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Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Complete Recordings
Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003FB7 Release Date: 1992-09-15 |
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We remember Rachmaninov today mostly for the music he wrote. But as this set quickly reveals, he was one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, able to play his own music and a great variety of others with tremendous personality and a technique that is still astonishing. There's no point picking highlights from this set, since they are everywhere. But if you've never heard Rachmaninov play Schumann's Carnaval, try starting there for one of the most imaginative recreations of a piece of music ever recorded. The set also includes Rachmaninov's only recordings as a conductor in two of his own major works. --Leslie GerberCustomer Reviews:
Save some $ money! Get the newer January 2006 reissue set instead........2006-05-17
6, or Even 7 Stars!.......2005-06-04
A must have for Piano and classical music lovers.......2005-04-04
Ah, Rachmaninoff, brilliant star of music, how we adore you.......2003-09-14
Review from a spoiled modern listener.......2003-07-13
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Recordings 1930-1951
Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002S1W Release Date: 1990-07-18 |
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The drawback to this comprehensive feast of prime Vladimir Horowitz is EMI's overzealous noise reduction, which smoothes the edges off of the great pianist's unique sonority. This is less bothersome in the 1951 sessions, which produced two delicious Scarlatti Sonatas not reissued elsewhere. The high-voltage Horowitz of the thirties was a more direct, less mannered artist than his older self. But his classic Liszt Sonata, Chopin Fourth Scherzo, and other solo EMI jewels are best heard via APR's superior (albeit more expensive) transfers. This erratic but exciting Rach 3 (with cuts, and a momentary third movement memory lapse) still awaits a CD transfer to match that of a bygone Seraphim LP. --Jed DistlerCustomer Reviews:
Super-human virtuosity of young Horowitz.......2007-06-15
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52 Original Recordings
Nat King Cole ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000GG4US6 Release Date: 2005-06-14 |
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Nat King Cole; Too Marvelous For Words. .......2007-03-30
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Horowitz-Solo Recordings 1928-36
Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000000WRU Release Date: 1997-01-21 |
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Pearl Gets These Classic Horowitz Reissues Right.......2007-05-11
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52 Original Recordings
Nat King Cole Manufacturer: Dove ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0006OSDCC Release Date: 2005-08-01 |
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2 CD set contains 52 original recordings. Prism Lei. 2005.
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The Complete Recordings 1904-17, Vol. 3
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005UO8X Release Date: 2002-02-19 |
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Vladimir Horowitz, Piano: Early Recordings 1928 Through 1947
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ASIN: B000066TXG Release Date: 2002-05-07 |
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This four-CD set presents a selection of performances by a young lion of the keyboard: Vladimir Horowitz. Dating from 1928 to 1947, these classic recordings document the piano virtuoso at his most fiery and fearless. The repertoire ranges from Baroque and Classical scores (Scarlatti, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn) to the great Romantics (Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff), 20th-century pieces (Debussy, Poulenc, Prokofiev) and transcriptions by Horowitz himself. Pristine copies of the original HMV/Victor 78s were transferred and digitally remastered using the state-of-the-art CAP 440 technique. The handsomely illustrated 84-page booklet features an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tim Page and a perceptive essay by New York Times critic Paul Griffiths ("Vladimir Horowitz: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Lion"), as well as detailed artist biographies from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.Music: