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My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast) Best Price: $5.98 In a watershed moment for Columbia Records, this original Broadway cast recording began the... | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Best Price: $3.99 If you like strange and creepy sounding music, this is an excellent soundtrack. I heard the... | Moondog - Moondog 1 & 2 Best Price: $12.75 I can't believe I never even heard of Moondog until this week. I heard this double CD at a... | Bach: Magnificat; Easter Oratorio Best Price: $5.94 Andrew Parrott conducts the Taverner Consort and Players is a very affordable set of discs that... | 100 Best Sacred Works Best Price: $13.97 |
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Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort Best Price: $7.08 The mind boggles when listening to Purcell. Certainly his was a genius that could vie with any... | Alan Jay Lerner - My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast) Best Price: $1.99 In a watershed moment for Columbia Records, this original Broadway cast recording began the... | Alan Jay Lerner - On A Clear Day You Can See Forever: The Original Broadway Cast Recording Best Price: $7.49 I wore the original LP of this show out from constant play...a wonderful, tuneful score that... | Charpentier: Te Deum; Messe de Minuit de No?l Best Price: $4.97 MARC-ANTOINE: 'OF YOU I AM FOND!'
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1645-1704) was the most... | Purcell: Theatre Music Best Price: $28.98 Imagine the stupidest, most formulaic Hollywood movies you can think of: cheesy action pictures,... |
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Handel: Judas Maccabaeus Best Price: $14.37 Harmonia Mundi is one of the best labels in the world, but very expensive, especially with the... | Bach: St. John Passion; Mass in B Minor; Easter Oratorio; Ascension Oratorio Best Price: $20.96 When I purchased this 5-disc set by Andrew Parrot, I had failed to notice that this recording is... | Bach: St. John Passion Best Price: $11.59 Very nice recording indeed.
Stay away from it if you like a big choir, Parrott performs a... | Purcell: The Fairy Queen / Harrhy, Nelson, Priday, Smith, Thomas, Varcoe, Gardiner Best Price: $25.44 TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE POT!!
'The Fairy Queen', an adaptation of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer... | Monteverdi: Madrigals / Rooley, The Consort of Musicke Best Price: $11.49 This is a very fine presentation of some of the greatest madrigals ever written. Part of a whole... |
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Handel: Semele /Burrowes * Kwella * Priday * D Jones * Denley * Penrose * Rolfe Johnson * Davies * Lloyd * Thomas * Monteverdi Choir * English Baroque Soloists * Gardiner Best Price: $15.72 Semele is a comic opera in my own view, much as Don Giovanni is a `dramma giocoso'. The... | Handel: Messiah; Athalia; Esther; La Resurrezione Best Price: $35.49 | Bach: St Matthew Passion - Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury 3CD Best Price: $30.00 A PASSIONATELY SUNG PASSION INDEED!!!
Bach (1685-1750) was a Lutheran, who was specifically... | Hallelujah: 35 Great Sacred Choruses Best Price: $14.44 I originally bought this cd because I needed more sacred voice works in my music collection. I... | Street Scene: An American Opera Best Price: $7.38 I list this in both my Musicals and Opera.. I read a review , not of this production,, but of an... |
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Purcell: The Fairy Queen Best Price: $7.88 | Handel: Susanna (Highlights); Theodora (Highlights) Best Price: $13.20 The excerpts from Susanna are from the complete Harmonia Mundi recording which won a Gramophone... | Handel: 4 Coronation Anthems Best Price: $12.80 FOUR GREAT CHOIRS AND CHANCE AND KIRKBY TOO! WOW!!!
These 2 discs offer the music of 3 ... | Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / London Baroque - Medlam, Chiaroscuro - Caudle Best Price: $12.97 This work by Monteverdi is often considered the first opera. As a composer, Monteverdi is a... | Handel - Orlando / Bowman, Aug?r, Kirkby, Robbin, Thomas, AAM, Hogwood Best Price: $44.98 Handel - Orlando / Bowman, Aug?r, Kirkby, Robbin, Thomas, AAM, Hogwood is a splendid recording... |
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Robert Johnson: Shakespeare's Lutenist Best Price: $16.99 | Mozart - Great Mass in C Minor / Aug?r, Dawson, Ainsley, Thomas, AAM, Hogwood Best Price: $10.37 All of the previous reviews of this gloriously sung mass are correct: the period band is slight... | English Church Music (3 CD Set) - William Byrd, Pelham Humfrey, Orlando Gibbons Best Price: $15.95 | Boyce: Secular Masque, etc. Best Price: $17.98 | Monteverdi: Madrigali erotici Best Price: $6.05 This 1982 release from the Consort of Musicke is NOT included in the 7-CD bargain box of... |
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Mozart Portrait Best Price: $23.23 I believe this to be the best performance of Mozart's Requiem Mass! | Jarhead Best Price: $8.24 I am reading all the negative reviews of this soundtrack, and most of them mention the absence... | Handel - Serse / Malafronte, J. Smith, Milne, Bickley, Asawa, D. Thomas, Ely, McGegan Best Price: $34.97 This is one of the truly great Handel opera recordings of the last twenty years. As usual,... | Handel: Messiah Best Price: $43.97 This is the best recording ever made of Messiah. Don't listen to people who say that some of... | Classical Top 1000 Best Price: $118.53 I love this collection! The variety and the balance of these performances makes every CD its own... |
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Haydn: The Masses Best Price: $98.50 I concur with the first reviewer about everything in this Box-Set, except the Lord Nelson-Mass,... | Handel - Messiah ? Israel In Egypt / Taverner Choir & Players, Parrott Best Price: $21.97 As a chorister who has sung Handel's Messiah numerous times, I have come to love this work, and... | Handel: Messiah Best Price: $7.63 Price is good, and performance is good, but slow than other current performers. | The Wishing Tree: Choral Music of Robert Maggio Best Price: $12.95 | Handel - Messiah ? Israel In Egypt / Taverner Choir & Players, Parrott Best Price: $21.97 As a chorister who has sung Handel's Messiah numerous times, I have come to love this work, and... |
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Handel - Almira / Monoyios, Rozario, Gerrard, Fiori musicali, Lawrence-King Best Price: $17.92 I came across this opera while researching a graduate paper on oboe obbligato in Bach, Handel,... | Nicholas McGegan - Handel - Theodora / Hunt, Minter, Lane, J. Thomas, D. Thomas; McGegan Best Price: $109.99 First of all, it's too bad that Harmonia Mundi has "retired" it's McGegan recordings... | Purcell: Dido & Aeneas / Kirkby, Thomas, Nelson, Taverner Players, Parrott Best Price: $11.45 I am a big of early music. In particular, I enjoy early music done on original intsruments. ... | My Fair Lady Best Price: $6.29 In a watershed moment for Columbia Records, this original Broadway cast recording began the... | Bach: Cantatas 82, 202, 208 Best Price: $14.97 |
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Gabrieli: Symphoniae sacrae II, 1615 Best Price: $6.96 This is a recording that I have known about for many years, but has not been available since the... | J. S. Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden; Easter Oratorio This CD is probably the best single-disc example of the controversial one-voice-per-part... | J. S. Bach: Christ lag in Todes Banden; Easter Oratorio This CD is probably the best single-disc example of the controversial one-voice-per-part... | Monteverdi: Sacred Vocal Music Best Price: $14.96 | Baroque England Best Price: $20.22 |
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Music From The Time Of Elizabeth I Best Price: $16.99 | Handel - Judas Maccabaeus / de May, Saffer, Spence, Thomas, Asawa, Philharmonia Baroque Orch., McGegan This is a wonderful recording of Judas Maccabaeus. I must say, it is so beautiful, that I am... | Gardiner Purcell Collection - Hail ! Bright Cecilia Best Price: $14.49 We must be living in a great time for Purcell lovers. Can there be too many good performances... | Purcell: Dido & Aeneas /Bott * Kirkby * Ainsley * Thomas * Chance * Baird * Priday * Stowe * Lochmann * AAM * Hogwood Best Price: $16.99 GREAT CHORAL SINGING ON THIS DISC!
Joseph Kerman, in 1952, described this opera as a... | A Treasury of English Song Best Price: $6.10 This is an interesting CD. It includes a few songs by many English composers. |
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Handel - Aci, Galatea e Polifemo / Kirkby ? Watkinson ? D. Thomas ? London Baroque ? Medlam Best Price: $49.84 This is not the English masque _Acis and Galathea_ but an earlier effort on the same story... | Handel Arias for Cuzzoni, Durastanti, Senesino & Montagnana / Saffer ? Hunt-Lieberson ? Minter ? Thomas ? PBO ? McGegan As some really interesting McGegan recordings silently disappear, buy it NOW, without... | | | |