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La Risata Di Cantalamessa

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by: Berardo Cantalamessa

Release Date November 19, 1996

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Four Centuries of Spanish Guitar

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from: Vanguard Classics

Release Date September 03, 1996
Alirio Diaz has a wonderful style. His guitar playing is crisp and precise, yet he has a tremendously fluid style. This CD has incredibly sharp sound--very rich and full. I listen to this music at work and at home during dinner, and never tire of it. I would highly recommend it for someone looking for beautiful Spanish classical guitar music by a virtuoso.

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Alirio Diaz has a wonderful style. His guitar playing is crisp and precise, yet he has a tremendously fluid style. This CD has incredibly sharp sound--very rich and full. I listen to this music at work and at home during dinner, and never tire of it. I would highly recommend it for someone looking for beautiful Spanish classical guitar music by a virtuoso.

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Verdi: Rigoletto

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from: Deutsche Grammophon

Release Date June 14, 2005
To all those who cannot accept Fischer-Dieskau as Rigoletto, you are missing a truly great interpretation. Of course he's not Italian, but then Pablo Casals was not German when he played Bach. In fact, the Cello Suites offer a good example of how many different but equally great ways there are to play the same piece. Of course Gobbi's interpretation of Rigoletto is the most dramatic, etc.; but Fischer-Dieskau brings out a different dimension of pathos that is equally desireable. Bergonzi, of course, is worth the price of admission, but Kubelik is the big surprise. He find an almost chamber-music dimension to this great opera of duets, trios, quartets, etc. Much as I love the Gobbi-Callas recording, this one would be my "Desert Island" version.

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To all those who cannot accept Fischer-Dieskau as Rigoletto, you are missing a truly great interpretation. Of course he's not Italian, but then Pablo Casals was not German when he played Bach. In fact, the Cello Suites offer a good example of how many different but equally great ways there are to play the same piece. Of course Gobbi's interpretation of Rigoletto is the most dramatic, etc.; but Fischer-Dieskau brings out a different dimension of pathos that is equally desireable. Bergonzi, of course, is worth the price of admission, but Kubelik is the big surprise. He find an almost chamber-music dimension to this great opera of duets, trios, quartets, etc. Much as I love the Gobbi-Callas recording, this one would be my "Desert Island" version.

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Couperin: Apotheose a la memoire de Lully; Sonates

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from: Sony

Release Date June 03, 1997
This is a very nice reissue of recordings from the '70s by some of the big names of the Dutch side of the early music movement like the Kuijkens brothers and Bruce Haynes. Any hautboy (baroque oboe) connoisseurs out there hoping to hear Haynes' original late 17th century Naust hautboy should know that it is not used in these recordings. Besides some occasional minor problems with intonation ("What do you call two baroque oboes playing in unison?" a major second) and performance's pitch standard (it sounds like a'=415 instead of French chamber pitch of 392-400), I think this is a wonderful reissue of some great performances and well worth buying.

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This is a very nice reissue of recordings from the '70s by some of the big names of the Dutch side of the early music movement like the Kuijkens brothers and Bruce Haynes. Any hautboy (baroque oboe) connoisseurs out there hoping to hear Haynes' original late 17th century Naust hautboy should know that it is not used in these recordings. Besides some occasional minor problems with intonation ("What do you call two baroque oboes playing in unison?" a major second) and performance's pitch standard (it sounds like a'=415 instead of French chamber pitch of 392-400), I think this is a wonderful reissue of some great performances and well worth buying.

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This is a very nice reissue of recordings from the '70s by some of the big names of the Dutch side of the early music movement like the Kuijkens brothers and Bruce Haynes. Any hautboy (baroque oboe) connoisseurs out there hoping to hear Haynes' original late 17th century Naust hautboy should know that it is not used in these recordings. Besides some occasional minor problems with intonation ("What do you call two baroque oboes playing in unison?" a major second) and performance's pitch standard (it sounds like a'=415 instead of French chamber pitch of 392-400), I think this is a wonderful reissue of some great performances and well worth buying.

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Agostino Steffani: Cantatas, Duets and Sonatas

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from: Pan Classics

Release Date January 29, 2002
This is a very nice reissue of recordings from the '70s by some of the big names of the Dutch side of the early music movement like the Kuijkens brothers and Bruce Haynes. Any hautboy (baroque oboe) connoisseurs out there hoping to hear Haynes' original late 17th century Naust hautboy should know that it is not used in these recordings. Besides some occasional minor problems with intonation ("What do you call two baroque oboes playing in unison?" a major second) and performance's pitch standard (it sounds like a'=415 instead of French chamber pitch of 392-400), I think this is a wonderful reissue of some great performances and well worth buying.

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100 Boleros de Amor

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by: Various Artists

Release Date August 02, 1994
If you want to get a CD with the best Latin American music from the 1960's, this is the one.