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Itzhak Perlman: Violin Encores
from: EMI Classics
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Stravinsky: Music for Four Hands
from: Arbiter
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100 Best Piano Classics
from: Angel Records
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Nylon & Steel
: :Classical guitar lovers looking for a jazzier change of pace shouldn't be disappointed by Nylon & Steel, Manuel Barrueco's album of duets with Al Di Meola, Steve Morse, and Andy Summers. But ironically enough, it's the two solo tunes that bookend this disc, Barrueco's 'Odeon' and his solo guitar arrangement of Aaron Copland's 'Rodeo,' that are the real highlights. His three cuts with Di Meola are a mixed affair, but the interplay between the duo seems to gel on the ...
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Bassoonatics!
from: Musica Viva
: :Classical guitar lovers looking for a jazzier change of pace shouldn't be disappointed by Nylon & Steel, Manuel Barrueco's album of duets with Al Di Meola, Steve Morse, and Andy Summers. But ironically enough, it's the two solo tunes that bookend this disc, Barrueco's 'Odeon' and his solo guitar arrangement of Aaron Copland's 'Rodeo,' that are the real highlights. His three cuts with Di Meola are a mixed affair, but the interplay between the duo seems to gel on the ...
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Stravinsky: Works for Piano
from: EMI Classics
: :Classical guitar lovers looking for a jazzier change of pace shouldn't be disappointed by Nylon & Steel, Manuel Barrueco's album of duets with Al Di Meola, Steve Morse, and Andy Summers. But ironically enough, it's the two solo tunes that bookend this disc, Barrueco's 'Odeon' and his solo guitar arrangement of Aaron Copland's 'Rodeo,' that are the real highlights. His three cuts with Di Meola are a mixed affair, but the interplay between the duo seems to gel on the ...
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Castles in Spain
from: El Records
:Album Description:Legrand is most famous as the first European to collaborate with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and John Coltrane and his enormously successful early film scores which included such international hits as 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg' and 'The Thomas Crown Affair' and its famous theme-song 'Windmills Of Your Mind'.
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Piano Dance: A 20th-Century Portrait
from: Telarc
: :For sheer entertainment value, it's hard to find a classical CD that will beat this one. Gloria Cheng has chosen an astonishing variety of 20th-century piano music with nothing in common except brevity and dance origins. The disc is full of familiar pieces (Debussy, Scriabin, Ravel, Prokofiev) and entertaining novelties (Albright, Martinu, Poulenc, Ginastera). Donald R. Davis's exercise in creative plagiarism, 'Illicit Felicity,' rates a special mention for its ingenuity. But really, unless you're allergic to Philip Glass, there isn't ...
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Piazzolla: Nostalgia Urbana
:Album Description:A native of Israel, pianist Ilan Rogoff has made his home since 1991 on the island of Majorca, where Chopin once lived. His double CD Chopin in Mallorca has been repressed five times. A student of both Vladimir Horowitz and Claudio Arrau, Ilan Rogoff has performed worldwide in his very personal style which reflects a synthesis of Russian and German keyboard traditions. His album of Schumann and Schubert Fantasys for Nimbus was chosen one of the year's best by ...
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Just Guitars: Microtonal Music for Guitar
from: Bridge
:Album Description:This recording features the premiere recordings of works by the late Lou Harrison and the legendary Harry Partch. John Schneider, guitarist and Los Angeles radio personality performs on a wide variety of guitars using such instruments as Partch's microtonal Adapated Guitars, Martin, Gibson and Fender guitars, a National Resophonic Guitar, and other instruments that feature tuneable fretboards for various types of Just Intonation. Lou Harrison (1917-2003) wrote his last guitar piece for National Steel guitar, custom fretted in Just ...
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