The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music

01	Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, TH 29: II. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza	George Szell	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	13:08
	Composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
02	Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": II. Scherzo. Molto vivace - Presto	Leonard Bernstein	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	10:40
	Writer: Friedrich von Schiller / Composers: Ludwig van Beethoven
03	Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto	Yefim Bronfman	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	11:04
	Composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff
04	Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: I. Allegro ma non tanto	Yefim Bronfman	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	17:21
	Composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff
05	Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23: I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso	Vladimir Horowitz	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	17:34
	Composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
06	Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16: I. Allegro molto moderato	Murray Perahia	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	12:32
	Composers: Edvard Grieg
07	Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor": II. Adagio un poco mosso	James Levine	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	08:40
	Composers: Ludwig van Beethoven
08	Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54: II. Intermezzo - Andantino grazioso	Murray Perahia	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	05:06
	Composers: Robert Schumann
09	Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: I. Allegro non troppo	Sviatoslav Richter	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	16:43
	Composers: Johannes Brahms
10	Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21: III. Allegro vivace	Khatia Buniatishvili	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	07:33
	Composers: Frédéric Chopin
11	Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26: I. Andante - Allegro	Yefim Bronfman	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	08:58
	Composers: Sergei Prokofiev
12	Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26: III. Finale - Allegro energico	Jascha Heifetz	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	06:31
	Composers: Max Bruch
13	Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64: I. Allegro molto appassionato	Jascha Heifetz	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	11:01
	Composers: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
14	Double Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102: III. Vivace non troppo	Claudio Abbado	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	08:34
	Composers: Johannes Brahms
15	Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35: III. Finale. Allegro vivacissimo	Eugene Ormandy	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	09:13
	Composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
16	Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77: III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace	Eugene Ormandy	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	07:44
	Composers: Johannes Brahms
17	Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47: II. Adagio di molto	Midori	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	08:11
	Composers: Jean Sibelius
18	Violin Concerto in B Minor, Op. 61: I. Allegro	Pinchas Zukerman	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	17:28
	Composers: Edward Elgar
19	Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: I. Adagio - Moderato	Daniel Barenboim	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	08:43
	Composers: Edward Elgar
20	Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104, B. 191: II. Adagio ma non troppo	Lorin Maazel	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	12:43
	Composers: Antonín Dvořák
21	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam	Carlo Maria Giulini	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	05:26
	Writer: Mass Text / Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
22	Messa da Requiem: Dies irae: Dies Irae	Sir Georg Solti	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	02:20
	Writer: Mass Text / Composers: Giuseppe Verdi
23	Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 "Hohe Messe": Chorus - Kyrie eleison	Carlo Maria Giulini	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	04:22
	Writer: Mass Text / Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach
24	St. Mathew Passion, BWV 244: "Erbarme dich"	Andrea Marcon	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	06:40
	Writer: Christian Friedrich Henrici - Bible / Composers: Johann Sebastian Bach
25	Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45: VII. Selig sind die Toten	James Levine	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	10:40
	Writer: Biblical text / Composers: Johannes Brahms
26	Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48: Agnus Dei	Seiji Ozawa	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	05:54
	Composers: Gabriel Fauré
27	Messiah, HWV 56: No. 12 Chorus - For unto Us a Child is Born	Eugene Ormandy	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	04:14
	Writer: Bible / Composers: Georg Friedrich Händel
28	Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI: 2: No. 34 - Singt dem Herren alle Stimmen!	Leonard Bernstein	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	03:29
	Writer: Gottfried, Baron van Swieten / Composers: Joseph Haydn
29	Carmina burana: O Fortuna	Leonard Slatkin	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	02:31
	Composers: Carl Orff
30	Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: II. Andante con moto	Fritz Reiner	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	10:04
	Composers: Ludwig van Beethoven
31	Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral": I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande. Allegro ma non trop	Leonard Bernstein	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	11:05
	Composers: Ludwig van Beethoven
32	Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: I. Trauermarsch	Leonard Bernstein	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	12:28
	Composers: Gustav Mahler
33	Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand": I. Hymnus: "Veni, creator spiritus"	Leonard Bernstein	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	24:02
	Writer: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Anonymous / Composers: Gustav Mahler
34	Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection": V. Im Tempo des Scherzos	David Zinman	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	33:40
	Writer: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock / Composers: Gustav Mahler
35	Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107: I. Allegro moderato	Kent Nagano	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	20:10
	Composers: Anton Bruckner
36	Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104 "Romantic" (1886 Version, ed. L. Nowak): II. Andante quasi allegretto	Eugene Ormandy	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	15:16
	Composers: Anton Bruckner
37	Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108: II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato - Trio	George Szell	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	16:15
	Composers: Anton Bruckner
38	Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47: I. Moderato	Leonard Bernstein	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	16:18
	Composers: Dmitri Shostakovich
39	Symphony No. 7 in C Major, Op. 60, "Leningrad": I. Allegretto	Leonard Bernstein	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	27:46
	Composers: Dmitri Shostakovich
40	Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D: Brunhilde's Immolation Scene (1991 Remastered Version)	Eileen Farrell	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	20:14
	Composers: Richard Wagner
41	Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Prelude	Mark Elder	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	11:43
	Composers: Richard Wagner
42	Aida: Gloria all'Egitto	James Levine	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	02:58
	Composers: Giuseppe Verdi
43	La Bohème: Act I: Che gelida manina	Plácido Domingo	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	04:26
	Composers: Giacomo Puccini
44	Tosca: Act II - Vissi d'arte	Riccardo Muti	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	03:30
	Composers: Giacomo Puccini
45	Die Zauberflöte, K. 620: Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena!	James Levine	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	02:31
	Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
46	Don Giovanni, K. 527: Là ci darem la mano	Teresa Berganza	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	03:12
	Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
47	Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: No. 21 Duettino: "Sull'aria?..Che soave zeffiretto"	Zubin Mehta	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	02:55
	Writer: Lorenzo Da Ponte / Composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
48	La traviata: Act I: Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Brindisi)	Roberto Alagna	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	03:05
	Composers: Giuseppe Verdi
49	Norma: Act I: Casta diva	James Levine	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	06:54
	Composers: Vincenzo Bellini
50	Madama Butterfly: Act II, Un bel di vedremo	Lorin Maazel	The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music	05:00
	Composers: Giacomo Puccini

01

Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64, TH 29: II. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza

George Szell

13:08

02

Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": II. Scherzo. Molto vivace - Presto

Leonard Bernstein

The 50 Absolute Essentials of Classical Music

10:40

03

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto