Music For Clarinet And Piano, Volume 2

1. Sonata for clarinet & piano
Composed by Herbert Howells
with Clifford Benson , Thea King

2. Pastoral for clarinet & piano
Composed by Arthur Drummond Bliss
with Clifford Benson , Thea King

3. Arabesques for clarinet & piano, Op 47
Composed by Franz Reizenstein
with Clifford Benson , Thea King

4. Sonata for clarinet & piano in B flat major
Composed by Arnold Cooke
with Clifford Benson , Thea King

Tracks:

Piano Concerto #21 In C Major, K 467: Andate
String Quartet #16 In Eb Major, K 428: Andate con moto
Concerto For Flute And Harp In C Major, K 299: Andantino From The Concerto For Flute And Harp In C Major, K 299
Flute Quartet In D Major, K 285: Adagio From The Flute Quartet In D Major, K 285
Violin Sonata In C Major, K 296: Andante sostenuto From The Violin Sonata In C Major, K 296
Piano Concerto #20 In D Minor, K 466: Romance
Clarinet Quintet In A Major, K 581: Larghetto From The Clarinet Quintet In A Major, K 581
'Posthorn' Serenade #9 In D Major, K.320: Concertante- Andante grazioso
Andante In C For Flute, K 315
Divertimento In D Major, K 205: Adagio
Sonate #1 For Organ And Orchestra In Eb Major, K 67

Customer Reviews:

one 3rd of the greatest album of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-08-18

this is the 1st ever musical geniuses slow collection.it was designed by a scientist who recognized musics power on the mind and harnessed it.this album has been proven to stimulate the same part of the brain that relaxes you.or for you brainy types,it gets your dopamine flowing.then theres the fact that this music is like pure ear sweetness.it will send all your nuerons off to dreamland and you will feel a dramatic physical change.my favorite song on this one is the violin concerto.extremely relaxing and great for the soul.everybody with anything from a cramp to cancer should put this one on.besides all that,its exquisitely beautiful youll fall instantly in love!an abselute tresure and blessing to music and the world!

Music for concentration and focus.......2001-05-14

I first read the research on the positive effects of classical music at 60 beats per minute many years ago. With no commercial options available then, I made my own tape from excerpts of world class recordings I own, largely of Mozart. I rarely tolerate background music while I work because it distracts and diffuses focus. The slow Mozart movements have an astonishingly opposite and positive effect, enhancing concentration and mental clarity. For listening pleasure, I prefer the complete works with all movements, as a prior reviewer noted. However, for calmed focus and concentration, by removing the alternate movements this recording serves that purpose with excellence.

There is sufficient variety to avoid monotony, and while the musicianship will not garner critical acclaim it is competent and acceptable for the purpose of this recording. I enjoy it immensely. It is one of the rare pieces I will play in the background while doing work that requires serious focus.

good news, bad news.......2000-07-23

Good news: contains famous works of Mozart for a very small cost. The music is eloquent and perhaps stimulates the brain with the Mozart effect. It is definitly good to listen while commuting and stuck an a traffic jam.

Bad news: These music are so well known that to many, it feels redundant. These are not world-class performers or conductors, so the music doesn't have a new intereptation or anything out of the ordinary. Also, I tend to like to have the entire three (or four) movements of the song, not just one movement. And practically all of these songs are the slow movement so it gets redundant.

Tracks:

The Twelve German Dances, K. 586: Dance #12
Symphony No. 24 In Bb Major, K. 182: Andantino Grazioso
Twelve Piano Variations On 'Ah, Vous Dirai-je, Maman', K. 265
Three German Dances, K. 605: The Sleighride Dance
Clarinet Quintet In A Major, K. 581: Allegretto Con Variazioni
Quartet No. 21 In D Major, K. 575: Allegretto
String Quartet In C Major, K. 465: Adagio-Allegro
Divertimento In D Major, K. 205: Menuetto
Piano Sonata In Bb Major, K. 333: Allegretto Grazioso
Piano Concerto No. 1 In D Major, K. 107: Tempo di menuetto
Symphony No. 4 In D Major, K. 19: Andante
12 German Dances, K. 586: Dance No. 3

Customer Reviews:

the last disc of 3.the greatest set in music history. .......2005-08-18

this is the last disc of the 3 disc set.its supposed to stimulate the creative juices.it gets your seritonin going like prozac.well,ok.but,anyway,its quite good.my favorite song on it just goes to show how inspirational the genius mozart was.he was alive in like 1770 and was dead by 30.he did this song and it was catchy.much later it was put to words with the tune still intact as "twinkle twinkle little star".so itll help the kids off to bed,but then someone else took the old indian created english alphabet and put it to music."the abc song" was also put to the same tune and now teaches millions of children to take thier 1st steps towards learning to read and write every day.it was also the very first recorded music when thomas edison 1st tested the phonograph sucessfully.its what he used.on this album thier are many fast paced[as fast as they get]songs that stimulate your brain.i dont personaly need any help in the creative department and just listen for the wonderful music.the twinkle twinkle little star song is like 12 minutes long and the performer uses mozarts innovative style to play it in literaly dozens of different ways.ballad,bedtime,frenzied,more notes,less notes,you name it!then theres a whole bunch of other great songs on it.if you call yourself a music lover and havent at least heard these songs,then you are sadly mistaken.a musical landmark!

Upbeat, but pleasant.......2002-02-02

I'm not the hugest classical afficianado, but this CD is very appealing. I bought the first in the series, Strengthen the Mind, and found mostly the same old crap on it that I had on three other Mozart CDs.

Tracks:

'Rondo' From Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K.525 - Michael Copley
Allegro Moderato, Violin Concerto No.2 In D Major, K.211 - Capella Istropolitana
Variations, Sinfonia In E Flat Major, K.297b - Capella Istropolitana
Andante, Symphony No.17 In G Major, K.129 - Northern Chamber Orchestra
Andantino, Symphony No.24 In B Flat Major, K.182 - Northern Chamber Orchestra
5 Variations On Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, K.265 - Jeno Jando
Allegro Aperto, Violin Concerto No.5 In A Major, K.219 - Capella Istropolitana
Andante, Symphony No.15 In G Major, K.124 - Northern Chamber Orchestra

Product Description

1999 Oppenheim Award. Based on the Avon Books release The Mozart Effect by Don Campbell, accomplished author, teacher, musician and noted authority on music and healing. Features some of Mozart's most powerful, playful and affecting compositions, selected by the author for children ages 2-16 and designed to achieve a particular effect, including enhancing the IQ. Includes "Rondo" from Eline Kleine Nachtmusik, "Allegro moderato - Violin Concerto #2", "Variations - Sinfonia, Andante - Symphony #17", "Andantino - Symphony #24", "5 Variations - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", "Allegro aperto - Violin Concerto #5", "Andante - Symphony #15". Running time 50.0

Customer Reviews:

Mozart Effect Music for Children Volume 1.......2007-02-09

I like the music and variety of selections. I wish it had more selections.

Ok classical music CD........2003-01-31

This is a pretty run of the mill clasical music CD. The first track sounded a little rough to me (sounded like harmonica and recorder -- I was not overly impressed) but the other tracks seem more par for the course.

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Music For Clarinet And Piano, Volume 2

Manufacturer: Hyperion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000002ZGF
Release Date: 1996-01-08

The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five - Nine Compositions (1994-2002)

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Carter continues to impress
Fantastic from the first piece
Vive le Carter!

The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five - Nine Compositions (1994-2002)

Manufacturer: Bridge
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Four
The Music of Elliott Carter, Vol. 6
The Music of Elliott Carter Vol. 7; Boston Concerto, Cello Concerto, ASKO Concerto, Dialogues
Elliott Carter: The Complete music for Piano
The Music of Elliott Carter, Vol. 1: Vocal Works (1975-1981)

ASIN: B00009OLTI
Release Date: 2002-06-01

Tracks:

Steep Steps
Two Diversions
Two Diversions
Oboe Quartet
Figment No. 2 (Remembering Mr. Ives)
Au Quai
Of Challenge and of Love
Of Challenge and of Love
Of Challenge and of Love
Of Challenge and of Love
Of Challenge and of Love
Figment No. 1
Retrouvailles
Hiyoku

Album Description

Steep Steps* (2001) Virgil Blackwell, bass clarinet; Two Diversions (1999) Charles Rosen, piano; Oboe Quartet* (2001) Speculum Musicae; Figment No. 2 "Remembering Mr. Ives"* (2001) Fred Sherry, cello; Au Quai* (2002) Maureen Gallagher, viola, Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Of Challenge and of Love (1994) Tony Arnold, soprano; Jacob Greenberg, piano; Figment No. 1 (1994) Fred Sherry, cello; Retrouvailles (2000) Charles Rosen, piano; Hiyoku* (2001) Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima, clarinets

*Premiere recording

Volume Five of Bridge's ongoing Elliott Carter series contains five premiere recordings, including Carter's bracing Oboe Quartet of 2001. Performed by many of the leading Carter advocates of our time, this recording is a must for those interested in keeping up with the undimmed imagination and constant creative impulse of this American master, now well into his tenth decade. Also featured on this CD is a new recording of Carter's song cycle Of Challenge and of Love, performed by the brilliant young American soprano Tony Arnold, the recent first prize winner of the Gaudeamus International competition for interpreters of contemporary music. Rounding out this CD are a series of instrumental miniatures played by dedicatees Virgil Blackwell, Charles Neidich, Ayako Oshima and Fred Sherry. In addition, the pianist Charles Rosen adds on to his earlier (almost) "Complete Piano Music of Carter" CD (BRIDGE 9090) with the Two Diversions, and Retrouvailles.

Volume one: BRIDGE 9014
Volume two: BRIDGE 9044
Volume three: BRIDGE 9090 (Grammy nomination)
Volume four: BRIDGE 9111 (Grammy nomination)

Customer Reviews:

Carter continues to impress.......2006-06-27

This disc, containing seven short works and two longer ones dating from Carter's late eighties and early nineties, continues Bridge's invaluable series of recordings of works by this modern American master. As with all Bridge's recordings, the performers are almost always musicians with a long history of performing Carter's music (here including the group Speculum Musicae, the cellist Fred Sherry and the pianist Charles Rosen), and this certainly helps to give the performances an authoritative air.

The disc starts with a bang--Carter's bass clarinet solo Steep Steps (so titled because of the importance of leaps of a twelfth in the composition). This is a vigorous and highly enjoyable work that provides an ideal disc opener. More dry are the Two Diversions, two pieces for the advanced piano student. These two works complement each other well; the first simpler, the second rhythmically complex.

The Oboe Quartet is one of Carter's more important recent scores. Written in a single multi-section movement, it alternates between tutti passages and duets for pairs of instruments, and demonstrates (as does much of Carter's recent music) that a strictly atonal style need not reduce a composer's capacity for lyricism. If I'm not sure that Speculum Musicae's performance here quite matches the intensity of Holliger and friends on ECM, this is still a fine reading of a significant work.

The disc then returns to a couple of miniatures. Figment No 2 for solo cello is one of a series of works in which Carter pays homage to musical figures important to him when he was younger, and though there are no obvious stylistic references to Ives, the work does include fragmentary quotations and hints of hymnic writing. Au Quai, by contrast, is a tribute to a composer and conductor who has done so much for Carter's own music--Oliver Knussen, on his 50th birthday. Written for the unusual combination of viola and bassoon, this is a delightful, charming miniature with a wonderfully sense of timing.

Returning to major works, once again, Of Challenge and of Love is one of Carter's many recent song cycles (though the only mature work of his for voice and piano). A setting of five poems by John Hollander, this builds to an expressive climax in the lengthy fourth poem, Quatrains from Harp Lake, before the almost anticlimactic close, End of a Chapter. Having only heard this work though Lucy Shelton's premiere recording on Koch, I found much more warmth in it in this reading, with the fine Tony Arnold the soprano soloist, though I don't think it will ever rank amongst my favourite late Carter works.

The disc ends with three more miniatures. Figment No 1 for solo cello is one of Carter's finest short works, ranging over the whole expressive gamut despite being based entirely on one short idea. Retrouvailles is a brief and comparatively simple (for Carter, at least) study for piano, written for Pierre Boulez's 75th birthday, while Hiyoku, a duet for two clarinets, effectively explores the contrast between the two instruments playing similar and different material.

This is another impressive release in Bridge's Carter series. Lovers of the composer's music will not hesitate to snap it up.

Fantastic from the first piece.......2006-01-22

Carter lets the bass clarinet show off every bit of its range in Steep Steps, from soulful low bass lines, through a smoky lower-midrange area, to an almost sax-like upper register.

All the cellos pieces are great, and the oboe quartet? The other reviewer nailed it; it's like the oboe is playing the lead violin line.

Vive le Carter!.......2003-07-07

The fifth offering in Bridge's indispensible series of the music of Elliott Carter contains nine compositions written from 1994 to 2002, when the composer, incredibly, was between the ages of 85 and 93. There are the usual short gems for various instruments that Carter has made a specialty in recent years. The disk begins with the fascinating "Steep Steps" for solo bass clarinet, an instrument Carter has exploited to great effect in his Piano Concerto and Triple Duo. Fred Sherry delivers a haunting rendition of "Figment No. 2" for solo cello. Subtitled "Remembering Mr. Ives" (Carter first met Ives as a teenager), the piece conveys a nostalgia rare in Carter's work, with short phrases evoking, though not quoting, the kind of hymns Ives used in his music. The Two Diversions for Piano are more transparent than some of Carter's other piano pieces, and rightfully so, since they were written for the Millenium Piano Book for pianists of intermediate skills. Charles Rosen, a long-time Carter champion, provides tender and beautiful readings. Soprano Tony Arnold's rendition of the song cycle "Of Challenge and of Love" seems softer and less forced than Lucy Shelton's premiere recording, which is all to the good, but for me the highlight of the disk is the Oboe Quartet, a major 14-minute work that shows Carter at the top of his instrumental game. Despite its unrepentant modernist idiom, this composition has a classical elegance, a romantic sensuousness, and a Baroque richness of counterpoint that doesn't showcase the soloist as much as make him a first among equals. It is as though the composer had written a new string quartet with the oboe subbing for the first violin. I could not wish for a better performance.
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Limited Edition Classical Sampler, Volume Two

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Limited Edition Classical Sampler, Volume Two

Manufacturer: Innov. Music Prod.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000000TER
Release Date: 1993-09-14

Tracks:

I. Allegro - The Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Gymnopedie No.1 - Cristina Ortiz
Champagne - London Symphony Orchestra
Prelude No.7 in A Major/Prelude No.15 in D Flat Major - Howard Shelley
Praelude: Allegro Vivace - The Serenata Of London
Le Coucou - Robert Aldwinckle
II. Allegro - City Of London Sinfonia
I. Allegro - St. James's Baroque Players
Water Music - City Of London Sinfonia
III. Rondo. Allegro - City Of London Sinfonia
II. Larghetto - Keith Puddy
IV. Presto Vivace - City Of London Sinfonia
III. Allegretto Grazioso - Halle Orchestra
Ride Of The Valkyries - London Symphony Orchestra

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Five Trios, Volume II

Manufacturer: Arabesque Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000000T7G
Release Date: 1992-09-02

Bela Bartok: Violin and Piano Music, Volume 3

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Bela Bartok: Violin and Piano Music, Volume 3

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000030X1
Release Date: 1997-02-18

Tracks:

Son in e, Op.Posth: First Movt: Allegro Moderato
Son in e, Op.Posth: Second Movt: Andante
Son in e, Op.Posth: Third Movt: Vivace
Andante
Slovak Folk Songs: Allegro
Slovak Folk Songs: Andante
Slovak Folk Songs: Allegretto
Slovak Folk Songs: Lament: Lento
Slovak Folk Songs: Poco Andante
Slovak Folk Songs: Allegro
Slovak Folk Songs: Romanze: Assai Lento
Slovak Folk Songs: Moderato
Slovak Folk Songs: Fangspiel: Prestissimo
Burlesque, Op.8c No.2
For Children: Allegro Non Troppo
For Children: Andante Sostenuto
For Children: Vivace
For Children: Betyarnota: Andante
For Children: Tanedal: Allegro
For Children: Gyernetdal: Andante
For Children: Furulyaszo: Andante Molto Rubato
For Children: Andante
For Children: Andante
For Children: Allegro
Contrasts, SZ111: Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance): Moderato Ben Ritmato - Susanne Stanzeleit/Gusztav Fenyo/Michael Collins
Contrasts, SZ111: Piheno (Relaxation): Lento - Susanne Stanzeleit/Gusztav Fenyo/Michael Collins
Contrasts, SZ111: Sebes (Fast Dance): Allegro Vivace - Susanne Stanzeleit/Gusztav Fenyo/Michael Collins

The Romantic Approach, Volume 3: Music from Germany

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The Romantic Approach, Volume 3: Music from Germany

Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000JH8C
Release Date: 1999-06-29

Tracks:

Pno Son No.14 in c# Op.27, No.2: Adagio Sostenuto - Jeno Jando
Cl Qnt in B flat Op34: Fant - Kalman Berkes/Auer Str Qt
Romance No.2 in F, Op.50 - Takako Nishizaki
Songs Without Words No.41 in A, Op.85 No.5 - Peter Nagy
Hebraic Melodies Op.47: Kol Nidrei Adagio - Maria Kliegel
Fant in C, Op.17: Langsam Getragen - Denes Varjon
Qnt in b, Op.115: Adagio - Jozsef Balogh
Siegfried Idyll - Polish National RSO/Johannes Wildner

Album Description

Despite the reputation of such countries as France and Italy, musical romanticism actually originated in Germany, where many of the great composers lived and worked. It is true we don't often think of the Germans as a particularly romantic lot. The precision and intricacy of the Baroque period, the logic and architecture of the great Classical period - these are the traits we expect to find in German musical history. But the fact is that the Romantic movement started in Germany - in German art and literature as well as in German music.

Romantic music is above all emotional music. It attempts to speak directly to the heart. At its best - and in the German Romantics it was often at its best - this music was intellectually satisfying. As this third volume of The Romantic Approach shows, these composers could move their listeners without having to resort to painting a particular image in sound. Most of the works on this recording have fairly generic names - Romance, Fantasy, Song without Words; but we get the feeling that there is more to the music than just one note following another. This is music that can speak to the emotions without dictating which emotion you should feel; in fact, it can evoke a different vision or story in each listener.

This volume opens with perhaps music's most celebrated musical painting, Beethoven's Adagio Sostenuto from Moonlight Sonata, followed by the somber darkness of Weber's Fantasia showing the moody, brooding side of the German Romantics. Beethoven lifts our hearts in Romance No. 2 to happier optimistic Romanticism followed by one of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words. Bruch's most popular work, the weeping Kol Nidrei, is somewhat ambiguous in its key, moving between major and minor. The classic image of the tortured Romantic, pouring out his heart, is captured in Schumann's soulful Langsam getragen from Fantasie in C. Brahms' clarinet, in Adagio from Clarinet Quintet, sketches an intimate portrait of home and hearth, savoring each moment in a reflective mood. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll completes this volume with a musical love letter written for his wife, reflecting on motives from his opera Siegfried.