Strauss Buy New: $11.98 This recording of Strauss’s Four Last Songs is superb – for the most part. This is a gem of a disc. The Four Last Songs are among the most beautiful things Strauss ever wrote, and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf gives a heartfelt and poignant rendition of these apopemtic lieder. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf […]
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Wagner Buy New: $16.98 Karajan’s appearance with Jessye Norman and the Vienna Philharmonic at the 1987 Salzburg Festival produced one of the great Wagner discs of all time, capped by a seething, compelling, white hot realization of the “Liebestod.” Karajan knew he had something here, and listening to the performance is likely to leave you […]
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Paganini Buy New: $10.99 This slam-bang, take-no-prisoners account of the Paganini Caprices is just the thing for a rainy day. Considered the last word in virtuoso violin technique when they were composed–and still quite a challenge today–these delightful miniatures each get played to the hilt by Perlman, reveling in their technical intricacies while also […]
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Guero Buy New: $11.99 Now that Beck has effectively exorcised his personal demons with 2002’s hyperconfessional Sea Change, he can get back to the business of being a total fruit loop. We all know what that involves: videogame sound effects, random shouting in Spanish, and rhymes about popsicles and vegetable vans. And that’s just the […]
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Waltons Irish Tin Whistle This is Irish folky instrument. Very easy to play.Includes a D whistle and 6-language instructional leaflet that includes 20 popular Irish and international tunes. Related: All the World Traditional Instrument
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