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Cello For Relaxation Featuring Steven Isserlis, Ofra Harnoy & Janos Starker

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from: RCA

July 10, 2001
I bought this CD solely based on the fact that I love the cello. I do not pretend to know classical music - I buy what I like to hear, and this CD exceeded my expectations. It is such a pleasure to listen to this disk; it is soothing and every track is worth it!

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My Secret Heart-Songs By Ivor Novello, Noel Coward, Eric Coates, Sigmund Romberg and more including "Let My Song Fill Your Heart", "We'll Gather Lilacs,""The Desert Song," and others.

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from: Sony Music Canada Inc.

November 09, 1999
This is OBNOXIOUS, this dude should be in operas. i am speechless, he is one loud mouthed dude!

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The Goldberg Variations

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from: CBS

November 15, 2006
Gould was more than one of the great pianists in recorded history, he was a world teacher through sound. Both of the famous recordings of what has to be regarded a his signature performance (1951/81) are worth far more than what you would pay for the disc. Technics aside (and they are dazzling, as always with Gould), the purpose of music is to remind you that you do feel, to engage you in what is being communicated. Melancholy, in the richest sense, and then, at moments, the eptiome of serene dispassion, always profound, this performance is a deep exploration of feeling and truth, and creates a meditative ambience which can evoke in the listener higher realizations. An immortal rendering of great music.

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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"

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from: Conifer

November 23, 1998
Kaplans recording of Mahler 2 is another great version of a masterpiece. The music is smooth and forceful and extremely well produced Kaplans performance never errs on the side of excessive soppiness or cliches. The andante is especially beautifully played. The choir in the Scherzo is warm and full and well captured balancing well with the orchestra and the sound is brilliantly recorded. Not as lush a performance as Tennstedt, as fiery as Rattle or as majestic as Solti but a great version nonetheless.

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French Suites (Ltd.Ed)

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by: Glenn Gould

April 03, 2006
Listen to Mr. Gould in these French Suites is rejoinig with the life once more. His fresh and free style overpowers me every time I listen them.
My favorite Suite is the sixth. But instead my choice you know that he was a very clever artist deeply honest and convinced above all about what he's playing and how that sound must be.
His authoritative maestry on Bach let him several raptures accents that you always admire and hardly you find in otres performers..
The status who GG reached above all on Bach playing, has his support in the rhytm ; the rhytm is the form in movement, and that's why Bach sounds so nature and lyric in his hands.
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Affairs of the Heart

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from: Cbc

June 27, 2000
I heard this on CBC radio recently and instantly fell in love with it. It is an absolutely beautiful CD and my favourite is "Affairs of the Heart". It is intoxicating, bold, rich, lush, passionate, feverish, soothing, mesmerizing, addictive, moving, melodic, captivating, intense, complex and simple, simply orgasmic. I really like this CD and you will, too. Thank you Marjan Mozetich. (Who is he, by the way?)

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Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier 1

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by: Glenn Gould

April 03, 2006
Gould plays theses pieces with incredible insight and with an astonishing virtuosity. Contrapuntal voices never blurr nor melt confusely as it often happen, and the whole work appears more moving et stimultating then the mere sum of exercices it, in fact, is. I have recordings of the work by Horzowski and by Feltsmans. Both are great but my preference goes to Gould, for the hypnotic effect he often achieve, like no other.

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Well-Tempered Clavier

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from: Hyperion

September 04, 2007
Gould plays theses pieces with incredible insight and with an astonishing virtuosity. Contrapuntal voices never blurr nor melt confusely as it often happen, and the whole work appears more moving et stimultating then the mere sum of exercices it, in fact, is. I have recordings of the work by Horzowski and by Feltsmans. Both are great but my preference goes to Gould, for the hypnotic effect he often achieve, like no other.

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Ideale

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from: Universal Music Group

November 04, 2003
While other tenors may have the name recognition, Ben Heppner has the goods. Heppner is no stranger to my CD collection, with numerous opera recordings as well as non-opera disks such as "My Secret Heart." What separates Heppner from the others is that he is ALWAYS at the service of the music. He approaches Tosti's songs in a manner that serves them, rather than imposing his voice/style on the music. This disc may not have the widespread appeal that "My Secret Heart" (should have) had for non-hardcore opera fans, but if you like this style of music, this is a fantastic recording.

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Arrangements

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from: Hyperion

September 04, 2001
Bach transcriptions seem to be making a bit of a comeback, but a couple of generations ago they were common fare, both in piano recitals and orchestral programs. Bach-Busoni was the most common 'hyphenized Bach' but lots of other people tried their hand at transcribing his music, up to and including the Swingle Singers. Here we have one of our finest Bach players, the elegant Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt, in a program of transcriptions and arrangements by a veritable who's-who of former greats--Wilhelm Kempff, William Walton, Harold Bauer, Eugen d'Albert, Myra Hess, John Ireland, Harriet Cohen. Those names conjure up an era preserved for us, thank God, by recordings. Ms Hewitt even contributes three of her own transcriptions from the Orgelbüchlein.

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