100 World's Best Loved Melodies

Johann II [Junior] Strauss (Composer), Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Frederic Chopin (Composer), Leo Delibes (Composer), Stephen [1] Foster (Composer), Dmitry Kabalevsky (Composer), Camille Saint-Saens (Composer), Felix [1] Mendelssohn (Composer), Amilcare Ponchielli (Composer), Charles Gounod (Composer), Johannes Brahms (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Gioachino Rossini (Composer), Georges Bizet (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Jacques Offenbach (Composer), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Composer), George Frederick Handel (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Franz Liszt (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Johann II [Junior] Strauss, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Frederic Chopin, Leo Delibes, Stephen [1] Foster, et al.
• Audio CD (July 5, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 3
• Label: Madacy Records
• ASIN: B0009VNBR4
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #60,819 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #17 in Music > Classical > Ballets & Dances > Polonaises
  • #31 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Languages > Russian
  • #33 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Short Forms > Nocturnes

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Blue Danube

2. Waltz of Flowers

3. Waltz No. 1

4. Waltz of the Snowflakes

5. Naila Waltz

6. Spanish Dance

See all 39 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. When You Wish Upon a Star

2. Chances Are

3. Calcutta

4. Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White

5. Gigi

6. They Call the Wind Maria

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Claire de Lune

2. Piano Concerto No. 1

3. Minute Waltz

4. Piano Concerto

5. Fantasy Impromptu

6. Piano Sonata No. 20 - Finale

See all 36 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money on bad audio, January 24, 2008

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Thinker "Arfie's mom" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 100 World's Best Loved Melodies (Audio CD)

The songs in this collection are all classics, but they're cheapened by being split into approximately 2-minute chunks each, slightly sped up and faded off at odd spaces. In addition, the audio is definitely not CD-quality- there noticeable clicks and scratches (as if some of the songs were recorded off a record) and tape hiss (as if the songs were recorded merely off a tape and slapped onto CD without any correction whatsoever, which they more than likely were). It makes it seem as if this was a bootlegged collection of random records and tapes burned onto CDs and put in pretty packaging. No information about the artists performing the composers' pieces are mentioned, either. Considering you could get all of these songs much cheaper at a garage sale (maybe 50 cents per album) at the same "quality," and less of a dubious legal background (listing actual performers rather than just composers, to boot), that may be a better idea. These world's "best-loved" melodies deserved better treatment than this collection.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best loved melodies music, December 5, 2009

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Jonathan D. Stockton "J's best loved melodies" (Ala USA) - See all my reviews
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If your the kind of person that like's this kind of music it is well worth buying especially when it only cost's you $[...] buck's. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. PERFECT MUSIC. AGAIN HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

0 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Peculiar Amazon indexing, June 7, 2007

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Howard Mcpherson (Cleveland, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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A search for Deep Purple's "Smoke on [in] the water," brought up this title. I rate it only #1 because I could not locate the "Smoke on the Water" listing. Amazon seems to be having an indexing problem.