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Very Best of Sarah Brightman: 1990-2000

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by: Sarah Brightman

Release Date June 04, 2001
Like all music of Sara Brightman. it's absolute quality. She has a voice that is so flexible, that she can sing nearly al kind of music from Clasical up to hard rock. Besides this she is also a first class performer.

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Sixteen Most Requested

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from: Castle

Release Date January 17, 2005
I received the item sooner than I expected.I am very pleased with my selection,especially the quality of it.This encourages me to make future purchases.

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We Three Kings

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by: Anthony Kearns, Ronan Tynan, Finbar Wright

Release Date October 21, 2003
As an avid fan of the Irish Tenors I thoroughly enjoyed this CD until the last three songs. While I appreciate the Irish Tenors showing their respect for this country and their American fans by recording "God Bless America" etc., I fail to understand what such songs are doing on a Christmas CD. I am especially surprised by the inclusion of "Battle Hymn of the Republic." This song was a marching melody for the Union Army during the civil war and I think it shows a naive misunderstanding of history to include that track on this CD. What has Christmas to do with the Civil War? The tenors need to realize they don't have to include American songs in order to sell to American citizens. Stop catering.

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Encore

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by: Sarah Brightman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Rodgers, Burton Lane, Peter Greenwell, Stephen Sondheim, George Gershwin, Giacomo Puccini, Harry Rabinowitz, Michael Reed

Release Date April 23, 2002
I personally find the practice of coming out with a "new" album, consisting of entirely previously released pieces save a small handful, distasteful and unethical. In fact, I think that it's an insult to the fans. Fortunately, I bought this album used, and so did not pay towards this scam.

Sarah Brightman has an interesting voice. It wavers between classical and pop, with some indistinguishable character in there. Her ability to create new, challenging albums is one of the reasons I am so drawn to her as an artist. This, unfortunately, was not one of those creative albums.

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Brahms: Lieder [Box Set]

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from: Brilliant Classics

Release Date February 28, 2006
Brahms's total output of solo songs does not approach Schubert's 606 and I have never known the exact figure, but here are 164 of them to be going on with, and I think that constitutes a very high percentage.

The baritone voice is the timbre I generally find best suited to Brahms, and on these six discs we hear a lyric baritone among lyric baritones. This is one of the greatest voices of the 20th century, and I expect indeed of any century. To this God-given endowment Fischer-Dieskau brings artistry and professionalism of the highest and strictest order. You will find total technical perfection applied to the first song here: you will find loving understanding lavished on the 164th; and you will find both in equal measure in each and every ... Read More:

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Trionfi (Trittico teatrale): Carmina Burana, Catulli Carmina, and Trionfo di Afrodite

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by: Carl Orff, Eugen Jochum, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio

Release Date January 14, 2003
Eugene Jochum will be always profoundly associated and better committed with two important and remarkable composers. Anton Brucjkner and Carl Orff.

The very fact to dare to record and accept the overall challenge of undertaking an artistic crusade in order to make Orff a composer of major label is by itself worthy to acknowledge. But as we know the special attention and devotion of Jochum literally surpassed all the praises.

That's why you can not outdo this remarkable trilogy, because of the fact Jochum knew to establish not only a very hard to overcome level of performance, but established a personal landmark and a conceptual unity around the egregious figure of this peculiar composer.

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Opera Goes to the Movies

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from: RCA

Release Date August 21, 2001
As the other reviewer noted, I bought my copy of this after hearing someone else's and I had to have one of my own. A great gift, too. We gave this to people for Christmas one year with a couple of DVDs of the films (Prizzi's Honor among them). Highly recommended.

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Lucia Di Lammermoor

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by: Donizetti, Sutherland, Pavarotti, Bonynge

Release Date December 17, 1996
This is a wonderful Lucia recording. fyi, there is no libretto included. It is a complete 1975 recording and some bonus tracks from a 1959 recording of Joan Sutherland's Lucia. You won't be disappointed buying this recording!

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Pavarotti & Friends - For The Children Of Liberia

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from: Sunset Strategic Marketing (SSM) Decca

Release Date October 20, 1998
As a musician, I first ran into this disk as a PBS broadcast. What caught my ear was that every song in the concert has "the groove." Other than a children's choral cut, not a single song in the entire collection has a flaw. You'd think the Spice Girls would be a silly addition to the concert, but they do a tremendous job. Each artist appears twice, usually with Pavaotti in one of their songs, sometimes twice. Vanessa Williams is Hot! and does an incredible dance number. The engineering is excellent, with solid side-to-side separation for a really "big" sound. All in all, this is one of the favorite CDs in my music library.

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Cecilia Bartoli - An Italian Songbook (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini)

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from: Decca

Release Date September 16, 1997
To be honest I am not an admirer of Bartoli's voice and art. However her interpretation of these 'Composizioni da Camera' is excellent, very sensitive, in style and with deep emotion and feeling. It's the BEST performance I have ever heard of these songs.