popular music: Giorgio Tozzi ...     popular music:       Puccini: La fanciulla del West9 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Franco Capuana, ... Decca Import, 2002 essential Face it. All the best opera recordings were made between the mid 50s and early 70s. Fortunate for us that the final golden age of opera singing coincided with the onset of high fidelity stereo recording. This Fanciulla is a golden age performance. Sure, Carol Neblett had better high notes but the rest of the Tebaldi performance is a treasure. The role of Dick Johnson seems like it was written ...             South Pacific (1958 Film Soundtrack)33 reviews Mitzi Gaynor, Giorgio Tozzi, ... RCA, 2000 My Favorite Musical Remember seeing the movie years ago, and now that I have seen the show playing at Lincoln Center, NYC.....I just had to get this CD. The music and songs are so wonderful and I relive this fantastic play over and over again. This is one of my favorite CDs. Shipping was very fast. Completely satisfied. I had ordered two CDs of South Pacific, one for me and the other for a friend who had seen ...             Munch Conducts Berlioz [Box Set]3 reviews Gérard Souzay, Lucien Olivier, ... RCA, 2004 A sequence of gems This compendium of all of Charles Munch's Berlioz recordings with the Boston Symphony Orchestra is not to be missed, particularly as RCA's refurbished sonics, with some allowance for a few mono items, are deeply satisfying and the price is scaled to a beggar's purse. Both performances of the Fantastique, a Munch/BSO specialty, are included and both Romeos. Exceptional singing from the likes of ...             Puccini: Turandot [Hybrid SACD]11 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Erich Leinsdorf, ... RCA, 2006 Classic Turandot Though this recording is generally highly rated, the ease and arrogance with which a few reviewers have dismissed this historic performance leave one perplexed and saddened, wondering if perhaps Amazon's customer rating system is such a great thing after all. Granted, the technology behind this early stereo recording is often less than exemplary, and the various LP pressings and CD issues ...             Verdi - Aida / L. Price · Vickers · Merrill · Gorr · Opera di Roma · Solti27 reviews Giuseppe Verdi, Sir Georg Solti, ... Decca, 1990 Civility, Politeness, and, most of all, Fairness I first heard this recording of "Aida" in the 60s and am convinced today as I was years ago that it is one of the best recordings of the Verdi-masterpiece. Amazon. com has provided its customers an opportunity to sample the various recordings of this and countless other masterpieces. It has done so because, in my opinion, it realizes that the assessment of musical performances is often very ...             Jussi Bjorling: "The Pearl Fishers" Duet16 reviews Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, ... RCA, 1990 The Kiss of Jussi Bjoerling never misses his pitch, never struggles with any note in his repertoire, never runs out of breath, and most importantly, never fails to makes any note perfectly beautiful. Bjoerling's supporting cast are immortalized by their association with this incomparable singer. Every track in this album is historically as well as artistically precious.             Rose Marie3 reviews Julie Andrews, Giorgio Tozzi Sepia Recordings, 2009 Rose Marie - Finally on CD I have been waiting for this to become available on CD so I could replace my cracked LP copy. The sound quality of the Tozzi-Andrews portion is generally good and clean. The orchestrations are nice and the inclusions of the finalettos give the feeling of a cast album, instead of just a studio recording. The other portions (London original production, etc) are about as good as can be expected, ...             Barber - Vanessa8 reviews Samuel Barber, Dimitri Mitropoulos, ... RCA, 1990 Someone Revive This....Soon! This may be one of the greatest American operas of all time. It is shocking that a work of this quality isn't more widely performed. It is a vocal showcase. Vanessa suffers perhaps from a bit overwrought libretto. Menotti is guilty of his usual excesses. But Barber more than makes up for this in the sweep of his melodies. Musically, the piece is tonal, but harmonically adventureous. ...             South Pacific (1967 Lincoln Center Cast)5 reviews Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, ... Sony, 2006 Rare revival that meets all expectations. The original South Pacific is still the benchmark for this work. The soundtrack for the movie is fine, too, although I can't watch the movie - too many colored gels for my taste. This revival album includes slightly longer versions of the songs than the original cast album due to LP's advantage over 78s and 45s. The LP had just come in, and the industry didn't know how to handle the varying ...             Handel - Messiah / Vyvyan · Sinclair · Vickers · Tozzi · Royal PO · Beecham36 reviews George Frideric Handel, Sir Thomas Beecham, ... RCA, 1992 UN-PC MAGIC Just how un-PC can you get? It would be hard to get much further out of line with period performance thinking than these CDs of Messiah. Re-orchestrations (by Eugene Goossens) supplement the Handelian orchestra with a full complement of horns, trombones, doubled woodwind (including piccolo), a full string section (including a well-upholstered double-bass section) and a batterie of percussion. ...             Handel: Messiah [Highlights]3 reviews Giorgio Tozzi, George Frederick Handel, ... Living Stereo, 2009 Excellent! Every Christmas I pull this CD out and sing straight through New Year's! It is a lovely overview of Handel's Messiah condensed into a little under an hour. Not to be missed!             Rossini - The Barber of Seville / Roberta Peters · Leinsdorf16 reviews Gioachino Rossini, Erich Leinsdorf, ... RCA, 1996 Strange to say, but probably one of the best Barbers It's funny how some "classic" recordings might be classic but they arent necessarily good introductions to an opera. For example, the Maria Callas/Tito Gobbi/Luigi Alva Barber of Seville is often thought to be the classic recording of Rossini's comic gem. While I agree that recording is unique, it's also extremely cut, and it goes for a drier, more "subtle" humor. OTOH, the Leinsdorf recording, ...             Puccini: Turandot27 reviews Adelio Zagonara, Mario Sereni, ... RCA, 1996 Classic Turandot Though this recording is generally highly rated, the ease and arrogance with which a few reviewers have dismissed this historic performance leave one perplexed and saddened, wondering if perhaps Amazon's customer rating system is such a great thing after all. Granted, the technology behind this early stereo recording is often less than exemplary, and the various LP pressings and CD issues have ...             Puccini: Greatest Hits Sherrill Milnes, Fernando Corena, ... RCA, 2001             Legendary Performances of Corelli [Box Set]1 review Giangiacomo Guelfi, Giorgio Tozzi, ... Bravissimo, 2007 An All-Star Opera Festival and such a low price! I could call this set a treasure for opera fans. I have a few of this Bravissimo Opera Library Box Sets and I would say this is the best among them. The set not only features the great voice of Corelli, in each opera a great soprano sings against him. Callas, Sutherland, Nilsson, Price, Milanov, Tebaldi are all in this set. The sound and recording is much better than other sets. Other than voices ...             Handel: Messiah3 reviews Giorgio Tozzi, George Frederick Handel, ... RCA, 1993 Best Messiah ever I have in my CD collection about 12 different versions of the Messiah. This is the best Messiah ever recorded. The sound (from 1959) is clarity itself. The music is played and sung with great dramatic intensity and the sheer lushness of the sound puts all these "original instruments" performances to shame. Nothing is more irritating to me than to hear the milk-toast Messiahs that have ...             Verdi: Requiem12 reviews Giorgio Tozzi, Giuseppe Verdi, ... Decca, 1995 Wow! The most religious experience you could ever expect. Leontyne Price is a gift from the heavens. I agree with the former Washington Post reviewer, Paul Hume: "She has no equals. Few come close." Both Ms. Price and Reiner triumph in what has to be the most remarkable reading of the Requiem. The emotionality and intelligence of their combined performances is so spellbinding and gratifying, that I am left breathless by the finish line. Bjorling, ...             La Bohème12 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Erich Leinsdorf, ... RCA, 1998 A "Boheme" for the ages! This is one of the best performances of "La Boheme" on records, and an essential one for fans of soprano Anna Moffo. In 1961, when this recording was made, Anna Moffo was a young, beautiful woman (she was still in her 20's) who had a gorgeous, and flawless, lyric-coloratura soprano voice that extended spectacularly to high E flat. Moreover, she was gifted with a delicate dramatic art that ...             Puccini: La Bohème [Hybrid SACD]6 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Erich Leinsdorf, ... RCA, 2006 A Fine Performance in Refurbished SACD Sound This recording has always been tied with the classic Beecham version (EMI) for pride of place as my reference recording of this warhorse. Moffo's Mimi really sounds like a fragile young woman, not a prima donna star turn. Costa's Musetta is likewise well sung and characterized. Whatever happened to her? Of the men, Merrill and Tozzi are paricularly satisfying with plush voices and good ...              search for popular music barber, beecham, berlioz, bjorling, conducts, corelli, fanciulla, fishers, greatest, handel, highlights, legendary, leinsdorf, lincoln, merrill, messiah, pacific, performances, peters, puccini, requiem, roberta, rossini, seville, sinclair, soundtrack, turandot, vanessa, vickers, vyvyan popular music:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Abandoned we recommend Beware Women home  impressum - about us