 | The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe [Read More ...]
Review: Excellent selection!:This CD compilation lives up to its titled billing: it IS the most relaxing classical music in the universe! A caveat, however: consider the source of this opinion. My classical music background derives from a single music appreciation class at LSU-Baton Ro... |
 | Romance of the Violin [Read More ...]
Description: Every track on this CD contains a beautiful melody, many of them easily recognizable, all of them exuding tranquility. "O mio babbino caro" from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi opens the disc, with Bell delicately accompanied by a harp and spinning the long melody with great sensitivit... |
 | The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World...Ever! [Read More ...]
Description: You want relaxing classical music that'll soothe your soul but won't lull you into sleep? Here's a double CD for you. The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World ... Ever! does its best to cover both well-worn classical favorites (Bach's "Air on the G String," Pachelbel's "Can... |
 | Borodin: Symphony No.2/In The Steppes Of Central Asia/Prince Igor [Read More ...]
Review: Wonderful & deeply felt recording of Prince Igor:
Borodin's Prince Igor with choir is my favourite music, having once sung myself in Chesterton Choir Cambridge, and I've been searching for definitive recording. Most of recommended recordings hurry the music along spoiling the... |
 | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, A Night on Bald Mountain, and Other Russian Showpieces [Hybrid SACD] [Read More ...]
Review: Brillient, for the most part.:I love this record. I've always loved "Pictures" but never owned a copy. When I found it was available on SACD, I had to get it since it's the best consumer distribution format I've ever heard. The recording was great in its day and still holds we... |
 | Cello Adagios [Read More ...]
Excelllent!:This CD is an excellent choice, I enjoyed so much that I bought a second CD for a friend of mine! I highly recommend it.
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 | Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture/ Marche Slave [Read More ...]
Review: A fantastic recording:This is a fantastic album, not only for lovers of Russian music. It's actually my favorite recording of Tchaikovsky's "1812", masterfully conducted by Neeme Jarvi,and beautifully accompanied by the great Gothenburg Symphonic Chrous, the Churchbells of Gothen... |
 | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition [Read More ...]
Review: Chicago and Reiner at their best:It is difficult to put into words how much I enjoy this music. While I realized that this had been recorded in the 50's and I was prepared for some background noise, what I received instead was a kind of majesty and purpose that is difficult to f... |
 | The Power & The Majesty: Essential Choral Classics [Read More ...]
Review: I made my son listen to it !!!:A wonderful album. I have several copies of Handel's Messiah, but the performance of the Hallelujah Chorus by Robert Shaw's singers is exceptional, outstanding. I was inspired to have my young son listen to this album: Verdi's "Dies Irae", Orff's ... |
 | Best of the Millennium: Top 40 Classical Hits [Read More ...]
Description: For those who want the most remembered passages of classical music's best-loved works, here's a package for you. On this bargain priced double-CD, you'll find music from 40 different classical composers; for the most part, the recordings excerpted here are some of the very best. ... |
 | The Ultimate Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe [Read More ...]
This collection features more than two hours of relaxing Classical compositions to help you kick back, unwind and relax. |
 | Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Borodin: Quartets [Read More ...]
Description: The Emersons offer one of the very best accounts of the popular American Quartet on disc. It is dramatic, exuberant, persuasive, and right to the point--a well-paced reading full of ravishing details (like the dueting of the violins in the slow movement) that has been beautifully... |
 | Fiedler Greatest Hits [Read More ...]
Review: Scintillating music making:This 7 disc set covers a wide range of musical styles from overtures, waltzes, marches and dances to film and popular items. The playing is wonderful and alert throughout, and also the quieter pieces are sympathetically handled. The recording is unifor... |
 | William Primrose: Viola Transcriptions [Read More ...]
Description: The comparative paucity of the viola repertoire, especially of the romantic period, has made violists expert poachers in the literature of others. William Primrose, one of the greatest violists of his or any other time, was a prolific, skillful transcriber. He said he was motiva... |
 | Borodin: String Quartet No. 1 in A Major; String Quartet No. 2 in D Major [Read More ...]
The Borodin Quartet plays the music of its namesake as to the manner born. Theirs is a beautiful, lush realization of this lyrical work, polished and full of nuance, and well-served by the 1980 analog recording. The coupling with Borodin's First Quartet is especially attractive. --Ted Libbey |
 | Artists Of The Century - Jussi Bjorling, The Ultimate Collection [Read More ...]
Description: Surely Björling was one of the greatest tenors of his or any other time, not only for the clarion ring, the purity, and the melting lyricism of his voice, but for his effortless lightness, impeccable intonation, endless breath control, and natural phrasing and line, enhanced by ... |
 | The Original Jacket Collection: Eugene Ormandy [Read More ...]
Review: BRAVA! ENCORE! AND ALL THOSE CLASSY WORDS!:Celebrating the "Philadelphia Sound"---the lushly expressiv e orchestral signature sound that Eugene Ormandy inspired from his background as a violinist--- this 10-disc limited-edition collection documents one of the greatest conductor/o... |
 | Great Recordings Of The Century - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [Read More ...]
Review: Excellent, but not so obviously "the best"...:Originally posted on my music review blog. Check my profile if you are interested.
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Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade' is a wonderful, intoxicating piece of music. Standing as the composer's most beloved composition, its pictures... |
 | Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite; Borodin: Music from Prince Igor [Read More ...]
Review: A 'Must' For Your Classical Collection:Now here's a CD of the highest order: well-mastered sound, not one, but two magnificent performances and interesting companion notes.
In "The Firebird", Stravinsky proves that in the hands of a master composer - even a reluctant one as Str... |
 | The Complete EMI Recordings 1946-1984, Vol. 1: Orchestral [Box Set] [Read More ...]
Review: A closer look into a great big box of music:I have listened to most of the CDs. The sound is excellent on almost all CDs, and very good on most others, although that is in part because I am not bothered by older mono recordings unless there is distracting noise. The performances ... |
