Relax More - from ClassicFM (Classical in general)

Member Name: cheesemonster

Product:	Classical in general
Date:	23/01/01 (146 review reads)
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Advantages: Perfect for unwinding

Disadvantages: None!!

This album is perfect when you?ve had a long frustrating day at work. I love to come home and sit down in a darkened room to listen to this.

It is packed full of some of the most beautiful classical music around. A large proportion of the 3 CDs is quite well known music, such as 'Nimrod' from Elgar's Enigma Variations, 'The Swan' from Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, and Grieg's 'Morning' from Peer Gynt. Then there are pieces you will recognise from films, like the theme from Schindler's List (by John Williams), which has one of the most haunting violin melodies I have ever heard, and the theme from 'The Deer Hunter'.

Then there are lesser heard pieces, ranging from movements fromRachmaninov's 2nd symphony (if you haven't heard this, you're missing out big time), Mozart's Clarinet concerto, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Mendelssohn, Ravel, Beethoven and a wonderful arrangement for voices of Barber's Adagio for Strings.

This album 'does exactly what it says on the tin'. It is really relaxing and lovely to listen too, and as well as containing popular well known classics, strikes a great balance with not so well known pieces and 'different' arrangements. It's a truly uplifting listening experience.

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