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The Philips Classics series has many appealing features, not least of which is good value. This series typically offers two CDs for the price of about one-and-a-half. They feature top-rank and often legendary performers. Finally, they are digitally remastered recordings from the sixties and seventies, many of which rank as standard-bearing readings of the classical canon. (more…)

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I remember the day my friend’s young teenage daughter Lee Anne belted out a slightly off-key Karaoke version of her near namesake Lee Ann Womack’s ‘I Hope You Dance’ and introduced me to this strong female Nashville voice. A quick trip to the music store later, I owned the Dance cd, my first prolonged exposure to the somewhat more mainstream sound than is common both to previous and subsequent Womack offerings.

It’s beautiful music, the critics be damned. (more…)

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Mahler’s fourth symphony is perhaps most memorable for its unsettlingly gorgeous second movement,entitled ‘In gemächlicher Bewegung. Ohne Hast.’ (more…)

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A Newsboys worship album is not a Picasso. It is not abstract and perplexing. Music lovers who want profound mystery and enigmatic musical arrangements need look elsewhere. (more…)

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The very first chords of ‘Leaving New York’ assure us that Around the Sun will be classic R.E.M. (more…)

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It is something near to a cleansing experience to listen through the Mozart piano repertoire as performed by Daniel Barenboim. (more…)

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I travel half the time on business. Music is my travel companion. (more…)

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The Parrot CK3100 hands-off car phone kit is not the coolest-looking gadget around. It just works.

Form lags function in this case, but the function is so good that you hardly notice. (more…)

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I spend a lot of time working out of hotel rooms, so this Logitech portable speaker system was a natural. I’ve not been disappointed. (more…)

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Along with all the good stuff in my job, there’s a potential downside: I’m ‘on’ 24/7 in time zones all over the world. One of the reasons I can manage this is my BlackBerry 7105t (T-Mobile).

But you gotta’ manage it or it will manage you. (more…)

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