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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7

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by: C. VPO/Kleiber

Release Date April 04, 1995
I am not musically literate, i.e i dont know a crotchet from a quaver but i know what i like, is it an exagerration to say that if we had to show one example of the greatness and potential of human culture, to say some visiting aliens, would it be reasonable to play them these recordings?

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A Christmas Caroll from Westminster Abbey

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by: Various Composers

Release Date September 29, 2008
Excellent album, but the track listing on this page is wrong. This is the correct listing:

1. In dulci iubilo -- Anonymous - Medieval, arr. Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795-1856)

Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël -- Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
2. O magnum mysterium
3. Quem vidistis pastores dicite
4. Videntes stellam
5. Hodie Christus natus est

6. A Christmas Caroll -- Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
7. All this time -- Sir William Walton (1902-1983)
8. Nativity -- James Lavino (b1973)
9. Dormi, Jesu -- John Rutter (b1945)
10. The Shepherd's Carol -- Bob Chilcott (b1955)
11. The Three Kings -- Jonathan Dove (b1959)
12. Joys Seven -- Anonymous ... Read More:

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

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from: Decca Eloquence

Release Date October 16, 2000
This has become my very favourite piece of music (among let's say appr. 2000 cds).
Pity that so few of Rimsky-Korsakoff's works are available as recordings.

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On the Banks of Green Willow

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from: Belart

Release Date May 19, 1997
I first heard 'The Banks of Green Willow' as incidental music to a BCC 'Lorna Doone' in the 1960s and wrote to the BBC to find out what this achingly beautiful piece was. 'A Shropshire Lad' is even better. The poignancy is intensified when you know that Butterworth (the dedicatee of Vaughan Williams' 'London' Symphony) died in the First World War. 'Tintagel' is grand and imposing, echoing Arthurian legend and the beat of waves round the ancient castle. This collection is absolutely authoritative, conducted by the best of all conductors of English music and wonderful value at its low price. No-one who is interested should hesitate.

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Vivaldi: Concertos for two Violins

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by: Viktoria Mullova Giuliano Carmignola Venice Baroque Orchestra Andrea Marcon

Release Date October 27, 2008
It was illuminating to hear the renowned musicologist Michael Talbot reviewing this release on BBC R3's CD Review last week. He conceded that although the Bach Concerto for 2 Violins has eclipsed Vivaldi's concertos in this genre, he wrote only one of them. Vivaldi, by contrast, wrote 28 - of consistently high quality. Talbot also said that he found it impossible to distinguish between Carmignola and Mullova (and in its refusal to identify the players as Violin 1 & 2, the booklet doesn't help).

But this reticence is revealing. Although 'stars', neither soloist puts themself before the music. This is not the case with Nigel Kennedy's venture into Vivaldi's double violin concerti (in Vivaldi II), where there isn't the slightest ... Read More:

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Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance

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by: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Isidore Godfrey

Release Date March 24, 2003
I agree that this is the definitive recording. Doyly Carte at their very best. I like the quaint dialogue and I think its integral to the performance and fixes the piece in its very Victorian place. For me the high point is Valerie Masterson's brilliant "Poor wand'ring one" - absolute perfection!

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Glass Box:A Nonesuch Retrospective (10 CD)

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by: Philip Glass

Release Date September 22, 2008
I agree that this is the definitive recording. Doyly Carte at their very best. I like the quaint dialogue and I think its integral to the performance and fixes the piece in its very Victorian place. For me the high point is Valerie Masterson's brilliant "Poor wand'ring one" - absolute perfection!

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Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16; Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54

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from: Recommends

Release Date September 24, 2007
I agree that this is the definitive recording. Doyly Carte at their very best. I like the quaint dialogue and I think its integral to the performance and fixes the piece in its very Victorian place. For me the high point is Valerie Masterson's brilliant "Poor wand'ring one" - absolute perfection!

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Tales from the Norse Legends (Junior Classics)

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by: Edward Ferrie

Release Date April 28, 2000
I purchased the CD on the back of the two previous reviews. However, I must say I found the CD disappointing on two counts. Firstly, the stories could have been better written, and secondly the narrator's voice lacks resonance, age, depth call it what you will. Compared to several CD's I have purchased here in Germany on Greek Sagas, which score high in these two categories, I can't imagine that I will be listening very much to the CD again.

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Anna Netrebko - Souvenirs

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from: Universal Classics

Release Date November 17, 2008
I purchased the CD on the back of the two previous reviews. However, I must say I found the CD disappointing on two counts. Firstly, the stories could have been better written, and secondly the narrator's voice lacks resonance, age, depth call it what you will. Compared to several CD's I have purchased here in Germany on Greek Sagas, which score high in these two categories, I can't imagine that I will be listening very much to the CD again.