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Ma Verite

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
by: Nana Mouskouri

Release Date July 01, 2004
Absolutly some of the most beautiful music you'll ever hear. It's all in French, but it doesn't matter. All it will do is make you want to learn how to speak French. I was given a tape of a copied CD and had to buy the CD. If you like this one then also get THE FRENCH ALBUM by Celine Dion. Very similiar voices. The music on both is gorgeous....sticks with you and you wind up humming it to yourself all day.

CD-Charts Position 152
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Sutherland-Pavarotti-Bonynge Gala Concert, Opera Australia

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
from: Kultur Video

Release Date March 01, 2006
Absolutly some of the most beautiful music you'll ever hear. It's all in French, but it doesn't matter. All it will do is make you want to learn how to speak French. I was given a tape of a copied CD and had to buy the CD. If you like this one then also get THE FRENCH ALBUM by Celine Dion. Very similiar voices. The music on both is gorgeous....sticks with you and you wind up humming it to yourself all day.

CD-Charts Position 153
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Manon Lescaut

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
starring: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Paul Plishka, Renée Fleming, Karita Mattila, James Courtney
directed by: Brian Large

Release Date September 16, 2008
Karita Matilla may be one of the finest Manons ever, she doesn't disappoint here. I was very impressed with Dwayne Croft's Lescaut. Dale Travis is almost too nasty as Gerante. I save the last comment for Marcello Giordani. He gives an impassioned reading as De Grieux. His "Non Non Pazzo Son" may not be the best you've heard, you won't likely have seen it sung with more feeling.

This is one of my favourite operas period and this would rank among the best recordings I have of it

CD-Charts Position 154
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake [Blu-ray]

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
starring: Ulyana Lopatkina, Danila Korsuntsev, Alexandra Gronskaya, Pyotr Stasiunas, Andrei Ivanov
directed by: Makhar Vaziev

Release Date October 21, 2008
Karita Matilla may be one of the finest Manons ever, she doesn't disappoint here. I was very impressed with Dwayne Croft's Lescaut. Dale Travis is almost too nasty as Gerante. I save the last comment for Marcello Giordani. He gives an impassioned reading as De Grieux. His "Non Non Pazzo Son" may not be the best you've heard, you won't likely have seen it sung with more feeling.

This is one of my favourite operas period and this would rank among the best recordings I have of it

CD-Charts Position 155
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Mass In B Min

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
from: Universal Music Group

Release Date January 01, 1990
Again, five stars for Mr. Gardiner. The tempi are thoughtfully chosen: neither rushed, nor sluggish. Throughout the entire work, as in his outstanding renditions Passions, Gardiner rests faithful to the music and its appropriate style, giving it an extra impulse which I find most pleasant. The quality of singing is unsurpassed: every leading instrument or vocal counterpoint can be followed with no difficulty.

Just as Rennaissance paintings, Bach's choral works are more than masterpieces. Their Christian themes, although branded "irrelevant" by politics-obsessed post-modernists, are CENTRAL to the works, far beyond being just tools subjugated to an artistic sense. Bach's Passions (not to mention Cantatas), Michelangelo's ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 156
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V5 Cantatas

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
from: SDG

Release Date November 04, 2008
Again, five stars for Mr. Gardiner. The tempi are thoughtfully chosen: neither rushed, nor sluggish. Throughout the entire work, as in his outstanding renditions Passions, Gardiner rests faithful to the music and its appropriate style, giving it an extra impulse which I find most pleasant. The quality of singing is unsurpassed: every leading instrument or vocal counterpoint can be followed with no difficulty.

Just as Rennaissance paintings, Bach's choral works are more than masterpieces. Their Christian themes, although branded "irrelevant" by politics-obsessed post-modernists, are CENTRAL to the works, far beyond being just tools subjugated to an artistic sense. Bach's Passions (not to mention Cantatas), Michelangelo's ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 157
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Missa Romana Missa Per Santis

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
from: Nvv

Release Date October 28, 2008
Again, five stars for Mr. Gardiner. The tempi are thoughtfully chosen: neither rushed, nor sluggish. Throughout the entire work, as in his outstanding renditions Passions, Gardiner rests faithful to the music and its appropriate style, giving it an extra impulse which I find most pleasant. The quality of singing is unsurpassed: every leading instrument or vocal counterpoint can be followed with no difficulty.

Just as Rennaissance paintings, Bach's choral works are more than masterpieces. Their Christian themes, although branded "irrelevant" by politics-obsessed post-modernists, are CENTRAL to the works, far beyond being just tools subjugated to an artistic sense. Bach's Passions (not to mention Cantatas), Michelangelo's ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 158
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Lehar, Franz: Die Lustige Witwe

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
starring: Ernst Konarek, Harald Serafin, Mirjana Irosch, Bernd Ander, Daniel Serafin

Release Date March 22, 2005
Again, five stars for Mr. Gardiner. The tempi are thoughtfully chosen: neither rushed, nor sluggish. Throughout the entire work, as in his outstanding renditions Passions, Gardiner rests faithful to the music and its appropriate style, giving it an extra impulse which I find most pleasant. The quality of singing is unsurpassed: every leading instrument or vocal counterpoint can be followed with no difficulty.

Just as Rennaissance paintings, Bach's choral works are more than masterpieces. Their Christian themes, although branded "irrelevant" by politics-obsessed post-modernists, are CENTRAL to the works, far beyond being just tools subjugated to an artistic sense. Bach's Passions (not to mention Cantatas), Michelangelo's ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 159
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Carmina Burana

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
from: EMI

Release Date November 03, 1998
carl orff may possibly be the worst composer of the 20th century. his music was militant and unoriginal. he essential was a one idea composer and it was an unoriginal, tasteless, bad idea at that. and this isn't even saying anything about the man himself. his personality was as distasteful as his music.
that aside, if you must own this recording (and i have to) this is the one to own. at least previn (an underrated conductor) had a sense of humour while recording it.

CD-Charts Position 160
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Voice Of Bach

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
by: Daniel Taylor

Release Date September 30, 2008
carl orff may possibly be the worst composer of the 20th century. his music was militant and unoriginal. he essential was a one idea composer and it was an unoriginal, tasteless, bad idea at that. and this isn't even saying anything about the man himself. his personality was as distasteful as his music.
that aside, if you must own this recording (and i have to) this is the one to own. at least previn (an underrated conductor) had a sense of humour while recording it.