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The Darjeeling Limited Best Price: $11.80 You will become addicted to this soundtrack. It actually surpasses the movie in that respect... | Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1/Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 Best Price: $11.95 I can't call myself an aficionado so take this for what it is worth. The Rachmaninoff Concerto... | Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.49 Hear a new revelation in sound with this SACD.
RCA originally recorded this in 1960 using 3... | Bart?k: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches Best Price: $6.67 The old LP of this recording was my introduction to the Bartok Music for Strings Percussion and... | Classics from the Crypt Best Price: $5.27 I really like the musical selections that are on this CD. The recordings seem to be from years... |
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition Best Price: $6.67 It is difficult to put into words how much I enjoy this music. While I realized that this had... | Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff/Concerto for Piano in Dm; Sonata for Piano No2/Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist Best Price: $6.49 Rachmaninov, on hearing Horowitz play his difficult concerto in private to him, remarked to... | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, A Night on Bald Mountain, and Other Russian Showpieces [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.75 I love this record. I've always loved "Pictures" but never owned a copy. When I... | Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain Best Price: $6.73 I can't speak for the Hovhaness, because I'm not a big fan, and I think the Prokofiev... | The Only Classical CD You'll Ever Need! Best Price: $5.65 As an 18 year old univeristy student i would have to rate "The Only Classical Cd You'll... |
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Dvor?k's New World Symphony and Other Orchestral Masterworks [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.13 I've been enthralled with the works of Antonin Dvorak since I first heard his Slavonic Dances.... | Respighi: Pines of Rome, etc Best Price: $7.27 BRASS MUSICIANS TAKE NOTE: This is THE recording of Pines of Rome to own. No one does it better.... | Piano Concertos by Beethoven & Schumann [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.69 Though Bach is my poison, Van Cliburn makes me love everything he plays.
No muddled playing... | Brahms, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.04 Tchaikovsky aspired to be the Russian Beethoven. More than any other pairing, Heifetz and... | Respighi: Pines of Rome; Fountains of Rome; Debussy: La mer [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.70 I am a brass person by nature, so sorry to all of you woodwind and string players who may find... |
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Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Ein Heldenleben [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $6.89 I won't say this is the best Also sprach Zarathustra I've heard (competition is 1974 Karajan,... | Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $6.95 Two fantastic compositions on the same CD; these two would be in the top ten of every lover of... | Vienna [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.64 Reiner's approach to the Strauss Viennese style is somewhat inconsistent. For example he takes... | 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... | 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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Spain [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.74 While the accompanying re-release of Richard Strauss' "Don Quixote" and "Don... | William Kapell Edition (Box Set) Best Price: $59.99 I wrote my doctoral dissertation on William Kapell (we share the same school, and my teacher was... | Brahms; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos Best Price: $6.75 Don't get me wrong - Heifetz was a superb technician and never failed to show it, even in the... | Rachmaninoff for Relaxation Best Price: $5.97 I bought this because I wanted the cheapest CD that had Anna Moffo's incomparably superb... | Mahler: The Song of the Earth [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.60 I would like to offer something of a minority report on this recording of *Das Lied.* I have... |
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Tchaikovsky: Concerto No.1/Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" Best Price: $5.97 These are two of the best recordings ever made of these works. The sound is excellent, even in... | Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.75 I know three great recordings of Strauss's problematic Sinfonia Domestica: Furtwangler, Karajan,... | Mahler: Symphony No. 4 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.42 I am one to avoid expressions like superlative, quintessential, the best, ultimate and the... | Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Chopin: Grande Polonaise Best Price: $6.60 The other reviewers here have rightly extolled this reading of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody, a great... | Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Best Price: $6.80 This is the best recording I've ever heard of the Rachmaninoff - filled with passion, lyricism... |
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Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music Best Price: $5.24 This CD contains some good pieces, but overall, the selections were not what I would have picked... | Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No.2/Isle Of The Dead Best Price: $5.99 I admit to a bias in favor of the Philadelphia Orchestra in this music. One reason is simply... | Bela Bartok, Fritz Reiner - Bart?k: Concerto for Orchestra; etc. [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.66 I'm not sure where to put my review. Although I purchased the SACD version of this album, I... | Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Subterfuge Centrifuge incorrectly critiques this recording. Let me show you how to intelligently... | Dvor?k: New World Symphony/Smetana: Bartered Bride/Weinberger: Polka & Fugue Best Price: $5.72 I really liked this music but some of the trackers are really long up to 10 min so If Id ever... |
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Portrait of an Artist: Arnold Jacobs Best Price: $12.24 A lot of good tips on playing brass instruments. Unfortunately Mr. Jacobs did not publish any... | Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Best Price: $8.18 The electricity of this performance of these two violin concertos which are recorded by every... | Opera's Greatest Drinking Songs Best Price: $1.99 The picture and title of this CD is misleading. Lot's of classical music, but not much to do... | Heifetz Plays Beethoven & Brahms Best Price: $20.06 Heifetz was the greatest violinist -- ever. But there were times when he could drive you crazy... | Rubinstein Collection Best Price: $5.48 What expression! They just don't make them like this anymore. Thanks so much for making this... |
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Opera Goes to the Movies Best Price: $4.22 As the other reviewer noted, I bought my copy of this after hearing someone else's and I had to... | Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade for orchestra Op35; Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale Best Price: $6.61 I am not a classical music buff but I bought Scherezade on a London Phase 4 lp by Leopold... | Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.74 I cannot praise this recording highly enough.
Brahm's First Piano Concerto is my favorite... | Reiner Sound Best Price: $8.49 Why does a recording made in the 1950's sound better than anything made today? Perhaps it is... | Schumann: Concerto, Op.54/MacDowell: Concerto No.2/To A Wild Rose Best Price: $51.48 This is my first Cliburn album. I had no knowledge of his background or anything, so I listened... |
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Violin: Greatest Hits Best Price: $3.44 The challenge in listening to this CD is finding a favorite selection in this excellent... | Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Vier letzte Lieder Best Price: $39.95 | The Concerto Collection Best Price: $32.99 As much as I love Heifetz and admire his musicianship, I cannot help but to prefer Oistrakh's... | Rossini: Overtures Best Price: $49.99 Fritz Reiner inscribed his name among the greatest directors in Rossini. These overtures. Own... | Romantic Nights Best Price: $4.84 |
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Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes Best Price: $101.00 Reiner's 1962 remake of his legendary 1954 pioneering stereo recording of Richard Strauss'... | Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ / Les nuits d'?t? Best Price: $24.99 | Verdi: Requiem Best Price: $11.55 Please note that this superb performance has recently been released by Universal as a... | The Best of Tchaikovsky Best Price: $2.67 I am what you would consider a hard-core fan of classical music, but I really must admit it was... | Legendary Voices: Rise Stevens Best Price: $18.03 Very good, considering the limited state of technology from the period. Very enjoyable recording. |
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