Explosive Classics
CHAN 10989 X
DDD
COMPILATION
Playing time: 82'04"
Tracks: 19
Booklet pages: 20
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Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Explosive Classics published on 24 October 2017
Listen: Prokofiev: The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits of Darkness (Scythian Suite) (track 19, 0:00-0:56)
Igor Stravinsky:
1 Infernal Dance (The Firebird)
London Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev:
2 Knight's Dance (Romeo and Juliet)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Dmitri Kitajenko, conductor
Dmitri Shostakovich:
3 Allegretto (Symphony No 8 in C minor, Op 65)
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Giuseppe Verdi:
Messa da Requiem:
4 Dies Irae -
5 Tuba Mirum
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox, conductor
Carl Orff:
6 O Fortuna (Carmina Burana)
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox, conductor
Carl Nielsen:
7 Oriental Festival March (Aladdin, Act III)
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Leoš Janáček:
8 Allegretto (Sinfonietta)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
Béla Bartók:
9 A Shabby Room in the Slums (The Miraculous Mandarin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Alberto Ginastera:
10 Danza Final. Malambo (Estancia, Op 8)
BBC Philharmonic
Juanjo Mena, conductor
Ottorino Respighi:
11 Circenses (Feste romane)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor
Witold Lutosławski:
12 Intrada (Concerto for Orchestra)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
Modest Musorgsky, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel:
13 The Great Gate of Kiev (Pictures at an Exhibition)
Russian State Symphony Orchestra
Valéry Polyansky, conductor
14 Richard Wagner: Overture to 'Das Liebesverbot'
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Edvard Grieg:
15 In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt Suite No 1)
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor
Gustav Holst:
16 Mars, The Bringer of War (The Planets, Op 32)
BBC Philharmonic
Andrew Davis, conductor
Aaron Copland:
17 Fanfare for the Common Man
BBC Philharmonic
John Wilson, conductor
Aram Khachaturian:
18 Sabre Dance (Gayaneh)
Royal Scottish Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev:
19 The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits of Darkness (Scythian Suite Op 20)
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor
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