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Classical Wedding

by: Various Artists

Release Date April 30, 1996
In leiu of an organist, we opted to use this CD for our daughter's wedding. I loved the song selection and the order of the songs worked perfect for the prelude, and postlude. I was so excited with I heard the songs I couldn't wait to use this at the wedding. It was perfect!

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The Military Band: Salute to the Services

by: Francis Saltus Van Boskerek, Robert M. Crawford, John Stafford Smith, John Philip Sousa, American Traditional, Joseph Franz Wagner, Charles A. Zimmerman, Felix Slatkin

Release Date June 02, 1998
This cd captures all the energy and excitement of military marching bands that so excites us. As you listen; you can visualize the precision and force of the rows and rows of the marchers with their instruments.

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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.

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Marches: Greatest Hits

from: Sony

Release Date December 06, 1994
I provide music for water aerobics classes. The class members are typically retirees, and like Classical music, yet until this CD the only Classical music with a beat distinctive and steady enough for water aerobics that I'd found was on the "Hooked on Classics" series. Thus, for water aerobics, this is a find.

Also contributing to this CD's popularity for water aerobics are that: (1) many of the songs are upbeat, and (2) "new stereo" recordings (in contrast to my recordings of Sousa marches that were played by Sousa himself; he died in the 1930s.)

In Summary, were you to buy just ten CDs for water aerobics classes, this would be one of them.

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Classical Wedding Music

by: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Leonard Bernstein, Claude Debussy, César Franck, George Frideric Handel, Engelbert Humperdinck, Karl Jenkins, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jean Joseph Mouret, Modest Jeremiah Clarke, Johann Pachelbel, Robert Paterson, Henry Purcell, Franz Schubert, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner Mussorgsky, Lumiere String Quartet, Victoria Paterson (Violin), Christian Hebel (Violin), Junah Chung (Viola), Eileen Bedlington (Trumpet), Sato Moughalian (Flute), Kristina Musser (Violin) Robert Burkhart (Cello)

Release Date July 10, 2006
The music on these CDs is exactly what I had in mind. The beautiful music will fill the high celing of the church and everyone will enjoy it. The pieces are well done and sound wonderful. I love them!

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Best of the Millennium: Top 40 Classical Hits

from: Utv Records

Release Date February 08, 2000
This set is really a must have for anyone who enjoys good music.
We are on our 3rd copy- we scratched the first and lost the second in a move.

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Masters of Classical Music (Box Set)

from: Delta

Release Date October 25, 1990
I think that this is really one of the best values you're going to find anywhere in the world of classical music, especially for beginners. You're getting 10 CDs, each filled almost to capacity, with the most famous works from the most famous composers in the history of classical music. The sound quality is excellent on every disc.

While I would have made some replacements on the list of who was included, I feel that this collection is a must-buy for anyone interested in exploring classical music in depth. Quality is high, quantity is high, you really can't go wrong.

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Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music

from: Compendia

Release Date June 09, 1994
Cheers to those with drive to attain "real" music student status. However, I just want to listen to music passages I have found enjoyable over the years. There is no pretense of this selection being a student workbook of classical music for the serious scholar - it is just an enjoyable alternative to that shared by those offensively loud vehicles near me at the stoplight.

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Horowitz: The Last Recording

from: Sony

Release Date March 30, 1990
In his book "Evenings With Horowitz", the eminent piano professor David Dubal quotes someone by the name of James Hilton (an author, I think) who wrote: "If by some dispensation a man born deaf were to be given hearing for a single hour he might well spend the whole time with Horowitz. Indeed, when I listened to Horowitz for the first time, it was almost like that - as if I had never heard the piano before - as if the instrument itself had never known what it could do until Horowitz came along."

Listen to this CD and you will no doubt agree. As Dubal says elsewhere, Horowitz somehow unlocked the secrets of sonority on the piano. Listen to Earl Wild's or Alfred Brendel's or Jean-Yves Thibaudet's recordings of the Liszt/Wagner Liebestod. Then listen to ... Read More:

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Icon: Dennis Brain

from: EMI Classics

Release Date September 02, 2008
In his book "Evenings With Horowitz", the eminent piano professor David Dubal quotes someone by the name of James Hilton (an author, I think) who wrote: "If by some dispensation a man born deaf were to be given hearing for a single hour he might well spend the whole time with Horowitz. Indeed, when I listened to Horowitz for the first time, it was almost like that - as if I had never heard the piano before - as if the instrument itself had never known what it could do until Horowitz came along."

Listen to this CD and you will no doubt agree. As Dubal says elsewhere, Horowitz somehow unlocked the secrets of sonority on the piano. Listen to Earl Wild's or Alfred Brendel's or Jean-Yves Thibaudet's recordings of the Liszt/Wagner Liebestod. Then listen to ... Read More: