Dreaming Adagios

Dreaming Adagios

We all have dreams.

1. Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar & orchestra - Transcribed for harp & orchestra: 2. Adagio (excerpt)

Composer: Joaquín Rodrigo
Conductor: Charles Dutoit
Performer: Marisa Robles (Harp)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra
Genre: Concerto
Period: Modern

2. Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) for piano, Op. 15: Traümeri(excerpt)

Composer: Robert Schumann
Performer: Radu Lupu (Piano)
Genre: Suite
Period: Romantic

3. Liebestr?ume, notturno for piano No. 3 in A flat major ("O Lieb, so lang du lieben kannst"), S. 541/3 (LW A103/3)

Composer: Franz Liszt
Performer: Jorge Bolet (Piano)
Genre: Nocturne
Period: Romantic

4. Concerto for oboe, strings & continuo in D minor, SF. 935 (often transposed to C minor): 2. Andante sostenuto

Composer: Alessandro Marcello
Conductor: Kenneth Sillito
Performer: Alexandre Lagoya (Guitar)
Orchestra: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Genre: Concerto
Period: Baroque
Additional Notes: arranged by Alexandre Lagoya

5. Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 Act: Intermezzo

Composer: Pietro Mascagni
Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra
Genre: Opera/Verismo Opera
Period: Post-Romantic

6. Piano Concerto slow movement in G major: 2. Adagio assai

Composer: Maurice Ravel
Conductor: Charles Dutoit
Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Piano)
Orchestra: Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Genre: Concerto
Period: Modern

7. Suite bergamasque, for piano, L. 75: Clair de lune

Composer: Claude Debussy
Performer: Pascal Rogé (Piano)
Genre: Suite
Period: Modern

8. The Swan of Tuonela, tone poem for orchestra (Lemmink?inen Suite No. 3), Op. 22/3 No.2

Composer: Jean Sibelius
Conductor: Horst Stein
Orchestra: L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Genre: Tone Poem
Period: Post-Romantic

9. Carnival of the Animals, zoological fantasy for 2 pianos & ensemble: Aquarium

Composer: Camille Saint-Sa?ns
Conductor: Charles Dutoit
Performer: Cristina Ortiz (Piano), Pascal Rogé (Piano)
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta
Genre: Fantasy/Romantic Period/Suite
Period: Romantic

10. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor: Adagietto

Composer: Gustav Mahler
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Genre: Symphony
Period: Romantic

11. Etude for piano No. 3 in E major, Op. 10/3, CT. 16: "Tristesse"

Composer: Frédéric Chopin
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy (Piano)
Genre: Etude
Period: Romantic

12. Ba?lèro, folksong for voice & orchestra (Chants d'Auvergne, Series 1, No. 2)

Composer: Joseph Canteloube
Conductor: Jeffrey Tate
Performer: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (New Zealand/Māori soprano 1944- )
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Period: Modern

13. Rêverie, for piano, L. 68

Composer: Claude Debussy
Performer: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Piano)
Genre: Character Piece
Period: Post-Romantic

14. Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48: In paradisum

Composer: Gabriel Fauré
Conductor: Charles Dutoit
Chorus: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Orchestra: Montreal Symphony Orchestra (Choeur de l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal)
Genre: Requiem
Period: Romantic

(from the Internet)