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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Colin Davis, ...

Philips, 1995

Excellent for Massage!
I'm a licensed massage therapist, and I absolutely adore using this CD during my sessions! It's a great alternative to the new age-y music styles that are so pervasive in the relaxation music scene -- my clients find this CD soothing & relaxing, and not at all ...

Godowsky: Strauss Transcriptions and Other Waltzes

Godowsky

Hyperion UK, 2008

Hamelin triumphs again
Hearing items from this recording on radio recently, it was clear that Godowsky's imaginative approach to transcription and his virtuosic pianistic skills were equally matched by Marc-Andre Hamelin's artistry. Indeed, while I have heard some of these pieces dismissed ...

Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes And Impromptus

Frederic Chopin, Claudio Arrau

Philips, 1997

Claudio Arrau, Enchanting
The eloquence of this enchanting artist is an absolute joy. Excellent recording. A treasure in my collection.

The Chopin Collection

Frederic Chopin, Artur Rubinstein

RCA Victor Europe, 1991

The ultimate interpretation
The ultimate way to apreciate the work of Chopin. powerful then again delicate. Sublime piano by Rubinstein. Curacao, apri1 14th 2008

The World's Favorite Piano Music

Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, ...

RCA, 1992

My favorite CD!
Van Cliburn is a master pianist, and this CD is pure listening enjoyment. I generally am not into clasical music, but this is fun. His working fingers convince me that they are not working. They are dancing, and they are having great fun. WONDERFUL!!

Chopin: Favorite Piano Works

Frederic Chopin, Vladimir Ashkenazy

Decca, 1996

Why are you waiting?
Ashkenazy is one of the titans of Chopin. Davidovich and Arrau are the other two. They're all you need. Get Davidovich for the concertos, (inlcuding the Krakowiak--Op 14), Arrau for the nocturnes and a few micscellaneous pieces. Ashkenazy handles everything else. ...

Mozart Edition: Complete Works (170 CD Box Set)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bruce Abel, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2005

A wonderful set !
I bought the complete set for my birthday. What a wonderful surprise ! Let's say I did not know much about Mozart's music except some few "classics" (the symphonies, the requiem, some piano concertos and sonatas, some serenades and the operas). I love every piece I ...

Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Chopin, Bach, Brahms: Alexis Weissenberg - Classic Archive

Brahms, Stravinsky

Medici Masters, 2008

One of the Most Extraordinary Piano Films Ever Made
My title applies primarily to the 1965 black & white film of Alexis Weissenberg playing Stravinsky's Three Movements from Petrushka, amazingly creatively filmed in Stockholm by Åke Falck. I remember seeing this film on TV almost forty years ago and the memory of it has ...

Mozart: Piano Sonatas

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christoph Eschenbach

Deutsche Grammophon, 1999

Mozart, pure & simple
This is my favorite set of Mozart piano sonatas, next to the Mitsuko Uchida collection from Philips. Eschenbach's performance is unadorned by needless trivialities, revealing a deep reverence for Mozart' score. Instead of taking liberties with the music, Eschenbach ...

Bach Edition: Complete Works (155 CD Box Set)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Manze, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2006

An Excellent Value
To get the entire works of Bach in a collection of this type for this price is just wonderful. I have given these as gifts and those who have received them have raved about them. Just an excellent value.

Elgar: The Collector's Edition (30 CDs)

Derek Hammond-Stroud, Peter Glossop, ...

Emi Classics, 2007

Great Bargain of Elgar Masterworks and Forgotten Gems!
Like Sony's Stravinsky set, this Elgar set from EMI seems to want to challenge the Brilliant Classics label by providing lots of music for little money. This costs more than the Stravinsky, but you get 30 cds here as opposed to the 22 in the Stravinsky set. On the ...

Mozart: Sonata for 2 Pianos in D Major, K. 448; Schubert: Fantasia for Piano, 4 Hands in F Minor, D 940

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, ...

Sony, 2003

The Full Keyboard - More Mozart and Schubert!
The credentials of both of the two soloists here - Murray Perahia and Radu Lupu - are impeccable as individual interpreters of the works of both Mozart and Schubert and so it should come as no surprise that as they sit at the same keyboard the result is nothing less ...

Mozart: The Piano Sonatas

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mitsuko Uchida

Philips, 2003

Some of my favorite Uchida perfomances
Like Rubinstein with Chopin, I have always enjoyed performances by a pianist who has a particular affinity for the compositions they are playing. This is no less true here with Mitsuko Uchida and her interpretations of the Mozart piano sonatas. I have these recordings ...

Beethoven Edition: Complete Works (85CD Box Set)

Ludwig van Beethoven, Florian Prey, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2007

Excellent.
Complete, compact (less than a foot long and half a foot wide), with outstanding performers including the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig with Kurt Masur in command. When they say complete, here, they mean it; there is some material in here I'm sure very few have ...

Brahms: Concertos for Piano No. 1 & 2, Fantasia Op. 116

Johannes Brahms, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Deutsche Grammophon, 1996

a truly great recording
To my mind neither Eugen Jochum nor Emil Gilels received the acclaim appropriate to their genius while they were living. Even now it appears they are appreciated mainly by a small clique of true classical music lovers. These two performances of Brahms' Piano ...