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    06/19/2001 | Naxos 

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    All Music Guide Review

    This collection of classical favorites serves as a pleasant alternative to much of the music made available to children. Where many albums in the genre can be grating for adults, this is one of the many children's albums made in 2000 and 2001 that gives in to the notion that classical music can be enjoyed by all ages. Abandoning the simplistic keyboard format of most children's music, these are lush arrangements performed by full orchestras. Child-friendly classics like "Pomp and Circumstance" and "Overture (From William Tell)" sit next to dark, complex songs à la "Ride of the Walykries" and "Flight of the Bumblebee." The idea that children can enjoy good music, despite its occasional gloomy overtones, is one of the features that makes this stand out. And unlike many classical collections, the songs are presented in their entirety, with some songs going over six minutes long. Parents interested in furthering their children's cultural horizons need not look any further -- this is one album that does not disappoint. ~ Bradley Torreano, All Music Guide

    Track Listing

  • Track#
  • Title
  • Artist
  • time
  • 1
  • Can-Can (From Orpheus in the Underworld)
  • Offenbach
  • 2:14

  • 2
  • Overture (From William Tell)
  • Rossini
  • 6:15

  • 3
  • Rakoczy March (From Four Overtures)
  • Berlioz
  • 4:17

  • 4
  • A Musical Joke (From Perpetual Motion)
  • Straus II
  • 3:01

  • 5
  • Pizzicato Polka
  • Struass II
  • 3:01

  • 6
  • Minute Waltz
  • Chopin
  • 1:45

  • 7
  • Vivace (From Concerto for Two Horns)
  • Telemann, Georg Philipp
  • 3:35

  • 8
  • Pomp and Circumstance
  • Elgar
  • 6:00

  • 9
  • Parade of the Sandwich Board Men
  • Mayerl
  • 2:38

  • 10
  • Wolf Song (From Thunderbird Suite)
  • Cadman
  • 2:24

  • 11
  • On the Jocko (From Indian Scenes)
  • Gilbert
  • 2:17

  • 12
  • Troika (From Lieutenant Kije)
  • Prokofiev
  • 2:57

  • 13
  • Allegro (From Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
  • Mosart
  • 5:49

  • 14
  • Radetzdy March
  • Strauss II
  • 3:08

  • 15
  • The Flight of the Bumblebee
  • Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich
  • 1:30
  • 16
  • Ride of the Waldyries (From Die Waldüre)
  • Wagner
  • 5:23
  • 17
  • Dance of the Comedians (From the Batered Bride)
  • Smetana
  • 4:58
  • 18 (2)
  • Sabre Dance (From Gayane)
  • Khachaturian
  • 2:26

  • 19 (2)
  • March of the Toreadors (From Carmen Suite)
  • Bizet
  • 2:19

  • 20 (2)
  • Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in D Minor
  • Liszt
  • 5:02

  • 21 (2)
  • Badinerie (from Suite No. 2)
  • Bach
  • 1:26

  • 22 (2)
  • Allegro Finale (From Fireworks Music)
  • Handel
  • 2:13

  • 23 (2)
  • Golliwog's Cake Walk (From Children's Corner Suite)
  • Debussy, Claude
  • 2:52

  • 24 (2)
  • Parade of the Tin Soldiers
  • Jessel
  • 2:51

  • 25 (2)
  • Fossils (From Carnival of the Animals)
  • Saint Saëns
  • 1:20

  • 26 (2)
  • Sleeping Beauty Waltz (From Sleeping Beauty)
  • Tchaikovsky
  • 4:42

  • 27 (2)
  • Allegro (From Giselle)
  • Adam
  • 1:31

  • 28 (2)
  • Gallop (From Giselle)
  • Adam
  • 1:04

  • 29 (2)
  • Peter in the Meadow/The Bird (From Peter and the Wolf)
  • Prokofiev
  • 1:57

  • 30 (2)
  • Ballet of the Chickens (From Pictures at an Exhibition)
  • Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
  • 1:21

  • 31 (2)
  • Gallop (From Masquerade)
  • Khachaturian
  • 3:10

  • 32 (2)
  • Pizzicato (From Sylvia)
  • Delibes
  • 1:43
  • 33 (2)
  • Italian Polka
  • Rachmaninov, Sergei
  • 1:39
  • 34 (2)
  • Russian Sailor's Dance (from The Red Poppy)
  • Gliere, Reinhold Moritsevich
  • 3:42
  • 35 (2)
  • Shepherd's Hey
  • Grainger
  • 2:06
  • 36 (2)
  • Emperor Waltz
  • Strauss II
  • 6:41
  • 37 (2)
  • In the Hall of the Mountain King (From Peer Gynt)
  • Grieg
  • 2:37
  • 38 (2)
  • Festa Criolla (From a Night in the Tropics)
  • Gottschalk
  • 6:04
  • 39 (2)
  • Hungarian Dance No. 5
  • Brahms
  • 2:14
  • 40 (3)
  • Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba (From Solomon)
  • Handel
  • 3:27

  • 41 (3)
  • Allegro from Autumn (From the Four Seasons)
  • Vivaldi
  • 3:06

  • 42 (3)
  • Allegro Ma Non Troppo (From Symphony No. 6 "Pastrol")
  • Beethoven
  • 9:25

  • 43 (3)
  • Menuetto Allegro (From Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter")
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • 4:46

  • 44 (3)
  • Gopak (From Fair at Sorochintsy)
  • Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
  • 1:47

  • 45 (3)
  • Dance of the Hours (From la Gioconda)
  • Ponchielli, Amilcare
  • 7:16

  • 46 (3)
  • Apquarium (From Carnival of the Animals)
  • 2:25

  • 47 (3)
  • Play of the Waves (From LA Mer)
  • Debussy, Claude
  • 7:29

  • 48 (3)
  • Humoresque
  • Dvorák
  • 2:49

  • 49 (3)
  • Sheep May Safely Graze
  • Bach
  • 5:15

  • 50 (3)
  • Ouverture (from Masques et Bergamasques)
  • Fauré
  • 3:48

  • 51 (3)
  • Barrel-Organ Waltz (From the Gadfly)
  • Shostakovich, Dmitry
  • 2:00

  • 52 (3)
  • Fugue (From the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra)
  • Britten
  • 3:03

  • 53 (3)
  • Allegro Finale (From Symphony No. 104 "London")
  • Haydn
  • 6:50

    • Credits



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