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Music from the classroom

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If you simply want some soothing music, this collection of 36 classic and jazz tunes might suit you. But listening to Relaxing Moments you may also realise that your school teachers played most of the tunes in music class.

The ever-changing styles of 17 classical pieces in the first disc is slightly irritating, as i feel that the producers are just packaging famous tunes without thought to the album as a whole.

It starts off with the baroque J.S. Bach, followed soon after by Theme From Schindler's List. The soothing The Name Of Life by Spirited Away is perhaps the only song carrying a fresh, modern touch.

The second disc is better, with its consistent, light-hearted jazz tunes featuring Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Anita O'Cray. But it ends sadly with Baby Come To Me, the duet of Laura Fygi and William So Wing-hong. Typical of international collaborations, the two voices are an unpleasant blend that you want to skip.

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