 | The #1 Opera Album [Read More ...]
Description: The labels that are now gathered under the Universal Classics umbrella have a pretty impressive scorecard in the area of classical compilations. We've seen The Greatest Opera Show on Earth, The Yellow Guide: Classical Music, Best of the Millennium, and now there's The No. 1 Opera... |
 | The Ultimate Puccini Collection [Read More ...]
Description: Ordinarily, it pays to be wary of collections such as these, which often promise a lot but deliver a mishmash of disconnected excerpts. This disc, however, is something of an exception: you really do get just about all of Puccini's best arias, which is possible, because he didn't... |
 | Puccini and Pasta: A Romantic Italian Feast for Your Ears [Read More ...]
Review: Carerras and ladies are fabulous:Your listing for this CD leaves Jose Carerras off the performer list. These recordings were made when all these people were young, unsullied lyric artists, and are sensitive, powerful and masterful-as good as it gets. This CD is for anyone who lov... |
 | Violin Adagios [Read More ...]
Wonderful:An excellent compilation of folk tunes and violin concerto adagios, played masterfully by some of the world's most revered musicians. Features modern pieces (Korngold, Barber), which are a personal favorite of mine. |
 | Classic Julie: Classic Broadway [Read More ...]
clasic julie classic broadway:this is not one orf her best recordings, her voice is not what is used to be, buy only if you're a true follower of her. nelson |
 | Movie Adagios [Read More ...]
Good Peaceful Music:It is good driving music, it is a breath of fresh air in a hectic world. |
 | The Greatest Opera Show on Earth [Read More ...]
Description: This really is a remarkable collection, and anyone even remotely interested in opera is bound to be vastly entertained by it. Almost everything and everyone is here, albeit in small doses: Tebaldi, Pavarotti (a lot), Bjoerling, Bartoli, Sutherland, Solti, Karajan, Troyanos, Gheor... |
 | Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever [Read More ...]
Description: Disc 1: Selections from Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, and Song and Dance Disc 2: Selections from Starlight Express, Requiem, Phantom of the Opera, and Aspects of Love Disc 3: Selections from Joseph nad the Amaziong Technicolor Dreamcoat, By Jeeves, Sunset Boulevard, Whis... |
 | Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill [Read More ...]
Review: Affecting but oversold:Prompted by both friends and reviewers, I've tried to learn to like Ute Lemper's Weill, but after valiant efforts, I must say I don't. She has great facility, it's true, in several languages, and she knows the timbre of a song and works hard to put it acros... |
 | Greatest Hits [Read More ...]
Patti Austin and Gregory Hines Are Brilliant:I own the Hollywood Bowl Gershwin CD and I love it. I was surprised by it. Play the samples if you can but the singing and sound are clear and crisp and you can understand every word. |
 | Super Estrellas de la Opera - Super Stars of Opera (2 CDs) [Read More ...]
Review: Fantastic, A +, gold star:Wow. In the last year I have transformed into an opera Maniac with the help of the cd. It's got all the greats - Pavarotti, Fleming, more Pavarotti - as well as the other greats - Puccini, Mozart, Verdi - compiled to produce the single most inclusive 2... |
 | Weill - The Threepenny Opera / Kollo · Adorf · Dernesch · Lemper · Milva · Reichmann · Tremper · Boysen · RIAS · Mauceri [Read More ...]
Description: The son of a cantor, Kurt Weill was one of the 20th-century lyric stage's great innovative geniuses. With Die Dreigroschenoper, he and collaborator Bertolt Brecht (and Brecht's often unacknowledged partner Elisabeth Hauptmann) created a cultural landmark that is still the mos... |
 | Bernstein: Candide / Mauceri, Eisler, Mills, Lankston [Read More ...]
Additional lyrics by John LaTouche and Stephen Sondheim. |
 | Korngold: Das Wunder der Heliane [Read More ...]
Review: Astonishing! A real find:I will admit to having listened to this wonderful recording only a couple of times and am hence still sorting out in my mind what I think of it and what its real strengths and attractions are, but I am so surprised and delighted by it that I shall attemp... |
 | Angela Gheorghiu - Arias [Read More ...]
Review: To me, her best:I have several CDs of Gheorghiu. This is the one I prefer. I also have the DVD of her and her husband in Elisir. It was entertaining, but like in her Casta Diva disc, I didn't think her coloratura passed muster. I thought her singing in the Verdi disc was anem... |
 | Ute Lemper sings Kurt Weill, Vol. 2 [Read More ...]
Review: es war das schoenste .......:While volume 1 may be a slightly more consistent album, volume 2 ranks among one of my favourite lemper recordings because some of my favourite songs are on this very album; j'attends un navire from the musical marie galente is just superb, perhaps my... |
 | Porgy & Bess [Read More ...]
Description: This is the first recording of George Gershwin's classic to incorporate the composer's final revisions for the 1935 premiere. Apparently it differs from the original published score though it won’t sound all that different to a layman who’s heard the versions dating from the... |
 | Very Best Of Relaxing Classics [Read More ...]
Great Stuff!:This CD features some of the most beautiful operatic music ever written; the title track, "O mio babbino caro," is worth the price right there. For people who like the glorious melodies of opera but aren't that fond of the vocals, this is a great choice. |
 | Bizet: Carmen [Read More ...]
Description: This is a problem recording, and even fans of Leonard Bernstein and Marilyn Horne will find it odd. The Maestro's tempi are weirdly slow, Horne sings the role note-by-note rather than phrase-by-phrase, and when she finally does decide to emote, in the final scene, she sounds like... |
 | The Music Survives: Degenerate Music [Read More ...]
CD Video boxed set. Londn Rec. CD sample of wks by compose rs banned by Nazi regime. 40 min. vid. documentary of how & why these composers were labelled degenerate by Nazis. Never-before-seen cover art by Art Spiegelman (Maus). |
