Product DescriptionJanos Starker dazzles with a wide array of works by various composers, including the Bach ‘Arioso,’ Schumann’s ‘Traumerei (Dreaming),’ Debussy’s ‘Girl With The Flaxen Hair,’ the Handel-Weiner ‘Sicilienne,’ and many more. The New York Times has declared that with his peerless technical masteryand intensely expressive playing, Janos Starker is universally recognizedas one of the world s supreme musicians. In a career spanning more than 70 years, Mr. Sta. . . More >>
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Album DescriptionMusic from Company Class, Volume 1 Music designed to inspire professional dancers must include a wide variety of styles. You’ll find here an eclectic collection: some classical, some a little jazzy, some wonderful melodies from lesser-known ballets and operas, and a good number of often requested originals. •Barre exercises never too short and with even numbers of counts (no extra balance music) •Very long selections for pirouettes and allegros in the center. . . More >>
Ballet Class Music from New York City: Music from Company Class, Vol. 1
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Product DescriptionHear some of the world s most beautiful music in this collection of stirring melodies and gracefulharmonies, performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. . . . More >>
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Album DescriptionEarning Their White Stripes. “But what I’m listening to most of the time at present is an album called Good For What Ails You, which is an album of songs that people used to listen to at medicine shows all over the States. It’s quite an interesting album and I think that people would be well advised to pick it up. ” Jack White – Sunday Mail (Australia) Dec 18, 2005 Five Stars. Groundbreaking. “Fans of Nick Tosches’ Where Dead Voices Gather will lap up this extraordina. . . More >>
Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937
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Product DescriptionNo Description Available. Genre: Classical MusicMedia Format: Compact DiskRating: Release Date: 14-OCT-1997Amazon. comThis is a fine Handel compilation that provides a nice overview of his orchestral music with brass instruments, as well as his only incidental score (music written to accompany the action of a play). Christopher Hogwood uses the arrangement that Handel made of the Fireworks Music for normal-size. . . More >>
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Amazon. comOn Music for Two, banjo wizard Béla Fleck and stand-up bass maestro Edgar Meyer effortlessly sail through a challenging program that includes compositions by Bach, a sonata by Henry Eccles, a Miles Davis tune, and a number of self-composed finger twisters. The amazing thing about this varied selection is not its eclecticism–which is only to be expected with these two–but that it all blends together so seamlessly. Fleck’s jazz-tinged compositions (like “The Lake Effect”) a. . . More >>
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Product DescriptionNo Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: SEQUENTIATitle: AQUITANIAStreet Release Date: 10/14/1997. . . More >>
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Album DescriptionBABY EINSTEIN, CLASSICAL MUSIC COLLECTION is COLLECTOR’S EDITION 6 CD SET all wrapped up inside a cute little carrying case. Perfect for that mom on the Go! Includes Baby Bach, Baby Beethoven, Meet The Orchestra, Baby Mozart, Baby Mozart 2, and Baby Galileo. . . . More >>
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Product DescriptionRichard Thompson – guitar & vocals Michael Jerome – percussion Judith Owen – vocals The idea for this project came from Playboy Magazine – I was asked to submit a list, in late 1999, of the ten greatest songs of the Millenium. Hah! I thought, hypocrites – they don’t mean millennium, they mean twenty years – I’ll call their bluff and do a real thousand-year selection. My list was similar to the choices here on this CD, starting in about 1068, and winding slowly . . . More >>
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Amazon. comThe closest North American equivalent to the venerable Academy of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields is the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York. St. Luke’s fielded a string section about half the size of St. Martin’s for this 1991 recording of the Water Music with Sir Charles Mackerras but managed to sound even lighter than that thanks to the dryish acoustics of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (where the recording was made) and to Mackerras’s insistence on sna. . . More >>
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