classical music top sellers     classical music:    ballads canons concertos etudes fantasies fugues inventions lullabies & berceuse oratorio preludes requiems, elegies & tombeau rondos serenades & divertimentos sonatas suites symphonies toccatas variations top sellers        My Favorite Brahms9 reviews Johannes Brahms, Van Cliburn RCA, 1999 An extraordinary piano recording. One really is at first simply stunned by the sound of the piano. These recordings are 30 years old and sound as good or better than a lot of what gets released today. And then there is the artist himself. I had never taken Cliburn for a Brahmsian. But there are so many wonderful performances on this CD. Take Op. 118 #6 for example. At first hearing, I thought Cliburn was being interpretive. ...                     Nancarrow: Pieces Nos. 1 & 2; ¿Tango?; String Quartet No. 12 reviews Celeste Marie Roy, David Krakauer, ... Naxos American, 2005 Nancarrow without the player piano: an essential addition to our knowledge of the composer This is the reissue of a recording made in 1989 and first released in 1991 by Musicmasters. See my lengthy review under the original release (Continuum Performs Nancarrow). It is an essential addition to our knowledge and understanding of Nancarrow, as it documents most of the (very few) pieces he wrote for for "normal" instruments, e.g. live performers, as opposed to the mechanical player piano ...                     The Essential Yo-Yo Ma20 reviews Edgar Meyer, Hector Console, ... Sony, 2005 Love him I just love him... I love his music.. Just a fact that CD case was all broken, it's all good as long as I can hear his music.                     The Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World...Ever!14 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 ...                     The Chopin Collection [Box Set]19 reviews Frederic Chopin, Artur Rubinstein RCA Victor Europe, 1991 A must have! A must have for whom loves romantic classical music; by one of the great masters on piano!                     Bach for Babies8 reviews Marc Johnson [double bass], Johann Sebastian Bach, ... Philips, 1999 Bach and Roll! You can't beat Bach. If classical music is the thing you want for your baby, get this CD. If you are single and have no kids, but classical music is your thing, get this CD. This is fantastic reading music, study music (regardless of what you're studying), and just plain relaxing music. I also highly recommend the CD, BUILD YOUR BABY'S BRAIN 1.                     Switched-On Bach II11 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Wendy Carlos East Side Digital, 2002 Staggering for the time, holds up well today Switched-On Bach II (along with The Well-Tempered Synthesizer) really shows what the analogue Moog gear could do in the hands of people who knew what they were doing. The performances hold up and the arrangements make the most of the material. This is Bach, after all, so that's a pretty tall order. Wendy and Rachel's experience on the earlier albums shows. After nearly 40 years Switched-On ...                     Chopin and Champagne: Set Your Mood for Romance12 reviews Frederic Chopin, David Zinman, ... Philips, 1995 The best Chopin you can buy The most sensitive piano playing I've ever heard. My wife likes it too.                     The Priests103 reviews The Priests RCA, 2008 Broad Appeal We have been very happy with this recording - the MP3 download version worked very well.                     Debussy's Greatest Hits12 reviews Claude Debussy, Andrew Litton, ... Sony, 1994 Probably the best compilation of a single composer's works. Ever! Claude Debussy is perhaps the most understated composer in the history of man. His ability to compose both on the piano and for orchestra is unmatched, in my humble opinion. The fact that Debussy was able to also arrange many contemporary and previous composers' works just adds to his resume. He had a gift, pure and simple. Although this album doesn't (well, honestly it couldn't) contain ...                     Faure Requiem Op.48 / Durufle Requiem Op.925 reviews Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Telarc, 1990 French Choral Classics This disk has set the standard for performing the settings of the Requiem mass by two great French masters, Gabriel Faure and Maurice Durufle. The Faure setting is an intimate one with occasional moments of tempestuousness. This particular recording features the more heavily orchestrated edition (for an excellent chamber version see the Cambridge Singers under John Rutter). Put in seven parts, ...                     Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos13 reviews Felix Mendelssohn, Neville Marriner, ... Sony, 1990 A great Mendelssohn album Yet another great recording from Murray Perahia and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields! This recording has really helped me in preparing to perform one of the Mendelssohn concertos myself; great sound quality on the actual recording as well as the superb technique exhibited makes this album one of my favorites!                     The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World...Ever!85 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Léo Delibes, ... Angel Records, 1999 Really nice assortment and very relaxing If you're looking for a classical music CD for background in the house, this is it. Very relaxing.                     Spanish Guitar Music10 reviews Isaac Albeniz, Mateo Albeniz, ... Sony, 2002 The Best Classical Guitarist in the World All of the music on this disc was recorded for Columbia Records between 1964 and 1970 for release on four different LP albums. These are those albums (and I've had them all for 35 years): COLUMBIA RECORDS PRESENTS JOHN WILLIAMS (1964) VIRTUOSO MUSIC FOR GUITAR (1965) MORE VIRTUOSO MUSIC FOR GUITAR (1967) JOHN WILLIAMS PLAYS SPANISH MUSIC (1970) Fourteen of the first fifteen tracks here ...                     25 Bach Favorites12 reviews Hildegard Rutgers, Erich Wenk, ... Vox (Classical), 1996 Bach Surely you don't need me to review the guy. You know who he is, you've heard his music, and I hope you own some. So let me turn the podium over to a cat named Picasso, and you can read into that whatever you wish. She's in a chair, near the CD player. She has entered the room specifically for the music. Her eyes are squinted, almost but not quite shut, little face concentrating on just how ...                     In Principio3 reviews Arvo Part Ecm Records, 2009 Magnificent and Original! Every track on this recording is a pleasant and wonderful surprise. Part has produced a modern masterpiece! He is fresh, spiritual, sometimes almost elusive - carrying your mind to new places and beautiful vistas within your heart. One has to experience this recording and live its many triumphs!                     Schumann: Kinderszenen Op154 reviews Robert Schumann, Vladimir Horowitz Sony, 1990 The Definitive Kreislerianna Everything on this disc is what you'd expect from one of the greatest pianists of all time: superb. But the treasure is the Kreislerianna, of which this is the definitive recording. I've searched in vain for a more recent, sonically better version. There is, for example, a decent recording of the piece by Perahia, a mediocre one by Brendel, and an awful one by Argerich (arghhh!), but nothing ...                     UltraSound - Music for the Unborn Child27 reviews Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, ... RCA, 1999 Good I was very pleased with this cd. It is very soothing and calming. I bought it for my daughter and she uses it also for her 21/2 year old to help him sleep in the afternoons. It works.              classical music:    randomly chosen DVD: The Dark Knight (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy) leave a comment home  impressum - about us