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Sibelius: The Complete Symphonies & Tone Poems Best Price: $33.98 I will preface this review with one single caveat. I love Sibelius. His music is beyond that... | Britten: Ceremony of Carols Best Price: $4.00 This is a recording of treble-choir music by Benjamin Britten, performed by the New London... | Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital Best Price: $6.19 Really enjoyable set of songs. I never tire of hearing Robeson sing. These songs are my constant... | Baby Einstein: Sing and Play Music Collection Best Price: $20.31 This is a great CD for sing-along. I remember these songs from when I was growing up and I... | Bakel, Daniel - Vaughan Williams: The Complete Symphonies Best Price: $20.79 |
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Songs by Samuel Barber Best Price: $15.52 Sadly, Gerald Finley and Julius Drake fall way short (on too many levels to recount) of what... | Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs Best Price: $10.05 Chalres Ives was 46 when he published his "Concord"Sonata, and as the liner notes tell... | Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem; Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes Best Price: $4.76 This has been very well-reviewed already...and sometimes the main point of a review may be to... | Martinu: Symphonies Best Price: $15.93 Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)is not so well known among lovers of Classical music. His oeuvre... | Ill-Conceived PDQ Bach Anthology Best Price: $5.31 As already described, the music on this CD is hillarious and the spoken sections usually less... |
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Rachmaninoff - Vocalise / Rachmaninoff, Moffo, Kissin, Galway, Tomita, Swenson, Asawa, Luboff Choir Best Price: $6.61 Many versions of this wonderful piece, instrumental and vocal, and all are very well done. | Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms/Symphony in 3 Movements Best Price: $5.84 Years ago I purchased a similarly titled CD only to discover that it was a copy off a record! ... | Peter and the Wolf Best Price: $2.80 After buying several versions of Peter and the Wolf for my boys I stumbled across this one. Dame... | Lost Theremin Album Best Price: $11.83 I am a VERY amateur thereminist, and Rockmore's playing is EXCEPTIONAL, both as a thereminist... | American Masters: Harris, Thompson, Diamond Best Price: $6.87 These three symphonies are American symphonic classics and these performances by Bernstein and... |
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Debussy & Ravel: Piano Works - Samson Francois (6 CD's) Best Price: $24.78 I first heard Samson Francois play Ravel on an old phonograph record and
was amazed at his... | Rainbow Body / Blue Cathedral / Symphony 1 / Appalachian Spring Suite Best Price: $7.70 While all of the music on this CD is generally well-executed, the quality of the music is by no... | Hindemith: The 3 Piano Sonatas Best Price: $7.22 Glenn Gould has an uncanny ability of being able to delve from the whole to the particular. In... | Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 2; Symphony No. 2 Best Price: $2.13 The Romanian Philharmonic Society was founded in 1868. Its conductors have included significant... | The Copland Collection: Orchestral Works, 1948-1971 Best Price: $15.52 SKYLINE is a fun track that's based on the premise of Big City Overload. And naturally it's... |
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Wieslaw Ochman - Szymanowski: Symphonies #2-4, Harnasie, 2 Mazurkas, Concert Overture in E Best Price: $8.09 These discs feature powerful, shimmering, and at times folkloric works that span the gamut of... | Gorecki: Symphony No. 3, Canticum Graduum Best Price: $8.96 I don't think I have ever heard music quite like this. Honestly, it seems to transcend its own... | Ives: An American Journey Best Price: $8.23 Tilson Thomas's PR team should put out a ocntract on me; I rarely express enthusiasm for him. So... | Music Aboard The Titanic Best Price: $10.25 Overall, this is an enjoyable album that is worth purchasing. The playing is refined and... | Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 60; Guitar Concerto; Khrimian Hairig Best Price: $4.46 Much as I love certain works of Alan Hovhaness, his symphonies start to sound the same after a... |
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Rorem: Three Symphonies Best Price: $4.72 In 2003, in celebration of the composer's 80th birthday, Naxos released as part of its... | Idiot's Guide to Classical Music Best Price: $6.25 My family likes to put this disc in on shuffle and play name that tune. I wish they made more... | Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (original 1913 version) / Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow - London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox Best Price: $10.20 Hickox was a master of Vaughan-Williams, and this, together with his recording of the Fourth... | Sibelius: Complete Symphonies Best Price: $17.99 After a very polite reading of 1 and 2 by underrated Okko Kamu, we get through 3 and then.....
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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Lieutenant Kijé Suite; Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Best Price: $5.49 This is a great cd of peter and the wolf! I shopped around a lot for this, looking for the... | Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7; En Saga [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $13.70 When Colin Davis recorded the complete Sibelius symphony series with the Boston Symphony back in... | Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos Best Price: $29.75 I consider Ashkenazy to be one of the most underrated pianists. Since he has this unmarketable... | Boston Pops Orchestra - American Classics Best Price: $3.61 I'm not a Classical Music expert, but I found "American Classics" to be a very good... | Paul Robeson Live at Carnegie Hall Best Price: $11.95 If one takes into account the time at which this recording was made, and the surrounding events... |
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Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall Best Price: $7.99 Kathleen Battle has a georgious voice. I like her and will try and find her other cd's. I was... | Rautavaara: Cantus Articus; Piano Concerto; Symphony No. 3 Best Price: $5.46 This is my second excursion into the world of contemporary Finnish composer Einojuhani... | Sibelius: The Complete Symphonies 2 Best Price: $11.58 In the 1970s Colin Davis and the Boston Symphony Orchestra recorded a complete cycle of Sibelius... | Songs by Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky and Ned Rorem Best Price: $12.96 This is the 25th CD issued by Wigmore Hall in London, and it's undoubtedly one of the best.... | Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Complete Recordings Best Price: $80.81 These are some of the greatest performances ever set onto disc. They were, of course, originally... |
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Samuel Barber: Symphony No. 1/Piano Concerto/Souvenirs Best Price: $5.64 Leonard Slatkin was the house conductor of American music in the Eighties for both EMI and RCA.... | Rejoice Best Price: $10.03 I first heard Katarine Jenkins voice on an airplane audio system enroute to Africa in May. I... | Tomita's Greatest Hits CD Best Price: $7.68 As far as I know, Isao Tomita is not an original artist in the sense that he composes new works.... | A Copland Celebration Vol. 2 Best Price: $8.54 This second Copland collection focuses on unique talents of veteran performers. William... | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Music from the Film "Hamlet" Best Price: $3.48 As the other reviewer said, you buy this CD for the symphony - because the suite from... |
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Kabalevsky: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 Best Price: $23.11 | Christmas Day in the Morning Best Price: $47.28 These yuletide favorites have a lot going for them. The title song is a rendition of "I... | My Personal Property Best Price: $12.50 * Christiane Noll's first solo album for Jay Records features hit songs from Broadway that... | Night Tracks Best Price: $10.93 Every time I find myself awake past midnight, I listen to this CD. It does indeed have that... | Bassoonatics! Best Price: $11.17 This is an amazing collection of songs, all performed with such skill that even my 8-year-old... |
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Conniff, Ray - Concert In Rhythm, Volume II / The Perfect ""10"" Classic Best Price: $8.29 I was sooooooo overjoyed when I saw this album for sale --- "Concert in Rhythm, Volume... | Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 / Vocalise / Aleko: Intermezzo & Women's Dance (EMI Great Recordings of the Century) Best Price: $5.98 I'll never be completely won over to this music. I have no problem with Romanticism, even... | György Ligeti Edition 4: Vocal Works (Madrigals, Mysteries, Aventures, Songs) - The King's Singers / Philharmonia Orchestra / Esa-Pekka Salonen Best Price: $7.70 Apart from the Aventures and Nouvelles Aventures from the sixties, these are lesser known works,... | Various - Sonic Rebellion: Alternative Classical Best Price: $1.41 Even people who like classical music tend to run screaming when they hear names like Penderecki,... | |