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 | Do we really need another Tosca in English? Forget the question, because if you think we do, you'll want this set regardless of its qualities or flaws. But if you're skeptical, you should give this a... [More information about Puccini: Tosca...] |
 | Customer Review: As a student in history I'm well familiar with the "everything-used-to-be-better" syndrome, and unfortunely it seems to me that all to many Wagnerians suffer from it. The... [More information about Richard Wagner: Die Walküre...] |
 | This comes from a radio broadcast from RAI in Turin in 1967, when both soprano and tenor were at their freshest. Despite some luscious, ardent, full-throated singing, particularly in the second-act... [More information about Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor...] |
 | Customer Review: SOURCE: Live performance from La Scala in Milan, March 5, 1955.
SOUND: Weak, inadequate, antiquated, muffled, limited and frustrating. I am reminded of the output of the first... [More information about Bellini : La Sonnambula...] |
 | Customer Review: My wife passed awau in Jan.1999. This month (March) Ifound a letter from she had mailed in 1948 to me in which she said in part "It just go'es to show what being truly in love... [More information about Bluebird Of Happiness...] |
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UPC: 789368614622
Manufacturer: Myto Records Italy [More information about Bellini: Norma...] |
 | Customer Review: Henze es uno de los autores del pasado siglo XX que aun sobrevive, al menos al momento de este escrito. Controversial por sus composiciones, por ser, al igual que Ligeti o Boulez, de... [More information about Hans Werner Henze: The Bassarids (Die Bassariden)...] |
| Customer Review: This is a live recording of a recital that Caballé gave at the Château du Tholonet, France on July 25, 1974. Her voice is in great shape and she phrases masterfully. Being in... [More information about Montserrat Caballé: Opera Arias...] |
 | Customer Review: This CD is a very good selection of pieces from a number of well known composers featuring the horn. The performances are also very good. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys the... [More information about The Instruments Of Classical Music: The Horn...] |
 | Customer Review: This has nothing to do with the late Thomas Schippers, and thats a good thing. Conducting the esteemed Vienna Philharmonic is the great Maestro Karajan. He takes the tempi with... [More information about Verdi: Il Trovatore...] |
 | Customer Review: With all due respect to the previous reviewer, it appears that he has missed the point.
By about a mile.
The title of this set is not "Highlights from 'I Lombardi alla prima... [More information about Renata Scotto & José Carreras Sing Giuseppe Verdi...] |
 | Customer Review: This is a very good CD for people who follow Birgit Nilsson's development. It contains live performances from 1949 (Ariadne auf Naxos - Nilsson sang Ariadne!!) to 1977 (Dyer's Wife... [More information about Birgit Nilsson Sings Richard Wagner & Richard Strauss...] |
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Artist: Francesco Cavalli
Artist: Michel Corboz
Artist: Felicity Palmer
Artist: Colette Alliot-Lugaz
Artist: Chorus and Orchestra of the English Bach Festival
Artist: Ulrik Cold
Artist: Yvonne... [More information about Cavalli: Ercole Amante...] |
 | Customer Review: Unforgettable -- if you're too young to remember these singers, it's mandatory. Proof of the decline in great voices. Even Bonaldo Giaiotti and Gianfranco Cecchele (who, you say)... [More information about I Grandi Concerti...] |
 | Phalanxes of woodwinds, organs, and voices pulse through Philip Glass's most famous opera like nothing so much as a migratory flock engaged in acrobatics overhead. There is no center to the kinetic... [More information about Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach...] |
 | Satyagraha remains, decades after its composition, one of Philip Glass's most traditional works. An emphasis on strings and on courtly, European-toned small choruses lends the opera a sense of... [More information about Satyagraha...] |
 | Customer Review: Akhnaten is a modern masterpiece in every way, and deserves a place in the standard repertory. Forgoing conventional narrative structure, this opera explores the controversial reign... [More information about Akhnaten...] |
 | Customer Review: I heard this album for the first time at a restuarant in Florence during my trip to Italy. I was surprised it was from the US beacause it has captured the very soul of Italy.... [More information about Dinner Classics: The Italian Album...] |
 | Customer Review: Knowing very little about classical music, I bought several march compilations a few years back, in hopes that I could develop at least a fanboy level of appreciation. Of the... [More information about Marches: Greatest Hits...] |
 | Customer Review: This may be the cleanest recording of a live concert I've ever heard, making it an exceptional showcase for such beautiful voices. I've heard Cynthia Lawrence live and this CD... [More information about The Three Sopranos...] |
 | Customer Review: As the title of the recording suggests, these are small-scale pieces for violin and piano from various composers and musical eras. Perlman, as usual, displays great virtuosity and... [More information about Itzhak Perlman - Bits and Pieces / Samuel Sanders...] |
| This is the ultimate Italian greatest hits collection. Included are such beloved classics as "Mala Femmena," "Volare," "Lazy Mary," "Mama" and "Arrivederci Roma."No Track Information AvailableMedia... [More information about Viva Italia! Festive Italian Classics...] |
 | Customer Review: Percy Grainger was a man of spectacular gifts. He was one of the most original composer/arrangers in the early part of this century. He was also a spectacular pianist in an age of... [More information about Percy Grainger Plays Grainger...] |
 | Customer Review: So shoot me. I like bagpipe music and I like fife and drum recordings and I like brass bands. Recently cruisin' the Internet brought me to the website of a company called Summit... [More information about Music of the Civil War...] |
 | This sampler, which appeared in 1997, features Robert Shaw, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and its associated choruses in selections from some of the choral-orchestral blockbusters they recorded for... [More information about Absolute Heaven: Essential Choral Masterpieces...] |
 | Jussi Bjoerling is the one who makes the magic happen in this Cavalleria Rusticana with a finely worked-out profile of Turiddu, as well as some matchless singing. Zinka Milanov also sings... [More information about Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana...] |
 | Customer Review: Lucrezia Borgia is a beautiful opera and this set - the first
studio recording - does it full justice. Opinions on who was
the best bel canto singer - Callas/Sutherland/Gencer/Sills... [More information about Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia / Perlea, Caballé...] |
| Customer Review: This is an amazing recording of "Salome" and quite possibly the greatest recording Montserrat Caballe' ever made of a complete role. Despite her identification with Italian opera... [More information about Richard Strauss: Salome...] |
 | Customer Review: America's "diva di tutte le dive" soprano Leontyne Price rarely sang the German operatic repertoire onstage - "Die Kluge" "Die Zauberflaute"Ariadne auf Naxos" - throughout her... [More information about Leontyne Price sings Strauss Arias...] |
 | Customer Review: This unassuming budget classic reissue is among the finest of its genre: The Wagner orchestral highlight album, and features the contents of 1973 LP recital the farthest thing from... [More information about The Best Of Wagner...] |
 | Customer Review: THIS RECORD A TRULY A MASTERCLASS OF THE ART OF SINGING HAVING SEEN AND HEARD MANY SINGERS IN MY LIFETIME IN MANY OPERA THEATERS OF THE WORLD I KNOW THAT FRANCISCO ARAIZA IS ONE OF... [More information about The Romantic Tenor...] |
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UPC: 715702504922
Manufacturer: Phonographe Records [More information about The Great Sopranos...] |
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UPC: 723721791025
Manufacturer: Classics for Pleasur [More information about Flowers in Music...] |
 | Opera is in fashion, and the woods are full of pop vocalists who think they have the chops to sing arias. The best contender so far is Andrea Bocelli, who at least has a real voice, if a small one,... [More information about Viaggio Italiano / Andrea Bocelli...] |
 | Customer Review: At an age when most mezzos are doing local theatre, studying, and dreaming of perhaps one day doing Tancredi or La Cenerentola, 22-year-old Cecilia Bartoli recorded this collection... [More information about Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini Arias / Patanè...] |
 | Customer Review: Opera fans will be more than satisfied with this studio recording dating from 1967 starring Birgit Nilsson as the larger than life Tosca, Franco Corelli as her lover Mario... [More information about Puccini: Tosca...] |
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