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Vln Ctos/Scottish Fantasy

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
from: CBC

Release Date May 20, 2008

CD-Charts Position 2
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Cello For Relaxation Featuring Steven Isserlis, Ofra Harnoy & Janos Starker

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
from: RCA

Release Date 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!

CD-Charts Position 3
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Affairs of the Heart

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
from: Cbc

Release Date 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?)

CD-Charts Position 4
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The Goldberg Variations

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
from: CBS

Release Date 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.

CD-Charts Position 5
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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.

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
from: Sony Music Canada Inc.

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

CD-Charts Position 6
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
from: Conifer

Release Date 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.

CD-Charts Position 7
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Goldberg Variations

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
from: Hyperion

Release Date February 22, 2000
In my opinion there is a much neglected aspect of J.S. Bach: his love affair with life in itself. There is always a lot of talk about Bach and God, but Bach was first of all a man who understood to enjoy life in a deeper sense: with a full range of feelings and a full range of thoughts. The latter he produced himself in musical form.

Angela Hewitt understand these things, and that's why you should listen to this record. Her playing and choice of tempi and colours comes from within and are not mannered. She and Bach is talking about something important. They enjoy theire meeting. And you are there with them.

CD-Charts Position 8
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In A State Of Jazz

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
from: Hyperion

Release Date April 01, 2008
In my opinion there is a much neglected aspect of J.S. Bach: his love affair with life in itself. There is always a lot of talk about Bach and God, but Bach was first of all a man who understood to enjoy life in a deeper sense: with a full range of feelings and a full range of thoughts. The latter he produced himself in musical form.

Angela Hewitt understand these things, and that's why you should listen to this record. Her playing and choice of tempi and colours comes from within and are not mannered. She and Bach is talking about something important. They enjoy theire meeting. And you are there with them.

CD-Charts Position 9
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1955/1981 A State Of Wonder

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Glenn Gould

Release Date September 10, 2002
picking between the two gould recordings of the goldberg variations is a duanting task.
finally his label had enough sense to package them together and the remastering is wonderfully done.
the earlier recording of course captures goulds youthful enthusiasm and the latter recording is the interpetation of a master. more expressive, more contemplative but just as willful, just as highly personal and just as delightfully eccentric.
for those who cant abide goulds 'too personailzed' bach i say,
come on lets be honest. do you really want to listen to 'authentic' bach playing while operating heavy machinery?
bach is far more intersting in the hands of artists like gould and stokowski.
interpetation is an art within itself and there are plenty of ... Read More:

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French Suites (Ltd.Ed)

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Glenn Gould

Release Date 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.
You may get in the market romantic, passionate and analytical performances of the suites; but Gould will reward you ever.