The four composers featured on this CD were contemporaries who sometimes influenced each other. The piano trio grouping with flute instead of violin enjoyed great popularity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries alongside the "classical" piano trio. The grouping cannot match the expressive profundity of the piano trio with violin or the string quartet, having instead the virtuosic fluency and bright character of a serenade. In consequence, piano trios with flute tend to be less strictly conceived and are more like virtuosic fantasias or sets of variations.

In taking the same path as Antonio Vivaldi by capturing in his music the atmosphere of the four seasons, Astor Piazzolla declares his love for his home town Buenos Aires - for the city's colors, it's melancholy, it's pride, it's urban variety and it's inhabitants, the Portenos.

CONCERTOS AND SONATAS

Schubert: Piano Quintet In A Major, "Trout" / Notturno

Mozart, W.A.: String Quartets Nos. 14, 15

HAYDN: Mass No. 3 in C major, "Missa Cellensis"

DIABELLI: Grande Sonate Brillante

KROPFGANS: Lute Concerto / Lute Sonatas / Divertimentos

Haydn: 7 Last Words of Our Saviour On the Cross (The)

Haydn: Piano Concerto No. 11 / Oboe Concerto / Symphony No.

Haydn, M.: Missa Sanctae Ursulae / Mozart, W.A.: Ave Verum C

• 3 CD set – includes excerpted selections of the greatest works in the classical repertoire written by the world's greatest composers • Performances by top name artists and orchestras • For those interested in or expressing a desire to begin their classical discovery process

BRAHMS, J.: Violin Concerto / TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Symphony No

DVORAK, A.: Rusalka (Trotschel, H. Schindler, Keilberth) (19

Wand conducted his 1st RSO (now: DSO) concert on April 3, 1983 at age 71 and would regularly return to the fine orchestra and grew to esteem it more and more. He remained loyal to the orchestra when it became the DSO under the new principal conductor Ashkenazy. Up to 1996 Wand conducted 15 acclaimed concerts comprising the great music he so loved - works by Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Schubert and Schumann. Most of the concerts were recorded in the Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus.