Advantages: A definite easy listen Disadvantages: Maybe too easy
...exactly say im 'into' it, i jus fancied a change. Its a good CD if u want to relax or for background music if u have sophisticated dinner parties!
Not one of the most used CDs iv bought. In fact i only listen to it about once evry 2 months so it isn't exactly excellent value for money.
Below is a list of the tracks incase ur interested. The CD is priced around £19.99 and available from most music stores such as HMV and Virgin Megastore.
CD 1
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Pachelbel: Canon
JS Bach - Air 'on the G string'
Mozart - Ave verum corpus
Handel - Largo
JS Bach - Jesus bleibet meine Freude
Mozart - Clarinet Concerto
Beethoven - 'Emporer' Concerto
Mascagni - Intermezzo
Bruch - Violin Concerto
Rutter - The Lort is my shepherd
Saint-Saens - Aquarium
Holst - Venus
Chopin - Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor
Faure - Pie Jesu
Shostakovich...
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Advantages: A discovery unforgettable Disadvantages: Nothing
...(Rewrite on 09/07/2001)
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (great italian "virtuoso") spent his life to search a kind of perfection during interpretations.
He knew this perfection to be impossible but, for him, "perfection" was union between composer and player.
Then,this perfection isn't impossible...
Glenn Gould tryed the same sound by his pianos: in this way he was very careful to music structure: beauty of musical phrases, to give a geometrical "presence" to music a.s.o.
Of course his Bach interpretations (but Beethoven and Mozart also), even if on a piano and not on a harpsichord or "fortepiano" , are excellent.
Michelangeli is on the other side of the moon...
His Chopin is mysterious, full of shadows and, in some compositions, unknowable.
But, how does Michelangeli obtain this wonderful result?
To answer it is simple and very...
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Advantages: Everything you could ever want from a classical CD Disadvantages: none
...by Giuseppe Verdi
32. Les pêcheurs de perles
Composed by Georges Bizet
33. (Il) trovatore
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
34. Turandot
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
35. Carmina Burana
Composed by Carl Orff
36. Messa da Requiem
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
37. Messiah
Composed by George Frideric Handel
38. Also sprach Zarathustra, 'Thus spake Zarathustra'
Composed by Richard Strauss
39. (The) Planets
Composed by Gustav Holst
40. Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
41. Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
42. Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
43. Romeo and Juliet
Composed by Sergey Prokofiev
44. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor
Composed by Edvard Grieg
45. Boléro
Composed by Maurice Ravel
46. Fanfare for the Common Man
Composed...
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somewhat helpful 26.04.2007
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