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| The Sound of Pablo Casals
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Pablo Casals, cello. Alfred Cortot, piano. Jacques Thibaud, violin. BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sir Adrian Boult, conductor, & others.
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| Label: Capitol. Format: 4 CDs, boxed.
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| Label Number: 780032. Daedalus Item Code: 38623 |
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| Pablo Casals was the defining musician of his instrument in the 20th century. "Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart," he once said, and that sentiment is abundantly ... (Read More)
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| #2 |
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| Passion & Resurrection: Music Inspired by Holy Week (Hybrid SACD)
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Stile Antico.
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| Label: Harmonia Mundi. Format: CD.
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| Label Number: 807555. Daedalus Item Code: 29719 |
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| Gorgeous masterpieces, stunningly performed, are the stock in trade of this Gramophone Award–winning Early Music ensemble. Stile Antico's voices soar heavenward on this sacred program, which includes ... (Read More)
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| #3 |
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| Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
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Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. Andrew Manze, conductor.
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| Label: Harmonia Mundi. Format: cutout CD.
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| Label Number: 807470. Daedalus Item Code: 37027 |
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| Dedicated initially to Napoleon and ultimately "to the memory of a great man," Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 first inspired the concept of a "symphonic poem.” Virtuoso violinist Andrew Manze argues that ... (Read More)
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| #4 |
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| Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
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Marion Verbruggen, recorder. Flanders Recorder Quartet.
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| Label: Harmonia Mundi France. Format: cutout CD.
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| Label Number: 3957153. Daedalus Item Code: 37025 |
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| Somewhere Vivaldi is smiling, every time someone spins this disc. His massively popular masterwork has been adapted for many ensembles—including Japanese koto—but this 1996 arrangement is one of the ... (Read More)
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| #5 |
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| #6 |
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| Rachmaninov & Shostakovich: Songs
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Roger Vignoles, piano. Iris Oja, mezzo-soprano.
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| Label: Harmonia Mundi. Format: cutout CD.
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| Label Number: 907449. Daedalus Item Code: 37035 |
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| "There is a melodic beauty and voluptuous melancholy in them that will touch listeners who adore the concertos," observes the New Jersey Star-Ledger of Rachmaninov's songs. "Oja's dynamism ... (Read More)
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| #7 |
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| Mozart: Arias for Male Soprano
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Michael Maniaci, male soprano. Boston Baroque. Martin Pearlman, conductor.
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| Label: Telarc. Format: cutout CD.
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| Label Number: 31827. Daedalus Item Code: 37016 |
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| In the unique instrument of Michael Maniaci—with its combination of power, purity, and stratospheric high notes—we come as close as possible to experiencing what it was like to listen to the famed ... (Read More)
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| #8 |
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| Higdon: The Singing Rooms
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Jennifer Koh, violin. Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Robert Spano, conductor.
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| Label: Telarc. Format: cutout CD.
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| Label Number: 32630. Daedalus Item Code: 37012 |
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| "Higdon's signature Americana feelings often reflected in her harmonies and melodies, an easygoing instrumental palette of great color, and a sense of the poetic that also transfers itself into ... (Read More)
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| #9 |
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| Legendary Van Cliburn: The Complete Album Collection
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Van Cliburn, piano. Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Philadelphia Orchestra. Fritz Reiner & Eugene Ormandy, conductors, & others.
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| Label: RCA Red Seal. Format: 28 CDs & DVD.
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| Label Number: 887654072320. Daedalus Item Code: 38657 |
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| "This young man has double the sound that anyone else has," was Vladimir Horowitz's observation on first hearing Van Cliburn. At the USSR's International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, the Russians ... (Read More)
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| #10 |
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| Simone Dinnerstein & Tift Merritt: Night
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Simone Dinnerstein, piano. Tift Merritt, guitar, harmonica & vocals.
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| Label: Masterworks. Format: CD.
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| Label Number: 886919765724. Daedalus Item Code: 38598 |
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| A favorite of ours for her mesmerizing renditions of Bach and Schubert, American pianist Simone Dinnerstein has been praised by The New Yorker for her "lean, knowing, and unpretentious ... (Read More)
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