VA - 100 Best Romantic Classics (2008)

This 6-CD album sets the perfect mood with some of classical music's most sensual, passionate melodies- Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, Mozart's "Elvira Madigan" piano concerto, Debussy's Clair de Lune, Dvorak's Largo from Symphony No. 9, Puccini's Nessun Dorma, and many more, all performed by the finest artist from the EMI Classics/Virgin Classics roster!

Disc 1 - FROM RUSSIA WITH ROMANCE; Disc 2 - AN AUSTRO-GERMAN ROMANCE; Disc 3 - A FRENCH ROMANCE; Disc 4 - ROMANCE IN A COLD CLIMATE; Disc 5 - ENGLAND & AMERICA IN LOVE; Disc 6 - MEDITERRANEAN ROMANCE.

CD1 FROM RUSSIA WITH ROMANCE

[01]. TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
[02]. PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet, Balcony Scene
[03]. SHOSTAKOVICH The Gadfly, Romance
[04]. TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet
[05]. RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
[06]. KHACHATURIAN Masquerade, Waltz
[07]. RACHMANINOV Vocalis
[08]. TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker, Grand pas de deux
[09]. SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No. 2
[10]. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
[11]. KHACHATURIAN Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia
[12]. TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake, Scene
[13]. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2
[14]. BORODIN Polovtsian Dances
[15]. RACHMANINOV Symphony No. 2
[16]. TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty, Waltz
[17]. STRAVINSKY L’Oiseau de feu

CD2 AN AUSTRO-GERMAN ROMANCE

[01]. MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21
[02]. MOZART Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
[03]. BEETHOVEN Moonlight Sonata
[04]. BEETHOVEN Emperor Concerto
[05]. MOZART Horn Concerto No. 4
[06]. MOZART Cosi fan tutte, Un’aura amorosa
[07]. BEETHOVEN Pathetique Sonata
[08]. MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
[09]. MOZART Clarinet Concerto
[10]. MENDELSSOHN Fruhlingslied
[11]. BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1
[12]. MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nocturne
[13]. R. STRAUSS Four Last Songs, Beim Schlafengehen
[14]. J. STRAUSS II An der schonen blauen Donau
[15]. KREISLER Liebesleid
[16]. MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Wedding March

CD3 A FRENCH ROMANCE

[01]. OFFENBACH Barcarolle
[02]. SAINT-SAENS Le Cygne
[03]. BIZET Carmen-Habanera
[04]. DEBUSSY Clair de lune
[05]. DELIBES Flower Duet
[06]. GOUNOD Faust, Ballet Music
[07]. SAINT-SAENS Mon Coeur s’ouvre a ta voix
[08]. FAURE Pavane
[09]. MARTINI Plaisir d’amour
[10]. SAINT-SAENS Romance
[11]. FAURE Berceuse
[12]. BIZET Carmen, Entr’acte to Act III
[13]. FAURE Chanson d’amour
[14]. SATIE Gymnopedie No. 1
[15]. DELIBES Sylvia, Intermezzo & Valse lente
[16]. MESSAGER Pas de deux pigeons
[17]. MASSENET Thais, Meditation

CD4 ROMANCE IN A COLD CLIMATE

[01]. GRIEG Peer Gynt, Morning
[02]. SMETENA Vltava
[03]. GRIEG Piano Concerto
[04]. DVORAK Symphony No. 9 From the New World
[05]. GRIEG Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
[06]. DVORAK Rusalka, Song to the Moon
[07]. CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1
[08]. DVORAK Humoresque
[09]. CHOPIN Prelude in A
[10]. LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1
[11]. SIBELIUS Pelleas et Melisande, At the Castle Gate
[12]. CHOPIN Berceuse
[13]. GADE Jealousy, Tango
[14]. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 2 in E flat
[15]. LISZT Liebestraum No. 3
[16]. LEHAR Die lustige Witwe, Vilja

CD5 ENGLAND & AMERICA IN LOVE

[01]. ELGAR Salut d’amour
[02]. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on Greensleeves
[03]. ELGAR Cello Concerto
[04]. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending
[05]. ELGAR Chanson de matin
[06]. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
[07]. LENNON & McCARTNEY Michelle
[08]. HOLST The Planets, Venus
[09]. McCARTNEY Standing Stone, Celebration
[10]. NYMAN Music from The Piano
[11]. MYERS Cavatina form The Deer Hunter
[12]. NEWMAN Music from American Beauty
[13]. HORNER My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)
[14]. VILLA-LOBOS Sentimental Melody
[15]. GERSHWIN Summertime
[16]. BERNSTEIN Somewhere
[17]. GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue

CD6 MEDITERRANEAN ROMANCE

[01]. MASCAGNI Cavalleria rusticana, Intermezzo
[02]. PUCCINI Gianni Schicchi, O mio babbino caro
[03]. ALBENIZ Tango
[04]. PUCCINI La rondine, Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
[05]. VIVALDI The Four Seasons, Spring
[06]. MONTEVERDI L’incoronazione di Poppea, Pur ti miro
[07]. BOCCHERINI Minuet
[08]. MASCAGNI L’amico Fritz, O amore, o bella luce del core
[09]. TARREGA Recuerdos de la Alhambra
[10]. ROTA Romeo & Juliet, Love Theme
[11]. RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez
[12]. PUCCINI Madama Butterfly, Vagliatemi bene
[13]. VIVALDI Guitar Concerto in D
[14]. SARASATE Zigeunerweisen
[15]. QUARANTOTTO Time to Say Goodbye
[16]. ALBENIZ Sevilla
[17]. PUCCINI Turnadot, Nessun dorma