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a little dinner music

I would love your help in selecting a few CD's that would play well in the background during a nice evening meal with friends. I am looking for music with limited dynamic range so that it can play with fairly uniform softness, generally upbeat in tone, and very beautiful.
Some I like are Japanese Melodies,Rampal flute on Denon. Distant Songs, Barry Gordon,piano on Telarc, Haydn 3 Piano Sonatas, Schriff on Denon, and I Ching Synphony, Steiner on Real Music.
Thanks
Joe
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ajahu
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A few cds, which I think would fit to your needs:
Handel Violin sonatas, Pauk-Hungaraton,
Telemann, metodische sonaten, sony seon,
Chopin - any solo piano music with Rubinstein,
Bach Wohltemperiertes Clavier- Schiff Andras,
French viloni sonatas, NAxos
sogood51
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"Houston Person"....mellow tenor saxophone

"Chris Botti"...mellow trumpet

Dave
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jond
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Any recordings by Bill Evans, especially "Waltz for Debby" and "Sunday at the Village Vangaurd". Perfect mello, lyrical, and intimate dinner music. Have fun!
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dekay
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Vince Guaraldi and Bill Evans are always nice.

Also look for "The Astaire Story" (Fred Astaire singing with Oscar Perterson, Barney Kessel, Charlie Shavers, Flip Phillips, Ray Brown and Alvin Stoller).

The 1952 Astaire recordings have generated the most interest from guests.
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