 | Romance of the Violin [Read More ...]
Description: Every track on this CD contains a beautiful melody, many of them easily recognizable, all of them exuding tranquility. "O mio babbino caro" from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi opens the disc, with Bell delicately accompanied by a harp and spinning the long melody with great sensitivit... |
 | Pure [Read More ...]
Description: Comparisons with Charlotte Church are inevitable, yet 16-year-old New Zealand singer Hayley Westenra has her own distinctive sound. She has impeccably clear diction coupled with a gorgeous voice with a very wide range: her high notes in the Kate Bush hit "Wuthering Heights" are e... |
 | The Very Best of Thomas Hampson [Read More ...]
Details TBA. EMI. 2005. |
 | Romance Of The Violin (Live From New York In Concert) [Read More ...]
Description: CD AUDIO SIDE: Entire Album DVD SIDE: * Entire album in Enhanced LPCM Stereo * Video of highlights from Joshua Bell Romance of the Violin Live from Lincoln Center with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra * Complete Discography This disc is intended to play on standard DVD and CD play... |
 | Classic Kennedy [Read More ...]
Description: Just in case you thought Nigel Kennedy--fresh from his Hendrix tribute album--had left the classical music repertoire for good, think again. On Classic Kennedy, the fiddler is situated with the English Chamber Orchestra in a program that spans from Bach to Satie. (Yes, you also ... |
 | Re: Bach [Read More ...]
Description: Two things must be said immediately: (1) Lara St. John is a spectacular violinist and (2) any resemblance between the music on this disc and that of J.S. Bach is largely incidental. True, Bach himself freely arranged and re-used his works in other contexts, and this is often cite... |
 | Janácek: Chamber Music & Orchestral Works [Read More ...]
Review: An Excellent Value:The five-star rating for this set is at least in part because it is a splendid bargain. Not every performance is the ultimate: Paul Crossley's piano playing is very fine but it doesn't banish the memory of Firkusny or Schiff. And there are better recordings of ... |
 | Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King for male voice & chamber; Miss Donnithorne's Maggot [Read More ...]
Review: Terrifying:i have listened to the "Eight Songs" three times in my life. I'd say about once every ten years is a good estimate of how often it should be heard. i cannot imagine what it must be like live. I have seen Marat/Sade live, and it was overwhelming, but it's not in the sa... |
 | Baroque and Contemporary Trumpet [Read More ...]
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 | Janacek - From the House of the Dead / Mackerras [Read More ...]
Review: Definitive performance of original score:How do you make an uplifting opera out of a group of exhausted, demoralised, malnourished prisoners stuck in the Nineteenth Century equivalent of a Stalinist Gulag? Let Janacek show you how.
This is a piece where practically nothing happe... |
 | Wind In The Bamboo Grove [Read More ...]
Review: Marimba Magic:This is a fine CD that comes from one of the most prominent solo percussionests. Evelyn Glennie makes percussion music of this caliber seem easy to perform.Glennie shows her talent of improvisation in the first selection, titled "Michi". This is my favorite piec... |
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| Janacek - From the House of the Dead / Mackerras [Read More ...]
Review: Definitive performance of original score:How do you make an uplifting opera out of a group of exhausted, demoralised, malnourished prisoners stuck in the Nineteenth Century equivalent of a Stalinist Gulag? Let Janacek show you how.
This is a piece where practically nothing happe... |
 | Operetta Arias / Hampson, LPO, Welser-Möst [Read More ...]
Description: Here is a great opera and lieder singer in a light vein. One might suspect that Thomas Hampson, famous for his high seriousness and dramatic projection, is slumming, but his glorious voice, superb vocalism, incredibly clear German diction, and infectious enjoyment give even the c... |
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 | Pure [Read More ...]
Description: A major artist in her native New Zealand, with a performance portfolio that includes the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Russell Watson. Hayley's voice so inspired New Zealand opera diva Dame Malvina Major she offered to tutor her. The first edition of this album was one of the fa... |
 | Historic Organs of Connecticut [Read More ...]
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