 | The #1 Opera Album [Read More ...]
Description: The labels that are now gathered under the Universal Classics umbrella have a pretty impressive scorecard in the area of classical compilations. We've seen The Greatest Opera Show on Earth, The Yellow Guide: Classical Music, Best of the Millennium, and now there's The No. 1 Opera... |
 | Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals [Read More ...]
Review: Carnival of the Animals CD, composer Saint Saens:As an instructor of a college level Music Appreciation course, I consider this CD to be a very handy item in my teaching arsenal. Believe it or not, these young adults appreciate being engaged in hands-on listening lessons, and th... |
 | Ravel: Boléro [Read More ...]
Review: Perfect!:I find Maurice Ravel's music among the most unique and wonderful of the twentieth century. It marks the sublime marriage of pensive impressionism with--and many music scholars might disagree with me on this matter--a vibrant late-romanticism. There are few collections th... |
 | Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 1-5 [Read More ...]
Description: There is a lot of really enjoyable music here. I remember organizing a performance of the Fifth Piano Concerto (subtitled "The Egyptian") when I was repertoire committee chairman for a local community orchestra. We found it not only very playable for all of us amateurs in the ... |
 | Holst: The Planets [Read More ...]
Description: Charles Dutoit often sounds better on disc than he does live. The reason for this is simple: he loves to play to the audience, and the result is all kinds of wild gesticulating that the orchestra knows perfectly well to ignore. Sometimes they ignore him completely, to the peri... |
 | Violin Adagios [Read More ...]
Wonderful:An excellent compilation of folk tunes and violin concerto adagios, played masterfully by some of the world's most revered musicians. Features modern pieces (Korngold, Barber), which are a personal favorite of mine. |
 | Kiri [Read More ...]
Review: Great representation of music from a great singer:A terrific album by a great singer. This album represents the considerable territory that Kiri Te Kanawa covers in here repertoire. She moves easily from Handel to Puccini to Jerome Kern. The insertion of classic show tunes as ... |
 | Essential Tchaikovsky [Read More ...]
Review: Best of the best:There's something for every Tchaikovsky lover on this disc. From Swan Lake to Onegin, many of Tchaikovsky's most-known melodies are on this disc. I'd have preferred more than an excerpt of the first movement of Piano Concerto No. 1, but this disc is a great intro... |
 | Movie Adagios [Read More ...]
Good Peaceful Music:It is good driving music, it is a breath of fresh air in a hectic world. |
 | Romantic Adagios [Read More ...]
Nice Mood Setting Music:This is a very nice cd to listen to and sip red wine in one's back yard while reading a good book. Well worth to add to your collection. |
 | Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 / Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 3 [Read More ...]
Description: Martha Argerich first recorded the Prokofiev Third Concerto in the late '60s. Her fiery, hair-trigger playing, abetted by Claudio Abbado's incisive support with the Berlin Philharmonic in top form, set new standards for this warhorse. No one's come close to topping her extraordin... |
 | Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in Am; Danse macabre Op40 [Read More ...]
Review: The Skeletons Dance Tonight:I hate to admit it, but the first time I head Saint-Saen's "Danse Macabre" was when I saw an episode of Disney's "Mickey Mouse Works" back in 2000, and I tried hard to see who composed it (I was thinking Berlioz or Dukas or even R. Strauss at the time)... |
 | Paganini: Violin Concertos [Read More ...]
Review: A bit disappointed:I waited patiently to receiving this CD collection of all Paganini's concertos anticipating the outstanding performance praised in most of the reviews. The outcome was a bit disappointing. The disappointment is limited though to the performance of Concerto No. ... |
 | Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Falla: El Amor Brujo [Read More ...]
Review: A great collection of Spanish music:This is the best Spanish music CD I've ever heard. All three pieces are top choices - probably the best available in the market. The Concierto with Carlos Bonell giving an excellent performance and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under Charle... |
 | The Essential Joshua Bell [Read More ...]
Review: So I'm just learning violin...:and I can not play like Joshua Bell. For this, he better consider himself damn lucky as the world could not handle two of us Joshua Bells.
This was my first exposure to this phenom. Sorry, I had never heard of him until I got my first issue of STR... |
 | Accardo Plays Paganini: Complete Recordings [Read More ...]
Review: Paganini-Mind Boggling-How does he do it?:Paganini the first million dollar musician. Anyone who loves the violin as much as I do, should purchase this set without hesitation. Accardo blows everyone away with these performances. They are almost as the master, Paganini, would have... |
 | The Essential Falla [Read More ...]
LO MEJOR DE LO MEJOR:Una grabacion magistral de losclasicos de Manuel de Falla.Este disco contiene el famoso"Homage a Debussy" la unica obra original compuesta para guitarra por la mano del compositor.Tremenda grabaccion, como para no perdersela a ese precio... |
 | Sweet Sorrow [Read More ...]
Fantastic Album:This is a great album that I listen to over and over again. It really makes me feel... Sarah Chang is one of the greatest violin players and she has done a fabulous job on this album. |
 | The Greatest Opera Show on Earth [Read More ...]
Description: This really is a remarkable collection, and anyone even remotely interested in opera is bound to be vastly entertained by it. Almost everything and everyone is here, albeit in small doses: Tebaldi, Pavarotti (a lot), Bjoerling, Bartoli, Sutherland, Solti, Karajan, Troyanos, Gheor... |
 | Prokofiev: Complete Concertos [Read More ...]
Review: Solid performance and great value:This set contains almost all Prokofiev's concertos. Contrary to what is advertised as "Complete Concertos", it omits Prokofiev's early work "Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 58". Although a large amount of thematic material is reused in the later p... |
