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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: 15580
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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 Classical Music that Classical Music Lovers Hate June 27, 2005
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
Why even listen to this stuff when you know it all already? The most cliched yawn melodies by great composers. All this stuff is overplayed.
 Have You Ever Walked Into a Supermarket.... June 25, 2005
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
...and they had tables set out where you could try "samples" of different food products? To me, that's what collections like these are. The samples that entice people to buy the real stuff. For $15 you get 4 cd's and 58 snippets of well known classical pieces. I imagine everyone has heard some - be it a few, alot, or even all - of the selections from this album. I, for one, am glad to be able to put a name and composer to many of these melodies that I've heard for years but have never known what they were or who wrote them. This has been a great guide for helping out with future classical purchases.
I can't imagine anyone who's really serious about classical music using this as any kind of "be-all, end-all" collection. For one, there is no such thing. Sure, the selections from this set are no doubt all famous, but there's still hundreds of super popular pieces omitted. I imagine there are people out there who buy a set or two of classical music and are happy that they can just hear these popular pieces they've heard throughout the years, but if you ask me, people like that really don't like classical at all. Hence, perhaps the target audience of this set.
Anyway, I think the purists should give collections like this and the people who buy them a break. We're not all lazy bums who want to take the easy road to getting into classical. In fact, I imagine there's many more like me who just use this as some kind of starting place - a reference for future purchases. Either way, at $15 this is still a good deal. It's true most of the performances on here are from no name conductors and orchestras and do indeed sound like they are - but as a reference guide, I think this album is well worth it.
 Excellent collection May 20, 2005
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
What a deal, very much worth the money and a big time saver, versus buying all this music separately. And it has the haunting Orff (sp?) piece, sounds like The Omen.
I Hate 'Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music' May 17, 2005
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
Thirty-second snippets of horribly cliched classical music? Check.
Grainy recordings by obscure conductors? Check.
Marketed towards ignorant soccer moms and yuppies? Check.
WHAT A DEAL!
Looking for a high-brow introduction into the massive juggernaut that is Western classical music? Well, go away. This CD is strictly for the diluded and lazy. However, if you're looking for something to play in the background over a candlelit dinner of Hamburger Helper with you significant other, then by all means purchase this failure.
nice compilation February 6, 2005
19 out of 27 found this review helpful
This CD is exactly what it says it is, music for those who hate classical music. There's something for everyone in here, music that you'll most likely recognize. Great for unwinding after work or when stuck in traffic jams.
I think some of the reviewers have gotten a little confused. This CD is for those of us who HATE classical music. We certainly don't want to go out and get a DEGREE in it, or really spend any mental energy on classical music at all. Or spend any more money buying the original recordings. Spare us the elitism.
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