Since you are interested in Classical Chill: The Ultimate Collection [2 CDs], here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
WAGNER
The Ultimate Opera Album [2 CD set] Hedwig Fassbender, Lennart Forsen, Ingrid Haubold, Marga Schiml, and other Naxos recording artists [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] Wagner's epic music dramas revolutionised the operatic repertoire, drawing upon famous legends and history to create a completely new art form of unprecedented spectacle and intense psychological power. |
W. A. MOZART
The Ultimate Mozart Opera Album [2 CD set] Herbert Lippert, Bo Skovhus, John Dickie, Helen Kwon, and other Naxos recording artists [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] This marvellous selection reveals Mozart's astonishing gift for laying bare the inner lives of the many beloved characters from his most famous operas, whether embroiled in farce or defying fate. |
VERDI
The Ultimate Opera Album [2 CD set] Jitka Saparova, Yordy Ramiro, Miriam Gauci, Marina Mescheriakova, and other Naxos recording artists [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] This highly dramatic album includes the most famous moments from Verdi's ever-popular operas, in which public splendour and private pathos, true love and tragedy, vie for supremacy at every turn. |
PUCCINI
The Ultimate Opera Album [2 CD set] Miriam Gauci, Luba Orgonasova, Nelly Boschkowa, Nelly Miricioiu, and other Naxos recording artists [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] Puccini's fascination with exotic locations, doomed heroines, high drama and tragic romance are brought to centre stage in this immensely moving selection from his greatest operas. |
BALLET FAVOURITES
Ultimate Ballet (excerpts from Coppelia, Swan Lake, Sylvia, Giselle, Nutcracker, etc) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / CSR Symphony Orchestra / St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos Double / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] The word 'ballet' is French; it was adopted by the English sometime in the seventeenth century. It was during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the genre really started to develop into the art form that we recognise on the stage today. |
POPE GREGORY ET AL
Ultimate Chant - Music of Ethereal Beauty Various Artists [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] The sound of unaccompanied chant moves and inspires those seeking the sublime. In our increasingly busy and secularized world, people return to chant, regardless of their religious beliefs, for the peace and calm that this eternal music offers. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
the Ultimate Lullaby Collection: beautiful music for bedtime by the world's greatest composers Various artists from the vast Naxos catalogue [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] Beautiful music for bedtime by the world's greatest composers. |
SCHUMANN / DVORAK
Violin Concertos (recorded 1936 & 1938) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York. Barbirolli [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 3/Sep/2002 ] "Rarely performed or recorded, this concerto nonetheless is stirring and evocative of Schumann's broader orchestral writing" Classics Today |
STRAUSS II / LEHAR / KALMAN / STOLZ
The Ultimate Operetta Album [2 CD set] Zsuzsa Csonka, Ingrid Kertesi, Yvonne Kenny (Sopranos) Karl-Michael Ebner, Marko Kathol, Michael Roider (Tenors) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2011 ] A beautiful selection of the best-known operetta arias, duets & orchestral music from Vienna's golden age of operetta, including Die Fledermaus, The Merry Widow, The Land of Smiles, The Gypsy Princess, The Gypsy Baron and Countess Maritza. |