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List Price: $8.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 88777
Released: September 11, 2001 |
| Our Price: $5.98 |
| Used Price: $1.00 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Classical Hits Track Listing:
1. Pie Jesu from Requiem
2. Ave Maria, "Ellens Gesang III"
3. Duel Of The Fates from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
4. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from Phantom of the Opera
5. Rose
6. Nella fantasia
7. Pavane for Guitar and String Orchestra
8. 'O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)
9. Jesus, bleibet meine Freude (Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring)
10. 'O sole mio
11. Maria from West Side Story Suite
12. The Second Waltz (Music from the motion picture Eyes Wide Shut)
13. Now We Are Free (from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of Gladiator)
14. The Eternal Vow from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
15. 'O Fortuna from Carmina Burana
16. Theme From Braveheart (from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
17. The Prince of Denmark's March
18. Spring - I. Allegro
19. Appalachia Waltz
20. Nessun dorma! (from Turandot)
Classical Hits Reviews:
ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS! 
2009-01-23 - I have listened to this compilation over and over again in my car when the world has become too much. These are artists at their best. Even if the only music on this CD were Lucianno Pavarotti's signature masterpiece, "Nessun dorma!", it would be priceless.
Very Nice 
2006-08-11 - I must say I enjoyed pretty much all of the songs on this album. "Victory" by Bond was the only thing they shouldn't have included, since it doesn't quite qualify as "classical" and wasn't what I would call a hit, anyway. True, it was instrumental, but real classical music is of a higher caliber. ("Now We Are Free" isn't quite classical either but it's not 'commercialized' like "Victory.") I really liked "Duel of the Fates," "Maria," "Now We Are Free," and "O Fortuna." Those were my favorites out of a great selection of songs. I would recommend this to anyone who doesn't really care for full-blown classical.
Eh... it's okay for the young. 
2006-02-03 - I bought this cd when it first came out, as my first real taste of anything even remotely classical. And for that purpose, it works. For someone getting into classical seriously though, I'd start somewhere else.
Almost perfect...
2005-09-17 - aside from the second track (Bond-Victory) and the title track from the movie Braveheart, this is a decent classical album. The Bond-Victory selection is embarrassing commercial crap.
okay
2002-11-08 - This is a perfect album for someone who doesn't like classical music. It's almost like classical crib notes. The mix is great for dinner or party music but I was left wanting more. I'm not sure of it, but it felt like each song was shortened some how.
