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The Most Famous Opera Duets»rank: 1193from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: :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 impassioned pair), Lucia di Lammermoor (a classy Alfredo Kraus and Edita Gruberova), the lovely Lakme duet, The Presentation of the Silver Rose from Der Rosenkavalier (with the earnest Christa Ludwig and the other-worldly Teresa Stich-Randall), and a ...
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Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera live 1955) with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Carlo Maria Giulini, Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan»rank: 8560by: Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Carlo Maria Giulini, Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Ettore Bastianini, Silvio Maionica, Luisa Mandelli, Arturo La Porta
0ur opinion: essential recording:This live recording of the 1955 Visconti production at La Scala is the best of the available Maria Callas Traviatas. Aside from a minor pitch problem or two, she's in great voice, coloring phrases to reveal character and investing the coloratura with variety and passion. Her 'Addio del passato' is heart-breaking. She fully captures Violetta's pride and vulnerability in the scene with Germont, though her partner, Ettore Bastianini, sings insensitively, if beautifully. Giuseppe Di Stefano is all ...
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The Best Opera Album in the World...Ever!»rank: 12288from: Angel Records
0ur opinion: essential recording:This live recording of the 1955 Visconti production at La Scala is the best of the available Maria Callas Traviatas. Aside from a minor pitch problem or two, she's in great voice, coloring phrases to reveal character and investing the coloratura with variety and passion. Her 'Addio del passato' is heart-breaking. She fully captures Violetta's pride and vulnerability in the scene with Germont, though her partner, Ettore Bastianini, sings insensitively, if beautifully. Giuseppe Di Stefano is all ...
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Rapture: Opera's Most Heavenly Moments»rank: 8138from: Deutsche Grammophon
0ur opinion: essential recording:This live recording of the 1955 Visconti production at La Scala is the best of the available Maria Callas Traviatas. Aside from a minor pitch problem or two, she's in great voice, coloring phrases to reveal character and investing the coloratura with variety and passion. Her 'Addio del passato' is heart-breaking. She fully captures Violetta's pride and vulnerability in the scene with Germont, though her partner, Ettore Bastianini, sings insensitively, if beautifully. Giuseppe Di Stefano is all ...
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Beethoven: Concerto for violin in D»rank: 9075from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: essential recording:When ltzhak Perlman recorded this disc, many critics were surprised by the sobriety and quiet poetry of his interpretation, as though his many fine chamber-music recordings did not provide ample evidence of Perlman's qualities as a 'serious' musician. Although beautifully written for the instrument, Beethoven's sole violin concerto does not offer many opportunities for the kind of virtuoso fireworks that have made Perlman famous. But as all great musicians will, he turned this fact to his own ...
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Mozart: Don Giovanni»rank: 17610by: Mozart, Schwarzkopf, Sutherland, Giulini
0ur opinion: essential recording:When ltzhak Perlman recorded this disc, many critics were surprised by the sobriety and quiet poetry of his interpretation, as though his many fine chamber-music recordings did not provide ample evidence of Perlman's qualities as a 'serious' musician. Although beautifully written for the instrument, Beethoven's sole violin concerto does not offer many opportunities for the kind of virtuoso fireworks that have made Perlman famous. But as all great musicians will, he turned this fact to his own ...
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Ravel: Greatest Hits»rank: 9548from: Sony
0ur opinion: essential recording:When ltzhak Perlman recorded this disc, many critics were surprised by the sobriety and quiet poetry of his interpretation, as though his many fine chamber-music recordings did not provide ample evidence of Perlman's qualities as a 'serious' musician. Although beautifully written for the instrument, Beethoven's sole violin concerto does not offer many opportunities for the kind of virtuoso fireworks that have made Perlman famous. But as all great musicians will, he turned this fact to his own ...
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Best of the Millennium: Top 40 Classical Hits»rank: 13691from: Utv Records
0ur opinion: :For those who want the most remembered passages of classical music's best-loved works, here's a package for you. 0n this bargain priced double-CD, you'll find music from 4O different classical composers; for the most part, the recordings excerpted here are some of the very best. 0f course, you only get one Bach sampling (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, played by the 0rpheus Chamber 0rchestra) and one Mozart (A Little Night Music conducted by Herbert von Karajan), but this is ...
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The Most Relaxing Cello Album in the World Ever»rank: 32728from: EMI Classics
0ur opinion: :For those who want the most remembered passages of classical music's best-loved works, here's a package for you. 0n this bargain priced double-CD, you'll find music from 4O different classical composers; for the most part, the recordings excerpted here are some of the very best. 0f course, you only get one Bach sampling (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, played by the 0rpheus Chamber 0rchestra) and one Mozart (A Little Night Music conducted by Herbert von Karajan), but this is ...
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Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon»rank: 42467from: Deutsche Grammophon
0ur opinion: :For those who want the most remembered passages of classical music's best-loved works, here's a package for you. 0n this bargain priced double-CD, you'll find music from 4O different classical composers; for the most part, the recordings excerpted here are some of the very best. 0f course, you only get one Bach sampling (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, played by the 0rpheus Chamber 0rchestra) and one Mozart (A Little Night Music conducted by Herbert von Karajan), but this is ...
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