Albinoni: Il concilio de'pianeti

Advantages: Everything you could ever want from a classical CD
Disadvantages: none

...Beethoven 5. Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 6. Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor Composed by Sir Edward Elgar 7. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov 8. Concierto de Aranjuez Composed by Joaquín Rodrigo 9. Swan Lake Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky 10. Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" in E minor Composed by Antonín Dvorák 11. Variations on an Original Theme, 'Enigma' Composed by Sir Edward Elgar 12. Sonata for Piano No. 14, 'Moonlight' in C sharp minor Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven 13. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in C minor Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov 14. Adagio for Strings Composed by Samuel Barber 15. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 21, "Elvira M in C Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 16... Read review

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Advantages: Relaxing, serene, dreamy
Disadvantages: The first track is not actual Albinoni

...Albinoni's Adagios Albinoni is an Italian composer of the late Baroque era. The Baroque era, 1600 to 1750, is used musically to describe a period in music in which the techniques used and expression achieved share similar characteristics. An important characteristic of the Baroque era is the use of contrasts; loud and soft, fast and slow, solo and tutti (all instruments). Adagio an Italian word translated to English as slow. Albinoni used slow movements to provide a contrast to faster movements. He is credited with being the first Italian composer to use three movements for a concerto. A concerto being a genre of music, in which a small group of players is set against a much larger group thereby providing the contrasts of soft and loud, solo and tutti. The usual pattern of concerto is three movements - fast – slow – fast. This CD... Read review

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Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: nothing

...epais (Lakme (1883)) 3:27 8 Georges Bizet: Au fond du temple saint (Les Pêcheurs de perles) 5:22 9 Giuseppe Verdi: Va pensiero, sull'ali dorate (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) (Nabucco (1853)) 5:26 10 Vincenzo Bellini: Casta diva (Norma (1831)) 5:33 11 Gioacchino Rossini: Largo al factotum (Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816)) 4:18 12 Giacomo Puccini: Che gelida manina (Bohème (highlights)) 4:50 13 Giacomo Puccini: Vissi d'arte (Tosca) 3:26 14 Giacomo Puccini: Nessun dorma (Turandot) 4:10 15 Giacomo Puccini: O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi) 2:05 16 Robert Prizeman: Voca me 4:47 17 Gabriel Faure: In paradisum (Requiem op.48) 3:26 18 Paul McCartney: Celebration (Standing Stone) 6:18 Disc 3 78:14 1 Carl Orff: O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) 2:28 2 Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata und Fuge D minor, BWV565 3... Read review

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