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Wake Up and Goodnight
Release Date: 2008-08-05
Sales rank: 50347
Baby Einstein: Wake-up and Goodnight is a delightful musical collection perfect for babies to begin and end each day in a musical way. This soon to be classic is a gentle, playful instroduction to some of the greatest composers of all time! Like Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, and Bach. |
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The History of Classical Music (Non Fiction)
Release Date: 1999-01-01
Sales rank: 360750
A superb crossover title of enormous appeal to the vast selection of the population that enjoys classical music, but would like to know more about it. From Gregorian Chant to Henryk Gorecki, the first living classical composer to get into the pop album charts, here is the fascinating story of over a thousand years of Western classical music and the composers who have sought to express in music the deepest of human feelings and emotions. Polyphony, sonata form, serial music - many musical expressions are also explained - with the text illustrated by performances from some of the most highly praised recordings of recent years (all but a few taken from the Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues). |
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Mozart: Piano Sonatas KV. 281/KV. 330/KV. 333/Rondo, KV. 485/Adagio, KV. 540
Release Date: 1995-03-14
Sales rank: 41572
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Mendelssohn: Complete Piano Music
Release Date: 1997-10-07
Sales rank: 48345
Whether in the large-scale Op. 6 Sonata and Variations Serieuses or the gentle yet cogently proportioned Songs Without Words, the indefatigable Martin Jones plays this music with assurance, insight, and a singing tone that never cloys. Moreover, Nimbus's rock-bottom price is hard to beat for customers wishing to acquire Mendelssohn's entire solo piano output in one fell swoop. --Jed Distler |
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Mendelssohn: Sonata for Piano; Prelude & Fugue; Variations Sérieuses; Rondo Capriccioso
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Sales rank: 101121
These are some of Mendelssohn's best piano pieces outside of the Songs Without Words. The early Sonata will be new to most listeners. But there's a good deal more Mendelssohn for piano, including two more early sonatas, and some of it would have filled out this disc very nicely. Murray Perahia plays with his usual artistry, although it seems to me that he's a bit "big" for some of this music, especially the Sonata, which I like to hear in a more modest scale. It's not a bad disc by any means, but more for Perahia's fans than for Mendelssohn's. --Leslie Gerber |
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C.P.E. Bach: Keyboard Sonatas
Release Date: 1998-07-28
Sales rank: 118623
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Horowitz at Home
Release Date: 1989-07-20
Sales rank: 96507
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Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame / The Hilliard Ensemble
Release Date: 1993-11-16
Sales rank: 32398
Hearing or performing music comes closest in the range of human activity to a visceral connection to the past. As long as we have notation and knowledge of how to interpret it, we can effectively experience something like our ancestors did when they sang the same music. Of course, our 20th-century sensibilities and knowledge--or lack thereof--prevent us from sharing identical responses, but as with the music on this disc, when we hear it we are in some way transported to another place. We know a completely different sound world from our own; we know that the accepted order of certain things was different. And we also know that in many ways people haven't changed. Machaut's music conveys a spirituality--both joyful and contemplative--that's as true in its impact as it must have been 600 years ago, a point made ever so clearly by these especially vibrant and vital performances. --David Vernier |
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Andras Schiff Plays Mozart
Release Date: 1990-10-25
Sales rank: 24478
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Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Concise Version (6 Compact Discs)
Release Date: 2006-01-01
Sales rank: 73125
The Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Concise Edition includes professional recordings (many brand new) of selected works in the anthology in a six-CD set. These CDs are for use with The Norton Anthology of Western Music and A History of Western Music. |
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