classical music: Yehudi Menuhin ...     classical music:       The Most Relaxing Classical Album In the World Ever, Volume II12 reviews Yehudi Menuhin, Jacqueline Du Pre, ... EMI Classics, 2003 Most Relaxing Classical Music. II Beautifully done, arranged, and selected. All are very good performances, and there are many lesser known but wonderful pieces such as the movement from Shostakovich's second piano concerto.             Movie Adagios8 reviews Janos Starker, Julian Lloyd Webber, ... Decca, 2001 One of the best CDs you'll ever own This is an excellent selection of music. I listen to it every chance I get. It is great just to put in your CD player on "repeat" and allow it to soothe and inspire you for a few hours, for an evening, or an for entire day. One reason I chose it was that I was looking for music that could simply be a nice background noise for when I'm working on things that require reading and concentration. I ...             David Oistrakh: The Complete EMI Recordings9 reviews Joseph Stidel, Mstislav Rostropovich, ... EMI Classics, 2008 "Captivating" For the money, you really can't do much better - this is simply a steal. This man was one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. The recordings here are crystal clear and beautiful-I listen to the cds in six channel stereo mode on a Yamaha receiver - what a joy! 17 discs full of absolutely stunning, captivating music - full orchastra, trios, sonatas... a smorgasborg for the classical ...             Cello Adagios3 reviews Heinrich Schiff, Janos Starker, ... Decca, 2004 really like it This is the first classical cd I have ever bought. The two-disc album was a great price. I really love the performance of Lynn Harrell. I like the collection of Adagios because they are perfect to fall asleep to or study to.             The Very Best of Grappelli and Menuhin2 reviews Stephane Grappelli & Menuhin Angel Records, 1998 Very Best Grappelli & Menuhin Great CD. Great musicians, great selection of music.             Yehudi Menuhin: The Great EMI Recordings4 reviews Yehudi Menuhin EMI Classics, 2009 Menuhin Boxed Set The box contains 50 discs, all with the great violinist, Yehudi Menuhin. Ten of the discs were recorded in the 1930s while Menuhin was in his teens. The sound on these recordings is not up to present standards but is acceptable. The remaining 40 discs were mostly recorded in the 1950s and 1960s with very good sound quality. The set includes a booklet which takes 50 pages to just list the the ...             The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World...Ever!90 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Léo Delibes, ... Angel Records, 1999 Amazing and PERFECT for those who don't know classical music! I don't know a lot about classical music, but I wanted a CD that would be relaxing and would highlight some of the more well known classical songs. Browsing on Amazon, I came across this CD and previewed the songs and loved it! Since it arrived in the mail, it is all I listen to! It is so very relaxing. I tend to have a little road rage at times, so I play it in the car and feel very relaxed. It ...             Hallelujah: 35 Great Sacred Choruses3 reviews David Thomas, James Morris, ... Sparrow, 2004 lovely works... Excellent selections... my favorite is the Sanctus by Gounod. The music seems to build in the blood... the organ being the heartbeat. If you turn the volume up just right... a memorable experience. Beautiful!             West Meets East: The Historic Shankar Menuhin Collection21 reviews Ravi Shankar & Yehudi Menuhin Angel Records, 1999 historic fusion It was about time West and East got together. The violin and the sitar together, played by complete masters of each instrument... This would be an excellent example of "world fusion". About all I can say is it works and very, very well and it's incredible. I often don't do music reviews because I don't enjoy writing about music. It is partly because I don't understand things technically and ...             The Art of Violin47 reviews Georges Enesco, Ivry Gitlis Nvc Arts, 2001 ..it's a beautiful thing! The Art of Violin You don't have to be a musician to appreciate the tremendous beauty and soul touching performances of the greatest violinists of the 20th century along with stories of their skill and their beginnings. After you've watched this . . you just feel better!             Bartok: Violin Concertos, Viola Concerto, 6 Duo for 2 Violins, Violin Rhapsodies; Yehudi Menuhin3 reviews Yehudi Menuhin, Bela Bartok, ... EMI Classics, 2004 Beautiful music.....Bartok is my favorite....... Menuhin with his strongly creative imagination plays these concertos with characteristic nobility of feeling during much of the Hungarian dance-rhythms. There is a comparably earthy, peasant manner in Menuhin's playing of the two Rhapsodies, and it is match by Boulez's approach, warm and passionate rather than clinical. The soloist is rather close. However, the balance responds to the ...             Beethoven Violin Concerto & Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 & Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 / Yehudi Menuhin5 reviews Yehudi Menuhin, Colin Davis EMI Classics, 2003 He Plays like an Angel Menuhin plays like an angel. He invites you to communicate with him heart and soul the whole time he plays. Here, or in fact anytime at all, he played the Mozart Concerto somewhat like Hassid: not just every note talks like a human, they're cries and weeps and moans from the deepest of one's soul. The way Menuhin played his Beethoven is probaby the most difficult one, especially the cadenza. ...             Baroque Telemann: Concertos & Sonatas5 reviews Georg Philipp Telemann, Louis Auriacombe, ... EMI Classics, 1995 Fantastic! In his day, George Philip Telemann was more popular than Bach. But, as a Telemann fan, I GREATLY enjoy this CD. Additionally, I especially like flutes and violins. The CD includes one of Telemann's best pieces, Suite in A minor for Flute (Suite a-moll) which is a wonderful delight. Telemann also composed concertos for trumpet and one is included here as well. If you haven't tried Telemann, ...             Classical Chillout1 review Various Artists EMI Classics, 2002 unique movie and tv music selections This cd has interesting selections, some from movies and some from tv commercials. All good, and a few interesting and unexpected ones, like Spiegel im Spiegel, and Peretuum Mobile (my 2 favorites). You won't recognize those names, but you'll realize you heard them somewhere before.             Classical Heartbreakers4 reviews Lászlo Varga, Robert Cohen, ... EMI Classics, 2004 A Fantastic Compilation Most of the musical pieces in this compilation are from versions as they appear in various movies. This is Classical music from classic movies such as: Somewhere in Time, Schindler's List, English Patient, The Piano, Platoon, et al. But make no mistake; the music is what's really worth mentioning here. The title says it all. It claims to have "the most moving Classical music of all time," and ...             The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever!6 reviews John Shirley-Quirk, Daniel Sladden, ... EMI Classics, 2005 I love it and I give it as a gift This is the first collection of choral music that I've purchased and I love it. I own copies of operas and requiems and masses, but if you attend choral concerts, as I have been recently, you learn there is a huge colletion of choral music appart from the forms I've been listening to. I appreciate the producers selecting "Song for Athene" by Tavener and "Celebration (Standing Stone)" by ...             The Best Classical Album in the World... Ever!10 reviews Stanley Myers, Antonio Vivaldi, ... EMI Classics, 1996 Forget what they SAY Many of these prior reviewers complain that the abundance of operas and vocals degrate this compilation. They don't know what they're talking about. These genres are what made Classical music popular in it's age. In that era the forum for showcasing "classical music" was operas! Hence why most of these works are lost in the shuffle. Most of us know Mozart and Beethoven's compositions by ear ...             Great Recordings Of The Century - Beethoven; Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos / Furtwangler, Menuhin13 reviews Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix [1] Mendelssohn, ... EMI Classics, 1999 Menuhin and Furtwangler Play Beethoven and Mendelssohn The thirteenth-century poet Rumi wrote that "the voice of the violin is the sound of the opening gate of paradise." I was swept away by this classic recording of the Beethoven and Mendelssohn violin concertos by Yehudi Menuhin and Wilhelm Furtwangler conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in the Beethoven and the Berlin Philharmonic in the Mendelsshon. This disk is a reissue on the "Great ...             Sitar Concertos & Other Works3 reviews Ravi Shankar, André Previn, ... EMI Classics, 2005 East meets West musically with fantastic results This is more than two hours of acclaimed sitar master Ravi Shankar grooving with a variety of Western orchestral instruments in both classical Western and classical Indian musical settings. The former includes two concertos for sitar and orchestra; the latter includes two ragas and other traditional works. Shankar is joined by plenty of heavy hitters. The conductors for the two concertos ...             Brahms: String Sextets Nos. 1 & 22 reviews Derek Simpson, Maurice Gendron, ... EMI Classics, 2003 Great Brahms playing in a gentle mood I agree with the reviewer below who calls these Menuhin-led performances inspiring. The two Brahms Sextets have been fortunate on recordings, with great accounts going back to the Casals Festival in the early Fifties. If you own the live readings by the combined Amadeus and Alban Berg Quartets, you know how great the older recordings are. But Menuhin and his friends, all notable soloists and free ...              search for classical music adagios, baroque, beethoven, century, chillout, choral, choruses, classical, collection, complete, concerto, concertos, furtwangler, grappelli, hallelujah, heartbreakers, historic, mendelssohn, menuhin, oistrakh, recordings, relaxing, rhapsodies, sextets, shankar, sonatas, string, telemann, violins, volume classical music:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: #1 Piano Album we recommend Ring of Fire home  impressum - about us