The Anniversary Collection
Catalogue number: RDCD3203

Release: 2001 Label:  
Readers Digest
Country: UK Status: Deleted

Special Readers Digest 5xCD compilation set featuring over 100 popular Richard Clayderman recordings.

Richard Clayderman is, quite simply, a musical phenomenon.  Since his first recording in 1977 - Ballade Pour Adeline - the artist has become the most commercially successful pianist in the world, with 63 platinum and an incredible 263 gold discs to his credit.  His musical versatility, coupled with a clean cut, unassuming personality has led Richard to international stardom.  After 25 years, 63 albums, more than 900 recorded titles, 1,500 concert performances and sales approaching 70 million albums, Richard Clayderman's music remains as inspirational and diverse as his millions of fans worldwide....

Gary McCartney

CD 1: Greatest hits and more piano classics / Master of mood and romance

1. Ballade pour Adeline (Paul de Senneville)
2. A comme amour 
(Paul de Senneville / Olivier Toussaint)
3. Lady Di
(Paul de Senneville)
4. Autumn leaves
(Kosma / Mercer / Prévert)
5. Sleepy shores
(Pearson)
6.
Music box dancer (Mills)
7. Love story
(Lai)
8. Moon river
(Mancini)
9. Bewitched
(Rogers / Hart)
10.
*Bilitis (Richard Clayderman) (Lai)
11.
From a distance (Gold)
12. As time goes by
(Hupfield)
13. Plasir d'amour
(Bozi / Martini)
14. La vie en rose
(Piaf / Louiguy)
15. Only love
(Cosma / Gimbel)
16. All I ask of you
(Lloyd Webber / Hart/Stilgoe)
17. Ebony and ivory
(McCartney)
18.
Careless whisper (Michael / Ridgeley)
19. Blue eyes
(John/Taupin)
20. The music of the night
(Lloyd Webber / Hart/Stilgoe)
21. Belle (Notre Dame de Paris)
(Plamondon / Cocciante)
22. Speak to me of love
(Lenoir / Sievier)
23. Beyond the sea
(Trenet / Lasry)
24. If you go away
(Brel / McKuen)

* Real Audio file features the recording of
'Bilitis' with Richard Clayderman and Francis Goya

CD 2 - Melodies that will last forever / Today's most beautiful melodies

1. Strangers in the night (Kaempfert / Singleton / Snyder)
2.
Smoke gets in your eyes (Harbach / Kern)
3. My way
(Revaux / François / Thibaut / Anka)
4. Night and day
(Porter)
5. The shadow of your smile
(Mandel / Webster)
6. Unchained melody
(North / Zaret)
7. Begin the beguine
(Porter)
8. Love is blue
(Cour / Popp)
9. Stardust
(Carmichael / Parish)
10. Only you
(Ram / Rand)
11. The winner takes it all
(Andersson / Ulvaeus)
12. Let it be
(Lennon / McCartney)
13. Candle in the wind
(John/Taupin)
14. (Everything I do) I do it for you
(Kamen / Adams / Lange)
15. I don't want to miss a thing
(Warren)
16.
Angels (Williams / Chambers)
17.
No matter what (Lloyd Webber / Steinman)
18. Another day in Paradise
(Collins)
19.
Can you feel the love tonight (John / Rice)
20. My heart will go on (Richard Clayderman)
(Horner / Jennings)
21. The power of love
(de Rouge / Mende / Rush / Applegate)
22.
Time to say goodbye (Con te Partiro) (Sartori / Quarantotto)

CD 3 - The most beautiful romantic songs / A word of beautiful melodies

1. And I love you so (McLean)
2. I want to know what love is
(Jones)
3. Solitaire
(Sedaka / Cody)
4. Yesterday once more
(Carpenter / Bettis)
5. Could it be magic
(Manilow / Anderson)
6. Woman in love
(Gibb / Gibb)
7. All the things you are
(Kern / Hammerstein)
8. I won't last a day without you
(Williams / Nichols)
9. I love you, I honestly love you
(Allen / Barry)
10. If you love me, really love me
(Piaf / Monnot)
11. Don't cry for me Argentina
(Lloyd Webber / Rice)
12. I love Paris
(Porter)
13. The carnival is over
(Springfield)
14. Embraceable you
(G. & I. Gershwin)
15. Stranger on the shore
(Bilk / Mellin)
16. Guantanamera
(Fernandez / Marti / Angulo / Seeger)
17.
City of New Orleans (Goodman)
18. The girl from Ipanema
(Jobim / De Moraes)
19. Feelings
(Albert / Gaste)
20. You're my world
(Sommerville / Coles)
21. Brazil
(Barroso / Russell)
22. Arrivederci Roma
(Rascel / Giovannini / Garinei / Sigman)
23. Vaya con dios
(Russell / James / Pepper)

CD 4 - Easy listening favourites / Music for tender moments

1. This guy's in love with you (Bacharach / David)
2.
There's a kind of hush (all over the world) (Stephens / Reed)
3. Fernando
(Andersson / Anderson / Ulvaeus)
4. Elizabethan Serenade
(Binge)
5.
Any dream will do (Lloyd Webber / Rice)
6.
I know him so well (Andersson / Ulvaeus / Rice)
7. A whiter shade of pale
(Reid / Brooker)
8.
Chariots of fire (Vangelis)
9.
Up where we belong (Jennings / Sainte-Marie / Nitzsche)
10. Wind beneath my wings
(Henley / Silbar)
11. Sound of silence
(Simon)
12. Love me tender
(Presley / Matson)
13. A time for us
(Rota)
14. Ti amo
(Bagazzi / Tozzi)
15. (They long to be) close to you
(Bacharach / David)
16. All by myself
(Rachmaninov / Carmen)
17. How deep is your love
(Gibb / Gibb / Gibb)
18. Promise me
(Craven)
19.
True love (Porter)
20. Bright eyes
(Batt)
21. Sometimes when we touch
(Hill / Mann)
22.
Without you (Ham / Evans)
23. All the love in the world
(Gibb / Gibb / Gibb)

CD 5 - Classics by candlelight/ With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

1. Moonlight sonata (Beethoven)
2.
Liebestraum Waltz (Liszt)
3. Nocturne
(Borodin)
4. Pastorale from Symphony Nº 6
(Beethoven)
5. Rêveries
(Schumann)
6. Romance
(Beethoven)
7. Serenade
(Schubert)
8.
Ave Maria (Gounod)
9. The swan
(Saint-Saens)
10. Nocturne
(Chopin)
11. Für Elise
(Beethoven)
12. Aria
(Bach)
13. Waltz in A flat
(Brahms)
14.
Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni)
15. Pathétique
(Beethoven)
16. Italian Symphony
(Mendelssohn)
17. Gymnopédie N° 1
(Satie)
18.
Piano Concerto N° 1 (Tchaikovsky)
19. Piano Concerto N° 2
(Rachmaninov)

 

Concept (Readers Digest) Henri Heymans
Sleeve Notes
Gary McCartney
Produced by Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint

 

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