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| Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music | 
 enlarge | Creators: Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Georges Bizet, Alexander Borodin, Jeremiah Clarke, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, George Gershwin, Edvard Grieg, George Frederick Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Aram Khachaturian, Felix Mendelssohn, Jean-joseph Mouret, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, Carl Orff, Johann Pachelbel, Sergey Prokofiev
Label: Compendia
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (46 reviews)
Sales Rank: 50509
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.8 x 1.8
MPN: 1212
UPC: 015095121226
EAN: 0015095121226
ASIN: B000003QWH
Release Date: June 9, 1994
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 A wonderful compilation of classical music. January 22, 2006
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a perfect introduction to classical music and I do not understand some of the overtly negative criticism from others. It is an excellent way to "get your feet wet," so to speak and then you can decide which composers you wish to become more familiar with. You would have to buy quite a few CDs to experience all this set has to offer. Although the CD title is tongue-in-cheek...and perhaps that is what people object to...there is nothing to criticize here.
 I doubt people who hate classical music would buy this January 15, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I figure this set is mainly for people who want to teach themselves to appreciate classical music. However, it's not how I started out (age about 17). In those days nobody seemed to think anyone would want to learn how to listen to classical music. I was held up by my family as a real freak. :-) Anyway, at the time, World Record Club was run by people with a wide knowledge of classical music (whereas today it's run by market-driven managers who know nothing about it) so I was able to buy LPs at such reasonable prices it didn't matter if I later found I didn't like what I'd bought. I could have done with some guidance, of course, because I honestly couldn't tell the difference between Bach and Bartok; that's how bad my listening skills were. One of my first Bach recordings was definitely not one I would recommend to a beginner (Menuhun's performance of The Musical Offering) so I could have landed up deciding I didn't like Bach. If this type of production is what it takes to bring more people to classical music, then I guess it has to be a good thing. I've given it only one star because there is no way I would want to own it!
When we can listen to a CD for people who hate rock/pop etc. music? October 14, 2005
4 out of 16 found this review helpful
Please change this very IDIOT title, someone must tell this to the producer. I don't think there are people who hate classical music, and if there are I do not want to express a thought about them.....
HIGHLY REKOMMENDED!!!!!!! September 29, 2005
7 out of 25 found this review helpful
WHY WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY LOOKING FOR ALL THESE ALBUMS WHEN YOU CAN GET THIS C.D. FOR CHEAP AND IT HAS ALL THE GREATEST CLASSICAL SONGS YOU'LL EVER NEED TO OWN. WANT TO IMPRESS THE LADIES? JUST PUT IN THIS C.D. AND OFFER HER A COLD ONE AND WATCH HER MELT!! DON'T FORGET TO PUT A PILLOW CASE OVER THE LAMP SHADE TO CREATE THAT MOOD LIGHTING. WORKS EVERY TIME!!!
 Good Variety August 2, 2005
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
The set includes many classical tunes you have heard before but didn't know what they were. I used to select tunes for my wedding.
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