Children of the Grave

Track Listings

1. Wheels Of Confusion

2. Tomorrow's Dream

3. Changes

4. FX

5. Supernaut

6. Snowblind

7. Cornucopia

8. Laguna Sunrise

9. St. Vitus Dance

10. Under The Sun

11. Children Of The Grave (LIVE)

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Digitally remastered rare and out-of-print original copy of 1976 album features 11 tracks including a live version of the title track. Power Sound. 2001.

Tracks:

Wheels of Confusion
Tomorrow's Dream
Changes
FX
Supernaut
Snowblind
Cornucopia
Laguna Sunrise
St. Vitus Dance
Under the Sun
Children of the Grave [Live]

Album Description

Digitally remastered rare and out-of-print original copy of 1976 album features 11 tracks including a live version of the title track. Power Sound. 2001.

Customer Reviews:

Sweet, but unnecisary..........2005-12-06

I got this CD mainly for the price. It is really just Black Sabbath vol.4 with the rea;;y terrible live version of Children of the Grave. It is sped up about 1.5 times as fast! I am on a very fixed budget, so this CD was perfect. I think it's sort of dumg that they made this.
This CD has some great songs on it. For Example: Snowblind! I love this song! There's also Supernaut! I love almost every song on this CD Enjoy!

Somewhat pointless reissue.......2004-05-08

This is nothing more than a remastered, re-release of Vol. 4. The only redeaming factors to this release are its price and the inclusion of Children Of The Grave from Live At Last.

Tiszta forrás (Pure Springs): Hungarian Folk Tunes and Their Arrangements in Works by Bartók and Kodály

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Tiszta forrás (Pure Springs): Hungarian Folk Tunes and Their Arrangements in Works by Bartók and Kodály

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Kodaly: Hungarian Folk Music; Bartok: Hungarian Folksongs Sz64
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ASIN: B00007138S
Release Date: 2002-10-29

Lutoslawski: Double Concerto; Dances Preludes; Chain I

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More fine music from Naxos
Appealing Music in Both of Lutoslawski's Styles

Lutoslawski: Double Concerto; Dances Preludes; Chain I

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Witold Lutoslawski: Concerto for Cello / Novellettes
Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3; Paganini Variations; Paroles Tissées; Les Espaces du Sommeil
Lutoslawski - Symphony No. 1 · Chantefleurs et Chantefables, etc
Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works; Songs; String Quartet

ASIN: B0000ACY0N
Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

Allegro Molto - Zbigniew Kaleta
Andantino - Zbigniew Kaleta
Allegro Giocoso - Zbigniew Kaleta
Andante - Zbigniew Kaleta
Allegro Molto - Zbigniew Kaleta
Rapsodico - Nicolas Tulliez
Dolente - Nicolas Tulliez
Marziale E Grotesco - Nicolas Tulliez
Grave - Nicolas Tulliez
Chain I For 14 Performers - Witold Lutoslawski
The Belated Nightingale - Urszula Kryger
About Mr. Tralalinski - Urszula Kryger
Dance - Urszula Kryger
The Four Seasons - Urszula Kryger
Kitten - Urszula Kryger
Grzes Is Going Through The Village - Urszula Kryger
A Brook - Urszula Kryger
The Bird's Gossips - Urszula Kryger

Customer Reviews:

More fine music from Naxos.......2006-12-28

Naxos continues to impress me with this fine CD. As with the others in the series, the CD contains pieces from across Lutoslawski's life. The so-called 'folk-music' period is represented by a fine reading of Dance Preludes (certainly not under-represented on CD--I have at least three recordings) as well as two cycles of songs for children. Lutoslawski's sureness of line and illustrative orchestration are well in evidence here. Sadly, works of this vintage are often the only work of this composer that many people know. It's a sound-world not much different from Martinu or early Bartok. It's a world that Lutoslawski forcefully abandonded by midlife.

"Chain 1" is the first of the Chain series where Lutoslawski began working with interwoven melodies. It's a curious fish that points (let's mix metaphors here) both forward and back. For the most part, it has a clarity that was not always obvious in work of the preceding decade. At the same time, there's a "climax by accumulation", which was a key aspect of mid-period works like "Livres". It's not entirely convincing, but is seldom repeated in works to follow.

"Grave" combines solo cello and string orchestra in an intensely lyrical six minutes. Few composers in recent memory could write so effectively for strings.

But the keystone of the CD is the "Double Concerto" for Oboe, Harp and Chamber Orchestra. This is among the most accessible of Lutoslawski's mature works. This performance is one of several available recordings, and acquits itself well. The brief first movement begins with an aleatoric swarm of strings, an effect that repeats a few times with diminishing intensity. Such writing had been an important aspect of Lutoslawki's middle period, and was almost completely abandonded in the works that followed the Double Concerto. In many ways, you can hear the composer discarding the technique as the movement proceeds The middle movement is singing and lyrical, demanding sureness of intonation and command of the highest register of the oboe. The oboist, Arkadiusz Krupa, is admirably up to these demands. The final movement is a comic masterpiece. It has a quirky little march, with the lightest of strings and percussion. It features a domestic argument of sorts, with lovely harp writing continually shouted down by screeching oboe multiphonics (the original performers were Heinz and Ursula Holliger--husband and wife). The piece wraps up with a reprise of the march over some wonderfully syncopated string harmony. To my ear, the original Holliger recording is a bit more effective in this final movement. Sill, this performance is excellent. I have many recordings of this fine piece and each one beckons for its own reasons.

It should be pointed out that these are also superb recordings from a technical point of view. They are beautifully detailed without harshness. Balances are spot-on. Antoni Wit conducts with respect for what's on the page and all the possibilities presented there. The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra plays this music as well as any orchestra in the world.

Appealing Music in Both of Lutoslawski's Styles.......2003-11-14

The title refers to Witold Lutoslawski's differing styles contained on the CD. He started as a fairly conservative composer--e.g. his Concerto for Orchestra, Paganini Variations for Two Pianos--but then became more and more radical as time went on. What is amazing is that no matter the style Lutoslawski (1913-1994) always sounds like Lutoslawski. There is an impeccable craft--even in those pieces where there is an aleatoric element--and, underlying all, a sort of wittiness that I've always found attractive.

The first piece, 'Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Orchestra,' was originally for clarinet and piano, but he reworked it a few years later for clarinet and orchestra. There is a third version for wind quintet and solo strings. It's the clarinet and orchestra version recorded here, a little suite of five folk-derived movements totaling less than ten minutes. Soloist Zbigniew Kaleta does a terrific job of underlining the folkdance element, and indeed he keeps the whole thing dancing.

The 'Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp, and Orchestra' was commissioned by Paul Sacher, that wealthy Swiss conductor who was a veritable Maecenas of new works. It was written for the master of 'the cranky oboe' (Andrew Adler's phrase), Heinz Holliger, and his wife, harpist Ursula Holliger. This is not a concerto for equals; the harp part is clearly an obbligato instrument here, a Sancho Panza to the oboe's Quixote--it's really the oboist's show. Full of incident--and of extended technique for the oboist who occasionally uses, among other things, bent tones and multiphonics--the three movements have headlong forward movement, even in the 'dolente' middle movement which leads directly into the third, a march for oboe and xylophone that then recalls the opening buzzing of the strings heard in the first movement. The rhythmic and harmonic variety, mostly of a witty, even ironic, type, makes this concerto a jeu d'esprit. Oboist Arkadiusz Krupa and harpist Nicolas Tulliez do a fine job, only a little less effective than the Holligers in their recording with Lutoslawski himself conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony still available on a 2 CD set from Polygram.

'Grave' for cello and string orchestra, played eloquently here by cellist Rafal Kwiatkowski, is a somber six-minute tribute, a set of variations, to his late friend, musicologist Stefan Jarocinski, whose intimate knowledge of the music of Debussy led Lutoslawski to quote 'Pelléas et Mélisande' in the opening bars of the work.

'Chain I' is the first of a series of three works named 'Chain' whose structure involves the overlapping of the musical ideas (links in a chain) so that it is difficult to tell where one leaves off and the next begins. Chain I was undertaken right after the composition of what is perhaps Lutoslawski's most famous late work, the wondrous Symphony No. 3 which, in some compositional respects, it resembles. For fourteen players (bassoon, clarinet In Bb, flute [doubling piccolo and alto flute], harpsichord, horn in F, oboe [doubling cor anglais], percussion, strings [1.1.1.1.1.], trombone, trumpet in C), it is in three somewhat indistinct sections. There are some aleatoric elements which are, nonetheless, fairly strictly prescribed by the composer. It is played with élan by principals from the Polish National Radio Orchestra under Antoni Wit, who conducts all the pieces here with deep familiarity and style.

The disc concludes with eight children's songs, from two different sets--'Two Children's Songs' and 'Six Children's Songs'--with words by Poland's master of children's verse, Julian Tuwim. They are from early in Lutoslawski's career and represent his 'easy' style in their simplicity and diatonic harmonies. They are performed nicely by soprano Urszula Kryger. Unfortunately the texts are not provided in the booklet.

This is the eighth of Naxos's series of recordings of Lutoslawski's complete orchestral works. Isn't it amazing what Naxos is doing for our expanding awareness of some hidden corners of the modern classical music literature? Huzzah, I say, huzzah!

Recommended.

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Tracks:

La mer - Three Symphony Sketches: I De l'aube a midi sur la mer - Tres lent - Modere, sans lenteur (Dans un rythme tres souple) - Claude Debussy
La mer - Three Symphony Sketches: II Jeux de vagues - Allegro (Dans un rythme tres souple) - Claude Debussy
La mer - Three Symphony Sketches: III Dialogue du vent et de la mer - Anime et tumultueux - Claude Debussy
Nocturnes: 1. Nocturnes - Claude Debussy
Nocturnes: 2. Fetes - Claude Debussy
Nocturnes: 3. Sirenes - Claude Debussy
Printemps: Symphonic Suite: I Tres modere - Claude Debussy
Printemps: Symphonic Suite: II Modere - Claude Debussy
After - 'Mallarme': Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune - Claude Debussy

Tracks:

Images: 1. Gigues - 2. Iberia - C. Debussy
Images: I Par les rues et par les chemins - C. Debussy
Images: II Les parfums de la nuit - C. Debussy
Images: III Le matin d'un jour de fete - C. Debussy
Images: 3. Rondes de printemps - C. Debussy
Jeux: Poeme danse - C. Debussy
Khamma: Legende dansee - C. Debussy

Tracks:

La boite a joujoux: Prelude - Tres modere - DeBussy
La boite a joujoux: Premier tableau - The Toy Shop: Modere (d'abord hesitant, puis en animant beaucoup) - DeBussy
La boite a joujoux: Deuxime tableau - The Battlefield: Moderement anime - DeBussy
La boite a joujoux: Troisieme tableau - The Sheep-Fold For Sale: Meme mouvement - DeBussy
La boite a joujoux: Quatrieme tableau - Fortune Made: Meme mouvement - DeBussy
La boite a joujoux: Epilogue - DeBussy
Children's Corner: I Doctor Gradus ed Parnassum: Modment anim DeBussy
Children's Corner: II Jimbo's Lullaby: Assez modere - DeBussy
Children's Corner: III Serenade For The Doll: Allegretto ma non troppo - DeBussy
Children's Corner: IV The Snow Is Dancing: Moderement anime - DeBussy
Children's Corner: V The Little Shepherd: Tres modere - DeBussy
Children's Corner: VI Golliwog's Cake-Walk: Allegro giusto - DeBussy
Petite Suite: I En bateau: Andantino - DeBussy
Petite Suite: II Cortege: Moderato - DeBussy
Petite Suite: III Menuet: Moderato - DeBussy
Petite Suite: IV Ballet: Allegro giusto - DeBussy
Marche ecossaise sur un theme populaire: Allegretto scherzando - DeBussy
Danse: Allegretto - DeBussy

Tracks:

Fantaisie: Andante ma non troppo - Allegro giusto - C. Debussy
Fantaisie: Lento e molto espressivo - C. Debussy
Fantaisie: Allegro molto - C. Debussy
Premiere rapsodie: pour orchestre avec clarinette principale: Reveusement lent - C. Debussy
Danses: pour harpe et orchestre a cordes: Danse sacree: Tres modere - C. Debussy
Danses: pour harpe et orchestre a cordes: Danse profane: Modere - C. Debussy
Rapsodie For Alto Saxophone And Orchestra: Tres modere - C. Debussy
Sarabande: Avec une elegance grave et lente - C. Debussy
L'ISLE JOYEUSE: Quasi una cadenza - Tempo: modere et tres souple - C. Debussy
La plus que lente: Lent - C. Debussy
Clair de Lune: Andante, tres expressif - C. Debussy

Customer Reviews:

An Excellent Collection of Debussy Orchestral Music.......2002-04-24

I received this CD set as a gift, and it's magnificent. I've listened to a dozen Debussy orchestral CDs in as many years, including the Dutoit / Montreal recordings, which are indeed very good. But this set surpasses the current range of Debussy recordings as I know them. I base this on a number of things, not the least of which is my interpretation of the composer. One of the greatest things Claude Debussy did was take two hundred years of otherwise entrenched classical music, extract it from tradition, and give it back to us, in some of the most beautiful, unique, and utterly transcendent musical compositions ever written. Having said this, I think that this particular collection of recorded music serves as a truly wonderful expression of Debussy's intent. To accomplish this, a great orchestra was required, and with that, great orchestration on behalf of Yan Pascal Tortelier. Clearly Tortelier understands Debussy. If you've had the misfortune of listening to Karajan's rendition of Afternoon of a Faune, then you know firsthand how bad of an intrusion a conductor can make on a composer's work. I doubt Karajan had the slightest idea what Debussy was about, whereas Tortelier orchestrates magically, beautifully, in a way that provides us with nothing but access. Adding to this is something I normally don't talk about, because I'm not a serious audiophile. I have some good gear and can certainly hear the difference, but I'm not very interested in the technical aspects of recording as long as the basics are there - I'm interested in the music. I'm glad to listen to a scratchy jazz recording from the 50's. Nonetheless, the recording quality here is as good as it gets and it's only fair to say that it is part of the reason I think so highly of this set. It's tough to record an orchestra, but the engineers succeeded in every way. Example: Listen to the first track of Disk three - The Toy Box - from 1:00 to 1:20. I have never experienced an orchestral recording with such a clear, emergent stereo image, it's stunning. This set is sold under the CHANDOS label, and I've found many of their recordings to be of high quality.

Sabotage / Master of Reality / Children of the Grave [3 CD Import] """see product description for track listings"""

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Sabotage / Master of Reality / Children of the Grave [3 CD Import] """see product description for track listings"""
Black Sabbath
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000P0ULY0

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CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE - 1. Wheels of Confusion 2. Tomorrow's Dream 3. Changes 4. FX 5. Supernaut 6. Snowblind 7. Cornucopia 8. Laguna Sunrise 9. St. Vitus Dance 10. Under the Sun 11. Children of the Grave [Live] MASTER OF REALITY - 1. Sweet Leaf 2. After Forever 3. Embryo 4. Children Of The Grave 5. Orchid 6. Lord Of This World 7. Solitude 8. Into The Void SABOTAGE - 1. Hole In The Sky 2. Don't Start (Too Late) 3. Symptom Of The Universe 4. Megalomania 5. The Thrill Of It All 6. Supertzar 7. Am I Going Insane (Radio) 8. The Writ

Visions and Prophecies: piano music of Ernest Bloch

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A convenient selection of Bloch's piano works - though not all the best pieces are included and the reading is sometimes flawed

Visions and Prophecies: piano music of Ernest Bloch

Manufacturer: Chandos
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000640BJ
Release Date: 2002-05-21

Tracks:

Visions And Prophecies: Moderato
Visions And Prophecies: Poco lento
Visions And Prophecies: Moderato-Poco piu animato-Poco piu calmo
Visions And Prophecies: Adagio, piacevole
Visions And Prophecies: Poco agitato-Piu lento-Calmo
Five Sketches In Sepia: Prelude. Moderato
Five Sketches In Sepia: Smoke over the City. Moderato-Piu lento
Five Sketches In Sepia: Fireflies. Scherzando
Five Sketches In Sepia: Uncertainty. Moderato-Poco piu lento
Five Sketches In Sepia: Epilogue. Andante sereno
Piano Sonata: Maestoso ed energico-Animato-Grave-Moderato-Tempo I
Piano Sonata: Pastorale. Andante-Calmo
Piano Sonata: Moderato all marcia
Enfantines: Lullaby
Enfantines: The Joyous Party
Enfantines: With Mother
Enfantines: Elves
Enfantines: Joyous March
Enfantines: Melody
Enfantines: Pastorale
Enfantines: Rainy Day
Enfantines: Teasing
Enfantines: Dream
In The Night
Nirvana

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A convenient selection of Bloch's piano works - though not all the best pieces are included and the reading is sometimes flawed .......2007-02-26

In 1990 Marco Polo published 2 CDs comprising the complete piano music of Ernest Bloch, played by the Hungarian pianist Istvan Kassai (see my reviews of Bloch: Complete Piano Works, Vol.1 and Ernest Bloch: Piano Works (Complete) Vol. 2). That collection came as a Godsend to the Bloch devotee, as until then Bloch's piano music had been difficult to find, seldom recorded (though the CDs didn't really claim credit for it, Kassai even boasted no less than five world premiere recordings - and one of those, the Four Circus Pieces, remains to this day the only one) and scattered on various LPs.

Disappointingly, this initial release did not really spawn a revival of interest in the piano music of Bloch and no flurry of recordings followed: other than two recordings of the magnificent Piano Sonata, which came in motley collections (see my reviews of John Jensen on Music & Arts Carl Ruggles, Ernest Bloch, Paul Reale, Larry Lipkis: Piano Sonatas and other works and Myron Silberstein on Connoisseur Silberstein plays Franck, Bloch and Giannini), and a few other pieces here and there, the "Blochite" had very little to feed on. This situation remains to me an enigma, as Bloch's piano music strikes me as one of the most original and hauntingly beautiful of the first fifty years of the 20th century. Some say that Bloch didn't write idiomatically for the piano and that his compositional thought and textures were too orchestral. But why should a composer avoid writing trills and tremolos and reduce the piano to a skeleton? Some influences can be heard - whiffs of Scriabin, Ravel and Debussy emerge here and there - but Bloch has integrated them in a highly personal style. He makes full use of all the coloristic possibilities of the instrument and puts them at the service of an intensely Blochian sound-world, in turn mysterious and sensuously "Jewish-Oriental", and starkly powerful, evoking (by Bloch's own admission) a fantasized world of the Old Testament.

Anyway, Fingerhut's selection, recorded at the end of 2001, is the only real competition to Kassai's two discs. Bloch's output for the piano was produced basically at two period of his life: in the early 1920s, as he was established in the US ("Nirvana", "In the Night" and the "Five Sketches in Sepia" date from that period), and then in 1935-6, with the Piano Sonata and the suite "Visions and Prophecies" (actually a reworking of his symphonic piece "Voice in the Wilderness"). Left out from Fingerhut's selection are the "Four Circus Pieces" (1922), the three "Poems of the Sea" (1922), the Sacred Dance (1923), and the early Ex-Voto (1914).

Interpretively, I feel that Fingerhut is at her best in the more atmospheric pieces. She excels in the short hushed and mysterious tone-poems "Nirvana" and "In the Night", where her finely controlled pianissimos (playing as if the music came from a distance) and resonance-producing pedalling convey a fascinating sense of mystery. Likewise in the "Five Sketches in Sepia" she is much more atmospheric and appositely moody than the here relatively leaden Kassai ("moods" was the title Bloch initially considered for the pieces). On the other hand, in "Visions & Prophecies" she gives an impression of agitation and misses the stark grandeur of the pieces, which in turn Kassai captures convincingly.

Whereas all these pieces are short or collections of short, evocative miniatures ("Nirvana", the longest, is 6:15), the Piano Sonata is the piece of substance, in turn sensuously evocative and angrily pounding. In the first movement Fingerhut's reading is similar to Kassai's to a fault (and to the second), with the same forward-moving and rather earthbound and perfunctory introductory "Maestoso ed energico" and the same moderately paced "animato" but with careful attention to the details of dynamics and articulation. But neither Fingerhut nor Kassai are a match here for the outstandingly poetic and passionate Myron Silberstein. In the central "Pastorale" Fingerhut displays more subtle nuances and more haunting atmosphere than the Hungarian pianist, but a comparison with Silberstein shows that she lacks a sense of dramatic animation in the passages where tension builds up. Like Kassai she takes the Finale at the metronome tempo indicated by Bloch, which imparts it the feeling of a grandiose solemn march rather than (as in Silberstein's more animated pace) a triumphant one. She doesn't quite have the muscle power of Kassai and blurs some coloristic details (like the grace notes at 0:08 into the movement). Later on she tends to press the tempo and saturate the textures. There is more stark grandeur at Kassai's steadier tempo.

All things weighted, the interpretive pluses and minuses are equally shared then between the Chandos selection and the Marco Polo complete traversal. For the Bloch completist like me the choice is easy: I have both. But the less committed and more discriminating music lover may be faced with a conundrum as to which one to go for. The inclusion in Fingerhut's selection of the 15-minute Enfantines - as its title implies, a collection of 10 pedagogical pieces for children, and hardly the most significantly Blochian work of its composer, instead of more typical and substantial stuff like the Poems of the Sea or Danse Sacrée, or even the mischievous and dazzling Four Circus Pieces, works against the Chandos release and in favor of Kassai, as do the invaluable notes from Suzanne Bloch, the composer's daughter and Bloch authority, which grace the Marco Polo survey. But the availability of these two discs seems to have become episodic. In their absence Fingerhut's offering is welcome as a serviceable introduction to the magnificent piano music of Ernest Bloch.

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Lovely

Rachmaninov Songs

Manufacturer: EMI Records [All429]
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000K4EO
Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

Op. 26, No. 7: To The Children
Op. 34, No. 5: Arion
Op. 21, No. 1: Fate
Op. 21, No. 5: Lilacs
Op. 14, No. 8: Oh, Do Not Grieve For Me!
Op. 38, No. 6: A-OO
Op. 14, No. 2: The Isle
Op. 4, No. 3: In The Mysterious Silence Of The Night
Op. 4, No. 4: Oh, Do Not Sing To Me
Op. 21, No. 2: Beside A New Grave
Op. 14, No. 12: It Is Time!
Op. 26, No. 12: The Night Is Mournful
Did You Hiccup, Natasha?
By The Gates Of The Holy Dwelling
April! A Festive Spring Day
Op. 26, No. 13: We Met Yesterday
I Shall Tell You Nothing
Op. 21, No. 11: I Am No Prophet
Op. 26, No. 11: Christ Is Risen
Op. 14, No. 4: I Came To Her
Op. 26, No. 15: All Things Pass Away

Customer Reviews:

Lovely.......2002-03-19

I don't know anything about Dimitri Kharitonov or Leif Ove Andsnes beyond this recording, but whoever they are, I love them! I'd never actually heard any Rachmaninoff songs before I bought this CD, so I won't swear it's the best out there. Nevertheless, I was so inspired by what I heard that I immediately started working on adding Rachmaninoff songs to my own vocal repertoire. Kharitonov's voice is very sweet and pleasant in the more tender songs, and he's wonderfully theatrical and fun in the more aggresive works. The pianist is fantastic, too, and the accompaniment is very passionate. Rachmaninoff songs are beautiful, captivating, moving, and hugely underappreciated. If you've never heard them, this recording is a great way to be introduced.

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Tranquility, Volume 2

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000000ABI
Release Date: 1996-10-15

Tracks:

Con in D: III. Grave Espressivo
Con in F: II. (Adagio)
Divert in B flat, K.137: I. Andante
Five Minuets With Six Trios, D.89: No.3 in d
Church Son in F, K.244
Con in d, RV.565: II. Largo E Spiccato
Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Romance
Con Grosso in a, Op.6 No.4: I. Larghetto Affetuoso
Con in G, RV.575: II. Largo
Con Grosso in e, Op.6 No.3: I. Larghetto
Carmen Ste: Second Intermezzo - Ens Repercussion/Yuri Turovski
Con in C, RV.447: II. Larghetto
Divert in F, K.138: II. Andante
Con Grosso in B flat, Op.6 No.7: Largo E Pno
Ser For Strs in E flat, Op.6: I. Andante Con Moto
Con Grosso in c, Op.6 No.8: IV. Adagio
Carnival Of The Animals: XIII. Swan - Yuri Turovski
Album For Children, Op.39: XIX. The Old Nanny's Tale
Con Grosso in b, Op.6 No.12: IV. Largo
Divert in D: I. Adagio

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50 Dinnertime Classics

Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Brandenburg Con No.6: II. Adagio - Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Guttler
Sym No.4: II. Andante (Exc) - Dresden Staatskapelle Orch/Herbert Blomstedt
Egmont: Entr'acte - Berlin Staatskapelle Orch/Heinz Bongartz
Swan Lake: Hungarian Dance - Berlin RSO/Heinz Rogner
Like Melodies - Jan Vogler/Bruno Canino
Sym No.36: III. Menuetto - Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Guttler
In The Evening - Andreas Pistorius
Con No.2, Op.7: I. Allegro - Hans Werner Watzig/Jurgen Abel
The Moldau - Leipzig GO/Vaclav Neumann
The Four Seasons 'Summer': II. Adagio-Presto - Camerata Bern/Thomas Zehetmair
Capriccio in A: V. Menuet - Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Guttler
Sym No.4: III. Romance - Leipzig GO/Frank Konwitschny
Tannhauser: Ov - Dresden Staatskapelle Orch/Hiroshi Wakasugi
Duetto No.3 - Edgar Krapp
Prld No.1 - Gunter Phillipp
La Traviata: Ov To Act 3 - Dresden Staatskapelle Orch/Giuseppe Patane
Son in e: IV. Vivace - Rameau Trio
Pno Son No.4: III. Allegro - Dieter Zechlin
Tpt Son in C: II. Andante - Leipzig Bach Collegium/Ludwig Guttler
Hp Son in c: I. Allegro - Jutta Zoff
Ob Con in C, RV447: III. Minuetto - Burkhard Glaetzner
Hn Con No.19: II. Adagio - Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Guttler
Con Grosso No.1: III. Allegro - Berlin CO/Helmut Koch
Vn Con No.3: I. Allegro - Katrin Scholz
Con Grosso No.11, Op.6: IV. Andante - Halle Handel Festival Orch/Horst-Tanu Margraf

Tracks:

Ob Con in d: II. Adagio - New Bach Collegium Musicum/Burkhard Glaetzner
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: II. Romance - Leipzig RSO/Max Pommer
Pno Son No.39: II. Adagio - Walter Olbertz
The Creatures Of Prometheus: VII. Grave - Berlin Staatskapelle Orch/Gunther Herbig
Tasso (Exc) - Dresden PO/Michel Plasson
Dr. Gradus Ad Parnassum - Peter Rosel
Sinf No.6: II. Andante - C.P.E. Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen
Con in g, RV577: II. Largo - Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Guttler
Brandenburg Con No.2: II. Andante - Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Guttler
Carmen: Ov - Leipzig RSO/Herbert Kegel
Con Grosso No.5: I. Andante - C.P.E. Bach CO/Hartmut Haenchen
Con in C: II. Largo - Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Guttler
Vn Con No.12: III. Allegro - Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Guttler
Pno Son No.9: II. Allegretto - Dieter Zechlin
Ser No.6: III. Rondo - Leipzig RSO/Max Pommer
Prld - Berlin Baroque Trio
Cant No.21: Sinf - New Bach Collegium Musicum/Hans-Joachim Rotzsch
Slavonic Dance No.1 - Leipzig GO/Vaclav Neumann
Hp Con No.6: I. Andante - Jutta Zoff
Sym No.6: I. Maestoso - Leipzig GO/Heinz Bongartz
Con, RV119: III. Allegro - Leipzig RSO/Herbert Kegel
Sym No.22: III. Minuetto - C.P.E. Bach CO/Harmut Haenchen
Tpt Son in D: IV. Allegro - Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Guttler
Con in d: III. Allegro - Virtuosi Saxoniae/Ludwig Guttler
Ob Con in c: II. Allegro - Burkhard Glaetzner

Szymanowski: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano

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Szymanowski: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano

Manufacturer: Channel Classics Nl
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ASIN: B0002QXN6U
Release Date: 2004-10-12

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1. Wheels Of Confusion
2. Tomorrow's Dream
3. Changes
4. FX
5. Supernaut
6. Snowblind
7. Cornucopia
8. Laguna Sunrise
9. St. Vitus Dance
10. Under The Sun
11. Children Of The Grave (LIVE)