classical music: puccini     classical music:       Verismo16 reviews Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, ... Decca, 2009 Vocal Gold Renee Fleming possesses a voice of rare beauty and the ability to shape it's possibilities into expressive luster at will. Some of the selections in this collection are rarities by also rans, but in the skillful vocal machinations of this remarkable interpretive artist, one wonders why these oddities aren't part of the established repertoire. In my view, Fleming is in many ways the Schwartzkopf ...             Viva Italia! Festive Italian Classics37 reviews Barlow / Brito, Eduardo di Capua, ... RCA, 1996 Italian music for a spaghetti supper! The perfect CD of well known Italian songs to use as background music for a spaghetti supper. You will feel like you are at an Italian restaurant.             Puccini - La Boheme / Pavarotti, Scotto, Niska, Wixell, Plishka, Levine, Metropolitan Opera26 reviews Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarott Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 Perfection I found every detail of this production to be unimprovable. True, the film is old and grainy and sometimes slightly blurry. But it doesn't matter. The casting and vocals are unbeatable. I'm so glad to have seen Pavarotti in this role and in his prime, when he fully committed to everything with his whole being rather than just vocally doing so. He is superb (though he wobbles on the High C in ...             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 ...             The Best of the Three Tenors14 reviews Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, ... Decca, 2002 The Ultimate in the Classical Voice Performance The Best of the Three Tenors is a celebration of our greatest legends in Classical Music. Very little is available for classical music lovers today, so this is a must for your music library. Unless children and teens hear the classically trained voice when they are young, they will not develop the concept of music appreciation at its best. They are bombarded with screamers and contemporary ear ...             Carreras · Domingo · Pavarotti: The Three Tenors in Concert / Mehta40 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Salvatore Cardillo, ... Decca, 1990 Better than the best..... I sit here at my computer and try to think of superlatives adequate to accurately describe this album....and there just aren't any. It is worthy to be the best selling classical album of all time....but it's more than that. It's just a must have, a collection to soothe the savage breast. For those times when I have lost hope, when I am past care.....I will sit with closed eyes and listen to this. ...             Sarah Brightman Classics152 reviews Sarah Brightman, Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, ... Angel Records, 2001 Soprano Sarah Soars What a rare treat to hear such a wonderful voice! The music transcends the various languages( Latin, Italian, French, Spanish and almost no English) and communicates directly, beyond intellect, deeper to sooth the soul. This we expect from Opera and Religious selections such as Pucinni's "Nessun Dorma" and Lloyd Webber's "Piu Jesu". A favorite is the solo rendition of "Time To Say Good-bye". ...             Luciano Pavarotti: The Best (Farewell Tour)39 reviews Eric Garrett, Rolando Panerai, ... Decca, 2005 Wonderful album from the best tenor of all time! A wonderful compilation from the best tenor of all times! Includes some of his best and outstanding songs! We will always miss him; but, his voice lives on in his music! Great album!             Puccini: La Boheme (Live from the Met)20 reviews Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta EMI Classics, 2008 Can't Go Wrong With This DVD In December of 1981, New York's Metropolitan Opera unveiled what would become its all time most popular offering--Franco Zeffirelli's production of Puccini's LA BOHEME. The original cast included thee of opera's best known performers: Teresa Stratas as Mimi, Jose Carreras as Rodolfo, and Renata Scotto, so often cast as Mimi was Musetta. Critics praised the cast but were mixed as far as reviews ...             Romance of the Violin74 reviews Joshua Bell, Giacomo Puccini, ... Sony, 2003 Simply wonderful listening This is one I could listen to over and over again. Skillfully and beautifully done with great selections             Puccini - Turandot / Sutherland · Pavarotti · Caballé · Ghiaurov · Krause · Pears · LPO · Mehta145 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Zubin Mehta, ... Decca, 1990 G Puccini "Tourandot" Sutherland.Pavarotti. etc, Mehta, conducting This particular recording is recommended in several reputable opera sources as the best recording of "Turandot." I have seen a live performance, and this recording will not disappoint.             Andrea Bocelli - The Opera Album ~ Aria93 reviews Vincenzo Bellini, Georges Bizet, ... Philips, 1998 Andrea Bocelli - Sogno I am 45 years old. The reason why this is something I am mentioning, is to let all of you reading my review know what age group I am in. It might be important to the age you are in knowing what I have to say. I have four Andrea Bocelli CD's and they are all wonderful. I love each of them. My mom turned me on to him, and, since I love Josh Groban, I decided to listen to Andrea Bocelli and see ...             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 Very Best of Maria Callas48 reviews Vincenzo Bellini, Georges Bizet, ... EMI Classics, 2002 Now I understand! I grew up on opera but not on Maria Callas. Joan Sutherland, Schwartzkoff, Victoria Los Angeles, and Mady Mesple (to name a few) crowded the airwaves of our home growing up. I had heard that Maria Callas was THE Diva of opera and bought one of her obscure recordings from a low budget bin while in Paris 10 years ago. It didn't impress me that much. Perhaps it was recorded during her voice decline. ...             Puccini - La Bohème / Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Ghiaurov, Karajan51 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Mirella Freni, ... Decca, 1990 One of the two best recordings In a recent BBC3 "CD Review" broadcast, Alexandra Wilson made a gallant attempt to achieve the impossible task of choosing amongst forty or so recordings of "La Boheme" - and while I agreed with her ultimate choice of the Beecham recording with Bjorling, Merrill and De Los Angeles, I have rather more regard for this discarded Karajan recording simply because Pavarotti's voice, in its prime, as ...             The Most Relaxing Classical Album in the World...Ever!89 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Léo Delibes, ... Angel Records, 1999 Amazing and PERFECT for those who don't know classical music! I don't know a lot about classical music, but I wanted a CD that would be relaxing and would highlight some of the more well known classical songs. Browsing on Amazon, I came across this CD and previewed the songs and loved it! Since it arrived in the mail, it is all I listen to! It is so very relaxing. I tend to have a little road rage at times, so I play it in the car and feel very relaxed. It ...             The Most Famous Opera Arias26 reviews Georges Bizet, Alfredo Catalani, ... EMI Classics, 1994 Great for kids! I'm generally not a fan of music "samplers," but opera can be tough to introduce to children. And hey--even adults played cards, ate, and talked through the recitative sections of the early operas while they waited for the next aria! So I feel that getting kids hooked on opera through great arias probably can't hurt (the next 10 years or so will determine whether I'm right or not). My 4-year-old ...             Puccini - Tosca / Kabaivanska, Domingo, Milnes, Luccardi, Mariotti, Bartoletti26 reviews Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 A virtually perfect Tosca, no doubt about it. Puccini's reputation as a verismo composer is based primarily on La Boheme - a wonderful opera, but neither typical nor his best. His last opera was Turandot, and there's nothing of verismo about it - a grand, grand opera, a fairytale opera, an opera of princesses and princes. Sometimes I lean toward considering Turandot Puccini's best. However, most of the time I can't overcome the notion ...             UltraSound - Music for the Unborn Child28 reviews Johannes Brahms, Frederic Chopin, ... RCA, 1999 Excellent bedtime music!! I bought this CD when I was pregnant with my first son. I started listening to it consistently, especially since I was on bedrest. Fast forward 6 years, and he now still asks to listen to his "baby music" for bedtime, and we own many, many clasical CD's, even ones that claim to boost your babies' intelligence! I even asked him if he remembered listening to this CD while in my tummy, and he ...             The Most Famous Opera Duets34 reviews Eberhard Wächter, Georges Bizet, ... EMI Classics, 1994 Beautiful duets... This CD is really awesome. I'm new to opera, but love the music on this CD. I use opera music in my CD clock radio (Timex from Amazon) to fall asleep to. What a way to fade into dreamland.              search for classical music bartoletti, bocelli, brightman, caballé, carreras, classical, classics, domingo, farewell, ghiaurov, harwood, heavenly, italian, kabaivanska, karajan, luccardi, luciano, mariotti, metropolitan, moments, pavarotti, plishka, puccini, rapture, relaxing, romance, sutherland, turandot, ultrasound, verismo 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: Sufism and Faith we recommend Works amazingly home  impressum - about us