classical music: degrees

classical music: degrees

classical music:

Degrees

Asian Travels, Vol. 1: A Six Degrees Collection

Various Artists

Six Degrees, 2000

Essential World Fusion Sampler
Very few Americans are aware of the emerging genre of music called "world fusion." A quick primer: world fusion is the blending of traditional "third world" music with modern Western music. The genre is gaining considerable popularity in Europe but is still almost ...

Six degrees of tonality: A well-tempered piano

Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, ...

Gasparo Records, 2001

A real ear-opener
I'm a lifelong music lover, but just recently started learning about the history of temperaments (as in Stuart Isacoff's entertaining book on the subject). I got this CD to see if I could really hear the difference between Meantone, well temperaments, and equal ...

Echoes of the Temple

Jewish Traditional, David Roitman, ...

Pearl, 1994

Heavenly
Moving renditions of prayers and Yiddish folksongs by some of the most eminent cantorial singers ever recorded. These recordings are priceless.

For War Child

Edoardo Bennato, Eddie Boyd, ...

Decca, 1996

Wonderfully diverse
Recorded live from the Parco Novi Sad, in Modena Italy, on 20 June 1996, this is another of Pavarotti's wonderful concerts to benefit children who are caught up in the horrors of war. Some of the worlds best performers have gotten together for a diverse musical ...

40 Degrees North

Isaac Albeniz, Anonymous, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Unique talent, unique perspective, and as close to an autobiography as you will get in classical music
Yang Xue Fei is on a mission to change how we listen to guitar. This is an extremely ambitious goal, approached and achieved in the past by the likes of Segovia and Bream. It sets her apart from other guitarists, no matter how wonderful or dazzling their talents. As ...

180 DEGREES FROM ORDINARY

Jim Jacobson, Allen Gleck, ...

INNOVA, 2000

Excellent performances of hard-to-find new music.
Having seen the MCE a number or times I bought this disk at the first opportunity and was not dissapointed at all. "Four For Tango" and "Chaconne" are definite standouts as well as "watch...wait" and "rituale". Both Siskind and Trenka are names to look out for in the ...

Pavarotti & Friends - For War Child

Edoardo Bennato, Eddie Boyd, ...

Digital Sound, 1997

An all-star presentation of life and survival!
Pavarotti and Friends for War Child is the second but not the last, of Pavarotti's efforts to make visible that which we would prefer to ignore. From his opening prayer of Holy Mother, he pleads for compassion. Eric Clapton's blues-trained voice melds effortlessly and ...

I Hear America Singing
Charles Robert Stevens, Lin Garber, ...

Vox (Classical), 1996

Handel - Belshazzar

George Frideric Handel, Trevor Pinnock, ...

Archiv Prod Import, 2004

ISSUE RESOLVED ON THE EUPHRATES
One question I might find among the more difficult in my life would be - which is my favourite Handel oratorio? I suspect that my answer would generally be 'the one I heard most recently', and that, as I write this, is Belshazzar. It is a magnificent thing, a heavenly ...

Prayers from Book of Psalms, Vol. 2

Hebrew Anonymous, Gershon Sirota, ...

Israel Music, 2001

Don't bother to purchase this one........
Track 5 is my only favorite song on this CD but the whole CD sounds as if someone recorded from scratchy LP's being played with a worn out stylus or stereo needle. I wouldn't recommend this one at all.