Best Classical Passacaglias
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If you just find 8 new recordings in this for your collection, the set will have paid for itself."
"If you are interested in baroque and earlier music, this is the set for you."
"This is an absurd bargain - very high quality stuff (nearly all the recordings are from the 90s) covering an enormous range, and at a low low price."
"The recordings are wonderful performances captured in the highest audiophile quality."
"There are few words that can describe the breath and quality of this wonderful set."
"Although I had some problems receiving the product, Grandmafred answered all my doubts and provided the solutions to all the drawbacks."
"I collected a few of these recordings over the years when they were first released, so when I saw this set come up for sale I ordered immediately."
"I have bought much of this music in individual CD's at many times the price, and so this collection represents a terrific value. The thing has 50 CD's and weighs close to four pounds and is housed in a formal presentation box, and they pathetically wrap it in a paper backed bubble wrap--with absolutely NO BOX--and send it media mail. This set does not use jewel cases--if it had, the plastic shards would have just poured out (as has happened several times in the past with these corner and cost-cutting affiliated sellers). It is terribly frustrating: you have to either do a send-back (and you'll have to find your own shipping box), or accept an expensive item which is in tatters. After this experience with this set (Movie Mars offered me a $5 credit--which I obviously declined), I have decided that in the future I'm just going to spend the extra dollars and buy directly from Amazon."
Bach: Great Organ Favorites with E. Power Biggs by E. Power Biggs.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Biggs did the same organ's 2nd phase inaugural....just like night and day!"
"Bach's "great" organ pieces are eternal -- and I am eternally grateful that they are played so masterfully by E. Power Biggs."
"I always come back to Biggs, and this selection is Biggs at his best: clear, and clearly recorded, a superb organ, and a dramatic flare for the "big pieces" that is anything but flashy, but simply "right.""
"I too, am waiting for Sony to come out with his recording from St. George's Episcopal church...that was a great recording."
"I have heard this organ live at Harvard and this recording has faithfully preserved its exceptional sound."
"This way I can turn up the volume on my stereo that have two massive speakers and that makes me feel I am there in person at the recording hall, listening to Biggs' playing."
"I had this album years ago on a vinyl LP and have ;lost it over the ages and moves etc."
"Well, if anyone has ever heard any selections by E. Power Biggs there is no need to express how great his selections are."
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor; Sleepers Awake; Art of the Fugue , and Bach's greatest preludes, trio sonatas, fantasies, passacaglias, chorale settings and more are all here, played on the Great Organ of St. Laurenskerk, Alkmaar, Netherlands and the Silbermann Organ in the Church of the St.-Pierre-le-Jeune, Strasburg.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Just this: No one carries the musical line more consistently; separates the individual lines on the different registers more cleanly; understands the importance of the space between each note with more profound understanding. His stop choices are unique to Walcha and may seem odd on first hearing, for someone coming from contemporary and/or academic ("authentic")performances."
"Years ago, I had some of Walcha's recordings of Bach's organ music on the Archiv label, on LPs of course."
"Everything already written is spot on: the registrations are fantastic, the playing and interpretation are nearly flawless, the sound is very good."
"Excellent recording from this great performer!"
"Great recordings."
"I like Walcha's 'selfless' performance and his careful choice of instruments."
"Helmut Walcha expresses the Bach I love!"
Best Classical Grounds
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"If you just find 8 new recordings in this for your collection, the set will have paid for itself."
"If you are interested in baroque and earlier music, this is the set for you."
"This is an absurd bargain - very high quality stuff (nearly all the recordings are from the 90s) covering an enormous range, and at a low low price."
"The recordings are wonderful performances captured in the highest audiophile quality."
"There are few words that can describe the breath and quality of this wonderful set."
"Although I had some problems receiving the product, Grandmafred answered all my doubts and provided the solutions to all the drawbacks."
"I collected a few of these recordings over the years when they were first released, so when I saw this set come up for sale I ordered immediately."
"I have bought much of this music in individual CD's at many times the price, and so this collection represents a terrific value. The thing has 50 CD's and weighs close to four pounds and is housed in a formal presentation box, and they pathetically wrap it in a paper backed bubble wrap--with absolutely NO BOX--and send it media mail. This set does not use jewel cases--if it had, the plastic shards would have just poured out (as has happened several times in the past with these corner and cost-cutting affiliated sellers). It is terribly frustrating: you have to either do a send-back (and you'll have to find your own shipping box), or accept an expensive item which is in tatters. After this experience with this set (Movie Mars offered me a $5 credit--which I obviously declined), I have decided that in the future I'm just going to spend the extra dollars and buy directly from Amazon."