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Esa-Pekka Salonen - The Red Violin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Best Price: $8.90 To hear it is to love it. If you like the sound of the violin you will love Joshua Bell playing it. | Hallelujah Junction Best Price: $7.99 The two-disc Hallelujah Junction serves as a compelling soundtrack and companion piece to... | Piano Music of Salonen, Stucky & Lutoslawski Best Price: $12.52 As far as I know[I do not have the booklet] this is the first recording of the Lutoslawski Piano... | Classic Wynton Best Price: $8.54 It's easy to think that the culture is in decline (mostly because it is), but Wynton is proof... | Liszt: Greatest Hits Best Price: $4.99 This is a clear and satisfactory rendition of the music. A very good value for the price.
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Sensemaya - Music Of Silvestre Revueltas Best Price: $7.35 So yeah, Revueltas is not one of those big name 20th century composers like Stravinsky or... | Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Best Price: $3.28 At this late date, it strikes me that these two warhorse conertos aren't worth recording unless... | Bernard Herrmann: The Film Scores Best Price: $4.89 Salonen is to be congratulated for having assembled an unusual and striking program here. Yes,... | Witold Lutoslawski: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Les Espaces du Sommeil - John Shirley-Quirk / Los Angeles Philharmonic / Esa-Pekka Salonen Best Price: $7.53 This Sony disc containing three works by Witold Lutoslawski is already something of a legend. It... | Joshua Bell ~ Sibelius ? Goldmark - Violin Concertos / Los Angeles Philharmonic ? Salonen Best Price: $8.04 Bell's prodigious technique not withstanding, he continually approaches the repetoire as a... |
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: Greatest Hits Best Price: $4.96 Some times it is difficult to select a piece of music that is perfect to have in the back ground... | Flute Greatest Hits Best Price: $4.44 Bach, Vivaldi, and Mozart are all too well known, but less known musics are blended well into... | Saariaho - L'Amour de Loin / Dawn Upshaw, Gerald Finley, Monica Groop, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Finnish National Opera, Helsinki Best Price: $18.50 Everyone is at the top of their game - singers, orchestra, conductor and composer, first and... | Credo Best Price: $5.99 This CD has only 2 recordings worth to be included in one CD:
* Piano Sonata n? 17 and the... | Caravan: The Ultimate Silk Road Album Best Price: $7.00 I found the music of Yo Yo Ma hard for me to fathom since it was so largely Chinese in tone and... |
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Sibelius, Nielsen: Violin Concertos Best Price: $5.00 Great performance of Sibelius, beautiful Nielsen's music. Who would think that North and East... | Pco, Salonen - Music of Magnus Lindberg Best Price: $8.20 This collection of works is another example of the orchestrational genius of Lindberg. You find... | Gyorgy Ligeti Edition Vol 8 - Le Grand Macabre Best Price: $34.76 Though I haven't heard the German-language recording (the original libretto is in German), I... | Gy?rgy Ligeti Edition 4: Vocal Works (Madrigals, Mysteries, Aventures, Songs) - The King's Singers / Philharmonia Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen Best Price: $6.23 'Gyorgy Ligeti Edition 4' composed by Gyorgy Ligeti and performed under the direction of... | Sibelius: Kullervo Best Price: $28.84 This is an absolutely spectacular performance of Sibelius' early "Symphonic Poem". ... |
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Salonen - LA Variations ? Five Images After Sappho ? Mania ? Gambit ? Giro / Upshaw ? Karttunen ? L.A. Phil. ? London Sinfonietta ? Salonen Best Price: $5.99 This is a stunning disc. The highlight must surely be Mania-a cello concerto-like 17 minute... | Kaija Saariaho: Ch?teau de l'?me / Graal Th??tre / Amers Best Price: $7.95 Here we have 3 pieces by contemporary Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho performed by each work's... | Grieg: Greatest Hits Best Price: $4.90 I tried to buy this twice. Both times I got the Best of DeBussey and not Grieg. From 2 different... | Le Sacre du Printemps [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $14.11 First of all: there is no great difference between the versions of Rite of spring. Different... | Kaija Saariaho: Du Cristal...? la Fum?e; Sept Papillons, Nymph?a Best Price: $11.98 Kaija Saariaho continues to enhance our contemporary music scene with compositions that... |
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The Great War: Classical And Popular Selections From The Time Of World War I (National Public Radio Milestones Of The Millennium) Best Price: $6.63 A very enjoyable CD of the disastrous close of an era.
The accompanying literature in as... | Luigi Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero; Canti di Prigionia Best Price: $13.99 This is a most superb performance, first rate in every way, and very sympathetically rendered;... | The Essential Igor Stravinsky Best Price: $12.18 Sony Music's "The Essential Igor Stravinsky" truly lives up to its title. This... | Hillborg: Clarinet & Violin Concertos; Liquid Marble Best Price: $13.44 It's interesting to compare this Clarinet Concerto by contemprary Swedish composer Anders... | Bart?k: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Best Price: $6.90 This Sony CD contains two great pieces by Bela Bartok performed by the Los Angeles Symphony... |
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Bernard Herrmann: The Film Scores Best Price: $8.33 You might expect the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its resident conductor to specialize in film... | Dmitri Shostakovich - Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra Op. 35; Concerto No. 2 in F Major for Piano and Orchestra Op. 102; Quintet in G minor for Piano and Strings Op. 57 - Yefim Bronfman (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Juilliard String Quartet Best Price: $8.92 This review is only for the 2nd Concerto, which I just heard on internet radio. I actually... | Jean Sibelius: Lemmink?inen Legends, Op 22/En Saga, Op 9 Best Price: $14.99 Jean Sibelius convinced the musical world for five decades (roughly until 1950) that he was a... | Portrait of Kaija Saariaho Best Price: $14.82 I'm a Saariaho completist so bought this for Verblendungen, Jardin secret 1 and sah den Vogeln,... | Sibelius: Greatest Hits Best Price: $5.01 |
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Takemitsu: To the Edge of Dream / Folios for Guitar / Toward the Sea / Transcriptions for Guitar Best Price: $6.60 This Sony disc features several of Toru Takemitsu's guitar-centric works in performance by John... | Debussy: Nocturnes; La Damoiselle ?lue; Le Martyre de Saint S?bastien Best Price: $6.59 Fascinating as it has been hearing Esa-Pekka Salonen develop his repertoire during his tenure... | Leila Josefowicz Plays Beethoven, Ravel, Salonen, Grey, Messiaen Best Price: $10.10 Leila Josefowicz is an artist of great physical and musical beauty and one with keen... | The Essential Placido Domingo Best Price: $4.36 This was a great buy for me. The power and accuracy of Placido's voice are demonstrated well. ... | Jean Sibelius / Carl Nielsen: Violin Concertos - Cho-Liang Lin / Philharmonia Orchestra / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen Best Price: $24.95 i love this recording, the playing is suberb and the sibelius piece is very moving. |
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Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie; Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3 Best Price: $23.80 Olivier Messiaen monumental ten movement, seventy-five minute opus TURANGALILA-SYMPHONIE is... | Yes Best Price: $7.25 Quite an eclectic mix of artists and music. I am not sure this CD is for everyone...
From... | Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Op. 42; Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Best Price: $6.78 I'm not very familiar with Schoenberg, but this is an attractive recording. As for the Liszt,... | Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D minor Best Price: $15.45 The LA plays a stupendous rendition of this thorny piece. This is Mahler's longest work, but the... | Franz Joseph Haydn - Surprise and Farewell Best Price: $3.99 This disc is a very good introduction to some of Haydn's works. Of course, any composer who... |
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Grieg: Peer Gynt (Excerpts from the Incidental Music) Best Price: $13.99 ... beside the new recording of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo... | Songs & Dances: Nationalism in Music Best Price: $2.10 This disc has a very interesting selection of music from different nationalities. This disc is... | Ultimate Driving Collection: Classical Gas If you want to know why music of this kind is called "CLASSICAL", get the CD. If you... | Credo [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $14.02 This is truly one amazing CD which captures finally at last, both the sensitive as well as... | Portrait of Wynton Marsalis Best Price: $5.80 What I like about Wynton Marsalis' trumpet sound is its shrill clear tones that give it a sort... |
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Bernard Herrmann: The Film Scores Best Price: $8.24 You might expect the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its resident conductor to specialize in film... | Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex / Salonen Best Price: $8.98 'Oedipus Rex' by Igor Stravinsky is a short opera with libretto in French which Stravinsky wrote... | Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Sonata in B Minor Best Price: $4.46 Emanuel Ax is not the first name that comes to mind when you think of Liszt pianists. ... | Classical Gas: Ultimate Driving Collection Best Price: $7.95 | |