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Classic FM - Relax and Escape - The No.1 Collection of Smooth Classics [Box set]

~ Craig Armstrong (Composer), John [1] Barry (Composer), Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Campbell [2] (Composer), Joseph Canteloube (Composer), et al.
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  • Composer: Craig Armstrong, John [1] Barry, Ludwig van Beethoven, Campbell [2], Joseph Canteloube, et al.
  • Audio CD (8 Nov 2004)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Bmg
  • ASIN: B00069I7A0
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 43,731 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Disc: 1
1. Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.14 in C# Minor ‘Moonlight’ - 1st movement
2. Grieg - Morning (from Peer Gynt Suite No.1)
3. Morricone - The Mission – Main Theme
4. Schubert - Ave Maria
5. Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 in A major “Italian” - 2nd movement
See all 13 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major “Pastoral” -1st movement
2. Barry - Out of Africa – Main Title
3. Canteloube - Bailero (from Songs of the Auvergne)
4. Traditional - Suo Gan
5. Stravinsky - The Princesses’ Round Dance (from The Firebird)
See all 11 tracks on this disc
Disc: 3
1. Saint-Saens - The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals)
2. Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor - 2nd movement
3. Tavener - Hymn to the Mother of God
4. Newman - Road to Perdition – Road to Chicago
5. Elgar - Nimrod (from the Enigma Variations)
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Disc: 4
1. Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No.1 in Bb minor - 2nd movement
2. Elgar - Serenade in E minor for Strings - 2nd movement
3. Chopin - Etude in E major Opus 10 No.3 “Tristesse”
4. Rutter - Requiem Aeternum (from the Requiem)
5. Puccini - “O Mio Babbino Caro” (from Gianni Schicchi)
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Classic FM: Relax & Escape is a soothing mix of the finest classical music as heard on Classic FM. Over 3 hours of music split across four CDs and themed for different moods of relaxation featuring some of today's best-loved composers.

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent relaxation!, 28 Mar 2005
By Michael Owen (London) - See all my reviews
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I'll be honest - I don't know the first thing about classical music, but these CDs are ideal for relaxation. I got them for listening on the tube, and can happily say that even for a non-classical listener, these CDs give a nice range of music to keep the blood pressure down, even when the idiot next to you is trying to take over three seats with his newspaper.

This has also served as a nice starting point to get me looking at more complete works by folks like Dvorak and Morricone. If you don't know classical, you'll find you recognise plenty of the music on these CDs, and may find yourself saying "aha, so that's who this is..."

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40 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not Just Another Set of Smooth Classics, 20 Dec 2004
If there's one objection one could have to the regular appearance of the Classic FM box-set, its that all the music is designed to soothe and relax you - where are the upbeat, adrenaline powering numbers? Not all composers spend their time soothing the listener to sleep.

Having said that, this collection is a great way to unwind and contains a number of pieces even the classical music buff might not already have in their collection, Talbot's Cumulonimbus for example, or Reade's Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite (which was indeed the theme music for the programme of the same name, but is a lovely, typically English piece nonetheless and deserving of wider recognition).

Even among the "standards" there are a few surprises - Bailero played on cello rather than being sung, and Che Gelida Manina done orchestrally. As ever there are hits and misses but overall this is the best of the sets thus far in my view, and should set anyone on the road to more lovely music by new composers as well as providing a handy anthology of old favourites.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent variety of classical relaxation, 29 Jul 2008
By Mart Music (Essex, UK) - See all my reviews
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There are numerous great value compilation sets of classical music claiming to have the power of relaxation - Classic FM alone have a few variants such as `Relax', `Relax More' and `Time to Relax' - and all appear to offer the ultimate relaxing experience so it's a difficult task to decide which to buy.

There is no `best' compilation though for it's a matter of personal choice, but there are several advantages of choosing the Classic FM range of relaxation therapy. There is not too much repetition between each set (if there was, we wouldn't buy their next relax release would we?), the recordings are invariably good (and recent) ones, and most importantly they usually offer a selection of some of today's big names in the Classical world.

For the classical novice this is an excellent selection of music, offering the traditional favourites such as Mozart and Beethoven alongside the best of today's living `classical' composers like Patrick Hawes, John Rutter and Karl Jenkins.
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