Artur Rubinstein Collection, Vol 43

Advantages: Haunting, passionate music to get lost in.
Disadvantages: It's classical and this puts people off before they even try it.

...interrupt it - particularly something as mundane as housework. Floon and I are obviously not alone in finding the quintet special. This music has aroused the passions of many and the notes say” Many musicians have spoken in awe of its spiritual Elysianism, including the pianist Artur Rubinstein (who requested the slow movement be played at his funeral), the great nineteenth-century cellist Alfredo Piatti (who asked for it to be played during his dying hours to send him into the next world), and the renowned quartet leader John Saunders who had the opening seven bars of the first movement’s second subject inscribed on his tombstone above the following Shakespearian quotation (Sonnet XVIII): So long as man can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. String Quintet in C Major, D956 (1828) The title conveys... Read review

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Advantages: sees Sabbath beginning to experiment successfully with new textures
Disadvantages: lots of instrumental

...BLACK SABBATH VOL.4 1: Wheels of Confusion/The Straightener (8:14) 2: Tomorrow's Dream (3:12) 3: Changes (4:46) 4: FX (1:43) 5: Supernaut (4:45) 6: Snowblind (5:31) 7: Cornucopia (3:54) 8: Laguna Sunrise (2:52) 9: St. Vitus Dance (2:29) 10: Under the Sun/Every Day Comes and Goes (5:50) Yet another groundbreaking powerhouse recording featuring some excellent guitar work. This includes great classics like Tomorrow's Dream, Changes, Supernaut, Snowblind, and Laguna Sunrise Black Sabbath VOL. 4 is a must have addition to any Black Sabbath collection released: early september 1972 the album features some of Sabbaths most memorble tracks and sees Sabbath beginning to experiment successfully with new textures such as strings, piano, orchestration and multi-part songs.. Yet the classic Sabbath sound is still very much in evidence While... Read review

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Advantages: Brilliant Music, Well produced, Superbly Remastered
Disadvantages: Not long enough.

...SIDE ONE 1.Time Is On My Side 2:50 2.Heart Of Stone 2:46 3.Play With Fire 2:13 4.(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 3:34 5.As Tears Go By 2:43 6.Get Off My Cloud 2:57 7.Mother's Little Helper 2:46 8.19th Nervous Breakdown 3:57 9.Paint It Black 3:46 10.Under My Thumb 3:40 11.Ruby Tuesday 3:16 12.Let's Spend The Night Together 3:38 SIDE TWO 1.Jumpin' Jack Flash 3:42 2.Street Fighting Man 3:17 3.Sympathy For The Devil 6:24 4.Honky Tonk Women 3:00 5.Gimme Shelter 4:33 6.Midnight Rambler(live) 9:12 7.You Can't Always Get What You Want 7:29 8.Brown Suger 3:49 9.Wild Horses 5:42 If that alone isn't enough to have you trembling with excitement then let me tell you more. This is all the best songs from there early, and probably best, years. As you will have seem it has most of there famous songs on it, and it has been very effectively remastered so... Read review

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