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Hallelujah: 35 Great Sacred Choruses Best Price: $14.17 This is my kind of music. I love the harmony and the perfect balance of the voices in every... | John Adams - Harmonielehre ? The Chairman Dances ? Tromba lontana ? Short Ride in a Fast Machine / Sir Simon Rattle Best Price: $10.71 First-off, this is a fantastic collection of some of John Adams's catchiest and creative works.... | Janacek: Sinfonietta/Glagolitic Mass - Felicity Palmer, Malcolm King, Sir Simon Rattle, Philharmonia Orchestra Best Price: $8.98 I find that EMI recordings are always of superior quality. This is an excellent recording of one... | Saint-Sa?ns: The Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra Best Price: $30.03 This set won the 2008 Gramophone Gold Disc against some very stiff competition over the last 30... | The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever! Best Price: $12.04 The CD came in great condition. I've bought things from this company before and been pleased. It... |
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Rutter: Gloria Best Price: $7.00 If you love John Rutter Requiem, this is a must for your CD collection. It is inspiring piece of... | Arleen Auger, Janet Baker - Mahler: Symphony No 2 (Resurrection ) Best Price: $18.83 This performance is far and away my favorite of the Second. Rattle pulls it all together at the... | Rachmaninov Piano Concertos 1-4 / Paganini Rhapsody Best Price: $19.98 | Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies Volume II Best Price: $1.99 This set provides very fine Beethoven perfomances by a lesser known orchestra at a bargain price! | Aaron Jay Kernis: Second Symphony / Musica Celestis Best Price: $15.99 Aaron Jay Kernis preserves the elements well thought out musical composition. That is to say in... |
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Classic Chillout, Vol. 2 Best Price: $14.37 These cd's are a great set of varied classical music. Pavane is my favorite. Additionally,... | Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4; Violin Concertos; Orchestral Songs Best Price: $20.76 Simon Rattle conducting Szymanowski seems like an odd choice, but you will find in this set that... | D'Oyly Carte Opera Company - Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan Absolutely the best versions of Gilbert & Sullivan, because it is by the original company,... | Beethoven: Concerto in C major; Symphony No. 10 (1st Movement) Best Price: $8.55 This CD is a good combination of known and unknown Beethoven works: the Concerto for Violin,... | Souvenir Russe Best Price: $13.57 |
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The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World...Ever! Best Price: $17.88 Moved immediately to my Ipod. Just the kind of background music one wishes when driving on a... | Mahler - Symphony No. 8 / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Rattle Best Price: $5.37 Most classical fans were not expecting a completely re-worked performance of Mahler's arguably... | Scharwenka: Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor; Sauer: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor Best Price: $11.79 I'm a little surprised that a pianist of Stephen Hough's caliber would be interested in... | Cello Concertos [Box Set] Best Price: $12.05 When all these recordings were first released I remember admiring them very much but not buying... | Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies Volume I Best Price: $4.26 I didn't really know anything that Walter Weller conducted until I bought this used at... |
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Szymanowski: Stabat Mater/Litany To the Virgin Mary/Symphony #3 'Song of the Night' - Sir Simon Rattle, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Best Price: $7.21 | Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"; Rattle, Auger, Baker Best Price: $109.67 A swift survey of the many reviews of this version of Mahler's mighty "Resurrection"... | Hans Werner Henze: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 9; Barcarola; Three Auden Songs Best Price: $7.91 Since R. Hutchinson "autonomeus" gave a wonderfully detailed and useful review, and I... | Bartók: The Concerto Album Best Price: $12.04 EMI's series of triple CDs, marketed as "3," hasn't caught on so far as I can see, but... | Rachmaninov Piano Concertos 1-4 / Paganini Rhapsody Best Price: $16.49 |
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Elgar: Enigma Variations / Falstaff / Grania & Diarmid Best Price: $6.86 This is a great version of Enigma Variations. Rattle-CBSO move through the variations... | The Unforgettable Isobel Baillie | Aaron Jay Kernis: Second Symphony, Musica Celestis, Invisible Mosaic III Best Price: $116.51 Although I believe I had heard Kernis's name mentioned before, probably on the radio, I cannot... | Prokofiev: Classical Symphony; Concertos; Visions Fugitives; Scythian Suite Best Price: $7.42 I bought this 2 disk bargain priced offering almost entriely to get my hands on the Muti... | Schoenberg: Verkl?rte Nacht; Erwartung; Five Orchestral Pieces Best Price: $7.58 |
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"C'est ca la vie, c'est ca l'amour": French Operetta Arias Best Price: $11.49 Though it's fair to say that the stunning title track reaches a creative standard unmatched by... | John Foulds: Three Mantras Best Price: $4.09 I find Foulds music as very interesting, much more than music from
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Bart?k: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion / Concerto for Two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra - Katia & Marielle Lab?que Best Price: $18.95 The Lebeque sisters became stars in the limited world of duo pianists, and here they give us a... | Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 Best Price: $6.16 A pairing of very serious and profound symphonic works is offered here from EMI Classics by Sir... | Prokofiev: Classical Symphony; Concertos; Visions Fugitives; Scythian Suite Best Price: $7.92 I bought this 2 disk bargain priced offering almost entriely to get my hands on the Muti... | Bart?k: Piano Concertos 1-2-3 - Peter Donohoe / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Simon Rattle Best Price: $15.00 This recording of Bartok's three piano concertos is among the very best. The playing in this... | Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op34; Sinfonia da Requiem Op20 Best Price: $8.20 |
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Turnage: Drowned Out/Kai/Three Screaming Popes/Momentum Best Price: $19.99 For my money, Mark-Anthony Turnage is the best composer the UK's produced since Benjamin... | Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Toru Takemitsu: The the Edge of Dream; Malcolm Arnold: Guitar Concerto Best Price: $19.99 Julian Bream recorded the "Aranjuez", or "Orange juice" as he would himself... | The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the World...Ever! Best Price: $51.98 ONe of the best CD music investments I have made. Use it primarily for relaxation/meditation... | Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht; Pelleas und Melisande Best Price: $7.24 As often as they've been told of Schoenberg's revolutionary genius, most concert goers don't get... | Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore; The Merchant of Venice Suite Best Price: $8.85 |
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Mahler: Symphonie No. 7 Best Price: $10.91 This engagingly spontaneous Mahler Seventh from 1991, full of enthusiasm and imagination, cuts... | Sibelius, Walton: Violin Concertos [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $47.00 I finally got this disc in surround sound super audio. I have long been a fan of the Sibelius... | Bernstein: West Side Story Symphonic Dances/Facsimile/Divertimento - Best Price: $6.38 | Truls M?rk ~ Elgar - Cello Concerto ? Britten - Cello Symphony / Birmingham SO ? Rattle Best Price: $20.87 Though most of us came to know the artistry of cellist Truls M?rk via his brilliantly... | Bernstein: West Side Story Symphonic Dances/Facsimile/Divertimento - Best Price: $7.93 |
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Peter Seiffert, Thomas Hampson - Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde Best Price: $3.98 I'm sorry, but I just can't accept a baritone in Das Lied. It simply doesn't work.
The only... | B?la Bart?k: Violin Concerto No. 2; Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2 Best Price: $13.99 The Violin Concerto of Beal Bartok was written for violinist Zoltan Szekely, who convinced the... | Kurt Weill: Symphony No. 2; The Seven Deadly Sins; Songs Best Price: $8.77 This 2-CD set is attractively designed and packaged in a space-saving brilliant box with... | Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Best Price: $7.44 With heady zest and sparkling fingerwork, Lars Vogt, in an excitingly mutual classical... | Faur?: Requiem; Cantique de Jean Recine; Ballade Best Price: $4.54 This CD proves that musical life in Birmingham didn't begin with Simon Rattle. Before him there... |
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City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, Thomas Ades - Thomas Ad?s: America: A Prophecy Best Price: $19.99 Again, I have to echo Mr. Hamilton's fine and accurate review. I would just like to add that I... | The Passing Measures Best Price: $14.09 If you like the quiet moving beauty of Gavin Bryar's Sinking of the Titanic, then you will... | Prokofiev: Classical Symphony; Concertos; Visions Fugitives; Scythian Suite Best Price: $7.92 | | |