Rating: - The one to get if you don't know beans about classical music
These disks will not please the audiophile or the classical music expert. They will not amaze your friends. They also won't fetch your paper or paint your house.

That's not their job.

They WILL, however, give you a very broad and listenable selection of some of the best music ever written, at an extremely reasonable price. They're a wonderful set to reach for when it's a sunday afternoon and you need something to listen to while you paint the kids' room, or when you've got that romantic dinner all made and your love will be home any minute, or when your brain cells will explode if you worry about ONE more thing. Mozart (in the person of disk 6 of this set) has sold two houses for me -- just put the disc on before they tour and it sets the perfect mood.

There is a lot of classical music out there, much of it better recorded than this. Not that the sound quality is bad, it's just not great, and there are lots of classical recordings that ARE great. They will also cost you more than half the price of this set for one disk. If what you want is a nice "starter set" of some classics, this is a good way to go. Then if anything here excites you, go ahead and explore from there. For this reason this set also makes a nice gift for any classically-challenged friends you may have.

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