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19

by: Adele

June 24, 2008
This is my new favorite CD. And not only mine, but people in my office have highjacked it as well. People who's musical tastes are completely different to mine love this CD. Can't wait for the next one.

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19

by: Adele

June 10, 2008
This is my new favorite CD. And not only mine, but people in my office have highjacked it as well. People who's musical tastes are completely different to mine love this CD. Can't wait for the next one.

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Chasing Pavements

by: Adele

July 15, 2008
For now, we'll have to make do with just one song from Adele, already a critics' favorite in the UK. Only 19, Adele's captivating voice suggests a much older chanteuse, the spirit of a long-ago torch/jazz singer transported to the modern age.

Adele has been dubbed the "new Amy Winehouse," and there are indeed some unmistakable vocal similarities (Mark Ronson even produced a track for her debut disc). But this new singer-songwriter has arrived at the station sans baggage; unlike Winehouse (who I do dearly love), there's no need to separate the musical product from the personal drama.

A friend described Adele's music as something both she and her father can enjoy. And therein lies the magic of this discovery, I think. Her full-length ... Read More:

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19

by: Adele

February 05, 2008
This is my new favorite CD. And not only mine, but people in my office have highjacked it as well. People who's musical tastes are completely different to mine love this CD. Can't wait for the next one.

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Glass: Violin concerto

from: Naxos American

May 16, 2000
if you're looking for music that sounds like a soundtrack for a movie you'll forget in 5 minutes, buy this disc. this music is really bad. at one point a violin line sounds like a vivaldi rip off, and you know what stravinsky said about vivaldi: "vivaldi was a very boring man who wrote the same concerto over and over." in a nutshell, glass's compositions sound like a second year piano student playing appegiated triads over and over and over and over............

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Mozart's Magnificent Voyage

from: Children's Group

October 13, 1998
A friend of mine got this for her son about 3 years ago and he's still listening to the stories. Its calming and interesting. Its great in the car. The story goes along with the movements of the piece and really brings classical music and a great story to children. I now get this for all my friends with babies and small children.

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Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series)

from: Sony

October 19, 2004
Of course there should have been much more. I remember there been a Metropolian Opera series called CAST ALBUMS- 100 YEARS that was put out for a limited time only and had like five volumes.
As Peter Filichia noted they left out SHE LOVES ME, BRIGADOON and SWEENEY TODD. Also nothing from PACIFIC OVERTURES, BIG RIVER, CHESS, CRAZY FOR YOU, JEKYLL & HYDE, TITANIC, THE SCARLET
PIMPERNEL, FOOTLOOSE- THE MUSICAL, THE FULL MONTY, URINTOWN...
But they couldn't have put it all. I would have done without Lee Remick's
"Anyone Can Whistle", because the show was a flop. I guess because it was Sondheim's first "serious" show...

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Mahler: The Complete Symphonies

by: Dame Janet Baker, Jennie Tourel, Lili Chookasian, Martha Lipton, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Hans Vollenweider, Adele Addison, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Erna Spoorenberg, Lee Venora, Lucine Amara, Reri Grist, John Mitchinson, Richard Tucker

January 30, 2001
This is an excellent set of Mahler's symphonies, the Kindertotenlieder, three Ruckertlieder, and the adagio of the tenth. But these are not the only Mahler symphonies conducted by Bernstein, and Bernstein is not the best. but if you want to get all of them at once, this is the way to do it. I think Bruno Walter or Herbert von Karajan might be better, and there is a new set that David Zinman is working on right now.

I have other recordings of the first, second, fifth, sixth, and eighth. So of these I can give more educated criticisms.

The first is impressive, and I like it more than Zinman's. I can hear more in Bernstein's than in Zinman's.

In the second, the singing starts off sounding like a rubber band. I know this is an odd comparison, ... Read More:

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Hometown Glory

August 12, 2008
This is an excellent set of Mahler's symphonies, the Kindertotenlieder, three Ruckertlieder, and the adagio of the tenth. But these are not the only Mahler symphonies conducted by Bernstein, and Bernstein is not the best. but if you want to get all of them at once, this is the way to do it. I think Bruno Walter or Herbert von Karajan might be better, and there is a new set that David Zinman is working on right now.

I have other recordings of the first, second, fifth, sixth, and eighth. So of these I can give more educated criticisms.

The first is impressive, and I like it more than Zinman's. I can hear more in Bernstein's than in Zinman's.

In the second, the singing starts off sounding like a rubber band. I know this is an odd comparison, ... Read More:

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19-Deluxe Edition

by: Adele

November 11, 2008
This is an excellent set of Mahler's symphonies, the Kindertotenlieder, three Ruckertlieder, and the adagio of the tenth. But these are not the only Mahler symphonies conducted by Bernstein, and Bernstein is not the best. but if you want to get all of them at once, this is the way to do it. I think Bruno Walter or Herbert von Karajan might be better, and there is a new set that David Zinman is working on right now.

I have other recordings of the first, second, fifth, sixth, and eighth. So of these I can give more educated criticisms.

The first is impressive, and I like it more than Zinman's. I can hear more in Bernstein's than in Zinman's.

In the second, the singing starts off sounding like a rubber band. I know this is an odd comparison, ... Read More: