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Gershwin: Piano Cto in F/Rhapsody in Blue in C (Hybr)
from: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
: : Jon Nakamatsu won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1997 and has made several fine recordings since then. This all-Gershwin program is probably his finest. He plays the Piano Concerto with great rhythmic sass, the Charleston always underpinning the melodies. Rather than opt for a showy reading of this or the Rhapsody in Blue, he and conductor Jeff Tyzik emphasize the music's sultry quality; the smoke-filled nightclub is there right alongside the concert hall at all times. The clarinet solo that opens the ...
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Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1; Spohr: Violin Concerto No. 8
from: Deutsche Grammophon
: :The Paganini concerto, with its combination of wild virtuosity and fatty, gushy melody, is a favorite of audiences and violinists; fiddlers love to strut their stuff and the public can't resist anything so juicy. Hilary Hahn here throws her violinist hat into the ring with Perlman, Kogan, and Gil Shaham and comes out looking just fine. She handles the incredibly showy outer movements with flair, poise, and startling precision, and spins out the long, Italian melodies in the middle movement beautifully. Similarly, she handles the ...
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A to Z of Classical Music
from: Naxos
: :Is it a two-CD set with a particularly thick booklet, or a 562-page book with a compilation album attached? Either way, the unpretentious text by Keith Anderson offers an introduction to the lives and works of dozens of composers, together with recommended recordings from the Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs. Anderson includes a useful 59-page glossary of musical terms and an extensive listing of classical pieces used in films. The odd thing about the 36 extracts and complete pieces on the CDs is that they ...
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Bruch: The Complete Violin Concertos
from: Philips
: :Is it a two-CD set with a particularly thick booklet, or a 562-page book with a compilation album attached? Either way, the unpretentious text by Keith Anderson offers an introduction to the lives and works of dozens of composers, together with recommended recordings from the Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs. Anderson includes a useful 59-page glossary of musical terms and an extensive listing of classical pieces used in films. The odd thing about the 36 extracts and complete pieces on the CDs is that they ...
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
: :Is it a two-CD set with a particularly thick booklet, or a 562-page book with a compilation album attached? Either way, the unpretentious text by Keith Anderson offers an introduction to the lives and works of dozens of composers, together with recommended recordings from the Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs. Anderson includes a useful 59-page glossary of musical terms and an extensive listing of classical pieces used in films. The odd thing about the 36 extracts and complete pieces on the CDs is that they ...
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The Swingle Singers - Bach Hits Back ~ A Capella Amadeus
: :Is it a two-CD set with a particularly thick booklet, or a 562-page book with a compilation album attached? Either way, the unpretentious text by Keith Anderson offers an introduction to the lives and works of dozens of composers, together with recommended recordings from the Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs. Anderson includes a useful 59-page glossary of musical terms and an extensive listing of classical pieces used in films. The odd thing about the 36 extracts and complete pieces on the CDs is that they ...
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The #1 Guitar Album
from: Decca
:Album Description:The #1 Guitar Album features the best-loved and most popular works for guitar--the world's most popular instrument! Featuring a 'who's who' of the world's greatest guitarists including Andrés Segovia, John Williams, Julian Bream, Paco PeÀa, Pepe Romero, Alexandre Lagoya, Narcisco Yepes, Göran Söllscher and more! Best-loved 'classical' hits from Rodrigo, Dowland, Vivaldi and Marcello as well as stirring Flamenco music! Includes great arrangements of the most popular melodies from Bach & Bizet to Lennon & McCartney! 35 tracks--over 21⁄2 hours--on 2 jam-packed CDs. Here ...
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A Window in Time: Rachmaninoff Performs His Solo Piano Works
: :This collection of Rachmaninoff's solo piano performances relies on a mix of old and new technologies. Between 1919 and 1929, Rachmaninoff cut these 19 performances to piano rolls, which would then be played back through reproducing pianos capable of accurately re-creating the original performances through pneumatic devices that animated the rolls with living nuances and shades--a facet that differentiated the classier reproduction keyboards from the more common 'player pianos.' This set updates the technology with electronic devices--transparently, though expertly, replacing the pneumatics. Played back on ...
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Kapell Rediscovered
from: RCA
: :This collection of Rachmaninoff's solo piano performances relies on a mix of old and new technologies. Between 1919 and 1929, Rachmaninoff cut these 19 performances to piano rolls, which would then be played back through reproducing pianos capable of accurately re-creating the original performances through pneumatic devices that animated the rolls with living nuances and shades--a facet that differentiated the classier reproduction keyboards from the more common 'player pianos.' This set updates the technology with electronic devices--transparently, though expertly, replacing the pneumatics. Played back on ...
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Itzhak Perlman - A la carte / Lawrence Foster
: :This collection of Rachmaninoff's solo piano performances relies on a mix of old and new technologies. Between 1919 and 1929, Rachmaninoff cut these 19 performances to piano rolls, which would then be played back through reproducing pianos capable of accurately re-creating the original performances through pneumatic devices that animated the rolls with living nuances and shades--a facet that differentiated the classier reproduction keyboards from the more common 'player pianos.' This set updates the technology with electronic devices--transparently, though expertly, replacing the pneumatics. Played back on ...
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