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Sparkling Classics - Music for an evening with friends A cheerful album of favourite classical tunes. Music for party time or party mood, to blow away the cobwebs and bring good cheer to a rainy day! Strauss, Mozart, Offenbach, Rossini, Bizet and Dvorak on glittering form with brilliant orchestrations - and you can even hear the champagne corks popping! Classical music is not just about relaxation. It's also about excitement, drama, and having fun! Many of the tracks on this album are dramatic and dynamic, and many are associated with the stage, whether the formal stage of an opera house, or the less formal stage of the French cabaret. We begin with one of the most dynamic opening musical statements ever composed. Glinka's majestic overture, with its amazing scurrying scale passages from the string instruments, was composed for his Russian opera 'Ruslan and Ludmilla'. All Glinka's ingenuity went into this opening work, which is a masterpiece of musical timing and precision. If ever you need a piece of music to give you a bit of a lift, then this must be it!