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Summary: Great music listein to while you read in bed
Comment: I have listened to this CD for the last several years before going to sleep at night. I love classical music, and this is great music to help make my soul feel at peace and unwind after a taxing day.
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Summary: A must buy for the non-snobbish classical music fan.
Comment: I bought Vol. 1 of this series and was quite satisfied, but I have to say I'm more than satisfied with this one. If you can just mellow out and enjoy some great pieces, you'll love this CD. #15 on Disc 2 is almost worth the price alone!
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Summary: A bliss of spirit.
Comment: That's disc will open You a wonderful, beautiful world of sounds, their harmony & emotion : you'll feel your heart full of
Joy, Tears, Love.
Good LUCK!
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Boring
Comment: Yes this CD will put you to sleep in minutes. Its the most boring uninspiring classical music. The first CD was very good but this Vol. 2 is like most movie sequels....AWFUL !
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Summary: The Best Review of Anything Ever Written.... Period.
Comment: Classic: Serving as a model of excellence: outstanding. Of lasting historical or artistic significance or worth.The pieces sampled on these discs are among the most popular of the thousands of masterpieces of music composed by man since the dawn of the creative spirit. This is what makes them all "classic". It is not the style, emotion, or set of instruments that determines the "classic" piece, but an immortal quality, inspired and created with the utmost care and perfection. In the words of Salieri "Displace one note and there would be diminishment; misplace one phrase and the structure would fall."
Unfortunately, the producers of this compilation album re-releasing snippets of previous recordings did displace not only phrases but also entire episodes of music. In the film Amadeus, when the emperor told Mozart to "cut a few notes" from one of his operas, the enraged composer exclaimed "But it is perfect as it is! I cannot cut what is perfect!" Being buried in a pauper's grave was not enough of a disgrace; even today, hundreds of years later, the public mocks his ingenious work by "cutting" whole episodes.
Beethoven was notorious for his incredible temper. If a musician performed even slightly incorrectly, off in rhythm or in pitch, he was known to throw heavy statues across the room, smashing them against the wall. It is hard for me to imagine what the immortal spirit of that great man, with all its incredible other-worldly power must be doing right now in Heaven, since the producers of this album did more than merely perform at an unsatisfactory tempo; they removed entire episodes of his music.
Would you watch only 1/3 of a film without seeing the rest? Would that 1/3 make any sense? Would you read only 1/3 of a novel and claim to have understood it or glanced at a third of a painting and said, "That's all I need to see."
The listener can find the opportunity to hear the whole of at least those works that are among the greatest of all time. "What does the average person care about whether or not the work is complete?" Well, does the average person care about the wishes of the artist he/she respects?
Kind regards to the spirit of Beethoven.
Peter Alan
