A Celebration of Defining Moments in Recording History

Leos Janacek (Composer), Federico Mompou (Composer), Robert Schumann (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Erik Satie (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Niccolo Paganini (Composer), Edward Elgar (Composer), Maurice Ravel (Composer), Benjamin Britten (Composer), Gustav Mahler (Composer), Sergey Prokofiev (Composer), Modest Mussorgsky (Composer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Heitor Villa-Lobos (Composer), Claude Debussy (Composer), Hector Berlioz (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Francis Poulenc (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Leos Janacek, Federico Mompou, Robert Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, et al.
• Audio CD (September 7, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: EMI Classics
• ASIN: B0002VEQIY
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,534 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #48 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Symphonies > Sinfonia
  • #90 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Languages > French

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Sinfonietta - Simon Rattle

2. El Combat Del Somni - Victoria De Los Angeles

3. Piano Concerto - Sviatoslav Richter

4. Don Giovanni - Carlo Maria Giulini

5. Eroica - Otto Klemperer

6. Gymnopedies - Aldo Ciccolini

7. Don Carlo - Placido Domingo

8. 24 Caprices - Itzhak Perlman

9. Liederkreis Op.39 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

10. Cello Concerto - Sir John Barbirolli

See all 18 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Bachianas Brasileiras - Heitor Villa-Lobos

2. Die Zauberflote - Herbert Von Karajan

3. Preludes II - Walter Gieseking

4. Symphonie Fantastique - Sir Thomas Beecham

5. Il Trovatore - Maria Callas

6. String Quartet - Alban Berg Quartett

7. Wesendonck-Lieder - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

8. Horn Concerto No.3 - Dennis Brain

9. Fidelio - Otto Klemperer

10. Piano Concerto In G - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, and so cheap!, March 16, 2005

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Bennett Ostroff (Jenkintown, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Celebration of Defining Moments in Recording History (Audio CD)

In response to the reviewer below, yes, some of the recordings do not have the best sound quality. But that's not what this is about, it's about great recordings of the century.
There are two discs, each with about 18 tracks, averaging about 4 minutes each, of excerpts and individual movements of the some of the most famous of the 150 "GROCs."

In the booklet it has a few interesting (sometimes not that interesting) facts about each of the 150 performances.

If you don't mind excerpts of pieces or isolated movements, this would be a worthwhile purchase, especially for the bizarrely reasonable price.

2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cover & contents don't match -- please note, December 25, 2009

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Timothy L. House "Tim in Mich" (Wyoming, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Celebration of Defining Moments in Recording History (Audio CD)

i did not buy this yet, but note: the cover says, "150 of the world's greatest" and "two bonus CDs included", but ... there are only 2 CDs total with 37 selections in this set. i don't know if it's part of a series or what, but initially i thot i'd be getting 150, which was appealing. 37 of the 150 = less appealing.

4 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not that great, November 18, 2004

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JOHN BUNYAN "Objective judge" (Springfield, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Celebration of Defining Moments in Recording History (Audio CD)

If this is supposed to be an album of "the greatest" -- I wasn't too impressed. The quality didn't seem that good and the selections, well, not all that popular to my mind.