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John Williams - The Seville Concert / John Williams, Paco Pena, Andres Segovia

9 reviews

Kultur Video, 2007

A must have!
This is the first item i ever purchased at Amazon...and I agree with the other customers...this is a must have if you like classical music...those compositions are MASTERPIECES and John Williams is a guitar VIRTUOSO...that's all you have to know. MASTERPIECES + VIRTUOSO = A MUST HAVE

Mikhail Pletnev ~ Domenico Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonatas

22 reviews
Mikhail Pletnev

EMI Classics, 2001

Poor Domenico...
... overshadowed in his youth by his father, always known as "the Great Scarlatti," and now overshadowed once again by the rediscovery of daddy Alessandro's spectacular oratorios and altar-operas. I suspect that Domenico would gnash his teeth rather than exulting in filial pride. Nothing I've read about the younger Scarlatti suggests a generous spirit. Even more tragic, Domenico Scarlatti was ...

Icon: Dinu Lipatti
Johann Sebastian Bach, Bela Bartok, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Dinu Lipatti- The Master Pianist plays Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, Grieg, Schumann, Bartok and Schubert on this seven CD set. Dinu Lipatti (1917- 1950 ) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was tragically cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. Despite his short career and a relatively small recorded legacy, Lipatti is considered one of the finest pianists of the 20th century.

300 Years of Guitar Masterpieces

15 reviews
Isaac Albeniz, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Vox (Classical), 1992

The "cool school" of guitar playing
This three CD collection is a reissue of Cuban born virtuoso Manuel Barrueco's early Vox LPs, recorded in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Included in this set is his stunning performance of selections by Spanish composers Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados. This 1978 Albéniz/Granados recording is perhaps the greatest example of what I call the "cool school" of guitar playing, eschewing color and ...

Essential Guitar: 33 Guitar Masterpieces

19 reviews
Essential Guitar: 34 Gtr Masterpieces

Decca, 2002

Two-and-a-half hours of bliss
This may be the best money I've ever spent. I got 2-1/2 hours of bliss for less than what I'd usually pay for one CD -- and you know how it is with music. You buy an album because of a song or two that you love, and you find that you like maybe half the songs on it. There's not a single selection in this one that I would've left out. It includes Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, performed ...

The Best Baroque Album in the World ... Ever!

1 review
Tomaso Albinoni, Gregorio Allegri, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

Honest
To title the album "The Best..." is arrogant and boastfull, however, this is the best fuggin' Baroque ALBUM EVER!!!

Art of Segovia

12 reviews
Andres Segovia

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

Great Sound Quality; Great Value
The 24-bit remastering of these analog recordings from the 1950s and 60s is outstanding. Both disks are chock-full at almost 80 minutes each, and there are a good many songs you don't hear every day. Forty of the 41 tracks are solos, while a short Rodrigo orchestral movement concludes the set. Good liner notes are included. There is only a slight overlap between this 2-CD set and Deutsche ...

Classic Williams: Romance of the Guitar

18 reviews
Isaac Albeniz, Anonymous, ...

Sony, 2000

The Aranjuez Adagio is Perfection
The second movement adagio of the Aranjuez concert is one of my favourite pieces, a very difficult one to get right. I've listened to well over a dozen variations, the one on this CD, track 19, is an absolute gem. Just by itself is reason enough to own this CD. The only other Aranjuez performance that's even worth mentioning in the same breath is Julian Bream's, track 2 of the CD titled just ...

Leon Fleisher: Two Hands

15 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Frederic Chopin, ...

Artemis Classics, 2004

F leisher's triumphant return.
It is thrilling and soul-satisfying to hear Leon Fleisher's superb and sensitive playing of Bach, Scarlatti, Chopin, Debussy and Schubert after dystonia had prevented two-handed performances for more than 35 years. The Fleisher tapes of Beethoven's piano concertos with George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, before his disability, are treasures, and "Two Hands" shows that maturity has made ...

The Most Relaxing Harp Album in the World... Ever!

2 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Angel Records, 2005

Harp Music
Animal behaviorists have done some studies showing harp music is good at calming animals, especially cats. My cat was very skittish and unhappy as a result of very loud construction work next door and all other efforts to calm her down had not been totally successful. I got this and she (and I, if you must know) relaxed immediately. It is a beautiful sounding album. (And the bahaviorists have a ...

The Well-Tempered Synthesizer

14 reviews
Wendy Carlos

East Side Digital, 2001

Fantastic music for relaxation
I loved listening to this when I was growing up. I was very glad to find it on CD. A very nice CD to listen to to relax.

Bella Napoli - Concerti per Oboe

1 review
Vincenzo Bellini, Domenico Cimarosa, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Music making of the highest order
I am over the moon about this wonderful disk! The selections are real gems that have been exquisitely performed. I've always loved the sound of the oboe and on this disk it is warm and sonorous, obviously due to the incredible talent of Christoph Hartmann, but also thanks to the excellent quality of this recording. The soloist and accompanying ensemble are perfectly balanced. I would without ...

25 Piano Favorites

7 reviews
Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, ...

Vox (Classical), 1996

25 Piano Favorites
This is my favorite classical CD since it is geared to a wide audience. Many of my friends and acquaintances enjoy it, too.

Horowitz in Moscow

31 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1990

Oh, God...5 stars would be simply unfair...
Upon hearing this record for the first time, I had to pinch myself to make sure I was actually listening to such an amazing, if not perfect display of talent and beauty. After having listened to it over and over again along the years, maybe more than 1000 times, I still find it hard to believe that the guy was even a human being. The only fair review for such a record would be a wordless one: ...

Icon: Solomon

1 review
Haydn Rogerson, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Wonderful Survey of wonderful pianist
Below is a list of the tracks- Beethoven; Piano Concerto 3 and 5. Piano Sonata's Moonlite, Pathetique, Appasionata, Les Adieux, Hammerklavier, op 90, and the Waldstein. Brahms Piano Concerto 2. Tch Piano Cto. Grieg PnoCto. Schumann PnoCto. Scriabin PnoCto. Bliss PnoCto. Liszt Hung Fantasia. Mozart K491 Scarlatti K384. Bach Waufet Auf. Mozart Piano Sonata's K331. K 576 Needless to say, ...

Horowitz Plays Scarlatti

9 reviews
Domenico Scarlatti, Vladimir Horowitz

Sony, 2003

Awesome performance - should have left off the extra tracks
I bought this CD after watching Olga Kern perform several Scarlatti sonatas at a phenominal 3-standing-ovation concert. She hasn't recorded those sonatas yet, so this was the closest recording I could find. The performance and the recording are both exceptional. I sampled just about every other performance of Scarlatti I could find on-line before picking this CD and was not disappointed. It ...

Perpetual Motion

44 reviews
Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, ...

Sony, 2001

Soul Food
This is exquisite! The best of human experience encoded on a simple CD disk.

Switched-On Boxed Set

45 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, ...

East Side Digital, 1999

Admit it, they're good!
I remember back in the late sixties the original LP of "Switched on Bach" started showing up in record stores and causing quite a storm. Of course, being the proper musical snob and "purist" I was, I discounted them as being nothing better sounding than "tuned rubber bands". The trouble was, it was being played everywhere. You couldn't avoid it. And I was forced to listen. Little by ...

Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

3 reviews
Ferruccio Busoni, Frederic Chopin, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2003

Horowitz: A Digital Legacy
This set includes all of the recordings Vladimir Horowitz did for Deutsche Grammophon in the 1980s, including his historical concert in Moscow. While the context of his return in Moscow is moving, the studio recordings are simply wonderful. The sound quality is impeccable. The Steinway piano sounds warm but yet crisp and sharp. Horowitz still has plenty of power, and if you don't have a good ...

Los Romeros Anniversary Album

2 reviews
Angelita Romero, Georges Bizet, ...

Decca Records, 2008

My deepest respect & salute to The Romeros
I have been playing the classical guitar for 10 years now, and have been a fan of the Romeros - The Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar. This particular album is released to celebrate the 50th year anniversary of the Romeros Guitar Quartet, which definately is the most remarkable ensembles in musical history. The Romero dynasty begins with Maestro Celedonio Romero, born in 1913. At the age of ...

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