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Music for a Goddess  Ref: CDG1058

11 tracks 64 min
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Great opera and orchestral classics for an indulgent moment

Soothing and uplifting music for a goddess (domestic or otherwise). An album of music to help get away from it all, bathed in orchestral bliss with works by Mozart, Puccini and Beethoven inspired by feminine perfection. 

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Music for a Goddess

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Opera Classics  Ref: CDG1064

16 tracks 65 min
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Great performances of favourite arias

The greatest operatic arias from historic performances of the twentieth century. Cruso, Tetrazzini and Bjorling are just a few of the incomparable artists that can be heard in music ranging from 'Your tiny hand is frozen' from Puccini's 'La Boheme' to Bizet's unforgettable 'Pearl Fishers' duet.
 

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Opera Classics

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Great Ballet Classics  Ref: CDG1039

13 tracks 67 min
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A celebration of dance and ballet in a memorable programme of musical highlights from the world of theatre, performed by some of the world's great orchestras. 

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Great Ballet Classics

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Console Table  Ref: GM202

This classic console table is delightfully slim, and so easily fits into smaller places like a hallway, where it will give you years of good service. Made from MDF and rubberwood it is supplied in a dark mahogany finish. Comes flat packed for protection and requires very simple home assembly. 91.5 x 74 x 30 cm. Price quoted includes additional delivery charge of £7.00: further standard delivery charge per order added at checkout. UK mainland only. 

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Console Table

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Romance of the Piano  Ref: CDG1009

15 tracks 66 min
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Relaxing piano music by Brahms, Debussy, Chopin, Schubert, and more recorded on a very fine period instrument by Broadwood. 

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Romance of the Piano

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Romance of the Flute  Ref: CDG1008

21 tracks 65 min
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Well-known tunes for flute and piano 

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Romance of the Flute

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Romance of the Harp  Ref: CDG1007

14 tracks 64 min
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The harp is one of the most romantic of instruments. Its sounds can instantly evoke an atmosphere of peace and calm. This collection of Romantic harp music includes music by the greatest composers from one of the finest eras of harp music. 

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Music for a Great Cook  Ref: CDG1133

21 tracks 60 min
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Classics a la carte

Cheerful music to cook by, featuring some of the best Baroque music ever! Put this album on in the kitchen, and let the inspiration fall upon you as you chop and grind, boil and fry! Twenty one tasty tracks to add an extra flavour to your methode de cuisine! Click on image OR HERE for full details

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Music for a Great Cook

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Classical Harp  Ref: CDG1048

17 tracks 60 min
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Gentle, classical tunes played by that most seductive of instruments, the concert harp. Superb new arrangements of masterworks of the past include Pachelbel's 'Canon', Massenet's 'Meditation', Bach's 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' and music by Satie, Boccherini and others to uplift and inspire. 

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An English Country GardenNew Ref: CDG1219

17 tracks, 63 min
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Gentle music for a quiet moment

A welcome break after a hard day's work! The lark, the ash and the English country garden are celebrated in gentle piano music and English folk song. The plaintive oboe and the haunting sounds of the lute and flute add to the atmosphere of calm and contemplation.
 

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An English Country Garden

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Piano Classics for Garden Lovers  Ref: CDG1193

14 tracks 63 min
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Romantic piano music chosen to evoke springtime. This relaxing programme of classics by composers such as Mendelssohn and Schumann includes such masterpieces as 'Spring Song', pastoral-style pieces and charming miniatures which describe spring and its flowers and birds in music. 

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Victorian Music Stool  Ref: GM116

This charming piece is hand carved from solid mahogany (from sustainable sources) and is elegantly upholstered in foam on a rattan base, in a cream cotton damask. 60 x 80 x 40 cm. Price quoted includes additional delivery charge of £12.00: further standard delivery charge per order added at checkout. UK mainland only. 

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The Twelve Days of Christmas  Ref: CDG1021

20 tracks 57 min
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A seasonal collection of favourite carols from a Victorian carol book. Plus Christmas organ music and some high quality arrangements of well-known Christmas tunes. Feel the warmth of a good Christmas celebration, whatever the weather! 57 minutes 

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The Twelve Days of Christmas

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The Christmas Story  Ref: CDG1101

25 tracks 65 min
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Told in great words and music

An inspiring anthology of great poetry and prose read by the BBC's Margaret Howard, and Bernard Palmer, and music ancient and modern sung by the Harlow Chorus. An album all the family will enjoy. 

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The Christmas Story

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Music for a Church Wedding  Ref: CDG1030

18 tracks 68 mins
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An album of music for a special day.

Use this lovely collection of organ music for church weddings to make your own personal choices for your own celebration - and listen to it afterwards as an atmospheric reminder of a unique moment in your life. From Bach to Wagner, there's something to suit everybody. Inside the booklet there's plenty of advice on how to choose music to suit your mood and style and to make sure that another important element of your special day can be just that bit more personal. 

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Music for a Church Wedding

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Forever England  Ref: CDG1108

18 tracks 60 min
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Music for a Green and Pleasant Land

From the Lincolnshire poacher to the famous floral dance, this album is a celebration of the English countryside. Folksy and nostalgic, it provides a gazeteer of favourite English places: those quiet corners where life, even in today's hectic world, has seemed to stand still. 

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Forever England

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Country Living  Ref: CDG1109

21 tracks 68 min
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A Musical Tour of Rural Memories

Favourite tunes from the world of broadcasting, along with some of the best of British light music create an album with a distinctly country flavour, from Barwick Green (The Archers) to The Sleepy Lagon (Desert Island Discs). A delightful evocation of English country life. 

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Country Living

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Spirit of the Sea  Ref: CD201

32 tracks 125 min
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2 CDs - 'Sea Shanties' and 'Spirit of Discovery'

Rousing songs from the age of sail combine with classical music on a nautical theme for the armchair sailor. The old sea dog can sit back and relax to famous songs and nautical music, without any danger of getting his feet wet!
 

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Spirit of History  Ref: CD202

3 CDs - 'Tudor and Stuart Spirit', 'Georgian Splendour' and 'Victorian Vision'

This fascinating journey through four centuries of Britain's musical history takes us from Henry VIII's 'Greensleeves' and Purcell's 'Trumpet Tune' to Handel's 'Harmonious Blacksmith' and the exquisitely nuanced work of Gilbert & Sullivan. 

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Under an American Sky  Ref: CDG1142

17 tracks 66 min
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Music for the wide open spaces

Great things are done when men and mountains meet (William Blake)
From Charles Ives to classic Coolidge, this program of evocative American music captures the essence of the American spirit and its relationship to the landscape. 

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Under an American Sky

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American Impressions  Ref: CDG1143

18 tracks 61 min
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Piano music by American composers

Contrasting music rooted, like American painting of the late nineteenth century, in the European and American tradition: Charles Griffes was the first American 'Impressionist' composer while Macdowell took the American landscape and its scenes as his inspiration. 

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Sweet Music for Bathing  Ref: CDG1088

20 tracks 63 min
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Sublime sounds for relaxing moments

Pamper yourself - or a friend - with this luxuriant album of sweet music from a more seductive age. From slow dances to gentle songs of love, this programme includes 'O mistress mine', 'Sarabande', 'Hark, hark, the lark' and 'Beneath the myrtle shades'. 

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Sweet Music for Bathing

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Coming from the Mill  Ref: CDG1188

10 tracks 62 min
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A musical evening for L.S. Lowry

A programme of classical music featuring works which were played for L.S. Lowry's 77th birthday celebrations at a Hallé orchestra concert in Manchester, plus a varied selection of gramophone recordings by other composers and musicians that Lowry listened to at home: Beethoven, Mozart, and opera sung by that great diva, Maria Callas.
 

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Coming from the Mill

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Some Corner of a Foreign Field  Ref: CDG1082

30 tracks 64 min
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Poetry and Music of the Great War 1914-1918

The horrors of the Great War produced some of the finest British poetry of the century. Poignant readings are combined with music of great power in a moving album, full of humour, irony, and terror in equal measure. 

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Some Corner of a Foreign Field

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Gilbert & Sullivan  Ref: CDG1105

23 tracks 68 min
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D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Authentic recordings of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performing highlights from three of Gilbert & Sullivan's best-loved operettas, filled with humour, pathos, wit - and a whole host of jolly good tunes! 

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My Heart's Desire  Ref: CDG1060

20 tracks 61 min
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Love songs and ballads form the Elizabethan age

Great romantic ballads and airs from sixteenth century England by Dowland, Campion, Rosseter and Holborne, accompanied by viols, lutes and recorders in an evocative programme full of feeling that brings the Tudor age to life. 

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My Heart's Desire

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Travels with my Lute - Lynda Sayce  Ref: CDG1114

31 tracks 68 min
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Fine Renaissance music

The gentle lute: played by one of Britain's leading virtuosos, Lynda Sayce, this programme draws together the best lute music of the Renaissance, contrasting the different regional musical styles which emerged during the golden period of lute composition. 

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Travels with my Lute - Lynda Sayce

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Winter Lullabies  Ref: CDG1155

16 tracks 64 min
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Howard Goodall

An exciting major new commission from the pen of composer and TV star Howard Goodall, framed by famous, gentle, approachable music for winter and Christmas, sung by the heavenly boys' voices of Christ Church cathedral choir 

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Winter Lullabies

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Bandstand  Ref: CDG1129

20 tracks 72 min
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A musical walk in the park

Strolling along on a Sunday afternoon, we can hear the band in the bandstand playing favourite melodies and musical highlights from the world of stage and screen. Superb musicaians create a sparkling evocation of the world of the brass band. 

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Bandstand

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Sea Shanties  Ref: CDG1024

26 tracks 65 min
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Rousing songs from the age of sail

A cheerful collection of songs from the sea for the armchair sailor. Sea shanties were often sung to help with the repetitive and back breaking tasks neede to sail a big ship - good rhythms, good tunes and good words. 

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Oriental Garden  Ref: CDG1096

15 tracks 62 min
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The romance of the East in music

All the mystery, exoticism and romance of the East is found in this glorious evocation of an oriental garden. The music includes the lush harmonies of 'Sheherazade', the passion of Delibes' 'Lakme' and the heady excitement of Saint-Saens' 'Baccanale'. 

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1. Christmas Meditations
2. A Ceremony of Carols
3. Folk Music of the British Isles
4. Angelic Voices
5. The Christmas Story
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