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by: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Georges Bizet, Luigi Boccherini, Alexander Borodin, Johannes Brahms, Fryderyk Chopin, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak

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Average Rating: Rating: - Relied heavily on reviews for purchase- not dissapointed I wanted to select a "best of" classical music compilation and read through Amazon's reviews to make my selection. This CD met my needs perfectly. If the songs are edited, I can't tell. Many are familiar but not "cliche". The version of "Canon in D" included is a little too fast for my tastes, and that is my only dissapointment. Transistion from song to song is smooth with the exception of the sleep-inducing "Moonlight Sonata" being immediately followed by the bombastic "March of the Toreadors". The use of human voice (opera) is limited, I feel, to those songs which were originally written to include it. (Ex: Halleluja Chorus). Rating: - DON¿T BUY IT! Like many of you, when I first bought this, I was new to classical music. Since it had a good customer rating, I thought it would be a good purchase. It was a waste of money. Half the songs on the CD are songs that have been worn out by commercials and other Hollywood productions (like the "Lone Ranger" song). The biggest problem with this CD set is that most of the songs are incomplete. And even those incomplete songs contain variations of the same worn out classical tunes. This CD set is definitely not worth the money. Rating: - A solid sampler to get one started As a simple beginning introduction to classical music, this affordable dual CD is a solid sampler. Taking many easy to recognize pieces, the editors have identified where one may have heard them before. Certainly almost all these works have been heard in several famous and well known films. I bought it solely to be able to hear a full orchestration of one of Satie's Gymnopodea's. And needless to say the performance of that particular piece is exceptional here. I have also used this CD and its many selections in my drama classes to provide stimuli for many types of scenes: improvisational and formal alike. It also helps greatly as mood music for rehearsal and preparation. Certainly "Carmina Burana" really makes Shakespeare's "Once More into the Breach" speech from Henry V rock and roll. Is this an end all and be all collection? Absolutely not. But it is a great place to begin.

Best of the Millennium: Top 40 Classical Hits Music

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