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Price: $10.98
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Sale: $2.97
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Manufacturer: RCA
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: RCA
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1999-04-13
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Description: While many hospitals across the country send new mums and babes home equipped with discs of classical music to soothe and gently stimulate babies' tender minds, Ultrasound brings together a delightfully well-rounded set specifically chosen for those still in the womb. Expectant moms will appreciate the effects of the mellow strains of Bach's Suite No. 3, the delicate playfulness of Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy," and Mozart's proven-to-make-you-smart Sonata for Two Pianos featuring André Previn. Debussy's "Clair de lune" is especially lovely as conducted and fluted by James Galway, and Leontyne Price is a warm blanket of comfort giving voice to Schubert's "Ave Maria." Indeed, these songs are aural balm to both parent and child long after birth. --Paige La Grone
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Price: $3.98
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Sale: $1.80
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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: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1994-04-12
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Description: This is a misnomer--not all of these duets are all that famous--but it's a fine compilation nonetheless. You'll hear selections from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers (Nicolai Gedda and Ernest Blanc at their most elegant French), Madama Butterfly (Carlo Bergonzi and Renata Scotto--an impassioned pair), Lucia di Lammermoor (a classy Alfredo Kraus and Edita Gruberova), the lovely Lakme duet, The Presentation of the Silver Rose from Der Rosenkavalier (with the earnest Christa Ludwig and the other-worldly Teresa Stich-Randall), and a fine Trovatore "Miserere" (with Leontyne Price and Franco Bonisolli singing up a storm). There are many others, too--a veritable cornucopia of couplings--and a treat for the opera lover. --Robert Levine
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Price: $32.98
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Sale: $18.97
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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: 1997-08-19
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Price: $10.98
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Sale: $6.77
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Manufacturer: RCA
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: RCA
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1999-03-09
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Price: $11.98
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Sale: $6.55
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Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Deutsche Grammophon
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1996-01-23
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Description: This performance is also available on Deutsche Grammophon in an earlier, mid-price incarnation, but this version is clearly the one to own, since the remastered sound is a definite improvement over previous issues. Herbert von Karajan always did a good job with this symphony, and his performances are quite consistent, even down to the very backward-balance of the chorus. By general consensus, though, this is the best of them. --David Hurwitz
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Price: $11.98
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Sale: $6.64
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Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Deutsche Grammophon
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1996-05-14
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Description: Yes, here it is folks--that irritatingly catchy chorus you first heard in the film Excalibur, or as the background music to the HBO Boxing Specials, and in zillions of other places. What it's not is the music from The Omen, which it clearly inspired. All pieces of music that feature choruses chanting in Latin are not the same (in fact, Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms is much closer to The Omen than this). Orff actually wrote a lot more music, but here's a case where his reputation as a "one work" composer really is justified, for nothing else comes close in musical or popular appeal. This performance was authorized by the composer himself, and that's recommendation enough. --David Hurwitz
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Price: $7.98
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Sale: $3.54
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Manufacturer: Philips
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Philips
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1999-04-13
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Description: Programmed similarly to the Beethoven for Babies collection, this set of Bach compositions runs the emotional gamut, from the gently eye opening to the jumpy arm raising, collecting each set of pieces under a thematic header. The first several selections ("Waking Up") feature solo piano works that come directly from Bach's more pedagogic works, compositions intended for students to use as exercises to loosen their touch. Played superbly by pianist Sviatoslav Richter, as well as the Romero brothers (Pepe and Celedonio) on warm guitar, these compositions urge the ear to open. And then you come the pieces gathered under the "Playtime" heading: jazz pianist John Lewis picks up a couple pieces, as do the folks in Canadian Brass. Then the mood shift heads back to the sleepyhead state with "Winding Down" and "And So to Bed," each of which slows the tempo and quiets the passion to a doze. This is a fine set of Bach works. --Andrew Bartlett
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Price: $7.98
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Sale: $3.75
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Decca
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1994-08-23
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Price: $10.98
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Sale: $6.42
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Manufacturer: RCA
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: RCA
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1995-04-11
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Price: $11.98
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Sale: $5.99
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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: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1999-01-12
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Description: Mahler considered The Song of the Earth his most personal work, and indeed it is one of his greatest and most moving. Its six sections, sung alternately by the mezzo-soprano and tenor, are set to seven poems from The Chinese Flute, a collection of Chinese lyrics translated into German by Hans Bethge, which echo Mahler's love of nature and contrast the earth's renewal each spring with the transience of human life. Composed after he lost his beloved 4-year-old daughter and was diagnosed with a serious heart ailment, the music encompasses heart-rending anguish and sublime ecstasy; conceived in the shadow of death, it is suffused with a sense of sorrowful, reluctant leave-taking finally transformed into resigned renunciation. The scoring for a large orchestra is masterful and includes many solo passages; melodic, harmonic, and instrumental devices at times create an oriental flavor. Among the work's many recordings, this is certainly one of the best. The orchestra is splendid; its wonderfully transparent sound, together with Klemperer's extremely leisurely, deliberate tempi, allows many apparently brand-new lines and details to come out and gives the second tenor solo a strikingly Chinese character. Moreover, the singers can be clearly heard, and they are incomparable: vocally glorious, musically deeply involved, sensitive to every expressive nuance and subtlety of words and music, they follow Mahler to the heights and depths of emotion, making the performance an overwhelming, unforgettable experience. --Edith Eisler
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