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19

by: Adele

Release Date June 10, 2008
I am addicted to this album, I love it!!! The best album to come around in a long time. She draws comparisons to Amy Winehouse & Duffy but to me Adele stands above them, on her own. Tired has an upbeat tap your feet groove and Hometown Glory mesmerizes. The whole album is great from start to finish. Love to Love Adele & 19!!

CD-Charts Position 2
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Glass: Violin concerto

from: Naxos American

Release Date 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............

CD-Charts Position 3
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Mozart's Magnificent Voyage

from: Children's Group

Release Date 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.

CD-Charts Position 4
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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

Release Date 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 ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 5
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19

from: Sony

Release Date June 24, 2008
There's no disputing the gifts of Tottenham-born Adele Adkins, the latest BRIT graduate to stroll into the charts. As we know from her single Chasing Pavements, she has a sensational voice: rich, robust, voluptuously bluesy.
Is she the new Amy Winehouse?
It is not quite right.
True, both are white girls who owe a debt to black soul, both sing with a London twang ("I don't get nuffin' back," rasps Adele on the punchy "Tired"), and both are in pieces because their man done them wrong.
Eleven of the 12 songs on Adele's debut are about heartbreak (the other, "Hometown Glory", is about how cool London is).
Adele, though, is easier to listen to than Winehouse. Her music is cleaner, less menacing: there's the bright acoustic-guitar chime of ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 6
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19

by: Adele

Release Date February 05, 2008
I am addicted to this album, I love it!!! The best album to come around in a long time. She draws comparisons to Amy Winehouse & Duffy but to me Adele stands above them, on her own. Tired has an upbeat tap your feet groove and Hometown Glory mesmerizes. The whole album is great from start to finish. Love to Love Adele & 19!!

CD-Charts Position 7
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Chasing Pavements

by: Adele

Release Date 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 debut, 19, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 8
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A to Z of Classical Music

from: Naxos

Release Date October 17, 2000
It's only natural we sometimes hit the high seas....make that Cs. This is one box set about which we sing praises. This set features more than two hours of the finest music from across the centuries by such composers as Schubert, Chopin, Mozart, Handel, Stravinsky and Glass. The set also comes with a 562-page illustrated book, detailing the lives of hundreds of composers, a
glossary of musical terms and a unique guide to the classical music used in 360 top films.

CD-Charts Position 9
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Of Beauty & Light: The Music of Philip Glass [Box Set]

from: Naxos

Release Date March 25, 2008
I have not bought this set, but I have heard all the music on it from other sources. The symphonies are good, but I was not sure what was on every disc since there is no listing on Amazon. I went to the Naxos website to see the track listings for the 4 cd's, and the 4th one had a listing of compostions by people other than Philip Glass. I am not sure if this is a mistake, or if the 4th disc actually has other music. It is questionable to say the least, so I am not going to buy this.

CD-Charts Position 10
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Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series)

from: Sony

Release Date 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...