classical music: lullabies & berceuse - top sellers ...     classical music:       Debussy: The Complete Works For Piano18 reviews Claude Debussy, Kurt Schroder, ... EMI Classics, 1997 Debussy and Gieseking Historical 1950s recordings that demonstrate Gieseking's well attested shades of piano sound that are unique and outstanding.             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 Chopin Collection14 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             Grieg: Lyric Pieces / Emil Gilels22 reviews Edvard Grieg, Emil Gilels Deutsche Grammophon, 1997 Superb historical achievement! Emil Gilels temperament has always been at least to my mind extremely cold and even analytical. His powerful phrasing is first rate, who can deny it? . However, he recorded for the posterity two emblematic works; this album and Brahms Piano Quartet Op. 25 with Amadeus Quartet(see my review). Gilels was at top form that historical evening with these Grieg pieces. This miniaurist composer ...             UltraSound - Music for the Unborn Child23 reviews Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, ... RCA, 1999 Soothing sounds for unborn baby This product is wonderful and i would recommend it to anybody who is expecting a baby. It can be used also later on when the baby is born of course so it is a never-ending beautiful piece of music.             David Russell: Art of the Guitar1 review Isaac Albeniz, Julian Arcas, ... Telarc, 2007 Amazing again!!!! Another great recording from David Russell and Telarc. Just listen Grieg pieces and Galeron by Sojo. No more words needed. Every year a new David Russell CD....... Thank you Telarc.......             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 ...             A Robert Shaw Christmas - Angels on High20 reviews Charles Sprawls, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... Telarc, 1997 Inspiring! You simply cannot go wrong with this wonderful collection from a disciplined and masterfully-led chorus. If you want to hear Christmas choral standards in all their glory, no disappointment here - beautiful men's chorus version (original) of Beibl's Ave Maria, and the treble voices also get play in the Ceremony of Carols.             Debussy: Orchestral Music17 reviews George Pieterson, Claude Debussy, ... Philips, 1994 Great True, Haitink is not a "ZIP! ZING! POW! conductor" like David A. FLetcher mentioned in his review (I thought it was funny put, so I wanted to quote it), but he sure knows how to let the music do the speaking. These are not "impressionistic" readings and I'm glad they're not, although the orchestra sounds warm and round, a little "cosy" if you like, but that's fine, I love the sound. The ...             English Renaissance Music5 reviews John Bull, William Byrd, ... Sony, 1990 The finest brass ensembles all on 1 album I got this CD quite a while ago, and I still listen to it almost daily. Best at night in a candlelit room while it's raining sipping fine wine and reminising of the Renaissance festival! (wierd, I know. But that's just me) If you have an interest in this time period, you won't regret buying this CD.             Ballad For Edvard Grieg3 reviews Edvard Grieg, Berliner Philharmoniker, ... EMI Classics, 2007 Outstanding Performance Disappointing CD Imagine my surprise when I received this CD, and after removing the shrink wrap discovered that 9 of the 10 tracks or 2 of the 3 works on this CD were re-issues. The Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 is a reissue from 2002 and the 6 Lyric Pieces were originally issued on a wonderful disc in 2001. Until I looked at the notes inside the jewel case I thought these were new performances. Shame on ...             Chopin: The Piano Works18 reviews Frederic Chopin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, ... Decca, 1997 Well worth the money. Wonderful! Wonderful! I am not a classical music expert but I am an expert when it comes to a great product. I have listened to the works of rubenstein and Horowitz, but nothing is comparable to this great collection of polands favorite son. The nocturnes are dreamy and romantic. The other pieces though not as mesmerizing have plenty of depth and feeling. This is a collection that you will listen to over and over ...             Jean-Yves Thibaudet - Debussy · images, études ~ complete works for piano, vol. 26 reviews Claude Debussy, Jean-Yves Thibaudet Decca, 2000 Superior recordings and performances The Penguin Guide to CDs and DVDs has Thibaudet's sets of the complete Debussy solo piano music at the top of the digital recordings, and this is certainly high quality. We have several recordings of the Preludes and some other works, but there is nothing to come close to Thibaudet for great performances and superior recording quality. The liner notes are very helpful, and in the first set ...             Debussy: Complete Works For Piano, Vol. 31 review Debussy Chandos, 2008 A Debussy Disc That Enters the Top Echelon Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is a French pianist known to me only from a previous disc of Bartók violin/piano pieces, in which he more than ably partnered the gifted French violinist Laurent Korcia Bartók: Works for Violin. Admittedly I was paying more attention to the violinist on that recording -- it also contains a magnificent rendering of Bartók's solo violin sonata -- but I was aware that Bavouzet ...             Piano for Relaxation3 reviews Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, ... RCA, 2000 The Real Deal! I've been disappointed by lots of music advertised as relaxation music, but this Piano for Relaxtion CD is the real deal! Listening to this CD is like having a peaceful, meaningful talk with an old friend whom you love and with whom you feel very familiar. The producers of this album managed to make it interesting (rather than boring) and also keep it peaceful and relaxed throughout, eliminating ...             Chopin: Sonata in B-flat minor, Berceuse, etc.5 reviews Frederic Chopin, Ivan Moravec Vox (Classical), 2003 Unique and unforgettable All of this music has been recorded many times over by musicians ranging from the dire to the sublime. For any Chopin recording to really stand out from the pack nowadays, it has to have some really special qualities. This is one of those recordings, and as someone who has never heard any other Moravec, it has made me eager to explore him further. The B-flat minor Sonata of Chopin is a ...             John Rutter: Music for Christmas3 reviews Polyphony, Stephen Layton, ... Hyperion UK, 2001 At the Top of My Christmas Playing List! This is just an outstanding collection of choral, Christian selections. The majority are composed by Rutter, who it turns out was led into this field for which he is so well known and loved when in school, he was motivated by a fellow student who was composing a Christimas carol to do the same. Thanks be to God for that motivation! Rutter's work simply in this humble reviewer has no other ...             Chopin For Relaxation6 reviews Frederic Chopin, Eugene Ormandy, ... RCA, 2000 Explore the romance and poetry of Chopin This is an ideal CD if you are looking for some "nice piano music" or want to explore the music of Fryderyk Chopin [1810-1849]. Chopin was born in Poland but lived most of his life in Paris among the glamorous, wealthy, aristocratic and artistic. Stories of his lavish life, beautiful female students and love affairs are legendary. Having few musical influences and minimal formal training, he ...             Lullabies: A Songbook Companion12 reviews Anonymous, Yiddish Anonymous, ... Essay, 1997 Marvellous cd, enchanting music Our whole family loves this cd. I am continually charmed and refreshed by the subtlety, taste and musicianship that has gone into these arrangements of well- and lesser-known gems. Apart from the joy of the simple yet perfect chordal progressions, listen to the warm, caressing tone imparted by the low bass notes in the piano in many of the tracks. The pace is so wonderfully leisurely, there ...             Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Performed on Grieg's Piano)14 reviews Edvard Grieg, Leif Ove Andsnes EMI Classics, 2002 Sensitive modern pianism Borrowing a phrase from the contemporary political philosopher Fukuyama a case can be made that the world of classical piano music has reached "the end of history". This notion is based on the often heard idea that it only takes two clicks to get superior performances of any piece worth recording at home and that this part of the universe has reached a state of completion. 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