classical music: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

classical music: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

classical music:

Berlin Philharmoni...

Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, ...

Decca, 2001

great collection
If one was wanting to introduce a friend to the wonderful world of opera, this would be a great cd to buy them. Also at this time when many of us are worrying about Luciano and his health , it is great to hear him featured on many of the selections. A great buy and ...

Ode to Freedom: Bernstein Conducts Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Berlin

Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1990

I will only listen to this work in private
For years, when I listened to the 9th, I would play the 1st and 2nd movements and then skip to the finale. I enjoy crisp, energetic and powerful music and the 9th has it in unsurpassed measure. And this rendition provides just that. I haven't listened to all the ...

Luciano Pavarotti: The Best (Farewell Tour)

Eric Garrett, Rolando Panerai, ...

Decca, 2005

Wonderful, of course!
I don't know of too many that would give fewer than five stars to Luciano Pavarotti. What an amazing voice...we are fortunate to have been part of one man's unbelievable talent!

The Most Famous Opera Duets

Eberhard Wächter, Georges Bizet, ...

EMI Classics, 1994

Beautiful duets...
This CD is really awesome. I'm new to opera, but love the music on this CD. I use opera music in my CD clock radio (Timex from Amazon) to fall asleep to. What a way to fade into dreamland.

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven, Herbert von Karajan, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1996

One great interpretation for a classic masterpiece.
Despite the relative old record, the sound is excelent. The sound engineers have one outstanding job done here, the recording is clear and vivid. The interpretation granted by Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra needs no coments, simply excelent. This ...

The Most Relaxing Classical Album In the World Ever, Volume II

Yehudi Menuhin, Jacqueline Du Pre, ...

EMI Classics, 2003

Great music listein to while you read in bed
I have listened to this CD for the last several years before going to sleep at night. I love classical music, and this is great music to help make my soul feel at peace and unwind after a taxing day.

Tabula Rasa

Arvo Part, Dennis Russell Davies, ...

Ecm Records, 1999

Fill in your blank slate with some innovative music...
This CD started it all. In 1984 it introduced the then little known Arvo Pärt to a new western audience. Pärt had long before made his "tinntinnabulation" discovery (around 1976). Before this pivotal epiphany, the majority of Pärt's work fell into the serialist ...

Puccini - La Bohème / Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Ghiaurov, Karajan

Giacomo Puccini, Mirella Freni, ...

Decca, 1990

A Definitive Production of La Bohème.
Puccini's iconic La Bohème (1896) is among the most popular operas in history (second only to Puccini's Madama Butterfly), and "Che gelida manina" is one of the most familiar arias in opera. Based on Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger, La Bohème is a romantic ...

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies no 4, 5, & 6 / Karajan, Berlin PO

Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Herbert von Karajan, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1997

The best recording of von Karajan
I have always been thinking that Tchaikovsky exists between Hollywood movie composers and Broadway musical writers; after all he was a man who wrote Swan Lake, Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. To me his position was not on serious side of vast universe of classical ...

Amore: Romantic Italian Love Songs

Eduardo di Capua, Salvatore Cardillo, ...

Decca, 1992

Great Pavarotti sampler collection
I got this CD for my teenaged son, who asked for a Pavarotti CD for Christmas. I chose this one among the plethora of recordings because it is a good sampler of the great man's best pieces. My son isn't much into operatic singing, but he loves Pavarotti. I wanted a ...

The Ligeti Project II: Lontano / Atmosphères / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony / Concert Românesc - ...

Gyorgy Ligeti, Jonathon Nott, ...

Teldec, 2002

Stunningly insightful performances of Ligeti's orchestral works
György Ligeti's unique place in 20th Century music, while long admired by the cognoscenti, has yet to become a true part of the standard repertoire of our major orchestras. With the release of this Ligeti Project that situation will hopefully change! On this CD ...

Brahms: The Complete Symphonies / Karajan, Berlin PO

Johannes Brahms, Herbert von Karajan, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1998

The greatest Brahms twofer you could imagine
DG's catalog is overflowing with Brahms performances from Karajan, and although this late-Seventies cycle of the four symphonies is not esteemed as highly as his earlier analog recordings, the truth is that Karajan had few real competitors in these works during the ...

Great Recordings Of The Century - Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto / Oistrakh, ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

EMI Classics, 1999

There can't be any better!
It is not for the names only. I think it is a performance as Beethoven probably had in mind.

Strauss: Four Last Songs / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Richard Strauss, Herbert von Karajan, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1996

Absolutely Beautiful!
Gundula Janowitz did an amazing job on the Four Last Songs by Strauss. Her tone is so beautiful with clarity, and her voice is so expressive. She also does not over sing these delicate songs which I heard oversung, and it ruins each piece. Of course, Karajan and the ...

Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Tchaikovsky / Karajan, Rostropovich,

Mstislav Rostropovich, Antonin Dvorak, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1996

One of the great treasures in recorded classical music
This recording of the Dvorak Cello Concerto in B-minor, Op. 104, by Mstislav Rostropovich, with Herbert von Karajan & the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra,is not only the finest perfomance of the piece that I have ever heard, including Ma, Du Pre, and Piatigorsky, but it ...