 | Romance of the Violin [Read More ...]
Description: Every track on this CD contains a beautiful melody, many of them easily recognizable, all of them exuding tranquility. "O mio babbino caro" from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi opens the disc, with Bell delicately accompanied by a harp and spinning the long melody with great sensitivit... |
 | John Rutter Collection [Read More ...]
John Rutter Collection:Absolutely beautiful selections performed perfectly!! I play it almost daily and repeatedly. I am familiar with several pieces from a performance perspective and enjoy the entire collection immensely.
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 | Cambridge Singers Christmas Album [Read More ...]
Description: Christmas Never Sounded So Good! For more than a decade, John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers have shared the Joy of Christmas with the world. The ethereal sound of perfectly blended voices, singing the most beautiful seasonal music ever composed never fails to touch the heart ... |
 | Aria 3: Metamorphosis [Read More ...]
Description: Souping up the classics with whatever contemporary music pulse is current at the moment has a long history. Some artists, like Emerson, Lake and Palmer, aspired to classical grandiosity. Others, like Michael Murphy and his discofied "A Fifth of Beethoven," turn classical melodies... |
 | Christmas Day in the Morning [Read More ...]
Twenty-three carols, remarkably sung, including I Saw Three Ships, Un Flambeau Jeanette Isabelle, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, plus Rutter’s own Star Carol and Shepherd’s Pipe Carol. "First rate. The Cambridge Singers have done it again." – Classics Today |
 | The Choral Works of John Rutter [Read More ...]
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 | Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A; Sonata in B flat; Bassoon Concerto in B flat [Read More ...]
Review: Mozart Clarinet Concerto Bassoon Concerto Leister, Thunemann, Marriner-Academy of St. Martin in the Fields:Simply put, Klaus Thunemann is the finest living Bassoonist. His flawless technique and well conceived
ornamentation is evident is this magnificent recording. If Mozart were... |
 | Brahms: String Sextets Nos. 1 & 2 [Read More ...]
Review: Unsatisfactory:Perhaps I have been unlucky and acquired a CD not typical of the Chandos production quality but my copy is dreadful. The second movement of the B flat Sextet sounds like La Folia being played in the deep end of a swimming pool.
Not good at all. The unda maris affe... |
 | Mendelssohn: Octet, Op. 20; Raff: Octet, Op. 176 [Read More ...]
Review: Raff Octet a Real Discovery!:I can't recommend this recording more strongly, primarily because of the surprisingly exquisite Raff octet, which commands center stage on this CD over it's oft-performed companion. The Mendelssohn, while good, is a throwaway on this CD. You can get r... |
 | John Rutter: Requiem; I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes [Read More ...]
Description: Rutter's Requiem, his first composition written without being commissioned, is a convincing affirmation of Christian doctrine pertaining to death and eternal life. It is also a substantial and sincere work that strives to be widely appealing while preserving a spiritual contex... |
 | Romance Of The Violin (Live From New York In Concert) [Read More ...]
Description: CD AUDIO SIDE: Entire Album DVD SIDE: * Entire album in Enhanced LPCM Stereo * Video of highlights from Joshua Bell Romance of the Violin Live from Lincoln Center with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra * Complete Discography This disc is intended to play on standard DVD and CD play... |
 | Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras 1 & 5 / Suite for Voice & Violin / Preludes and Fugues from Bach's "48" for an Orchestra of Cellos - The Pleeth Cello Octet / Jill Gomez / Peter Manning [Read More ...]
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 | Claude Debussy: Chamber Music [Read More ...]
Something's missing:What ruins this set is the omission of the String Quartet, one of Debussy's finest works. |
 | J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos [Hybrid SACD] [Read More ...]
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 | Mozart: Quintets; Quartets; Etc. [Read More ...]
Review: Complete Mozart Work on Chamber Music:A memorable, complete set of Mozart for strings, winds and horn. This 3 volume set includes the first with winds (clarinet, horn, oboe and basson) while the second CD is all flute with William Bennett. The final CD is string with the incomp... |
 | Robert Simpson: String Quartet No. 9 [Read More ...]
Review: The finest string quartet of the twentieth century:This work is a remarkable feat, and surpasses any of the quartet achievements of Dmitri Shostakovich and Bela Bartok. Here Simpson lays out a simple, palindromic theme by Haydn and then proceeds to create 32 different and imagina... |
 | Mozart: Violin Concertos; Wind Concertos [Read More ...]
Mozart at his best:Excellent recording;
As good as the Christopher Hogwood interpretation I oredered in the first place. |
 | Dyson: Concertos; Children's Suite [Read More ...]
New discovery!:I am English and love exploring the little known English composers. Dyson is one of them. His music is lovely and when I first listened to this cd I realized I was already familiar with some of the music through listening to the wireless in England. |
 | Violin Concertos [Read More ...]
Review: Great performances of great music.:Mozart's violin concertos, although written when he was only 19, are among his finest works. And no violinist is more suited to do do justice to these masterpieces than Henryk Szeryng. Szeryng -- although not as famous as some others -- was one ... |
 | Mozart: String Trios & Duos [Read More ...]
Review: Quality Music:This is some of the finest chamber music you can buy. If you have a surround sound system put it on the Concert Hall setting and enjoy the sound. Mozart has created masterpiece after masterpiece and the performers bring them to us with great passion. Mozart's melodi... |
