Gioachino Rossini Jacques Offenbach Amilcare Ponchielli - Thunder Lightning (32 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Gioachino Rossini, Jacques Offenbach, Amilcare Ponchielli
Thunder & Lightning
Genres: Special Interest, Classical

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Overture to Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Galop
2. Gaîté Parisienne, ballet (music by Offenbach arranged by Manuel Rosenthal): Cancan 1 / Cancan 2
3. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Dance of the Hours
4. Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla, G. xivov
5. Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), opera, WWV 86b: Ride of the Valkyries
6. Carmen, opera: March of the Toreadors
7. 1812 -- Festival Overture, for orchestra in E flat major, Op. 49: Finale
8. Les Préludes, symphonic poem for orchestra, S. 97 (LW G3): Finale
9. Symphony No. 6 in F major ('Pastoral'), Op. 68: Storm
10. Aida, opera: Triumphal Chorus / Grand March
11. Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75: Prelude to Act 3
12. Prince Igor, opera (completed by Rimsky-Korsakov & Glazunov): Polovtsian dance 3 / Polovtsian dance 4
13. Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Dies irae
14. Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra (Manzoni Requiem): Tuba mirum
15. Symphonie fantastique for orchestra ('Episode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties'), H.48 (Op. 14): March to the Scaffold
16. Romeo and Juliet, fantasy-overture for orchestra in B minor (3 versions): Montagues and Capulets / Love Theme / Finale
17. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: The Hut on Hens' Legs
18. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: The Great Gate of Kiev
Track Listings (14) - Disc #2
1. Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster), tone poem for orchestra, Op. 30 (TrV 176): Sunrise
2. The Planets, suite for orchestra & female chorus, Op. 32, H. 125: Mars
3. Romeo and Juliet, ballet in 4 acts, Op. 64: Dance of the Knights
4. Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36: Allegro con fuco
5. Night on Bald Mountain (Noch' na Lïsoy gore), symphonic poem, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov
6. Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, for orchestra in D major, Op. 39/1
7. Marche de Rákóczy (Rákóczy March), for orchestra (Le damnation de Faust), H. 109
8. Tannhäuser, opera, WWV 70: Entrance of the Guests
9. Enigma Variations, for orchestra, Op. 36: Troyte
10. Enigma Variations, for orchestra, Op. 36: E.D.U.
11. Il Trovatore, opera: Anvil Chorus
12. Boléro, ballet for orchestra: Conclusion
13. Symphony No. 9 in D minor ('Choral'), Op. 125: Ode to Joy: Coda and finale
14. Die Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), opera, WWV 86d: The Immolation of the Gods

CD Details

All Artists: Gioachino Rossini, Jacques Offenbach, Amilcare Ponchielli, Mikhail Glinka, Richard [Classical] Wagner, Georges Bizet, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Franz Liszt, Ludwig van Beethoven, Giuseppe Verdi, Alexander Borodin, Hector Berlioz, Modest Mussorgsky, Richard [1] Strauss, Gustav Holst, Sergey Prokofiev, Edward Elgar, Maurice Ravel, Georg Solti, Yvonne Minton
Title: Thunder & Lightning
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Decca
Release Date: 11/10/1998
Genres: Special Interest, Classical
Styles: Marches, Opera & Classical Vocal, Ballets & Dances, Ballets, Forms & Genres, Suites, Symphonies, Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Early Music, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 028946049624

CD Reviews

Big, Beautiful Music!

05/17/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This collection is great fun. I can't imagine a better way to drive home from work on a Fri afternoon than listening to Solti's "Thunder and Lightning" LOUD on an excellent car stereo. Order and ENJOY!!:)"

Solti at his best!!

Albert Lynd | Edmond, OK | 05/13/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A wonderful collection of Solti's intensity and drive in this music. He is at his best here and how nice to hear a variety of orchestras. Good "sampler" for future purchases."

Major Orchestras, Major Conductor, Major Power!

Norman H Stevens | Lake View Terrace, California United States | 06/15/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I own multiple recordings of most of the works on Georg Solti's Thunder & Lightning, but I always hold this collection as my reference. Not only with his beloved Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but several other world class ensembles, the Maestro shows his monumental interperative talents to make old warhorses sound as if we've never heard them before. He could inspire an orchestra to "open the heavens or open a flower" with his baton. His presence is missed, but his work is forever."