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The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World...Ever! Best Price: $7.84 The music on this cd is excellent. I would listen to it on my commute home from work, and it... | Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition Best Price: $45.58 | Philip Glass: Waiting for the Barbarians Best Price: $18.79 Philip Glass and librettist Christopher Hampton have adapted J. M. Coetzee's parable about power... | Glass: Violin concerto Best Price: $3.99 if you're looking for music that sounds like a soundtrack for a movie you'll forget in 5... | Philip Glass - Monsters of Grace Best Price: $13.01 The first track, "Where Everything is Music", is worth the price of the album, even if... |
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Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong - Porgy & Bess Best Price: $8.98 Recently saw the London show which was fantastic and remember the original well. Not as good as... | Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque (6 CDs) Best Price: $77.98 The CDs in this set are not packaged in standard jewelboxes nor even in cheap sleeves, but are... | Essential Purcell Best Price: $6.93 This is a terrific CD. The music is breathtaking. Just buy IT !!!!! | Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors Best Price: $6.31 Nothing else puts me in the Christmas spirit like listening to Menotti's tale of Amahl and the... | Satyagraha Best Price: $44.99 ...that makes this recording so compelling.
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Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series) Best Price: $44.24 Of course there should have been much more. I remember there been a Metropolian Opera series... | The East Village Opera Company Best Price: $4.98 You'll love The East Village Opera Company. They add their own distinct sounds to such classics... | Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century (6 CDs) Best Price: $69.95 Excellent product..one of the standard anthologies available for studying Music History.
One... | Renee Fleming: By Request Best Price: $8.67 This is my favorite album!!! I use it to mellow out, or just listen to her magnificent voice.... | The Best Baroque Album in the World ... Ever! Best Price: $13.06 To title the album "The Best..." is arrogant and boastfull, however, this is the best... |
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Scott Joplin: His Complete Works Best Price: $8.97 These renditions of the Joplin rags and other pieces for solo piano are not only complete, but... | Howard Hanson: Bold Island Suite; Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"; Suite from Merry Mount Best Price: $10.29 This amazing CD is one of those rare occasions where everything falls into place perfectly.... | Nixon in China Best Price: $22.45 Back in the late 1980s, I watched the Houston Grand Opera's production of John Adams' opera... | Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / James, Lewis, Baker, Herincx Best Price: $1.16 The piece is a treasure; the singers, legends; and the recording is exquisite in recreating this... | Rags to Riches: The Essential Hits of Scott Joplin Best Price: $4.53 Rich, yet not cloying
Aggressive, yet reflective
Bouncy, yet wistfully romantic
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Lost Theremin Album Best Price: $12.90 I also bought this CD after Rockmore's "Art of the Theremin." Different from its use... | Baroque Adagios Best Price: $10.51 I'll throw my hat into the ring with Frank & ClassicalFan, you must read their reviews. I... | Gershwin Greatest Hits Best Price: $5.14 This is a decent enough recording, but it's not anywhere near the best that I have heard. The... | Michael Riesman, Robert Wilson - Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1993 Recording) Best Price: $36.57 I own this version as well as the original version. I respect both of them. I owned it on vinyl... | Barber - Vanessa / Steber ? Gedda ? Elias ? Tozzi ? Resnik ? MET ? Mitropoulos Best Price: $18.04 ... has got to be the loveliest aria ever for a mezzo. Elias convinces me the opera should be... |
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The John Adams Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective Best Price: $81.32 Never before in my life was i moved so intensely and directly by classical music. I put the... | The Ballad of Baby Doe Best Price: $21.99 . . . and a clarification: Beverly Sills wasn't in the cast of the premiere in Colorado, but... | Britten - Billy Budd / Keenlyside ? Langridge ? John Tomlinson ? LSO ? Hickox Best Price: $28.43 Yes, yes I know, Britten's Budd is a "great opera," and Britten a "great"... | Philip Glass : The Voyage: An Opera in Three Acts Best Price: $10.98 I was at the World Premiere for this opera - my first time to be in the Met Opera House, my... | Ren?e Fleming - Signatures ~ Great Opera Scenes / Sir Georg Solti Best Price: $10.06 I'm surprised at the generally positive tone of the other reviews on this particular album. ... |
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Fazil Say, Kurt Masur - Gershwin / Fazil Say, New York PO Best Price: $5.74 There's some rather rare pieces on this CD--including the wonderful cakewalk Novelette in... | The Best of Kathleen Battle Best Price: $5.73 K Battle is the 'Nat King Cole of opera!' So smooth, warm and beautiful yet surprisingly... | Copland: Greatest Hits Best Price: $5.68 It's okay but I dont listen to it much. I have other things I would rather listen to like Chris... | Gottschalk: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Escenas Campestres Cubanas; C?l?bre Tarantelle Best Price: $4.74 I had only heard the music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk over the radio but I was curious so when... | The Great Recordings Best Price: $10.58 We listen to opera for many reasons. Sure we love to hear a lyric tenor caress the lines of... |
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George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" Best Price: $38.08 When I got the product the third disk titles were all in an asian looking language. I couldn't... | Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital Best Price: $6.79 Really enjoyable set of songs. I never tire of hearing Robeson sing. These songs are my constant... | Einstein on the Beach Best Price: $25.95 In this opera Philip Glass pushes the two heritages he is using and referring to to an extreme... | Street Scene: An American Opera Best Price: $7.95 I list this in both my Musicals and Opera.. I read a review , not of this production,, but of an... | Howard Hanson: Merry Mount Best Price: $7.23 Howard Hanson's opera, Merry Mount, was written while the composer was putting the finishing... |
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Samuel Barber: Capricorn Concerto; A Hand of Bridge; Intermezzo from Vanessa Best Price: $4.79 I am continually amazed at the quality of music available for such little cost. I was browsing... | Leontyne Price Sings Barber Best Price: $6.26 BARBER DOES ALL OF THE ACCOMPANYING ON THIS RECORDING!
Samuel Barber(1910-1981), an American... | ENCLOSURE:DELUSION OF THE FURY Best Price: $11.89 I was introduced to Harry Partch and "Delusions of Fury" in a History of Jazz course I... | Songs from the Trilogy Best Price: $6.98 The three operas comprising Glass' trilogy are something special, but this disc of arias from... | Britten: Peter Grimes Best Price: $12.28 This was the first opera recording I ever listened to and it got me hooked. I've since acquired... |
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Stokowski: Bach Orchestral Transcriptions Best Price: $4.31 To echo the other reviewers, these transcriptions are absolutely majestic. What Stokowski does... | Humoresque Best Price: $8.48 It is nice for Issac Stern to publish this CD, but I feel his talent should be better used to do... | Michael Tippett - King Priam / Macann, Walker, Haskin, Norrington, Hytner (Kent Opera) Best Price: $22.38 I was thrilled to find in this morning's mail, the hot-off-the-press DVD release of the Kent... | Songs by Mahler, Handel & Peter Lieberson Best Price: $11.01 Sorry -- I gave this as a Xmas present, so I have no idea if it's good! | Best Classics 100 Volume 2 Best Price: $12.79 I purchased Volume 1 and 2 at the same time and in the short time I have had them I have... |
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Classics for Children Best Price: $6.94 I am a middle school general music teacher, so when it came time to teach my students the... | Artist Portrait: Susan Graham Best Price: $7.88 This is a great introduction at a very reasonable price to Susan Graham's lovely mezzo voice,... | La Stupenda ~ The Supreme Voice of Joan Sutherland Best Price: $10.68 She wasn't called La Stupenda by the Italians for nothing. Now retired, a truly great voice. I... | CBS Masterworks Dinner Classics: American Picnic Best Price: $5.85 I have three of the Dinner Classics. "Dinner For Two" "Romance" and... | Aria Best Price: $8.84 Rchard Stoltzman, the clarinetist featured on this CD, is one of the masters. I had no idea how... |
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Britten - Billy Budd / Hampson ? Rolfe Johnson ? Halfvarson ? Smythe ? Saks ? Nagano Best Price: $45.70 I must admit that I am late in coming to this wonderful recording. I purchased the more recent... | | | | |