classical music: rondos - top sellers ...     classical music:       Chopin: The Piano Works17 reviews Frederic Chopin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, ... Decca, 1997 Best investment to make In my opinion, this is the apex of classical music. You will not find a better CD for Chopin or any piano recordings. There may be plenty of comparable CDs, but nothing can claim to surpass this. Although some pieces are not as good as those by other artists, Ashkenazy's interpretations of Chopin are the best I've ever heard. Add in his amazing technical performance and you've got some sublime ...             Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music8 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 ...             Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque (6 CDs)3 reviews W. W. Norton, 2005 The Standard If you're a music student at almost any major school (I just finished my undergraduate at Indiana University, for example) you'll most likely need to take a course that uses these CD's as part of its history survey. For that purpose, this set is an excellent collection. These, with their companion Norton Anthology of Western Music, and in conjunction with Grout/Palisca's History of Western ...             Mozart Edition: Complete Works (170 CD Box Set)74 reviews Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bruce Abel, ... Brilliant Classics, 2005 A wonderful set ! I bought the complete set for my birthday. What a wonderful surprise ! Let's say I did not know much about Mozart's music except some few "classics" (the symphonies, the requiem, some piano concertos and sonatas, some serenades and the operas). I love every piece I have listened to until now. I have discovered beautiful music I would never have listened to if I had not bought the set ! For ...             Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos12 reviews Felix Mendelssohn, Neville Marriner, ... Sony, 1990 A Legendary Recording There are so many things that could be said about this recording. It deserves a spot on any top 50 classical recordings list. The piece and the performance are both 5 stars. Mendelssohn is an undeservingly neglected composer. He is ususally thought of as an orchestral composer, since his command of the orchestra is parallel to Mozart's. But in his own time, he was as great a pianist as ...             Andras Schiff Plays Mozart5 reviews Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Andras Schiff Decca, 1990 Schiff's Mozart Andras Schiff first made a career for himself by playing Bach on a modern piano rather than a harpsicord and doing so most persuasively. Later, he turned his attention to Mozart, and again showed why he is one of the modern greats of the keyboard. I tend to think of Schiff's playing as being more reflective than Uchida's who is perhaps at times more energetic. However, Schiff is in his own way ...             Grigory Sokolov: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms [Box Set]3 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, ... Opus 111, 2005 Grigory Sokolov - The (Almost) Unknown Major Pianist One of the best-kept secrets in the piano world is the amazing Grigory Sokolov, a man in his fifties who won the Tchaikovsky Prize in 1966 at the age of sixteen. He has been somewhat reclusive. tending to play in Europe only, and has generally not made studio recordings, but among the cognoscenti his recitals are sought after and often sold out. All the music recorded in this five-CD box has been ...             Classical Kids: Collection6 reviews Various Artists Children's Book Store Distribution, 1995 Great series, great collection We've had the CDs in this boxed set for over a year now. The Classical Kids series has been wonderful. We have two boys (now 6 and 8) and this has been a great introduction to classical music. At first, the kids loved the stories which provide a sense of history and place and, ultimately, keep the kids interested in the entire CD. As they listened (time and time again), they started to pay more ...             100 Best Piano Classics2 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Tekla Badarzewska, ... Angel Records, 2006 good selection my cds were standard recording quality an overall good selection. It is sometimes hard to jump from different composers, but the cds flow well overall, an excellent way to catch a masterpiece you might have missed.             Beethoven Edition: Complete Works (85CD Box Set)8 reviews Ludwig van Beethoven, Florian Prey, ... Brilliant Classics, 2007 Very high quality set - a great buy! I have not found one disc that is of poor quality. Sometimes with box sets that are compilations from various artists, the volume level and purity of the sound can be inconsistent. I have not found that problem to be present with this set. Obviously,one disc may be better than another, but not to the degree that I find it irritating. I find that listening to this set is just a delight. I ...             Sonatas And Rondos5 reviews Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Mikhail Pletnev Deutsche Grammophon, 2002 Fanfare by a thinking man. History has given various members of the Bach family a true reversal of fortunes. Whereas the"provicial" Johann Sebastian, affectively known by his sons as the "Old Bach", is by many considered as the greatest of the composers, his "rock star status" sons CPE, JC, and WF currently mostly find ears in authentic circles. The latter deserve much better. It is doubtful whether Mozart would have ...             Sibelius: Complete Piano Music Jean Sibelius, Annette Servadei Musical Concepts, 2007             Isabel I: Reina de Castilla4 reviews Hesperion XXI, Daniele Carnovich, ... Alia Vox Spain, 2004 Not always historically accurate, but fabulous performances This recording presents a selection of music from the time of Isabella of Castile (1451-1504), organised to present a hypothetical illustration in sound of the main events of her reign. Connoisseurs will be familiar with a number of these pieces, many from previous Savall recordings (Palacio, Encina, Colombina discs). Alongside the Spanish works (villancicos, romances, sacred music) are examples ...             Richard Goode Performs Mozart4 reviews Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Goode Nonesuch, 2005 A Mozart Connoisseur's Mozart Richard Goode is a selfless performer. Not that he has no style or presence at the piano for he has these in abundance. It is simply that he places the composer and the music first instead of drawing attention to his own 'interpretation' and in doing so he gives us probably the most poignant and true readings of the composers he elects to play. Mozart is a perfect example of this approach. ...             Zoltán Kocsis plays Bartók1 review Bela Bartok, Márta Lukin, ... Philips, 2005 Masterful interpretation of Bartok's piano works Without a doubt Bartok is one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. Combining a deep understanding of the possibilities of eastern European folk music - particularly Hungarian and Romanian - with an extremely advanced harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary, Bartok composed some of the greatest works of the last century. Although Bartok wrote some sublime orchestral music (The Music ...             Mendelssohn: Sonata for Piano; Prelude & Fugue; Variations Sérieuses; Rondo Capriccioso6 reviews Felix Mendelssohn, Murray Perahia Sony, 1990 Best Mendelssohn piano CD released For me, Mendelssohn is a composer who often dissappoints. The reason for this is simple: he wrote a vast output of work comprised of several beautiful pieces surrounded by a multitude of mediocre (and almost insipid) ones. In all honesty, much of his piano music in particular is dated, showing neither the passion of Chopin or Schumann nor the perfection of form realized by Mozart and Beethoven. ...             Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon2 reviews Ferruccio Busoni, Frederic Chopin, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2003 Horowitz: A Digital Legacy This set includes all of the recordings Vladimir Horowitz did for Deutsche Grammophon in the 1980s, including his historical concert in Moscow. While the context of his return in Moscow is moving, the studio recordings are simply wonderful. The sound quality is impeccable. The Steinway piano sounds warm but yet crisp and sharp. Horowitz still has plenty of power, and if you don't have a good ...             The Recorder: 4 Centuries of Recorder Music3 reviews Anonymous, Italian Anonymous, ... Lyrichord Discs Inc., 1998 Excellent overview I was introduced to this collection at an institute of The California Arts Project which focused on teaching beginning recorder. This CD has an excellent variety...using the different types of recorders, and music of different periods. This CD is good for developing listening skills and for appreciating the importance of the recorder throughout musical history.             Horowitz at Home7 reviews Franz Liszt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1989 Fine Late Period Horowitz Toward the end of his career, Vladimir Horowitz had distilled his art to the bare essentials. Gone were the leonine fortissimos and occasional hysteria of the 1940s, replaced with a new simplicity. This recording, taped in the living room of his New York townhouse in 1989, is an excellent example of Horowitz's late period. The Mozart selections recall the fabled clarity of his Scarlatti ...             Different Mozart8 reviews Bela Fleck, Jeff Leonard, ... Philips, 1996 This More-zart CD should be 10 stars out of five. I have been listening to this CD for quite a while and I still like it. It never bores me. First, the transcriptions are done ingeniusly. Second, all the works are done by different musicians and thus the the play styles are all different. This is really QUITE A DIFFERENT More-zart. For example, Ruhe Sanft is an aria in 3/4, but it is beautifully transcribed in 4/4. At first listening, I ...              search for classical music anthology, baroque, beethoven, capriccioso, castilla, centuries, classical, classics, collection, complete, concertos, deutsche, different, edition, grammophon, grigory, horowitz, mendelssohn, performs, prelude, recorded, recorder, recordings, richard, sibelius, sokolov, sonatas, sérieuses, variations, western 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 book: Filming Margins: Tang Shu Shuen, A Forgotten Hong Kong Woman Film Director Impressum - about us get your own tag board