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Bach - The Complete Brandenburg Concertos / Pearlman, Boston Baroque

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by: Johann Sebastian Bach, Martin Pearlman, Boston Baroque, Christopher Krueger, Marc Schachman, Daniel Stepner, Friedemann Immer

Release Date July 23, 1996
Perhaps it is the romantic in me that enervates a sense of anticipation when superlative musicians take up period instruments to play great master's works in the manner in which they were written.

In this case I believe that also means enjoying the work with a slightly faster Tempi than accustomed.

Beautiful music making for beautiful space.

CD-Charts Position 162
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The Time-Life Treasury of Christmas

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from: Time Life Records

Release Date September 11, 2001
When we play this Christmas CD, we suddenly find ourselves back in time when we were kids listening to the stereo at home on Chrismtas Day. It's a perfect way to create or recall Christmas memories.

CD-Charts Position 163
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale [Hybrid SACD]

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from: RCA

Release Date January 25, 2005
Scheherazade is performed a LOT. Fritz Reiner was well-aware of this fact in 1960 when he conceived this historic recording. As a consequence, he fostered no desire to yield just another run-of-the-mill performance. Here's a blurp from the notes which explains his subsequent efforts more fully:

"Some weeks before the actual recording was made, most of the existing recordings of the music were studied, re-studied, judged and re-judged. The best were very good, but short of that perfection for which all mortals strive. One version reveled in buttery sound and not always accurate execution; another proferred razor-sharp execution and equally ear-rending decibel content; still a third beckoned you from afar with a 'concert-hall' pickup, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 164
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Requiem & Magnificat/Rutter, Cambridge Singers

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from: Collegium

Release Date February 29, 2000
This is a wonderfully nuanced & beautiful recording of this work. I don't understand why no one mentions the Lux Aeterna -- Donna Deam's rendering of the solo sounds purely angelic.

CD-Charts Position 165
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The Mozart Effect: Music for Newborns - A Bright Beginning

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from: Children's Group

Release Date October 03, 2000
This cd is a great way to introduce your baby to Mozart. My son loves it.

CD-Charts Position 166
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Tarik O'Regan: Threshold of Night

CD-Charts > Music > Historical Periods
from: Harmonia Mundi

Release Date September 09, 2008
Music, performance, production, sound, innovation.

This re-defines contemporary music and modern choral performance.

Judging by this disc, 'Conspirare' is the finest choir working today and O'Regan the most individual composing voice.

It's a perfect match. This is GRAMMY material - don't wait for the awards though!

CD-Charts Position 167
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Northern Lights

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from: Denon Records

Release Date November 06, 2007
Sissel's Northern Lights CD is just wonderful. It is full of her Honey voiced renditions of known and unknow songs, all of which she performs to perfection.

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The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection

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from: Decca Broadway

Release Date June 01, 1999
Great starter album in the series of Andrew Lloyd Webebr Collections. There are atleast 4 currently.

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Angel Voices

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from: EMI Classics

Release Date October 25, 2006
The studio disc "Angel Voices" represents a well-crafted cross-section of Libera's work across the majority of its 24 year history; a "greatest hits" disc. If you're brand new to Libera, start right here: this disc has the majority of their most well-known work from performances and albums past. For old hands, there are some new cuts sure to become part of Libera's lasting repertoire. This album's track list is NOT the same as that for the live recording made at Leiden: Angel Voices: Libera In Concert

Purists: Go away. The group actively promotes themselves as a unique style of their own (the boys' own words, not some publicist's blurb), so they won't fit into prefab Genre Boxes. Libera is made up of schoolchildren united by their love of this ... Read More:

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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (complete ballet); Wolfgang Sawallisch; Philadelphia Orchestra

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by: Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Philadelphia Orchestra

Release Date June 01, 2004
"Swan Lake" has great meaning for me. I used to rent LPs and would play them in the basement of Fine Arts on the University of Georgia campus. This was in the '50s. There is nothing as soothing as "Swan Lake."