Artur Rubinstein Collection, Vol 61

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: Good early tunes
Disadvantages: not comprehensive in the slightest

...Over Now Baby Blue 7.: Subterranean Homesick Blues 8.: One Of Us Must Know 9.: Like A Rolling Stone 10.: Just Like A Woman 11.: Rainy Day Women 12 And 35 12.: I Want You Individually, these tracks are all amazing - truely a greatest hits (not just a load of B-Sides). You're better of buying the albums this collection came from, which are: Bob Dylan · The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan · The Times They Are a-Changin' · Another Side of Bob Dylan · Bringing It All Back Home · Highway 61 Revisited · Blonde on Blonde · Other stand out Dylan Albums Blood on the Tracks · The Basement Tapes · Desire ·Nashville Skyline Time out of Mind · Love and Theft · Modern Times All of the bootleg series, which include Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991 · Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert · Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975... Read review

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Advantages: great tracks with lots of memories
Disadvantages: Nothing we have not heard before

...in 1974)also covered by Whitney Houston. Islands in the stream ( duet with Kenny Rogers) Jolene ( also written by Dolly) Coat of many colours ( written by Dolly) My Tenessee mountain home. Here you come again ( written by her in 1977) Baby i'm burning Love is like a butterfly. The bargain store. Potential new boyfriend. Everything is beautiful ( with willie Nelson) Silver threads and golden needles ( with Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn. To know him is to love him ( with Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris) Why'd you come in here looking like that. Romeo ( with Billy Ray Cyrus, Tanya Tucker, Carpenter, Mary Chapin, Kathy Mattea, Pam Tillis). Tennessee homesick blues. Dumb Blonde ( written in 1965 and made 24 in charts) Applejack Old flames can't hold a candle to you. This is a single disk album released 05/ 03/ 07. It runs for 61.26 mins... Read review

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