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Music : Classic FM: Time to Relax
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Classic FM: Time to Relax from: Classic FM |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0756055603429 Format: Box set Label: Classic FM Manufacturer: Classic FM Number Of Discs: 3 Publisher: Classic FM Release Date: October 13, 2001 Running Time: 139 minutes Studio: Classic FM Sales Rank: 32436 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Time to Relax is a three-CD box set from Classic FM which "contains music that has been specially chosen because of its calming and soothing influences". In other words, it is very much like listening to the radio station's Smooth Classics at Seven, but with all the non-calming commercials and talk edited out. There's great music here, though whether one approves of taking individual movements from works as fundamentally different as Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D minor and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.5 and lumping them together as easy-listening background music is a matter of taste. What cannot be denied is that the performances are taken from high quality modern recordings on such leading labels as BMG, EMI, Conifer and Nimbus. Unlike many budget compilations, there are brief introductory notes for each piece and everything is properly credited, with such fine conductors as Nicholas Cleobury leading the Britten Sinfonia in Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Greensleeves and Richard Hickox conducting the City of London Sinfonia in Finzi's gorgeous Eclogue for Piano and String Orchestra. In delivering more than three hours of gentle, melodic classical music Time to Relax provides exactly what it says on the box. --Gary S Dalkin Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Does exactly what it says on the boxPlay it in the car. Play it in the bath. Play it wherever, the effect is the same. A good collection of relaxing music. Rating: - Incredible selectionEver since buying this collection, I have it playing in my office all day long. It is an incredibly moving selection of all my favourites and has lead to me buying many of the selections in longer format. The Aria from Goldberg Variations makes me stop working every day.. to just listen and get lost in the piece. It works as an introduction but also as a longterm good choice for when you want some variation and don't have time to keep changing CD's... they have chosen all the best sections from all the best pieces.. great for first dates, in the car or in the office keeping your blood pressure down and your brainwaves active. Rating: - 'Cross-over' with styleI have very little to add to the two excellent reviews above, other to say that I agree totally and would make one point of my own - that this anthology's depth and breadth blissfully avoids the "The Greatest _____ Album Ever' mentality, choosing instead some less well known works (yikes, you mean not even an advert!)on the basis that they massage away the scabby stresses of the 21st century. Butterworth's "The Banks of the Green Willow" and Einaudi's "Le Onde" are two cases in point. Not so much a bargain, more an aesthetic investment - in my mind the logical expression of where "Ambient" goes next. Rating: - Stressed? This may be the answer!As a seasoned clubber I'm more used to house and trance, but I stumbled upon Classic FM last year. I was trying to find something to listen to in the car that would stop me getting road rage! Though I still enjoy my nights out, the station has bought the joys of classical music to my attention, and this CD contains many of my new favourites from 'Relaxing Classics at 2' and 'Smooth Classics at 7'. If you like listening to those programmes you can't fail to enjoy this compilation. It helps me to stay sane when stuck in traffic, unwind after a hectic day at work, or just chill out on a weekend, and it's lovely background music when I'm studying too. Regardless of my other musical tastes, I've found this CD to be my perfect antedote to modern life. Rating: - The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Relaxation kit!Classic FM have done it again. Their new box sets have become an annual event. I bought "Relax" two years ago and "Relax More" last year. Both are excellent - but this new CD eclipses them. I'd been wondering if they'd manage to find enough repertoire to fill another three discs - but I'm happy to say that the choice of tracks on "Time to Relax" is quite simply stunning. There are some great favourites here - but also some new pieces which are more unfamiliar. I've already spent many an hour luxuriating to this beautiful music, and now I know what I'll be buying my stressed-out friends for Christmas. This is a CD that does exactly what it says on the box! |
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