The Top 100 Masterpieces of Classical Music, Vol. 6-10 [Box set]

Felix [1] Mendelssohn (Composer), Franz Liszt (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Robert Schumann (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Franz von Suppe (Composer), Jacques Offenbach (Composer), Anton Rubinstein (Composer), Johannes Brahms (Composer), Edvard Grieg (Composer), Bedrich Smetana (Composer), Johann II [Junior] Strauss (Composer), Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Georges Bizet (Composer), Leo Delibes (Composer), Antonin Dvorak (Composer), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Composer), Richard [1] Strauss (Composer), Gustav Mahler (Composer), Jean Sibelius (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Felix [1] Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt, Giuseppe Verdi, Robert Schumann, Richard [Classical] Wagner, et al.
• Audio CD (November 1, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 5
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Delta
• ASIN: B000001W12
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #133,541 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #57 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Short Forms > Nocturnes
  • #66 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Romantic (c.1820-1910) > Forms & Genres > Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music
  • #78 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Languages > Russian

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61: Wedding March

2. Liebesträume, notturno for piano No. 3 in A flat major ('O Lieb, so lang du lieben kannst'), S. 541/3 (LW A103/3)

3. Nabucco, opera (Nabucodonosor): Overture

4. Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) for piano, Op. 68: No 10, The Merry Peasant

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Disc: 2

1. Orphée aux enfers, operetta: Overture

2. Melody in F, instrumental arrangement, Op. 3/1

3. Les Préludes, symphonic poem for orchestra, S. 97 (LW G3)

4. Waltzes (16) for piano, 4 hands (or piano), Op. 39: Waltz in A flat

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Disc: 3

1. Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23: First Movement

2. Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 49: No 4, Cradle Song

3. Vltava (The Moldau), symphonic poem (Má Vlast No. 2), JB 1:112/2

4. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Ride of the Valkyries

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Disc: 4

1. Eugene Onegin, opera, Op. 24: Polonaise

2. Symphony No. 9 in E minor ('From the New World'), B. 178 (Op. 95) (first published as No. 5): Second Movement

3. Nutcracker, ballet, Op. 71: Waltz of the Flowers

4. Capriccio espagnol (Kaprichchio na ispankskiye temï), for orchestra, Op. 34: Alborado

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Disc: 5

1. Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 (TrV 176): Fanfare

2. Adagietto, for orchestra (from the Symphony No. 5): Adagietto

3. Finlandia, tone poem for orchestra, Op. 26

4. The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o Tsare Saltane), opera in 4 acts with a prologue: Dance of the Bumble Bee

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat lacking, March 27, 2001

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Ryan Xie (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Top 100 Masterpieces of Classical Music, Vol. 6-10 (Audio CD)

(referring to the entire collection)

The collection is well designed for introducing the listener to a large variety of music, with its broad range of composers and types of music. However, the interpretation of the music is hardly existant, and many of the pieces sound rather dull and uninteresting. Some lively pieces are played too slowly, and nearly all of them without emotion, keeping the set out of reach from being included in a true classical collection. Despite all that, the sheer number and range of pieces (along with the low price) make this a collection well suited for the new classical listener.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great collections, with poor quality sound, January 8, 2003

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E. Jeffrie - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Top 100 Masterpieces of Classical Music, Vol. 6-10 (Audio CD)

I expected to listen to great professional classical orchestra ...for this classical music collection, but the quality of the music is not too good.

There are a lot of great music collections, but they will sound better when they record it right.

It is good when you just want to have more classical music, but for a CD, the sound quality is like a [poorley made] CD.

I give 3 stars for this product.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Collection Of Romantic Era Music, September 4, 2002

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Rudy Avila "Saint Seiya" (Lennox, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Top 100 Masterpieces of Classical Music, Vol. 6-10 (Audio CD)

The Top 100 Classical Music series is a must have for novices of classical music, or someone already into the classics but wishes to amassa an "essentials" collection. This particular cd's span the Romantic Era, and although the 19th century saw much more music than what is covered on these recordings, this is nevertheless a brilliant and essential body of works. The Wedding March of Mendelsshon's Midsummer Night's Dream (played in weddings all over the world I'm assuming), Franz Lizst Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (The Looney Tunes Theme Music by the way) and other jewels of the era, such as the Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss, the operetta overtures of Franz Von Suppe, Verdi's preludes to such operas as Nabucco and La Traviata, Wagner's intense, dramatic music for his Ring of the Nibelung operas, regarded as the epitome and the zenith of Romantic Era opera, and the music of other composers such as Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Sibelius, Rimsky Korsakov and many others. I highly recommend this cd to anyone wanting to sample and taste what Romantic Era music was all about. Five stars all the way.