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Fifty Shades Of Grey - The Classical Album: a guide
E.L. James' book Fifty Shades Of Grey has inspired an album of fantastic classical music - here's our track by track guide!
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1. Delibes: The Flower Duet (Mady Mesplé / Danielle Millet)
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2. Bach: Adagio, Piano Concerto No. 3 (Alexandre Tharaud)
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3. Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasilerias (Barbara Hendricks)
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4. Verdi: Prelude to La Traviata (Riccardo Muti / Philharmonia Orchestra)
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5. Pachelbel: Canon in D (Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Sir Neville Marriner)
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6. Tallis: Spem in Alium (The Tallis Scholars)
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7. Chopin: Largo, Prelude No. 4 in E minor (Samson Francois)
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8. Rachmaninov: 'Adagio sostenuto', Piano Concerto No. 2 (Ceile Ousset / Sir Simon Rattle / CBSO)
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9. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Sir Adrian Boult / LPO)
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10. Canteloube: Chants d'auvergne, Bailero (Arleen Auger)
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11. Chopin: Nocturne No. 1 in B flat minor (Samson François)
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12. Faure: Requiem - In Paradisum (Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury)
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13. Bach: Goldberg Variation - Aria (Maria Tipo)
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14. Debussy: La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin (Moura Lympany)
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15. Bach: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Alexis Weissenberg)
Delibes: The Flower Duet (Mady Mesplé / Danielle Millet)
This famous duet from Delibes' opera Lakmé is a gorgeous beginning to the collection, and tells the story of the title character and her servant collecting flowers by a river. It's also more famously known as the music from the old British Airways ads.
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