Classics for the People Vol.2 (2CD)

CD1
1 R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra 1’52
(Introduction)
2 SUPPÉ Light Cavalry (Overture) 6’40
3 SOUSA The Stars and Stripes Forever 3’30
4 GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue 18’18
Lucy Parham piano
5 LEHÁR Gold and Silver Waltz 7’14
6 VERDI Nabucco (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) 4’15
7 GRIEG Peer Gynt (Morning) 4’09
8 SAINT-SAËNS Carnival of the Animals 3’03
(The Swan)
Tim Gill cello • Roderick Elms piano
9 VERDI Rigoletto (La donna è mobile) 2’10
Wynne Evans tenor
10 HOLST The Planets ( Jupiter) 8’26
Total time 60’07

CD2
1 WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 9’50
(Overture)
2 TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty (Waltz) 4’28
3 J. STRAUSS II Pizzicato Polka 2’46
4 BIZET Carmen 5’58
(Prélude and Aragonaise • Les Toréadors)
5 MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides Overture 9’55
(Fingal’s Cave)
6 MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition 5’34
(The Great Gate of Kiev)
7 PUCCINI Gianni Schicchi (O mio babbino caro) 3’00
Deborah Norman soprano
8 ROSSINI L’italiana in Algeri (Overture) 7’54
9 KHACHATURIAN Gayane (Sabre Dance) 2’22
10 BLISS Things to Come (March) 3’51
11 BORODIN Prince Igor (Polovtsian Dances) 11’07
Goldsmiths’ Choral Union
Total time 67’18

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductors:
Owain Arwel Hughes (CD1: 1, 6, 9, 10; CD2: 6, 7, 11) • Philip Ellis (CD1: 2, 4; CD2: 4, 9)
John Rigby (CD1: 3, 7; CD2: 1, 2, 5, 8) • Barry Wordsworth (CD1: 5; CD2: 3) • Robin Stapleton (CD2: 10)