Various - The Most Relaxing Classical Album In The World...Ever! (2xCD) (Very Good Plus (VG+))

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Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)

Virgin EMI, VTDCD155, 1997, DBL 36 Track
 

Notes:

Slim Double Jewel Case

Tracklist differs to US version.

These pieces have been excerpted or rearranged to include them in this compilation:
CD1: Tracks 6, 7, 10, 13
CD2: Tracks 2, 6, 15

℗ as shown. The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by EMI Records Ltd except where otherwise stated.
CD1
1: ℗1975/1997*
2: ℗1983
3: ℗1974/1997*
4: ℗1972/1989*
5: ℗1974/1990*
6: ℗1987
7: ℗1971/1987* EMI France
8: ℗1968/1997*
9: ℗1988
10: ℗1959/1997*
11: ℗1963/1993*
12: ℗1995 EMI Electrola GmbH under exclusive licence from JARO Medien GmbH.  Recorded live at the 28th International Oratori-Cantata Festival WRATISLAVIA CANTANS Wroclw 1993
13: ℗1972/1985*
14: ℗1981
15: ℗1971/1986*
16: ℗1997 Virgin Records Ltd.  The voice of Kathleen Ferrier singing 'Blow The Wind Southerly' appears by courtesy of The Decca Record Company Ltd, catalogue no.433475/2
17: ℗1984
18: ℗1968/1997*

CD2
1: ℗1967/1990* EMI Electrola GmbH
2: ℗1974/1986*
3: ℗1980/1997*
4: ℗1987
5: ℗1987 EMI Electrola GmbH
6: ℗1991
7: ℗1965/1989*
8: ℗1992 Central Independent Television plc licensed exclusively to Virgin Records Ltd.
9: ℗1960/1991*
10: ℗1980/1987*
11: ℗1990 Virgin Classics Ltd
12: ℗1970/1995*
13: ℗1963/1986*
14: ℗1984
15: ℗1984
16: ℗1993
17: ℗1985*
18: ℗1984
* Digital remastering ℗ as shown by EMI Records Ltd except where otherwise stated.

This compilation ℗1997 by Circa Records Ltd.  This label copy is the subject matter of copyright protection.

All rights reserved.  ©1997 Circa Records Ltd.  DDD/*ADD
© 1997 Virgin Records Ltd.

Liner notes: © Tony Locantro, 1997

Thanks to: John Duckworth for extra track suggestions & David Tunnicliffe for research on album concept.

Best...Album In The World...Ever! is a registered trademark of Virgin Music Group Ltd.

Inlays: Printed in UK
Discs: Made in U.K.

1-1. Johann Sebastian Bach - 'Air On G String' (From Suite No. 3 In D, BWV 1068) 3:31
1-2. Edvard Grieg - Morning (From "Peer Gynt" Incidental Music, Op. 23) 4:14
1-3. Johann Pachelbel - Canon In D 4:59
1-4. Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (From Cantata No. 147) 3:28
1-5. Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1 2:48
1-6. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - II: Andante (From Piano Concerto No. 21 In C 'Elvira Madigan' K. 467) 5:18
1-7. Léo Delibes - Viens, Malika (From "Lakmé") 4:17
1-8. Gabriel Fauré - In Paradisum (From Requiem, Op. 48) 3:44
1-9. Claude Debussy - Clair De Lune (From "Suite Bergamasque") 4:54
1-10. Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - II: Andante (Violin Concerto In E Minor, Op. 64) 4:26
1-11. Camille Saint-Saëns - The Swan (From "Carnival Of The Animals") 2:48
1-12. Henryk Górecki - II: Lento E Largo - Tranquillissimo (Symphony No. 3 'Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs') 4:28
1-13. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - II: Andantino (Flute And Harp Concerto In C K. 299) 3:57
1-14. Antonio Vivaldi - II: Largo (The Four Seasons - Concerto No. 4 In F Minor 'Winter') 2:04
1-15. Sir Edward Elgar - Nimrod (From 'Enigma' Variations, Op. 36) 3:54
1-16. Jocelyn Pook - Blow The Wind - Pie Jesu 2:55
1-17. Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini - Variation 18 2:57
1-18. Gabriel Fauré - Pavane Op. 50 6:47
2-1. Johann Sebastian Bach - Zion Hört Die Wächter Singen [From Cantata No. 140 'Sleepers, Wake!') 3:25
2-2. Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio In G Minor 5:48
2-3. Luigi Boccherini - Minuet (From String Quintet In E Op. 13 No. 5) 3:53
2-4. Johann Sebastian Bach - II: Largo (Keyboard Concerto No. 5 In F Minor BWV 1056) 3:24
2-5. Jules Massenet - Méditation (From 'Thaïs') 5:02
2-6. Ludwig van Beethoven - I: Adagio Sostenuto (Piano Sonata No. 14 In C Sharp Minor 'Moonlight' Op. 27 No. 2) 3:54
2-7. Jacques Offenbach - Belle Nuit, Ô Nuit D'amour (Barcarolle) (From 'Le Contes D'Hoffmann' / 'The Tales Of Hoffmann') 3:48
2-8. Antonio Vivaldi - II: Andante (Concerto For Two Mandolins In G RV532) 4:19
2-9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - II: Adagio (Opening) (Clarinet Concerto In A K.622) 4:35
2-10. Pietro Mascagni - Intermezzo From 'Cavalleria Rusticana' 3:40
2-11. Antonín Dvořák - I: Moderato (String Serenade Op. 22) 4:39
2-12. Giacomo Puccini - O Mio Babbino Caro (From 'Gianni Schicchi') 2:40
2-13. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia On 'Greensleeves' (From 'Sir John In Love') 4:37
2-14. Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff - II: Adagio Sostenuto (Opening) (Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor Op. 18) 4:28
2-15. Alexander Borodin - Nocturne (From String Quartet No. 2 In D) 3:56
2-16. Joaquín Rodrigo - II: Adagio (Opening) (Concierto De Aranjuez) 4:44
2:17. Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings Op. 11a 6:20
2-18. Georges Bizet - Entr'acte To Act III (From 'Carmen') 2:32

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