classical music: appassionato

classical music: appassionato

classical music:

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Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, ...

Vox (Classical), 1995

great series
This CD along with the others in the series is very good. So far we have collected about ten different ones. They are thorough and interesting. I homeschool and it has been a great additon to our teaching materials and tools. The narrarated history format ...

Saint-Saëns: The Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra

Camille Saint-Saens, Sakari Oramo, ...

Hyperion UK, 2001

Renaissance Man
Saint-Saens was a Renaissance man: botany, astronomy, archeology, mathematics, natural history, and philosophy were subjects he participated in throughout his life. He wrote articles, read papers at scientific societies, contributed notes to learned journals on the ...

The Essential Joshua Bell

Ernest Bloch, Johannes Brahms, ...

Decca, 2005

So I'm just learning violin...
and I can not play like Joshua Bell. For this, he better consider himself damn lucky as the world could not handle two of us Joshua Bells. This was my first exposure to this phenom. Sorry, I had never heard of him until I got my first issue of STRINGS magazine and ...

Complete Piano Works of Scriabin

Michael Ponti, Scriabin

Vox (Classical), 2002

Scriabin's Piano Works
When talking about Scriabin, of course, maturity is only a relative term. He died in 1915 at only 43 years old. He composed an extensive large collection of piano music. Scriabin was a very complicated person and his life is surrounded by many myths. He is known to ...

Appassionato

Yo-Yo Ma, Paquito D'Rivera, ...

SONY CLASSICS, 2007

There Aren't Enough Stars...
Of the thousands of albums/cds I have purchased in my lifetime -- were I to have to pick only one to keep -- this would be it. The mark of the collection is an exquisite sensibility and technical excellence. In several of the pieces, you can feel as if your soul, ...

English Music for Viola

Paul Coletti, Leslie Howard

Hyperion UK, 2001

First-class recordings of musical gems for viola and piano
This CD was initially recorded in 1993 and was reissued in 2001. That is fortunate for those of us who missed it the first time around, for Paul Coletti has produced one of the finest recorded examples of viola playing to be found. Coupled with the sensitive and ...

Schumann: Piano Concerto / Sviatoslav Richter

Robert Schumann, Stanislaw Wislocki, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1996

Keep coming back to this Schumann piano concerto
Over the course of time, I have listened to at least five different pianists play this Schumann piano concerto. Most recently I've discovered Klara Wurtz and find her refreshing to listen to in her well balanced lyrical interpretation and technical skills (Check her ...

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas / Daniel Barenboim

Ludwig van Beethoven, Daniel Barenboim

EMI Classics, 1998

One of the very best ever
This set has to be experienced. The clarity of these performances is beyond belief. If it's not the best set of Beethoven Sonatas, it is certainly among the very best. Take for example the first movement of Sonata number 21. It is so easy to have a performer play all ...

Sergei Taneyev: At the Reading of a Psalm [Hybrid SACD]

Sergey Taneyev, Mikhail Pletnev, ...

Pentatone, 2004

Taneyev
Sometimes you find music that you've never heard of and it turns out great, this is one of those finds. Pentatone usually does a great job of recording and this is no different.

In the Hands of the Master

Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, ...

Sony, 2003

In hot line with Lisztý s bravura style
The flamboyant pianist style of Horowitz at the piano made reemerge in North America the egregious figure of the virtuosi per excellence, a mass phenomena lived in Europe eighty years before when Sigismond Thalberg, Franz Liszt, Carl Tausig, Charles Valentin Alkan, ...

Beethoven: Key to the Quartets / Emerson String Quartet
David Finckel, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1997

Telarc Celebrating 25 Years: Classic Collect

Telarc Celebrating 25 Years: Classical Collection

Telarc, 2002

Disappointing presentation of great music
I recently received this as a present but I was already familiar with many of these recordings, having owned the complete versions of the works presented. Yes, these are great recordings but if you settle for this compilation you will be missing out big time on great ...

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique [DVD Audio]
Hector Berlioz, Colin Davis, ...

Philips, 2004

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 3; Rhapsodies, Op. 79; Piano Pieces, Opp. 117-119

Johannes Brahms, Edo de Waart, ...

Decca, 2006

New Compilation By Brahms' Best Interpreter
Wow, I have the honor of breaking in the review line on this 3-CD set! Here we have Radu Lupu's entire recorded output of Brahms' piano music, all from 1971-81. CD 1 (like CD 2) was previously released as a single CD, so be sure you're not duplicating your ...

Schumann: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra

Robert Schumann, Claudio Abbado, ...

Sony, 1997

A lucid and sensitive rendition of the finest piano concerto
Schumann's Piano Concerto is often overlooked in the reportoire in favor of Grieg's work. An side-by-side comparision of both works shows that the latter is evidently modeled after the former, and this much Grieg admitted. I personally find Schumann's work much more ...