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Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen (Wilhelm Furtwangler, Italian Radio 1953, EMI) Best Price: $54.99 There is not really much that I can add on to what other reviewers have already said, but I can... | Rossini - Tancredi / Podles, Jo, Olsen, Spagnoli, di Micco, Lendi, Zedda Best Price: $11.81 I remember feeling certain misgivings when I purchased this recording when it was first issued... | Mozart - Requiem / Panzarella, Stutzmann, Pr?gardin, Berg, Les Arts Florissants, Christie Best Price: $8.00 I will only listen to Baroque music performed on authentic instruments. In my opinion, the... | Christmas Music From Medieval Hungary Best Price: $5.19 No this isn't really Christmas music. Most of the pieces are antiphons which don't hold... | Songs You Love - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Best Price: $8.14 This is not quite a greatest hits collection, but of the 29 songs, many if not all served the... |
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Puccini Heroines Best Price: $12.95 Diva assoluta American soprano LEONTYNE PRICE has enjoyed a long association and identification... | Strauss: Die Fledermaus Best Price: $19.99 De nuevo una gran version de los clasicos de Straus un gran album y grandes interpretes | Christmas Hymns & Carols: You Do Something to Me Best Price: $8.83 The sound quality of this CD of the Collectables-label is so much better than 'Christmas with... | Der Ring des Nibelungen / Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic Best Price: $115.89 As far as I am concerned, there is one near-perfect ring; The 1955 Keilberth Ring. The... | Mahler Lieder: Des Knaben Wunderhorn Best Price: $7.78 This CD reissue of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau doing three of Mahler's suites of 'orchestral songs'... |
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All Star Classic Christmas Album Best Price: $3.48 These aren't your traditional Christmas carols but a more classical selection. The Corelli... | Britten Conducts Britten: Operas 2 Best Price: $44.99 How someone can refer to Rape of Lucretia and Turn of the Screw (or Midsummer Night's Dream, for... | Verdi: Il Trovatore Best Price: $15.14 Despite shortcomings, such as mediocre conducting, cuts and the "old" sound, not least... | Haydn - L'anima del filosofo ossia Orfeo ed Euridice / Bartoli ? Heilmann ? D'Arcangelo ? AAM ? Hogwood Best Price: $24.99 i think hogwood and haydn. these two words are enough.
but i love Dorati`s more than this... | Bizet: Carmen / Price, Corelli, Merrill, Freni; Karajan Best Price: $20.73 There is really one reason to own this album: Leontyne Price.
Nobody sings Carmen the way she... |
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Tears from Heaven Best Price: $6.94 Don't waste your money on this . It is not worth the plastic it is burned on. | Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro / Gallo, McNair, Studer, Skovhus, Bartoli, Abbado Best Price: $45.00 Firstly let's talk about the brilliant sides of this recording...
I own twelve other recordings... | Carlo Bergonzi - Italian Songs ~ Bellini ? Verdi ? Danza ? Tosti ? Donizetti ? Rossini ? Mascagni ? Puccini Best Price: $4.50 All the other reviewers love this disc because it is, quite simply, dazzling. Twenty five years... | The Very Best of Nicolai Gedda Best Price: $10.39 No doubt the most versatile tenor between Caruso and Domingo. 359 Met performances, in five... | The Opera Gala Live from Baden-Baden Best Price: $6.75 This CD is a selection from a gala concert which is available on DVD. I haven't seen the video,... |
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Massenet: Cendrillon Best Price: $12.83 One should not judge a book by its cover. Here, the book cover is 'trashy' as one reviewer put... | A Portrait of Pavarotti Best Price: $15.95 | For War Child Best Price: $8.06 I'm still looking for this album in karaoke DVD version, but I still don't found it at all. So,... | Mozart - Idomeneo Best Price: $21.52 Before I begin, I want to mention that I don't think there is any problem with the sound in this... | In My Heart - 17th and 18th Italian Songs Best Price: $7.74 Vargas shows no understanding of the music he is singing.
Cecilia does.
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Ramon Vargas - Canzoni (Neapolitan Songs and other Italian Classical songs) Best Price: $5.50 Ramon Vargas is someone to listen to. He is so under-rated but has been getting more recognition... | Between Friends Best Price: $6.54 I like Ramon Vargas quite a bit. He does have one of the better lyric tenor voices available... | Tenor's Christmas Best Price: $2.83 Shortly before Christmas I noticed that the local radio stations were playing mostly secular... | Pavarotti & Friends: For Cambodia and Tibet Best Price: $11.48 I am a fan of Savage Garden, The Eurythmics, and George Michael - all of them did a great job... | Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall Best Price: $4.49 Ms. Battle covers musical styles from baroque all the way to spirituals on this CD, and excels... |
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Braunfels - Die Vogel / Kwon ? Wodrich ? M. Kraus ? Gorne ? Holzmaier ? Zagrosek Best Price: $30.49 MY GOD. I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EARS. MUSIC SO BEAUTIFUL THAT IT RAVISHES YOUR SENSES. HELLEN... | Frederica von Stade Sings Brubeck: Across Your Dreams Best Price: $5.53 This CD is magnificent. I've been listening almost non-stop for two weeks, in-between my more... | J.S. Bach: Motetten Best Price: $11.74 I enjoyed the Hilliard's contribution on an earlier album with Bach's BWV 4, and have many of... | Joseph Haydn: Symphonies, Volume 6 (c. 1768-71) - The Academy of Ancient Music / Christopher Hogwood Best Price: $39.10 These wonderful recordings of the Haydn symphonies are a testament to the value of using... | Hymn for the World 2 / Bartoli, Bocelli, Terfel, Chung Best Price: $6.85 I am giving only 2 stars to this CD because, though featuring really "famous" names... |
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Bach - The Orchestral Suites / Rousset, AAM, Hogwood Best Price: $11.18 These are the best recordings of the Orchestral Suites that I've heard. Hogwood excercises... | Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne; Chants d'Auvergne Best Price: $39.99 Excellent production. The "Songs" create a mood like no other music. | Absolute Heaven Best Price: $5.69 If anyone goes back into that memory of nostalgia...It is easy to create good reminders of... | Mad About Sopranos Best Price: $3.50 When I brought this album I assumed the sopranos featured in it would be more classic sopranos... | Donizetti - Le convenienze ed incovenienze teatrali / Taddei, Mazzucato, Nucci, Rinardi Best Price: $12.97 |
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Britten - War Requiem / Vishnievskaya ? Pears ? Fischer-Dieskau ? LSO ? Britten Best Price: $91.22 Britten's reading is raw, transparent, vicious, thunderous, and very original. Especially nice... | Verdi: Requiem Best Price: $10.59 Verdi much idolized Alessanrao Manzoni, the famous Italian poet, humanist, writer and novelist.... | Telemann: Double & Triple Concertos /AAM ? Hogwood Best Price: $16.99 In addition to volumes and volumes of church and chamber music, the astonishingly prolific Georg... | Verdi: Ernani / Pavarotti, Sutherland, Nucci, Burchuladze; Bonynge Best Price: $19.99 It's such a pity that this recording was ever released. It sat in Decca's vaults for years and... | O Sole Mio: Favorite Neapolitan Songs Best Price: $35.23 When I was a kid, my mother bought this album on vinyl. Of course I would have never listened... |
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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf ~ Strauss - Four Last Songs, Capriccio, Arabella Best Price: $19.95 Here are pretty good short poems; given a very good setting-to-music by Strauss ("I am not... | Bellini - Norma / Sutherland, Tourangeau, Bonynge Best Price: $8.23 Some gifted souls are born to BE Norma. Others just sing Norma. Ponselle, Callas,... | Mozart - Idomeneo / Domingo, Bartoli, Grant Murphy, Vaness, Hampson, Terfel, Lopardo, MET, Levine Best Price: $35.99 This opera is a beautiful composition by Mozart! All the performers do a fabulous job in this! ... | Handel - Semele / Battle, Horne, Ramey, Aler, McNair, Chance, ECO, Nelson Best Price: $39.24 If at times you hanker to hear Handel at his late great best, the robust style of the oratorios,... | Cecilia Bartoli - The Impatient Lover (Italian Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Haydn) Best Price: $4.78 'The Impatient Lover' sung by Cecilia Bartoli is a collection of 18th and 19th century songs in... |
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Mario! Lanza at His Best Best Price: $7.86 I may argue that he was at his very best in his earlier years, but this collection of Italian... | Roberto Alagna - french arias Best Price: $6.98 Roberto Alagna has the makings of a great French tenor. He has the style and diction down pat.... | Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann / Araiza, Ramey, Lind, Studer, J. Norman, von Otter, Staatskapelle Dresden, Tate Best Price: $39.65 To keep it short...I own several different versions of Hoffmann. This one is simply the best. ... | Girl with Orange Lips Best Price: $8.94 It was brave of Dawn Upshaw, who could have made her career in charming soubrtte roles and... | |