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

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

EMI Classics, 2001

Beautiful piano music!
This is simply an exquisite collection of beautiful piano pieces. I am very satisfied with this purchase. I can read while listening to this music-call it background music...maybe, but even when you're doing something else-the music is there...it does not intrude, but it doesn't get lost either. I am having a hard time explaining this. I wanted music to relax and enjoy. I got just that with this ...

25 Thunderous Classics

7 reviews
Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, ...

Vox (Classical), 2000

You will like this!
I had purchased an abundance of the "Favorites" collection and some were better than others. This CD is at the top of them all. They may be short, but not that short. Wondrous music. I can almost guarantee that you will like this music. Well worth the price!

Horowitz in Moscow

30 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1990

Magnificent!!! Bravo Horowitz!!
I remember hearing all about this concert in Moscow when I was a kid. Whatever I thought - so some old guy played in Mosocw. Well, reader you must forgive me for my stupidity, because for some time I realize the greatness of Maestro Horowitz, and the importance of his playing in Moscow, his hometown and homeland after 60 years. I bought this album because I remember the hoopla in 1986. ...

The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe

9 reviews
Johann Pachelbel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ...

Denon Records, 2003

Greatly enjoy!
I first developed a taste for this music a number of years ago when my daughter started playing in the orchestra. The reason I made this purchase however, was because I have a great deal of difficulty with anxiety and I was looking for ways to find help. I love these CDs. It helps so much to sit and close my eyes and enjoy the music. The CDs are full of beautiful music.

Sarah Brightman Classics

146 reviews
Sarah Brightman, Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, ...

Angel Records, 2002

Ahh Sarah!
Is there a better singer in the world? I don't think so, but in any case, this new album from the now very svelte and very georgeous Sarah Brightman is superb. The power, the control, the clarity is all there. This experienced vocalist is the definition of a world class diva. The proof of it all is the fact that her fans, of which I am one, could listen to her for days on end without getting ...

The Chopin Collection

13 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Artur Rubinstein

RCA Victor Europe, 1991

The ultimate interpretation
The ultimate way to apreciate the work of Chopin. powerful then again delicate. Sublime piano by Rubinstein. Curacao, apri1 14th 2008

BRAHMS: Edition - Complete Works

1 review
Bo Skovhus, Gunther Leib, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2008

Good budget set.
Alright, I'll admit upfront that I haven't gotten through this entire set yet (or even close to it) but I've sampled enough to where I feel I'm able to give a good opinion. Orchestral music: Inconsistent. The Violin Concerto is the worst of the bunch, with slow tempi and a soloist who takes irritating artificial pauses (ands make it sound like she's barely able to play the piece). The first ...

Chopin: Favorite Piano Works

14 reviews
Frederic Chopin, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Decca, 1996

Why are you waiting?
Ashkenazy is one of the titans of Chopin. Davidovich and Arrau are the other two. They're all you need. Get Davidovich for the concertos, (inlcuding the Krakowiak--Op 14), Arrau for the nocturnes and a few micscellaneous pieces. Ashkenazy handles everything else. (Btw, Ashkenazy vs. Davidovich re. the impromptus is a toss up. But since the impromptus aren't on this disc, you can make that ...

My Heart

26 reviews
Sissel, Fryderyk Chopin, ...

Decca, 2004

Sissel - My Heart CD
Sissel's voice is transcendent. So pure and lovely and easy to listen to. Her choice of music is out of this world. I can listen to it every day and not get tired of it.

Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, Volume 2: Classic to Twentieth Century (6 CDs)

2 reviews

W. W. Norton, 2005

Great CD collection
These CDs are great, i can appreciate them more however, through my music class.

György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) - Pierre-Laurent Aimard

22 reviews
Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Sony, 1997

Perfect Ligeti.
The own György Ligeti was asked about who was the pianist more complete in his piano works; he talked about Pierre-Laurent Aimard, whose a close relation with the XXth Century music is very well known (Boulez, Messiaen, Berg, Schönberg, Carter...) all around the world. He talked too about Volker Banfield, who has recorded some of the Etudes for Wergo, but not so good as Aimard recordings, in my ...

The Essential Joshua Bell

2 reviews
Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, ...

Sony, 2007

Violin touches your heart
Those who do not prefer violin music should try this. His violin will change your world. His music touches people's heart.

Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music

8 reviews
Bela Bartok, György Sándor

Vox (Classical), 2003

Best classical value out there
To put this set in perspective, for months I would go to my local Tower Records fishing for worthwhile classical CDs at least once a week. One of the discs that sat in the bins the longest was a single CD of Bartok piano music, played by Zoltan Kocsis. It was Volume 7 of a complete series. This CD listed for $17.99, and as long as I went to that Tower Records, it did not budge an inch, nor was ...

Horowitz Plays Scriabin

16 reviews
Alexander Scriabin, Vladimir Horowitz

RCA, 1989

From Byronic to Orgiastic
Vladimir Horowitz was a champion of Scriabin's music long before it became fashionable, or even semi-fashionable. Scriabin's music appeared on Horowitz's programs as early as the 1920s. Horowitz's first issued Scriabin recordings were made at his 25th Anniversary Concert in 1953 (also his last public recital until his famous comeback in 1965). The B-flat minor, and C-sharp minor Etudes are ...

Liszt: Greatest Hits

3 reviews
Franz Liszt, Esa-Pekka Salonen, ...

Sony, 1995

Excellent
This CD begins with an energetic Mephisto Waltz, flawlessly conducted with a minute and meticulous attention to detail by the illustrious Eugene Ormandy. The waltz is followed by the first momvement of Liszt's first piano concerto, a foreboding, majestic monument to ingenuity and technical challenge and brilliance, played perfectly by Emanuel Ax. After gaining the listener's attention with ...

Story Of Chopin In Words And Music

1 review
Frederic Chopin, Ingrid Haebler

Vox (Classical), 1995

BEAUTIFUL MUSIC/WAY TO LEARN ABOUT CHOPIN & HISTORY
The music is so wonderful, perhaps a better description is that the music is so beautiful that it almost seems surreal - Wow! So breathtaking, so Chopin!!! Add to the music, a great written biography on Chopin's life and you've got one incredible hour of enjoyment/learning. The first 1/2 hour mixes Chopin's story with his music; the second 1/2 hour is some of Chopin's greatest works! Great for ...

A Window in Time: Rachmaninoff Performs His Solo Piano Works

44 reviews
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Wayne Stahnke

Telarc, 1998

Rachmaninov performing his own piano pieces
Not only was Rachmaninov a wonderful composer he was also an amazing pianist. His album A Window in Time: Rachmaninov Performs His Solo Piano Works demonstrates his extraordinary combination of both technical skill and his intensely personal artistry. Rachmaniov is legendary in the piano world for his incredible reach on the piano. His fingers were long enough to span to the thirteenth key, ...

Perpetual Motion

43 reviews
Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, ...

Sony, 2001

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

Horowitz Live and Unedited [includes Bonus DVD]

9 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, ...

Sony, 2003

WHAT IS GOING ON?
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? WHY CANT YOU JUST LEAVE THE POOR MAN ALONE? I AM A PIANO STUDENT WHO JUST FINISHED A CONCERT SERIES OUTSIDE OF MY OWN COUNTRY AND I HAVE JUST READ SOME OF THE OTHER REIEWS ABOUT HOROWITZ HERE AND I AM FRANKLY DIGUSTED. ARE WRONG NOTES ALL YOU PEOPLE LISTEN TO? HOROWITZ WAS BRILLIANT, YES, BUT HE WAS ALSO HUMAN LIKE ALL OF US. I MAKE MY FAIR SHARE OF WRONG NOTES AND ...

Sviatoslav Richter Archives, Vol. 10

1 review
Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, ...

Doremi Records, 2006

Now this is what I'm talking about!!!!
Just when you thought you didnt need another Richter disc because the hundred plus on your shelf were beginning to make you look kind of insane, along comes the long anticipated complete 1960 carnegie recordings of which we were provided a teaser almost a half decade ago in the Rediscovered series(which provided one of the most steaming renditions of the Prokofiev 6th ever. These recordings ...

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