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7 reviews
Janos Starker, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Decca, 2000

Exquisite Essential Bach
Value and exquisite sampler of Bach on two CD's at an affordable price. Recorded by the likes primarily of Academy of the St. Martin-in-the-fields, Chicago Sympony, Boston Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra and with virtuoso performers as William Bennett, Heinz Hollinger, Pepe Romero, and Wolfgang Rubsam, one gets treated to wonderful Bach exerpts of all his fantastic breath and depth of ...

Rapture: Opera's Most Heavenly Moments

14 reviews
Rapture-Opera's Most Heavenly Moments

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

Heavenly music
This is a wonderful background for any tension realeasing activity, like reading a book. So glad I purchased it.

Verdi - Otello / Domingo, Fleming, Morris, Croft, Levine, Moshinsky, Metropolitan Opera

26 reviews
Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming

Deutsche Grammophon, 2004

E Viva Otello!
Right from the opening storm scene with the chorus, I knew I would not be disappointed. The elegant sets matched the equally elegant music and performance. Personally, I thought James Morris's performance of Jago (Or Iago in English) stole the show. I don't think I'll ever see a Jago as snide or sneaky as him. Domingo's performance of progressively getting more and more distrusting, angry, and ...

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

84 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Léo Delibes, ...

Angel Records, 1999

Good for relaxing pregnant women
I stumbled onto this album whilst searching bit torrent websites for classical music. I don't normally listen to classical music but thought it might be relaxing for my pregnant wife. After hearing the quality of the performances, the arrangement, and the recording I decided to buy the album from amazon. All the songs you would expect from a "best album in the world" are there and they are not ...

Bach - The Complete Brandenburg Concertos / Pearlman, Boston Baroque

23 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Martin Pearlman, ...

Telarc, 1996

nobody tops Boston Baroque
I am just knocked out by Boston Baroque's performances and the technical perfection of their recordings. This music is still very much alive in these good hands. If you like Bach and you have a decent sound system, you'll play this one for your friends.

Essential Mozart: 32 Of His Greatest Masterpieces

17 reviews
Fritz Dolezal, Franklin Cohen, ...

Decca, 2001

What a deal
You get Mozart's best works in 2 CD. The sound is flawless to the common ear. Get it! if you love Mozart

Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet)- Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn

26 reviews
Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev

Kultur Video, 1999

A sensual joy
This is an extraordinarily enjoyable spectacle, a true feast for the senses. First of all, the sets and costumes are beautifully formed and colored. Then, the music by Prokofiev is perfect, exquisiely toned to evoke love, excitement, sorrow; it's as excellent as the play or the ballet. And the protagonists are perfectly cast, with an added poignancy coming from what one knows of their tragic ...

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36 reviews
Libera, Steven Geraghty, ...

EMI Classics, 2004

A little more daring.
Libera is not "classical" music, per se...judging them by that standard is absurd and unfair (I say this as a trained musician and Bach aficionado). Their style is their own, let them have it! The choir isn't supposed to be John Eliot Gardiner or Mahler (thank God). The whole disc is worth the recording of "Adoramus." Instead of the flute solo that opened the live performance of the piece at ...

Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition

4 reviews
Benjamin Luxon, Brian Etheridge, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Great Value, Fine Performances
For lovers of Ralph Vaughan Williams' music, the prospect of obtaining most of his works on 30 CDs for $50 or less should be irresistible. It's a great way to fill in the gaps in your collection, or to become acquainted with RVW's less familiar works. Among the highlights of this box are the Serenade to Music and the Pilgrim's Progress (both conducted by Adrian Boult), Partita for Double String ...

Harem

202 reviews
Sarah Brightman, Frank Peterson

Angel Records, 2003

Harem is heavenly
A voice so pure, effortless and flawless. What a gift - this voice. Brightman turns every song into a seductive love song. She could gargle mouthwash and seduce me. Definitely a CD for cosmopolitan lovers.

The King's Singers Greatest Hits

3 reviews
Christopher van Kampen, Bill Jackman, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Like a musical buffet
Everything from madrigals to the Beatles with a little Christmas music for color. Even if you're not a big fan of madrigals or folk songs, the King's have a way of making them thoroughly enjoyable and very easy to listen to. The track "You Are the New Day" will bring tears to your eyes - it's that beautiful. Can't say enough good words about the work of this group, from their beginnings to the ...

True Love Waits: O'Riley Plays Radiohead

62 reviews
Radiohead, Unspecified, ...

Sony, 2003

a transcription worthy of Franz Liszt
This is a beautiful recording. Try playing it for music loving frends who would never listen to a band like Radiohead. They won't believe it when you tell them the source of this richly textured heartbreakingly melodic tour de force. I'm in my late 50's and love Mahler, Sibelius,and Beethoven. I also love Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, John Fahey and Wilco. Good music can come along in any time and ...

Essential Baroque

5 reviews
Essential Baroque

Decca, 2002

High-quality, marvelously varied intro to baroque music
I am buying this as the perfect gift for Russian and Chinese scientist friends. They have knowledge of classical music but perhaps not much about baroque music, which achieved special popularity in the U.S. during the 1970's and 1980's. Russians seem to have more familiarity with romantic classical music, while the more recently arrived Asian classical buffs have special affinity to the ...

Early Venetian Lute Music

6 reviews
Anonymous, Franciscus Bossinensis, ...

Naxos, 2000

A Journey Back In Time!
This is a wonderful CD! Beautifully recorded in St. Andrews Church in Toddington, England! The quiet melodies of each piece are different enough that you will never get bored playing it over and over again!The next time you have a bad day, or come home from work some night with frayed nerves, try this!Turn out all of the lights, light a candle in a jar, preferably a scented one (sounds awfully ...

Christopher Parkening plays Bach

16 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Francois Couperin, ...

EMI Classics, 1990

Pinnacle
I can't over-exaggerate the impact this album had on me when my Dad played it for me when I was about 6. It encouraged me to become a guitarist, and hearing it was my first truly profound musical experience that I can remember. I love all kinds of music, but nothing has touched me like this album in the 19 years since then. Parkening's reading of Bach arranged for the classical guitar is ...

Jacqueline Du Pre: A Celebration of Her Unique Enduring Gift

1 review
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim

Christopher Nupen, 2007

WONDERFUL!!!!!!
For me this is the best Nupen's film about Jackie. It has "Who was Jacqueline du Pré?", "Interlude with Johannes Brahms" a previously unpublished interview and "Remembering Jacqueline du Pré". It's more than 3 hours of music and words of people who knew her best to enjoy and remember the best cello player of all times. "Heart-Stopping arcchive footage" The Times

Puccini: La Bohème

2 reviews
Andrew Garland, Christopher Schaldenbrand, ...

Telarc, 2008

Latest Recording of la Boheme
The description of this product by Amazon is incomplete. The album consists of 2 discs: #1 is Acts I and II, #2 is Acts III and IV. Also included are the full libretto in Italian and English, and excellent program notes by Nick Jones. It is a recording of a semi-staged performance of La Bohème in Atlanta Symphony Hall. This is the ideal way to record an opera for audio playback: the ...

Songs of Angels - Christmas Hymns and Carols

20 reviews
Robert Shaw Chamber Singers

Telarc, 1994

Much Anticipated
I have been looking for this CD for years!! Our family had a Shaw Chorale LP which contained almost all the songs on this CD. We had a number of excellent holiday albums and played all of them often, but we wore the Shaw Chorale album out! Not only are the musical renditions excellent and very similar to earlier Shaw recordings, the nostalgia evoked for this listener is incomparable!

Hold Me to This: Christopher O'Riley Plays Radiohead

15 reviews
Radiohead, Christopher O'Riley

World Village USA, 2005

Cocktail Party Radiohead
I own the first Christopher O'Reily Radiohead Tribute - True Love Waits. If you love his stunning piano in that, or if you love stunning piano altogether, you will love Hold Me To This. I am an avid lover of all things Radiohead turned into wordless music lullabyes and this one does not dissapoint.

Andres Segovia: In Portrait

14 reviews
Christopher Nupen, Rameau Albeniz

BBC / Opus Arte, 2005

The Master of Classical Guitar
I just love this disc. The production is wonderful and of course Andres Segovia's guitar playing is phenomenal. His comments on his music and life give you a good understanding of where he's coming from. The DVD offers you the choice to play just the musical portions or the entire film including his interviews.

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