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Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas / Daniel Barenboim
from: EMI Classics
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Handel - Messiah / Vyvyan · Sinclair · Vickers · Tozzi · Royal PO · Beecham
: essential recording:Sir Thomas Beecham's Messiah has become notorious among baroque purists (like this writer) for embodying the worst excesses of pre-1960 Handel performance: ponderous tempos, stentorian opera singers, huge lumbering choruses and orchestras, crashing cymbals, clanging triangles.... Well, we'll need a new straw man: this performance is WONDERFUL. Jon Vickers and Giorgio Tozzi negotiate Handel's writing surprisingly well; Jennifer Vyvyan takes to it naturally. The chorus and orchestra (yes, including trombones, tuba, triangle, and cymbals) may obscure the ...
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Mozart: The Late Symphonies: Nos. 25, 29, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41
from: Deutsche Grammophon
: essential recording:Sir Thomas Beecham's Messiah has become notorious among baroque purists (like this writer) for embodying the worst excesses of pre-1960 Handel performance: ponderous tempos, stentorian opera singers, huge lumbering choruses and orchestras, crashing cymbals, clanging triangles.... Well, we'll need a new straw man: this performance is WONDERFUL. Jon Vickers and Giorgio Tozzi negotiate Handel's writing surprisingly well; Jennifer Vyvyan takes to it naturally. The chorus and orchestra (yes, including trombones, tuba, triangle, and cymbals) may obscure the ...
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Schubert: The String Quartets
from: Deutsche Grammophon
: essential recording:Sir Thomas Beecham's Messiah has become notorious among baroque purists (like this writer) for embodying the worst excesses of pre-1960 Handel performance: ponderous tempos, stentorian opera singers, huge lumbering choruses and orchestras, crashing cymbals, clanging triangles.... Well, we'll need a new straw man: this performance is WONDERFUL. Jon Vickers and Giorgio Tozzi negotiate Handel's writing surprisingly well; Jennifer Vyvyan takes to it naturally. The chorus and orchestra (yes, including trombones, tuba, triangle, and cymbals) may obscure the ...
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The Gene Krupa Story
:Album Description:Four disc retrospective of the legendary jazz drummer's output as a bandleader. Nearly five hours long in total, it contains three discs with studio tracks & one comprised of live performances & transcriptions. Also contains a 32 page booklet with a full discography, recording dates, personnel details for all of the enclosed works, extensive liner notes and loads of great photos. 99 tracks total. Comes packaged in a sturdy 2 x 5 x 6inch cardboard box. 1998. :Gene ...
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The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
:Album Description:Four disc retrospective of the legendary jazz drummer's output as a bandleader. Nearly five hours long in total, it contains three discs with studio tracks & one comprised of live performances & transcriptions. Also contains a 32 page booklet with a full discography, recording dates, personnel details for all of the enclosed works, extensive liner notes and loads of great photos. 99 tracks total. Comes packaged in a sturdy 2 x 5 x 6inch cardboard box. 1998. :Gene ...
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Star Wars Trilogy: The Original Soundtrack Anthology
: :There is no soundtrack composer working today more talented or consistent than John Williams, and the Star Wars trilogy represents some of his finest work. Though he uses few major themes (mostly tied to specific characters, signaling when they appear on the screen or do something important), there's also enough variety in the incidental music to keep things interesting. From the instantly recognizable opening music to the medley that accompanies the closing credits, this is excellent work that perfectly ...
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The Best of the Big Bands
: :There is no soundtrack composer working today more talented or consistent than John Williams, and the Star Wars trilogy represents some of his finest work. Though he uses few major themes (mostly tied to specific characters, signaling when they appear on the screen or do something important), there's also enough variety in the incidental music to keep things interesting. From the instantly recognizable opening music to the medley that accompanies the closing credits, this is excellent work that perfectly ...
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Seattle, Washington, November 6, 2000
: :The last date of the best-documented tour in rock history, Pearl Jam's Seattle, Washington 11/6/00 might be the most important record in the band's entire career. Starting with the dates from the European leg of the tour, then moving through the U.S. East Coast, and finally concluding with the West Coast, every date on Pearl Jam's world tour has been immortalized with its own accompanying CD. Why would the band choose to do this? After listening to this three-disc ...
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Jelly Roll Morton: 1926-1930
: :In both sound quality and price, England's JSP Records continues to put the American major labels to shame with their prewar jazz collections. Following superb multidisc releases of seminal recordings by Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt, JSP now offers this Jelly Roll Morton compendium, which includes all his Victor recordings from 1926 to 1930. Thanks to the work of remastering guru John R.T. Davies and a sinfully reasonable price, this five-disc collection far surpasses any U.S. release. The music ...
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