 | 25 Baroque Favorites
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by Vox (Classical)
Audio CD
(20 August, 1996)
(5 reviews) 
Customer Review: Good, but Not Great: While I found the song selection on this compilation to be excellent, the remastering quality isn't quite on par. |
 | 25 Beethoven Favorites
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by Vox (Classical)
Audio CD
(20 August, 1996)
(1 reviews) 
Customer Review: Less than impressive...: I must say that I am very disappointed with this CD. It's bad enough that only select movements from symphonies, |
 | 25 Children's Favorites
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by Vox (Classical)
Audio CD
(05 September, 2000)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: A Wonderful Introduction to the Classics: With total playing time clocking in at 78:04 minutes of music, you'll be paying about 6-cents/minute, |
 | 25 Classical Favorites
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by Vox (Classical)
Audio CD
(23 January, 1996)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: Very good quality music: I had purchased an abundance of the "Favorites" collection, and some were better than others. ***This one stood out from many of them.* |
 | 25 Romantic Classics
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by Vox (Classical)
Audio CD
(30 January, 1996)
(8 reviews) 
Customer Review: Could have been better: I think the quality is good, and better on a few tracks, but all these romantic tracks?? Not what I listened to. |
 | 25 Tchaikovsky Favorites
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by Vox (Classical)
Audio CD
(20 August, 1996)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Tchaikovsky's Greatest Pieces of Music: Here are some of Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky's greatest works. His Nutcraker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty ballets are the most famous in the repoirtaire. |
 | 25 Thunderous Classics
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by Vox (Classical)
Audio CD
(05 September, 2000)
(4 reviews) 
Customer Review: Good Music at a Great Price: I bought this CD mostly for "Entry of the Gladiators," which everyone will recognize as classic circus music. |
 | A Gala Christmas in Vienna
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Audio CD
(29 September, 1998)
(10 reviews) 
Editorial Review: You don't hear many live Christmas records, but then it's seldom you get as many operatic powerhouses under one Austrian town-hall roof with a full orchestra and large children's choir. Placido Domingo (who dominates the proceedings with his commanding tenor), |
 | Amadeus: Original Soundtrack Recording
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by Fantasy
Audio CD
(22 December, 1992)
(16 reviews)
Customer Review: Salieri's Story....Mozart's Music...Excellent Recording!....: Remember the opening scene from the wonderful film "Amadeus"? A deranged old man screaming his confession of murdering Mozart, |
 | Amore II ~ Great Italian Love Arias
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Audio CD
(01 February, 2000)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: Absolutely Beautiful!: Two words describe the music found on this CD: ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL! The beauty of the vocals and music combine to allow one to transcend from the daily grind to a world of beauty. |
 | Amore: Romantic Italian Love Songs
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by Decca
Audio CD
(15 September, 1992)
(2 reviews)
Editorial Review: From Calaf's "Nessun dorma" from Turandot, in which the singer exclaims his love for the ice princess and the victory he will have over her, through Lionel's realization that he will have a new life and be happy with Lady Harriet in Martha ("M'appari"), |
 | Andrea Bocelli - Sacred Arias / Myung-Whun Chung
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by Philips
Audio CD
(09 November, 1999)
(111 reviews)
Editorial Review: When he was growing up, Andrea Bocelli recalls finding inspiration in a favorite recording of sacred music performed by tenor legend Franco Corelli. Bocelli--who in the meantime has come to inspire millions of fiercely loyal fans himself--returns to the genre as the guiding theme of Sacred Arias, |
 | Andrea Bocelli - The Opera Album ~ Aria
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by Philips
Audio CD
(07 April, 1998)
(81 reviews)
Editorial Review: Andre Bocelli is no opera singer, but he shows far more potential inthis album than does another pop-vocalist tenor-wannabe, Michael Bolton. For onething, he can shake off the crooner mannerisms and really sing when performingmusic that calls for it. |
 | Andrea Bocelli: Verdi
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by Philips
Audio CD
(12 September, 2000)
(75 reviews)
Editorial Review: With this CD devoted solely to operatic arias--by none less thanGiuseppe Verdi, thegreatest Italian opera composer of all time--pop crossover phenomenonAndrea Bocelli throws his hatinto the operatic ring with the big boys. |
 | Andrew Lloyd Webber - Requiem / Domingo, Brightman, ECO, Maazel
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by Decca
Audio CD
(14 November, 1995)
(12 reviews)
Editorial Review: Before Andrew Lloyd Webber's seemingly endless run of Broadway shows, when he was knownprimarily for Jesus Christ Superstar, he managed to write this dramatic, tuneful, occasionallypowerful religious work. |
 | André Rieu - Fiesta / Johann Strauss Orchestra
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by Philips
Audio CD
(19 June, 2001)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Not the best versions available: First of all, why call this recording"Fiesta"? only for the first four latin-americanworks? because the rest of the cd is of German music.I |
 | André Rieu - Romantic Moments
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by Philips
Audio CD
(02 February, 1999)
(14 reviews)
Editorial Review: Set the table, open the wine, light some candles. Slip on this disc. Let the gentle sounds of André Rieu's slippery fiddle and fur-tipped orchestra lull you with classical music's most memorable soothers, |
 | André Rieu - the vienna i love ~ Waltzes From My Heart / Johann Strauss Orchestr
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by Philips
Audio CD
(14 January, 1997)
(8 reviews)
Editorial Review: If Rieu is not the most outstanding purveyor of Viennese waltzes and similar light-hearted fare, he is certainly the most popular and well-known. There are plenty of fun pieces on this album, although, to be just a tad pedantic, more of it is Italian and French than remotely Viennese. |
 | Bach - Brandenburg Concertos / Il Giardino armonico
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by Elektra
Audio CD
(16 September, 1997)
(13 reviews)
Editorial Review: Il Giardino Armonico is an original instruments group made up of skilledyoung Italian specialists in Baroque music. They bring a light, airy touch to theBrandenburg Concertos, with deeply felt slow movements, |
 | Bach - Christmas Oratorio / Gardiner
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by Archiv Produktion
Audio CD
(25 October, 1990)
(10 reviews)
Editorial Review: This isn't an oratorio in the Handelian sense, but a series of cantatasfor various days from Christmas to Epiphany. Bach's music is loaded with treats:an echo aria for soprano and oboe; a "pastoral" sinfonia; |
 | Bach: 6 Cello Suites
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by Archiv Produktion
Audio CD
(11 February, 1997)
(20 reviews)
Editorial Review: Elegance is the quality in Pierre Fournier's playing that makes the first and, ultimately, the most lasting impression. He finds great depth in the suites, but he shows constant awareness that he is playing mostly dance music (usually, |
 | Bach: French Suites / Angela Hewitt
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by Hyperion
Audio CD
(21 November, 1995)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: Sensitive, Lively Performances: The works included on these 2 disks are among Bach's most accessible keyboard works and are also among the easiest for the amateur to get a grip on.A |
 | Bach: Mass in B minor / McNair, Ziegler, Simpson, Aler, Stone, Paul; Shaw
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by Telarc
Audio CD
(10 October, 1990)
(8 reviews)
Editorial Review: Robert Shaw's reading of the B Minor Mass is, in one sense at least, just what one would expect: sober and purposeful, beautifully shaped (Shaw is a master architect), it centers on the chorus. Like all of Shaw's choruses, |
 | Bach: Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites
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Audio CD
(25 October, 1990)
(28 reviews)
Editorial Review: This is Yo-Yo Ma's first recording of Bach's Cello Suites, digitally recorded in 1983 and first issued on LP. He has since made a second recording of the Suites in 1998, taken from the soundtrack of a video series, |
 | Bach: Sonatas & Partitas; Itzhak Perlman
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by Emi Classics
Audio CD
(25 October, 1990)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: Perlman's love for Bach is evident: Is this the Bach collection for baroque purists? Of course not. Nor will it please the lovers of the old-school romantics. |
 | Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Rolfe Johnson, Bonney, von Otter, Chance, Crook; Gardine
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by Archiv Produktion
Audio CD
(20 October, 1989)
(27 reviews)
Editorial Review: John Eliot Gardiner's reading of the Matthew Passion is conceived and executed on the highest level, an example of period practice that is unlikely to be bettered any time soon. The performance as a whole vibrates with life: soloists are first-rate, |
 | Bach: The Six Sonatas and Partitas
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by Delos Records
Audio CD
(04 August, 1998)
(22 reviews)
Editorial Review: While many guitarists carry single movements from Bach's solo violin sonatas and partitas in their repertoires, Paul Galbraith has transcribed the entire set for his custom-made eight-string instrument. |
 | Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (book 1)
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by Hyperion
Audio CD
(27 October, 1998)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: Natural, mellifluent: So far, almost every interpretaion of Bach's well-tempered clavier involves the radical faith about music and music performance, |
 | Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites, Nos. 1, 2, and 5
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Audio CD
(29 August, 2000)
(22 reviews)
Editorial Review: The double bass only recently began to be regarded as a solo instrument, largely thanks to outstanding players who inspired composers to write for it. Until then, its repertoire consisted mostly of transcriptions, |
 | Barber's Adagio
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Audio CD
(25 October, 1990)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: A Great Selection: Leonard Bernstein was very much at home with brooding, introspective, post-Romantic symphonic works, and this CD (except for the Romantic Tchaikovsky) shows it very well. |
 | Baroque at Bathtime: A Relaxing Serenade to Wash Your Cares Away
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by Philips
Audio CD
(15 August, 1995)
(9 reviews)
Customer Review: Cleansing Sounds To Wash Away Tensions: This is pleasing, pastoral music picked to relieve that which tenses up our bodies and souls.T |
 | Beethoven - Die Symphonien (Symphonies 1-9) / Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic
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by Deutsche Grammophon
Audio CD
(21 November, 2000)
(13 reviews)
Editorial Review: Beyond argument, Claudio Abaddo's second Beethoven cycle puts his previous DG traversals of the nine symphonies in the shade. His Berlin Philharmonic musicians, for starters, play with more precision, fire, |
 | Beethoven Symphonies
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by Elektra
Audio CD
(25 April, 2000)
(12 reviews)
Editorial Review: Beethoven has been a dominating presence in Daniel Barenboim's musical life, from his early years as a piano prodigy to his long-held international podium career. He recorded the piano sonatas twice and the concertos three times--as soloist with Otto Klemperer, |
 | Beethoven-Harnoncourt: 9 Symphonies
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by Elektra
Audio CD
(11 October, 1991)
(11 reviews)
Editorial Review: When it was first released in 1991, this set created a furor. NikolausHarnoncourt is famous as one of the pioneers of the "authenticinstrument" movement, but he is also a musician of deep insight and strong,s |
 | Beethoven: 9 Symphonien
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by Deutsche Grammophon
Audio CD
(13 February, 1990)
(60 reviews)
Editorial Review: By general consensus, Herbert von Karajan's first (1963) Beethoven cyclefor Deutsche Grammophon is the best of the four (!) that he recorded. The BerlinPhilharmonic was in top form, and they had not yet made an artistic fetish outof the bland smoothness that typified the conductor's later recordings of thismusic (and just about everything else). |
 | Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas & Concertos (Box)
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by Philips
Audio CD
(09 November, 1999)
(16 reviews)
Editorial Review: Claudio Arrau played with seriousness of purpose that could make other pianists seem like dilettantes and with respect for the composer's score that bordered on veneration. He had nothing but scorn for pianists who played the opening of Beethoven's Opus 111 with two hands instead of one because there were fewer risks. |
 | Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas / Daniel Barenboim
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by Emi Classics
Audio CD
(20 October, 1998)
(14 reviews)
Customer Review: My Favorite Beethoven Sonata Cycle: I bought this cycle since I was becoming increasingly dissatisfied with Wilhelm Kempff's (1964) set on DG - a set I grew up with while studying many of these sonatas at the piano. |
 | Beethoven: Nine Symphonies
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by Deutsche Grammophon
Audio CD
(03 July, 1990)
(7 reviews)
Editorial Review: This is hedonistic Beethoven, though in listening to these accounts onewonders sometimes whether Herbert von Karajan may not have confused sex withlove, and physicality with emotion. At least he seems more concerned withopulence of sound and weight of texture than with psychology or substance. |
 | Beethoven: Piano Concertos (Box Set)
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Audio CD
(25 August, 1992)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: Revisiting the Beethoven Piano Concertos: Beethoven's fourth and fifth piano concertos were among the first works I heard and loved in getting to know music too many years ago. |
 | Beethoven: Piano Trios
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by Philips
Audio CD
(25 October, 1990)
(2 reviews)
Editorial Review: The Beaux Arts threesome take a contemplative, Apollonian view of this work, a reaction to their earlier, lighter reading from the 1960s. They strive for almost too much refinement in their playing of the trio's opening movement, |
 | Beethoven: Symphonien Nos. 5 & 7 / Kleiber, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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by Deutsche Grammophon
Audio CD
(23 January, 1996)
(104 reviews)
Editorial Review: Long regarded as the quintessential interpretation of the most popularand best-loved symphony ever written, this performance of the Fifth haseverything: passion, precision, drama, lyric beauty, and a coiled fury in thefirst movement that sets your pulse racing from the very first note. |
 | Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies / Gardiner
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by Archiv Produktion
Audio CD
(20 September, 1994)
(32 reviews)
Customer Review: BEETHOVEN - AT HIS MOST "PERFECT": This CD set is worth a lot more than the nominal price you will pay. With the help of scholars and plain good musicianship, |
 | Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas
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by Nonesuch
Audio CD
(05 October, 1993)
(24 reviews)
Customer Review: A great attempt at Everest: The Beethoven piano sonatas-of all the master's works is the music that in Schnabel's famous phrase-is greater than can ever be played-on this side of the mortal divide at least.I |
 | Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies
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by Decca
Audio CD
(11 September, 1990)
(11 reviews)
Customer Review: Solti Triumphant!!!: The balance of power and ominous, painful beauty that is Beethoven has been captured by Solti. Sir Georg manifests an aggressive tempo throughout, |
 | Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas
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by Decca
Audio CD
(10 September, 2002)
(6 reviews)
Editorial Review: There are two really famous Beethoven violin sonatas, the Kreutzer and the Spring. The Kreutzer Sonata inspired the story by Leo Tolstoy, which in turn became the subject of Janácek's First String Quartet, |
 | Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas
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by Deutsche Grammophon
Audio CD
(24 November, 1998)
(18 reviews)
Editorial Review: This complete cycle of Beethoven violin sonatas was recorded during a series of live performances in 1998. Mutter devoted the entire year, together with her partner, Lambert Orkis, to an extensive global tour focused on these works, |
 | Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York
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Audio CD
(28 October, 1997)
(33 reviews)
Editorial Review: Happy is the composer who has an advocate as passionate and talented asLeonard Bernstein. These Copland performances have been the preferred versionssince they were first issued--better even than the composer's own, |
 | Bernstein Century - Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, etc
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Audio CD
(28 October, 1997)
(7 reviews)
Editorial Review: Back in the 1950s and '60s, when George Gershwin was taken for granted more than he was respected, Leonard Bernstein was one of his only champions in high-classical-music circles, and to judge from these recordings, |
 | Bernstein Favorites-Children's Classics
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Audio CD
(03 May, 1991)
(4 reviews)
Customer Review: Childhood Revisited: My mother bought a vinyl copy of this for my sister and me when we were young. We practically wore it out from constant listening. |
 | Bernstein: Candide/West Side Story/On The Waterfront/Fancy Free
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Audio CD
(28 October, 1997)
(5 reviews)
Editorial Review: This release comes from Sony's immense backlog of famous recordings ofLeonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. In fact, these works trace theevolution of the New York Philharmonic into a world-class orchestra in the late1950s under Bernstein's hand. |
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