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Classics from the Crypt Best Price: $5.29 This CD is great to listen to anytime, not just Haloween! The selections on this disc sound... | Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $6.88 Gaaaaah!
I loved this CD. For me it is even better than the Reiner Pictures at an... | Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1/Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 Best Price: $8.18 "It seemed that I was born to play the piano." ~ Van Cliburn ~
To my ears,... | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition Best Price: $5.43 Performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Fritz Reiner, Mussorgsky's... | Bart?k: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches Best Price: $7.65 Any Bartok fan would enjoy this CD. It's a great listen and I highly recommend it to compliment... |
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.48 Both the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 and the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2 are two of my... | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, A Night on Bald Mountain, and Other Russian Showpieces [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.93 Moreover the Pictures at an Exhibition, the rest of the pieces (from an original recording from... | Respighi: Pines of Rome; Fountains of Rome; Debussy: La mer [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.00 I concur will all the reviewers who said this is one of the best "Pines of Rome"... | Dvor?k's New World Symphony and Other Orchestral Masterworks [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.53 This is by far the best recording of the New World Symphony. Regardless of its age, there is not... | The Darjeeling Limited Best Price: $13.28 You watch it once and want to see it again immediately...did I get that right? Must see it... |
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Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff/Concerto for Piano in Dm; Sonata for Piano No2/Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist Best Price: $7.08 I've listen many recordings of Rachmaninoff's 3rd concerto (notable Martha Argerich, Ashkenazy,... | Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain Best Price: $5.75 I first heard this as a junior in college way, way back. I belonged to the RCA Record Club in... | Bela Bartok, Fritz Reiner - Bart??k: Concerto for Orchestra; etc. [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.87 Bela Bartok is a very hard composer to record successfully I imagine. There are so many facets... | Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor / Beethoven: Emperor Concerto Best Price: $7.00 Though Bach is my poison, Van Cliburn makes me love everything he plays.
No muddled playing... | Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Best Price: $6.33 I should probably start out by saying that I will try not to offend anyone in this review, and... |
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Respighi: Pines of Rome, etc Best Price: $4.97 This comparison is of the Pines of Rome. These two recordings sound quite a bit different in... | The Only Classical CD You'll Ever Need! Best Price: $5.27 There's one horrible omission from this anthology of "Zerspoilerte Musik" however. How... | Heifetz: Beethoven & Brahms Concertos (Beethoven: Concerto for violin in D; Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Op77) Best Price: $6.67 Heifetz was the greatest violinist -- ever. But there were times when he could drive you crazy... | Mahler: Symphony No. 4 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.39 When Gramophone and Classicstoday.com both agree on a Mahler recording, you can count on them... | Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Best Price: $6.21 I should probably start out by saying that I will try not to offend anyone in this review, and... |
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 / Reiner Best Price: $5.24 I could not believe that these superb recordings were from the mid-1950's (even before I was... | Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff/Concerto for Piano in Dm; Sonata for Piano No2/Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist Best Price: $6.47 I've listen many recordings of Rachmaninoff's 3rd concerto (notable Martha Argerich, Ashkenazy,... | Brahms; Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos Best Price: $4.49 Those are really great recordings and best samples of Heifetz`s art.
Thrilling Brahms but a... | Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.2; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor" Best Price: $3.50 I'm not sure I agree with the reviews here... To me, Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto is one... | Horowitz: Legendary RCA Recordings Best Price: $5.91 Those of us who were fortunate to SEE as well as hear pianist Vladimir Horowitz perform in... |
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Rubinstein Collection Best Price: $7.21 What expression! They just don't make them like this anymore. Thanks so much for making this... | Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.46 I cannot praise this recording highly enough.
Brahm's First Piano Concerto is my favorite... | Vienna [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $5.00 Reiner's approach to the Strauss Viennese style is somewhat inconsistent. For example he takes... | Rachmaninoff for Relaxation Best Price: $5.63 I bought this because I wanted the cheapest CD that had Anna Moffo's incomparably superb... | Richard Strauss: Symphonia Domestica [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.19 I know three great recordings of Strauss's problematic Sinfonia Domestica: Furtwangler, Karajan,... |
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Tchaikovsky: Concerto No.1/Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" Best Price: $5.77 Not the absolute best recording. The sound seems muffled and "cloudy" in areas. ... | Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $6.38 I cannot praise this recording highly enough.
Brahm's First Piano Concerto is my favorite... | Mahler: The Song of the Earth [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $8.27 Looking over the liner notes as I prepared to start writing this review, I noted that how... | Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music Best Price: $4.98 This CD contains some good pieces, but overall, the selections were not what I would have picked... | Vienna [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $7.86 Reiner's approach to the Strauss Viennese style is somewhat inconsistent. For example he takes... |
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Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Chopin: Grande Polonaise Best Price: $6.18 The other reviewers here have rightly extolled this reading of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody, a great... | Robert Merrill - Georges Bizet: Carmen (Complete Recording) Best Price: $26.85 If you are considering downloading the Mp3, please beware that the digital copy truncates... | Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Igor Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale Best Price: $4.95 This is a wonderful account of sherezade. Magnificent performance
that could stay in the top 3... | Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Chopin: Grande Polonaise Best Price: $5.89 The other reviewers here have rightly extolled this reading of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody, a great... | Masters of the Bow Best Price: $10.59 Absolute joy to listen to at any time - even to unwind with - without it beeing a strain on the... |
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Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps; Baiser de la f?e; Firebird Suite Best Price: $4.98 This is one of the best recordings of Sravinsky's Rite of Spring there is! Ozawa and the Boston... | Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No.2/Isle Of The Dead Best Price: $6.64 I must admit, like the other reviewer said, that I am also bias toward any recordings with... | Reiner Sound Best Price: $5.67 Reiner looks unusually dyspeptic, even for him, on the cover of this smorgasbord CD. Maybe it's... | Classics: Greatest Hits Best Price: $4.99 First off, this cd has some of my favorite classical songs on it. The songs themselves are... | Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole; Debussy: Iberia Best Price: $4.95 RCA didn't do right by the great sonics of the original LPs when they released their Reiner... |
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Heifetz Plays Beethoven & Brahms Best Price: $8.45 Heifetz was the greatest violinist -- ever. But there were times when he could drive you crazy... | Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Igor Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale Best Price: $4.98 This is a wonderful account of sherezade. Magnificent performance
that could stay in the top 3... | Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Best Price: $5.56 This Ninth is something of a departure for Reiner's recorded Beethoven legacy. The recordings of... | Only Opera CD You'll Ever Need Best Price: $1.20 Looking for a CD that will introduce you to Opera?..You WON'T find it here! What you get are 20... | Reiner Conducts Tchaikovsky Best Price: $5.57 After a half century the Reiner/CSO recording of the Sixth Symphony remains unsurpassed both... |
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Violin: Greatest Hits Best Price: $2.95 The challenge in listening to this CD is finding a favorite selection in this excellent... | William Kapell - William Kapell Edition Best Price: $57.97 Critically acclaimed by critics such as Harold Schoenberg, and pianists of his own class such as... | Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Best Price: $39.95 Subterfuge Centrifuge incorrectly critiques this recording. Let me show you how to intelligently... | Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music Best Price: $4.98 This CD contains some good pieces, but overall, the selections were not what I would have picked... | Reiner Sound Best Price: $4.98 Why does a recording made in the 1950's sound better than anything made today? Perhaps it is... |
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Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; Chopin: Grande Polonaise Best Price: $6.16 The other reviewers here have rightly extolled this reading of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody, a great... | Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Fritz Reiner Best Price: $6.00 The compilers of the Great Conductors series let us down with this installment devoted to Fritz... | Opera's Greatest Drinking Songs Best Price: $4.99 The picture and title of this CD is misleading. Lot's of classical music, but not much to do... | | |