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Buy Now	American Angels (more) »rank: 1794 from: Harmonia Mundi Fr. : :This, Anonymous 4's final recording, is a break from their usual 'early music' periods and locations; it presents American music, religious in nature, from the 18th and 19th centuries. And it's absolutely beautiful from start to finish. Their normal, exquisite technique and purity here blend to sound the way we imagined the ladies' choir in church meetings in America past might have sounded: sweet, sincere, and with harmonies recognizable yet somehow fresh. Some of the songs begin with the women singing 'fa, so la' exercises, which was called 'shape note' singing because some places taught singing with notes as shapes--circle, rectangle, diamond, triangle. ...	Buy Now	Revolutionary [Includes Bonus DVD] (more) »rank: 2332 from: Telarc :Album Description:Revolutionary showcases an artist who is not only breaking ground, but who runs a musical gamut that any musician would be extremely hard-pressed to match. There are only four organ works included. Three are major pinnacles of the organ repertoire (the blistering, nearly unplayable Etude in Octaves by the French modernist Jeanne Demessieux; Prelude and Fugue in B major by Marcel Dupré; and Bach's deeply moving chorale-prelude Now Come, Savior of the Gentiles, while the fourth is the world premiere recording of Cameron's suggestive Love Song No. 1 (2008). The album's major departures, though, are found in Duke Ellington's Solitude (wittily combined ...
Buy Now	Romance of the Violin (more) »rank: 2182 by: Claude Debussy, Fryderyk Chopin, Camille Saint-Saens, Franz Schubert, Vincenzo Bellini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Alexander Borodin, Antonin Dvorak, Claudio Monteverdi, Jules Massenet, Robert Schumann, Michael Stern, Craig Ogden, Gregory Knowles, John Constable, Jacob Heringman, Stephen Orton : :Every track on this CD contains a beautiful melody, many of them easily recognizable, all of them exuding tranquility. 'O mio babbino caro' from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi opens the disc, with Bell delicately accompanied by a harp and spinning the long melody with great sensitivity. Bellini's 'Casta diva' from Norma lives up to its reputation as the epitome of bel canto in Bell's hands; his violin sings. The middle movement of Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto takes well to the violin, and Debussy's 'The Girl with the Flaxen Hair' is played with great warmth and sensuality. It would be easy to turn a recital ...	Buy Now	Baby Einstein: Lullaby Classics, Vol. 2 (more) »rank: 1685 from: Buena Vista : :\N
Buy Now	Andre Rieu in Wonderland (incl bonus CD) (more) »rank: 8966 starring: Andre Rieu directed by: Pit Weyrich : :PBS' #1 musical star presents a magical new special that grandparents and grandchildren can share together! André Rieu takes viewers to a land of fairies, elves, princesses and knights, where everyone lives happily ever after! André Rieu In Wonderland features enchanting melodies recorded at Efteling, one of the world s most beautiful fairy-tale theme parks. This musical extravaganza is performed by Rieu, his Johann Strauss Orchestra and choir, fantastic soloists from the Ballet of The Vienna State Opera, The International Dance Theatre, and The Berlin Folk-Music Sparrows. The film features the live staged event and includes cut-aways to scenes from the world ...	Buy Now	Spanish Guitar Music (more) »rank: 1886 from: Sony : :PBS' #1 musical star presents a magical new special that grandparents and grandchildren can share together! André Rieu takes viewers to a land of fairies, elves, princesses and knights, where everyone lives happily ever after! André Rieu In Wonderland features enchanting melodies recorded at Efteling, one of the world s most beautiful fairy-tale theme parks. This musical extravaganza is performed by Rieu, his Johann Strauss Orchestra and choir, fantastic soloists from the Ballet of The Vienna State Opera, The International Dance Theatre, and The Berlin Folk-Music Sparrows. The film features the live staged event and includes cut-aways to scenes from the world ...
Buy Now	The Essential Yo-Yo Ma (more) »rank: 1283 from: Sony : : Here are three dozen pieces of music, all played by Yo-Yo Ma, culled from his extensive discography. Aside from the technical mastery and beautiful tone that are absolutes in all of his playing, one is dazzled by his curiosity and ability to adapt to so many forms and types of music. His Bach and Vivaldi are pellucid and played with non-sentimental crispness, his tango music gritty and rhythmically pungent, his jazz seemingly spontaneous, the 'Meditation' from Thais simply ravishing, 'Anything Goes' a romp, and the Appalachian music performed with both respect and a great twang, while the traditional Chinese music is fascinating. ...	Buy Now	Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7 (more) »rank: 1580 from: Deutsche Grammophon : essential recording:Long regarded as the quintessential interpretation of the most popular and best-loved symphony ever written, this performance of the Fifth has everything: passion, precision, drama, lyric beauty, and a coiled fury in the first movement that sets your pulse racing from the very first note. Carlos Kleiber has made very few recordings in his distinguished career, but almost all are special. If you own no other copy of this symphony, this is the one to get. It comes with an exceptional performance of the Seventh--not quite as gripping as the Fifth, but definitely one of the great ones. There is classical ...
Buy Now	Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Violin Concertos (more) »rank: 2471 from: EMI Classics : essential recording:Long regarded as the quintessential interpretation of the most popular and best-loved symphony ever written, this performance of the Fifth has everything: passion, precision, drama, lyric beauty, and a coiled fury in the first movement that sets your pulse racing from the very first note. Carlos Kleiber has made very few recordings in his distinguished career, but almost all are special. If you own no other copy of this symphony, this is the one to get. It comes with an exceptional performance of the Seventh--not quite as gripping as the Fifth, but definitely one of the great ones. There is classical ...	Buy Now	The Italian Opera Collection (more) »rank: 7098 starring: Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera :Description:This specially priced 3-DVD set (three for the price of two) features Luciano Pavarotti at the Met in three of the legendary Italian tenor's greatest roles: * His Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore is 'a blend of rustic innocence with a warm, amorous side, and a bit of virtuosic hamminess.' (New York Times) * As Rodolfo in La Bohème, 'he was in peak form in 1977...funny, warm, touching, believable, and a consummate vocal stylist.' (Fanfare) * In Pagliacci, Pavarotti 'was singing Canio for the first time on stage, and he does so magnificently, dramatically as well as vocally.' (International Record Review) This fabulous collection ...