Cartoons Greatest Hits

by Cartoon Greatest Hits / Various

Overview

Cartoons Greatest Hits is a budget-priced, 15-track collection featuring good versions of songs that are familiar through their use in the soundtracks of cartoons. For fans of such familiar pieces as "The Blue Danube," "Flight of the Bumble Bee, " "Ride of the Valkyries, " "Sabre Dance" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice, " this is an ideal sampler. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	05/14/1996
Label:	Sony Classical
UPC:	0074646236826
Rank:	252458

Tracks

1. Powerhouse  - Raymond Scott  -  Scott
2. Peer Gynt Suite no 1, Op. 46~No. 1, Prelude "Morning"  - Edvard Grieg  -  Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra  - Esa-Pekka Salonen
3. Spring Song, Op. 62, No. 6  - Philippe Entremont  - Felix Mendelssohn
4. Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a~No. 3, Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy  -  Chicago Symphony Orchestra  - Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky  - Claudio Abbado
5. Hungarian Rhapsodies No 2 in D minor~Friska  -  Israel Philharmonic Orchestra  - Franz Liszt  - Zubin Mehta  - Claudio Abbado  -  Chicago Symphony Orchestra
6. Overture to "The Barber of Seville"  -  La Scala Theater Orchestra  - Gioachino Rossini  - Riccardo Chailly
7. In an 18th Century Drawing Room  - Raymond Scott  -  Scott
8. La Gioconda~Dance of the Hours  -  Hungarian State Orchestra  - Amilcare Ponchielli  - Giuseppe Patane
9. Guillaume Tell: Overture~Morning and Finale  -  Eastman Wind Ensemble  - Gioachino Rossini  - Samuel Adler  - Eugene List  - Frank Glazer  - Barry Snyder  - Maria Luisa Faine
10. Grand Canyon Suite~On the trail  - Ferde Grofe  -  New York Philharmonic  - Andre Kostelanetz
11. Tale of Tsar Saltan: Suite, Op. 57 - Flight of the bumblebee  -  Ensemble Wien-Berlin  - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov  - Wolfgang Schulz  - HansJorg Schellenberger  - Gunter Hogner  - Karl Leister  - Milan Turkovic
12. An der sch¿¿nen, blauen Donau, Op. 314~Excerpt  - Andre Kostelanetz  - Johann II Strauss  -  Kostelanetz
13. Die Walk¿¿re~Ride of the Valkyries  -  New York Philharmonic  - Richard Wagner  - Leonard Bernstein
14. Gayane Suite~Sabre Dance  - Woody Herman  - Aram Khachaturian  -  Herman
15. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565  -  Eastman Wind Ensemble  - Donald Hunsberger
16. The Sorcerer's Apprentice  - Paul Dukas  -  Philadelphia Orchestra  - Eugene Ormandy

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Hungarian State Orchestra   Primary Artist,Ensemble,Orchestra
Eastman Wind Ensemble   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Andre Kostelanetz   Primary Artist,Conductor
Philippe Entremont   Primary Artist,Piano
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra   Primary Artist,Ensemble,Orchestra
New York Philharmonic   Primary Artist,Ensemble,Orchestra
Raymond Scott   Primary Artist
Woody Herman   Primary Artist,Conductor
Philadelphia Orchestra   Primary Artist,Ensemble
La Scala Theater Orchestra   Primary Artist,Ensemble,Orchestra
Ensemble Wien-Berlin   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra   Primary Artist,Ensemble
Chicago Symphony Orchestra   Primary Artist,Ensemble,Orchestra
Milan Turkovic   Bassoon
Maria Luisa Faine   Piano
Karl Leister   Clarinet
Barry Snyder   Piano
Gunter Hogner   French Horn
Frank Glazer   Piano
HansJoerg Schellenberger   Oboe
Claudio Abbado   Conductor
Zubin Mehta   Conductor
Andre Kostelanetz Orchestra   Ensemble
Raymond Scott Quintette   Ensemble
Woody Herman & His Orchestra   Ensemble
Leonard Bernstein   Conductor
Wolfgang Schulz   Flute
Eugene Ormandy   Conductor
Esa-Pekka Salonen   Conductor
Eugene List   Piano
Giuseppe Patane   Conductor
Riccardo Chailly   Conductor
Samuel Adler   Conductor
Donald Hunsberger   Conductor

Technical Credits

Charles Harbutt   Engineer
Edvard Grieg   Composer
Felix Mendelssohn   Composer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra   Performer
Aram Khachaturian   Composer
Ferde Grofe   Composer
Franz Doppler   Arranger
Paul Dukas   Composer
Richard Wagner   Composer
Woody Herman   Performer
Raymond Scott   Composer
New York Philharmonic   Performer
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra   Performer
Andre Kostelanetz   Performer
Franz Liszt   Composer,Arranger
Gioachino Rossini   Composer
Amilcare Ponchielli   Composer
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky   Composer
Johann Strauss II   Composer
Didier C. Deutsch   Reissue Producer
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov   Composer