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The Most Relaxing Classical Music in the Universe Denon Records The Most Soothing Lullabies In The Universe Denon Records The Chopin Collection [Box Set] RCA Victor Europe 11cd Box Set with the Legendary Rubinsetin Recordings of Chopin Works The Most Relaxing Piano Album in the World...Ever! EMI Classics Romance of the Violin Sony Every track on this CD contains a beautiful melody many of them easily recognizable all of them exuding tranquility O mio babbino caro from Puccinis Gianni Schicchi opens the disc with Bell delicately accompanied by a harp and spinning the long melody with great sensitivity Bellinis Casta diva from Norma lives up to its reputation as the epitome of bel canto in Bells hands his violin sings The middle movement of Mozarts 21st Piano Concerto takes well to the violin and Debussys The Girl with the Flaxen Hair is played with great warmth and sensuality It would be easy to turn a recital like this into treacle but Bell is wise enough to realize that the music is already sweet enough and he plays with great reserve and a minimum of sentimental slides The light accompaniments always support with woodwinds prominent but used with grace This CD in short is a beauty a fine gift a lovely mood setter --Robert Levine The Essential Yo-Yo Ma Sony Here are three dozen pieces of music all played by Yo-Yo Ma culled from his extensive discography Aside from the technical mastery and beautiful tone that are absolutes in all of his playing one is dazzled by his curiosity and ability to adapt to so many forms and types of music His Bach and Vivaldi are pellucid and played with non-sentimental crispness his tango music gritty and rhythmically pungent his jazz seemingly spontaneous the Meditation from Thais simply ravishing Anything Goes a romp and the Appalachian music performed with both respect and a great twang while the traditional Chinese music is fascinating Its really a matter of how much Ma loves whatever he plays here how entirely he becomes involved in it and what a fine partner he invariably is to other musicians This collection is a doozy--it is truly essential --Robert Levine 25 Bach Favorites Vox (Classical) Debussy for Daydreaming DEBUSSY,C. Philips No Description Available r No Track Information Available r Media Type / CD r Artist / DEBUSSY C r Title / DEBUSSY FOR DAYDREAMING r Street Release Date / 04/ 11/ 1995 r Domestic or Import / Domestic r Genre / CLASSICAL COMPOSERSSimply Baroque Sony A to Z of Classical Music Naxos A-Z of Classical Music is a remarkable 932-page illustrated book detailing the lives of all the great composers as well as many less known but equally fascinating musical masters Like the Naxos range of recordings itself A-Z of Classical Music is a rich source of inspiration for anyone either just embarking on a lifetime of musical enjoyment or for whom classical music has long been a way of life Included within is an extensive glossary of musical terms plus a unique guide to classical music used in acclaimed films Two-and-a-half hours of the finest music from across the centuries are contained on the accompanying CDs Is it a two-CD set with a particularly thick booklet or a 562-page book with a compilation album attached Either way the unpretentious text by Keith Anderson offers an introduction to the lives and works of dozens of composers together with recommended recordings from the Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs Anderson includes a useful 59-page glossary of musical terms and an extensive listing of classical pieces used in films The odd thing about the 36 extracts and complete pieces on the CDs is that they do not form an A-to-Z at all Rather they are arranged chronologically from 1 000-year-old Gregorian chant to the opening movement of contemporary composer Philip Glasss Violin Concerto Between these two points is the early music of Palestrina and Byrd the Baroque glories of Vivaldi and Bach the 19th-century Romantic masters from Beethoven to Tchaikovsky and such 20th-century greats as Rachmaninov and Stravinsky Opera song and chamber music are barely represented but only so much can fit into 151 minutes Essentially a deluxe sampler of the vast Naxos catalogue the discs offer a good introduction to some of the most famous and melodic music ever composed while the book will be very useful to newcomers to the potentially confusing world of classical music --Gary S Dalkin