CD 1 (slavic)

1. Modest Mussorgsky
   Modest Mussorgsky
   Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
   
   - "Promende: Allegro giusto, nel modo russico, senza allegrezza, ma poco sostenuto (Pictures at an Exhibition)"
2. Michail Glinka- "Overture (Ruslan & Ludmila)"
3. Antonin Dvořák
   Antonín Dvorák
   Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
   
   - "Symphony No 8 in G, Op. 88"
4. Stanisław Moniuszko
   Stanisław Moniuszko
   Stanisław Moniuszko was a Polish composer, conductor and teacher. His output includes many songs and operas, and his musical style is filled with patriotic folk themes of the peoples of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
   
   - "Prząśniczka"
5. Aram Khachaturian
   Aram Khachaturian
   Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
   
   - "Sabre Dance (Gayaneh)"
6. Henryk Górecki
   Henryk Górecki
   Henryk Mikołaj Górecki was a composer of contemporary classical music. He studied at the State Higher School of Music in Katowice between 1955 and 1960. In 1968, he joined the faculty and rose to provost before resigning in 1979. Górecki became a leading figure of the Polish avant-garde during...
   
   - "Symphony Nr 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’"
7. Leoš Janáček
   Leoš Janácek
   Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
   
   - "Sinfonietta Op. 60"
8. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
   Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
   Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
   
   - "The Sea and Sindbad's Ship (Scheherazade)"
9. Dmitrij Shostakovich- "The Gadfly, Suite Op. 97a"
10. Aleksander Borodin- "Polovtsian Dances. Introduction (Prince Igor)"
11. Bedrich Smetana
    Bedrich Smetana
    Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
    
    - "Vltava (Ma vlast)"
12. Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
    
    - "The Firebird" (conclusion)
13. Antonin Dvořák
    Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
    
    - "Song To The Moon" (Rusalka)
14. Fryderyk Chopin- "Mazurek No 2 Op. 63 F"
15. Dmitrij Shostakovich- "Jazz Suite No 1"
16. Paweł Szymański- "Sarabande"
17. Modest Mussorgsky
    Modest Mussorgsky
    Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
    
    - "Il vecchio castello: Andante (Pictures at an Exhibition)"
18. Antonin Dvořák
    Antonín Dvorák
    Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
    
    - "Slavonic Dances, Op. 72"

CD 2 (german)

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
   
   - "Symphony No. 40 in G minor"
2. Johann Strauss II
   Johann Strauss II
   Johann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...
   
   - "Wiener Blut Op. 354" (extract)
3. Robert Schumann
   Robert Schumann
   Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
   
   - "Traumerei"
4. Gustav Mahler
   Gustav Mahler
   Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
   
   - "Symphony No. 3 in D minor"
5. Johann Sebastian Bach
   Johann Sebastian Bach
   Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
   
   - "Brandenburg Concertos, No. 1 in F BWV1046"
6. Felix Mendelssohn
   Felix Mendelssohn
   Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
   
   - "Sonate pour violoncello & piano No 2"
7. Johannes Brahms
   Johannes Brahms
   Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
   
   - "Hungarian Dances No. 1 in G minor"
8. Fritz Kreisler
   Fritz Kreisler
   Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...
   
   - "Liebesleid"
9. Franz Schubert
   Franz Schubert
   Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
   
   - "String Quartet No. 14 in D minor (Death And the Maiden)"
10. Max Bruch
    Max Bruch
    Max Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...
    
    - "Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46"
11. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
    
    - "Piano Sonata in A K331"
12. Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
    
    - "Fur Elise"
13. Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms
    Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
    
    - "Violin concerto in D Op. 77"
14. Joseph Haydn
    Joseph Haydn
    Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
    
    - "Symphony No. 83 in G minor "The Hen""
15. Richard Wagner
    Richard Wagner
    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
    
    - "Prelude (Tristan & Isolde)"

CD 3 (latin)

1. Pietro Mascagni
   Pietro Mascagni
   Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music...
   
   - "O amore, o bella luce del core (L’amico Fritz)"
2. Hector Berlioz
   Hector Berlioz
   Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
   
   - "Symphonie Fatastique, Op. 14"
3. Pietro Mascagni
   Pietro Mascagni
   Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music...
   
   - "Cavalleria rusticana"
4. Claude Debussy
   Claude Debussy
   Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
   
   - "Jeux de vagues (La Mer)"
5. Maurice Ravel
   Maurice Ravel
   Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
   
   - "Violin Sonata"
6. Ennio Morricone
   Ennio Morricone
   Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
   
   - "Gabriel's Oboe
   Gabriel's Oboe
   "Gabriel's Oboe" is the main theme for the 1986 film The Mission directed by Roland Joffé. The theme was written by Italian composer Ennio Morricone, and has since been arranged and performed several times by artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Holly Gornik, and Brynjar Hoff, among others. The theme has been...
   
    (Mission)"
7. Jaquin Rodrigo- "Concierto de Aranjuez"
8. Heitor Villa-Lobos
   Heitor Villa-Lobos
   Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
   
   - "Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2"
9. Enrique Granados
   Enrique Granados
   Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...
   
   - "Danzas espanolas"
10. Isaac Albeniz
    Isaac Albéniz
    Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
    
    - "Malaguena, Op. 165 No. 3"
11. Camille Saint-Saëns
    Camille Saint-Saëns
    Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
    
    - "The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)"
12. Manuel de Falla
    Manuel de Falla
    Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
    
    - "Canciones populares Espanola"
13. Jules Massenet
    Jules Massenet
    Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...
    
    - "Manon!... Avez-vous peur que mon visage frole? (Manon)"
14. Charles Gounod
    Charles Gounod
    Charles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
    
    - "Glorie Immortele De Nos Aieux (Faust)"
15. Giuseppe Verdi
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
    
    - "Se quel guerrier...Celeste Aida (Aida)"
16. Jacques Offenbach
    Jacques Offenbach
    Jacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
    
    - "Overture (Orpheus in the Underworld)"

CD 4 (rest of the world)

1. Māori Songs
   Maori Songs
   Maori Songs is a traditional album released by New Zealand opera diva, Kiri Te Kanawa in 1999 to celebrate the new millennium.Maori Songs was recorded at Revolver Studios & NO 2 Studio, Abbey Rd.-Track listing:#"Hine E Hine"#"Tarakihi "...
   
   - "Tarakihi (The Locust)"
2. Leonard Bernstein
   Leonard Bernstein
   Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
   
   - "Overture (Candide)"
3. Ralph Vaughan Williams
   Ralph Vaughan Williams
   Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
   
   - "A Sea Symphony No. 1 Behold, the sea itself"
4. Ástor Piazzolla
   Ástor Piazzolla
   Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
   
   - "Decarismo"
5. Franz Liszt
   Franz Liszt
   Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
   
   - "La campanella"
6. Edvard Grieg
   Edvard Grieg
   Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
   
   - "Norwegian Dances Op. 35"
7. Benjamin Britten
   Benjamin Britten
   Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
   
   - "Now the hungry lions roars (A Midsummer Night's Dream)"
8. Karl Jenkins- "Requiem: Lacrimosa"
9. Ralph Vaughan Williams
   Ralph Vaughan Williams
   Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
   
   - "Fantasia on Greensleeves"
10. Charles Wood
    Charles Wood
    Charles Wood may refer to:*Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax , British politician and peer*Charles Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax , British peer*Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax , English politician...
    
    - "Hail, gladdening light"
11. John Tavener
    John Tavener
    Sir John Tavener is a British composer, best known for such religious, minimal works as "The Whale", and "Funeral Ikos"...
    
    - "Song For Athene"
12. Paul Dukas
    Paul Dukas
    Paul Abraham Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions...
    
    - "Scherzo (excerpt) (The Sorcerer's Apperntice)"
13. William Walton
    William Walton
    Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
    
    - "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra"
14. Gustav Holst
    Gustav Holst
    Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....
    
    - "Venus, the Bringer of Peace (The Planets)"
15. Edvard Grieg
    Edvard Grieg
    Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
    
    - "Cello Sonata Op. 36 / Intermezzo in A minor"
16. Ástor Piazzolla
    Ástor Piazzolla
    Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
    
    - "Concerto for Bandoneon and Orchestra - Muerte del Angel"
17. Vanessa May- "Happy Valley (The 1997 re-unification overture)"

External links

• album description (in Polish)