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Classical Dreams: Music to Inspire. Various artists. Virgin 7243 5 67734 2 4 (2-disc set).
Think of the most dreamy, the most tranquil, the most serene musical works you can imagine, put them all together in a two-and-half-hour package, and you'll get some idea of what this album is about. Compilation producer Robert Laporta has collected twenty-seven individual items here from the Virgin Records catalogue, ranging from two to 10 minutes each for a two-disc set. The result is, well, dreamy.
There are too many things on the set to name individually, but let me give you some idea of the contents by naming just a few. There's Mahler's Adagietto from Symphony No. 5; Satie's Gymnopedies Nos. 1 and 3; Faure's Pavane; Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Elgar's Serenade for Strings; Barber's Adagio for Strings; Sibelius's Swan of Tuonela; Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on "Greensleeves"; Ravel's Pavane pour une infante defunte; Massenet's Meditation; and Rachmaninov's Vocalise. Some of the artists involved are ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Classical Dreams: Music to Inspire.