100 Best Children's Classics

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• Time: 428:43
• Release Date: 2010

Performances

Composer	Title	Time
Benjamin Britten	Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell), for speaker ad lib & orchestra, Op. 34	16:50
Sergey Prokofiev	Peter and the Wolf, children's tale for narrator & orchestra, Op. 67	27:04
Gioachino Rossini	Overture to Guillaume Tell (William Tell) (Conclusion)	3:16
Camille Saint-Saëns	Carnival of the Animals, zoological fantasy for 2 pianos & ensemble	22:00
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	The Flight of the Bumble Bee, musical picture for orchestra (from The Tale of Tsar Saltan)	1:27
Georges Bizet	Petite Suite, pieces (5) for orchestra (orchestration of Jeux d'enfants Nos. 6, 3, 2, 11, 12)	10:45
Claude Debussy	Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113	17:44
Gabriel Pierné	March of the Little Lead Soldiers, for orchestra/piano, Op. 14/6	3:19
Gabriel Fauré	Dolly, suite for piano, 4 hands or orchestra, Op. 56	17:53
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky	Nutcracker, ballet, Op. 71 (Act 2. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)	2:19
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky	Nutcracker, ballet, Op. 71 (Act 2. Divertissement. Dance of the Reed Flutes)	2:22
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky	Nutcracker, ballet, Op. 71 (Act 2. Divertissement. Trepak: Russian Dance)	1:08
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky	Nutcracker, ballet, Op. 71 (Act 2. Divertissement. Tea: Chinese Dance)	1:10
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky	Nutcracker, ballet, Op. 71 (Act 2. Divertissement. Coffee: Arabian Dance)	3:28
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky	Nutcracker, ballet, Op. 71 (Act 2. Divertissement. Chocolate: Spanish Dance)	1:11
Leopold Mozart	Toy Symphony (Cassation), for toys, 2 oboes, 2 horns & strings in G major (formerly K. 63)	8:18
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka), suite for orchestra (Dance of the Tumblers)	3:57
Richard Wagner	Siegfried, opera, WWV 86c (Forest Murmurs)	6:52
Ralph Vaughan Williams	Fantasia on Greensleeves, for harp, flute & strings (arranged by R. Greaves; from the opera "Sir John in Love")	4:39
Claude Debussy	Estampes, for piano, L. 100 (Jardins sous la pluie)	3:51
Percy Grainger	Shepherd's Hey!, folk song for orchestra (BFMS 16)	2:13
Percy Grainger	Country Gardens, folk song for orchestra (arrangement not by Grainger) (BFMS 22)	2:16
Joseph Canteloube	Malurous qu'o uno fenno, folksong for voice & orchestra (Chants d'Auvergne, Series 3, No. 5)	1:34
Joseph Canteloube	L'Aio dè Rotso (L'eau de source), folksong for voice & orchestra (Chants d'Auvergne, Series 1, No. 3a)	1:13
Joseph Canteloube	Baïlèro, folksong for voice & orchestra (Chants d'Auvergne, Series 1, No. 2)	4:50
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 6 in F major ("Pastoral"), Op. 68 (1. Pleasant feelings on arriving in the country)	12:38
Bedrich Smetana	Vltava (The Moldau), symphonic poem (Má Vlast No. 2), JB 1:112/2	12:09
Antonio Vivaldi	Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in F minor ("L'inverno," The Four Seasons; "Il cimento" No. 4), Op. 8/4, RV 297	9:03
Frédéric Chopin	Berceuse for piano in D flat major, Op. 57, CT. 7	6:04
Edvard Grieg	Peer Gynt Suite for orchestra (or piano or piano, 4 hands) No. 1, Op. 46 (Morning)	4:15
Paul Dukas	The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier), symphonic scherzo for orchestra	11:21
Maurice Ravel	Ma mère l'oye, ballet for orchestra	28:33
Modest Mussorgsky	Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel (Bydlo)	2:49
Modest Mussorgsky	Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel (The Old Castle)	4:53
Felix Mendelssohn	A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61 (Scherzo)	4:56
Modest Mussorgsky	Night on Bald Mountain (Noch' na Lïsoy gore), symphonic poem, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov	10:43
Gustav Holst	The Planets, suite for orchestra & female chorus, Op. 32, H. 125 (Uranus the Magician)	6:02
Claude Debussy	Syrinx, for solo flute, L. 129	2:35
Gabriel Fauré	Pavane, for orchestra & chorus ad lib in F sharp minor, Op. 50	6:17
Johannes Brahms	Wiegenlied ("Guten Abend, gut Nacht"), song for voice & piano, Op. 49/4	2:22
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 (2. Adagio)	8:53
Frédéric Chopin	Nocturne for piano No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109	5:18
Johann Sebastian Bach	Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068 (Air 'on the G string')	3:30
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major ("Elvira Madigan") K. 467 (2. Andante)	7:39
Johann Pachelbel	Canon in D major, instrumental arrangement	4:58
Erik Satie	Gymnopédies (3), for piano (also orchestrated by Debussy)	9:16
Johann Sebastian Bach	Cantata No. 208, "Was mir behagt," (Hunt Cantata), BWV 208 (BC G1, G3) (Sheep may safely graze)	4:37
Robert Schumann	Kinderszenen No. 7 ("Träumerei"), for piano, Op. 15/7	2:43
Tomaso Albinoni	Adagio, for violin, strings & organ in G minor, T. Mi 26 (composed by Remo Giazotto; not by Albinoni)	7:46
Claude Debussy	La fille aux cheveux de lin, prelude for piano, L. 117/8	2:49
Claude Debussy	Clair de lune, for piano (Suite Bergamasque No. 3), L. 75/3	5:00
Maurice Ravel	Boléro, ballet for orchestra	14:55
Ferdinand Hérold	La Fille Mal Gardée, ballet (Widow Simone - Clog Dance)	2:44
Johann Strauss II	An der schönen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful, Blue Danube), waltz for orchestra (with chorus ad lib), Op. 314 (RV 314)	10:28
John Lanchbery	The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin	7:50
Camille Saint-Saëns	Danse macabre, symphonic poem in G minor, Op. 40	6:45
Aram Khachaturian	Gayane, ballet in 4 acts (Sabre Dance)	2:24
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky	The Swan Lake, ballet, Op. 20 (Dance of the Little Swans)	1:31
Sergey Prokofiev	Romeo and Juliet, ballet in 4 acts, Op. 64 (Dance of the Knights)	5:43
Emile Waldteufel	Les Patineurs Valse ("Skater's Waltz"), Op. 183	7:38
Amilcare Ponchielli	La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts (Dance of the Hours)	9:57

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