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Poulenc: Gloria; Concerto for Organ; Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Best Price: $5.99 A brief, warm, often oddly dissonant choral work, Poulenc's Gloria, shines gloriously on this... | Christmas Wishes Best Price: $3.55 There are 2 groups of people in the world - those who endure Christmas music, and those who long... | Weber: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Concertino; Clarinet Quintet Best Price: $11.97 This recording is my first experience hearing clarinetist Sabine Meyer. I was pleasantly... | Vivaldi: The Four Seasons/Tartini: The Devil's Trill Best Price: $7.99 I bought this recording because Anne-Sophie Mutter's Autumn on her Meditation CD is so lovely --... | Bach: Solo & Double Violin Concertos /Manze * Podger * AAM * Manze Best Price: $6.28 Don't believe the bad reviews. This is one of the most stunningly beautiful versions of these... |
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Itzhak Perlman's Greatest Hits Best Price: $11.25 Perlman is a man of extraordinary clarity and tonality also one of my favorite violinists. After... | Carmen-Fantasie Best Price: $8.70 Many musicians play with with brains, only few do with hearts - And even fewer pour their hearts... | Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.25 Two fantastic compositions on the same CD; these two would be in the top ten of every lover of... | Chopin: Greatest Hits Best Price: $4.71 Chopin is okay, but his pian music doens't appeal to me that much. I prefer Mozart's piano... | The Bells of St. Genevieve and Other Baroque Delights Best Price: $7.99 The Bells of St. Genevieve CD is a great addition to any collector of great Baroque Music. Treat... |
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Midori ~ Encore! Best Price: $6.77 To say that I love this disc would be an understatement. I have probably listened to it 500... | Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn: First Piano Concertos Best Price: $6.38 It is ashamed that a conductor with a steadier sense of rhythm was not chosen for the... | Switched-On Boxed Set Best Price: $37.95 I remember back in the late sixties the original LP of "Switched on Bach" started... | Story Of Chopin In Words And Music Best Price: $0.95 Chopin is the most famous composer for the piano. Did you know that Chopin is Polish and that he... | Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 Best Price: $7.24 This is one of those truly astounding recordings that lives up to any & all of the advanced... |
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 Best Price: $5.52 A facetious title for this review, perhaps, but what could be more American than picking and... | Shostakovich: The Jazz Album Best Price: $11.32 It's just a lovely collection of Shostakovich's Two Jazz Suites, plus his jazzy piano concerto.... | Ernest Bloch: Complete Works for Viola & Piano Best Price: $2.13 Raiskin does a very convincing job in his performances of these somewhat under-valued works. ... | Joshua Bell ~ Sibelius ? Goldmark - Violin Concertos / Los Angeles Philharmonic ? Salonen Best Price: $8.21 Bell's prodigious technique not withstanding, he continually approaches the repetoire as a... | The John Adams Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective Best Price: $75.99 Never before in my life was i moved so intensely and directly by classical music. I put the... |
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Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Septet Best Price: $2.13 David Zinman achieved his great reputation with recent recordings of Beethoven's symphonies and... | The Story Of Haydn Best Price: $1.07 | Discover Music of the Baroque Era Best Price: $5.53 I really love this collection of Baroque music! Back in the 1990s, when Naxos was a new company,... | Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Best Price: $4.66 I heard several versions of The Four Seasons until I decided to buy it, and this recording was... | Jascha Heifetz: The Supreme Best Price: $6.61 The performances are terrific, but the there is a terrible scratch at approximately one minute... |
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Bach for Book Lovers: A Soothing Companion for Reading Best Price: $3.50 I think Bach was the musical equivalent of the big romance, his music tugs at the heart with... | Rouse: Symphony No. 2; Flute Concerto; Phaethon Best Price: $6.64 I'm writing about the flute concerto only here. The other pieces on the disk are also good, but... | Wieniawski: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Best Price: $11.22 This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have
ever heard. I rate the highest of all. | Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3; Concert Fantasy Best Price: $6.69 Let me center my remarks on the 2nd piano concerto. May I say, with pun intended, this... | Baby Einstein: Music Box Orchestra Best Price: $3.37 I purchased several of the Baby Einstein CD's for my soon to be born grand-daughter. I found... |
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Vanessa Mae Ultimate Collection Best Price: $3.78 I found Vanessa-Mae's music about 15+ years ago as an assignment for a job in a music store and... | The Art Of The Theremin Best Price: $7.47 I love theramin music but there are very few CDs featuring this amazing but hard to play... | Mendelssohn/Brahms: Violin Concertos Best Price: $6.01 If you haven't heard these recordings, you have a nice surprise ahead of you. The Mendelssohn... | Johann Strauss Orchestra - The Vienna I Love, Waltzes From My Heart Best Price: $5.33 I was going to review this on New Year's Eve, since it has the right kind of brio for the... | Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos Best Price: $19.49 It should come as no surprise that Alfred Brendel has important things to say about Beethoven. ... |
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Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Concertos [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $11.87 Mieczyslaw Weinberg (sometimes spelt Vainberg; 1919-1996) is getting a good deal of attention... | Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 60; Guitar Concerto; Khrimian Hairig Best Price: $4.52 This CD contains a first-rate guitar concerto, one that I hope joins the standard repetoire. ... | Baby Einstein - Wake Up and Goodnight Best Price: $3.37 Baby Einstein: Wake-up and Goodnight is a delightful musical collection perfect for babies to... | Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.2; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor" Best Price: $6.43 Van Cliburn is perfectly suited to play this work. He provides thunder when appropriate, and... | Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4 Best Price: $6.49 This is Perahia at his best. I have heard performances of these works countless times but no... |
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Paganini for Two / Gil Shaham, Goran Sollscher Best Price: $11.32 ...except...this is some of THE most beautiful music you will hear in your lifetime.... | Phantasia Best Price: $10.76 A stunning unique interpretation of Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom of the Opera'. Beautiful music you... | Moving On Best Price: $8.07 This CD is a sort of mish-mash of a bunch of seemingly random songs. She goes all over the map... | The Ligeti Project Best Price: $26.84 This box should probably be your first choice if you want to get acquainted with the works of... | Rodgers: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue Best Price: $5.61 On this album, recorded in 1958, Fiedler is at its best. "Slaughter on Tenth Ave" is a... |
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Liszt: Greatest Hits Best Price: $5.09 This is a clear and satisfactory rendition of the music. A very good value for the price.
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Brahms; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos Best Price: $6.78 Don't get me wrong - Heifetz was a superb technician and never failed to show it, even in the... | George Gershwin - Complete Music for Piano and Orchestra Best Price: $16.98 | William Primrose: Viola Transcriptions Best Price: $5.00 It is as if, in his hands, his instrument has lungs and a tongue. He can sing and change timbre... | | |