Classical hits from one of the world's great orchestras: a fabulous introduction to the world of music at a super-budget price. Zadok the Priest was written in 1727 for the Coronation of King George II, but it's now more familiar to millions of football fans as the anthem for the Champions League. You may never have listened to a Wagner opera, but if you've seen Apocalypse Now, you'll know The Ride of the Valkyries. Composing a slow movement for a string quartet, Samuel Barber could hardly have imagined that his Adagio would tap so deeply into universal feelings of grief and reflection once it had become known as his Adagio for strings and used in countless TV programmes and film soundtracks. Classical music is everywhere, and on this 4-album set you can enjoy more than 40 of the most thrilling and powerful pieces ever written. The music in this collection is full of stories. A misty sea voyage off the coast of Scotland (The Hebrides, by Mendelssohn); a dazzling Russian coronation scene (The Great Gate of Kiev, by Mussorgsky); a young woman comforting her old father (O mio babbino caro, by Puccini); a dawn over Egypt (Morning Mood, by Grieg) as well as a display of the Egyptian empire in all it's glory (Triumphal March, by Verdi) and all it's brutality (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves, also by Verdi). Great music transcends place and time.

Tracklist:

Zadok the Priest
WalkÃ¼re~The Ride of the Valkyries
Aida~Grand March
Enigma Variations~Nimrod
Pearl Fishers~Duet: Au fond de temple saint
Orpheus in the Underworld~Can-Can
Slavonic Dance No. 8
Turandot~Nessun dorma
Danse macabre
Madama Butterfly~Un bel dÃ¬ vedremo
Adagio for Strings
BolÃ©ro
Finlandia
Carmina Burana~O Fortuna
Pavane
Jerusalem
Liberty Bell March
Barber of Seville~Largo al factotum
On the Beautiful Blue Danube
Messiah~Halleluja
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
O sole mio
Gayaneh~Sabre Dance
1812 Overture
Also sprach Zarathustra~Introduction
Light Cavalry: Overture
Stars and Stripes Forever
Rhapsody in Blue
Gold and Silver Waltz
Nabucco~Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves
Peer Gynt~Morning
Swan (from Carnival of the Animals)
Rigoletto~La donna Ã¨ mobile
Planets~Jupiter
Meistersinger von NÃ¼rnberg: Overture
Sleeping Beauty~Waltz
Pizzicato Polka
Hebrides Overture: Fingal's Cave
Pictures at an Exhibition~The Great Gate of Kiev
Gianni Schicchi~O mio babbino caro
italiana in Algeri~Overture
Gayane~Sabre Dance
Things to Come~March
Prince Igor~Polovtsian Dances

UPC: 5028421961460
Label: Brilliant Classics
Release Date: 11.20.20
Format: CD

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