classical music: Robert Craft     classical music:     Robert Craft      Schoenberg: Piano Works Claus Adam, Peter Smith, ... Sony, 1995 Mr. Gould: the Genius of Recorded Music! Gould was playing Schoenberg in the 1950s--just shortly after the composer's death. He realizes the Op. 11 pieces in a very late-Brahmsian manner, in keeping with his gestalt of turn-of-the-century Modern music, viz., Brahms, Strauss, Scriabin, Schoenberg, Hindemith, ...             The Essential Igor Stravinsky John Reardon, Don Garrard, ... Sony, 2003 A Fabulous Introduction to Igor Stravinsky!! Sony Music's "The Essential Igor Stravinsky" truly lives up to its title. This double-CD set includes nearly every important piece of work (either in part or in whole) by the great Russian composer. The set also presents the pieces in chronological order beginning in ...             Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Original Version); Petrushka (Revised 1947 Version) Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, ... Naxos, 2005 Stupendous Performances in Brilliant Sound [This review was written for the SACD version of this release. I have not heard this purely plain-CD version, but I did listen to the plain-CD layer of the SACD release which I trust is virtually identical to this release.] There have, of course, been many ...             Stravinsky: Pulcinella; The Fairy's Kiss Mark Beesley, Igor Stravinsky, ... Naxos, 2006 Two of Stravinsky's Most Popular Works, Beautifully Done These mid-90s performances of Pulcinella and The Fairy's Kiss (Baiser de la Fée) conducted by Robert Craft were previously issued on Koch International with different couplings. But issuing them together is a good idea because they are two of Stravinsky's most tuneful, ...             Discover Music of the 20th Century Roger Heaton, John Adams, ... Naxos, 2005 For the price you can't lose This 2 cd set consists of, as the title indicates, various 20c pieces or movements from the Naxos catalog. Sound quality is uniformly high, although for some such as Stockhausen's it's not clear if that's good or bad. What is excellent is the variety of the ...             Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky Don Christlieb, George Neikrug, ... Sony, 1999 Magnificent! A great collection. There is simply no substitute for hearing Stravinsky as the great composer wanted to have his music played. Here is so much and also so varied a collection. I have been enjoying this set a great deal. One of the 20th century's greatest composers ...             The Varese Album Edgard Varese, Robert Craft, ... Wounded Bird Records, 2007 god walked greenwich village This has got to be the most important recording ever made with the exception of Trout Mask Replica.             Webern: Symphony; Six Pieces; Concerto for 9 Instruments Fred Sherry, Charles Neidich, ... Naxos, 2005 Bored with rock'n' roll music I've been a rock'n'roll fan since my teens, but I think that this great american invention has fulled its cycle(1955 - 1985). So I turned my ears to the music made in the beggining of the 19th century, and I think that this CD is a great introduction to it. ...             Schoenberg: Violin Concerto; A Survivor from Warsaw Arnold Schoenberg, Robert Craft, ... Naxos, 2008             Stravinsky: Three Greek Ballets (Apollo, Agon, Orpheus) Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, ... Naxos, 2005 Absolute Caftsmanship Robert Craft was one of Stravinkij's best friends and worked closely with him in several circumstaces over the course of the years until the composer died. Craft was almost like a borther for Stravinsky (he lived with the russian composer's family both in California ...             Schoenberg: Gurre-Lieder David Wilson-Johnson, Arnold Schoenberg, ... Naxos, 2005 Equal to the Best Recordings of Gurre-Lieder Robert Craft is not ordinarily thought of as a master of ultraromantic music. One associates him with Stravinsky and the more advanced music of the Second Viennese School. Schoenberg was certainly the founder and guru of that movement, but his 'Gurre-Lieder' was ...             Igor Stravinsky: The Recorded Legacy Igor Stravinsky, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, ... Sony, 1991 Truly historical This truly historical edition once and for all puts to rest the old putdown that Strawinsky could not conduct. In fact many of the works in this box have never sounded beter, and this includes works like Petrushka, Apollon and La baiser de la Fee. For seeing the real ...             Schoenberg: Five Orchestra Pieces, Survivor from Warsaw Arnold Schoenberg, Robert Craft, ... Koch Int'l Classics, 1995 esssential schoenberg The blood-curdling vocal delivery of A Survivor from Warsaw (Opus 46) is not easy to do; this is the best recording I've heard. The rest, especially 5 Pieces for Orchestra (Opus 16), is Schoenberg you need to hear. Herzegewaesche (in english, the foliage of the ...             The Music of Stravinsky Igor Stravinsky, Esa-Pekka Salonen, ... Sony, 2000 Excellent While this only has a small portion of The Firebird, it has an excellent collection of Stravinsky music. Stravinsky was one of the greatest composers and this CD has a good wide variety of selections.             The Music of Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Schubert, ... Sony, 2006 At last, a great performance of Schoenberg's Brahms arrangement The main work here, and the most delightful discovery, is the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor as arranged for very large orchestra by Arnold Schoenberg. This gorgeous, kaleidoscopic work has been dubbed the "Brahms Fifth Symphony," and it's certainly long enough and ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music essential, gurre-lieder, instruments, pulcinella, schoenberg, stravinsky      toavi.com    web we recommend Truly historical randomly chosen book: Gears of War 2 Signature Series Guide (Bradygames Signature Series Guides)