classical music: celebration

classical music: celebration

classical music:

Celebration

Yo-Yo Ma, Antonin Dvorak, ...

Sony, 1994

Great masterpiece
This is an excellent Cd recorded in Prague, it's an hommage to Antonin Dvórak with an excellent interpretation of segments of the most important masterpieces composed by this Czech artist, the recording is excellent, if you are some audiophile this recording sounds ...

British and American Band Classics

Robert Russell Bennett, Gustav Holst, ...

Philips, 1990

Fennell - A Wind Band Pioneer
'British and American Band Classics' is a great disc for band lovers and music lovers in general. Frederick Fennell has been one of the top leaders in wind band music for decades. Here, one of his early recordings with the Eastman Wind Ensemble survives as a ...

Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid and Rodeo Suite; Ferde Grofé:Grand Canyon Suite

Aaron Copland, Ferde Grofe, ...

RCA, 1993

Superlative performance of Copeland
Billy the Kid & Rodeo were both etched in my soul when as a young boy I listened along with my mother. This performance by Morton Gould remains for me above any other that I have heard and I have heard many given my love for them. This is a re-issue of an original 3 ...

Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration

Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ...

CBS/Sony, 1990

Please release DVD
After reading a large number of positive reviews below, I do not have to repeat how wonderful this CD is. I just want to add one thing. This concert is even better if we watch it! The laser disc of the concert used to be available in Japan (where I am from) ...

Dvorak in Prague - A Celebration / Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Frederica von Stade, Boston Symphony, Seizi ...

Kultur Video, 2007

Irena Tully, Impulse Films & Prestige Entertainment
The selected works of Antonin Dvorak - one of the most significant composers of all times - are performed here by the most renowned classical artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Frederica von Stade, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seizi Ozawa - making this ...

Andrés Segovia: A Centenary Celebration

Isaac Albeniz, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Mca, 1994

I AGREE
Segovia was the greatest classical guitarist that ever lived and always WILL be the greatest that ever lived, for he was the ROCK on which the classical guitar was practically founded! These 3 CD's of his most treasured pieces cut straight through the heart with GREAT ...

A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert / Frederica von Stade, Kathleen Battle, Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis; Kathleen Battle; Frederica von Stade

Kultur Video, 2007

Angel Voices
The stars must have been aligned perfectly, all must have been right with the world on that night of December 8, 1991 in NYC's Carnegie Hall when this Christmas concert was filmed, because it is an example, one of those rare instances when everything falls into place ...

Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration

Dianne Reeves, Patti Austin, ...

Word Entertainment, 1992

This recording rocks my musical world!!
Quincy Jones already rocks my world. I have nothing but respect for him and the level of musical excellence that has always surrounded anything he put his considerable mind and talent to. But this re-imagining of Handel's Messiah from an African-American perspective ...

A Christmas Celebration: Kathleen Battle

Kathleen Battle, traditional/various, ...

EMI Classics, 1990

Shimmers and shivers
This is a glorious Christmas CD that everyone who loves the season should have. What a joyful noise spills from the throat of this lady! If you have this album along with Maureen Mcgovern's Christmas CD...believe me you will be set for Christmas with Kathleen providing ...

Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO

Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, ...

Sony, 1997

Definitive Recordings of Copland's Popular Ballet Scores From Bernstein, NYPO
Without question, this splendid CD is my favorite recording of some of Aaron Copland's most popular orchestral ballet scores. In Leonard Bernstein he had both a good friend and a devout ally, who successfully championed Copland's music, helping to ensure his reputation ...

Beethoven: Complete Overtures

Ludwig van Beethoven, David Zinman, ...

Arte Nova Classics, 2005

Much-needed fresh interpretation of the overtures
Surprisingly, there are relatively few choices currently available when it comes to complete collections of the Beethoven overtures, long part of the standard repetoire of any respectable orchestra. The Masur/Leipzig collection has been around for about 30 years, but ...

Zwilich: Symphony No. 1 / Celebration / Prologue & Variations

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, John Nelson, ...

New World Records, 1992

A True Masterpiece
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is a wonderful composer whose music completely enthralls the listener into a poetic world that completely opens one's senses.. Her Symphony no.1 is electrifying!

Ozawa and the Vienna Philharmonic: New Year's Concert 2002

Ozawa, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Tdk DVD Video, 2002

5 stars, with reservations about the Waltzes
Seiji Ozawa (b. 1935) was the designated conductor for the January 1, 2002 "New Years' Concert from Vienna", beautifully filmed and recorded for DVD by TDK. (I do not associate Ozawa with Johann Strauss I, II and other late 1800s Viennese composers, but rather with ...

Long Time Ago - Copland / Dawn Upshaw & Thomas Hampson

Thomas Hampson, Aaron Copland, ...

Teldec, 1994

Two Cents from the English Teacher
I am a big fan of both Emily Dickinson and Dawn Upshaw, so I was really excited to see this CD with Dawn Upshaw singing arrangements (by Aaron Copland no less!) of eight super Emily Dickinson poems. Trying to interpret ED is no easy task (for an English teacher or a ...

Jacqueline Du Pre: A Celebration of Her Unique Enduring Gift

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim

Christopher Nupen, 2007

WONDERFUL!!!!!!
For me this is the best Nupen's film about Jackie. It has "Who was Jacqueline du Pré?", "Interlude with Johannes Brahms" a previously unpublished interview and "Remembering Jacqueline du Pré". It's more than 3 hours of music and words of people who knew her best to ...