Aromatherapy, the quiet moments of classical music. And the seventh volume, Reflections in the Water, is the ultimate tranquility! Water is a force of nature that inspired composers to some of their most languid compositions, from the Baroque (Handel’s Water Music written for a royal party held on a barge) to Impressionistic (the aqueous ripples and shimmer of piano music by Debussy and Ravel) and not forgetting popular waltzes by the Strauss Family, including ‘The Blue Danube’ with which this collection ends.
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Water Music Suite (Water Music Suite in F major):
Hornpipe & Andante
Air
Water Music Suite (Water Music Suite in G major): Gigue
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Images (Book 1, L. 110): Reflets dans l’eau
Pascal Rogé, piano
JOHANN STRAUSS, Jr
Lagunen-Waltzer (Lagoon Waltz), Op.411
Wiener Philharmoniker
Willi Boskovsky
MARICE RAVEL
Jeux d’eau, M.30
Pascal Rogé, piano
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Concerto for Violin and Strings in F minor, Op. 8, No. 4, R.297 ‘L’inverno’: Largo
Alan Loveday, violin
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner
BEDRICH SMETANA
Má Vlast (My Country): Vltava (The Moldau)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Walter Weller
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Waltz No. 15 in D flat major, Op. 28 ‘Raindrop’
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano
FRANZ LISZT
Die Forelle, S. 564 piano transcription after Schubert
Varda Nishry, piano
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
No.13e Danse des cygnes: Pas d’action: Odette et le prince/Deuxième danse de la reine des cygnes (Andante) [Swan Lake, Op.20, TH.12 / Act 2]
Mincho Minchev, violin
Francesco Gabarro, cello
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Bonynge
FREDERICK DELIUS
Gaily, but not too quick (Two Aquarelles)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten
FRANZ LISZT
Auf dem Wasser zu singen, S.558 No. 2 (after Schubert, D.774)
Jorge Bolet, piano
JOHANN STRAUSS, Jr
An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314
Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker
Willi Boskovsky