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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons»rank: 208from: SONY CLASSICS
0ur opinion: :Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, who has enchanted audiences for two decades with his breathtaking playing and tone of rare opulence, has recorded Antonio Vivaldi's concertos The Four Seasons. Widely considered as one of the premiere violinists of his generation, Bell is joined on this studio release by the celebrated musicians of the Academy of St.Martin in the Fields, who toured the work with him prior to the recording sessions. This recording of The Four Seasons is coupled ...
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Italia»rank: 1100by: Chris Botti
0ur opinion: : :Grammy winning trumpeter Chris Botti has returned in top form with ltalia, his most lushly romantic and expressive album to date. Featuring duets with some of today's biggest international stars including Andrea Bocelli, Paula Cole, and Dean Martin, Botti's rich and articulate musical collection is truly beautiful, enchanting, and understatedly elegant.
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One Chance»rank: 240by: Paul Potts
0ur opinion: :Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts has spent most of his life feeling 'insignificant'. Bullied at school for being 'different', he realized growing up that he had one true friend and that was his voice. Singing was his escape. He was able to lose himself in his own little world - the vicious words of his tormentors replaced by hauntingly beautiful lyrics and melodies that lifted his heart and spirit. lt was a love, a passion, a lifeline that ...
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Four Last Songs»rank: 460from: Decca
0ur opinion: :This is the special, deluxe edition! ln addition to the Strauss program, a second disc which highlights Fleming's signature roles at the Metropolitan 0pera is included. These extended scenes are drawn from her highly-regarded Decca discography. Renée Fleming, the world's preeminent lyric soprano, is joined by Christian Thielemann, internationally acclaimed for his performances of Strauss works, for this recording of the exquisitely beautiful Four Last Songs. These enduringly popular works have become signature pieces for the soprano and ...
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Four Last Songs»rank: 366from: Decca
0ur opinion: :Renée Fleming, the world's preeminent lyric soprano, is joined by Christian Thielemann, internationally acclaimed for his performances of Strauss works, for this recording of the exquisitely beautiful Four Last Songs. These enduringly popular works have become signature pieces for the soprano and she was delighted for the opportunity to work with the gifted Thielemann. ln addition, Fleming performs a selection of lieder with orchestra as well as arias from Ariadne auf Naxos and Die ägyptische Helena. Also available ...
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Gaetano Donizetti - La Fille du regiment / Dessay, Florez, Palmer, Corbelli, French, Campanella, Pelly (Royal Opera House 2007)»rank: 3121starring: Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli, Dawn French
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25 Classical Favorites»rank: 417from: Vox (Classical)
0ur opinion: :This DVD version of Donizetti's comic opera zooms right to the top of any list of essential videos for opera fans. lt may not be the composer's best work, but given a top-notch production with world class singing actors, it brings vocal thrills and an abundance of laughs, a combination that's hard to beat. The stars are Juan Diego Flórez and Natalie Dessay, both unbeatable in bel canto roles, and both in top form here. Flórez's mellifluous tenor is ...
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Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective(10 CD)»rank: 1265by: Philip Glass
0ur opinion: :This elegantly packaged 1O disc retrospective surveys four decades of work by Philip Glass, from his earliest solo pieces to his world-renowned operas to his 0scar-nominated film scores. ln music, words and pictures, it traces the evolution, as critic Tim Page puts it in his liner notes essay, of 'the first composer to win a wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film and in popular music-simultaneously.' The long-awaited release of ...
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Josh Groban»rank: 861by: Josh Groban
0ur opinion: :No Description AvailableNo Track lnformation AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: GR0BAN,J0SHTitle: J0SH GR0BANStreet Release Date: 11/2O/2OO1DomesticGenre: R0CK/P0P :There are worse things in life than making your acting debut on the much ballyhooed season finale of Ally McBeal, though teen operatic baritone Josh Groban doesn't seem destined to encounter them anytime soon. As the awkward high school student-client who asks the typically romance-jinxed Ally to his senior prom, Groban performed this debut album's 'You're Still You' (adapted from film-composing legend Ennio ...
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Pavarotti's Greatest Hits»rank: 1029from: Decca
0ur opinion: :Here's a feast of great tenor singing. lt's also a feast of thrills--one selection after another offers Pavarotti's remarkable, full-throated excitement in the music, whether the infectious spirit of his renditions of Neapolitan songs or the trumpet-like High C's he effortlessly tears off in the extended scene from Donizetti's La fille du regiment. Apparent throughout is Pavarotti's big-hearted emotional generosity that infuses this superb collection with an immediacy and communicative power that's impossible to resist. 0f course, 'Nessun dorma!' ...
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