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Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea / McNair, von Otter, Hanchard, Chance; Gardiner»rank: 155587by: Claudio Monteverdi, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bernarda Fink, Sylvia McNair, Dana Hanchard, Michael Chance, John Eliot Gardiner, The English Baroque Soloists, Constanze Backes, Catherine Bott, Marinella Pennicchi, Roberto Balconi, Nigel Robson, Francesco Ellero D'Artegna, Mark Tucker
0ur opinion: essential recording:Monteverdi's final opera really is a masterpiece, but its libretto requires close attention--this is not an opera for casual listeners. There is no ideal recording of Poppea currently available--Gardiner's version, while flawed, has many admirable qualities. Sylvia McNair is a gorgeous, sensuous Poppea; Dana Hanchard is the finest Nero on record--her soprano expresses the role's capricious willfulness without having to shout the top notes; Catherine Bott is a particularly fine Drusilla. Much of the rest of the cast sounds uncomfortable with Monteverdi and sings far ...
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Monk: Atlas - An Opera in Three Parts»rank: 199591from: Ecm Import
0ur opinion: :Threading together Meredith Monk's various guises in the world of avant-garde performance art (from dance and mime to multimedia explorations) is her sensibility first and foremost as a composer, one who creates from the musical imagination's love of pattern and texture. And in Atlas, her full-length opera commissioned by Houston Grand 0pera and premiered in 1991, Monk brings together several decades' worth of pioneering ways of expression. Yes, this is an opera involving almost no text and presenting a nonlinear, dreamlike collage in lieu of traditional narrative, ...
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The Classic Love Album»rank: 262045by: Giacomo Puccini, Claude Debussy, Franz Lehár, Fryderyk Chopin, Leonard Bernstein, Domenico Scarlatti, Gaetano Donizetti, Jules Massenet, Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Samuel Barber, John Lennon / Paul McCartney, Sergey Rachmaninov, Claudio Monteverdi, Franz Liszt, Richard Rodgers, Robert Schumann, Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, English Northern Philharmonia, Herbert von Karajan, Giuseppe Sinopoli
0ur opinion: :Threading together Meredith Monk's various guises in the world of avant-garde performance art (from dance and mime to multimedia explorations) is her sensibility first and foremost as a composer, one who creates from the musical imagination's love of pattern and texture. And in Atlas, her full-length opera commissioned by Houston Grand 0pera and premiered in 1991, Monk brings together several decades' worth of pioneering ways of expression. Yes, this is an opera involving almost no text and presenting a nonlinear, dreamlike collage in lieu of traditional narrative, ...
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Handel - Radamisto / Popken, Gondek, Saffer, Hanchard, Frimmer, M. Dean, Cavalier, Freiburg Baroque Orch., McGegan»rank: 131378from: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
0ur opinion: :Threading together Meredith Monk's various guises in the world of avant-garde performance art (from dance and mime to multimedia explorations) is her sensibility first and foremost as a composer, one who creates from the musical imagination's love of pattern and texture. And in Atlas, her full-length opera commissioned by Houston Grand 0pera and premiered in 1991, Monk brings together several decades' worth of pioneering ways of expression. Yes, this is an opera involving almost no text and presenting a nonlinear, dreamlike collage in lieu of traditional narrative, ...
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Atlas: An Opera in 3 Parts»rank: 430102from: Ecm Records
0ur opinion: :Threading together Meredith Monk's various guises in the world of avant-garde performance art (from dance and mime to multimedia explorations) is her sensibility first and foremost as a composer, one who creates from the musical imagination's love of pattern and texture. And in Atlas, her full-length opera commissioned by Houston Grand 0pera and premiered in 1991, Monk brings together several decades' worth of pioneering ways of expression. Yes, this is an opera involving almost no text and presenting a nonlinear, dreamlike collage in lieu of traditional narrative, ...
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Once Canciones de Diego Luzuriaga»rank: 532028by: Dana Hanchard
0ur opinion: :Threading together Meredith Monk's various guises in the world of avant-garde performance art (from dance and mime to multimedia explorations) is her sensibility first and foremost as a composer, one who creates from the musical imagination's love of pattern and texture. And in Atlas, her full-length opera commissioned by Houston Grand 0pera and premiered in 1991, Monk brings together several decades' worth of pioneering ways of expression. Yes, this is an opera involving almost no text and presenting a nonlinear, dreamlike collage in lieu of traditional narrative, ...
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Dana Hanchard»rank: 1117799by: Dana Hanchard
0ur opinion: :Threading together Meredith Monk's various guises in the world of avant-garde performance art (from dance and mime to multimedia explorations) is her sensibility first and foremost as a composer, one who creates from the musical imagination's love of pattern and texture. And in Atlas, her full-length opera commissioned by Houston Grand 0pera and premiered in 1991, Monk brings together several decades' worth of pioneering ways of expression. Yes, this is an opera involving almost no text and presenting a nonlinear, dreamlike collage in lieu of traditional narrative, ...
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Monteverdi: Orfeo»rank: 469325by: Jessica Tranzillo
0ur opinion: :Threading together Meredith Monk's various guises in the world of avant-garde performance art (from dance and mime to multimedia explorations) is her sensibility first and foremost as a composer, one who creates from the musical imagination's love of pattern and texture. And in Atlas, her full-length opera commissioned by Houston Grand 0pera and premiered in 1991, Monk brings together several decades' worth of pioneering ways of expression. Yes, this is an opera involving almost no text and presenting a nonlinear, dreamlike collage in lieu of traditional narrative, ...
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Luzuriaga: Once Canciones»rank: 910097by: Dana Hanchard
0ur opinion: :Threading together Meredith Monk's various guises in the world of avant-garde performance art (from dance and mime to multimedia explorations) is her sensibility first and foremost as a composer, one who creates from the musical imagination's love of pattern and texture. And in Atlas, her full-length opera commissioned by Houston Grand 0pera and premiered in 1991, Monk brings together several decades' worth of pioneering ways of expression. Yes, this is an opera involving almost no text and presenting a nonlinear, dreamlike collage in lieu of traditional narrative, ...
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