classical music: masterpieces     classical music:       Jewish Cello Masterpieces10 reviews Ernest Bloch, Max Bruch, ... Leggiero Records, 2002 Encore! Encore! Perhaps no other instrument captures the sad-sweet contemplative mood of classical Jewish music like a cello. Is this because so many Jewish composers have written for the cello, that we think of it as a "Jewish" instrument? Or did they choose the cello because it sings so beautifully of the Jewish soul? Like the chicken and the egg, this question may never be answered -- but it doesn't really ...             Baroque Masterpieces4 reviews Tomaso Albinoni, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, ... Sony, 2002 Excellent Baroque Collection As I have stated in many of my previous reviews, I am a huge fan of the Sony Essential Classics (SEC) budget series. Most of the recordings feature classic and often definitive performances featuring the likes of George Szell, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Casadesus, Isaac Stern and Rudolf Serkin among others. Here we get a variety of orchestras and conductors including big names like Jean-Claude ...             Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music46 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, ... Compendia, 1994 This box selection is enjoyable Cheers to those with drive to attain "real" music student status. However, I just want to listen to music passages I have found enjoyable over the years. There is no pretense of this selection being a student workbook of classical music for the serious scholar - it is just an enjoyable alternative to that shared by those offensively loud vehicles near me at the stoplight.             25 Thunderous Classics14 reviews Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, ... Vox (Classical), 2000 This thing kills! OK, this is not a great musical experience, but a hodgepodge of the loud, vigorous and stirring parts. For what it is, and purports to be, it deserves 5 stars. If nothing else, it has the best cannon fusillade of any 1812 overture I have heard. It also includes some of the best versions ever of several compositions, such as Kunzel's rendition of the Fucik favorite, Entry of the Gladiators. ...             Essential Guitar: 33 Guitar Masterpieces25 reviews Essential Guitar: 34 Gtr Masterpieces Decca, 2002 Wonderful I fell in love with Recuerdos de la Alhambra from another CD I own and wanted more music along the same lines. This 2 disc set more than met my expectations.             Classic Wynton24 reviews Jean-Baptiste Arban, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... Sony, 1998 Heard this with NEW appreication......... This is such a wonderful mix. I especially love the Haydn concerto finale in E flat. I was listening to this cd when my grandson (almost 3) heard the glorious music of the trumpet for the first time. He loved seeing the photos of Mr. Marsalis (which I embellished, albeit true, saying how difficult it is to play the trumpet - hence the need for a handerchief to wipe his brow in one of the photos). ...             Choral Masterpieces9 reviews Wayne Baughman, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... Telarc, 1990 Uncle Abe rattles the house with this thing I came home from work one day when my uncle was visiting my wife and myself. He was recently retired from the ministry. He had heard a lot of choral music in his life. My aunt said he had the stereo ( power end of my stereo at the time was an Adcomm 555 amp. conservatively rated at 200 watts RMS per channel) up so loud it was rattling the whole house. I too have come to love this music. I ...             Best of the Millennium: Top 40 Classical Hits29 reviews Mischa Maisky, Tomaso Albinoni, ... Utv Records, 2000 Great Music Compilation This is a great CD full of many songs that you will recognize and enjoy. If you are someone who likes classical music but doesn't necessarily know which songs or which composers you like, then this CD is for you. You will likely recognize many of the songs as the classical songs you would have picked out to be your favorites.             Essential Mozart: 32 Of His Greatest Masterpieces23 reviews Fritz Dolezal, Franklin Cohen, ... Decca, 2001 Good times I just cant say enough about this collection. It used to be that you had to spend a fortune to get Mozart's best hits; a few on each album. Now, you can buy them all at once and dirt cheap! very nice             300 Years of Guitar Masterpieces16 reviews Isaac Albeniz, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... Vox (Classical), 1992 Essential recordings Not much else really to say about this. It is a collection of brilliant interpretations and the guitar has the most amazing sound I've ever heard on a recording. You will find yourself almost spiritually bound to share this recording with any classical guitar playing friends and aficionados.             Masterpieces of Mexican Polyphony Hernando Franco, Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, ... Hyperion, 2009 The Westminster Cathedral Choir is well-known for performing and recording masterworks of Spanish, Portuguese, and Mexican sacred polyphony. This CD includes works by four of the at least six major chapelmaster composers at Mexico City and Puebla from about 1575 to 1750: Hernando Franco, Juan Gutierrez de Padilla, Francisco Lopez Capillas and Antonio de Salazar.             Pachelbel Canon and Other Baroque Hits9 reviews Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... RCA, 1991 Phenomenal Collection of Music Pachelbel's Canon in D is always good but the rest of the tracks shine as well. This is a superb collection of classical music. If you're new to classical music and love strings, purchase this CD. You'll be glad that you did.             The Classic Christmas Album1 review Adolphe Adam, Johann Sebastian Bach, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1997 The Classical Christmas Album This is THE Christmas CD for the holidays. It has all the beautiful Christmas songs you want. Kiri Te Kanawa's version of Schubert's Ave Maria will bring tears to your eyes, Gabriel Faure's performance of Pie Jesu from Requim is simply beautiful, and the English Concert Choir's performance of Handel's Hallelujah from Messiah will take your breath away. This is a great buy and will be treasured ...             Sixty Years 60 Flute Masterpieces (Highlights from the Collection)4 reviews Malcolm Arnold, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, ... RCA, 1999 Classical Flute so wonderful to listen to... I love this album and am very pleased to own it. I enjoy classical, ballet music, flute music, and happy uplifting music and find this album to be a delight. Amazon service was great.             Ballet Masterpieces: The World's Favorite Ballets & Ballet Suites1 review Ansermet, Ashkenazy, ... Decca, 2009 Good Ballet survey - Fine Performances, good but limited selection Decca's 35 CD survey of the world of ballet is a fine presentation of the major works of that genre. The set includes very good performances of the standard well-known works of Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, and Stravinsky. Indeed, the Bychkov Nutcracker is hard to beat and not readily available in some parts of the globe. Other welcome performances include Dorati's Detroit S.O. Stravinsky ...             Masterpieces4 reviews Jules Massenet, Giacomo Puccini, ... Philips, 2007 Andre Rieu, Masterpieces Andre Rieu and his JSO are a class act. The music is wonderful, can make you smile and can keep you spellbound all at the same time. He loves his audiances and they love him and his orchestra. YOu can't go wrong with any of his musical CD's.             Greatest Hits: Trumpet6 reviews Leroy Anderson, Jean-Baptiste Arban, ... Sony, 1994 A Wonderful Collection This is a splendid anthology of music. Traditional Baroque and orchestral pieces up front, and a few surprises nearer the end. A splendid work. The price makes it a steal. Add it to your cart. You will not be sorry. There is technical excellence - peace in some of the songs and real energy in others.             Ceremonial Music for Trumpet & Symphonic Organ8 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 ...             Mendelssohn: The Complete Masterpieces [Box Set]1 review Anton Scharinger, Christian Gerhaher, ... RCA Red Seal, 2009 You take what you've got... A Swedish proverb, attributed to the famous 18th century cook, Kajsa Varg, is "You take what you've got" ("Man tager vad man haver"). And that is just what Sony & Co have done here. They have digged in their big archive, and found a lot of good old Mendelssohn recordings (and a few new ones as well). My purpose with this little essay is not to review each recording, but to give a view on the ...             Greatest Hits ~ Baroque2 reviews George Frideric Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, ... Sony, 1995 Outstanding sampler It is impossible of course to capture Baroque music on a single CD, but if you want just one it doesn't get any better than this. Outstanding and generous selection of many of the best known excerpts of the period, excellent performances throughout, and superior sound quality. Even the casual listener will recognize many of these great works, such as the theme from Masterpiece Theater, ...              search for classical music ballet, ballets, baroque, ceremonial, choral, christmas, classic, classical, classics, collection, complete, essential, favorite, greatest, guitar, highlights, jewish, masterpieces, mendelssohn, mexican, millennium, mozart, pachelbel, people, polyphony, suites, symphonic, thunderous, trumpet, wynton classical music:    randomly chosen book: Going for Broke: The Fate of Farmworkers in Arid South Africa we recommend great for mouthwash! home  impressum - about us