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The Chopin Ballades & Scherzos [Hybrid SACD]
from: RCA
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David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf'
from: RCA
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Baroque Guitar
from: RCA
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Bach: Partitas Nos. 2-4
from: Sony Classics
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Franz Schubert: Complete Trios
from: Philips
: :Schubert's two piano trios are the products of his last years when, knowing that he was ill and dying, he still managed to produce dozens of songs and chamber music masterpieces, as well as pursue counterpoint studies and make plans for further orchestral and stage works. Add to this the earlier String Trio and a couple of miscellaneous single movements, and his output in 'trio' form is complete. Both of the piano trios are typically large works, generously stuffed with ...
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Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon
from: Sony
: :It is a perilous proposition when genres clash--and no such collaboration is more potentially fraught than when improvisation-trained folk musicians sit in with Western classical instrumentalists, who are taught to interpret a printed score. The renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma has devoted much of his professional life to such intercultural experiments. But the traditions of nations situated along the ancient Silk Road, which began in the Far East, meandered through Asia and terminated in Europe, are especially dear to him. These ...
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Requiem & Magnificat/Rutter, Cambridge Singers
from: Collegium
: :Two of John Rutter's most popular large-scale choral works are paired in this bargain-priced CD. Requiem, his first composition written without being commissioned, is a convincing affirmation of Christian doctrine on death and eternal life. It is also a substantial and sincere work that strives to be widely appealing while preserving a spiritual context centered on themes of light and consolation. Highlights include 'Out of the Deep,' its modal tune and harmonies giving it the flavor of a spiritual, and ...
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The Best of the Three Tenors
: :Back in 1990, three of the world's most celebrated tenors--namely, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti--combined forces to create the Three Tenors, now celebrated on a best-of CD. They gave their first concert in Rome. The event was recorded and went on to become one of the best-selling classical titles of all time. This latest release brings together tracks from that night in Rome (including 'Nessun dorma' and a competitive rendition of 'O sole mio') with music performed in ...
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Bach: The Four Great Toccatas and Fugues [SACD]
from: Sony
: :Back in 1990, three of the world's most celebrated tenors--namely, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti--combined forces to create the Three Tenors, now celebrated on a best-of CD. They gave their first concert in Rome. The event was recorded and went on to become one of the best-selling classical titles of all time. This latest release brings together tracks from that night in Rome (including 'Nessun dorma' and a competitive rendition of 'O sole mio') with music performed in ...
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Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies and Piano Concertos
from: EMI Classics
: essential recording:Otto Klemperer's Beethoven is one of the towering achievements in the history of recordings. By today's standards, these performances are hopelessly old-fashioned: dark, heavy, and frequently very slow. But they are also the grandest, most unsentimental, most purposeful versions in the catalog. In addition, the relatively slow tempos (only in the fast movements--the slow ones are pretty swift) and forward wind balance permit more detail to be heard than in most original-instrument performances. At budget price and with ...
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