Album · 1960
Reader's Digest: A Gay Festival of Light Classical Music
Tracklist
Disc 1
1
Capriccio Italien, Op. 45
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14:08
2
Minute of the Will-O'-The Wisps (From "The Damnation of Faust")
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5:32
3
Ballet of the Sylphs (From "The Damnation of Faust")
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2:15
4
Rakoczy March (From "The Damnation of Faust")
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4:23
5
Thunder and Lightning Polka
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2:56
6
The Moldau (No. 2 From "My Country")
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12:17
7
Andante cantabile (From Quartet in D, Op. 11)
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6:24
8
Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries
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5:02
Disc 2
1
Hansel and Gretel: Overture
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8:47
2
Rosamunde: Entr'acte No. 2 in B-Flat
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7:32
3
Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs)
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8:19
4
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
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10:10
5
Midsummer Night's Dream: Nocturne
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7:30
6
Gold and Silver Waltz
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8:23
Disc 3
1
Semiramide Overture
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11:34
2
Sleeping Beauty Ballet - Waltz
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4:01
3
Marche slave Op. 31
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9:51
4
Zampa Overture
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7:47
5
Aida: Act II: Grand March
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3:20
6
Largo From "Xerxes"
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5:01
7
Dance of the Hours From "La Gioconda"
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9:42
Disc 4
1
Carmen Suite
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12:35
2
The Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle
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8:04
3
Boléro
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15:55
4
Faust: Ballet Music
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5:57
Disc 5
1
Poet and Peasant Overture
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8:59
2
Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65
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8:35
3
Moto perpetuo, Op. 11
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4:41
4
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214
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2:40
5
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III
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3:16
6
Norwegian Dance No. 2
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2:15
7
1812 Overture
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14:58
Disc 6
1
The Marriage of Figaro: Overture
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4:20
2
Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo
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5:15
3
Prince Igor: Overture
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10:40
4
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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10:52
5
Petite Suite: En bateau
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4:17
6
Orpheus in Hades: Overture
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9:21
Disc 7
1
Fingal's Cave Overture (The Hebrides)
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2
Les Préludes (Symphonic Poem)
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3
Pomp and Circumstance March, in D, Op. 39
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4
Night on the Bare Mountain
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5
Overture di Ballo
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Disc 8
1
Light Cavalry Overture
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2
Tales From the Vienna Woods - Waltz
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3
Liebestraum No. 3 in A-Flat
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4
Radetzky March
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5
Martha: Overture
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6
Artist's Life Waltz
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7
Marche militaire No. 1
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8
Estudiantina Waltz
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Disc 9
1
Russlan and Ludmilla: Overture
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2
Kamennoi-Ostrow
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3
William Tell: Overture
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4
La traviata: Prelude to Act I
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5
La traviata: Prelude to Act III
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6
Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
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7
Die Götterdämmerung: Siegfried's Rhine Journey
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Disc 10
1
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525. First Movement: Allegro
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2
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525. Second Movement: Romanza: Andante
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3
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525. Third Movement: Menuetto: Allegretto; Trio
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4
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525. Fourth Movement: Rondo: Allegro
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5
On the Beautiful Blue Danube
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6
Academic Festival Overture
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7
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9 ("Carnival of Pesth")
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Disc 11
1
Crown Diamonds Overture
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2
Funeral March of a Marionette
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3
March of the Little Lead Soldiers
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4
Danse macabre, Op. 40
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5
La Valse
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6
Prince Igor: Polovetzian Dances
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Disc 12
1
Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a. Overture Miniature
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2
Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a. Marche
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3
Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
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4
Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a. Trepak
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5
Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a. Arabian Dance
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6
Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a. Chinese Dance
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7
Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a. Dance of the Reed Flutes
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8
Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a. Waltz of the Flowers
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9
Swan Lake: Ballet Suite
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In print
First pressed 1960, still pressed 1971 — 38 pressings across 15 countries.
Credits
Edgar Degas
Artwork · cover
Amilcare Ponchielli
Composer
Arthur Sullivan
Composer
Bedřich Smetana
Composer
Camille Saint‐Saëns
Composer
Carl Maria von Weber
Composer
Charles Gounod
Composer
Claude Debussy
Composer
Daniel François Esprit Auber
Composer
Edvard Grieg
Composer
Edward Elgar
Composer
Émile Waldteufel
Composer
Engelbert Humperdinck
Composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Composer
Ferdinand Hérold
Composer
Franz Lehár
Composer
Franz Liszt
Composer
Franz Schubert
Composer
Franz von Suppé
Composer
Friedrich von Flotow
Composer
Gabriel Pierné
Composer
George Frideric Handel
Composer
Georges Bizet
Composer
Giacomo Puccini
Composer
Gioachino Rossini
Composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Hector Berlioz
Composer
Jacques Offenbach
Composer
Johannes Brahms
Composer
Johann Strauss
Composer
Johann Strauss
Composer
Maurice Ravel
Composer
Niccolò Paganini
Composer
Pablo de Sarasate
Composer
Paul Dukas
Composer
Pietro Mascagni
Composer
Richard Wagner
Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer
Александр Порфирьевич Бородин
Composer
Антон Григорьевич Рубинштейн
Composer
Михаил Иванович Глинка
Composer
Модест Петрович Мусоргский
Composer
Пётр Ильич Чайковский
Composer
Josef Leo Gruber
Conductor
Massimo Freccia
Conductor
René Leibowitz
Conductor
Sir Adrian Boult
Conductor
Sir Alexander Gibson
Conductor
Victor Desarzens
Conductor
Jacques Bauguet
Design · design concept [book]
Auguste Renoir
Illustration · painting [cover]
Honoré Daumier
Illustration
Nicolas Lancret
Illustration
Paul Gavarni
Illustration
Raymond Clark
Instrument · cello
Arthur Fiedler
Liner Notes
Claude Rostand
Liner Notes
Eric Robinson
Liner Notes
Eric Kahane
Lyricist
Gerhard Schulze
Mastering · lacquer cut by
W (12)
Mastering
New Symphony Orchestra of London
Performing Orchestra
Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Performing Orchestra
Orchestra Filarmonica di Roma
Performing Orchestra
Orchestre de la Société des concerts symphoniques de Paris
Performing Orchestra
Wiener Symphoniker
Performing Orchestra
Lauros-Giraudon
Photography