Everything You Wanted to Know About Classical

Everything You Always Wanted T (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 8, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003FAK
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,932 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Canon

2. La Sonnerie de Sainte Geneviève du Mont à Paris, for violin, viola da gamb

3. Movement 1

4. Toccata and Fugue, for organ in D minor, BWV 565 (BC J37)

5. Water Music (unspec.) Hornpipe

6. Movement One

7. Movement One

8. Finale

9. Scherzo

10. Morning

11. Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), waltz for

12. Clair de lune, for orchestra or other arrangement (from "Suite Bergamas

13. Les Patineurs Valse ("Skater's Waltz"), Op. 183

14. Variation No 18

15. Finale

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD, July 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Everything You Wanted to Know About Classical (Audio CD)

This is the CD that got me started in classical music. Now that I look back on it it is probably the best CD I own. It has fifteen different tracks from fifteen different composers.

The highlights of this CD are The Bells of St. Genevieve by the little-known French Baroque composers Marin Marais and the beautiful orchestration of Bach's Toccatta in D. All tracks are extremely well done.

My only complaints are that Strauss's waltz seems to have been recorded to low and that you get merely excerpts of the overtures of William Tell and 1812 and of the Bach's Toccatta and Fugue.

This is offset, however, by great performances by Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra and Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops.