Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music

Edvard Grieg (Composer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Antonio Vivaldi (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Jacques Offenbach (Composer), Leo Delibes (Composer), Claude Debussy (Composer), Johann II [Junior] Strauss (Composer), Aram Khachaturian (Composer), Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Alexander Borodin (Composer), Sergey Rachmaninov (Composer), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer), Antonin Dvorak (Composer), George Gershwin (Composer), Arthur Fiedler (Conductor), Leopold Stokowski (Conductor), Leonard Slatkin (Conductor), Alexander Schneider (Conductor), Richard Kapp (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Conductor: Arthur Fiedler, Leopold Stokowski, Leonard Slatkin, Alexander Schneider, Richard Kapp
• Composer: Edvard Grieg, Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, et al.
• Audio CD (July 19, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003FQB
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #102,231 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Humans Are Classically Stubborn, May 16, 2001

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Gypsychick "gypsychick" (miami, fl USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music (Audio CD)

We humans are quite a stubborn bunch. Once we get something in our heads, it's hard to change our minds. I have been a life "shunner" of classical music. A pseudo snob, I couldn't waste time on music I couldn't.....A. Dance (poorly) to, or...B. Sing (horribly) along with. Yet in galleries, museums, or theatres, I would hear strains of truly beautiful music and would think "I just have to find out what that is!" Then, of course, I didn't. I finally forced myself to purchase this CD at the urging of my 12 year old and I fell in love. YOU know all of these pieces. YOU'VE heard them every time you cried during a tear-jerker or strolled through a museum. And YOU like them, you really, really like them. The CD has become one of my favorites and actually induced me to buy more classical music. The name of my new purchase? "MORE Classical Music For People Who Hate Classical Music." Hey -It's a start. Give this one a listen, it will seem like an old friend has come to visit. And you just might learn something.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The title says it all., August 27, 1999

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This review is from: Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music (Audio CD)

This CD is good for those who do not regularly collect classical CD's. If you don't really know much about classical music, but would like just a taste, this CD is for. This album is also good for those who love classical music, I bought it because it had all of my favorite classical works all on one CD. I can play a song at a get together and everyone there has heard the song some where at some point in their lives.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worthy on any level, January 22, 2002

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Dana T. Nelson (Phoenix,, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music (Audio CD)

I bought this cd for my father about 3 years ago. My father loved classical music. Actually, one might consider him quite the snob about classical music. Pop (was 83 at the time) and I (48 at the time) spent many an occasion listening to this wonderful cd. It has enough variety and familiar pieces (and yet, not the regular stuff) that we could let it play again and again and still be delighted with the pleasure that it brought to us both. I am listening to it even as I write this review. Buy, buy, buy! It is a PERFECT gift.