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1.		Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works from British Composers Price: £3.97 Customer Review: I JUST WANT TO AGREE WITH EVERY WORD THAT MR JORDAN HAD SAID ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR RECORDING, NOT JUST OF 'THE LARK', BUT OF SERENADE TO MUSIC ALSO. IN FACT I JUST LOVE EVERYTHING ON THIS ALBUM! I BOUGHT MY VINYL COPY IN THE EARLY 70'S AND IT IS NOW SO WORN OUT THAT I DECIDED TO LOOK TO SEE IF A CD... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		Vaughan Williams - Complete Symphonies by London Philharmonic Orchestra Price: £15.47 Customer Review: and I like the box too: I can always pick it out among the other VW sets ;-) A wonderful evocative 3rd, a tense war study. Not very pastoral, nor bucolic or lyrical: I do not agree much with Vernon Handley's interpretation. Rather it is the past remembered, resigned melancholy that something... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Holst: The Planets / Elgar: Enigma Variations from EMI Classics Price: £4.97 Customer Review: This version of The Planets has replaced my recent LSO version. Why? Well, the balance between the contributing elements is the best i've heard so far: The bass is thunderous analogue and the high woodwind/strings are like crystal in equal measure. This is a superb achievement and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		The Only Classical Album You'll Ever Need from Classics Price: £6.98 Customer Review: The budget price doesn't reflect the quality of this 2 disc collection of classical music highlights, for the soloists, orchestras, conductors and the recordings themselves ensure it is a good quality selection of mostly familiar music from the classical music repertoire. The choices lean... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		The Only Choral Album You'll Ever Need from Victor Price: £8.48 Customer Review: I've always enjoyed choral music but never really been sure what it was I was listening to, apart from the really well known tunes, some of which, shamefully, I recognised from adverts or films. Many well known ones are included here of course, such as "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana, the "Chorus of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary from Venture Price: £10.98 Customer Review: Having your name extended through qualifications and growing a moustache Dali himself would be proud of does not grant you default access to the soul. High brow nothingness disguised as profound music easily sways sheep. Drop the education, open your heart, and wake up.	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		The Only Opera Album You'll Ever Need from RCA Victor Price: £8.48 Customer Review: The tracks on this cd are excellent and well worth the money. I get worried about the packaging of this sort of disc though because it reminds me of Tesco's attempt to sell wine to the masses by renaming a mediocre chablis as 'Good with meat' or whatever. If this was called 'Fine Opera' or 'An Opera... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		On the Banks of Green Willow from Belart Price: £4.48 Customer Review: I first heard 'The Banks of Green Willow' as incidental music to a BCC 'Lorna Doone' in the 1960s and wrote to the BBC to find out what this achingly beautiful piece was. 'A Shropshire Lad' is even better. The poignancy is intensified when you know that Butterworth (the dedicatee of Vaughan... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Film 100 by London Philharmonic Orchestra Price: £9.98 Customer Review: If you're looking for any CD's with movie music, this would be my first, and only, stop. There's something for everyone, and although stuff like the Indiana Jones theme is missing, and the opera CD (Disc 5) is a little week, the likes of "Ride of the Valkiryies" and "Ode to Joy" is just timeles, and... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Vaughan Williams - Complete Symphonies etc from EMI Classics Price: £20.47 Customer Review: The VW symphonies have done remarkably well on disc. Complete cycles by Previn, Haitink and Tod Handley all make substantial claims. Individual symphonies from Richard Hickox, Andrew Davis, Vaughan Williams himself and, of course, 'Glorious John' Barbirolli (as VW christened him) also demand... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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