Saturday 6th December 2025

CD 196

Title : Essential Dinner Party Classics

Label : Classic FM [2005]

Performer(s) : Various composers / performers

Tracks (1) : Three preludes for piano – No. 1
Leon Bates, piano
Composer(s):  George Gershwin
Performer(s):  Leon Bates

Tracks (2) : Piano quintet in E flat Op.44 – Scherzo
Jeno Jandó, Kodály Quartet
Composer(s):  Robert Schumann
Performer(s):  Jeno Jandó
Ensemble(s):  Kodály Quartet

Tracks (3) : The Tales of Hoffman – Barcarolle
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra: Keith Clark
Composer(s):  Jacques Offenbach
Performer(s):  Keith Clark
Ensemble(s):  Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Tracks (4) : Serenade for strings in C Op.48 – Waltz
Vienna Chamber Orchestra: Philippe Entremont
Composer(s):  P I Tchaikovsky
Performer(s):  Philippe Entremont
Ensemble(s):  Wiener Kammerorchester

Tracks (5) : String quartet no. 17 in B flat K458 'Hunt' – Menuetto
Eder Quartet
Composer(s):  W A Mozart
Ensemble(s):  Eder Quartet

Tracks (6) : String quintet in C, D956 – Allegro ma non troppo
Ensemble Villa Musica
Composer(s):  Franz Schubert
Ensemble(s):  Ensemble Villa Musica

Tracks (7) : Suite no. 3 In D, BWV1068 – Air
Capella Istropolitana: Jaroslav Dvořák
Composer(s):  J S Bach
Performer(s):  Jaroslav Dvorák
Ensemble(s):  Capella Istropolitana

Tracks (8) : Trois gymnopédies – No. 1 (orch. Debusy)
Composer(s):  Erik Satie, Claude Debussy
Performer(s):  Jérome Kaltenbach
Ensemble(s):  Nancy Symphony Orchestra

Tracks (9) : Preludes – No. 1
Craig Ogden, guitar
Composer(s):  Heitor Villa-Lobos
Performer(s):  Craig Ogden

Tracks (12) : Songs without words Op.19 – No.6 'Venetian gondola song'
Péter Nagy, piano
Composer(s):  Felix Mendelssohn
Performer(s):  Péter Nagy

Tracks (13) : Piano sonata no. 8 in C minor Op.13 'Pathétique' – Adagio cantabile
Jeno Jandó, piano
Composer(s):  Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer(s):  Jeno Jandó

Tracks (14) : Liebestraum 'Dream of Love'
Balázs Szokolay, piano
Composer(s):  Franz Liszt
Performer(s):  Balázs Szokolay

Tracks (15) : Farewell to Stromness (arr. Timothy Walker)
Graham Anthony Devine, guitar
Composer(s):  Peter Maxwell Davies, Timothy Walker
Performer(s):  Graham Anthony Devine

Tracks (10) : Rhapsody on a theme of Paginini – Variation XVIII
Stephen Hough, piano, Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Andrew Litton
Composer(s):  Sergei Rachmaninov
Performer(s):  Stephen Hough,  Andrew Litton
Ensemble(s):  Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Tracks (11) : Carmen suite no.1 – Intermezzo
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra: Anthony Bramall
Composer(s):  Georges Bizet
Performer(s):  Anthony Bramall
Ensemble(s):  Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

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