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Liszt: The Complete Etudes
(more) »rank: 15354from: Philips
: :No, these aren't really the 'complete' Liszt études. The centerpiece to this collection is Claudio Arrau's Transcendental Études, recorded when the pianist was in his early seventies. He brings out the music's breadth and poetry by way of ample rubatos, a rainbow of color, and total avoidance of anything mechanical for its own sake. Conversely, Nikita Magaloff's light-fingered proficiency in the Paganini Études seems rather dry and workaday in comparison. --Jed Distler
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The Movie Album Classical Pictures; John Bayless
(more) »rank: 108598by: John Bayless, Luis Enrique Bacalov, Giacomo Puccini, Michel Legrand, Joaquin Rodrigo, Nino Rota, John Williams, James Horner, Sergey Rachmaninov, Harold Arlen
: :No, these aren't really the 'complete' Liszt études. The centerpiece to this collection is Claudio Arrau's Transcendental Études, recorded when the pianist was in his early seventies. He brings out the music's breadth and poetry by way of ample rubatos, a rainbow of color, and total avoidance of anything mechanical for its own sake. Conversely, Nikita Magaloff's light-fingered proficiency in the Paganini Études seems rather dry and workaday in comparison. --Jed Distler
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English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals
(more) »rank: 55063from: EMI Classics
: :No, these aren't really the 'complete' Liszt études. The centerpiece to this collection is Claudio Arrau's Transcendental Études, recorded when the pianist was in his early seventies. He brings out the music's breadth and poetry by way of ample rubatos, a rainbow of color, and total avoidance of anything mechanical for its own sake. Conversely, Nikita Magaloff's light-fingered proficiency in the Paganini Études seems rather dry and workaday in comparison. --Jed Distler
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100 Best Baroque
(more) »rank: 29050from: EMI Classics
: :No, these aren't really the 'complete' Liszt études. The centerpiece to this collection is Claudio Arrau's Transcendental Études, recorded when the pianist was in his early seventies. He brings out the music's breadth and poetry by way of ample rubatos, a rainbow of color, and total avoidance of anything mechanical for its own sake. Conversely, Nikita Magaloff's light-fingered proficiency in the Paganini Études seems rather dry and workaday in comparison. --Jed Distler
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Lehár - The Merry Widow / Schwarzkopf, Wächter, Steffek, Gedda, Knapp, von Matacic
(more) »rank: 47890by: Franz Lehár, Lovro von Matacic, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Eberhard Wächter, Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Nicolai Gedda, Hanny Steffek, Peter Knapp, Doreen Murray
: :No, these aren't really the 'complete' Liszt études. The centerpiece to this collection is Claudio Arrau's Transcendental Études, recorded when the pianist was in his early seventies. He brings out the music's breadth and poetry by way of ample rubatos, a rainbow of color, and total avoidance of anything mechanical for its own sake. Conversely, Nikita Magaloff's light-fingered proficiency in the Paganini Études seems rather dry and workaday in comparison. --Jed Distler
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The Very Best of Beverly Sills
(more) »rank: 42328from: EMI Classics
:Album Description:Details TBA. EMI. 2005. :Beverly Sills hardly needs an introduction. She sang on the radio as a child and on the operatic stage as a teenager; her meteoric international career was launched by appearances in several virtually unknown bel canto operas at the New York City Opera. This compilation of arias and ensembles from some of her signature roles, recorded in the 1970s, with splendid partners like Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus, and Sherrill Milnes, displays her unique vocal and dramatic artistry at its peak. Her voice, effortlessly produced over an enormous range, is bright, pure, infinitely variable in color, inflection ...
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The History of Classical Music (Non Fiction)
(more) »rank: 222261by: Richard Fawkes
: :A superb crossover title of enormous appeal to the vast selection of the population that enjoys classical music, but would like to know more about it. From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, serial music - many musical expressions are also explained - with the text illustrated by performances from some of the most highly ...
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40 Most Beautiful Arias
(more) »rank: 49107from: Warner Classics
:Album Description:Two CD collection featuring the finest voices in Opera performing the most beautiful arias by the classic composers. An aria is a self-contained piece for vocals with orchestral accompaniment and this collection gathers together arias that will touch your heart and relax your soul as you are lifted by their beautiful melodies. 40 tracks including solos from Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Jennifer Lamore, William Christie, Marcello Viotti and many others. WEA. 2008.
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The King's Singers' Madrigal History Tour
(more) »rank: 72134by: John Dowland, William Byrd, Giaches de Wert, Anonymous, Philippe Verdelot, Jacques Arcadelt, Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, Rossino Mantovano, John Bartlet, Thomas Tomkins, John Farmer, Orlando Gibbons, Thomas Morley, Clement Janequin, Pierre Certon, Orlando de Lassus, Pierre Passereau, Claude Le Jeune, Adrian Willaert, Alonso de Mudarra, Juan del Encina, Mateo Flecha, Hans Leo Hassler, Ludwig Senfl, Paul Hofhaimer, Erin Headley, Anthony Rooley
:Album Description:Two CD collection featuring the finest voices in Opera performing the most beautiful arias by the classic composers. An aria is a self-contained piece for vocals with orchestral accompaniment and this collection gathers together arias that will touch your heart and relax your soul as you are lifted by their beautiful melodies. 40 tracks including solos from Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Jennifer Lamore, William Christie, Marcello Viotti and many others. WEA. 2008.
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100 Best Sacred Works
(more) »rank: 79171from: EMI Classics
:Album Description:Two CD collection featuring the finest voices in Opera performing the most beautiful arias by the classic composers. An aria is a self-contained piece for vocals with orchestral accompaniment and this collection gathers together arias that will touch your heart and relax your soul as you are lifted by their beautiful melodies. 40 tracks including solos from Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Jennifer Lamore, William Christie, Marcello Viotti and many others. WEA. 2008.
