Karl Haas' Romantic Piano: Classical Music Collection for Relaxation & Study | Perfect for Home, Office & Meditation

Adventures In Good Music was a GREAT show: it taught listeners how to approach listening to some of the world's best Classical music. It's a crying shame that so far this appears to be the only installment available on CD, for Haas was not just a good pianist, but also had a rare gift for drawing ordinary people into the worlds of the extraordinary composers whose works he featured. While he also has a book on how to listen to Classical music available, I find that offering pedantic in marked comparison to this CD, which makes the "high art" of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Debussy (whose Claire De Lune Hass also treats as "Romantic" -- fully explaining exactly why) accessible to the Everyman and Everywoman on the street. No need to be able to read music, and no lecture on orchestral timbre, just a quiet afternoon chat between you and a professional musician about what it is about some of his favorite works which inspires him, in language which is almost certainly created many a new fan for this music played "on wooden instruments that play songs from a thousand years ago," as a character on a favorite TV show of mine once put it. Perfect as a gift or for yourself, this is a rare find: I advise you to scoop it up while you still can.