Classic 100 Feel Good - Highlights (4CD)

For more than 20 years, the Classic 100 has been one of the most anticipated events on the Australian classical music calendar: a chance for music-lovers across the country to nominate the music that means the most to them. This year's theme is ‘Feel Good’: the uplifting tunes that make you smile, the mood-boosting songs that get you through the day, and the music that soundtracks your life and soothes your soul. The top 100 will be announced on an on-air countdown over the June long weekend, and this 4CD collection of highlights will follow in July.

TRACK LIST

CD1 1. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9: Ode to Joy 2. HOLST The Planets: Jupiter 3. BIZET The Pearl Fishers: Duet: Au fond du temple saint (In the depths of the holy temple) 4. BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’: II. Adagio un poco mosso 5. GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue 6. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending (Excerpt) 7. ELGAR Enigma Variations: Nimrod 8. HANDEL Messiah: Hallelujah! 9. DELIBES Lakmé: Flower Duet 10. BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3: I. Allegro CD2 1. HANDEL Zadok the Priest 2. BACH Cello Suite No. 1: I. Prelude 3. ELGAR Cello Concerto: I. Adagio - Moderato 4. KATS-CHERNIN Wild Swans: Eliza Aria 5. TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers 6. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’: I. Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the country 7. DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’: II. Largo (Excerpt) 8. VIVALDI The Four Seasons: Spring: I. Allegro 9. MOZART Clarinet Concerto: II. Adagio 10. RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2: II. Adagio sostenuto 11. KHACHATURIAN Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia 12. SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 ‘Organ’: IIb. Maestoso - Allegro CD3 1. RICHTER The Four Seasons Recomposed: Spring 1 2. ORFF Carmina Burana: O Fortuna 3. BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Mambo 4. TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake: No. 10 Scène 5. PÄRT Spiegel im Spiegel 6. PUCCINI Turandot: Nessun dorma 7. BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7: II. Allegretto 8. WESTLAKE Antarctica: Penguin Ballet 9. RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini: 18th Variation 10. BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1: III. Finale 11. GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite No. 1: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King 12. BIZET Carmen: Toreador’s Song 13. PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2: I. Montagues and Capulets 14. TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture (Excerpt) 15. EDWARDS Dawn Mantras 16. SIBELIUS Finlandia CD4 1. COPLAND Appalachian Spring: Shaker melody: ‘The Gift to be Simple’ 2. SAINT-SAËNS The Carnival of the Animals: The Swan 3. MANCINI Moon River 4. RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez: I. Allegro con