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The Very Best of Anne-Sophie Mutter
(more) »rank: 15387from: EMI Classics
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor'
(more) »rank: 24776from: Sony
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Martha Stewart Living Music: Classical Favorites for the Holidays
(more) »rank: 73773from: Sony
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Mozart: Concertos for Two and Three Pianos
(more) »rank: 10141from: Sony
: :Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia should have recorded all of Mozart's piano music for four hands, which includes several neglected masterpieces. This disc reflects their ideal partnership, two artists of great sensitivity collaborating in performances that feature constant interplay of parts, alertness to each other's work, and superb playing as individuals. The Concerto for Two Pianos ripples along without a care in the world, just as it should, and the English Chamber Orchestra doesn't seem to care that nobody is conducting it. The pieces without orchestra are a bit less significant (as is the Concerto for Three Pianos), but the playing is so ...
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Bach: Brandenburg Concertos / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
(more) »rank: 20533by: Johann Sebastian Bach, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Paul Goodwin, Catherine Mackintosh, Rachel Beckett, Mark Bennett, Monica Huggett, Alison Bury, Marion Scott, Lisa Beznosiuk, Malcolm Proud, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Richard Campbell, Sarah Cunningham, William Hunt, John Toll, Richard Tunnicliffe, Timothy Brown, Susan Dent
: :The Brandenburg Concertos seem to be Bach's most popular works by far, and there are so many recordings of them out there--on period instruments and 'modern,' and at all price ranges. Of course, it's hard to pick out one or even two to call the 'best'--but this reissue of a 1989 recording by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has a good claim for the title of 'Best Buy Brandenburgs.' These performances don't have the splashy extroversion of Il Giardino Armonico or the caffeine-pumped, high-velocity thrill of Musica Antiqua Köln, but they're not overly reserved or dull, as some English ensembles are ...
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Music for Concentration
(more) »rank: 16996from: Advanced Brain Techno
:Album Description:Music for Concentration facilitates the ideal accelerated learning environment known as Body Relaxed/Mind Alert. Gentle music, shifting dynamics, and slow tempos create a Body Relaxed condition. Alternating complex/simple sound structures, variations in rhythm, and a rich harmonic spectrum facilitate the state of Mind Alert. All elements combined, this recording provides a subtle backdrop to heighten mental focus while charging the brain with beautiful high-frequency sounds.
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Hilary Hahn - Barber & Meyer: Violin Concertos
(more) »rank: 51029from: Sony
: :These two American violin concertos, written 60 years apart, were both commissioned for a young virtuoso but are basically songful and lyrical; indeed, though the Barber is now a staple of the repertoire, its beautiful first two movements were originally rejected as not effective enough, the brilliantly motoric Finale as too difficult. Meyer's was written in 1999 for Hilary Hahn, who premiered it last summer, and for whom nothing is too difficult. She seems equally at home in all the various styles Meyer combines with his usual inventiveness, making the lovely folksong-like melody, which opens the piece and reappears later, sing and soar, ...
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Classical Kids: Collection
(more) »rank: 44956from: Children's Book Store Distribution
: :These two American violin concertos, written 60 years apart, were both commissioned for a young virtuoso but are basically songful and lyrical; indeed, though the Barber is now a staple of the repertoire, its beautiful first two movements were originally rejected as not effective enough, the brilliantly motoric Finale as too difficult. Meyer's was written in 1999 for Hilary Hahn, who premiered it last summer, and for whom nothing is too difficult. She seems equally at home in all the various styles Meyer combines with his usual inventiveness, making the lovely folksong-like melody, which opens the piece and reappears later, sing and soar, ...
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Beethoven - Triple Concerto ~ Choral Fantasy / Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Berliner Phil., Barenboim
(more) »rank: 12712by: Ludwig van Beethoven, Berliner Philharmoniker, Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper, Daniel Barenboim, Ernst Stoy, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Par Lindskog, Rene Pape, Endrik Wottrich, Andrea Bonig
: :These two American violin concertos, written 60 years apart, were both commissioned for a young virtuoso but are basically songful and lyrical; indeed, though the Barber is now a staple of the repertoire, its beautiful first two movements were originally rejected as not effective enough, the brilliantly motoric Finale as too difficult. Meyer's was written in 1999 for Hilary Hahn, who premiered it last summer, and for whom nothing is too difficult. She seems equally at home in all the various styles Meyer combines with his usual inventiveness, making the lovely folksong-like melody, which opens the piece and reappears later, sing and soar, ...
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Saint-Saëns: The Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra
(more) »rank: 32364from: Hyperion UK
: :Pianist Stephen Hough is a certified genius, recipient of a 2001 MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant.' Although he apparently received the award for his explorations of uncommon piano repertoire, he also deserved it for the quality of his piano tone, which is extremely beautiful, as conveyed here by Hyperion's lush recording of the Saint-Saens piano concertos. Unlike most previous volumes of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series, this one includes some familiar works, especially the Second Piano Concerto. If you listen to that first, you'll realize just how good Hough's performances are throughout this set, since he matches any of the great pianists who have ...
