The Dreaded P.D.Q. Bach
What can I say? These attempts to poke fun at classical music and aficionados of the genre are silly, puerile, well-informed, beloved by said aficionados, and utterly hilarious. With a style of humor that is something like a cross between Garrison Keillor, Victor Borge and Monty Python, 'Professor' Peter Schickele has been perpetrating the P.D.Q. Bach phenomenon since 1959. 'Researching' and sometimes even dressing up as the alleged 'last and least' of Johann Sebastian Bach's many ... Regular Price : $59.98
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Mozart: Symphonien Nos. 40 & 41/Jupiter
Yep, this is Lenny: not unpolished, but not willing to let polish get in the way of emotional drama. However, as other reviewers pointed out, this isn't the melodramatic, overromantic Bernstein of the later years either; these performances manage to almost perfectly combine emotion and technique. Bernstein's sense of tempi and phrasing is top-notch, and the emotional sensitivity he gets out of the always-adept VPO is admirable, particularly in the slow movements. What really makes ... Regular Price : $9.98
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O Perfect Love And Other Wedding Songs
This cd is a little different from most. Let me explain! This cd has a great mixture of several types of music. This cd features popular, classical, sacred, and wedding music. What a treat it is to have all these beautuful songs together on one cd.
The main concern I have for this cd is the fact that some of the arrangements were not up to par. As you will see, all songs are not ... Regular Price : $11.98
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Dvorak: 3 Great Symphonies
Dvor´k's last three symphonies deserve every ounce of their popularity. Although the Eighth and Ninth are virtually ubiquitous, the greatest by common consent is the Seventh, which the composer wrote in the wake of having heard Brahms's Third Symphony (which was in turn influenced by Dvorák's Fifth). The friendship between Brahms and Dvorák was one of the most interesting artistic relationships in musical history, comparable only to that between Mozart and Haydn. Brahms, for his part, ... Regular Price : $17.98
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25 Beethoven Favorites
I must say that I am very disappointed with this CD. It's bad enough that only select movements from symphonies, concertos, sonatas, etc. are put on compilation albums like this one, but it irritates me to no end that even the individual movements themselves are cut! Supposedly 'edited for leisure listening', this CD in no way fulfilled my expectations of what it would be. Most tracks are about 3 minutes long (whereas they should actually be anywhere from 5-15 minutes).
