classical music: toccatas - top sellers ...     classical music:       Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Concise Version (6 Compact Discs) W. W. Norton, 2005 The Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Concise Edition includes professional recordings (many brand new) of selected works in the anthology in a six-CD set. These CDs are for use with The Norton Anthology of Western Music and A History of Western Music .             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 ...             Bach Edition: Complete Works (155 CD Box Set)54 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Manze, ... Brilliant Classics, 2006 An Excellent Value To get the entire works of Bach in a collection of this type for this price is just wonderful. I have given these as gifts and those who have received them have raved about them. Just an excellent value.             Bach & Beyond - Gabriela Montero23 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabriela Montero, ... EMI Classics, 2006 Sublime This is compositional improvisation at the highest possible level - stunning - with everything that music is or is supposed to have: the highs, the lows, the emotions, the amazingly transparent technical ability. Not only is she a brilliant performer of such composers as Chopin, Bach, Debussy, Granados and some of the modernists like Prokofiev, but she has entirely absorbed the musical idiom of ...             Debut Recital / Martha Argerich34 reviews Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1996 WOW! Absolutely stunning! I just bought this disc and was blown away by it. It was everything I thought it would be and then some. It has to be one of the great piano recital CDs of all time. I can't imagine anyone being disappointed with this.             J.S. Bach: Toccata, Partita, English Suite 2/ Martha Argerich23 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Martha Argerich Deutsche Grammophon, 2000 INEFFABLE! Do you like Glenn Gould's Bach? So listen to what Martha can do baby... Ms. Argerich, you rule!             Stories Of Schumann And Grieg Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann, ... Vox (Classical), 1995             Greatest Hits: Harpsichord9 reviews Mateo Albeniz, Anonymous, ... Sony, 1995 "Best Harpsichord Recording" I have always loved the sound of the Harpsichord and for many years hearing poorly recorded or played Harpsichord this treasure is a must have. From the fine compositions to the good sound quality this CD is definately a keeper. Plenty of music for a moderate price as well.             Horowitz Live and Unedited [includes Bonus DVD]9 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Ferruccio Busoni, ... Sony, 2003 WHAT IS GOING ON? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? WHY CANT YOU JUST LEAVE THE POOR MAN ALONE? I AM A PIANO STUDENT WHO JUST FINISHED A CONCERT SERIES OUTSIDE OF MY OWN COUNTRY AND I HAVE JUST READ SOME OF THE OTHER REIEWS ABOUT HOROWITZ HERE AND I AM FRANKLY DIGUSTED. ARE WRONG NOTES ALL YOU PEOPLE LISTEN TO? HOROWITZ WAS BRILLIANT, YES, BUT HE WAS ALSO HUMAN LIKE ALL OF US. I MAKE MY FAIR SHARE OF WRONG NOTES AND ...             Ceremonial Music for Trumpet & Symphonic Organ7 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, ... Telarc, 1993 A ceremony in sound This is a beautifully performed CD of ceremonial music of the Christian tradition. While organist Michael Murray talks about the diversity of kinds of ceremonial music in the liner notes essay, the musical selection here is drawn from the Western Christian tradition with few exceptions. Sometimes the music did not start out as ceremonial in nature - Murray points out that the 'Incidental ...             Buxtehude: Complete Organ Music4 reviews Dietrich Buxtehude, Walter Kraft Vox (Classical), 2004 Die Orgelwerke Buxtehudes minus 2 This is by far (with the exception of the set performed by Harald Vogel) the best recording of Buxtehude's complete output for Organ. With two exceptions (not included in this recording are the Praeludium C-Dur BuxWV 138 and the Kanzonette a-Moll BuxWV 225), Walter Kraft here records the entire opus for Organ of his illustrious predecessor at the post of Organist and the Marienkirche zu ...             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 ...             Giovanni Gabrieli: Music For San Rocco7 reviews Charles Pott, Donald Greig, ... Archiv Produktion, 1996 This is how you perform the music of Gabrieli! There is little I can add to what the other reviewers have said about this tremendous recording. The performances are very good, the tempi are well chosen and the instruments are the rights ones. There are many excellent contributions from individuals - Robin Blaze is positively heroic in Buccinate in neomenia tuba. The three violins in Sonata XXI con tre violini play this music with great ...             Buxtehude: Harpsichord Works2 reviews Dietrich Buxtehude, Glen Wilson Naxos, 2005 Buxtehude's Harpsichord Works, Beautifully Presented Chances are you've never heard any of Buxtehude's harpsichord music. I certainly hadn't in more that fifty years of concert-going and record-collecting. That's because his keyboard music is best known as played on the organ. And indeed most of his keyboard music is specifically for the organ--it contains pedal parts. But sometimes at the back of collections of his organ music there were pieces ...             Khachaturian: Piano Concerto in D flat, Sonatina; Toccata4 reviews Aram Khachaturian, Loris Tjeknavorian, ... Asv Living Era, 2004 Earthy, Vital Performances--but Short Measure It is not at all faint praise to say this performance of the Piano Concerto reminds me very much of Alicia de Larrocha's, one of the finest recordings of the work from the stereo era--maybe the finest. Like DeLarrocha and her conductor Raphael Frubeck de Burgos, Alberto Portugheis and Khachaturian specialist Loris Tjeknavorian pace the work rather broadly, the better to infuse it with the ...             The Top 100 Masterpieces of Classical Music (Box Set)10 reviews Miklos Perenyi, Bela Kovacs, ... Delta, 1994 It is the best collection of classic masterpieces. I had this collection and lost it in 2000 when moving to a new house. I took me a time to find it but after having it again I can say it is the most valuable selection of classic music, it is truly the 100 top masterpieces and the sound is excellent.             Schumann: Kreisleriana; Wieck-Variations; Toccata Robert Schumann, Vladimir Horowitz Sony, 2003             Schumann: Piano Concerto / Sviatoslav Richter11 reviews Robert Schumann, Stanislaw Wislocki, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1996 Keep coming back to this Schumann piano concerto Over the course of time, I have listened to at least five different pianists play this Schumann piano concerto. Most recently I've discovered Klara Wurtz and find her refreshing to listen to in her well balanced lyrical interpretation and technical skills (Check her out! - she plays Schumann beautifully). But this classic recording will always be the #1 recording in my book. It' no wonder ...             Midnight at Notre-Dame [Hybrid SACD]5 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2004 A remarkable CD of organ transcriptions. The superlatives for this CD must begin with the recorded sound, certainly the best (and most realistic) pipe organ reproduction I believe I've ever heard over a period of many years of listening to such recordings. This recording is a hybrid SACD that contains two layers and three sets of signals (SACD surround sound and SACD stereo in one layer and "conventional" CD audio in the other). Even ...             Masters of the Keyboard1 review Isaac Albeniz, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2004 excellent artists! I don't understand quite where the other reviewer is coming from. This is a treasure-trove of piano music by some of the best classical pianists of the last century. 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