classical music: hungary

classical music: hungary

classical music:

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The Strauss Family: Waltzes, Polkas & Overtures - Willi Boskovsky/Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna (6 CD's)

Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, ...

EMI Classics, 2004

Great Strauss music conducted by an expert
Willi Boskovsky was born and trained in Vienna and served as concertmaster of the great Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for forty years. The outstanding performances of Viennese waltzes and other music by Johann Strauss II -- The Waltz King -- as well as by his father ...

Strauss: The Best of Vienna

Johann II [Junior] Strauss, Johann II and Josef Strauss, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1999

Repackaged New Year's Concert 1984 with VPO, etc.
If I'm not mistaken, most of the pieces were recorded originally live during a 1984 New Year's Concert conducted by Lorin Maazel with the Vienna Philharmonic playing in its grand concert hall, the Musikverein. Maazel and the Vienna Philharmonic have had a longstanding ...

Carlos Kleiber Conducts Strauss

Johann II [Junior] Strauss, Josef Strauss, ...

Sony, 1991

The only CD you'll ever need...
...when you are stranded on a lonely island, with a beautiful wom... Ok, seriously: Carlos Kleiber (God bless him!) was the best of all Johann Strauss conductors, actually in my opinion far better than Karajan (who's work I otherwise respect a lot). Kleiber brings a ...

Csardas Hungarian Gypsy Music

Anonymous, Vittorio Monti, ...

Naxos, 1995

Gypsy fire!
This music is amazing. Authentically captures the spirit of traditional gypsy folk music wonderfully. I guess the best way to describe this music is to tell you what the liner notes say: "Popular Hungarian gypsy music owes much of its form to earlier aristocratic ...

National Anthems of the World: Swarovski Orchestra

Muhammad Fawzi, Sa'd 'Abd al-Wahhab, ...

Koch Int'l Classics, 2004

excellent selection & quality sound
Swarovski Orchestra did an excellent job in this compilation. I work in Foreign Service & I use this CD to play US anthem & the host country anthem during events. Unlike other compilations which shorten the pieces, this offers full-length pieces saving me from ...

National Anthems of the World
John [04] Stafford Smith, Calixa Lavallee, ...

Madacy Records, 2004

Johann Strauss: Waltzes

Johann II [Junior] Strauss, Willi Boskovsky, ...

Decca, 2001

EXQUISITE
We recently watched the old The Strauss Family DVD series and were charmed and amazed by the family and its music. I wanted a CD to bring back the charm of that series. I chose music by Johann II because I liked his music better in the DVD. Fortunately, I followed ...

World Anthems

John [Film Composer] Williams, Spanish Traditional, ...

RCA, 1998

Some excellent tracks.
With twenty-nine national anthems and John Williams' "Olympic Theme", this album offers a reasonable variety of anthems. (Curiously, there is nothing from the USSR/CIS/Russia!) The recording quality is excellent. The interpretation of the anthems seems to attempt to ...

Kurtag: Jatekok / Marta and Gyorgy Kurtag

Gyorgy Kurtag, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Ecm Records, 2000

Jewel-like modernist piano music
This is one of my favorite piano music recordings. Kurtag's piano pieces, each dedicated to a friend or hero, are like miniature musical portraits composed by a master artist. They are tiny, intricate, and gestural. His music tends toward the aphoristic, saying a lot ...

Strauss: Waltzes, Polkas & Marches [Box Set]

Johann II [Junior] Strauss, Johann II and Josef Strauss, ...

Decca, 1997

Boskovsky and the Strauss Family of Vienna.
A long series of Strauss music recordings conducted by Willi Boskovsky provides the contents of this slender, super-compact box of 6 CDs. Those who collected the original issues should check the contents before jettisoning them, because not everything has been ...

Matt Haimovitz: Goulash

Matt Haimovitz, Bela Bartok, ...

Oxingale Records, 2005

Great playing plus a cover of Kashmir - how can you go wrong?
I'm a fan of Cello music and this is VERY well played and a really wide variety of stuff which is a good thing. I've got nothing against the standard catalog of music but it's good to get outside the box. PLUS it's got a rockin' all cello cover of Led Zepplin's ...

25 Strauss Favorites

Johann I [Senior] Strauss, Johann II and Josef Strauss

Vox (Classical), 2005

Wonderful Music
The whole family is enjoying these CDs and keep telling me how glad they are I purchased them.

Classical Masterpieces of the Millennium [20 CD Set]

Hermann Prey, Miklos Perenyi, ...

Delta, 1999

Y'all ain't ready
I bought this set wanting an introduction to a bunch of composers, many of whom I have heard very little if not nothing at all from, and expected to enjoy about half of the discs in this set. What I did not prepare for was having my rear end rocked off by one great ...

The Great Moments from Die Fledermaus

Johann II [Junior] Strauss, Oskar Danon, ...

RCA, 1999

LOTS OF FUN AND BEAUTIFULLY SUNG
The sublime Anna Moffo in radiant voice at her peak surrounded by a first rate cast in an excellent translation -only wish it was complete instead of just excerpts!

The Virtuosity of Earl Wild

Earl Wild, Tchaikovsky, Dohnanyi, Moszkowski, d'Albert, Schumann, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Chopin, Schubert, Wagner Liszt

Ivory Classics, 1999

Sensational pianistic fireworks
Ivory Classics are now releasing a series of the veteran American piano virtuoso Earl Wild's recordings, upon which his reputation as a super-virtuoso rests. These superbly refurbished recordings date from the 1960s to 1980s and mostly capture Wild at his technical ...