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You'll love it   August 4, 2004

I Hate Yuppies   July 13, 2004

The music (of course) gets nothing less than 4 stars, this is a review of the packaging and title.


No negative stars?   June 24, 2004
  14 out of 36 found this review helpful

I have to agree with what many have said here; This album is an insult to the greatest composers of all time. When classical composers composed their musical works, they composed them in movements. Each movement contains a certain theme that is relative with the other movements. To seperate a movement from it's relative movements, is to cut up Da Vinci's "Last Supper" in such a manner that only Jesus would show.

For a more specific explanation:

When Beethoven composed his "Moonlight Sonata" he composed it in 3 movements. All 3 movements contain unique but at the same time relative themes. The first movement that is made part of this compilation is slow, calm and nocturnal awhile at the same time alert of anything treacheruous. The second movement is slighty faster and a bit more joyful the same nocturnal kind of way. The third movement is played at Presto (FAST) tempo and in a manner that expresses complete lunacy *hint*. Now lets analyze that word for a second, "Lunacy", which basically means mad, chaotic or insane. If you take out the "cy", you arrive at the latin word, "Luna" which means "Moon". The etymology of the word "Lunatic" basically derrives from human observations (1300s) of the effects the moon has on nature and society. If one were to look at this from a scientific/astrological perspective, the moon has four phases (Not including wanning and waxing gibbous), since two are reflected versions of itself, one is taken out, leaving 3 moon phases; New Moon, Half-moon and Full Moon. In a new moon the night sky is dark and silent, just like the first movement. In the half-moon, the night sky is lit up with half the moon's joyful light, just like the second movement. In a full moon, the moon obtains the highest gravitational force between itself and the earth, pulling all sanity from earthly waters and susceptible minds, just like the third movement. So you see, all movements are ment to be together in order to grasp the composer's original and artistic/poetic perspective of the world around us. To do otherwise is to completely destroy the composer's musical and artistic integrity. Which is exactly what this compilation does, and quite frankly i'm getting tired of seeing such compilations that claim to be classical pop up on amazon.com when I am looking for REAL classical albums.

If you want REAL classical, I suggest the following:
Beethoven - 32 Piano Sonatas by William Kempff
Vivaldi - Four Seasons by Orpheus & Gil Shaham
Chopin - Complete Nocturnes by Daniel Barenboim
or
Chopin - Complete Works by Vladimir Ashenazy
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But by ALL MEANS STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPILATION,
that is unless if you have no regard for artistic value in music.


Fine.   June 19, 2004
  8 out of 9 found this review helpful

Despite one's possible objection to the way this is marketed or to the breaking up of larger pieces, this includes a lot of first-rate music and can function as a sampler for those new to classical music. For those who'd like to delve a bit further, however, I recommend John Williams's THE GREAT GUITAR CONCERTOS. Here we have complete pieces played by a master for a bargain price. (Somehow or other the I've always found the classical guitar singularly...um..."relaxing".)


Relaxing, soothing . . . wonderful   May 13, 2004
  8 out of 10 found this review helpful

I purchased this CD a few years ago to use while stretching at the end of my aqua aerobics classes. It became a popular segment of my class as I included water Tai Chi. Eventually it turned into a class on its own. The participants refused to let me use any other music. They all went a purchased copies for themselves.

After a stressful day, it is a joy to come home and relax with a glass of red wine and my love and listen to this CD. It melts us both and sets up a very nice prelude.