Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Adagio For Strings - William Orbit
2. Gymnopedie No. 1 - Satie
3. Adiemus - Adiemus with Karl Jenkins
4. Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence - Ryuichi Sakamoto
5. O Mio Babbino Caro - London Symphony Orchestra / Antonio Pappano
6. Adagio In G Minor (Realised Giazotto) - Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields / Sir Neville Marriner
7. Figlio Perduto - Sarah Brightman
8. Spiegel Im Spiegel - Tasmin Little / Martin Roscoe
9. Flower Duet (Lakme) - Mesple / Millet
10. The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise - Michael Nyman
11. Cantique de Jean Racine - Orchestre du Capitole du Toulouse
12. The Ashokan Farewell - Nashville Chamber Orchestra / Paul Gambill
13. Clair De Lune (From Suite Bergamasque) - Dame Moura Lympany
14. Miserere Mei, Deus - Timothy Beasley-Murray / Gerald Finley / Stephen Cleobury / Choir Of Kings College Cambridge

Disc 2:

1. My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From Titanic) - David Abel / Shearman Orchestra
2. Perpetuum Mobile - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
3. Concerto for Violin & Oboe in D Minor BWV 1060 - II: Adagio - Bath Festival Orchestra / Yehudi Menuhin
4. Symphony No. 3 'Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs' II: Lento E Largo (Live) - Jacek Kasprzyk / Zofia Kilanowicz / Krakow Symphony Orchestra
5. The Lark Ascending (Opening) - Sir Adrian Boult / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Hugh Bean
6. Gnossienne No. 1 - Anne Queffélec
7. Nagoya Marimbas - Colin Currie & Sam Walton
8. Violin Concerto No.1 in G Minor (Op.26 II Adagio) (Opening) - Walter Susskind / Philharmonia Orchestra / Yehudi Menuhin
9. Song For Athene - David Hill / Winchester Cathedral Choir
10. Gabriel's Oboe - Ennio Morricone
11. Weather Storm - Craig Armstrong
12. Chi Mai - Ennio Morricone
13. In Paradisum (Requiem) - Choir of King's College, Cambridge / English Chamber Orchestra / Stephen Cleobury
14. Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana - Tullio Serafin / Maria Callas / Philharmonia Orchestra
15. Winter (The Four Seasons) - Soloists Of The Philharmonic / Orchestra Of The Scala / Riccardo Muti
16. Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Minor BWV 1056 - II: Largo - Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Sir Neville Marriner / Andrei Gavrilov
17. Ave Verum Corpus - Stockholm Radio Chorus / Stockholm Chamber Choir / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Riccardo Muti

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8226 in Music
• Released on: 2001-09-10
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 144 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
The only thing wrong with this compilation is the title: "Chillout" hardly seems the right word to describe such a well-balanced collection which, while it includes such relaxing music as Debussy's Clair de lune and Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, also has pieces as wired as Steve Reich's exciting Nagoya Marimbas and Simon Jeffes' Perpetuum Mobile. All the performances are good and have been juxtaposed with some wit: a piece which celebrates nocturnal luminescence, Clair de lune, is followed by a work traditionally performed in darkness, Allegri's Miserere. The aria "Ebbenne andrò lontana" (used in the film Diva) in which a woman reveals that she is going to live on the freezing summit of a mountain, is followed by the slow movement of Vivaldi's "Winter". There are no notes, translations or blurbs, so if you want to find out more about a piece you'll have to pull out the encyclopaedia or get on the net. But that aside, this is a thoroughly enjoyable compilation. --Warwick Thompson

Customer Reviews

Wonderfully selected music
I bought this as an impulse buy, put it on at work as background music and ended up sitting at my desk doing nothing but listening. Containing old favorites like Barber's Adagio for Strings and Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending adding what are becoming new favorites like the spine tingling Weather Storm by Craig Armstrong it hasn't been out of my CD player yet. It's timeless, beautiful music wonderfully put together.

Relaxxx..............
An eclectic and unusal compilation of easy listening classics. There's some traditonal pieces here, such as Vaughan Williams's "The Lark Ascending" and Albinoni's "Adagio" (you'll know them when you hear them even if you don't recognize the names!) More interesting, there are some modern pieces that aren't so widely known. For example, I've never come across Reich's "Nagoya Marimbas" before, or Armstrong's "Weather Storm". Both are beautiful pieces of music that may inspire me to look out more by these particular composers.

If I've got one criticism of this album, it's that it assumes its listeners are dumbed down kids of the hamburger generation who can only relate to serious music if they recognize it from and advert or a film! Other than that, the mix of familiar and unusual is refreshing and sets this album apart from others in the same genre.

Music so beautiful it made me weep...
This CD was given to me as a christmas present, but have only started listening to it recently. The first disc is the best with the chest burstingly beautiful "O mio babbino caro", but the second disk is heaving with relaxing hits. It really does do what it say's on the tin, the most relaxing CD on the market, the second being "Pure peace". I can only advise you to buy it now, if I am wrong you can resell it on amazon for almost it's purchase price and I am sure there will be many takers.