classical music: Eric Garrett

classical music: Eric Garrett

classical music:

Eric Garrett

For Lovers Only: The Romantic Pavarotti (Includes Bonus CD)

Eric Garrett, Nicolai Ghiaurov, ...

Decca, 2005

Let your emotions out
I'm a contractor but I cry every time I listen to the maestro. If you have any sensitivity and/or a nostalgic bone in your body... go for it. I received it as a gift from my wife and purchased a used one on Amazon for my sister. A lot of music with two full CD's and ...

Luciano Pavarotti - Donizetti Arias ~ Una furtiva lagrima

Gaetano Donizetti, Richard Bonynge, ...

Decca, 1998

Achingly, Heartwrenchingly, Beautiful
Pavarotti is arguably the most gifted and accomplished operatic tenor of the twentieth century. While other contemporary tenors may be stylistically flawless and a joy to listen to, Pavarotti is in a class by himself. He drifts effortlessly from the low, lyrical ...

Donizetti - La Fille du Régiment / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Malas, Sinclair, ROH Covent Garden, Bonynge

Gaetano Donizetti, Richard Bonynge, ...

Decca, 1990

A Great Recording of an Opera That Should Be Performed More Often
With the lighthearted music of Donizetti's LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, you'd hardly know that it takes place in the midst of a war and tells the story of a young woman abandoned at birth and left to the benevolence of an army regiment, all the while being in close proximity ...

Richard Strauss - Salome / Peter Hall · Edward Downes · Maria Ewing, · ROH Covent Garden

Maria Ewing, Michael Devlin (II)

Kultur Video, 2001

Bravo to all, especially Ewing
Oh my God! I just finished watching this. Maria Ewing is amazing. Her intense focus is wonderful. I saw a live performance of Salome a few years ago in the midwest and wished the Salome and the whole production had been more intense and a little crazy. The whole thing ...

Britten Conducts Britten: Operas 1

Benjamin Britten, English Chamber Orchestra, ...

Decca, 2004

Britten Composed AND Conducted? Of course he gets 5 stars!
Being a Britten junkie, I was thrilled to discover that not only is his entire collection of operas available in two sets, but the set is conducted by the composer himself. For a Britten lover, that's like getting an original copy of the Ten Commandments written ...

Gilbert & Sullivan - Highlights from The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Yeomen of the ...

Nicholas Folwell, Arthur Sullivan, ...

Telarc, 1996

Pure delight
--Gilbert & Sullivan-- William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were a match made in heaven, yet on earth their pairing seems even with hindsight a most unlikely coupling. Both were destined for other things, Gilbert in fact for decidedly non-musical careers. Introduced ...

Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) / Pretre, Domingo, Royal Opera Covent Garden

Plácido Domingo, Luciana Serra

Kultur Video, 2003

intoxicating!
Mr. Placido Domingo is perhaps the most exciting operatic actor-singer of our generation and once again he proves it in this wonderful opera; his three great loves (Baltsa, Cotrubas, Serra), his rivals and the rest of the crew--unforgettable!

La Fanciulla del West

Giacomo Puccini, Zubin Mehta, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1990

Puccini's Most "Modern" Opera
I was fortunate enough to see Domingo and Neblett sing this opera at Covent Garden in mid 1977, so I was delighted to find the recording. (I don't remember Sherill Milnes in the role of Rance, but maybe he wasn't so famous back then!) This is Puccini's next-to-last ...

Luciano Pavarotti: The Best (Farewell Tour)

Eric Garrett, Rolando Panerai, ...

Decca, 2005

Wonderful, of course!
I don't know of too many that would give fewer than five stars to Luciano Pavarotti. What an amazing voice...we are fortunate to have been part of one man's unbelievable talent!

Britten: Holy Sonnets, Billy Budd, etc. / Britten, Glossop, Pears, et al

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Luxon, ...

Decca, 1989

TAKING OUR SALVATION ANY WAY IT COMES
The strained economic situation of the classical music industry is working in many ways to our advantage as consumers. Britten's settings of Blake and Donne would never have been issued bundled together with Billy Budd in the vinyl era I'm quite sure. These days if we ...

Puccini: Tosca

Giacomo Puccini, Georges Prêtre, ...

Divina Records, 2000

A most moving performace
I am amazed of the intensity and quality of the Prima Donna's singing in this, her last stage performance and in presence of the Royal Family. Here, as in her last Norma performances in Paris there is a new kind of carefullness and in a new way a very great beauty in ...

Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus / Bonynge, Cox, Ashton, Royal Opera

Judith Howarth, Louis Otey

Kultur Video, 1997

A very English Fledermaus
This is a very special night at the opera. Die Fledermaus has always been a favorite with English audiences and in this Royal Opera House production, performed in the presence of the then Prime Minister, John Major, they make it their own. Having John Mortimer write ...

White Moon: Songs to Morpheus

David Starobin, Dorothy Lawson, ...

Nonesuch, 1996

The right selections for the right voice
The theme of this music is Sleep and Dreams. The 'night setting' is reflected in a very interesting variety of songs, both old and modern. The ethereal quality of much of this music is well suited to Upshaw's silver toned voice, which expresses the fantasy and other ...

The Puccini Experience ~ Gheorghiu, Rautino, Botha, Michaels-Moore, ROH Covent Garden, Downes

Giacomo Puccini, Sir Edward Downes, ...

RCA, 1995

Perfect compiltion
One of the best compilations of the key arias of Puccini operas performed by excelent artists