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The Ultimate Most Relaxing Music for Strings in the Universe may look like a double-disc collection of popular short pieces and excerpts from larger works for bowed strings, but a substantial portion of the program is actually filled with guitar music, a fact not suggested by the appearance of a violin on the cover. Listeners who expect mostly orchestral or chamber music for strings can find some here, but 10 of this twofer's 22 tracks are guitar music, which Denon has sufficiently covered in several of its compilations already. In the universe of classical music, there is a vast wealth of great works for violin, viola, cello, and bass -- not to mention string quartet, quintet, sextet, on up to string orchestra -- so this unnecessarily mixed program is poorly planned and deficient in key works from the repertoire; since even arrangements of piano music have been included, the serious fan of string music may well pass this collection by. For those who do give it a try, this album provides respectable performances by skilled artists, such as guitarist Sharon Isbin, violinist Chee-Yun, the Festival Strings Lucerne, I Solisti Italiani, and others, so the selections are played well and are serviceable as pleasant background music.
© TiVo
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Festival Strings Lucerne, MainArtist
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Franz Schubert, Composer - Shin-ichi Fukuda, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer - London Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist - Chee-Yun, MainArtist - Jesús López Cobos, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Federico Moreno Torroba, Composer - Alexander-Sergei Ramirez, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Erik Satie, Composer - Danceries, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Shin-ichi Fukuda, MainArtist - Eduardo Fernandez, MainArtist - Takashi Yoshimatsu, Composer
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Bryden Thomson, MainArtist - London Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Jean-Jacques Kantorow, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Machiko Kikuchi, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Leopold Hager, MainArtist - Jean-Jacques Kantorow, MainArtist - Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Joaquín Turina, Composer - Alexander-Sergei Ramirez, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Leopold Hager, MainArtist - Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Akira Eguchi, MainArtist - Chee-Yun, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
DISC 2
Francisco Tarrega, Composer - Sharon Isbin, MainArtist
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Jules Massenet, Composer - Chee-Yun, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Fernando Sor, Composer - Alexander-Sergei Ramirez, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Philharmonia Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Charles Groves, MainArtist - CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Shin-ichi Fukuda, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer - Jean-Jacques Kantorow, MainArtist - Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Johann Kaspar Mertz, Composer - Shin-ichi Fukuda, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - I Solisti Italiani, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, MainArtist - Max Bruch, Composer - Boris Belkin, MainArtist - Junichi Hirokami, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Sharon Isbin, MainArtist
℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
Album review
The Ultimate Most Relaxing Music for Strings in the Universe may look like a double-disc collection of popular short pieces and excerpts from larger works for bowed strings, but a substantial portion of the program is actually filled with guitar music, a fact not suggested by the appearance of a violin on the cover. Listeners who expect mostly orchestral or chamber music for strings can find some here, but 10 of this twofer's 22 tracks are guitar music, which Denon has sufficiently covered in several of its compilations already. In the universe of classical music, there is a vast wealth of great works for violin, viola, cello, and bass -- not to mention string quartet, quintet, sextet, on up to string orchestra -- so this unnecessarily mixed program is poorly planned and deficient in key works from the repertoire; since even arrangements of piano music have been included, the serious fan of string music may well pass this collection by. For those who do give it a try, this album provides respectable performances by skilled artists, such as guitarist Sharon Isbin, violinist Chee-Yun, the Festival Strings Lucerne, I Solisti Italiani, and others, so the selections are played well and are serviceable as pleasant background music.
© TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 02:03:27
- Main artist: Various Artists
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Denon
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2009 SLG, LLC This Compilation ℗ 2009 SLG, LLC
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