With 45 tracks, and over 2.5 hours of classical favorites, Classical 2012 is a double album featuring the best and most popular names in classical music from EMI and Virgin Classics. Among the many outstanding singers featured on this release are Diana Damrau, Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, Angela Gheorghiu and Philippe Jaroussky. There are also guest appearances by two of the world"s leading opera stars, namely Jonas Kaufmann singing "Vesti La Giubba" from Leoncavallo"s Pagliacci, and Anna Netrebko in the beautiful `Song To The Moon" from Dvorak"s Rusalka. Instrumentalist include violinist Renaud Capucon and Vilde Frang; Guitarist Xuefei Yang; pianist Martha Argerich, Ingrid Fliter, David Fray, Alexandre Tharaud and Yundi; trumpeter Alison Balsom; the Ebene Quartet and the Artemis Quartet. Also appearing on the album are a number of the world"s greatest conductors, including Paavo Jarvi, Antonio Pappano with his Italian orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Christina Pluhar and Sir Simon Rattle with the Berliner Philharmoniker. A special treat for lovers of classic movie musicals is the appearance of John Wilson and his Orchestra performing a re-construction of the main title from the film "An American in Paris," featuring the music of George Gershwin.