Cello Quartets of the 20th Century

1. Allegro for cello quartet
Composed by John Hendrick
with Bennington Cello Quartet

2. Suite for cello quartet
Composed by Allen Shawn
with Bennington Cello Quartet

3. Quartet for cellos
Composed by Grazyna Bacewicz
with Bennington Cello Quartet

4. Dark Child Sings for cello quartet
Composed by Tina Davidson
with Bennington Cello Quartet

5. Movements (2) for four cellos
Composed by Alexandre Tansman
with Bennington Cello Quartet

Cello Quartets of the 20th Century,Grazyna Bacewicz,Tina Davidson,John Hendrick,Allen Shawn,Alexandre Tansman,Bennington Cello Quartet,Opus One,Chamber,Chamber Music,Classical,Quartet for Mixed Instruments without Keyboard

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Joan Tower: Silver Ladders / Island Prelude for Oboe and String Quartets / Island Rhythms / Music for Cello and Orchestra / Sequoia Manufacturer: First Edition ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Tower | Tower, Joan | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Harrell, Lynn | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | ( S ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music $9.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Tower, Joan | ( T ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Harrell, Lynn | ( H ) | Performers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | ( S ) | Performers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Instrumental | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Joan Tower: Instrumental Music Tower: Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman Joan Tower: Concertos Black Topaz - Joan Tower Joan Tower: Made in America ASIN: B0001WJNCS Release Date: 2004-04-13

Tracks:

1. Silver Ladders
2. Island Prelude For Solo Oboe And String Orchestra
3. Island Rhythms - Lawrence Leighton Smith
4. Music For Cello And Orchestra - Lynn Harell
5. Sequoia

Average customer rating: Great performances of some mostly great music

Tippett: Piano Sonatas 1-3; String Quartets 1-3; Fantasia Concertante; etc. Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tippett | Tippett, Michael | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Britten Conducts Britten Britten Conducts Britten: Operas 1 Britten Conducts Britten Ture Rangström: Complete Symphonies (Box Set) Dukas: Piano Sonata; Decaux; Clairs de Lune ASIN: B0009A41W4 Release Date: 2006-03-08

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Great performances of some mostly great music.......2006-01-01

The late Michael Tippett (1905-1998) had one of the most instantly recognisable musical voices of the twentieth century. Although his stylistic concerns may have shifted radically from the radiant, tonally-inflected lyricism of the Concerto for Double String Orchestra to the thorny and ascetic Concerto for Orchestra (and the opera King Priam), the intense and passionate vein of ecstatic musical lines never left his music. This box set collects most of his major orchestral works (with the unfortunate exception of The Rose Lake), and the first three of his piano sonatas and string quartets. Firstly, the performances are universally excellent (all the artists being long associated with Tippett's music). Mention must be made of Sir Marriner's passionate and wonderfully- nuanced reading of the always enjoyable Fantasia Concertante, and Colin Davis' energetic and joyous interpretations of the first three symphonies. He makes the diffuse and poorly- constructed Third Symphony seem more logical than the only rival recording- Hickox on Chandos. Heather Harper, whilst no Blues singer, gives a valiant effort to articulate Tippett's frankly vulgar Blues songs, interpolated between quotes from Beethoven's 9th. Solti's recording of the 4th symphony is everything you'd expect from CSO in the late seventies: power, virtuosity and that famous sheen that obviously inspired Tippett to write the work for them. Unfortunately, the "breathing effect" is a disastrous failure, sounding like a dying bronchitis patient, rather than the "gently breathing" sounds presumably intended by the composer. The first three Piano Sonatas are played beautifully by Paul Crossley, making the most elegant case possible for the average first and second sonatas. The third, truly a great work, is given an electric reading. The string quartets, played by the Lindsay Quartet are also given dynamic, thoughtful performances, the second and third quartets containing some of Tippett's most inspired counterpoint.
All in all, a set well worth investigating, if you do not have any orchestral/instrumental Tippett in your collection, though not every work on here is of the highest compositional quality.

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Cello Quartets of the 20th Century Manufacturer: Opus One ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000009J4U Release Date: 1995-12-15

Average customer rating: Great Ligeti CD Good performances, great pieces, and excellent sound quality An excellent Ligeti compilation

Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2; Ramifications Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Ligeti, György | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: The 20th-Century Cello György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) - Pierre-Laurent Aimard ASIN: B0000D9R0D Release Date: 2003-11-11

Tracks:

1. Allegro Grazioso
2. Vivace, Capriccioso
3. A Tempo
4. Adagio, Mesto
5. Presto
6. (...) Molto Sostenuto - Andante Tranquillo
7. Piu Mosso
8. Tempo Di Valse, Moderato, Con Eleganza, Un Poco Capriccioso
9. Subito Prestissimo
10. Subito: Molto Sostenuto
11. Allegretto, Un Poco Gioviale
12. Allarg. Poco Piu Mosso
13. Subito Allegro Con Moto, String. Poco A Poco Sin Al Prestissimo
14. Prestissimo
15. Allegro Comodo, Gioviale
16. Sostenuto, Accelerando
17. Lento
18. Allegro Nervoso - LaSalle Quartet
19. Sostenuto, Molto Calmo - LaSalle Quartet
20. Come Un Meccanismo Di Precisione - LaSalle Quartet
21. Presto Furioso, Brutale, Tumultuoso - LaSalle Quartet
22. Allegro Con Delicatezza - Stets Sehr Mild - LaSalle Quartet
23. Ramifications - Matt Haimovitz
24. 1. Dialogo: Adagio, Rubato, Cantabile - Matt Haimovitz
25. 2. Capriccio: Presto Con Slancio - Matt Haimovitz
26. Melodien - London Sinfonietta

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Great Ligeti CD.......2004-10-12

This CD gives a great sampling of music from across Ligeti's career. The first two string quartets are beautiful and the Cello sonata is an unusual (and under-played) piece from when Ligeti was a student. Matt Haimovitz's performance of this piece is the best out there.
The last track, Melodien, is a more typical piece for Ligeti. It sounds quite a bit like some of his music used in 2001: A Space Odyssey and is in his recognizable "sound-mass" style.

This CD also comes with interesting notes about the music and some nice photos of Ligeti himself. The only downside is the packaging -- instead of a normal jewel case this CD comes in a cardboard flip-cover case that doesn't snap shut. Be careful if you put it in your backpack.

Good performances, great pieces, and excellent sound quality.......2004-03-15

Ligeti's "String Quartet 1 (Metamorphoses noctunes)" is wonderful, an avant-garde and experimental work which never quite departs from easy listenability and enjoyment. He constantly builds peaks of sound and then reduces them for a few moments of tranquil repose. The Hagen Quartett's performance is very strong and steady, but I rather prefer the Arditti Quartet's performance of the piece (released on the first volume of Sony Classical's "Gyorgy Ligeti Edition"), which is more frenetic and does a great job of emphasing the hairpin turns and idiosyncracy of the work.

Ligeti's "String Quartet No. 2", dating from fifteen years after the first, is solid, though perhaps a little disappointing in comparison to the first. Ligeti claims it is a vast survey of the entire string quartet tradition compressed into a form much smaller than his first string quartet. There are rapid shifts from style to style, and little collaboration between each of the players. This proves a very slippery piece, and I've never gotten hold of it.

"Ramifications" (1968-69) is a minor work in which half of its twelve solo strings are tunes a quarter-tone lower than the other half. Ligeti then explores the surreal interaction among the strings. While it is something of a novelty and not a major piece, this is a wonderful use of his micropolyphony technique, and the performance led by Pierre Boulez (himself a influential contemporary composer as well as a conductor) is one of the best recordings of it.

The "Sonata for Solo Cello" is one of Ligeti's earliest works, dating from 1947, and its first half will strike the listener as, well, rather conventional. It is a sweet use of a moving instrument that Ligeti studied while attending the conservatory in Kolozsvar in Transylvania. The second part, added six years later, shows a much more daring and witty composer at work and in fact may be said to accompany the string quartets.

"Melodien" is an ironic piece. While early Ligeti works, such as "Musica Ricercata" resisted the creative vacuity of Hungary's Stalin-imposed socialist realism, this piece rebels against the excesses of his own avant-garde fellows. While many contemporary composers where eschewing melody, Ligeti gives us here over 10 minutes of pure melodies, with a beautiful colour which Ligeti has called "iridescent and metalic". The highs get higher and the lows get lower, and the work eventually diffuses into nothingness. This performance by the London Sinfonietta is superb, and I would definitely recommend it over the Schoenberg Ensemble's 2000 recording in the first volume of Teldec's "The Ligeti Project", whose sound I find unimpressive.

Some of the recordings here are from as long ago as 1975, but Deutsche Gramaphone's Ligeti reissues tend to often sound better than more recent ones. Recent recordings indeed are worth getting, many are supervised by Ligeti himself (and contain liner notes written by him), but these reissued classics will make a worthy addition to one's collection.

An excellent Ligeti compilation.......2003-11-21

This, the second collection of reissued Ligeti recordings in DG's 20/21 echo series, sensibly collects recordings of the two string quartets together with three other works.

The first quartet is one of Ligeti's earliest major works. In a highly rhapsodic single movement, written in a post-Bartokian language, Ligeti transforms the initial material (hence the subtitle 'Metamorphoses Nocturnes') into a variety of different forms and shapes. This is an outstanding achievement from a composer who was only 30 at the time--only once or twice does the music fall below a very high standard, and the Hagen Quartet bring it off well. If I prefer the more assertive recording from the Arditti Quartet, it is only by a small margin.

The second quartet is a major, mature masterpiece. It is written in five movement, each of which (except, obviously, for the last) ends by pre-echoing the language of the following movement. The first movement is fragmentary and rhythmically irregular; the second extremely slow, as if a Bartokian nachtmusik had been stretched out as far as it could go. The third movement is mechanical and repetitive, and it leads directly into a dark, menacing fourth movement which compresses together all the material heard thusfar. The finale releases the tension, spreading out in clouds of harmonies as it brings the work to a close. The LaSalle Quartet's reading here--captured soon after the work was premiered--is exceptional, though once again the Ardittis' Sony recording is marginally to be preferred.

Ramifications is a minor work for twelve solo strings. In it, the strings are split into two separate groups, one tuned a quarter-tone apart from the other. The intention is that the tuning of the two ensembles will slowly drift together, creating sonic interference and interesting harmonies. I think the work is more interesting in design than execution, but Boulez directs an effective performance.

The cello sonata is another minor work, though this time from early in Ligeti's career. The first movement is slow and rhapsodic, in a conservative harmonic and melodic language--the second movement, added several years later, is more spicy and dynamic. Matt Haimovitz gives an excellent, vigorous rendition of the work.

Finally, perhaps the gem of the collection. Melodien is one of the best of Ligeti's mid-period works, a chamber orchestra work where chromatic melodies form a polyphonic weave, before the composer gradually thins out the harmonic language until at the halfway point the music clears into wide open octaves. The musical process then reverses itself, and the music becomes more complex again as it returns to the start. Atherton's recording is outstanding, and I think slightly superior to the more recent recording on Teldec's Ligeti Project.

Overall, an excellent Ligeti compilation. Whether it is worth purchasing probably depends on the buyer's requirements and existing recordings, but if you're only wanting one Ligeti disc, this would be pretty hard to beat.

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Koch International Classics CD Sampler #1 Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Glinka | Glinka, Mikhail | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Morton Gould | Gould, Morton | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ives, Charles | ( I ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Kabalevsky | Kabalevsky, Dmitri | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Menotti | Menotti, Gian Carlo | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Domenico Scarlatti | Scarlatti, Domenico | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Telemann, Georg Philipp | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatinas | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Telemann, Georg Philipp | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Ives, Charles | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music London Philharmonic Orchestra | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Arias | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001SDV Release Date: 1994-04-20

Tracks:

1. Fanfare for JFK - The London Philharmonic
2. Sebastian (Ballet Suite) - The New Zealand Sym
3. Quintet for Flute & String Quartet - Dwyer/The Manhattan String Quartet
4. Cave of the Heart - The Atlantic Sinfonietta
5. Concert a cinq - The Atlantic Sinfonietta
6. Berceuse, Op.16 - Leonidas Kavakos/Anne Epperson
7. Quatour pour Saxophones - The Prism Quartet
8. Fantasie in c, KV 475 - Dubravka Tomsic
9. Trio Pathetique in d - Trio d'Amsterdam
10. Sonata No.4 in C - American Baroque
11. Sonata in D, K.491 (Allegro) - Elaine Thornburgh
12. Hymn of St. Columba - The Saint Thom as Choir of Men&Boys
13. The Comedians: Prologue/Comedian's Galop - The San Diego CO
14. Danish Folk-Music Suite: Lord Peter's Stable-Boy - The Melbourne SO
15. Wonderful Town - A Little Bit in Love - Judy Kaye/Steven Blier
16. Hi Ho! - Judy Kaye/Steven Blier
17. 'Country Band' March - Orchestra New England
18. Dance Variations for Two Pianos & Orch:Tarantella - Joshua Pierce/Dorothy Jonas
19. Arias and Barcarolles: Nachspiel (In Memoriam) - Kaye/Sharp/Barrett

Average customer rating: A MARVELOUSLY ENTHRALLING & ENTERTAINING DISC Incredibly hot trumpet virtuoso Rodney Mack!!!!!!!!

Waxman: Carmen Fantasy; Sinfonietta Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Waxman | Waxman, Franz | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DMI7 Release Date: 1998-11-17

Tracks:

1. Goyana: Four Sketches for Piano Solo, Percussion & String Orchestra: La Marquesa de Santa Cruz (Erato, Muse Of The Love Song)
2. Goyana: Four Sketches for Piano Solo, Percussion & String Orchestra: Country Dance
3. Goyana: Four Sketches for Piano Solo, Percussion & String Orchestra: The Miracle of St. Anthony
4. Goyana: Four Sketches for Piano Solo, Percussion & String Orchestra: The Witches' Sabbath
5. The Charm Bracelet for Chamber Orchestra: Two Little Shoes
6. The Charm Bracelet for Chamber Orchestra: Four Leaf Clover
7. The Charm Bracelet for Chamber Orchestra: The Little Soldier
8. The Charm Bracelet for Chamber Orchestra: The Golden Heart
9. The Charm Bracelet for Chamber Orchestra: The Pony
10. Sinfonietta for String Orchestra and Timpani: Allegro
11. Sinfonietta for String Orchestra and Timpani: Lento
12. Sinfonietta for String Orchestra and Timpani: Scherzo
13. 'Tristan And Isolde' Love Music For Violin And Piano
14. Introduction & Scherzo For Cello & Orchestra
15. Auld Lang Syne Variations for String Orch., Violin & Piano: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Rondo
16. Auld Lang Syne Variations for String Orch., Violin & Piano: Moonlight Concerto
17. Auld Lang Syne Variations for String Orch., Violin & Piano: Chaconne a Son Gout
18. Auld Lang Syne Variations for String Orch., Violin & Piano: Hommage To Shostakofiev
19. Roumanian Rhapsody No.1 In A Major for Violin & Orchestra
20. 'Carmen' Fantasie For Trumpet And Orchestra

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A MARVELOUSLY ENTHRALLING & ENTERTAINING DISC.......1999-05-24

Decca's recently acclaimed recording of Franz Waxman's powerful THE SONG OF TEREZIN certainly whetted the appetite to hear more from a composer whose earlier reputation had rested almost exclusively on numerous Hollywood film scores. Now a much fuller picture of this remarkably gifted musician can be gleamed from Koch International's enthralling collection of original compositions and arrangements.

Of primary interest is "Goyana", a collection of four imaginatively conceived minature sketches for piano, percussion and string orchestra inspired by specific paiantings of Goya, beautifully played by Cristina Ortiz, and the menacing Sinfonietta for strings and timpani whose musical language is close to that of Shostakovich. After this, a frustratingly brief introduction and Scherzo for cello and orchestra provides a tantalizing glimpse of the Cello Concerto that Waxman had hoped to write for Pierre Fournier.

All the arrangements are worth savoring, though the best of all is surely the "Auld Lang Syne" variations - a guaranteed party show stopper in which Waxman brilliantly parodies the styles of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and the composite composer Shostakofiev. Mark Kaplan dazzling performance of Rumanian Rhapsidy is not to be missed.

No Waxman collection would be complete without the ubiquitous "Carmen" Fantasie composed for Heifetz. Performed here with wonderful dexterity by Rodney Mack in a transcription for trumpet and orchestra, it sounds amazingly convincing, as does the rest of this very appealing release by the Orquestra Sinfonica de Barcelona i National de Catalunya conducted in high style by Lawrence Foster.

Incredibly hot trumpet virtuoso Rodney Mack!!!!!!!!.......1999-04-12

I was particularly stunned by the Carmen Fantasy rendition given by trumpet virtuoso Rodney Mack. His technical facility and breadth of tone is unbelievable! I highly reccomend this recording to anyone who wants to hear tomorrow's virtuoso soloists today!

Average customer rating: Not just for Christmas This music is heavenly!

The Music of a Victoria Christmas Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Boccherini | Boccherini, Luigi | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Corelli | Corelli, Arcangelo | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Gabrieli, Giovanni | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Pachelbel | Pachelbel, Johann | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Michael Praetorius | Praetorius, Michael | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Telemann, Georg Philipp | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Vivaldi | Vivaldi, Antonio | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concerto Grossi | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Telemann, Georg Philipp | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | ( R ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music Holiday Music | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1990-1999 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical Instrumental | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Classical Instrumental | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music ASIN: B000002SNH Release Date: 1992-11-10

Tracks:

1. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - Christopher Parkening
2. O Come, All Ye Faithful - Empire Brass
3. The Last Spring - Academn Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields
4. Canzon - Taverner Consort
5. Minuet - Academn Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields
6. Gagliarda Seconda - Tragicomedia
7. Dance Of The Sugarplum Fairy - Andre Previn
8. Suite De Voltes - Early Music Consort Of London
9. Sonata A Quattro In A - Philharmonic String Soloists Of Berlin
10. Sheep May Safely Graze - George Thalben-Ball
11. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentleman - Empire Brass
12. Allemanda - Various Artists
13. Canon - Academn Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields
14. God Alone Should Have My Heart - Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
15. Fantasia On Greensleves - Vernon Handley
16. Allegro Non Molto - Taverner Players
17. Largo - Taverner Players
18. Allegro - Taverner Players
19. Joy To The World - Empire Brass

Customer Reviews:

Not just for Christmas.......2001-01-07

Even though I recieved this CD after Christmas, I've enjoyed the music more than most of my recent purchases. There are only a couple of selections that would be considered Christmas carols, but even those, along with the others, are some of the loveliest music you could hope to find. Relaxing and uplifting at the same time. I'll be playing this all year round.

This music is heavenly!.......2000-12-14

While not all of the music presented on this CD is what one would consider "traditional" Christmas fare, I happen to find this a refreshing mix of recognized Christmas favorites tossed in with a wonderful rendition of great classical favorites. This pairing makes for a delightful classical Christmas CD which is both contemplative yet stirring. It happens to be the favorite Holiday CD in my collection. In fact, when Christmas is over, I hate to put it away!

Track Listings:

1. CHARLES IVES : The Celestial Country - The St Olaf Choir
2. Children's Songs
3. Christmas Angelicus
4. Christmas in an Irish Castle
5. Classic Women's Short Stories
6. Classics For Lovers
7. Di Lorenzo: Dracula, The Seduction
8. Dvorák: Requiem/Symphony 9
9. Dvorak: Symphonies 7 & 9 / Kubelik, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
10. Exile

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Wise Up Suckers [Import]

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45

Cadillac Daddy: Memphis Recordings, 1952

Trio and Duet

Widowspeak

Breakfast in Bed [CD-single]

Deep in a Dream: The Ultimate Chet Baker Collection

Carlo Tagliabue II

Big City Blues

Chez Toots

At the Show [Live]

Crazy People

Borough of Kings [CD-single] [Import]

Sing Laverne Tripp

Jumpin' In