The most beloved classics of all time can find a place in your home with this cornerstone collection. This is your passport and guide through the world of concert favorites from comosers ranging from Bach to Vivaldi, Chopin to Rachmaninoff, Gershwin to Pachelbel, Bernstein to Vaughan Williams and so many others - all programmed for you in nine easy-to-follow thematic sections. Over 4 1/2 hours of the finest musical masterpieces performed by the world's great orchestras. Plus a 48-page listener's guide!

Including...

Overture to Candide
National Philharmonic Orchestra

Fantasia on Greensleeves
New Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Arthur Bliss, conductor

Pachelbel's Canon in D
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Gerhardt, conductor

March of the Toreadors from Carmen
London Promenade Orchestra
Eric Hammerstein, conductor

Hoedown from Rodeo
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Gerhardt, conductor

Rhapsody in Blue (excerpt)
Jeffrey Siegel, piano
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Gerhardt, conductor

Vocalise
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Charles Gerhardt, conductor

Can-Can
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
René Leibowitz, conductor

Bolero
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Gerhardt, conductor

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major:
Second Movement: Andante
Earl Wild, piano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Anthony Randall, conductor

"Minute" Waltz
Philip Fowke, piano

Nocturne in A Flat
Christian Steiner, piano
London Promenade Orchestra
Charles Gerhardt, conductor

The Nutcracker Suite:
Overture Miniature; March; Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; Trepak (Russian Dance); Arabian Dance; Chinese Dance; Dance of the Reed Flutes; Waltz of the Flowers
London Symphony Orchestra
Charles Gerhardt, conductor