Artur Rubinstein Collection, Vol 57

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: Best tracklist for a while, great mix from all genres
Disadvantages: A few bad tracks but everyone has different tastes!

...I’ve been collecting the Now series for years, it’s always good to have music to look back on and remind you of things that happened around the time. The Now series has been the biggest compilation for twenty years and still makes number one and sells loads even after almost sixty volumes. Three volumes are released each year. Now 57 was released in spring 2004 and was no exception to the sales success set by its predecessors. Personally I’d place Now 57 as one of the best Now’s for a while. I was really impressed when I first saw the tracklist. I won’t include the full tracklist as it is rather long but I’ll put a link at the bottom of the review! There’s definitely something for everyone. From pop (Britney, Black Eyed Peas, Busted, Emma etc) to rock (Blink 182, Franz Ferdinand etc) to Dance (Motorcycle, Ferry Corsten, Ultrabeat... 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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