Dinner For Two

On this CD:

1. Vocalise, song for voice & piano, Op. 34/14 No 14, Vocalise
Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov
Performed by Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra with Nelly Lee
Conducted by Arnold Kaz

2. Nocturne for piano in D flat major, Op. 27/2, CT 155
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
Performed by Daniel Pollack
Conducted by Arnold Kaz

3. Serenade for strings (or piano duet), in C major, Op. 48 II. Valse
Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Performed by St. Petersburg New Classical Orchestra
Conducted by Alexander Titov

4. Pavane pour une infante défunte, for piano (or orchestra)
Composed by Maurice Ravel
Performed by Georgian Festival Orchestra with Alexander Tachmanov
Conducted by Jahni Mardjani

5. Scheherazade, symphonic suite for orchestra, Op. 35 III. Andantino (The Tale Of The Young Prince And Young Princess)
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
Performed by St. Petersburg Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Stanislav Gorkovenko

6. Symphonie fantastique for orchestra ("Episode de la vie d'un Artiste...en cinq parties"), H.48 (Op. 14) II. Un Bal Valse
Composed by Hector Berlioz
Performed by Georgian Festival Orchestra
Conducted by Jahni Mardjani

7. Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 III. Adagio
Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov
Performed by Georgian Festival Orchestra
Conducted by Jahni Mardjani

8. Nocturne for piano in B major, Op. 62/1, CT 124
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
Performed by Vladimir Shakin
Conducted by Arnold Kaz

9. Serenade for string orchestra in E major, B. 52 (Op. 22)
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
Performed by St. Petersburg New Classical Orchestra
Conducted by Alexander Titov

10. Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), waltz for orchestra (with voice ad lib), Op. 410 (RV 410)
Composed by Johann II Strauss
Performed by St. Petersburg Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Stanislav Gorkovenko

Tracks:

Canzon Septimi Toni No.2
Concerto in E Major, Op. 8, No. 1: I-Allegro From Spring (La primavera)
Overture (Allegro)
from Concerto in G Major for 2 Guitars: I-Allegro
from String Quartet in E Major Op. 13, No. 5: Minuetto
from Sonata for Violin & Guitar: III-Menuetto: Allgretto
from Sonata Concertata in A Major: III-Rondeau
Cantabile for Violin & Guitar
from Concerto for Guitar and Strings Orchestra, Op. 30: II-Andantino Siciliano
Nocturne: Moderato from the ballet La Boutique Fantasque (after Rossini)
from the Sebastian Suite: Barcarolle
Dance for Six (from William Tell)
La Donna E Mobile (from Rigoletto)
Musetta's Waltz (from La Boheme)
O Soave Fanciulla (Love Duet) from La Boheme
Vissi D'Arte (from Tosca)
Intermezzo: Andante Cantabile ( from Fedora)
Introduction to Act I (from La traviata)
Intermezzo (from Cavalleria rusticana)
Celeste Aida (from Aida)
O Mio Babbino Caro (from Gianni Schicchi)

Customer Reviews:

Bravo!.......2000-07-22

I heard this album for the first time at a restuarant in Florence during my trip to Italy. I was surprised it was from the US beacause it has captured the very soul of Italy. After 7 years it has remained my favorite of all Puccini cds I own. I especially like the fact that it is instumental and can be played for many occassions. It never fails to stir the wanderlust for a trip back to Italy! A must for every romantic!

Outstanding compilation of the Italian classics,.......1999-05-01

I have been a music lover for years. This CD introduced some Italian music to me that I was not familiar with. I listen to this music very often...it is almost theraputic in effect. I have never heard more beautiful music together on one CD. You won't regret getting this one!

The Carl Stalling Project: Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons, 1936-1958

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Best compilation CD ever
Here we go.
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The Carl Stalling Project: Music From Warner Bros. Cartoons, 1936-1958

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Release Date: 1990-07-17

Tracks:

Putty Tat Trouble Part 6
Hillbilly Hare
Early WB Scores: The Depression Era
The Good Egg
Various Cues From Bugs Bunny Films
There They Go Go Go
Stalling Self-Parody: Music From Porky's Preview
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Medley: Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungary Cannibals
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Speedy Gonzalez/Meets Two Crows From Taco
Powerhouse And Other Cuts From The Early 50's
Porky In Wackyland/Dough For The Do Do
To Itch His Own

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For fans of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, et al., this is the essential cartoon soundtrack as well as a monument to surrealism. During his 22 years as a composer for Warner Bros. animated shorts, Stalling invented the musical vocabulary of cartoons. Producer Hal Willner has lovingly assembled a sonic collage that showcases Stalling's compositional genius and uncanny ability to borrow a tune. It's a whirling collection of random moments, chock full of music you never knew you knew, from Bugs Bunny's theme from "Rabbit Fire" to Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" to Stalling's own "Woo! Woo!" Also included in the mix: outtakes from recording sessions, and several complete scores. --Heidi MacDonald

Customer Reviews:

Best compilation CD ever.......2007-02-18

Carl Stalling gave me the best musical education I ever had. I'm spending the rest of my life learning the titles and composers of all the hundreds of tunes I first heard in his cartoon scores. I've had this CD ever since it came out, and it still is one of my favorites.

Only a handful of tracks are a complete score from one cartoon; most are snippets from several cartoons edited together with a common theme.

This CD is about a composer and his music, more than about the cartoons for which he composed it. To drive home this point, it includes the score from, of all things, 1939's "The Good Egg." No one would consider "The Good Egg" to be among the best Warner cartoons, but the score, heard by itself, turns out to be a tour de force that is highly representative of Stalling's work. That's what makes this CD such a great listening experience: It was pieced together by musicologists who chose the music based on its auditory qualities, and not on the relative fame of the cartoon associated with it. It is not merely a trip down memory lane (although it is that, too), but is a great creative work in its own right.

Despite the vast amount of Stalling music that exists, this CD provides as ambitious and exhaustive an overview as can be given, and its 1995 follow-up, while also worth having, is but a pale afterthought. There's no following this act.

Here we go........2006-11-16

This CD features music from the Warner Brothers cartoon film scores by Carl Stalling. There are some complete scores and also some "medleys", with clips from various cartoons strung together. Carl Stalling was a master at writing music for cartoons, but something is lost when you just hear the music without seeing the cartoon.

Stallings CDs.......2006-11-10

If you harken back to the days when you snuggled on the couch on a Saturday morning with your little ones, and ate donuts and drank juice and watched "Bugs Bunny" you will love these CDs. You'll recognize all the characters and their entrances and their pratfalls...and laugh and say "I've heard that!"...it's a walk down memory lane and a very special one, at that. I highly reccommend these to anyone who loves B Bunny.
Not to mention these are some of the finest musicians you will ever hear...a lesson in classical music, and cartoons.

The Carl Stalling Project.......2005-09-12

Music from Warner Brothers cartoons "Golden Years" (1936-1958).
Carl Stalling was the chief music arranger for Warner Brothers cartoons from 1936 to 1958. He was one of the foremost composers of cartoon music. This disk is much better than "The Carl Stalling Project Volume II."

Warner Brother's King of Music.......2003-12-02

Even if you do not recognize his name, Carl Stalling is a very familiar composer. He wrote the soundtrack for many of our young lives as the composer for Warner Bros.' "Merrie Melodies" and "Looney Tunes" cartoons from late 1930's to late 1970's. Hal Willner has compiled this CD that for the first time lets you hear the music on its own, and lets you realize just how much of the cartoons' impact came from Stalling's music.

Willner sifted through hundreds of cartoons to choose about 40 with the most significant music. He presents the music in a variety of formats. A few tracks provide the soundtrack for a single entire cartoon. Others are medlies from a certain period in Stalling's career or pieces that set a particular mood (such as the "Anxiety Montage"). There are also tapes from recording sessions for 1951's "Putty Tat Trouble" that give insight on how this music was recorded. I couldn't recommend this CD any more highly. (After you've given it a listen, check out a Raymond Scott "best of" album like "Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights" to see just how many of its tracks are familiar from various cartoons.)

Stalling's music, instead of following the traditional rules of musical structure (exposition, development, theme, variations, etc.), was written to follow the rapid action of cartoons. Stalling would not compromise on this, even if it meant having the 50-piece orchestra play fortissimo for five seconds and then having only one piccolo playing the next four seconds. To ensure a perfect correspondence between the sound and the image, Stalling and the cartoon's directors would agree on a few sketches and on the timing of the action. This enabled Stalling to compose and record the music without even seeing the movie. Carl Stalling was also a master at telling a story through music, with gestures so clear, that there is never any doubt as to his intentions.

Stalling once said, "One problem with cartoons today is that they have so much dialogue the music doesn't mean much." Unfortunately, this statement rings true as we move into 2004. But keeping Carl Stalling from rolling in his grave is not why you need to buy this CD. You need it because it is IMPOSSIBLE to maintain a bad mood while this CD is playing. You need this to listen to as a stress reducer on those tough days. You need this because it is complete childhood in a disc.

I challenge you to turn on your television and watch some Looney Tunes. Turn up the volume and listen while doing something else (wash dishes, write a paper perhaps.) I guarantee you will know exactly what is happening, and to whom. This was the comedic skill and genius talent of Carl Stalling.

As Porky Pig would say: "abieh-abieh-abieh... That's All Folks!"

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Good musical selection

Dinner for Two

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Tracks:

Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata: Adagio
Finzi: Romance For String Orchestra
Chopin: Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1: Andante Cantabile
Grieg: Two Elegaic Melodies: The Last Spring
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Massenet: Thais: Meditation
Mascagni: Cavelleria Rusticana: Intermezzo
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Rachmaninoff: Vocalise
Gluck: Melodie
Bizet: Carmen: Intermezzo
Schubert: Serenade

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Good musical selection .......2005-08-14

This record boasts it's name "Dinner for Two", in order to enjoy a dinner in company of very special person, excellent interpretations to let itself surround in a full atmosphereof tranquillity and vibrant emotions.

Without doubt, a selection that it must have in your classical collection.

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Great Recordings with a twist
Bolling holds a swinging party & I won't leave
Class Act

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ASIN: B00000277L
Release Date: 1991-01-09

Tracks:

Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, No. 1: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, No. 1: Baroque And Blue
Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, No. 1: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, No. 1: Sentimentale
Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano Trio: Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano Trio: Ragtime
Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano Trio: Suite for Violin and Jazz Piano Trio: Baroque In Rhythm
Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio: Concerto for Classic Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio: Africaine
Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, No.2: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, No.2 : Jazzy
Toot Suite: Toot Suite: Mystique
Picnic Suite: Picnic Suite: Canon
Picnic Suite: Picnic Suite: Tendre
Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, No. 2: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio, No. 2: Amoureuse
Toot Suite: Toot Suite: Rag-Polka
California Suite: California Suite: Black Folks

Customer Reviews:

Great Recordings with a twist.......2006-08-03

This CD is full of jazz in spite of the fact that I have associated most of the performers with classical music. This shows the diversity in their ability to perform a wide array of music that I never heard in the past from them.

If you like jazz without too much dissonance, this is a great CD to purchase. The interesting and awkward rhythms are the best parts of this CD.

You can have your own party just from listening to this music.

Bolling holds a swinging party & I won't leave.......2001-04-29

I had this CD around and was going to put it up for sale via Amazon Marketplace. I listen to other Bolling CDs. But, somehow I had "missed" the jivvy jazz in this recording.

As the sounds of "Baroque and Blue," 5:15, Track 1 started playing, the thoughts of selling the CD disappeared.

Bolling plays the piano superbly and Maurice Andre's trumpet radiates pure jazz notes. This is a clasical jazz CD. The 12 tracks tie together like movements of a symphony and there is a bewitching common theme, best heard in track 7 "Mystique." After Andre and Bolling swing in #7, track 8 "Canon," emerges with Jean Pierre Rampal's flute, golden. Guy Pedersen's string bass is crisp and Daniel Humair plays the drums with unhearlded pizzaz. And, how can one overlook the strumming of guitarist Alexandre Lagoya?

This is one of the best jazz or instrumental CDs I have ever heard. I normally listen while writing and use the sounds as background music. Lagoya's contribution to #9, Tendre, matching Rampal's clarity is mystical. So, I am enjoying each note and marveling at the classical synergy displayed.

The cover notes cite "recipes from Martha Stewart's "Entertaining" and her other best-selling books on food and lifestyle." Sure enough, Martha has a menu: 1. Cocktails & Sparkling Water...the CD's sounds sparkle. 2. Crudites with Anchovy Mayonnaise, complete with the recipe. 3. Chicken on Skewers, also including what to use & how. 4. Prosciutto and Figs: Anyone can lay this dish out. 5. Cornmeal-Fried Oysters: The recipe is for 2 dozen.

So, a person can buy this album (just) to get great recipes for dishes to accompany superb jazz. The recipes are simple to follow and delicious to read. One can buy the CD for the delightful cocktails that Bolling presents. But here "one = two." Or, to put this in other words "With two you get eggroll." The eggroll is the delightful dish one savors listening to the music while nibbling on the chicken & oysters. Magnifique!

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Class Act.......2000-11-19

Very entertaining, classy music that I can listen to anytime, best of all with friends and suitably classy nosh!

CBS Dinner Classics: Sunday Brunch, Vol. 2

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Wow!!! The Good Humored Ladies!

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Release Date: 1991-01-09

Tracks:

Orchestral Suite No. 2, BWV 1067: Badinerie
Abdelazer (The Moor's Revenge) Z. 570: Rondeau
Cantata No. 78: Wir Eilen Mit Schwachen
Oboe Concerto No. 2 In D Minor: II. - Adagio
Solomon: The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba
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Flute Concerto In D Major, Op.10 , No.3, R. 428 'Il Cardellino': I - Allegro
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Water Music: Bourree
Water Music: Hornpipe
Le donne di buon umore: 4. Andante
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Water Music: Air
Water Music: [Menuet]
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The Gordian Knot Unty'd, Z.597: III - Rondeau Minuet
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Concerto For Harpsichord In F Minor, BWV 1056: II - Largo
Violin Concerto In F Major, Op. 8, no. 3: 'Autumn' From The Four Seasons: III - Allegro
Fanfares For Trumpets, Timpani, Violins & Oboes; Suites de symphonies, Premiere Suite: I - 'Rondeau' [Allegro]

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Wow!!! The Good Humored Ladies!.......2006-08-03

The 'Good Humored Ladies' written by Scarlatti is recorded by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Louis Lane. This recording alone is a good reason to add this CD to your collection. It was issued many years ago and finally re-released again.

Other music on the CD is also high quality sound and very relaxing.

An addition to the music includes recipes inside the paper cover.

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Best of the best!
The Best Classical Compilation Ever Created

CBS Dinner Classics: Dinner for Two

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Release Date: 1991-01-09

Tracks:

Vocalise, Op.34, No.14
Nocturne In E-Flat Major, Op.9, No.2
Nocturne For String Orchestra
Sadko: Song Of India
Scheherazade, Op.35: The Tale Of The Young Prince And The Young Princess: III - Andantino
The Snow Maiden, Op.12: Melodrama
Symphony No.2 In E Minor, Op.27: III - Adagio
Etude In E Major, Op.10, No.3
None But The Lonely Heart, Op.6, No.6
On Wings Of Song, Op.34, No.2
String Quartet, No.1, Op.11: Andante Cantabile
Liebestraum (Dream Of Love)

Customer Reviews:

Best of the best!.......2006-12-31

I have listened to most of the CBS Masterworks Dinner Classics series and have 3 favorites, which I never tire of. Those 3 are: Dinner for Two, The Italian Album and The French Album. Sunday Brunch would be a close 4th. All these albums have the most lyrical and soothing music, all performed by top rate orchestras. I've bought 40 or 50 classical tapes/CDs over the years, but I keep going back to these Dinner Classics favorites. Dinner for Two is the best of the best! You will never get tired of this most awesome music!

The Best Classical Compilation Ever Created.......2001-04-19

This CD includes some of the most beautiful classical music ever composed, from well known pieces to almost obscure works, resulting in a compilation disc that is yet to be surpassed. The music is perfect for a romantic evening, background for an intimate party or simply personal reflection and relaxation. The music is superbly orchestrated and performed with pure grace.

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SILENT YEARS no more!!!!

Beloved Rogue

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Release Date: 1995-01-19

Tracks:

The Gold Rush: The Silent Years Theme 'Georgia'
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The Gold Rush
Orphans Of The Storm
Blood And Sand
The Silent Years Closing Theme

Customer Reviews:

SILENT YEARS no more!!!!.......2007-07-17

William Perry's wonderful music from THE SILENT YEARS (films from the Paul Killiam collection) charmed me instantly when the series ran on PBS back in 1971. At the time I was fiendishly practicing my classical guitar morning, noon and night and almost nothing could entice me to set the thing down, but the first few notes of the series theme, "Georgia" from the Chaplin film THE GOLD RUSH, did it every time. I looked forward to the films just to hear the wonderful musical scores. Knowing the main themes of LIMELIGHT and MODERN TIMES to be Chaplin's own, I thought for years that Chaplin himself had composed the GOLD RUSH (and series) theme and even at one time ventured to the Library of Congress Music Reading Room to implore the folks there to help me find it. Unsuccessful there (one of the few times I ever was), I did my own arrangement by ear and toyed with it for a few years for fun.

This music is everything one could wish silent film music to be. It's unabashedly romantic, bold and dramatic, warm, engaging and tuneful. It doesn't sound at all dated and has not a hint of the cliche Keystone Cop sound. My favorites are the suites from the THE GOLD RUSH, Barrymore's THE BELOVED ROGUE (a great, great historical romantic adventure film, incidentally) and Valentino's BLOOD AND SAND. Two of the ROGUE themes - the one introduced after Villon's (Barrymore's) father is burned at the stake, which represents the father's spirit, and the love theme - regularly move me literally to tears. Perry is an agile and sensitive pianist and a remarkable composer. He's a brilliant melodist and his feel for dramatic construction is so strong that one is simply swept along breathless. I'm reminded of Schubert's "Wanderer Fantasy" and the characteristic pieces of Albeniz, "Suite Espanola" in particular.

I'm not certain that I saw every one of the 12-15 films in the series (I think I missed INTOLERANCE), but I remember quite well that of all the films I saw, only one, SALLY OF THE SAWDUST, an early W.C. Fields film, had an organ score rather than piano. So, there's at least the possibility that a few more Perry piano score suites could see a CD release someday. Here's hoping for SON OF THE SHEIK and BROKEN BLOSSOMS!!!!

After Dinner Delights: A Little Night Music

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ASIN: B0001IN0ZI
Release Date: 2004-03-02

Tracks:

Four Seasons - Autumn, Allegro - Musici Di San Marco
Four Seasons - Autumn, Adagio Molto - Musici Di San Marco
Four Seasons - Autumn, Allegro - Musici Di San Marco
"Water Music" Excerpts from Suite No. 1, Air
"Water Music" Excerpts from Suite No. 1, Menuet
"Water Music" Excerpts From Suite No. 1, Bourr
"Water Music" Excerpts From Suite No. 1, Hornpipe
Canon in D Major - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Barcarolle, From Tales of Hoffman - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Moderato Con Moto, From Faust - The London Symphony Orchestra
Clair de Lune, From Suite Bergamasque
Allegro, From Mandolin Concerto in C Major R425
Emperor Waltz, Op. 437
Andante, From Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K467 - Mozart Festival Orchestra
Fse - Hugo Steurer

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8-3-1 [CD-single] [Import]

Czech Sacred Music

European Danserye & Ayres

Des Mots Qui Vonts Tres Bien Ensemble [Import]

Constant Lambert: Piano Concerto & Sonata; Li-Po Poems; Mr. Bear Squash-you-all-flat

Christmas Collection

Burn Negative & Give You Positive

Don't Mug Yourself Pt.1 (Enhanced) [CD-single] [Import]

Pressing On

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