classical music: Seiji Ozawa

classical music: Seiji Ozawa

classical music:

Seiji Ozawa

Antonio Vivaldi, Seiji Ozawa, ...

Telarc, 1990

This is the best recording of "The Four Seasons" I have found yet.
I have not yet found a better recording of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" than this one by the Boston Symphony on the Telarc label. It is so clear and crisp and Joel Silverstein will move you with his violin. Highly recommended for any lover of Vivaldi!

Classic Yo-Yo

Johannes Brahms, Antonin Dvorak, ...

Sony, 2001

Awesome
While most people on this site see the "classic" in the title of the album as referring to classical music only, they are mistaken. Classic Yo-Yo refers to his style, not the genre into which his music choices fall. The list of tracks alone should have been a big ...

Essential Bach

Janos Starker, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Decca, 2000

Exquisite Essential Bach
Value and exquisite sampler of Bach on two CD's at an affordable price. Recorded by the likes primarily of Academy of the St. Martin-in-the-fields, Chicago Sympony, Boston Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra and with virtuoso performers as William Bennett, Heinz ...

Tchaikovsky At Tea Time: A Refreshing Blend For Body And Spirit

Julian Lloyd Webber, Kenneth Heath, ...

Philips, 1996

Tchaikovsky's Dreamier Music: A Soothing Album
"Set your Life to Classical Music" is a fine album series that feature beautiful classical music for background music of any occasion- weddings, barbecues, breakfast, beauty sleep, bathtime, reading a book, romantic dinner, massages you name it. And indeed many ...

The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World...Ever!

Johann Sebastian Bach, Léo Delibes, ...

Angel Records, 1999

Good for relaxing pregnant women
I stumbled onto this album whilst searching bit torrent websites for classical music. I don't normally listen to classical music but thought it might be relaxing for my pregnant wife. After hearing the quality of the performances, the arrangement, and the recording I ...

Rapture: Opera's Most Heavenly Moments

Rapture-Opera's Most Heavenly Moments

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

Heavenly music
This is a wonderful background for any tension realeasing activity, like reading a book. So glad I purchased it.

Prokofiev: 7 Symphonies; Lieutenant Kijé

Andreas Schmidt, Sergey Prokofiev, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2001

Stunningly good set
This really is an untterly fantastic box set. I am just learning Prokofiev's symphonic cycle with these, and I would certainly enjoy hearing something better than this! The sound is exquisite, the orchestra is utterly tops, the music (other than the 1st and 5th of ...

Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex

Philip Langridge, Jessye Norman

Philips, 2005

simply superb!
Gifted director/designer Julie Taymor apparently secures one amazing success after another, and this arresting production is surely one of her supreme creations! Adapting the conventions of the seventeenth-century opera-oratorio, Stravinsky's 1927 score marks the ...

The Dvorak Album

Yo-Yo Ma, Antonin Dvorak, ...

Sony, 2004

fabulous
3 of my friends immediately ordered it after I played it for them. It is a great cd.

Herbert Von Karajan

Herbert Von Karajan, Anne-Sophie Mutter

Deutsche Grammophon, 2008

Informative and Elegiacal
Robert Dornhelm's 92 minute film on the late, great Herbert von Karajan is informative, beautiful and elegiacal. More than any other question, it addresses what made Karajan (arguably) the supreme conductor of his generation and one of the towering musical figures of ...

Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2; Totentanz

Franz Liszt, Seiji Ozawa, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1990

The Standard
Over my now fairly long lifetime, I have heard many different recordings of the Liszt Piano Concertos, but this is the one I keep returning to. And as one who is fortunate to have occasional contact with many great artists, I can tell you that more than one has ...

Dvorak in Prague - A Celebration / Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Frederica von Stade, Boston Symphony, Seizi ...

Kultur Video, 2007

Irena Tully, Impulse Films & Prestige Entertainment
The selected works of Antonin Dvorak - one of the most significant composers of all times - are performed here by the most renowned classical artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Frederica von Stade, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seizi Ozawa - making this ...

Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.3, etc.

Sergey Rachmaninov, Seiji Ozawa, ...

RCA, 1993

An Amazing Performance of Rach 3
I must confess, the first time I heard Evgeny Kissin's interpretation of this formidable concerto, I was left disappointed. At the time, Martha Argerich's recording was the best in my mind. Like many of the reviewers here, I felt Kissin's performance was painfully slow ...

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (complete) / Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Felix Mendelssohn, Seiji Ozawa, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1995

a voice teacher and early music fan
MENDELSSOHN AND SHAKESPEARE WOULD LOVE THIS RENDITION, 'CAUSE OZAWA'S PERFORMANCE DESERVES RECOGNITION. Felix Mendelssohn(1809-1847) was brought up in an intellectual environment thoroughly immersed in Shakepeare. His Grandfather Moses Mendelssohn had made some ...