classical music: Marc Minkowski ...     classical music:       Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita (Handel · Scarlatti · Caldara) / Les Musiciens du Louvre · Minkowski39 reviews George Frideric Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti, ... Decca, 2005 Spicy and Sweet! One can't help but be impressed with the agility in Bartoli's voice. Vocal fireworks! And yet the "Mentre io godo...", "Caldo sangue" and "Lascia la spina..." are so sweet and calming. I consider this CD a must have!             Natalie Dessay - Greatest Moments on Stage15 reviews Natalie Dessay, Laurent Naouri Virgin Classics, 2007 Opera at its very best! This cd demonstrates the tremendous range that she can display, and its very likely we've not even seen the best of Natalie Dessay as yet! She just gets better and better, and this cd verifies this fact. Its been worth the wait of my near-80 years to hear and see a talent like this. She is a surperb artist, and a rarity.             Offenbach - Orphée aux Enfers / Dessay, Naouri, Fouchécourt, Beuron, Podles, Petibon, Smith, Gens, Cole, ...13 reviews Jacques Offenbach, Marc Minkowski, ... EMI Classics, 2002 Should be illegal - way too much fun This CD should be illegal - everyone from the singers to the musicians obviously had way too much fun - and so will you! Natalie Dessay shines as Eurydice and Laurent Naouri is a delightful (if rather roving) Jupiter, while Yann Beuron makes Orphee come alive. Ewa Podles gives Public Opinion exactly the right amount of santimonious self-rightousness. A truly delightful recording - even if you ...             The Baroque Christmas Album1 review Johann Sebastian Bach, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, ... Archiv Produktion, 2005 5-PLUS Stars There are not many things in life that I would describe as just Gorgeous -- but this album is definitely one of them. The selections, the arrangements, the production quality, all are clean, yet lush -- simultaneously light and rich. The effect is wonderful. This may not appeal to hardest-core periodists, but for beautiful music lovingly performed, the album is very hard to beat. Not only ...             Offenbach - La Belle Helene / Minkowski, Lott, Beuron, Senechal, Naouri, Le Roux, Torodovitch, Chatelet Opera16 reviews Felicity Lott, Yann Beuron Kultur Video, 2004 Delightful Belle Helene Certainly the best Helene I've seen on DVD with almost perfect sound, this production lives up to this style of social satire of upper crust Belle Epoque French society, where an enraged husband's wrath upon finding his wife in bed with a lover is actually taken to task by everyone else for not properly warning her that he was coming home, and therefore the blame for the scandal is entirely his! ...             Handel - Giulio Cesare / Mijanovic · Kozená · von Otter · Hellekant · B. Mehta · A. Ewing · Bertin · Les ...3 reviews George Frideric Handel, Marc Minkowski, ... Archiv Produktion, 2003 Minkowski's (overdue) return to Handel I'll admit that I am a big fan of Marc Minkowski and that I've followed him from his first Handel recordings (Amadigi and Teseo) to his Offenbach and Strauss. However, while his "modern" forays have been quite nice (especially the Orphée aux Enfers), I'm glad that he has finally remembered what he does best: the Baroque, and, namely, Handel. His Dixit Dominus has converted several people I know ...             George Frideric Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno; Teseo; Amadigi di Gaula1 review Dominique Poitevin, François Bazola, ... Warner Classics UK, 2009 SHOULD BEAUTY INDULGE HERSELF? This is a very important reissue, and I want to recommend it strongly despite a certain reservation (which I shall explain and which you may not even agree with) that stops me from awarding all 5 stars. It combines on 6 very well filled cd's three earlier releases that presumably did not fly off the shelves, so here they are going for - not exactly a song, but you know what I mean. The two ...             Handel - Ariodante / von Otter, Dawson, Cangemi, Podles, Croft, Sedov, Coadou, Les Musiciens du Louvre, ...14 reviews George Frideric Handel, Marc Minkowski, ... Archiv Produktion, 1999 ...spoilt for choice! This review is a bit of an addendum to the one I wrote about the McGegan Ariodante. How lucky we are to have both his and Minkowski's superb recordings, so different yet both alive with vocal and dramatic excitement. I've mentioned that I choose McGegan over Minkowski and it is for a number of reasons. That said, I feel that both are really excellent and either is a good choice. My main ...             Handel - Hercules, Musical Drama in Three Acts (HWV 60)4 reviews George Frideric Handel, Marc Minkowski, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2002 Magnificent, Riveting Version of a Handel Masterpiece Like "Semele," "Hercules" (1744) is a secular English-language drama drawn from classical mythology, composed at a time when Handel had turned from Italian opera to English oratorio. Though presented without scenery, costumes or stage action, this "Musical Drama" to a text by the Rev. Thomas Broughton (after Ovid, Sophocles & Seneca) is a stageworthy tragedy of love & jealousy -- Handel's ...             Simply the Best Night at the Opera4 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Jacques Offenbach, ... Erato, 1999 "Simply a Stunner" Ideal for an opera lover, or for anyone who loves gorgeous singing. I am an opera nut and was introduced to this one by accident; "Au gond du temple saint" from Pearl Fishers (selection #6, disc one) was playing on the stereo in the Metropolitan Opera giftshop when I walked in at intermission one night. I thought it was so stunning I bought my first copy of the CD then and there; and have ...             Rameau - Une symphonie imaginaire / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski9 reviews Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc Minkowski, ... Archiv Produktion, 2005 Love it! Love it, love it, love it. Have not stopped playing it since it arrived and haven't gotten sick of it yet either. I bought it because I heard just one track briefly on the radio - bit of a gamble but it paid off. Great to drive to! Love the fast violin playing and the french horns. Rameau was one cool dude. Can't wait to share it with my dad. Am even wondering if I could wire the garage ...             Offenbach Romantique2 reviews Jacques Offenbach, Marc Minkowski, ... Archiv Produktion, 2007 Offenbach the romantic...is a lot of fun! This delightful CD captures the charm, wit and romance of French composer Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) who, as a cellist, sometimes played with Liszt. He wrote the "Concerto Militaire" to exploit his virtuosity. Among the first composers of operetta and one of Europe's more influential 19th century romantics, Offenbach is best known for his fantastic opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", his most ...             Bach: Mass in B Minor3 reviews J.S. Bach Naive, 2009 Fresh, Exciting, OVPP It seems as though Joshua Rifkin's theory that Bach performed his choral works with one voice per part (OVPP) has been cemented in standard repertoire. This release is likely to be ranked among historically informed, though not OVPP, recordings generally regarded as gold standards: Gardiner and Herreweghe. What sets this set apart from the rest is not simply it's use of OVPP (indeed, it's ...             Magdalena Kozená ~ Handel Italian Cantatas / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski8 reviews George Frideric Handel, Marc Minkowski, ... Archiv Prod Import, 2000 People I cannot stress too many times... ... the importance of making sure the CD you review matches the one you are listening to. The one in question is by MAGDALENA KOZENA and Marc Minkowski. It will win all the usual awards from Gramophone, BBC Music, Fanfare, etc. and it will of course deserve them. It is not as great as Janet Baker's Lucrezia, nor is Renee Fleming Lotte Lehmann or Roberto Alagna Leopold Simoneau. The best modern ...             Offenbach - La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein / Lott, Piau, Beuron, Le Roux, Les Musiciens du Louvre, ...9 reviews Felicity Lott, Sandrine Piau Virgin Classics (EMI Music), 2006 An absolute delight! An outstanding production of a deligthful opera-bouffe. I showed it to a bunch of opera fans and everybody raved about it. Fabulous entertainment for very little cost! Don't miss it!             Offenbach - La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein2 reviews Jacques Offenbach, Marc Minkowski, ... Virgin Classics, 2005 It's truly about time!!! It's about time a new professional recording was made of this masterpiece! I have the Plasoon/Mesple recording which is fantastic but this Minkowski/Lott edition trumps it for many reasons. To start it's directed by Marc Minkowski, who's delightful 'Le Belle Helene' and 'Orphee aux Enfers' continue to be the most played of my Offenbach library for he truly understands how the music should be ...             Purcell; Handel; Haydn: To Saint Cecilia3 reviews Purcell, Handel, ... Naive, 2009 Perfect Storm Lucy Crowe, Richard Croft, and Marc Minkowski together at last. Wonderful recording. Packaging is overdone and not necessary.             Gluck - Armide / Delunsch, Workman, Naouri, Podles, Beuron, Polegato, Kozená, Les Musiciens du Louvre, ...8 reviews Christoph Willibald Gluck, Mireille Delunsch, ... Archiv Prod Import, 1999 Gluck's Armide To modern music lovers, Gluck is best-known for his Orpheus and Euridice and, to a lesser extent, for Alceste. But he was also the composer of other operas which deserve to be remembered. Among these operas is Armide, which Gluck composed in 1777 for the Paris Opera. (By that time, he had revised his earlier versions of Orpheus and Alceste for staging in Paris.) In setting Armide, Gluck took ...             Rameau - Une Symphonie imaginaire1 review Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc Minkowski, ... Archiv Produktion, 2005 RAMEAU - MINKOWSKI & Les Musiciens du Louvre: sur le Ouvre posthume Before Rameau (1683-1764) there was instrumentation; after Rameau, there was orchestration. Then came Mozart, Beethoven, von Weber, Berlioz, Fry, Lizts, Gottschalk, Wagner, Lèfébure-Wélly, Franck, Bruckner, Mahler, and the rest is part of the world's music history. In the beginning, Rameau was an expert organist intensely interested with the exploration of new instrumental possibilities in ...             Rameau - Hippolyte et Aricie / Fouchécourt, Gens, Fink, Feighan, Smythe, Naouri, Massis, Les Musiciens du ...3 reviews Les Musiciens du Louvre, Jean-Philippe Rameau, ... Archiv Produktion, 1995 The Baroque opera you must have - if you're serious about Baroque opera! I bought this recording of Hippolyte et Aricie some years ago now and it has never failed to capture my imagination with its powerful and daring music. The cast of this recording is superb, particularly Fouchécourt and Gens, and Marc Minkowski's Les Musicians du Louvre are in top form here in this live recording. Hippolyte et Aricie contains a wealth of music, ideas, tunes and styles. 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