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Cecilia Bartoli - Mozart Arias Best Price: $6.00 This is intensely beautiful music-making, deeply felt and exhiliarating for the listener. The... | Albinoni - 12 Concertos, op. 9 / Manze, de Bruine, AAM, Hogwood Best Price: $10.25 I find this to be a very good performance--were I able I'd give it 4 and a half stars. Those... | Verdi: Macbeth Best Price: $14.59 Macbeth is my favorite opera. I have been listening to various performances of Verdi's Macbeth,... | Joan Sutherland - The Greatest Hits Best Price: $6.79 Joan Sutherland is beyong doubt one of the greatest, if not the greatest voice I've ever heard.... | Carlo Gesualdo, The Hilliard Ensemble - Gesualdo: Tenebrae Best Price: $28.85 I've had the original release of this performance in my collection for years, but I'd forgotten... |
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Dvor?k - Rusalka / Fleming ? Heppner ? Zajick ? Hawlata ? Urbanov? ? Czech Phil ? Sir Charles Mackerras Best Price: $29.99 In 1998 Fleming and Heppner were widely accalimed for this, the most vocally resplendent Rusalk... | Bernstein Conducts Candide Best Price: $10.68 This CD is broadcasted on the best level for this music. The singers are a pleasure to hear and... | Rossini - La Cenerentola / Bartoli, Dara, Matteuzzi, Corbelli, Pertusi, Chailly Best Price: $19.99 Even though this is probably the most famous and easiest-to-find "Cenerentola"... | Verdi: Requiem / Sutherland, Horne, Pavarotti, Talvela, Solti Best Price: $150.46 Sonic spectacular
I'm a big fan of Joan Sutherland, so I really went out of my way to get... | Cecilia Bartoli - Mozart Portraits Best Price: $3.95 If I could own just ONE Mozart recital disc, it would be this one. (Though Renee Fleming's... |
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The Best of Luciano Pavarotti: 20th Century Masters/The Millennium Collection Best Price: $5.77 I love this CD. It has the best songs and my favorite one. I listen to it a lot. | English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals Best Price: $6.61 The Italian madrigals on this CD don't do much for me. I don't know if it's because I don't know... | Mad About Italian Opera Best Price: $3.49 "Mad About Italian Opera" is really more like "Mad About Placido Domingo"... | Paris 1998 Best Price: $7.00 The last of the great tenor concerts that is worth watching! | Ewa Podles - Rossini Arias for Contralto Best Price: $6.47 In the 1960's, the great and immortal Marilyn Horne began her astonishing operatic career with... |
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Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame / The Hilliard Ensemble Best Price: $13.54 Having become extremely familiar with the Ensemble Gilles Binchois Messe (which includes the... | Beethoven: 9 Symphonies - Orchestre R?volutionnaire et Romantique / Gardiner Best Price: $44.99 Anyone that gives this collection 3 stars or lower doesn't know what they are talking... | Sentimento: Andrea Bocelli with Lorin Maazel and the London Symphony Orchestra [Limited Edition w/ Bonus Track] Best Price: $6.00 "What I crave most, what I hope to achieve is to communicate with the listeners, to touch... | Venetian Vespers (Monteverdi * Rigatti * Grandi * Cavalli) /Gabrieli Consort & Players * McCreesh This really a fine recording. I bought my copy one sunny Saturday morning in Melbourne in around... | Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Tragic Overture; Alto Rhapsody Best Price: $6.70 I purchased the first movement of the symphony as an Amazon MP3 download. It sounds terrible.... |
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Sarah Brightman - As I Came of Age Best Price: $8.71 Early Sarah Brightman music produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. How cute. It's not her best work... | Mozart - Cos? fan tutte / Cuberli, Bartoli, Rodgers, Streit, Furlanetto, Tomlinson, Berlin Phil., Barenboim [highlights] Best Price: $6.95 This, one of Mozart's finest, most elegant opera, is performed superbly in this recording.... | Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius Best Price: $10.00 Llevaba mucho tiempo tratando de conseguir El Sue?o de Geroncio y ha sido la primera vez que he... | Angela Gheorghiu - Mysterium ~ Sacred Arias Best Price: $8.98 Angela Gheorghiu performs here in 5 different languages, starting with 4 Romanian sacred arias... | Libby Crabtree - Mendelssohn - Elijah / Terfel, Fleming, Bardon, Ainsley, Fulgoni, Paul Daniel Best Price: $22.98 As other reviewers have noted, it might not be the best *total* performance of Elijah (although... |
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Anne Sofie Von Otter - Noel Best Price: $2.58 Leave it up to wonderful mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter to offer a second enterprising Christmas CD... | Marian Anderson Rare and Unpublished Recordings, 1936 - 1952 Best Price: $10.98 This CD with recordings of Marian Anderson between 1936 and 1952, should be heavily promoted.... | Trionfi (Trittico teatrale): Carmina Burana, Catulli Carmina, and Trionfo di Afrodite Best Price: $10.04 Eugene Jochum will be always profoundly associated and better committed with two important and... | Be My Love: Essential Collection Best Price: $6.74 | Pavarotti & Friends 2 Best Price: $8.14 Pavarotti & Friends 2
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Opera's Greatest Love Songs Best Price: $6.34 I bought this for my wife who is an opera buff and she has praised it highly. | Otello / Verdi, Domingo, Studer, Leiferkus, Vargas, D. Graves, Schade, D'Arcangelo, Chung Best Price: $19.99 This 90's Deutsche Grammophone recording of Otello is Placido Domingo's third studio recording... | Darkness into Light Best Price: $15.04 I have never heard anything like this. I listen to this each night, before I sleep. Never do I... | Purcell - Divine Hymns (Harmonia Sacra) / Les Arts Florissants, Christie Best Price: $8.49 There was little or no joy in England between 1620 and 1720, between the lusty Elizabethans and... | Leontyne Price: The Ultimate Collection Best Price: $8.08 Her first appearance at the Metropolitan Opera House was 1961; her national introduction was in... |
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Andrea Bocelli - Romanza (Italian/Spanish Language Edition) Best Price: $5.39 he maybe blind but his voice make it for that lost...he is a very good singer.cd came on time... | Legendary Tenor Best Price: $8.72 I love this CD. It has all the great Mario Lanza songs--"Be My Love,"... | Schubert: Masses Nos. 2 & 6 Best Price: $12.58 Schubert: Masses Nos. 2 & 6 Absolute choral purity and diction make this another of Robert... | Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini Heroines Best Price: $14.75 This is my favorite Bartoli recording. Her rich mezzo-soprano voice feels custom-made for... | A Midsummer Night's Dream / Britten, London SO Best Price: $19.99 Did previous reviewer, Ralph Moore, just call us Pretentious? Just because we say we like... |
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Miracles of Sant'iago: Music from the Codex Calistinus Best Price: $22.65 ... Spain! More precisely, in Galicia, in the northwest corner of Spain, considered in the... | Cecilia Bartoli - Chant d'amour (M?lodies fran?aise) / Myung-Whung Chung Best Price: $6.99 Cecilia Bartoli is a remarkably gifted artist and these performances can hold their own with the... | Handel - Serse / von Otter, Norberg-Schulz, Piau, Zazzo, Tro Santafe, G. Furlanetto, Abete, Les Arts Florissants, Christie Best Price: $18.01 Granted there are many footfall and other noises, so I guess I'll take the other reviewer's and... | Mozart - Mass in C minor / Te Kanawa ? von Otter ? Rolfe Johnson ? R. Lloyd ? Marriner Best Price: $11.23 A magnificent cd. For those who find Te Kanawa a bit lifeless, this will change your view. It is... | Bellezza vocale ~ Beautiful Opera Duets Best Price: $69.50 Purchased for one song: Viens Malika (lockme), but like the entire cd. Purchased a few more... |
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Jennifer Larmore - Where Shall I Fly Best Price: $29.39 'Where Shall I Fly' by contemporary mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore is a big surprise when you... | The Greatest Opera Show on Earth Best Price: $16.22 I just bought my second copy of this excellent CD because I literally wore the first one out. No... | Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates Of Penzance Best Price: $3.49 While the music that is on the CD is good, a several numbers are missing! It's not the full... | Lehar: Die lustige Witwe; Das Land des L??chelns Best Price: $8.97 EMI recorded both of these Lehar operettas in 1953. They were rapturously received and haven't... | Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Rolfe Johnson, Dawson, von Otter, Argenta, M. Nichols, Tomlinson, Chance, Baird; Gardiner Best Price: $23.98 Monteverdi - L'Orfeo / Rolfe Johnson, Dawson, von Otter, Argenta, M. Nichols, Tomlinson, Chance,... |
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4; 5 Lieder Best Price: $8.85 Otto Klemperer was the third and youngest of Mahler's three "protegees" who promoted... | Vesselina Kasarova - Rossini Arias and Duets / Fl?rez, Fagan Best Price: $8.00 Reviewers concentrated mostly on Vesselina Kasarova. Certainly, this is a soprano with an... | Hugo Wolf: Lieder & Orchesterwerke Best Price: $28.25 This box of seven CDs contains recordings by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore of all... | | |