Editorial Product Review:Album Description:The #1 Guitar Album features the best-loved and most popular works for guitar--the world's most popular instrument! Featuring a 'who's who' of the world's greatest guitarists including Andrés Segovia, John Williams, Julian Bream, Paco PeÀa, Pepe Romero, Alexandre Lagoya, Narcisco Yepes, Göran Söllscher and more! Best-loved 'classical' hits from Rodrigo, Dowland, Vivaldi and Marcello as well as stirring Flamenco music! Includes great arrangements of the most popular melodies from Bach & Bizet to Lennon & McCartney! 35 tracks--over 21⁄2 hours--on 2 jam-packed CDs. Here are the melodies and tunes everyone knows ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:The #1 Guitar Album features the best-loved and most popular works for guitar--the world's most popular instrument! Featuring a 'who's who' of the world's greatest guitarists including Andrés Segovia, John Williams, Julian Bream, Paco PeÀa, Pepe Romero, Alexandre Lagoya, Narcisco Yepes, Göran Söllscher and more! Best-loved 'classical' hits from Rodrigo, Dowland, Vivaldi and Marcello as well as stirring Flamenco music! Includes great arrangements of the most popular melodies from Bach & Bizet to Lennon & McCartney! 35 tracks--over 21⁄2 hours--on 2 jam-packed CDs. Here are the melodies and tunes everyone knows ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:The #1 Guitar Album features the best-loved and most popular works for guitar--the world's most popular instrument! Featuring a 'who's who' of the world's greatest guitarists including Andrés Segovia, John Williams, Julian Bream, Paco PeÀa, Pepe Romero, Alexandre Lagoya, Narcisco Yepes, Göran Söllscher and more! Best-loved 'classical' hits from Rodrigo, Dowland, Vivaldi and Marcello as well as stirring Flamenco music! Includes great arrangements of the most popular melodies from Bach & Bizet to Lennon & McCartney! 35 tracks--over 21⁄2 hours--on 2 jam-packed CDs. Here are the melodies and tunes everyone knows ...
Editorial Product Review: :One of the great singers of our time, mezzo Susan Graham has just finished recording a disc for Onyx Classics featuring 22 of her favorite French melodies by 22 different composers. Chosen with her accompanist Malcolm Martineau, this disc is both a perfect introduction to this rich, sensuous musical world and the perfect compendium of French song of over 100 years. Susan Graham commented: ' I'm delighted to have made this recording for Onyx as it's full of music that's very dear to me and that I love to perform. I ...
Editorial Product Review:From the label:: On its spectacular debut recording, the exciting young British vocal group stile antico presents a program of English Renaissance music associated with the office of Compline, the service that ends the monastic liturgical day. A who's-who of 16th-century British composers--including Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, and John Sheppard--is represented here by hymns, antiphons, responsories, motets, and psalms: the occasion not only for music of intimacy, elegance, and reflection, but for flights of breathtaking canonic and contrapuntal invention and harmonic daring. Stile Antico is an ensemble of young British singers, fast ...
Editorial Product Review: :This offbeat disc of seasonal songs and carols by the Anonymous 4 will delight their fans and please everyone else. The 19 selections include traditional folk melodies and texts, some of which date back to the Middle Ages, interspersed with fitting selections by contemporary composers including John Taverner, Benjamin Britten, and Peter Maxwell Davies, whose ethereal a cappella A Calender of Kings gets its first recording. Andrew Lawrence-King, playing Irish harp, Baroque harp, and psaltery with his accustomed finesse, is a major reason for the disc's success, accompanying most of the vocals ...
Editorial Product Review: :David Russell was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but his family moved to Spain while he was still a young boy so he could study music in the birthplace of classical guitar. On Reflections of Spain, Russell plays the music of his childhood home with all the joy you would expect from someone revisiting a beloved place. Russell's formidable technique is powered by a keen intelligence and tempered by an emotional delivery. He plays chestnuts like Tarrega's 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' and Albeinez's 'Austurias' with a fond intimacy that rescues them from cliché. ...
Editorial Product Review: :David Russell was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but his family moved to Spain while he was still a young boy so he could study music in the birthplace of classical guitar. On Reflections of Spain, Russell plays the music of his childhood home with all the joy you would expect from someone revisiting a beloved place. Russell's formidable technique is powered by a keen intelligence and tempered by an emotional delivery. He plays chestnuts like Tarrega's 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra' and Albeinez's 'Austurias' with a fond intimacy that rescues them from cliché. ...
Editorial Product Review: :Two of John Rutter's most popular large-scale choral works are paired in this bargain-priced CD. Requiem, his first composition written without being commissioned, is a convincing affirmation of Christian doctrine on death and eternal life. It is also a substantial and sincere work that strives to be widely appealing while preserving a spiritual context centered on themes of light and consolation. Highlights include 'Out of the Deep,' its modal tune and harmonies giving it the flavor of a spiritual, and the wonderfully gentle and restful 23rd Psalm. Rutter personalizes his Requiem by ...
Editorial Product Review: :The great Yo-Yo Ma has recently (in addition to his world music explorations) moved to the baroque cello, a so-called period instrument, and his transition has been remarkably smooth. He is indeed a musical polyglot, and this CD finds him solidly in the heart of the Baroque period, with music by Vivaldi. In addition to three concerti the composer wrote for cello, there are some fascinating transcriptions. The Largo violin solo from the 'Winter' concerto of the Four Seasons is here beautifully played on cello, its darker tone added substituting gravity for ...
On paper, the Mio DigiWalker P550 looks to be an attractive gadget for the mobile professional, combining the capabilities of a PDA and GPS into one device. However, its poor battery life and subpar navigation skills tell a different story.
Though it won't appeal to the masses quite yet, the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is a nice, portable device for on-the-go Web browsing, and it has some worthy upgrades.
Diesel vehicles have nearly a 50-percent market share in Europe, thanks to tax incentives and diesel-friendly legislation across the EU. Diesels are so passé there that you can buy a BMW 730d and no one will think it odd that your luxury car burns oil. Pull up in a diesel 7-Series in America and people would leer at you like you've alighted from an amphibious vehicle reeking of saltwater and dead trout.
But now, thanks to the oft-reported combo of newly-raised CAFE standards, not-so-newly-raised gas prices, and the 50-state diesel engine, GM, Ford, and Chrysler are about to dip more than a hesitant toe into the diesel game. Chrysler offers a diesel in the Grand Cherokee, but soon all three automakers will offer diesels in their best-selling lineups of light trucks -- the Dodge Ram 1500 is expected to offer a 50-state diesel after 2009. Light trucks are being used to lead the charge since those buyers stand to gain the most with the least amount of (perceived) sacrifice.
Diesels currently have 3.2-percent of the American market. Some estimates put them at 15-percent by 2015. That's a huge leap, and diesel still has plenty of hurdles. Diesels will come with a cost premium over gasoline-engined cars. That should be easy enough to conquer -- incentives and some quick cost and longevity calculations should convince people of the benefit. The real hurdle is the nagging issue of perception. The plan will probably be to attack that with a price that makes the proposition unbeatable. Said Chrysler's director of environmental affairs, "If it's priced right, we can sell diesel here. Diesel can give you an immediate poke in fuel economy -- 20 to 40 percent. Not many technologies can deliver that today."
Diesel vehicles have nearly a 50-percent market share in Europe, thanks to tax incentives and diesel-friendly legislation across the EU. Diesels are so passé there that you can buy a BMW 730d and no one will think it odd that your luxury car burns oil. Pull up in a diesel 7-Series in America and people would leer at you like you've alighted from an amphibious vehicle reeking of saltwater and dead trout.