classical music: ballads - top sellers     classical music:       Chopin: Favorite Piano Works Frederic Chopin, Vladimir Ashkenazy Decca, 1996 Why are you waiting? Ashkenazy is one of the titans of Chopin. Davidovich and Arrau are the other two. They're all you need. Get Davidovich for the concertos, (inlcuding the Krakowiak--Op 14), Arrau for the nocturnes and a few micscellaneous pieces. Ashkenazy handles everything else. ...             Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music, Fifth Edition, Volume 1: Ancient to Baroque (6 CDs) W. W. Norton, 2005 The Standard If you're a music student at almost any major school (I just finished my undergraduate at Indiana University, for example) you'll most likely need to take a course that uses these CD's as part of its history survey. For that purpose, this set is an excellent ...             BRAHMS: Edition - Complete Works Bo Skovhus, Gunther Leib, ... Brilliant Classics, 2008 Good budget set. Alright, I'll admit upfront that I haven't gotten through this entire set yet (or even close to it) but I've sampled enough to where I feel I'm able to give a good opinion. Orchestral music: Inconsistent. The Violin Concerto is the worst of the bunch, with slow ...             The Chopin Collection Frederic Chopin, Artur Rubinstein RCA Victor Europe, 1991 The ultimate interpretation The ultimate way to apreciate the work of Chopin. powerful then again delicate. Sublime piano by Rubinstein. Curacao, apri1 14th 2008             Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3; Ballade No. 4; Waltzes; Mazurkas; Barcarolle Frederic Chopin, Ingrid Fliter Angel Records, 2008             Brahms: Works for Solo Piano Johannes Brahms, Julius Katchen Decca, 1997 A wonderful offering. There may be the individual recording made by others - Gilels, Rubinstein, Arrau - of a particular piece which might be preferred but as a collection of the Brahms piano works, this set has to take the prize. The quality of original recording is high and the digital ...             The Chopin Ballades & Scherzos [Hybrid SACD] Frederic Chopin, Artur Rubinstein RCA, 2004 As Good As It Gets Rubinstein was in his prime when these versions of the Chopin Ballades and Scherzos were recorded in 1959. Curiously, although this was his third version of the Scherzos, he had never before recorded the Ballades. Rubinstein was temperamentally well suited to these ...             50TH Anniversary Harmonia Mundi Harmonia Mundi Various Artists Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2007 Gorgeous Early Music for Amazing Value Harmonia Mundi has taken highlights from 50 years. While I love classical music, there are a lot of selections that I had not heard. I have been thoroughly surprised to enjoy 98% of the music on the 30 CDs. There are a couple of "editing" glitches where a track ...             Codex Faenza: Instrumental Music of the Early 15th Century Anonymous, Codex Faenza Anonymous, ... Naxos, 1998 Essential to any early music collection When I purchased this album, I was expecting it to be more akin to the other music performed by the Ensemble Unicorn. I was expecting quick and lively, music akin to the Spanish Troubadour tunes and Las Cantigas de Santa Maria. I was wrong, and I was disappointed at ...             Ballad For Edvard Grieg Edvard Grieg, Berliner Philharmoniker, ... EMI Classics, 2007 Outstanding Performance Disappointing CD Imagine my surprise when I received this CD, and after removing the shrink wrap discovered that 9 of the 10 tracks or 2 of the 3 works on this CD were re-issues. The Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 is a reissue from 2002 and the 6 Lyric Pieces were originally issued ...             Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Piano Music Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Cecile Licad Naxos American, 2003 A very powerful performance June 7, 2003 This is a very powerful performance by Licad, the first in a long while. I had a chance to compare her recording with an earlier recording of Gottschalk's piano works by another (relatively unknown) pianist, and I must say that the latter recording ...             Debussy: The Complete Works For Piano Claude Debussy, Kurt Schroder, ... EMI Classics, 1997 Debussy and Gieseking Historical 1950s recordings that demonstrate Gieseking's well attested shades of piano sound that are unique and outstanding.             Story Of Chopin In Words And Music Frederic Chopin, Ingrid Haebler Vox (Classical), 1995 BEAUTIFUL MUSIC/WAY TO LEARN ABOUT CHOPIN & HISTORY The music is so wonderful, perhaps a better description is that the music is so beautiful that it almost seems surreal - Wow! So breathtaking, so Chopin!!! Add to the music, a great written biography on Chopin's life and you've got one incredible hour of ...             Liszt: Piano Works Franz Liszt, Georg Solti, ... Decca, 2001 A great collection of Liszt treasures The booklet of this set has an interesting explanation of why Jorge Bolet stayed out of the spotlights for so long before taking up his -glorious- career. It was his devotion to Liszt. By then, in the 1950s, Liszt was still regarded as a B-composer (There are still ...             Grieg: Lyric Pieces / Emil Gilels Edvard Grieg, Emil Gilels Deutsche Grammophon, 1997 Superb historical achievement! Emil Gilels temperament has always been at least to my mind extremely cold and even analytical. His powerful phrasing is first rate, who can deny it? . However, he recorded for the posterity two emblematic works; this album and Brahms Piano Quartet Op. 25 with ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music anniversary, anthology, barcarolle, collection, gottschalk, instrumental we recommend BEAUTIFUL MUSIC/WAY TO LEARN ABOUT CHOPIN & HISTORY randomly chosen tools & hardware: Key Identifiers (KC130) 5 each