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‘Da-da-da-DAAAAH, Da-da-da-DAAAAH’: the start of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is really famous. See if you recognise it! It’s just one of many popular pieces here. There...
‘Da-da-da-DAAAAH, Da-da-da-DAAAAH’: the start of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is really famous. See if you recognise it! It’s just one of many popular pieces here. There are some animals, too—an elephant and a swan. And right at the end, guess which boy wizard joins the party…Come and join it too!


Product Description:

  • Release Date: November 15, 2011


  • UPC: 747313820375


  • Catalog Number: 8578203


  • Label: Naxos


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Composer: Antonín Dvořák, Antonio Vivaldi, Béla Bartók, Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Dmitri Shostakovich, Edvard Grieg, Franz Joseph Haydn, Frédéric Chopin, Gabriel Fauré, Gioachino Rossini, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, John Adams, John Williams, Ludwig van Beethoven, Paul Dukas, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Robert Schumann, Sergei Prokofiev, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


  • Conductor: Béla Drahos, Carl Davis, Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Helmut Müller-Brühl, István Bogár, Jaroslav Dvorák, Kenneth Jean, Marin Alsop, Mats Rondin, Michael Halász, Ondrej Lenárd, Robert Craft, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Zdenek Kosler


  • Performer: Dong-Suk Kang, François-Joël Thiollier, Georg Tichy, Idil Biret, Jénö Jandó, Jürgen Schuster, Pascal Devoyon, Takako Nishizaki



Works:

  1. Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Overture

    Composer: Gioachino Rossini

    Ensemble: Zagreb Festival Orchestra

    Conductor: Michael Halasz


  2. Swan Lake: Act I, no. 2 - Valse

    Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Conductor: Michael Halasz


  3. The Four Seasons: Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8, No. 1, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring): I. Allegro

    Composer: Antonio Vivaldi

    Ensemble: Capella Istropolitana

    Performer: Takako Nishizaki

    Conductor: Stephen Gunzenhauser


  4. Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Composer: John Adams

    Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Marin Alsop


  5. Berceuse, Op. 16

    Composer: Gabriel Fauré

    Performer: Pascal Devoyon, Dong-Suk Kang


  6. Overture (Suite) No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067: VII. Badinerie

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ensemble: Cologne Chamber Orchestra

    Performer: Karl Kaiser

    Conductor: Helmut Muller-Bruhl


  7. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio

    Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ensemble: Nicolaus Esterhazy Orchestra

    Conductor: Bela Drahos


  8. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King

    Composer: Edvard Grieg

    Ensemble: Norrköping Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Mats Rondin


  9. Román népi táncok (Romanian Folk Dances), BB 68

    Composer: Béla Bartók

    Performer: Jeno Jando


  10. Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major, Hob.VIIe:1: III. Finale: Allegro

    Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

    Ensemble: Cologne Chamber Orchestra

    Performer: Jurgen Schuster

    Conductor: Helmut Muller-Bruhl


  11. 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: Hungarian Dance No. 5 (orch. Schmeling)

    Composer: Johannes Brahms

    Ensemble: Budapest Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Istvan Bogar


  12. Carnival of the Animals: XIII. The Swan

    Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

    Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Marian Lapsansky, Peter Toperczer

    Conductor: Ondrej Lenard


  13. Etude No. 21 in G-Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9, "Butterfly's Wings"

    Composer: Frédéric Chopin

    Performer: Idil Beret


  14. Children's Corner: VI. Golliwogg's Cake-Walk

    Composer: Claude Debussy

    Performer: François-Joël Thiollier


  15. L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)

    Composer: Paul Dukas

    Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Kenneth Jean


  16. Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G Minor, Op. 46, No. 8

    Composer: Antonín Dvořák

    Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Conductor: Zdenek Kosler


  17. Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620, Act I Scene 2: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja

    Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ensemble: Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra

    Performer: Georg Tichy

    Conductor: Michael Halasz


  18. Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67: The Cat

    Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

    Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Ondrej Lenard


  19. Divertimento in F Major, K. 138, "Salzburg Symphony No. 3": III. Presto

    Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ensemble: Eder Quartet


  20. Petrushka (1947 version): Tableau I: Russian Dance

    Composer: Igor Stravinsky

    Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

    Conductor: Robert Craft


  21. Carnival of the Animals: V. The Elephant

    Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

    Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Performer: Marian Lapsansky, Peter Toperczer

    Conductor: Ondrej Lenard


  22. Kinderszenen (Scenes of childhood), Op. 15: I. Von fremden Landern und Menschen (Of Foreign Lands and People)

    Composer: Robert Schumann

    Performer: Jeno Jando


  23. The Golden Age Suite, Op. 22a: Polka

    Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich

    Ensemble: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    Conductor: Christopher Lyndon-Gee


  24. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Harry's Wondrous World

    Composer: John Williams

    Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Conductor: Carl Davis