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Price: $18.98
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: Angel Records
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Johann Sebastian Bach::Léo Delibes::Gabriel Fauré::Erik Satie::Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart::Edvard Grieg::Johann Pachelbel::Claude Debussy::Felix Mendelssohn::Camille Saint-Saens::Henryk Gorecki::Antonio Vivaldi::Edward Elgar::Jocelyn Pook::Sergey Rachmaninov::Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni::Luigi Boccherini::Jules Massenet::Ludwig van Beethoven::Jacques Offenbach::Pietro Mascagni::Antonin Dvorak::Giacomo Puccini::Ralph Vaughan Williams::Alexander Borodin::Joaquin Rodrigo::Samuel Barber
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Label: Angel Records
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NumberOfDiscs: 2
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ReleaseDate Date: 1999-03-30
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Description: You want relaxing classical music that'll soothe your soul but won't lull you into sleep? Here's a double CD for you. The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World ... Ever! does its best to cover both well-worn classical favorites (Bach's "Air on the G String," Pachelbel's "Cannon," Debussy's "Clair de Lune") and some eclectic left-field choices (an excerpt from Górecki's Symphony No. 3, Jocelyn Pook's "Blow the Wind," and Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. The performances of most of these excerpts are top-notch--artists include Sir Neville Marriner, James Galway, Jacqueline du Pré and the Philadelphia Orchestra--and there's enough variety here for everyone. --Edward Garabedian
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Price: $16.98
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Sale: $10.68
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Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Nonesuch
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1992-05-05
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Description: This album, which catapulted Polish composer Henryk Gorecki to into the international spotlight, takes texts born in pain and turns them into statements of affirmation through the use of music that ebbs and flows in mystic minimalism. The clear voice of soprano Dawn Upshaw, singing the Polish texts, is a large part of the success of this particular recording, but the music, contemporary without either dissonance or movie-music mawkishness, clarifies and uplifts the words. This is a moving and essential element of the modern repertoire. --Sarah Bryan Miller
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Price: $16.99
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Sale: $10.98
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Manufacturer: Erato
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Erato
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1997-02-18
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Description: Beyond this recording's new age packaging and title is a splendid sampling of some of the world's finest choral music, sung by one of the world's outstanding choirs. This "anthology of sacred choral music" spans 400 years and includes such masterpieces as Allegri's Miserere, Bach's "Jesu, joy of man's desiring," and Barber's exquisite Agnus Dei, which is the composer's choral setting of his famous Adagio for Strings. Along the way we also hear Mozart's sublime "Ave verum corpus," Elgar's "Lux aeterna," and the Kyrie from Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli. There has been a choir at England's New College, Oxford, since the year 1379, and this impressive line of experience shows in the intelligent, unfaltering, and finely polished performances by today's ensemble of 16 boys and 12 adults. --David Vernier
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Price: $17.98
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Sale: $10.98
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Manufacturer: Telarc
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Thomas Tallis::Tomas Luis de Victoria::Morten Lauridsen::Francis Poulenc::Sergey Rachmaninov::Franz Schubert::Anonymous::Spiritual Traditional::Henryk Gorecki::Christopher Cock::Robert Shaw Festival Singers::Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
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Label: Telarc
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 2000-08-22
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Description: The trademark qualities of a Robert Shaw-trained chorus included perfect tonal blend and balance, expressive phrasing, and superb tuning. As an interpreter, Shaw hewed to the middle road, steering clear of eccentricities and honoring the composer's intentions. On this tribute disc, we hear these virtues coalesce in works such as Poulenc's austere Christmas hymn "O magnum mysterium," one of three settings of the text here. Shaw was at his best in works whose fervent spirituality he shared, and the selection from Rachmaninov's Vespers, with its repeated alleluias, is a highlight, both radiant and passionate. But then, virtually everything here is a highlight: the Schubert part song done to a turn with soft singing projected in rounded tones; the curve of "Wondrous Love"'s melody perfectly traced; and "Amazing Grace" in Shaw's arrangement all the more moving for its calm dignity. The longest piece, Górecki's Marian hymn "Totus tuus," is otherworldly in an enthralled reading that never loses focus. Like all of Shaw's Telarc recordings, the sonics are first-class. --Dan Davis
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Price: $8.99
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Sale: $4.55
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Manufacturer: Naxos
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Zofia Kilanowicz
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Label: Naxos
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1994-06-28
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Description: The current Schwann catalog lists nine versions of Górecki's phenomenally popular Symphony 3 (Sorrowful Songs) composed in 1976. During his early career, Górecki embraced serialism and concentrated on instrumental sonorities in the vein of Messiaen. But in Symphony 3, his atonality disappears into a strategy of gently mounting thematic pitches, taking the strings through all possible registers. All three movements are marked lento, rare for any symphony. The Elektra Nonesuch recording has tended to be the bestseller, but give this Naxos release a try--it's just as good. The sound is excellent and the performances are above reproach. --Paul Cook
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Price: $11.98
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Sale: $6.43
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Manufacturer: Maverick
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Samuel Barber::Ludwig van Beethoven::John Cage::Ferry Corsten::Henryk Gorecki::George Frideric Handel::Pietro Mascagni::Maurice Ravel::Erik Satie::Andre (aka ATB) Tanneberger::Antonio Vivaldi::William Orbit
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Label: Maverick
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 2000-02-22
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Description: William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style is an ambient album that rejigs 11 works by classical composers in a particularly tacky fashion. Even though Orbit has proved his mettle as an innovative and exciting producer for others--Blur's 13 and Madonna's Ray of Light--this is an ungainly meeting of the sublime and the absurd that, frankly, doesn't work. Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," Ludwig van Beethoven's "Triple Concerto," Henryk Gorecki's "Piece in the Old Style I," and Antonio Vivaldi's "L'Inverno" are four that unfortunately meet their maker in a crude pileup of flat, belching synths and wallpaper flourishes. If he had combined live instrumentation with a playful reverence for the arcane glories of the past, perhaps he could have managed to make reality out of that most elusive of notions: experimental music that actually sells. However, Orbit fails to do anything more than resemble a second-rate Vangelis. --Maxine Kabuubi
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Price: $17.98
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Sale: $10.89
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Manufacturer: Telarc
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Telarc
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1995-03-28
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Price: $16.98
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Sale: $8.99
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Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Nonesuch
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1994-11-15
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Price: $28.98
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Sale: $16.29
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Manufacturer: Naxos Audiobooks
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Number of Items: 4
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Naxos Audiobooks
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NumberOfDiscs: 4
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ReleaseDate Date: 1999-01-01
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Description: 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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Price: $18.98
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Sale: $10.97
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Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: EMI Classics
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NumberOfDiscs: 2
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ReleaseDate Date: 2005-06-07
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