classical music: 170

classical music: 170

classical music:

170

Renee Fleming - The Beautiful Voice ~ Gounod, Lehar, Orff, Puccini, Rachmaninov, Strauss

Gustave Charpentier, Charles Gounod, ...

London/Decca, 1998

Renee Fleming;THE BEAUTIFUL VOICE
IT'S A FINE RECORDING THAT OFFERS A VARIETY OF SELECTIONS FROM OPERA, OPERETTAS AND FOLK SONGS, ALL WITH FLEMING AT HER BEST.

Art of Segovia

Andres Segovia

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

Great Sound Quality; Great Value
The 24-bit remastering of these analog recordings from the 1950s and 60s is outstanding. Both disks are chock-full at almost 80 minutes each, and there are a good many songs you don't hear every day. Forty of the 41 tracks are solos, while a short Rodrigo orchestral ...

Very Best of

Jussi Bjorling

EMI Classics, 2003

This is the very best
Unless, you are as crazy as I am about Bjorling and willing to buy everything available anyway, this is the collection to purchase. It includes the best of all the other compilations. The sound is very clean: much better than some of the records that I have with the ...

Renee Fleming: By Request

Vincenzo Bellini, Alfredo Catalani, ...

Decca, 2003

Just plain great!
This is my favorite album!!! I use it to mellow out, or just listen to her magnificent voice. I've passed on a few of her other albums, but if I lost this one, I'd buy it over and over again.

CPE Bach: Symphonies (Wq 182, 183); Cello Concertos (Wq 170-172) /Bylsma * OAE * Leonhardt

Anner Bylsma, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, ...

Virgin Veritas, 2000

Reminiscent of Boccherini's Cello Concertos/Symphonies
The Virgin 'Veritas' label has released some excellent recordings (Vivaldi's Opus 3 and 9, for instance), and this double-disc issue of C.P.E's symphonies/cello concertos is no exception. [...] these discs sound absolutely fantastic! C.P.E. Bach, probably J.S. ...

Strauss: Four Last Songs/12 Orchestral Songs

Richard Strauss, George Szell, ...

EMI Classics, 1999

This is just a review of the transfer and booklet
I have little to add to the excellent reviews here--I owned a previous transfer, and it was worth it to me to buy another, given its low cost at Amazon. I think the transfer is excellent, removing a surprising amount of murk from a 1991 version (I think). In fact, ...

Andrés Segovia: A Centenary Celebration

Isaac Albeniz, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Mca, 1994

I AGREE
Segovia was the greatest classical guitarist that ever lived and always WILL be the greatest that ever lived, for he was the ROCK on which the classical guitar was practically founded! These 3 CD's of his most treasured pieces cut straight through the heart with GREAT ...

Strauss: Four Last Songs; Songs with Orchestra; Rosenkavalier Suite

Richard Strauss, Christoph Eschenbach, ...

RCA, 2004

One of my favorite recordings of Strauss' Four Last Songs
It is hard for me to imagine that Renee Fleming began her career singing Mozart and Strauss roles, considering the career that has been skyrocketing her into the international scene with bel canto roles and recently, Handelian successes. Most sopranos who succeed in ...

Poulenc: Piano Works

Francis Poulenc, Pascal Rogé

Decca, 2004

A Delight
There's little use looking further for a recording of Poulenc's piano music, not when Pascal Roge captures the elegance, charm, and wit of his countryman's art so well. The disc starts with "Les Soirees de Nazelles," where some of Poulenc's more virtuosic passages lie. ...

Mozart Edition: Complete Works (170 CD Box Set)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bruce Abel, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2005

A wonderful set !
I bought the complete set for my birthday. What a wonderful surprise ! Let's say I did not know much about Mozart's music except some few "classics" (the symphonies, the requiem, some piano concertos and sonatas, some serenades and the operas). I love every piece I ...

The Very Best of Nicolai Gedda

Nicolai Gedda, Adolphe Adam, ...

EMI Classics, 2003

Wonderful, but just SOME of the very best of Nicolai Gedda
This is but a subset of the glorious recorded singing by Nicolai Gedda; however, it is a good sampler of the repertoire that made him legendary. And, at least a couple of the tracks ("Asile Hereditaire" and Lenski's aria) seem to be his best recordings of those ...

The Strauss Family: Waltzes, Polkas & Overtures - Willi Boskovsky/Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna (6 CD's)

Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, ...

EMI Classics, 2004

This is a great album
Boskovsky is one of the foremost interpreters of the music of Strauss. I have much of his material on LP, this edition on CD sounds great. Hear how Strauss most have wanted his music to be played. This CD collection is a most for anyone interested in this musical ...

The Stanford Archive Series: Richard Crooks

Thomas Arne, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Delos Records, 1997

Richard Crooks: A Fine Man and a Master Singer
I most heartily agree with what the earlier reviewer has written of Richard Crooks and of this excellent Stanford Archive set. The 2 CD set is a most welcome release, and I note that, for now at least, one seller has it available at the bargain price of $14.95. ...

Jussi Björling Rediscovered

Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, ...

RCA, 2003

Magnificent
Some years ago I met an elderly gentleman who'd served as a co-pilot on a B-24 bomber during WWII. During a raid on a North German site their aircraft was badly damaged and they were forced to crash-land it in Sweden. The shaken but uninjured crew was picked up by the ...

Antheil: Ballet Mecanique

George Antheil, Daniel Spalding

Naxos American, 2001

The Bad Boy and the Bad Boy Tamed
The main problem with the early works of George Antheil, self-styled "Bad Boy of Music," is also its chief virtue: It's derivative of Igor Stravinsky. But then if you're going to slavishly follow a model, you probably couldn't choose a better one. In the Ballet ...