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℗1998
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2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet
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Compact disc
CD 1: William Tell Overture : Galop / Rossini -- Gaite Parisienne : Cancans 1 & 2 / Offenbach-Rosenthal -- La Gioconda : Dance of the hours / Ponchielli -- Russlan and Ludmilla : Overture / Glinka -- Die Walkure : Ride of the Valkyries / Wagner -- Carmen : Prelude, Act 1 : March of the toreadors / Bizet -- 1812 overture : finale / Tchaikovsky -- Les preludes : finale / Liszt -- Symphony no. 6 in F "Pastoral" : storm / Beethoven -- Aida : Triumphal chorus and grand march / Verdi -- Lohengrin : Prelude to Act III / Wagner -- Prince Igor : Polovetsian dances 3 & 4 / Borodin -- Requiem : Dies irae / Verdi --Requiem : Tuba mirum / Verdi -- Symphonie fantastique : March to the scaffold / Berlioz -- Romeo and Juliet overture fantasia : Montagues and Capulets, love theme and finale / Tchaikovsky -- Pictures at an exhibition : The hut on hens' legs / Mussorgsky-Ravel -- Pictures at an exhibition ; The great gate of Kiev / Mussorgsky-Ravel
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CD 2: Also sprach Zarathustra : sunrise / Strauss -- The planets : Mars / Holst -- Romeo and Juliet ballet suite : Dance of the knights / Prokofiev -- Symphony no. 4 in f minor : IV. allegro con fuco / Tchaikovsky -- A night on Bald Mountain / Mussorgsky -- Pomp and circumstance : march no. 1 in D / Elgar -- Damnation of Faust : Hungarian march / Berlioz -- Tannhauser : Fest march / Wagner -- Enigma variations : troyte (variation no. 7) / Elgar -- Enigma variations : E.D.U. (variation no. 14) / Elgar -- Il trovatore : anvil chorus / Verdi -- Bolero : conclusion / Ravel -- Symphony no. 9 (Choral) : Ode to joy (coda and finale) / Beethoven -- The twilight of the gods : The immolation of the gods / Wagner
Program notes by R. Peter Munves on folded sheet inserted in container
Pilar Lorengar, soprano ; Yvonne Minton, mezzo-soprano ; Stuart Minton, tenor ; Martti Talvela, bass ; Gottlob Frick, bass ; World Orchestra for Peace ; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ; London Symphony Orchestra ; London Symphony Chorus ; Vienna Philharmonic ; Vienna State Opera Chorus ; London Philharmonic Orchestra ; Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; Chorus & Orchestra of the Rome Opera Theater ; Chicago Symphony Chorus ; Georg Solti, conductor
Works with soloists and chorus sung in German, Italian, Latin and Russian