The most relaxing piano album in the world-- ever!
(2000)

Music CD

Call Numbers:
CD/CLASSICAL/PIANO/3898

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Music CD/CLASSICAL/PIANO/3898 Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : EMI, [2000]
©2000
DESCRIPTION

2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
6307929685 7243 5 6726 2 7, 5 66967 2
LANGUAGE
Undetermined
NOTES

Program notes inserted in container

Concerto for Piano no 21, Andante (5:19) / Mozart ; Stephen Hough ; Bryden Thomson, Cond. ; Halle -- Sonata for Piano no 14 in C sharp minor 'Moonlight": Adagio sostenuto (3:55) / Beethoven ; Moura Lympany -- Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben: "Jesu, joy of man's desiring" (3:28) / J.S. Bach ; Moura Lympany -- Nocturnes (3) for Piano (5:15) / Chopin ; John Ogdon -- Suite bergamasque: 'Clair de Lune' (4:54) / Debussy ; Moura Lympany -- Concerto for Piano in A minor, Adagio (6:29) / Grieg ; Cecile Ousset ; Sir Neville Marriner, Cond. ; London Symphony -- Hojas de album (6), "Espana": no 2, Tango (3:16) / Albeniz ; Moura Lympany

Compact discs

-- Liebestraume for Piano, no 3: O Lieb, so lang (4:28) / Liszt ; John Ogdon -- Waltzes for Piano: no 1 in A flat major, "L'adieu" (5:04) / Chopin ; Dmitri Alexeev -- Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation 18 (2:57) / Rachmaninov ; Cecile Ousset ; Simon Rattle, Cond. ; City of Birmingham Symphony -- Kinderszenen: no 7, Traumerei (2:37) / Schumann ; Moura Lympany -- Goyescas: La Maja y el Ruisenor (5:27) / Granados ; Magda Tagliaferro -- Nocturnes for Piano, Op. 15: no 2 (3:26) / Chopin ; Maurizio Pollini -- Gymnopedies for Piano: no 1, Lent et douloureux (3:08) / Satie ; Aldo Ciccolini -- Bagatelle for Piano in A minor, "Fur Elise" (3:19) / Beethoven ; Moura Lympany -- Etudes for Piano: no 3 in E major, "Tristesse" (4:11) / Chopin ; John Ogdon -- Songs without words, no 6, Andante grazioso in A major "Spring Song" (2:38) / Mendelssohn ; Daniel Adni -- Concerto for Piano no 2 in F major: Andante (6:06) / Shostakovich ; Dmitri Alexeev ; Jerzy Maksymiuk, Cond. ; English Chamber Orch

Disc 2: Sonata for Piano no 8 in C minor, "Pathetique": Adagio cantabile (5:48) / Beethoven ; Walter Gieseking -- Concerto for Piano no 20 in D minor: Romanze (6:13) / Mozart ; Annie Fischer; Sir Adrian Boult, Cond. ; Philharmonia Orch. -- Goldberg Variations, Theme "Aria" (3:02) / J.S. Bach ; Maria Tipo -- Concerto for Piano no 1 in E minor: Romanze (4:04) / Chopin ; Garrick Ohlsson ; Jerzy Maksymiuk, Cond. ; Polish National Symphony -- Suite espanola, Op. 47: no 1, Granada (5:07) / Albeniz ; Gonzalo Soriano -- Waltzes for Piano 4 hands, no 15 (1:37) / Brahms ; Moura Lympany -- Concerto for Harpsichord in F minor: Largo - Arioso (3:24) / J.S. Bach -- Andrei Gavrilov ; Sir Neville Marriner, Cond. ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields -- Lyric Pieces, Op. 43: no 6: In Springtime (2:48) / Grieg ; Daniel Adni -- Nocturnes for Piano, Op. 32: no 2 (6:16) / Chopin ; Daniel Adni -- Concerto for Piano no 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 "Emperor": Adagio un poco mosso (5:20) / Beethoven ; Walter Gieseking ; Alceo Galliera, Cond. ; Philharmonia Orch. --

Various performers

Preludes, Book 1: no 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin (2:35) / Debussy ; Moura Lympany -- Cancons i dansas : no 1, Petiteta l'han casada ; La dansa de Castelltersol (3:45) / Mompou ; Gonzalo Soriano -- Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor: Adagio (4:28) / Rachmaninov ; Cecile Ousset ; Simon Rattle, Cond. ; City of Birmingham Symphony -- Preludes for Piano, Op. 28: no 15 "Raindrop" (5:51) / Chopin ; Dmitri Alexeev -- Gnossiennes for Piano: no 1 (3:02) / Satie ; Aldo Ciccolini -- Dolly, Op. 56: no 1, Berceuse (2:34) / Faure ; Jean-Phillipe Collard ; Bruno Rigutto -- Minuets for Piano, no 2 in G major (2:51) / Beethoven ; Moura Lympany -- Berceuse for Piano in D flat major (4:27) / Chopin ; Peter Donohoe

Previously released: 1957-1998