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Andre Rieu - The Homecoming

CD-Charts > Music > Chamber Music
starring: Andre Rieu

Release Date September 26, 2006
This music-DVD is one of the best I have ever seen. André Rieu gives everything he and his orchestra have, not to forget the public.

I wish he will record more DVD:s of this kind.

CD-Charts Position 42
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Andre Rieu - Tuscany

CD-Charts > Music > Chamber Music
starring: André Rieu, Carla Maffioletti, Carmen Monarcha

Release Date September 21, 2004
Andre Rieu in Tuscany did not move me like his amazing Wonderland production. Although the music and interpretation are always great, I feel that a CD would have sufficed.

CD-Charts Position 43
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Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO

CD-Charts > Music > Chamber Music
from: Sony

Release Date October 28, 1997
Being a nostalgia buff, I am always drawn to movies such as these and the actors that really fit the part. Yes, it is on my favorites list.

CD-Charts Position 44
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Andre Rieu in Wonderland (incl bonus CD)

CD-Charts > Music > Chamber Music
starring: Andre Rieu
directed by: Pit Weyrich

Release Date April 01, 2008
We have seen and enjoy so many of Andre's DVDs (Homecoming, Tuscany, Dublin, Christmas around the world, etc..). Wonderland was a terrible disappointment. It was simply too overdone with theatrics and took away from the music. Very disappointed in the DVD, had to send it back.

CD-Charts Position 45
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Andre Rieu: Radio City Hall Live in New York (2007)

CD-Charts > Music > Chamber Music
starring: Andre Rieu
directed by: Andre Rieu

Release Date September 04, 2007
I have watched Andre Rieu live from NY Radio City so many times and have totally enjoyed it each and every time. I purchased the DVD for some family and friends and they have also enjoyed it, they couldn't thank me enough for sending it to them.

Andre Rieu did a show in Atlantic City, NJ a few months ago....I hope that will be on a DVD because I will definately order it.

CD-Charts Position 46
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The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe

CD-Charts > Music > Chamber Music
by: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Frideric Handel, Gustav Holst, Samuel Barber, Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Antonin Dvorak, Franz Liszt, Charles Gounod, Fryderyk Chopin, Alexander Borodin, Maurice Ravel, Antonio Vivaldi, Erik Satie, Various Artists

Release Date April 08, 2003
Title...The Most Relaxing Music in the Universe (not Feminine Mystique(?). Music is beautiful, very relaxing yet energizing.

CD-Charts Position 47
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Debussy's Greatest Hits

CD-Charts > Music > Chamber Music
from: Sony

Release Date August 09, 1994
My mother was a classically trained musician. She was not only a highly accomplished violinist, but she was also an incredible pianist. When she was still in her earthly form, our house was always filled with music. If it wasn't her playing the violin or the piano, then we always had something on the Hi-Fi...hee hee...Hi-Fi...that sounded so high tech back then, now it just sounds like something you might get doing something unprotected...but anyway, I grew up around all kinds of music. We could be listening to Chopin one minute and the next, Frank Zappa and it's this kind of upbringing that made the weirdo...I mean, ecclectic individualization of Life I am today.

So, even though I continue to have varied tastes in music, I do have ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 48
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Appalachian Journey

CD-Charts > Music > Chamber Music
from: Sony

Release Date March 21, 2000
A most interesting and varied collection ....beautifully put together and recorded...Appalachian at it's finest and all topped off by Yo Yo Ma....

Tracks #6 and #14 and are particularly beautiful and moving

CD-Charts Position 49
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Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition

CD-Charts > Music > Chamber Music
from: EMI Classics

Release Date July 08, 2008
This splendid set, an amazing bargain, provides most of Vaughan Williams's music in various, sometimes relatively recent, vintages of recordings. VW is a vastly underrated composer. Some of the symphonies are bonafide masterpieces, especially numbers 4 and 6, but the London Symphony (#2) and the 8th and 9th are pretty top drawer as well, if not as stunning as 4 and 6. But then, 3 and 5 are excellent in a more "pastoral" way, though hardly the "cow music" written about in a recent New York Times article. If VW has written any "cow music" my ears have never detected it. The First Symphony, however, a choral work based on text by Walt Whitman, is as uncowlike as you can get but too hysterically pitched for my taste (like Mahler's Eighth).

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CD-Charts Position 50
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Peter and the Wolf / Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Carnival of the Animals

CD-Charts > Music > Chamber Music
from: RCA

Release Date May 10, 1994
I LOVE the narration of this version. David Bowie does an outstanding job of representing all of the different characters. My only problem is that there are some "skips" in track 1. I'm not sure if this is representative of all downloads of this MP3 CD or if something went screwy during my personal download, but it's very disappointing.