Classics for Lovers [Import]

On this CD:

1. Solomon, oratorio, HWV 67 Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by Budapest Strings
Conducted by Bela Banfalvi

2. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492 Overture
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Istropolitana Capella
Conducted by Barry Wordsworth

3. Serenade for strings (or piano duet), in C major, Op. 48 Waltz
Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Performed by Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Philippe Entremont

4. Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 2nd Movement
Composed by Edvard Grieg
Performed by Budapest Symphony Orchestra with Jeno Jando
Conducted by Andras Ligeit

5. Tosca, opera Vissi d'arte
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
Performed by Miriam Gauci
Conducted by Alexander Rahbari

6. Nocturne for piano in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT 109
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
Performed by Idil Biret

7. Carmen Suites for orchestra, Nos. 1 & 2 (assembled by Ernest Guirard) Intermezzo
Composed by Georges Bizet
Performed by Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Ian Westrip

8. L'elisir d'amore, opera Una Furtiva Lagrima
Composed by Gaetano Donizetti
Performed by Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi

9. Recuerdos de la Alhambra, for guitar
Composed by Francisco Tarrega
Performed by Norbert Kraft

10. Kinderszenen No. 7 ("Träumerei"), for piano, Op. 15/7
Composed by Robert Schumann
Performed by Jeno Jando

11. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera Humming Chorus
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
Performed by Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava
Conducted by Alexander Rahbari

12. Concerto for oboe & orchestra in D minor Adagio
Composed by Alessandro Marcello
Performed by Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orchestra with Jozsef Kiss

13. Rusalka, opera, B. 203 (Op. 114) Song To The Moon
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
Performed by Jana Valaskova
Conducted by Johannes Wildner

14. Pelléas et Mélisande, incidental music and suite for orchestra, Op. 80
Composed by Gabriel Faure

Conducted by Ondrej Lenard

15. Work(s) Unspecifeid Violin Concerto: 2nd Movement
Composed by Max Bruch
Performed by Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra with Takako Nishizaki
Conducted by Stephen Gunzenhauser

16. Tosca, opera E Lucevan Le Stelle
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
Performed by Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra with Giorgio Lamberti
Conducted by Alexander Rahbari

17. Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik"), K. 525 Menuetto
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Conducted by Barry Wilde

18. Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice), overture to the operetta (RV 510-1)
Composed by Johann II Strauss
Performed by Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Kosice)
Conducted by Alfred Walter

Tracks:

Gloria In Excelsis Deo - Academy And Chorus Of St Martin In The Fields
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
Zadok The Priest - Ambrosian Singers
Miserere Mei, Deus - Gerald Finley
Veni Creator Spiritus - Choir Of The Monks Of The Benedictine Monastery Of Santo Domingo De Silos
Lacrimosa - London Philharmonic Choir
For Unto Us A Child Is Born - Ambrosian Singers
The Heavens Are Telling - John Shirley-Quirk
Panis Angelicus - Halle Choir
Ave Maria - Groupe Vocal De France
Ode To Joy - The Westminster Choir
Va, Pensiero - Chorus Of the Royal Opera House
Chorus Of Slave Girls - Chorus Of The National Theatre Of Sophia
Coro De Romanticos - Coro Cantores De Madrid
In Paradisum - Choir Of Kings College, Cambridge
Totus Tuus - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
Song For Athene - Winchester Cathedral Choir
Celebration - London Symphony Chorus
Jerusalem - Royal Choral Society

Tracks:

Zion Hort Die Wachter - South German Madrigal Choir
Pleni Sunt Coeli Et Terra - Charles Brett
Hallelujah Chorus - Ambrosian Singers
Thou Knowest, Lord - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
Veni Sancte Spiritus - Choir Of The Monks Of The Benedictine Monastery Of Santo Domingo De Silos
Awake The Harp - City Of Birmingham Symphony Chorus
And Then Shall Your Light Break Forth - New Philharmonia Chorus
L'Adieu Des Bergers - Choeurs Rene Duclos
Agnus Dei - Peter Barley
Cantique De Jean Racine - MONKS AND CHOIRBOYS OF DOWNSIDE ABBEY
Ave Verum Corpus - Schutz Consort
Begluckt Darf Nun Dich, O Heimat - Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Munich
Vedi! Le Fosche Notturne Spoglie - Chorus Of the Royal Opera House
Laudamus Te - Radio France Chorus
Chichester Psalms - Rachel Masters
The Lamb - Vasari Singers
Agnus Dei - Winchester Cathedral Choir
Requiem Aeternam - Choir Of Kings College, Cambridge
Dies Irae - Philharmonia Chorus
O Fortuna - London Philharmonic Choir
Pomp And Circumstance March No. 1 (Land Of Hope Glory) - Royal Choral Society

Customer Reviews:

I love it and I give it as a gift.......2006-12-11

This is the first collection of choral music that I've purchased and I love it. I own copies of operas and requiems and masses, but if you attend choral concerts, as I have been recently, you learn there is a huge colletion of choral music appart from the forms I've been listening to. I appreciate the producers selecting "Song for Athene" by Tavener and "Celebration (Standing Stone)" by McCartney. They are new to me and I love them. Disk 1 ends with "Jerusalem" and Disk 2 ends with "Land of Hope and Glory." As an American I rarely hear these and I am so glad they were included. I believe this album was intended to help popularize choral music and I believe the selections do fine job towards that end.

I know snobs rage against popularizing classical music, but everyone deserves exposure to the beauty of song. I will also mention here "The East Village Opera Company" because they work to popularize opera by setting it to a rock beat. They do a fine job but also get criticized for attempting to popularize classical music.

"The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever" was so popular with my teen-age daughter that it was hard to get it back from her. I give the album as a gift to nephews and nieces.

MarMSED.......2005-08-27

The music selections are extraordinary. The only problem has to do with the balance of sound. There are some parts that are very loud, and some that are so very soft. You have to continually adjust the volume.

Diverse range but the songs are butchered..........2005-07-24

Well, this CD isn't horrible by any stretch, but it is irritating to someone who's more than a casual listener of choral music. I'm by no means as musically "literate" as many reviewers out there, but I have a collection of probably twenty-five or thirty choral CD's and this is one that will probably be gathering dust in the back of the CD book.

The peices are well-performed for the most part, but they are hopelessly edited. Beethoven's Ode to Joy is somewhere around twenty four minutes, but this CD only includes an arrangement of about five minutes. The beautiful Miserere is, uncut, almost eleven minutes but is cut down to five and a half minutes here.

Looking back, I should have realized the major editing that would be involved, just by the sheer number of peices on it. I'm familiar with a great many of them and I know they're too long to fit onto a seventy minute disc without some major cutting going on. I just didn't reason that out before I shelled out the money for it.

Bottom line. This CD has decent singing, but is nothing special. If you're a newcomer to this genre, you might get this as a quick overview of the different types of choral music out there, but if you're any kind of an avid listener, this CD will drive you insane with the severity of the cuts. Beginners, if you're looking for a great collection CD, you'd do better to look at "Choral Moods". It doesn't have the diversity in styles of this one, but it will introduce you to incredibly talented composers. To the old hats out there, steer clear of this one and look to CD's by your preferred individual composers themselves. It's more money, but much less frustration in the long run. The old sayings are sometimes the best: You get what you pay for.

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Great for Adults too!

Reggae for Kids: Movie Classics
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Ras
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000058T8D
Release Date: 2001-02-27

Tracks:

HAKUNA MATATA - Bunny Wailer
BEATY AND THE BEAST - Marcia Griffiths
ZIPPIDY DO DAH - Don Carlos
YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND IN ME - Yami Bolo
COLORS OF THE WIND - JC Lodge
BARE NECESITITES - Tony Rebel
IT'S A SMALL WORLD - Sugar Minott
UNDER THE SEA - Arrow
WHEN I SEE AN ELEPHANT FLY - Gregory Isaacs
WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR - Luciano
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOLF - Peter Broggs
CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT? - Freddie McGregor
WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR (INSTRUM) - Dean Fraser

Amazon.com

Reggae for Kids: Movie Classics takes the magic of Disney and ramps it up tenfold with 13 Disney movie themes and tunes from the studio's well-loved films--all set to five-star reggae interpretations. Some of these songs sound as if they were meant be recorded in the syncopated and lilting reggae form, especially Bunny Wailer's playful reprise of "Hakuna Matata," Don Carlos's splendidly rich "Zippity Do Dah," and J.C. Lodge's "Colors of the Wind." The latter tune is so inspired by Lodge's honey-coated vocal that the song's poignant lyrics translate well through the worlds of difference between European explorers and the Native Americans' honor of nature and spirit. Lodge's rendition ultimately communicates much of the myth embroidered in Jamaican music and religious beliefs. Like so many of Disney's deep and lyrical songs that create a place of timelessness where childhood never ends, these transported classics are effortlessly reborn--and rejuvenated--for any listener. Highly recommended. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews:

Great for Adults too!.......2001-05-22

I heard this cd played on a local public radio station in Cincinnati back in late March and was moved to call the radio station to find out what the cd was and where I could find it....Amazon.com had the cd and I was thrilled that I wouldn't have to drive back to Ohio to make the purchase. The cd is wonderful for children and adults who grew up with Disney movies and songs.

Samuel Barber: The Lovers; Prayers of Kierkegaard

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Soothing to the Soul
Barber Rarities Shine
Two rarities from Barber
Raunchy lyrics with a difference!

Samuel Barber: The Lovers; Prayers of Kierkegaard

Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001SF1
Release Date: 1994-02-10

Tracks:

Prayers Of Kierkegaard, Op. 30: Grave And Remote (O Thou Who Art Unchangeable)
Prayers Of Kierkegaard, Op. 30: Andante Con Moto Tranquillo (Lord Jesus Christ Who Suffer'd)
Prayers Of Kierkegaard, Op. 30: Un Poco Mosso (Father In Heaven)
Prayers Of Kierkegaard, Op. 30: Allegro Molto
Prayers Of Kierkegaard, Op. 30: Quietly (Father In Heaven!)
The Lovers, Op. 43: I. Body Of A Woman
The Lovers, Op. 43: II. Lithe Girl, Brown Girl
The Lovers, Op. 43: III. In The Hot Depth Of This Summer
The Lovers, Op. 43: IV. Close Your Eyes
The Lovers, Op. 43: V. The Fortunate Isles
The Lovers, Op. 43: VI. Sometimes
The Lovers, Op. 43: VII. We Have Lost Even This Twilight
The Lovers, Op. 43: VIII. Tonight I Can Write
The Lovers, Op. 43: IX. Cemetery Of Kisses

Customer Reviews:

Soothing to the Soul.......2006-07-07

If you like music to calm your tormented spirit this one is for you. The amplitude or the recording runs from barely audible to overwhelming. You will be adjusting your volume control several times in order to fully appreciate this CD. 'The Lovers' is easier to listen to requiring less adjustment. Prayers of Kierkegaard Op. 30 was my motive for purchasing but it is over much too quickly @ 19 minutes 20 seconds. Overall my only negative thought is that the time of the pieces disappoints. The total length of both pieces is only 51 minutes 51 seconds which seems to pass too quickly for my liking. The performance is clean and typical of Barber with dramatic chorale combining with great orchestration. I would classify this CD as Operatic. Hope this helps.

Barber Rarities Shine.......2003-04-14

Samuel Barber had a reputation as a literary composer, and his taste in written material, the angsty journals of Soren Kierkegaard and the lushly sensual poems of Pablo Neruda, reflect well on his taste.

I'm a big Barber fan. His biography, which includes being an army brat, a drinker, and a homosexual, is intriguing, and his insistence on sad sweet lyricism and hummable melody through a 20th century of percussive dissonance and willful abstraction is brave.

I had high hopes for the Neruda settings. These poems fairly cackle with eroticism and sensuality, encompassing both love and loss. Barber's musical romanticism should have been the perfect match, but his take on "The Lovers" never quite comes to life. His melodies seem static here and fail to captivate--so unlike his achingly lovely Essays for Orchestra and famously elegaic Adagio for Strings.

The "Prayers of Kierkegaard," on the other hand, achieve sublimity. Barber's musical settings for these open the disc and show us many faces: quasi-Gregorian chant, mellifluous mezzo soloes, Stravinskian thunder, seamless choral work in the service of inspired melodies. It's intriguing that Barber seems more able to craft fine music for works about religious rather than erotic ecstasy.

This Grammy-winning disc is a pristine digital recording. Its clarity is beyond reproach, and its performances from the orchestra and the chorus are fine ones. Another reviewer prefers the Telarc recording of "Prayers," and I will be investigating this on the chance that he's correct. I hope so!
I'd gladly own two or more versions of this underrated work.

Two rarities from Barber.......2002-02-13

As the CD proclaims, this is the first recording of Barber's "The Lovers," a 1971 setting of poems from Pablo Neruda's "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair." (Incidentally, Neruda won the Nobel Prize in Literature that year.)

The lyrics, while neither "raunchy" nor obscene, are forthright: the baritones enter one of the work's nine movements singing "Strip off your clothes, strip off your clothes."

The forces acquit themselves admirably, as the piece slowly works its way from the lust of the opening movement to the despair of the final movement ("Cemetery of kisses"), with its final hushed lament, "Forsaken!" Duesing in particular makes a fine soloist in this work.

A bit less successful is the performance of "Prayers of Kierkegaard", which makes an interesting comparison, in that it is a setting of four prayers of divine love. The performance is good, but a comparison to Robert Shaw's Grammy-winning recording for Telarc does not help this CD. On the plus side, the "orchestral dance" before the final prayer comes off a little more clearly, and a little more heavily, on this CD. On the downside, Sarah Reese sings with far too much vibrato (as do, to a lesser extent, the sopranos in the chorus), robbing the soprano solo of much of the purity and beauty that Carmen Pelton gives the Telarc recording.

I would definitely recommend this to fans of Barber for "The Lovers" alone; if you're looking for "Prayers of Kierkegaard," however, go with Shaw on Telarc. [Also, at 52 minutes, the CD is a bit too short, at full-price, to recommend to someone just getting started with Barber. It is a pity, given the extra space available, that they couldn't have included a third work, such as Barber's "Medea's Dance of Vengeance"--which would have provided a third view on love (in this case, love denied/betrayed).]

Raunchy lyrics with a difference!.......2000-02-13

Barber's The Lovers is set to erotic poetry by Pablo Neruda but the resulting music is bucolic rather than sexual, with a strong pictoral element. Listeners familiar with Knoxville Summer of 1915 will know what to expect. The Lovers is a nine-movement, half-hour piece for chorus, baritone and orchestra. Its lyrical attributes are considerable indeed. Prayers of Kierkegaard is based on poems about divine love. It is also a very moving piece. I especially like the ardent singing of Sarah Reese but all the performers on this disc distinguish themselves and are well recorded, even if the choral forces are not ideally balanced. Five stars to all involved for uncovering a relatively obscure but highly rewarding corner of the repertoire.

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Handel: The Masterworks (Box Set)

Manufacturer: Brilliant Classics
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00062FLI8
Release Date: 2004-11-30

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Classics for Lovers

Manufacturer: Compendia
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0002PYSTC
Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

Pachelbel: Canon in D major
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 ("Elvira Madigan") -Adante
Leoncavallo: Vesti la giubba from "Pagliacci"
Puccini: Madame Butterfly - Un bel dm
Tchaikovsky: "Romeo and Juliet" Fantasy Overture
Borodin: Prince Igor -Polovstian Dances 8 and 17
Wagner: Overture to "Tristan and Isolde"
Saint-Sakns: Symphony No. 3, "Organ" -- Poco adagio

Tracks:

Bach: Air for the "G" String
Beethoven: "Moonlight" Sonata - Adagio sostenuto
Tchaikovsky: "Swan Lake" Suite-Scene: Enchanted Lake
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 - Adagio sostenuto
Debussy: Clair de lune
Verdi: Aida - Celeste, Aida
Puccini: La Boheme -Che gelida manina
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" -- Largo
Flotow: Martha - Ach, so Fromm
Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 -Venus (The Bringer of Peace)
Ravel: Bolero

Tracks:

Grieg: "Peer Gynt" Suite - Morning Song
Handel: Largo from "Xerxes"
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 - Romance
Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" Suite -Arabian Dance
Ravel: Pavan
Debussy: Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"
Adam: Giselle- Adagio ; Waltz
Saint-Sakns: The Carnivals of the Animals -The Swan
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik -- Romanze: Adante
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffman - Barcarolle
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana -Intermezzo
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloi: Suite No. 2

Tracks:

Tchaikovsky: "The Sleeping Beauty" Suite - Pas d' action:
Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherazade - The Young Prince and
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major - Adagio
Strauss Jr.: On the Beautiful, Blue Danube
Debussy: La Mer - From Dawn Until Noon on the Sea
Bizet: "Carmen" Highlights: Intermezzo
Seguidilla
Habaqera
Nocturne
Orff: "Carmina Burana" Highlights: Omina sol temperat
Amor volat undique
Dies, nox et omina
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, "Pathitique" - Adagio

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Early Morning Jazz for Lovers
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Dcc Compact Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Latin Jazz for Lovers

ASIN: B00000JLIV
Release Date: 1999-07-13

Tracks:

Summer Morning
And I Love Her - Grady Tate
Nuages
That Old Feeling - Pee Wee Russell
Last Night When We Were Young
Paula
Gary
Song Of Love - Gabor Szabo
When Dreams Come True
Windmills Of Your Mind - Grady Tate

Product Description

BRAND NEW, sealed, includes original CD, case, and paperwork, fast shipping, ask me for my CD List! :)

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Unbearable Bears
Kevin Roth
Manufacturer: Star Gazer Prod
ProductGroup: Music
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Release Date: 2006-08-23

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That Bear Makes Me Crazy
Teddy Bear's Picnic
Honey Bear
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Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear
The Show Biz Bear
The Unbearable Bears
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Dream Maker
Lullaby Bears

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Those Unbearable Bears! Songs about going to school, eating flies, falling in love, "people songs, dressed up like BEARS!" This is one of Kevin's top sellers. Parents Magazine said " Everything children's music should be; warm, funny, sweet, silly and very comforting"

American Portraits-The American Music Sampler

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A Must-Have CD

American Portraits-The American Music Sampler
Gian Carlo Menotti , Paul Creston , Bernard Herrmann , Quincy Porter , Franz Waxman , Howard Hanson , Miklos Rozsa , William Schuman , James Sinclair , James Sedares , Andrew Schenck , Donald Teeters , Jordania, Vakhtang , Clark, Richard Auldon , and Falletta, Joann
Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Country Band March - J. Sinclair/Orch New England
Fall River Legend Movt III-Church Social - J. Sedares/New Zealand SO
Sym No.3 in a Movt III-Allegro vivace - A. Schenck/New Zealand SO
Christmas Cantata Movt III-Allegro - B. Cecilia/D. Teeters
To the Green Mountains Movt I-Prelude - V. Jordania/KBS SO
Adagio for Strs - J. Sedares/New Zealand SO
Persian Set Movt IV-Presto - R.A. Clark/Manhatten CO
I Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Alexa Still/Susan DeWitt Smith
The Last Judgement Movt I-The Resurrection of Eve - J. Falletta/London SO
Three Latin American Sketches Third Sketch-Danza de Jalisco - J. Sedares/Pheonix SO
Some Other Time - New York Festival of Song
Apocalypse Movt III-Gli Angel Militanti - J. DePreist/Oregon Sym
Fanfare for Paratroopers - J. Mester/London PO
The Lovers-Close Your Eyes - A. Schenck/Chicago SO & Chorus
Sym Movt II-Scherzo - J. Sedares/Pheonix SO
Blue Lontains - Alexa Still/Susan DeWitt Smith
Sin for Str Orch & Timp Movt II-Lento - I. Jackson/Berliner Sym
Serenade, Op.35 - N. Braithwaite/A. Still/New Zealand CO
The Vintner's Daughter Variation 7-Alla marcia ongarese - J. Sedares/New Zealand SO
New England Tryptich Movt III-Chester - J. Sedares/Pheonix SO

Customer Reviews:

A Must-Have CD.......2000-11-14

This is a must-have album. Why is this not available? You have Copland, Ives, Gould, Herrmann, Moross and others. These are great American composers. I have never seen such a well rounded and representive body of works from so many great Americans. Go out and find a copy of this one. It's great!

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Classics for Lovers (Enhanced CD)

Manufacturer: Intersound Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003QXD
Release Date: 1995-09-26

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Canon in D - Collegium Aureum
'Moonlight' Son: Adagio Sostenuto - Dubravka Tomsic
Pno Con No.21: Andante ('Elvira Madigan' Theme) - Svetlana Stanceva
'Swan Lake' Ste: Scene: Enchanted Lake - London Festival Orch
La Boheme: What A Cold, Little Hand - Jose Perez
Trois Gymnopedies: Lent Et Douloureux - Raymond Spasovski
Bolero - RSO

Music for Lovers: Romantic Guitar Classics

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beautiful music to relax

Music for Lovers: Romantic Guitar Classics

Manufacturer: Cmh Records
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ASIN: B0000010SN
Release Date: 1997-01-07

Tracks:

Lagrima
Romanza (Used In The Film 'Les Jeux Interdit')
Gran Vals
Cavatina (Used In The Film 'The Deer Hunter')
Prld 4
El Noi De La Mare
Saudade
Julia Florida
Capricio Arabe
Prld No.1
Canco Del Lladre
Prld No.3
Bianco Fiore
Se Io M'accorgo
Sons De Carhilloes
Sarabande

Customer Reviews:

beautiful music to relax.......2001-02-16

I really enjoyed listening to this album,although it takes a few hearings to get into,but it was well worth the effort! I look forward to any new releases that may become available from this artist

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