 | Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $7.27 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, Third Movement. Absolutely engrossing. Haunting harp solo at end will capture your attention.
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 | Evening Adagios by Evening Adagios
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.87 Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana. Simple, melodic, and beautiful.
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 | Jacqueline du Pré · Daniel Barenboim ~ Elgar (Pomp and Circumstance · Cello Concerto · Enigma Variations) by Edward Elgar
Buy used from: $3.77 Elgar: Enigma Variations, Nimrod. Runs the gamut from soft and contemplative to huge and majestic.
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 | Beethoven: The Piano Concertos
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $11.38 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, Second Movement. There's just something about Beethoven's 5ths.
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 | The Early Scriabin by Stephen Coombs
Buy used from: $4.66 Scriabin: Piano Nocturne for the Left Hand Alone. Beautiful and impressive.
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 | Bach - Stokowski
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $13.79 Bach: Air on the G String. A standard. Truly magnificent, though.
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 | Barber: Adagio for Strings/Violin Concerto/Schuman: To Thee Old Cause/In Praise Of Shahn
Buy used from: $2.95 Barber: Adagio for Strings. Actually very similar to the Bach Air. Lush chords and suspensions don't go out of style, even after two hundred years.
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 | Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, etc. / Salamunovich, Los Angeles Master Chorale by M. Lauridsen
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.88 Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium. Maybe the most beautiful choral music ever written.
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 | Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.99 Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals, The Swan. Just a viola solo with simple chords underneath. But great.
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 | Hush
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.99 Rachmaninoff: Vocalise. This CD is a very interesting recording of this standard.
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