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Mahler Symphony No. 3 (Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado) (NTSC)

Childrens Toy Shop > Classical Music > Classical
starring: Anna Larsson, Vienna Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Tolzer Knabenchor

July 28, 2008

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Beethoven - The Complete Piano Concertos /Evgeny Kissin

Childrens Toy Shop > Classical Music > Classical
by: London Symphony Orchestra

September 01, 2008

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Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Childrens Toy Shop > Classical Music > Classical
from: Universal Classics

September 18, 1995
The opening organ chord lasts eighteen seconds on this 1973 recording of Also Sprach Karajan. I prefer the 1984 version (also reviewed on Amazon), to which I give the full five stars. Here, the timpani are more to the fore, the sound is loftier, more stately, but not lush. One often feels in a trance as the music hangs in the air, for example at the end of the measured descent at the end of the `Song of the Grave' - and of course at the music's very end.

The performance is more restrained (if that is possible) with a greater contrast in volumes. The Midnight Bell chimes suitably loud but is less resonant than in 1984, more of a clang than a reverberative dong.

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Vaughan Williams - Complete Symphonies

Childrens Toy Shop > Classical Music > Classical
from: Cfp

September 09, 2002
I had seen many of the performances in this set recommended separately so to have them all together in one set at such a low price is great.
The sound is very good and even if you only like half the music on these CDs, this is still a fantastic bargain.

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Classics for Children

Childrens Toy Shop > Classical Music > Classical
from: Decca

October 18, 1999
The recordings found on this disc are some of the best available (...in fact, the Britten conducting Britten is the Gramophone's Recommended Recording!). Add to that the most delightful account of Schumann's "Scenes from Childhood", and you find a fantastic disc. Then look at the price! 5 stars for a well rounded CD, which wont break the bank.

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Pride and Prejudice: Original Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK]

Childrens Toy Shop > Classical Music > Classical
from: BBC

September 25, 1995
The music from the Pride and Prejudice 1995 tv series is good music in its own right. I really love the title theme. However, if you have watched the tv series enough times, then the music is inextricably tied to what is going on in the drama, and this serves to intensify the feelings evoked by the music.

This CD is great to own if you love the TV series, as listening to the CD almost makes you feel like you are watching it again!

It is a way of re-experiencing the emotions of the drama.

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Nyman - The Piano

Childrens Toy Shop > Classical Music > Classical
from: EMI

May 01, 2006
The music from the Pride and Prejudice 1995 tv series is good music in its own right. I really love the title theme. However, if you have watched the tv series enough times, then the music is inextricably tied to what is going on in the drama, and this serves to intensify the feelings evoked by the music.

This CD is great to own if you love the TV series, as listening to the CD almost makes you feel like you are watching it again!

It is a way of re-experiencing the emotions of the drama.

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Salve Regina - Gregorian Chant

Childrens Toy Shop > Classical Music > Classical
by: Benedictine Monks of the Abbey of St. Maurice & St. Maur, Clevaux

February 14, 2000
This is a must for lovers of Gregorian Chant, listen to the Te Deum, is not one's heart transported to heaven by the chant? And,the hymns, the tantum ergo, and the salutaris hostia and the salve regina. Wonderful, one's spirit is moved unto a sober inebriation

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Martha Argerich: Evening Talks (A Film by Georges Gachot) [2008] (NTSC)

Childrens Toy Shop > Classical Music > Classical
starring: Martha Argerich
directed by: Georges Gachot

July 28, 2008
Martha Argerich, for many of us, has long been an enigma. She has always been a private person, one who does not seek the spotlight, who even cancels performances because, it is said, of nervousness, shyness. Filmmaker Georges Gachot, after years of entreaties, gets her to agree, to speak with him on camera. She comes across as a soft-spoken, shy, immensely intelligent but often cryptic person, one who has idiosyncratic but attractive ideas about her relationships with composers and various pieces of music. For instance, she will not play the Beethoven Fourth Concerto because she is afraid of 'what might happen', this after talking about the galvanic emotional effect it has had on her ever since she heard Claudio Arrau play it when she was six.

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Mozart - Le Nozze Di Figaro [2006]

Childrens Toy Shop > Classical Music > Classical
directed by: David McVicar

March 03, 2008
an excelent performance both in voice and staging as a new opera person it gave me a taste for more. i go by who is staging it and the known singers but take into account multiple reviews