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Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite; Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Suite
from: Decca
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Rodgers: Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
from: RCA
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade/Capriccio Espagnol
from: Telarc
: :Charles Mackerras is an unassuming guy who just makes great music. He's never made a bad record, and his enthusiasms range from Handel to Janácek to Sullivan (he's one of the world's leading authorities on all three). Because he's had no long-term relationship with any specific label, his career hasn't been pushed the way, say, Herbert von Karajan's was, but that doesn't make his recordings any less good. In fact, as this brilliant and exciting performance of two Rimsky-Korsakov classics shows, Mackerras is as completely at home in these lush, Romantic ...
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5, etc.
from: RCA
: :Charles Mackerras is an unassuming guy who just makes great music. He's never made a bad record, and his enthusiasms range from Handel to Janácek to Sullivan (he's one of the world's leading authorities on all three). Because he's had no long-term relationship with any specific label, his career hasn't been pushed the way, say, Herbert von Karajan's was, but that doesn't make his recordings any less good. In fact, as this brilliant and exciting performance of two Rimsky-Korsakov classics shows, Mackerras is as completely at home in these lush, Romantic ...
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Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas & Concertos
: :Claudio Arrau played with seriousness of purpose that could make other pianists seem like dilettantes and with respect for the composer's score that bordered on veneration. He had nothing but scorn for pianists who played the opening of Beethoven's Opus 111 with two hands instead of one because there were fewer risks. If something was technically difficult, Arrau assumed that the composer had written it that way because the difficulties had an expressive value that it was the interpreter's duty to find. Arrau's devotion to Beethoven is memorialized by this budget-priced, ...
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Purcell: Complete Chamber Music
from: Brilliant Classics
: :Claudio Arrau played with seriousness of purpose that could make other pianists seem like dilettantes and with respect for the composer's score that bordered on veneration. He had nothing but scorn for pianists who played the opening of Beethoven's Opus 111 with two hands instead of one because there were fewer risks. If something was technically difficult, Arrau assumed that the composer had written it that way because the difficulties had an expressive value that it was the interpreter's duty to find. Arrau's devotion to Beethoven is memorialized by this budget-priced, ...
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The Ultimate Collection
:Album Description:This 60-track, three-disc, 'Ultimate Collection' brings together the musical kaleidoscope of four decades of the brilliance of a truly great musician. From the classics of the 1930's to the most popular hit songs of our time, no challenge was too great for Kostelanetz. Highlights include 'The Blue Danube Waltz', 'The Rain In Spain', 'Everybody Loves A Lover', 'What Kind Of Fool Am I' & many more, packaged in a standard double jewel case. Columbia/Sony. 2001.
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Debussy: Snowflakes Are Dancing, Prelude, etc / Tomita
from: RCA
: :Back in the '70s, the rapid development of synthesizers and electronic keyboards had a huge impact on popular music, with Isao Tomita among the leading exponents of multimedia, surround-sound events associated in Western Europe with such very different musicians as Rick Wakeman and Jean-Michel Jarre. The present disc has less grandiose aims, being a well-balanced selection of, to quote the original liner notes, 'Virtuoso electronic performances of Debussy's beautiful tone paintings.' It's easy to scoff at the concept behind Tomita's approach--take some of the most poetic music around and give it ...
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James Galway - Dances for Flute
from: RCA
: :Back in the '70s, the rapid development of synthesizers and electronic keyboards had a huge impact on popular music, with Isao Tomita among the leading exponents of multimedia, surround-sound events associated in Western Europe with such very different musicians as Rick Wakeman and Jean-Michel Jarre. The present disc has less grandiose aims, being a well-balanced selection of, to quote the original liner notes, 'Virtuoso electronic performances of Debussy's beautiful tone paintings.' It's easy to scoff at the concept behind Tomita's approach--take some of the most poetic music around and give it ...
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Harp Concertos
from: Decca
: :Back in the '70s, the rapid development of synthesizers and electronic keyboards had a huge impact on popular music, with Isao Tomita among the leading exponents of multimedia, surround-sound events associated in Western Europe with such very different musicians as Rick Wakeman and Jean-Michel Jarre. The present disc has less grandiose aims, being a well-balanced selection of, to quote the original liner notes, 'Virtuoso electronic performances of Debussy's beautiful tone paintings.' It's easy to scoff at the concept behind Tomita's approach--take some of the most poetic music around and give it ...
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