Sir Simon Rattle, King’s College Choir, and Alexandre Tharaud are featured on the album, as well as The Tallis Scholars performing “Spem in Alium” (mentioned in the first book).
I am thrilled that the classical pieces that inspired me while I wrote the Fifty Shades Trilogy are being brought together in one collection for all lovers of the books to enjoy.” – E L James
Fifty Shades of Grey – The Classical Album Track List:
1. Lakmé (Act I) (1987 Digital Remaster): Flower Duet – Mady Mesplé/Danielle Millet/Orchestre du Théâtre National de I’Opéra-Comique/Alain Lombard
2. Keyboard Concerto in D Minor BWV 974: II Adagio – Alexandre Tharaud/Les Violins du Roy/Bernard Labadie
3. Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (for soprano and 8 cellos): I. Aria (Cantilena): Adagio – Barbara Hendricks/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Enrique Bátiz
4. La traviata: Preludio – Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti
5. Canon in D (1997 – Remaster) – Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Sir Neville Marriner
6. Spem in Alium – Peter Phillips & The Tallis Scholars
7. Prélude No.4 en mi mineur Op.28 (Remasterisé en 1995) – Samson François
8. Piano Concerto No.2 in C Minor, Op.18: II. Adagio sostenuto (excerpt) – Cécile Ousset/Sir Simon Rattle/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
9. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (opening) (1985 Digital Remaster) – London Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult
10. Chants d’Auvergne: Baïlèro (Series 1, No.2) – Arleen Augér/English Chamber Orchestra/Yan Pascal Tortelier
11. Nocturne No.1 en si bémol mineur Op.9 No.1 (Remasterisé en 1995) – Samson François
12. Requiem, Op.48: In Paradisum – King’s College Choir, Cambridge/English Chamber Orchestra/José-Luis Garcia/Peter Barley/Stephen Cleobury
13. Aria from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 – Maria Tipo
14. La fille aux cheveux de lin from Préludes Book I – Dame Moura Lympany
15. Cantata No. 147, ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’ BWV147: Choral: Jesu bleibe meine Freude (Jesu, joy of man’s desiring) – Alexis Weissenberg
Source: EMI Classics