| Title |
Ode to joy : Great choral masterpieces / [music sound recording] |
| Description |
2 compact discs ; 4 3/4 in. +1 booklet (24 p.). |
| Notes |
Booklet contains a track list, program notes and lyrics to the songs in their original language, Latin, German, French or Russian with an English translation. |
| "Live from the Sydney Opera House" (front cover). |
| Contents |
CD 1: 1. Deus in adiutorium (Vespers of the Blessed Virgin) -- 2. Gloria in excelsis Deo (Gloria in D, RV589) -- 3. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Cantata No. 147) -- 4. Magnificat (Magnificat in D, BWV 243) -- 5. Zadok the Priest (HWV 258) -- 6. Hallelujah (Messiah BWV 56) -- 7. Ave verum corpus (KV 618) -- 8. Lacrimosa (Requiem KV 626) -- 9. The Heavens are telling (The Creation, Hob. XXI:2) -- 10. Ode to Joy (Symphony No. 9). |
| CD 2: 1. Thanks be go God (Elijah, Op. 70) -- 2. Dies irae (Messa da Requiem) -- 3. Pavane, Op. 50 -- 4. In paradisum (Requiem, Op. 48) -- 5-6. Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) -- 7. Land of Hope and Glory (Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1) -- 8. Irish tune from County Derry -- 9. Virgin, Mother of God (Vespers, Op. 37) -- 10. Ave formosissima (Carmina Burana) -- 11. O Fortuna (Carmina Burana). |
| Performers |
Sydney Philharmonia Choir, Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra ; Antony Walker, conductor. |
| Subjects |
Classical music |
| Genre |
Classical Music. |
| Added Names |
Monteverdi, Claudio, 1567-1643 |
| Vivaldi, Antonio (Antonio Lucio), 1678-1741 |
| Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750 |
| Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759 |
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, (Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus) 1756-1791 |
| Haydn, Franz Joseph, 1732-1809 |
| Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 |
| Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847 |
| Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 |
| Faure, Gabriel, 1845-1924 |
| Borodin, Alexander, 1833-1887 |
| Elgar, Edward, Sir, 1857-1934 |
| Grainger, Percy, 1882-1961 |
| Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943 |
| Orff, Carl, 1895-1982 |
