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UltraSound - Music for the Unborn Child
from: RCA
: :While many hospitals across the country send new mums and babes home equipped with discs of classical music to soothe and gently stimulate babies' tender minds, Ultrasound brings together a delightfully well-rounded set specifically chosen for those still in the womb. Expectant moms will appreciate the effects of the mellow strains of Bach's Suite No. 3, the delicate playfulness of Tchaikovsky's 'Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy,' and Mozart's proven-to-make-you-smart Sonata for Two Pianos featuring André Previn. Debussy's 'Clair de lune' is ...
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The Chopin Collection
from: RCA Victor Europe
:Album Details:11cd Box Set with the Legendary Rubinsetin Recordings of Chopin Works.
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The Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World...Ever!
from: EMI Classics
:Album Details:11cd Box Set with the Legendary Rubinsetin Recordings of Chopin Works.
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Chopin and Champagne: Set Your Mood for Romance
from: Philips
:Album Details:11cd Box Set with the Legendary Rubinsetin Recordings of Chopin Works.
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English Renaissance Music
from: Sony
:Album Details:11cd Box Set with the Legendary Rubinsetin Recordings of Chopin Works.
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David Russell: Art of the Guitar
from: Telarc
: : David Russell's program ranges wide and far, from arrangements of such exotica as Arcos' Fantasia on Themes from Verdi's La Traviata to original guitar solos by the likes of Villa Lobos and modern Latin composers. They're all played with technical polish and, more important, genuine musicality. For Russell's playing here, as in his other popular albums for Telarc, has the communicative sparkle that draws the listener into the music, even listeners not especially enamored of the instrument. In arrangements of ...
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Debussy: Orchestral Music
from: Philips
: :Bernard Haitink's recordings of the Nocturnes and Jeux were hailed as among the finest available when initially issued. That LP provided rather short measure. Now you can get all of Debussy's most important orchestral music on two CDs for the price of one, and if the remaining performances don't quite reach the exalted level of the Nocturnes and Jeux, they come so close as to make no difference. Haitink was not a very assertive conductor (and he's gotten less so with ...
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Grieg: Lyric Pieces / Emil Gilels
from: Deutsche Grammophon
: :Emil Gilels' personal selection of favorite lyric pieces is one of his most praised and best recordings. The pianist obviously selected the pieces with which he felt the strongest identification, and he plays them lovingly, with sprightly rhythms and a rich, singing tone. Gilels was the one who identified himself as second to Sviatoslav Richter--'If you think I'm something, wait until you hear Richter,' he supposedly said. But this collection is just as beautiful in its way as Richter's lyric collections. ...
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Chopin: The Piano Works
from: Decca
: :Emil Gilels' personal selection of favorite lyric pieces is one of his most praised and best recordings. The pianist obviously selected the pieces with which he felt the strongest identification, and he plays them lovingly, with sprightly rhythms and a rich, singing tone. Gilels was the one who identified himself as second to Sviatoslav Richter--'If you think I'm something, wait until you hear Richter,' he supposedly said. But this collection is just as beautiful in its way as Richter's lyric collections. ...
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Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Performed on Grieg's Piano)
from: EMI Classics
: :Grieg's 66 Lyric Pieces range from simple pretty tunes like the early 'Arietta' that opens this disc to more extended pieces like the dashing 'Wedding Day at Troldhaugen' to impressionistic miniature tone poems like the late 'Summer Evening.' Here, Andsnes plays 24 of them, well-chosen to cover a representative selection from the complete sets. He plays them beautifully, with a lovely tone, virtuoso polish when such is called for, as in the express ride of 'March of the Trolls,' and poetic ...
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