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40 Most Beautiful Love Themes

$13.97 CD

Nurture the soul of passion and romance with Warner Classics & Jazz's 40 MOST BEAUTIFUL LOVE THEMES, a 2-CD set compiling forty stirring compositions that are among the most tender and amorous in classical music. Highlights include Mozart's “Piano Concerto No. 21,” Tchaikovsky's “Overture to Romeo & Juliet,” Ravel's “Boléro,” Bizet's “Carmen Act 3, Entracte,” Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde,” Rachmaninoff's “Symphony No. 2 Adagio” and much more.

Many of the world's greatest conductors are featured on this 40-cut musical symphony of longing, love and romance which also includes selections by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Elgar, Khachaturian, Puccini, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Shostakovich, Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Vivaldi and others.

Selections include excerpts from:
 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: L’estate (Summer)/Mendelssohn: A  Midsummer Night’s Dream/ Vaughan Williams : The Lark Ascending/  Villa-Lobos : Bachianas Brasileiras No.5/ Gershwin-Summertime/  Beethoven: Six National Airs with Variations Op.105 for flute &  Piano/Coates: By the Sleepy Lagoon/Schumann: Dichterliebe Op.48:  XII “Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen/Rodrigo: Concierto de  Aranjuez/Canteloube: Chants d’Auvergne/Tárrega: Recuerdos de  la Alhambra/Berg: Seven Early Songs/ Rimsky-Korsakov : The Tale of Tsar Saltan and Flight of the  Bumblebee/Mozart : Piano Concerto no. 21 ‘Elvira Madigan‘/Elgar: In the South/Satie: Gympnopedie no.  1/Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain/Villa-Lobos: Etude no 1in E Minor/Berlioz: Les nuits d’ete/  Glazunov: The Seasons – Summer/Tchaikovsky: The Seasons: June, July & August/Delius: Summer Night  on the River/Grieg: Lyric Pieces op 71 no.2 - Summer Evening/Ravel: String Quartet - Assez vif/  Traditional: Kesailta (Summer evening), arr Toivo Kuula/Piazolla: The Four Seasons - Verano Porteno/  Debussy: Prelude a L’apres midi d’un faune

Selection # 511598