Once again this is a helpful Classic FM 2CD release, aimed this time at those who hear a piece of TV advert music and like it, but haven't a clue who wrote it.
The tracks generally expand on the shorter pieces heard during the advert, and although some are not by the same artist as the TV version, they are by no means inferior and the difference will often be unnoticeable.
Whether the version of music is the 'best one' is largely irrelevant, for these are all good performances and recordings of some of classical music's finest and most popular masterpieces.
This is a great chance for those unfamiliar to classical music to get to know a little bit more, even if it's just the composers name and title ... Read More:
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Once again this is a helpful Classic FM 2CD release, aimed this time at those who hear a piece of TV advert music and like it, but haven't a clue who wrote it.
The tracks generally expand on the shorter pieces heard during the advert, and although some are not by the same artist as the TV version, they are by no means inferior and the difference will often be unnoticeable.
Whether the version of music is the 'best one' is largely irrelevant, for these are all good performances and recordings of some of classical music's finest and most popular masterpieces.
This is a great chance for those unfamiliar to classical music to get to know a little bit more, even if it's just the composers name and title ... Read More:
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This recording of Carmina Burana by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra is probably one of the best ever made. I have had the chance to listen to several other recordings, but for me this remains the best one. Carmina Burana is quite difficult to interpret and conduct, and this performance is neither too fast, nor too slow. It is just dynamic enough to express the passion for love and nature. I would point on Sylvia Greenberg's superb performance in the sopran. A professional performance for the most demanding listeners.
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Classic FM has attempted to provide the classical music version of `rock anthems' to shake your head and punch the air to, an equivalent of Rainbow's `Long Live Rock 'n' Roll' anthem of the 1970's. Does it work? Yes of course it does because the Classic FM marketing team are in touch with the needs of today's classical music listeners.
The track list is comfortably predictable - Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner), Carmina Burana (Orff), Jupiter (from Holst's Planets), Pomp & Circumstance (Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory), A Night on a Bare Mountain (Mussorgsky) and many, many more.
Those `many more' include three outstanding performances - Alfie Boe's version of Nessun Dorma, David Garrett's virtuoso (and breathtakingly ... Read More:
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