| Mozart for Relaxation RCA List price:USD $10.98 Used Price:USD $5.98 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $6.82 Very Relaxing:A nice collection of Mozart arranged and performed as the title says - to relax.
It is not a definative collection as others have mentioned, but it the melodies are familiar and are things you know.
This leads to a good CD to put on, sit down and listen to with yo... |
| Ambient 1: Music for Airports Astralwerks List price:USD $16.98 Used Price:USD $10.00 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $8.98 Eno's theory of the "discreet music" he called ambient was far from the modern chill-out room: the idea was that it should function at very low volumes, unobtrusively coloring the atmosphere of a room. Evolving by tiny gradations, the long pieces of Music For Airports (the first ... |
| Celtic Treasure Decca List price:USD $18.98 Used Price:USD $5.57 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $7.43 Hayley's third solo album is a very personal collection of classical arias, Irish and Maori folk songs - representing treasured people and places on her remarkable musical journey. Recorded in Dublin, Ireland, Hayley's third solo album is a very personal collection of classica... |
| George Gershwin - Porgy & Bess / Trevor Nunn · Sir Simon Rattle · W. White · C. Haymon · Glyndebourne Opera WILLARD WHITE CYNTHIA HAYMON GREGG BAKER (II) CYNTHIA CLAREY MARIETTA SIMPSON Director:TREVOR NUNN List price:USD $29.98 Used Price:USD $9.00 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $11.86 The Gershwins' musical masterpiece Porgy and Bess is one of America's greatest works. This production was adapted for the screen by Trevor Nunn and Yves Baigneres. It was directed by Trevor Nunn and is based on the highly successful staging of the original Glyndebourne Festival... |
| Build Your Baby's Brain Sony List price:USD $9.98 Used Price:USD $2.45 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $4.90 Hundreds of compilation recordings have been thrust on the market in recent years on the theory that classical music makes a nice, non-threatening accompaniment to everything from working out to making love. And here we have one compilation promising to make your baby smarter. It... |
| 25 Vivaldi Favorites Vox (Classical) List price:USD $4.98 Used Price:USD $1.68 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $1.72 Bad:This the worst CD I've ever had...terrible doesn't begin to describe it. There was nothing even remotely enjoyable..soothing to the ear would NOT be a description that I would give it. |
| The Chopin Collection RCA Victor Europe List price:USD $64.99 Used Price:USD $31.42 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $26.95 11cd Box Set with the Legendary Rubinsetin Recordings of Chopin Works. |
| Verdi - Requiem / Price, Pavarotti, Cossotto, Ghiaurov, von Karajan, Teatro alla Scala HERBERT VON KARAJAN LUCIANO PAVAROTTI LEONTYNE PRICE FIORENZA COSSOTTO NIKOLAI GHIAUROV List price:USD $29.98 Used Price:USD $22.49 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $18.49 Wretched sound, but there are compensations:I may be a lone voice here, but anyone who considers buying this famous video of the Verdi Requiem should be warned that the sound is wretched by any standard, including historical. The acoustic is cavernous, blurring the syllables of ... |
| Verdi - Otello / Domingo, Fleming, Morris, Croft, Levine, Moshinsky, Metropolitan Opera PLáCIDO DOMINGO RENéE FLEMING JAMES MORRIS (IX) JANE BUNNELL RICHARD CROFT (II) Director:BRIAN LARGE List price:USD $29.98 Used Price:USD $17.95 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $17.99 Desdemona bella...:This is probably the best "Otello" on DVD. Placido Domingo has some moments in which his voice sounds forced, particularly in "Si, pel ciel", but on the whole, the production is excellent, with great, exciting conducting by James Levine, a very good and believ... |
| Solo Piano Sony List price:USD $11.98 Used Price:USD $8.95 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $7.99 Amazing:Don't play this in an elevator; don't play this while you make dinner; don't play this on a Sunday afternoon while you read; don't play this while you watch tv; don't play this while you put away the clothes; don't play this in your car; don't play this while you're getti... |
| The Italian Opera Collection LUCIANO PAVAROTTI METROPOLITAN OPERA List price:USD $39.98 Used Price:USD $30.13 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $25.96 This specially priced 3-DVD set (three for the price of two) features Luciano Pavarotti at the Met in three of the legendary Italian tenor's greatest roles: * His Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore is "a blend of rustic innocence with a warm, amorous side, and a bit of virtuosic hammin... |
| R. Strauss - Salome TERESA STRATAS ASTRID VARNAY BERND WEIKL HANS BEIRER WIESLAW OCHMAN Director:GöTZ FRIEDRICH List price:USD $29.98 Used Price:USD $17.99 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $19.96 This filmed version of Strauss' shocker features Teresa Stratas as opera's most depraved teenager, and she's as perfect a Salome as one would ever hope to see or hear. Stratas inhabits the role, exploring the character's sensuousness as she vainly woos Jochanaan, her venomous h... |
| Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Capriccio Espagnol; Russian Easter Overture EMI Classics List price:USD $3.98 Used Price:USD $1.01 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $1.87 Seraphim records...:The classical music is, of course, 5 stars. I enjoy the Seraphim price range for educational music CDs. Seraphim never has the greatest fidelity with their CDs, however; but it is definately worth buying. |
| Bernstein Favorites: Children's Classics Sony List price:USD $9.98 Used Price:USD $2.98 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $5.68 Bernstein Favorites review - great!:My children and I really enjoy this CD. It has lots of useful information about instruments of the orchestra. The children love the Peter and the Wolf story the most, but the individual instruments section is very interesting for them (and adults) as well! |
| Beethoven Lives Upstairs ROUNDER KIDS List price:USD $13.98 Used Price:USD $4.88 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $7.98 CLASSICAL KIDS: Beethoven Lives Upstairs -- a tale of genius and childhood THE STORY: Young Christoph exchanges letters with his uncle about the chaotic arrival of Mr. Beethoven into his house. In the end, he is won over by the music and true incidents from the great composer's l... |
| The Mystery Of Santo Domingo De Silos Gregorian Chant From Spain Deutsche Grammophon List price:USD $9.98 Used Price:USD $2.25 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $3.50 Of Interest:I purchased this version of the monks of Santo Dominto De Silos at the same time I bought the 2008 edition of the Gregorian chant by the Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz (Chant: Music for the Soul). While the effort of the Santo Domingo monks was highly prais... |
| Scott Joplin: Piano Rags JOSHUA RIFKIN List price:USD $16.98 Used Price:USD $8.49 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $10.38 piano riches...:After watching "The Sting" in 1973 it was over with.... no, it was just beginning. A foray into the record store was immediately followed by purchasing this album. I now happily own the cd, and Rifkin's playing still sounds fresh even though Joplin wrote it a hundred years ago. |
| Trio Mediaeval: Folk Songs Ecm Records List price:USD $17.98 Used Price:USD $9.16 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $11.45 Corresponding with Trio Mediaeval's tenth anniversary, their fourth ECM album is a powerful and compelling recording of Norwegian folk songs. Performed in concert over the years, these songs are always received ecstatically - this is the album that Trio Mediaeval's fans have been... |
| Appassionato SONY CLASSICS List price:USD $18.97 Used Price:USD $7.99 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $9.68 Any new compilation CD starring Yo-Yo Ma is certain to please. This master of the cello takes the listener through so many types of music that the ear and mind never tire. The present selection is billed as a sort of "musical autobiography," and, indeed, it gives us a tour of M... |
| O Holy Night / Luciano Pavarotti / Special Deluxe Edition (Decca) Decca List price:USD $17.98 Used Price:USD $8.91 Lowest New/Used Price:USD $9.69 This CD is a compilation of (mainly) devotional music sung by Pavarotti when he was in or near his prime, most going back, gloriously, to 1976. Precisely what Orfeo's lament (from the Gluck opera) is doing in a recital called "O Holy Night" is beyond me, but the rest of the sele... |