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The Piano Collection [Box Set]

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from: Brilliant

Release Date February 27, 2007
The Piano Collection [Box Set]

This inexpensive 25 CD set comprises an excellent overview of solo piano music from the main classical composers, all in good modern recordings including some big names, Brendel, Richter, Giles, Kissin, Howowitz etc, and the lesser known artists will not disappoint.

Ideal set for anyone exploring this repertoire for the first time, or a convenient collection of favourite items.

Highly recommended.

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The Piano Collection

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by: Various Composers

Release Date December 11, 2006
The Piano Collection [Box Set]

This inexpensive 25 CD set comprises an excellent overview of solo piano music from the main classical composers, all in good modern recordings including some big names, Brendel, Richter, Giles, Kissin, Howowitz etc, and the lesser known artists will not disappoint.

Ideal set for anyone exploring this repertoire for the first time, or a convenient collection of favourite items.

Highly recommended.

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Chopin - Complete 1950S RECORDINGS /STEFAN ASKENASE

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from: DG Original Masters

Release Date January 17, 2005
This is a fascinating issue. Stefan Askenase is not a name that springs readily to mind these days when one is thinking of the great interpreters of Chopin. But back in the 1950s and 1960s, his name was as synonymous with Chopin in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue as Kempff was with Beethoven or Schumann. The set collects Askenase's Chopin performances for DG. Askenase was the kind of pianist whose playing often gets described as 'cultured'. That is to say his performances are elegant and urbane, but play down the virtuoso display the music sometimes calls for. Thus Askenase is disarming in the Nocturnes, which are a real highlight on the set. He does not always convince, though, in his performance of say the Polonaises, and the second and ... Read More:

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Mendelssohn: Songs without Words

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by: Daniel Barenboim

Release Date September 16, 1996
This is a lovely double CD set. Mendelssohn solo piano music is beautiful and very escapist. Although I am a classical buff myself, I am buying a second copy to give to my fashionable electric guitar playing mate who wants to get into classical but doesn't know what he'd like. I reckon this stuff is hard to dislike and very accessible to classical newbes. I also have no complaints about Barenboim's performance/interpretation of these works.

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Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2; Songs without words

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by: András Schiff Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Charles Dutoit

Release Date January 24, 2000
This is a lovely double CD set. Mendelssohn solo piano music is beautiful and very escapist. Although I am a classical buff myself, I am buying a second copy to give to my fashionable electric guitar playing mate who wants to get into classical but doesn't know what he'd like. I reckon this stuff is hard to dislike and very accessible to classical newbes. I also have no complaints about Barenboim's performance/interpretation of these works.

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Mendelssohn: Songs without Words II

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from: Naxos

Release Date February 15, 1994
This is a lovely double CD set. Mendelssohn solo piano music is beautiful and very escapist. Although I am a classical buff myself, I am buying a second copy to give to my fashionable electric guitar playing mate who wants to get into classical but doesn't know what he'd like. I reckon this stuff is hard to dislike and very accessible to classical newbes. I also have no complaints about Barenboim's performance/interpretation of these works.

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Medtner: Piano Sonatas

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from: Marco Polo

Release Date December 17, 1992
This is a lovely double CD set. Mendelssohn solo piano music is beautiful and very escapist. Although I am a classical buff myself, I am buying a second copy to give to my fashionable electric guitar playing mate who wants to get into classical but doesn't know what he'd like. I reckon this stuff is hard to dislike and very accessible to classical newbes. I also have no complaints about Barenboim's performance/interpretation of these works.

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Mendelssohn - Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2

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by: Borodin Trio

Release Date October 01, 1999
This is a lovely double CD set. Mendelssohn solo piano music is beautiful and very escapist. Although I am a classical buff myself, I am buying a second copy to give to my fashionable electric guitar playing mate who wants to get into classical but doesn't know what he'd like. I reckon this stuff is hard to dislike and very accessible to classical newbes. I also have no complaints about Barenboim's performance/interpretation of these works.

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Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Op. 49 & Op. 66

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from: Sony

Release Date December 05, 1995
This is a lovely double CD set. Mendelssohn solo piano music is beautiful and very escapist. Although I am a classical buff myself, I am buying a second copy to give to my fashionable electric guitar playing mate who wants to get into classical but doesn't know what he'd like. I reckon this stuff is hard to dislike and very accessible to classical newbes. I also have no complaints about Barenboim's performance/interpretation of these works.

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Trios (Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio)

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by: Brahms/Mendelssohn/Dvorak

Release Date January 17, 2000
This is a lovely double CD set. Mendelssohn solo piano music is beautiful and very escapist. Although I am a classical buff myself, I am buying a second copy to give to my fashionable electric guitar playing mate who wants to get into classical but doesn't know what he'd like. I reckon this stuff is hard to dislike and very accessible to classical newbes. I also have no complaints about Barenboim's performance/interpretation of these works.