Music Of The World's Great Composers

12LP Set
Released 1959
Cat No.: RDM1-12
RD Code: WGC


The fiirst box set created by Reader's Digest. Picked up from the USA, the UK version is only different by the dark RCA band at the bottom of the picture, and the alternative booklets supplied with the set.

LP1

1 (Bach) Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F - Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome conducted by Arturo Basile

2 (Handel) Water Music Suite - Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome conducted by Arturo Basile

LP2

1 (Haydn) Symphony No.94 in G 'Surprise' - Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome conducted by Massimo Freccia

2 (Mozart) Symphony No.40 in G Minor K550 - Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome conducted by Massimo Freccia

LP3

1 (Beethoven) Symphony No.3 in E Flat Op.55 'Eroica' - Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Odd Griner - Hegge

LP4

1 (Schubert) Symphony No.8 in B Minor 'Unfinished' - Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Oivin Fjeldstad

2 (Mendelssohn) Symphony No.4 in A, Op.90 'Italian' - Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome conducted by Massimo Freccia

LP5

1 (Brahms) Symphony No.3 in F, Op.90 - Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Oivin Fjeldstad

LP6

1 (Franck) Symphony in D Minor - London orchestra Society conducted by Sir Adrian Boult

LP7

1 (Tchaikovsky) Symphony No.6 in B Minor, Op.74 'Pathetique' - London Festival Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson

LP8

1 (Schumann) Symphony No.3 in E Flat, Op.97 'Rhenish' - International Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rene Liebowitz

2 (Liszt) Mephisto Waltz - International Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rene Liebowitz

LP9

1 (Chopin) Les Sylphides, A Major Prelude, Op.28 No.7 - London Festival Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson

2 (Chopin) Les Sylphides, C Sharp Minor Waltz, Op.64 No.2 - London Festival Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson

3 (Chopin) Les Sylphides, E Flat Major Waltz, Op.18 - London Festival Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson

4 (Sibelius) Finlandia Op.26 - London Festival Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson

5 (Sibelius) Swan Of Tuonela (No.3 of 'Lemminkainen Legend' Op.22 - London Festival Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson

6 (Grieg) Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46 - London Festival Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson

7 (Dvorak) Carnival Overture, Op.92 - London Festival Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson

LP10

1 (Richard Strauss) Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Op.28 - Orchestra of the Teatro Communale of Belogna conducted by Arturo Basile

2 (Johann Strauss Jr) Vienna Blood Waltz Op.354 - Orchestra of the Teatro Communale of Belogna conducted by Arturo Basile

3 (Wagner) Triston And Isolde, Prelude and Liebestod - Orchestra of the Teatro Communale of Belogna conducted by Arturo Basile

LP11

1 (Stravinsky) Rite Of Spring - London Festival Orchestra conducted by Rene Liebowitz

2 (Debussey) Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun - London Festival Orchestra conducted by Rene Liebowitz

LP12

1 (Berlioz) Roman Carnival Overture Op.9 - Orchestra of the Teatro Communale of Belogna conducted by Arturo Basile

2 (Verdi) La Forza Del Destino, Overture - Orchestra of the Teatro Communale of Belogna conducted by Arturo Basile

3 (Johann Strauss Jr) Die Fledermaus, Du Und Du, Op.367 Waltz - Orchestra of the Teatro Communale of Belogna conducted by Arturo Basile

4 (Rossini) Barber Of Saville Overture - Orchestra of the Teatro Communale of Belogna conducted by Arturo Basile

5 (Bizet) Carmen Prelude to Act 1 - Orchestra of the Teatro Communale of Belogna conducted by Arturo Basile

6 (Rimsky-Korsakov) Russian Easter Overture Op.36 - Orchestra of the Teatro Communale of Belogna conducted by Arturo Basile