classical music: cecilia     classical music:       Cecilia Bartoli: Sacrificium18 reviews Various, Giovanni Antonini, ... Decca, 2009 PREMIERE RECORDINGS WITH A FOCUS ON FARINELLI AND CAFARELLI If you are a Bartoli devotee, and/or a lover of music written for the castrato voice, this album is for you. Me... I'm not a great lover of the sound of Cecilia Bartoli nor of Il Giardino Armonico on `every' track, BUT the CD is still a MUST HAVE. On a couple of tracks the playing seems too `full-blown'... and if I could find one word to express what I least like about Bartoli's singing it is ...             Essential Mozart: 32 Of His Greatest Masterpieces25 reviews Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Neville Marriner, ... Decca, 2001 Good times I just cant say enough about this collection. It used to be that you had to spend a fortune to get Mozart's best hits; a few on each album. Now, you can buy them all at once and dirt cheap! very nice             Rossini - Il Turco in Italia / Bartoli, Raimondi, Macias, Rumetz, Schmid, Welser-Most, Zurich Opera14 reviews Ruggero Raimondi, Cecilia Bartoli Arthaus Musik, 2005 An overlooked Rossini that young people should love Il Turco in Italia is much less well-known than Rossini's L'Italiana in Algieri, but I like it better. It feels so contemporary, with a plot revolving around marital difficulties. The short three-part arias are an inventive break from the usual opera format, making Il Turco particularly accessible to newcomers to the art form. The entire cast is superb, led by Cecilia Bartoli whose coloratura is ...             Mozart - Requiem / Augér, Bartoli, Cole, Pape, Wiener Phil., Solti23 reviews Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Solti, ... Decca, 1992 Requiem @ St. Stephens Cathedral The best of the Requiem with good sound quality, cathedral and religious effects. Listening to the whole CD is an experience by itself. A bonus if one favors Latin mass.             Puccini - The Great Opera Collection [Box Set]4 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Alberto Erede, ... Decca, 2008 Andato Col Vento! Most of us who are of a certain age know these recordings and have lived with them, off and on, for decades. A few things need to be cleared up, since Amazon hasn't exactly gone out of its' way to be of help: These are the stereo versions of each of the operas, not the earlier mono recordings. The earliest are the Manon Lescaut from 1954 and the Turandot from a year or so later. They ...             The Story Of Handel5 reviews George Frederick Handel, Dieter Kober, ... Vox (Classical), 1995 we love the whole series The whole Vox Music Masters series has been a treat from age 4 on. The stories are child-oriented, but not sugary sweet (divorce and insanity both mentioned if it is appropriate for that composer). The short clips one review complained of caught the ear of my son, and he'll even pick out the tunes if he hears them as musak in a department store.             Cesare Siepi: Classic Recitals - Operatic Arias for Bass5 reviews Cesare Siepi Decca, 2005 Profundo! You have to love bass ... the unsung heroes of the operatic aria world ... and I do, perhaps because my father had a bass voice and sang in paid choirs on Sundays (for joy), while earning his living as a lawyer. Somehow you descend to the depths with the bass, and Cesare's voice is beautiful. I coach, teach and train emotional intelligence, and there's a theory in psychology about the bass ...             Rapture: Opera's Most Heavenly Moments17 reviews Rapture: Opera's Most Heavenly Moments Deutsche Grammophon, 2002 Opera's Most Heavenly Moments Indeed I have more experience with other genres of music, but am interested in basically all kinds. I have been collecting CDs for nearly 2 decades but had no Opera in my collection. I did a little research and arrived at a conclusion. If I wanted the most and best Opera music for my money, I had to get this title, which is a double album, and "The Most Famous Opera Duets". Well, the latter was a ...             The #1 Opera Album44 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, ... Decca, 2001 The best gift ever. I purchased this CD as a birthday gift for my sister. Because I personally know nothing about opera, I didn't know how to buy a single opera for her, or even which one she would like if I did know how to get it. So I settled on this "sampler" style Cd, and she just loved it. This is the best of the best of all opera arias and performances. My sister plays it all the time, and I think it is ...             Sogno395 reviews Andrea Bocelli, Francesco / Quarantotto, Lucio Sartori, ... Philips, 1999 Best Andrea Bocelli CD Of all the Andrea Bocelli CDs, this ranks as probably the best. It has all his best material and his best performances. Sogno is definitely worth the price. Bocelli is not thought of as a technical master by all music critics for sure. But he packs emotion into his songs that others often lack. When I've played this for people, I can never predict what they will like most. Just when I ...             Colbran, the Muse9 reviews Gioachino Rossini, Edoardo Müller, ... Virgin Classics, 2009 Exceptional! I usually don't buy recital discs, but I made and exception for this, and I'm so glad I did. As others have mentioned the singing is breathtaking and flawless. For me, the highlight of this recording is the extended scene from the last act of "Otello." This isn't just the Willow Song and Prayer, but the complete scence, with dialogue with Emilia and luxury casting of Lawrence Brownlee as the ...             Pavarotti: Greatest Hits20 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, ... Decca, 1997 Cornucopia of Pavarotti's works This is a "Super hits" CD, with over forty different cuts (quite a few of which have appeared elsewhere, of course). For those who are aficionados of Pavarotti, this is what might be called "hog heaven." Disc 1 features estimable works such as "Nessun dorma" (well done, with his voice showing to good effect), "Che gelida manina" (excellently done, with good characterization), ""Celeste Aida" ...             Essential Purcell10 reviews Henry Purcell, New College Choir Oxford, ... Hyperion UK, 1995 The beauty of the songs brings tears to my eyes Absolutely beautiful baroque music! The arrangament, singing and instrumentation is superb. It is too bad that Henry Purcell is not as widely known as Bach, because he should be recognized equally well."The Sparrow and the Gentle dove" is alone worth the price of the album! I can not stop playing it!             Cecilia Bartoli - If You Love Me (Se tu m'ami ), 18th-Century Italian Songs37 reviews Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Cesti, ... Decca, 1992 Awe inspiring Even for the non opera afficianado, these beautiful songs, rendered with exquisite style and grace and meticulous accompaniment,make for enthralling listening. I listen to this album more than any other I have ever owned. I simply never get tired of the songs. It is a true collection that builds one on the other. It becomes totally engrossing placing the listener in a world all its own.             Rossini - Il Turco in Italia / Bartoli, Raimondi, Macias, Rumetz, Schmid, Welser-Most, Zurich Opera14 reviews Ruggero Raimondi, Cecilia Bartoli Arthaus Musik, 2005 An overlooked Rossini that young people should love Il Turco in Italia is much less well-known than Rossini's L'Italiana in Algieri, but I like it better. It feels so contemporary, with a plot revolving around marital difficulties. The short three-part arias are an inventive break from the usual opera format, making Il Turco particularly accessible to newcomers to the art form. The entire cast is superb, led by Cecilia Bartoli whose coloratura is ...             Puccini: La fanciulla del West12 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Franco Capuana, ... Decca Import, 2002 Historic "Fanciulla" with Tebaldi, Del Monaco Macneil and Tozzi! Still the best SOURCE: This is a studio recording made in 1958 in Rome. It was digitally remastered for CD in 1988, at which time it was released under the old London label. This current set, issued in 2002, marks the second appearance in CD format, now under the Decca label. SOUND: This recording was one of the showpieces of early stereo recording. It was spectacular on Lp. When first remastered ...             Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)/ Bartoli, G. Quilico, Kuebler, Feller, R. Lloyd; ...13 reviews Cecilia Bartoli, Carlos Feller Arthaus Musik, 2003 Bartoli in "Il Barbiere" This Barber stars Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina, Robert Lloyd as Basilio, Carlos Feller as Bartolo, David Kuebler as Almaviva, with Gabriele Ferro conducting. I really enjoyed it, but would caution some of the purists that it contains some minor cuts, such as at the end of the opera, they've dropped the scene where Bartolo wishes Rosia and the Count happiness, and also, Fiorello's recitativo prior to ...             Handel: Semele12 reviews Cecilia Bartoli, Liliana Nikiteanu Decca, 2009 Operatic production of an oratorio There is conjecture about this being an oratorio rather than an opera as it is based on an English opera libretto by Congreve. One train of thought suggests that, with opera waning in popularity, the oratorio form was needed for success to regain prosperity for the composer. That said the Zurich performance is most definitely in operatic form but the result is strange at times with the chorus ...             Simply the Best Classical Anthems7 reviews Giuseppe Verdi, Carl Orff, ... Erato, 2000 Great Sampler! This is a good sampler, since it covers what you would want in a classical music CD. Looking at the tracks, it has the classic hits, such as "Ride of the Valkyries," "Toccata and Fugue," "Fanfare for the Common Man," "'Jupiter' from `The Planets,'" "Eine Klein Nachtmusik," and "Hallelujah Chorus." There are also some new pieces that I have fallen in love with, such as "The Young Person's Guide ...             Verdi - La forza del destino / del Monaco · Tebaldi · Siepi · Bastianini · Molinari-Pradelli [Highlights]3 reviews Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Mario del Monaco, ... Decca, 1997 Best Commercial Rec. of "Forza" With all the fine recorded performances of Verdi's melodramatic masterpiece, this one, after over 4 decades, still remains supreme. The warm, rich spinto-soprano of Tebaldi, the sometimes gruff heroic-tenor of Del Monaco(for sheer power, equaled only by Corelli & by Melchior himself-among tenors) but in this performance, at his finest,- & most splendid of all (to this reviewer) that greatest ...              search for classical music 18th-century, anthems, barbiere, bastianini, cecilia, classical, colbran, collection, destino, essential, fanciulla, festival, greatest, heavenly, highlights, masterpieces, molinari, molinari-pradelli, operatic, pavarotti, pradelli, purcell, quilico, raimondi, rapture, recitals, sacrificium, schwetzingen, siviglia, welser-most classical music:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Schaum's Easy Outlines: College Chemistry (Schaum's Easy Outlines) home  impressum - about us