Author: Sensual Classics

Features:

• SENSUAL CLASSICS: OVER 75 MINUTES MUSIC

Format: Import

Release Date: 11-05-1993

Details: Product description 1. Piano Concerto No.2: Adagio Sostenuto 2. Carmen: Intermission To Act 3 3. Mandolin Concerto In D Major: Adagio 4. String Quartet No. 2: Notturno 5. Piano Sonata Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight': Adagio Sostenuto 6. Oboe Concerto, Op.9 No. 2: Adagio 7. Spartacus: Adagio 8. Daphnis and Chloe: Lever du Jour 9. Symphony No. 5: Adagietto 10. Le Carnaval des Animaux: Le Cygne (The Swan) 11. Symphony No. 5: Adagio 12. Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 In E Minor 13. The Firebird: Berceuse 14. Kinderszenen: Dreaming 15. Bolero 16. Suite In D Major: Air Amazon.ca The cover photo to this disc shows a woman ripping the clothes off her lover. That's how we know that the Adagio Sostenuto from Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 is about sex. So goes the logic here. But the disc's droopy account of the Entr'acte to Act III of Bizet's Carmen by Lorin Maazel and Orchester National de France lights no fire. The Adagio from Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto in D major has been piped into shopping malls for too many years for it to awaken much beyond the urge to buy shower curtains and blue jeans. Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder is pretty convincing in his account of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Op. 27, and much has been made of the work's dedication to the lovely 17-year-old Countess Giulietta Giucciardi. As to the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony, I always thought it was about something other than sex. Silly me! --Gwendolyn Freed

UPC: 745099005528

EAN: 0745099005528

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood