This attractive three-CD compilation does exactly what it claims to do--that is, contain more than three hours of relaxing music. Surprisingly, it also includes a few left-field gems in with the usual suspects, thus in addition to Grieg's "Morning" from the Peer Gynt Suite No.1 (smoothly played by the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra) and "Vocalise" by Rachmaninov (USSR Symphony Orchestra) ...

Manufacturer: Classic FM

Manufacturer: Classic FM.(Export

Manufacturer: Guild

Between 1935 and 1981 a nativity play made up of music, readings and drama was presented at the family home of conductor John Eliot Gardiner in Fontmell Magma, Dorset. Gardiner's enterprising parents were apparently able to persuade local schoolchildren, farmers and farmhands, local actors and amateur musicians to prepare performances of 16th-century polyphony, readings of Milton, and French and ...

Manufacturer: Philips

Manufacturer: Classics

Beethoven called it a miniature orchestra, and it was one of the few instruments that Berlioz knew how to play. With such a distinguished history, it's surprising that only a small number of composers have taken the guitar seriously. But the ones that have are well represented here, and could hardly find a better exponent for their music than one of the few guitarists to have made it into ...

Manufacturer: Sony Classical

Shelves may be groaning under the weight of the dozens of chillout/smooth/calm classical compilations available but they are going to have to make room for another, The Very Best of Relaxing Classics. A quick glance at the tracklisting reveals the usual suspects--Pachelbel's Canon in D, Barber's Adagio for Strings and the slow movement of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto ...

Manufacturer: Universal Classics

Manufacturer: Telstar

Manufacturer: The Full Works

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