Idiot's Guide to Classical Music

Tomaso Albinoni (Composer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Samuel Barber (Composer), Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Hector Berlioz (Composer), Georges Bizet (Composer), Luigi Boccherini (Composer), Alexander Borodin (Composer), Johannes Brahms (Composer), Frederic Chopin (Composer), Aaron Copland (Composer), Claude Debussy (Composer), Leo Delibes (Composer), Paul [Composer] Dukas (Composer), Antonin Dvorak (Composer), Edward Elgar (Composer), Manuel de Falla (Composer), Gabriel Faure (Composer), George Gershwin (Composer), Charles Gounod (Composer)

Product Details

• Composer: Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, et al.
• Audio CD (February 14, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003FPT
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #103,299 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Adagio

2. Air on the G String: Air on the G String, Excerpt

3. Brandenburg Concerto: Third Movement, Excerpt

4. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Excerpt

5. Tocatta & Fugue: Excerpt

6. Adagio for Strings: Excerpt

7. Synphony No. 5: First Movement, Excerpt

8. Symphony No. 9: Fourth Movement, Excerpt

9. Für Elise: Excerpt

10. Turkish March: Turkish March, Excerpt

11. Moonlight Sonata: Excerpt

12. Symphonie Fantastique: March Ot the Scaffold, Excerpt

13. Damnation of Faust: Excerpt

14. Carmen - Habanera: Habanera, Excerpt

15. Toreador Song [From Carmen]

16. Minuet: Minuet, Excerpt

17. Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dance No 17, Excerpt

18. Hungarian Dance No. 5: No 5, Excerpt

19. Lullaby: No 4, Lullaby, Excerpt

20. "Minute" Waltz: Excerpt

See all 99 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Useful., March 21, 1999

By A Customer

Take it for what it is, a clever and useful GUIDE to classical music. No, it is NOT an uncut rendition of Beethoven's 9th symphony. It IS a cd that will jog your memory. You have heard many of the tunes presented here, but not always knowing what the work was. This is your chance to catch up with all the great classical music you have been exposed to. Cheap too.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars it's a GUIDE, March 2, 1999

By A Customer

I have to conflict with the previous reviewer. This is a guide CD. Each track is the 'familiar tune' that you have probably heard on TV or int he movies. When you hear your favorite snippit, go to the track listing and find the composer and title and then buy a CD that contains the entire work.

I found the CD incredibly helpful to identify tones of classical snippits!

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mega-Sampler! This really does have 99 tracks!, March 19, 2002

By	Kendal B. Hunter (Provo, UT United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Yes, this CD really does have 99 tracks. How do they do it? Each is about a minuet long. Some are longer, some are shorter, but you get the micro-essential moments of the music.

If you like burning your own CDs, then this is a great source for intra-track fillers, along the lines of They Might Be Giants' "Apollo 18" album, which has all of those short tracks on the end. The idea is to put your CD player on shuffle, so the short tracks get mixed in with the bona fide songs. The result being a very unusual album.

The booklet gives an explanation of the track, where you heard it (i.e. the Warner Brother's Cartoons, or on famous films), and where you can get the full piece of music. So it's a mega sampler CD.

I can honestly say that this CD is a great gift for the friend who has everything.