estee Lauder ad)
Fryderyk Chopin4:09
8Requiem: Pie Jesu
Gabriel Fauré3:28
9Pavane pour une infante defunte
Maurice Ravel6:19
10Hungarian Dance
Johannes Brahms2:56
11Carmen - The Habanera
Georges Bizet4:39
12Clarinet Concerto - Slow movement (theme from 'Out of Africa')
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart8:12
13Hebrides Overture 'Fingals Cave'
partial recording of:
Die Hebriden, op. 26 (The Hebrides, op. 26 “Fingal’s Cave”, Fingal's Cave)
premiered in:
London (Greater London), England, United Kingdom (on 1832-05-14)
composer:
Felix Mendelssohn (composer) (in 1830)
part of:
Works of Felix Mendelssohn by opus number (number: op. 26) and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke (MWV) (number: MWV P 7)
Felix Mendelssohn5:21
14The Blue Danube (theme used in '2001')
recording of:
An der schönen blauen Donau, op. 314 (On the Beautiful Blue Danube, op. 314)
premiered in:
Wien (Vienna), Austria (on 1867-02-15)
composer:
Johann Strauss (Johann Strauss II, Austro-German composer, „Walzerkönig“, Johann Strauss II, Sohn, Jr., the Younger, the Son) (in 1866)
part of:
Works of Johann Strauss Jr. by opus number (number: op. 314)
Johann Strauss8:17
4▶CD: Volume Four
5▶CD: Volume Five