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Midnight Adagios | 
 enlarge | Creators: Janos Starker, Miklos Perenyi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Georges Bizet, Alexander Borodin, Johannes Brahms, Max Bruch, Joseph Marie Canteloube, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Edward Elgar, Gabriel Faure, Fritz Kreisler, Franz Liszt, Alessandro Marcello, Jules Massenet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach
Label: Decca
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 112117
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000030302
UPC: 028947500421
EAN: 0028947500421
ASIN: B000095J89
Release Date: May 13, 2003
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Romance: Andante | | • | Adagio sostenuto | | • | Chanson de nuit | | • | Pavane, Op. 50 - Faure | | • | Notturno: Andante | | • | Wiegenlied (Lullaby), Op. 49 No.4 - Brahms | | • | Berceuse Romantique (Caprice) - Kreisler | | • | O silver moon | | • | Adagio un poco mosso | | • | Adagio (excerpt) | | • | Intermezzo | | • | Largo | | • | Excerpt | | • | Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No.2 - Chopin | | • | Excerpt | | • | Gymnopedie No.1 - Satie |
Disc 2
| • | Air on a G string | | • | Clair de Lune (Suite Bergamasque) - Debussy, Claude | | • | Meditation | | • | Andante | | • | Andante (excerpt) | | • | Adagio | | • | Adagio | | • | Larghetto | | • | Adagio | | • | Consolation No.3 - Liszt | | • | La Nuit, l'Amour: Adagio sostenuto | | • | Romance | | • | Barcarolle |
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| Customer Reviews:
Enjoyable - but not beddy-bye music June 7, 2003
E. A. Lovitt (Gladwin, MI USA)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
"Midnight Adagios" advertises itself as featuring "over two-and-a-half hours of the world's most relaxing music" and while it is beautiful music it is not particularly relaxing. The dynamic changes from track to track--something I find in all musical compilations from disparate sources--are too great. I constantly have to fiddle with the volume control when going from track to track. For instance, on CD 2 of this two-CD set, if I get the volume just right for track 1, Bach's "Air on a G String," then track 2 (Debussy's "Clair de Lune") is almost completely inaudible.'Adagio' means 'at ease' or 'slow'--somewhere in between 'largo' and 'andante'--but it doesn't necessarily mean 'soft.' There are a few forte movements on both CDs that seem to occur just as I am finally drifting off to sleep. That's why I wouldn't recommend this album to those who are looking for music to lull them to sleep. "Cello for Relaxation," "Celtic Lullaby," and "Soothing Harp" are all very soporific CDs if sleep is what you're searching for. Other than the above caveats, "Midnight Adagios" is wonderful music to paint by or cook by (when I'm not fiddling with the volume control). There are a total of twenty-nine tracks interpreted by such artists and ensembles as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Pilar Lorengar, Kiri Te Kanawa, The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, etc. etc. CD 1 begins with Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (how could it not?), the andante movement (oops, what happened to adagio?), and ends with Satie's "Gymnopedie No.1." CD2 begins with Bach's "Air on a G String" and ends with Offenbach's "Barcarolle. You've probably heard all of the musical offerings before except, perhaps, for the Marcello "Oboe Concerto." So if you can be lulled by the familiar, serene in the knowledge that the music won't send any adrenaline racing through YOUR bloodstream, then maybe you will find "Midnight Adagios" to be a truly relaxing experience.
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