classical music: Bela Bartok     classical music:     Bela Bartok      Gypsy Anonymous, Bela Bartok, ... Well-Tempered Productions, 1997 The Gypsy-within Its fair to say that violinist Lara St. John projects a public image that can be described as provocative, daring, uninhibited and free-spirited (forget the open top here - check out the bold leather blazer, confident hand on hip, daring look in her eyes and violin at ...             Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle [DVD Video] Decca, 2008 Blood in the shadows, the soul's secret doors Bela Bartok's masterful one-act nacht-oper, based on the original Barbe-Bleue story by Charles Perrault (1697), composed between February and September 1911 and finally performed at the Royal Opera House in Budapest 24 May 1918 with a substantially revised finale, was ...             Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; etc. [Hybrid SACD] Bela Bartok, Fritz Reiner RCA, 2004 A Peerless Recording I loved the previous issue of this recording, but this one is even clearer, which is some praise, since the previous issue was a brilliant pressing of a brilliant recording. I never tire of Reiner's performance. There is no other recording of these pieces that ...             The Complete EMI Recordings 1946-1984, Vol. 1: Orchestral [Box Set] Hans Hotter, Otto Edelmann, ... EMI Classics, 2008 More Praise I can only echo the extravagant praise of my fellow Amazon.com reviewers. This box, which contains literally everything Karajan recorded for EMI in Vienna, London and Berlin from the 1940's through the early '80's, and its companion volume, which features all of ...             Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches Bela Bartok, Fritz Reiner, ... RCA, 1993 Essential Recordings Fritz Reiner was the driving force behind Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Reiner and Bartok had been friends for over 40 years having met as piano students at the Budapest Academy. The composer had been in the United States since 1940 and the separation from ...             Collector's Edition Benny Goodman, Bela Bartok, ... Sony, 1990 My Cup of Tea Goodman's performances of all the music on this disc are superb. He (along with violinist Joseph Szigeti) commissioned the Bartok score and, notwithstanding its age (mono/1940) there has never been a better recording than this one. The other performances are first-rate ...             Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music Bela Bartok, György Sándor Vox (Classical), 2003 Best classical value out there To put this set in perspective, for months I would go to my local Tower Records fishing for worthwhile classical CDs at least once a week. One of the discs that sat in the bins the longest was a single CD of Bartok piano music, played by Zoltan Kocsis. It was Volume ...             Icon: Dinu Lipatti Johann Sebastian Bach, Bela Bartok, ... EMI Classics, 2008 Dinu Lipatti- The Master Pianist plays Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, Grieg, Schumann, Bartok and Schubert on this seven CD set. Dinu Lipatti (1917- 1950 ) was a Romanian classical pianist and composer whose career was tragically cut short by his death from Hodgkin's disease at age 33. Despite his short career and a relatively small recorded legacy, ...             Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos 1, 2 & 3 - Prokofiev: Piano Concerto 5 - Bartok: Piano Concerto 2 - Emil Gilels, ... Bela Bartok, Sergey Prokofiev, ... EMI Classics, 2006 A classic Tchaikovsky Second Concerto, plus astonishing Richter The reissue gods are smiling. This bargain Gemini two-fer contains four superlative concerto recordings--the Tchaikovsky Second and Third with Gilels, the Prokofiev Fifth and Bartok Second with Richter. The conductor throughout is Lorin Maazel, definitely on best ...             György Ligeti Edition 3: Works for Piano (Etudes, Musica Ricercata) - Pierre-Laurent Aimard Gyorgy Ligeti, Pierre-Laurent Aimard Sony, 1997 Perfect Ligeti. The own György Ligeti was asked about who was the pianist more complete in his piano works; he talked about Pierre-Laurent Aimard, whose a close relation with the XXth Century music is very well known (Boulez, Messiaen, Berg, Schönberg, Carter...) all around the world. ...             Essential Midori Johann Sebastian Bach, Bela Bartok, ... Sony Classics, 2008             The Original Jacket Collection: Eugene Ormandy Mstislav Rostropovich, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, ... Sony Classics, 2008 EUGENE ORMANDY FINALLY GETS HIS BOX SET! It's hard to believe that the CD was introduced in 1982 and it has taken 26 years for Eugene Ormandy to have a proper box set released by Sony/BMG of some of his magical Columbia/CBS stereo recordings. How do you choose 10 CDs of Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra ...             Midori ~ Encore! Fritz Kreisler, Niccolo Paganini, ... Sony, 1992 Even for a trained jazz musician who thinks classical artists are overhyped, this stands out as one of the best albums. Let's be honest--any kid with a violin who ever set foot in a conservatory thinks (s)he's a prodigy, the next Mehta or Yo Yo Ma, while they play the same old tired music everyone else plays, exactly as the greats play it, with hardly a shred of originality that doesn't ...             After the Storm - The American Exile of Béla Bartók / Menuhin, Solti George Solti, Yehudi Menuhin KULTUR VIDEO, 2008 It s as though we ve been caught in a storm at sea and blown to shore with no more than the clothes on our backs So wrote the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) on his arrival in New York in 1940, after losing his luggage on the voyage from war-torn Europe and finding himself sadly lost in an unfamiliar culture. He was to spend the ...             Bartok: Violin Concertos, Viola Concerto, 6 Duo for 2 Violins, Violin Rhapsodies; Yehudi Menuhin Yehudi Menuhin, Bela Bartok, ... EMI Classics, 2004 Beautiful music.....Bartok is my favorite....... Menuhin with his strongly creative imagination plays these concertos with characteristic nobility of feeling during much of the Hungarian dance-rhythms. There is a comparably earthy, peasant manner in Menuhin's playing of the two Rhapsodies, and it is match by ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music orchestral, percussion, pierre-laurent, recordings, sviatoslav, tchaikovsky      toavi.com    web we recommend My Cup of Tea randomly chosen DVD: The Moody Blues: Lovely to See You - Live [Blu-ray]