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Dive

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
by: Sarah Brightman

Release Date April 20, 1993
A must have. First solo release without Andrew Lloyd Webber. It's a glimpse at a little creative freedom she had. It's a themed album focused on the sea, oceanic animals and animal rights. Very cute in a sense and vital if beginning a Sarah Brightman collection. I feel it is some of her best "pop" work. Very innocent and natural.

CD-Charts Position 262
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Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) / Haitink, Finley, Hagley, Fleming, Glyndebourne Festival Opera

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
starring: Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt, Mandred Röhrl
directed by: Derek Bailey

Release Date September 16, 2003
Please do not waste your money on this one. The sound is tourchuring. We could not even listen through the first act! It was complete waste of money for us! Poor Mozart, and I always thought that you can't go wrong with Mozart's pieces, what a dissapointment.

CD-Charts Position 263
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Puccini: La Rondine

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
starring: Fiorenza Cedolins, Fernando Portari, Sandra Pastrana, Carlo Rizzi, Emanuele Giannino
directed by: Graham Vick

Release Date August 26, 2008
SIMPLY PUT THE NYC OPERA PRODUCTION OF "LA RONDINE" WAS WONDERFUL. IT IS A SHAME THERE IS NO DVD OF THE ORIGINAL THAT AIRED SOME TIME AGO WITH ELIZABETH KNIGHTEN. BEVERLEY SILLS CONSIDERED THIS ONE OF HER FAVORITES. THE SECOND ACT WAS LITERALLY, A SHOW STOPPER. ACT THREE WAS AS OPERATIC AS CAN BE.
I ALSO THINK MARTHA DOMINGO'S ENDING DETRACTS FROM THE NATURAL CONCEPT.

CD-Charts Position 264
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Mozart for Your Mind

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

Release Date January 17, 1995
I started listening to this when I had to cram for an exam the other day. I couldn't stop listening to it, and when it came time for the test, I wish my professor could have let me listen to it while I was taking the test!
All the pieces are upbeat, while at the same time not distracting.

CD-Charts Position 265
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Music from a Farther Room

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
by: Astor Piazzolla, Maurice Ravel, Richard Rodgers, Paul Schwartz, Jean Sibelius, Traditional, Paul Schwartz, Craig Macintyre, Tariqh Akoni, Tim Curle, Lang Lang, Lee Musiker, Zachary Provost, Lucia Micarelli, Leigh Nash, Lisbeth Scott

Release Date July 27, 2004
Ms.Lucia Micarelli is truly a gifted artist whom I am honored to have come across. Josh Groban gave her a huge advance in her career by putting her on his tour back in 2004. I think she is not only a talented artist, but is also a great person whom seems so down to earth. Lucia, keep making music please!

CD-Charts Position 266
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Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
from: Deutsche Grammophon

Release Date May 09, 2006
The rhythms are exciting, some of the orchestration is clever and well-done. Listening to the CD overcomes some of the problems of a live production: achieving a balance between acoustic and amplified music, overcoming the lack of contrast (almost all women's voices) and utter lack of dramatic movement (nothing happens). The voices are good and perform the music well. Still, there is not much here for them to work with and the result is mediocre.

The music, while catchy at first, is simple, undeveloped and repetitive. The story lacks drama and movement. It is essentially a reverie on Lorca, not the man, his poetry, his sexuality, his art or politics but just some tired ahistorical cliches about freedom and fighting facism climaxing in his assassination. ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 267
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The Other Side of Time

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
by: Mary Fahl

Release Date May 27, 2003
Mary Fahl's voice gets better with time no matter what side of time she's on. I've been a fan since her arrival with the group "October Project." Her lyric s are thoughtful and her alto voice, hauntingly beautiful.

CD-Charts Position 268
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The Tales of Hoffmann - Criterion Collection

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
starring: Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tchérina, Anne Ayars, Pamela Brown, Léonide Massine
directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Release Date November 22, 2005
A treasure! If only for the two rare and marvelous acts by the incredibly lithe and lovely Moira Shearer. The video quality is surprisingly good, also.

CD-Charts Position 269
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Leon Fleisher: Two Hands

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
from: Artemis Classics

Release Date August 24, 2004
This is one of the most beautiful and personal recordings I have ever heard. There's really nothing more to say. I just wish it were a double album.

CD-Charts Position 270
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Artur Rubinstein in Concert

CD-Charts > Music > Opera and Vocal
from: Deutsche Grammophon

Release Date June 10, 2008
Following their release of Artur Rubinstein's Grieg, Chopin and Saint-Saëns concertos, Deutsche Grammophon issues another fascinating programme about the great pianist, recorded two years earlier, in August 1973, at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Rubinstein can be heard and seen in Beethoven's 3rd and Brahms's 1st, both accompanied by the Concertgebouw Orchestra under Bernard Haitink.

Produced by the same team, with Hugo Käch directing, the great Max Wilcox who had been recording Rubinstein since 1959 as audio producer, and Robert Hofer responsible for the photography, this DVD provides further insight in the artistry of one of the most significant pianists of the previous century in the indian summer ("autumn" would be too strong a word for the 86-year old Rubinstein) ... Read More: