popular music: Henri Duparc ...     popular music:       The Fabulous Victoria De Los Angeles2 reviews Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Maurice Ravel, ... EMI Classics, 1994 Fabulous? Yes!!! The album is a marvelous sampling of this great singer's artistry. Her performances of the French and Spanish composers are something special. The De Falla "Seven Popular Folksongs" are powerful, passionate; the last song, "Jota," raised the hair on the back of my neck. I was delighted to see Faure's "Claire de lune" on the album, and equally delighted with De Los Angeles' elegant ...             Decca Recordings, 1965-1972 (Limited Edition) [Box Set]2 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, William [Composer] Byrd, ... Decca, 2003 Stupendous Stokowski This five disc box set featuring the Decca Recordings (1965-72) of conductor Leopold Stokowski is among the latest batch of releases in the limited edition "Original Masters" series. While parts of this particular collection have been available on CD in the past (in the old "Phase 4" and "Weekend Classics" series), some of this material is being made available for the first time internationally. ...             Bidu Sayao: Opera Arias and Brazilian Folksongs11 reviews Bidu Sayao, Heitor Villa-Lobos Sony, 1996 Brazilian's Soprano Excellent, amazing, recommend. (excelente para conhecermos melhor uma das mais importantes e conhecidas sopramos de todo o mundo)             The Very Best of Victoria de los Angeles9 reviews Victoria De Los Angeles EMI Classics, 2003 In Memoriam: A Tribute To The Late Victoria Victoria De Los Angeles died Saturday of heart failure at the age of 83 in Barcelona, Spain. The world of opera mourns her loss. She was a gifted soprano and a wonderful human being. On stage, she was able to directly speak to her audience and communicate with them in a very special and rare way that is not always seen today. She never hid herself behind a facade nor distanced herself from fans ...             L'Invitation au voyage: Henri Duparc Mélodies Gerald Finley, Henri Duparc, ... Musica Viva, 2002             The Very Best of Janet Baker4 reviews Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, ... EMI Classics, 2002 A Rare & Glorious Singer This is a pretty good cross-section of Dame Janet's output from the prime of her career. There are few if any singers like her around today. There are many mezzos who can sing beautifully, with great articulation and finesse, but they lack the moral and musical integrity Dame Janet always brought to her singing. The voice is ardent, seeking, yearning, finding, exulting. Listen to the excerpt from ...             Lily Pons: Coloratura Assoluta3 reviews Vincenzo Bellini, Henry Rowley Bishop, ... Sony Classical, 1998 Greatest Coloratura that ever lived I saw her perform once many years ago. She had the audience on their feet through out the performance. This remastered CD is truly a work of art. I wonder why she never get the credit she deserves by historians for she was the brighest star at the Met for many years performing to a packed house. She had a tonal quality to her voice that has never been duplicated.             A French Collection2 reviews Hector Berlioz, Maurice Ravel, ... Philips, 2005 A treasure of French singing from Norman Jessye Norman isn't as well known for her French repertoire as for most of the other things she sang (and she wasn't helped by a stodgy, overly plush Carmen). Even so, two of these recordings in this budget reissue stand out: the Nuits d'Ete and Ravel Scheherazade, otherwise unabailable. Norman sings both in a rich operatic style, and the resuslts are gorgeous. Colin Davis conducts in a relaxed ...             Après un rêve1 review Gabriel Faure, Georges Bizet, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2000 French Songs Transcribed for Cello; Result is Magical Occasionally a CD appears that is pure magic. This is one of them. Mischa Maisky and Daria Hovora form an ideal team: each performs on an exquisite instrument, and the recording engineer has captured everything, balance and all. In my opinion, transcribing French songs from voice to cello is a "natural"--the cello, so much like the human voice, captures the intimacy and atmosphere ...             Very Best Of Kiri Te Kanawa3 reviews Giacomo Puccini, Francesco Cilea, ... EMI Classics, 2003 GREAT TE KANAWA ! THIS IS A GODD OVERVIEW OF KIRI TE KANAWA`S TALENT,THIS COMPILATION INCLUDES GREAT OPERA ARIAS,AMERICAN SONGBOOK CLASSICS,MAORI SONGS AND MORE,DIGITALLY REMASTERED. REALLY ENJOYABLE.             Lotte Lehmann: Wolf, Duparc, Schubert, Brahms1 review Pietro Cimara, Geni Sadero, ... RCA, 1990 Lotte Lehmann as Lieder singer When I was a teenager, I "fell in love" with the singing of Lotte Lehmann. I would drag out my old Lehmann LPs and play them for friends, who would say, "Who is that Hausfrau singing?" or, perhaps more kindly, "My, what an old-fashioned style!" It's true that Lehmann didn't have a notably beautiful voice, and she certainly used her fair share of vibrato and portamento (an older vocal style? - ...             The Very Best of Barbara Hendricks2 reviews Eldon Fox, Giacomo Puccini, ... EMI Classics, 2005 Her best is right up there with anyone's.... I have been a fan of Hendricks for 20 years (frightening that time flies like that), and appreciate her unique vocal qualities as well as her intense devotion to her art. This round-up of her best doesn't have ALL of her best....one couldn't fit it on two CD's, but there is plenty here to whet the appetite. For the first time she does some Verdi (Butterfly), Catalani (La Wally) and Cilea (Io ...             César Franck / Olivier Messiaen: Symphony in d minor / L'Ascension1 review César Franck, Olivier Messiaen, ... Cala, 2006 in Ascending order... To my ears the real (re)discovery here is the uniquely vital reading of Messiaen's L'Ascension. Messiaen's way with the original organ work was also singular, ending with a rapt, almost static rendering of the final prayer. Stokowski's performance of the orchestral work (which has a new third movement) is teeming with life, ending with a totally Stokie-fied, souped-up prayer, suggesting there's ...             The Essential Pierre Bernac1 review Charles Gounod, Henri Duparc, ... Testament UK, 1999 One of the great French recordings of the century Knowing many of these recordings from the vinyl issue, I rejoice in being able to get them re-mastered. Bernac was not only Poulenc's great interpreter, but a definitive interpreter of other French art songs (and Souzay's teacher).             Gérard Souzay Sings Ravel, Debussy, Chausson, Duparc1 review Gérard Souzay, Maurice Ravel, ... Testament UK, 2003 A great singer is fading away At about the same time that recording companies were profitably supporting a "rivalry" between Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, they were stirring up a similarly profitable competition between Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Gérard Souzay. Imagine it, once there was a time in which money could be made from singing lieder! Souzay, was born as Gérard Marcel Tisserand in 1918. He attended the ...             The Sorceror's Apprentice: French Symphonic Poems1 review Paul [Composer] Dukas, Cesar Franck, ... EMI Classics, 2006 Decent Performances and Some Attractive Rarities--Just Check Your Copy The best thing about this CD is the rareties. Henri Duparc in a rare, non-vocal excursion produces a mostly laudable tone painting of the once-famous poetic ballad "Lenore" by the German Gottfried Burger. (Henri Alkan and Joachim Raff, among other Romantic composers, had a go at the same ballad.) Though "Lenore" is an early work by Duparc, there is no sense that it is an apprentice effort. ...             Janet Baker sings Ravel: Sheherazade; Chausson; Duparc; Schumann; Brahms (2 CDs)1 review Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Maurice Ravel, ... Angel Records, 1996 A great singer at the hieght of her powers Don't let the mix-and-match diversity of the program deter you. Janet Baker, like all the greatest singers, felt challenged to sing everything she could lay her voice on, and her quotient of brilliant successes is very high. She's surprisingly good at French songs, given her non-native pronunciation. Style, musicality, and beauty of voice carry the day on CD 1, where her Ravel 'Sheherazade' is a ...             Duparc: Chansons1 review Henri Duparc, Roger Vignoles, ... Naxos, 2004 Groves is an American gem Paul Groves is one of the great lyric tenors singing today and this CD is part of the proof. His phrasing is impeccable and his voice is both sweet and compelling. Groves is a French repertoire specialist and you can't find a finer recital than this. The song Soupir is lovely. I love this album and I wish Groves would record more. I notice that Rolando Villazon has this recording on his list ...             Leopold Stokowski: Orchestral Transcriptions1 review Johann Sebastian Bach, William [Composer] Byrd, ... Polygram Records, 1996 Over the top doesn't begin to describe it! I know what you're saying. Another Bach orchestral transcription record by Leopold Stokowski? It seems like he played and recorded this music countless times before. The inspiration for this survey came from Decca's Phase 4 stereo recording technology in the 1970s. Phase 4 is notable for it's obsessive multi-miking and extreme separation of instrumental detail. It sounds like the entire orchestra ...             Leontyne Price-Return To Carnegie Hall7 reviews George Frederick Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ... RCA, 1996 Late Summer Delights I agree with the reviewer who thinks Leontyne Price still sounds glorious on this recording. Somewhere in her fifties she seemed to settle into a prolonged Indian Summer that never really languished into an autumnal vocal decline. Not only could she wrap herself around an audience, she could wrap the considerable (and often stunningly beautiful) vocal resourses left her around any music she ...              search for popular music 1965-1972, apprentice, ascension, assoluta, brazilian, carnegie, chansons, chausson, collection, coloratura, essential, fabulous, folksongs, hendricks, invitation, leontyne, messiaen, mélodies, orchestral, price-return, recordings, schubert, schumann, sheherazade, sorceror, stokowski, symphonic, symphony, transcriptions, victoria popular music:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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