For April Showers [Enhanced]

George Frederick Handel (Composer), John Baston (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Jean-Philippe Rameau (Composer), Jean-Baptiste Lully (Composer), Antonio Vivaldi (Composer), Leopold Mozart (Composer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Frederick the Great [Frederick II] (Composer), Gabriel Faure (Composer), Joseph Lanner (Composer), Georges Bizet (Composer), Sergey Prokofiev (Composer), Unspecified (Composer), John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor), Kenneth Sillito (Conductor), Willi Boskovsky (Conductor), Christophe Rousset (Conductor), Neville Marriner (Conductor), Eduard Melkus (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner, Kenneth Sillito, Willi Boskovsky, Christophe Rousset, Neville Marriner, et al.
• Composer: George Frederick Handel, John Baston, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jean-Baptiste Lully, et al.
• Audio CD (March 8, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Decca
• ASIN: B0007KTAVS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,605 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #80 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Romantic (c.1820-1910) > Forms & Genres > Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music
  • #85 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Symphonies > Classical
  • #100 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830) > Forms & Genres > Symphonies

Track Listings

1. Acis and Galatea, oratorio, HWV 49: Sinfonia

2. Concerto for flute/recorder, strings & continuo, No.2 in D major, 'For Sixth Flute': Allegro

3. Concerto for flute/recorder, strings & continuo, No.2 in D major, 'For Sixth Flute': Adagio

4. Concerto for flute/recorder, strings & continuo, No.2 in D major, 'For Sixth Flute': Presto

5. Divertimento for string quartet (or string orchestra) in D major ('Salzburg Symphony No. 1'), K. 136 (K. 125a): Presto

6. Les Surprises de l'Amour, opéra-ballet: Prologue

7. Gavotte en rondeau, for keyboard (spurious; attributed to Lully in Suzuki Method books)

8. Double Trumpet Concerto for 2 trumpets, strings & continuo in C major, RV 537: Allegro

9. Water Music Suite No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348: Air

10. Divertimento for orchestra in D major 'Peasant Wedding': Menuet

11. Concerto for harpsichord, strings & continuo No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052: Allegro

12. Water Music Suite No.2 for orchestra in D major, HWV 349: Hornpipe

13. Concerto for flute & string orchestra No. 3 in C major: Allegro assai

14. Pelléas et Mélisande, incidental music and suite for orchestra, Op. 80: Sicilienne

15. Jägers Lust Op. 82

16. L' Arlésienne, suite for orchestra No. 2, from the incidental music (arranged by Ernest Guirard): Farandole

17. Symphony No. 1 in D major ('Classical'), Op. 25: Larghetto

18. Symphony No. 38 in D major ('Prague'), K. 504: Finale