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Martha Argerich Plays Chopin: The Legendary 1965 Recording
: 's Best of 1999:Record-label politics prevented this awesome recording of Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich from being released for 34 years. The spitfire musician delivers a powerful set of Chopin's best-loved works that still sounds riveting today. Intense and gorgeous. --Jason Verlinde Amazon.com essential recording:How can it be that a recording by one of today's indisputably unequaled pianists performing some of her prime repertory--made fresh within months of her triumph in the 1965 Warsaw International Chopin Competition--could languish for decades in the vaults before its official ...
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Peter and the Wolf / Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Carnival of the Animals
from: RCA
: 's Best of 1999:Record-label politics prevented this awesome recording of Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich from being released for 34 years. The spitfire musician delivers a powerful set of Chopin's best-loved works that still sounds riveting today. Intense and gorgeous. --Jason Verlinde Amazon.com essential recording:How can it be that a recording by one of today's indisputably unequaled pianists performing some of her prime repertory--made fresh within months of her triumph in the 1965 Warsaw International Chopin Competition--could languish for decades in the vaults before its official ...
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Halloween
from: American Gramaphone
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: MANNHEIM STEAMROLLERTitle: HALLOWEENStreet Release Date: 09/14/2004DomesticGenre: HALLOWEEN
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The Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: MANNHEIM STEAMROLLERTitle: HALLOWEENStreet Release Date: 09/14/2004DomesticGenre: HALLOWEEN
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The Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World...Ever!
from: EMI Classics
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: MANNHEIM STEAMROLLERTitle: HALLOWEENStreet Release Date: 09/14/2004DomesticGenre: HALLOWEEN
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More Than 50 Most Loved Hymns
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: MANNHEIM STEAMROLLERTitle: HALLOWEENStreet Release Date: 09/14/2004DomesticGenre: HALLOWEEN
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The #1 Opera Album
: :The labels that are now gathered under the Universal Classics umbrella have a pretty impressive scorecard in the area of classical compilations. We've seen The Greatest Opera Show on Earth, The Yellow Guide: Classical Music, Best of the Millennium, and now there's The No. 1 Opera Album. But that's no surprise, since Universal has some of the finest interpreters in its catalogue to draw from. This two-CD set (at the price of one), for example, brings together the likes of Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Luciano ...
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Verdi - La Traviata
: :The labels that are now gathered under the Universal Classics umbrella have a pretty impressive scorecard in the area of classical compilations. We've seen The Greatest Opera Show on Earth, The Yellow Guide: Classical Music, Best of the Millennium, and now there's The No. 1 Opera Album. But that's no surprise, since Universal has some of the finest interpreters in its catalogue to draw from. This two-CD set (at the price of one), for example, brings together the likes of Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Luciano ...
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Art of Segovia
: :DG has put together a fascinating compilation of Segovia's art that reminds us what a protean figure he was. Segovia single-handedly put the instrument on the map by making classical guitar concerts popular events, broadening the instrument's repertory through commissions and transcriptions, and convincing even doubters that it could be a vehicle for serious music. He's heard here in brief pieces recorded between 1952 and 1969. Even in those made when he was well into his 70s, his fingers remain nimble and interpretations lively. Listening ...
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Andre Rieu - 100 Years of Strauss
: :DG has put together a fascinating compilation of Segovia's art that reminds us what a protean figure he was. Segovia single-handedly put the instrument on the map by making classical guitar concerts popular events, broadening the instrument's repertory through commissions and transcriptions, and convincing even doubters that it could be a vehicle for serious music. He's heard here in brief pieces recorded between 1952 and 1969. Even in those made when he was well into his 70s, his fingers remain nimble and interpretations lively. Listening ...
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