 | The Most Famous Opera Duets [Read More ...]
Description: This is a misnomer--not all of these duets are all that famous--but it's a fine compilation nonetheless. You'll hear selections from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers (Nicolai Gedda and Ernest Blanc at their most elegant French), Madama Butterfly (Carlo Bergonzi and Renata Scotto--an imp... |
 | Ultimate Classical Christmas Album of All Time [Read More ...]
Review: Breathtakingly beautiful!:Over and over we played "Die Menge der Engel" - - it is stunningly beautiful! The loftiness of the voices, wonderful.
We loved the boys/children's choruses on many of the other pieces on the album. Duets by Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavorati - - mag... |
 | Faure Requiem Op.48 / Durufle Requiem Op.9 [Read More ...]
Description: The chorus is at center of Shaw's reading of the score, presumably the more lightly scored 1893 version that Fauré‚ himself created (Telarc does not specify). The account flows very well, and the work of both soloists is highly satisfying, particularly Judith Blegen's airy sop... |
 | Carl Orff: Carmina Burana [Read More ...]
Description: As much as critics--and many musicians--love to hate this work, Carmina Burana is a uniquely entertaining and justly popular theatrical masterpiece. This collection of 13th-century secular poems, originally found in a Bavarian monastery, were selected, set to original music, a... |
 | The Power & The Majesty: Essential Choral Classics [Read More ...]
Review: I made my son listen to it !!!:A wonderful album. I have several copies of Handel's Messiah, but the performance of the Hallelujah Chorus by Robert Shaw's singers is exceptional, outstanding. I was inspired to have my young son listen to this album: Verdi's "Dies Irae", Orff's ... |
 | Carl Orff: Carmina Burana [Read More ...]
Review: An Unforgettable Musical Feast:Camina Barana
Resurrected by Karl Orff, from the caves of a Monastery in Germany, the manuscripts of a large collection of Georgian Chants were put together, re-scored into the beautiful suite represented here.
Under Eugene Normandy, there is noth... |
 | A Protrait of Frederica von Stade [Read More ...]
Review: a Well-Executed Portrait:Frederica Von Stade is at present my favorite mezzo-soprano out there. This disc gives a wonderful example of her vocal powers and style. If you are a moderate opera/lieder-listener, this cd has many tracks which are pleasant and accessible, however an ... |
 | Alban Berg: Lulu Suite/The Wine/Lyric Suite [Read More ...]
Review: superb Berg, superb Boulez:This is yet another recording that I am finally getting around to hearing on the occasion of Pierre Boulez's 80th birthday year, a superb entry in Sony's PIERRE BOULEZ series, with Boulez leading the New York Philharmonic. The most surprising aspect to... |
![]() | Johann Strauss Jr.: Die Fledermaus [Read More ...]
Review: A sparkling performance, full of fun and great singing:What a joy to find this recording! It was originally broadcast live from the San Francisco Opera in 1973. The cast is Joan Sutherland (Rosalinde), Nolan Van Way (Eisenstein), Judith Blegen (Adele), Ragnar Ulfung (Alfred), H... |
 | Mahler: The Complete Symphonies & Orchestral Songs / Bernstein [Read More ...]
Description: This 16-disc set contains what is without a doubt the most distinguished collection of Mahler performances ever to have been assembled in one place. DG has sensibly collected all of Bernstein's Mahler for Polygram labels, including the London "Das Lied von der Erde," and all of t... |
 | Orff: Carmina Burana [Read More ...]
Review: Overall, a good performance:If this is the copy of Carmina Burana which you are considering to purchase, then I'll say that you're looking at a very good rendition of the work.
Carl Orff's (1895-1982) Magnum opus is just a bit of a Stravinsky rip-off, as many critics have noted,... |
 | Absolute Heaven [Read More ...]
Description: 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 Telarc between 1979 and 1993, in consistently excellent sound. Shaw's unrivalled... |
 | Orff: Carmina Burana [Read More ...]
Review: MTTs Cleveland Carmina Burana - Flash, Fire, Bite, Sensuality:MTT is now the music director of San Francisco, and his ongoing super audio Mahler symphony cycle has been making sonic and musical waves. But way back when, he was a regular Sony label artist, and this odd outing fro... |
 | Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Complete opera); Fischer-Dieskau, Evans, Harper, Blegen, Berganza [Read More ...]
Review: Barenboim i s sluggish, the singers are old, the recitatives are missing:The headline says it all, although in fairness one should say that Barenboim'[s conducting is mostly sluggish, the cast mostly too old, and the recitatives mostly absent. This 1976 prodduction originated in ... |
 | Verdi - Don Carlo / Corelli · Janowitz · Ghiaurov · Verrett · Wächter · H. Stein [Read More ...]
Description: Tenor Franco Corelli never recorded the role of Don Carlo commercially, so this release is instantly valuable. Indeed, the tenor is in magnificent voice: pungent, emotionally forward, thrilling, and only occasionally sloppy. His Elisabetta is Gundula Janowitz, hardly a Verdi sopr... |
 | Puccini: La Bohème [Read More ...]
Review: Who can resist such beauty, and why should you?:Because of the popularity and prominence of "La Bohème" today you might be surprised that it was not received particularly well when it first premiered. However, we love it for many great reasons. The music is beautifully done, a... |
 | Only Opera CD You'll Ever Need [Read More ...]
Short Clips:I am new to Opera and trying to find what I enjoy. I was hoping this CD would lead the way. The clips were too short for me to really get a feel for any song. I would much rather have had fewer tracks and a great selection of songs. |
 | Leonard Bernstein Conducts Haydn (Collectors Edition) [Read More ...]
Review: A great Haydn conductor, not always at his best:One of the remembered joys of my college days was encountering Bernstein's joyos "Creation" and Paris symphonies when they first came out in the Sixties. He brought extraaordinary inner life to all the Haydn he conducted from that ... |
 | The Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach [Read More ...]
Description: These small pieces are what survive of two volumes compiled in the Bach household for the pleasure of Bach's second wife, herself a professional musician, and for her use in teaching music to their children. The recording provides a touching picture of domestic music-making in th... |
 | The Royal Edition Vol. 36 of 100: Haydn: The Creation / Harmoniemesse [Read More ...]
Review: Haydn Via Bernstein:Franz Joseph Haydn's efforts in the symphonic field have sometimes tended to obscure what he achieved in the field of sacred and choral music, which in itself was considerable. This can be accurately gauged on this 2-CD recording by Leonard Bernstein (no stan... |
