James Galway

The Very Best of James Galway

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The Very Best of James Galway Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

RCA Victor's 2002 The Very Best of James Galway is a comprehensive overview of James Galway's prolific career, touching not only on his easy listening pop crossover tunes, but his classical pieces. In fact, it does something very clever: it devotes a disc, a full half of the collection, to his classical works, with the second disc to his smooth, lovely covers of pop hits. This way, the full scope of Galway's talents are showcased on one compilation, but they're also kept separated, so you can hear one side or the other, depending on mood. Some may find a certain favorite or two missing, but overall, this is an excellent summation of Galway's RCA recordings, which did find him at a peak.

Track Listing - Disc 1

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	Canon in D major, instrumental arrangement Johann Pachelbel	James Galway	05:12	Amazon
Gayane Suite, for orchestra No. 3
2	Sabre Dance Aram Khachaturian	James Galway	02:30	Amazon
3	Concertino for Flute & Piano (or orchestra), Op. 107 Cécile Chaminade	James Galway	07:25	Spotify Amazon
4	Song of the Seashore, for Japanese folk ensemble Tamezo Narita	James Galway	02:56	Amazon
5	Méditation, for violin & orchestra (or other arrangement) (from opera "Thaïs") Jules Massenet	James Galway	04:09	Amazon
Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067
6	Minuet & Badinerie Johann Sebastian Bach	James Galway	02:43	Spotify Amazon
Dolly, suite for piano, 4 hands or orchestra, Op. 56
7	Berceuse Gabriel Fauré	James Galway	02:56	Amazon
8	Carnival of Venice for flute & orchestra Op. 77 Giulio Briccialdi	James Galway	06:39	Amazon
9	Clair de lune, for orchestra or other arrangement (from "Suite Bergamasque" for piano), L. 75/3 Claude Debussy / Traditional	James Galway	04:19	Amazon
Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K. 314 (K. 285d)
10	Rondeau: Allegro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	James Galway	05:46	Amazon
Sonata for flute & keyboard in E flat major, BWV 1031
11	Siciliana Johann Sebastian Bach	James Galway	02:14	Amazon
Orfeo ed Euridice (Italian version), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 30
12	Dance of the Blessed Spirits Christoph Willibald Gluck	James Galway	07:59	Amazon
Peer Gynt Suite for orchestra (or piano or piano, 4 hands) No. 1, Op. 46
13	Morning Edvard Grieg	James Galway	04:05	Amazon
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o Tsare Saltane), opera in 4 acts with a prologue
14	The Flight of the Bumblebee Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	James Galway	01:10	Amazon

Track Listing - Disc 2

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	My Heart Will Go On (from the film "Titanic") James Horner / Will Jennings	James Galway	04:50	Spotify Amazon
2	El condor pasa Jorge Milchberg / Daniel A. Robles / Daniel Alomía Robles / Paul Simon	James Galway	02:22
3	I Will Always Love You (for the film The Bodyguard) Dolly Parton	James Galway	03:25
4	Ashokan Farewell Jay Ungar	James Galway	03:59	Spotify Amazon
5	Garota de Ipanema, song (a.k.a. "The Girl from Ipanema") Norman Gimbel / Antônio Carlos Jobim / Vinícius de Moraes	James Galway	05:57	Amazon
6	Wind Of Change Klaus Meine	James Galway	04:18	Spotify Amazon
7	Annie's Song John Denver	James Galway	03:08	Spotify Amazon
8	The Wind beneath My Wings Larry Henley / Jeff Silbar	James Galway	03:26	Spotify Amazon
Memory, song (for the musical Cats)
9	Memory T.S. Eliot / Trevor Nunn / Andrew Lloyd Webber	James Galway	03:32
10	Riverdance Bill Whelan	James Galway	03:51	Spotify Amazon
11	Tango del Fuego Mike Mower	James Galway	02:56	Spotify Amazon
12	Beauty and the Beast (for Disney's Beauty and the Beast) Howard Ashman / Alan Menken	James Galway	03:39
13	Can You Feel the Love Tonight? (for Disney's The Lion King) Elton John / Tim Rice	James Galway	04:15	Spotify Amazon
14	Shenandoah, folk song American Traditional / Traditional	James Galway	04:07
15	Waltzing Matilda, folk song Australian Traditional / Traditional	James Galway	04:36
16	Londonderry Air (Danny Boy), folk song Irish Traditional / Frederick Edward Weatherly	James Galway	03:20