Fangoria's Hit Single Gets Remixed by Milinko, +d Lo Mismo and Moli. Also Includes the Video.
No Se Que Me Das,Fangoria,Subterfuge,Latin
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Songs Of Spain / De Los Angeles, et al
Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000I4KQ Release Date: 1999-02-23 |
Tracks:
- El rossinyol
- El testament d'Amelia
- Adios meu homino
- Mina nay por me casare
- Tengo que subir
- Ahi tienes mi corazon
- La vi llorando
- Ya se van los pastores
- Campanas de Belen
- Jaeneras que yo canto
- A dormir ahora mesmo
- Granadinas
- Hincarse de rodillas
- Cancion de trilla
- Parado de Valldemosa
- Nik baditut
- Andregaya
- Din, dan, boleran
- Mariam matrem
- Ay, triste vida corporal!
- Que es mi vida, preguntais?
- Porque es, dama, tanto quereros?
- No me llames segalaherba
- Ay, luna que reluces
- En esta larga ausencia
- Molinillo que mueles amores
- Confiado jilguerillo
- Seguidillas religiosas
- Cancion de cuna
- El jilguerillo con pico de oro
- El canape
Tracks:
- Ah, el novio no quiere dinero
- Coma la rosa en la guerta
- Estavase la mora
- Aquel rey de Francia
- Damos gracias a ti, Dios
- Sobre Baca estaba el rey
- Ay que non hay!
- Rosa das rosas
- Maravillosos e piadosos
- Tres moricas m'enamoran
- Paseabase el rey moro
- Dime a do tienes las mientes
- Si no's huviera mirado
- Dexo la venda
- Puse mis amores
- Aqui me declaro su pensamiento
- Pues que me tienes
- Gentil dama, non se gana
- Mi querer tanto vos quiere
- Una hija tiene el rey
- Una matica de ruda
- Si la noche se hace oscura
- Pastorcico, non te aduermas
- Ay triste que vengo
- No soy you quien la descrube
- Pase el agua, Julieta
- Aquel caballero, madre
- Duelete de mi, Senora
- De Antequera salio el Moro
- De los alamos vengo, madre
- Enfermo estaba Antioco
- Dame acogida en tu hato
- Morenica, dame un beso
- Senora, si te olvidare
- De donde venis, amore?
Tracks:
- La rosa enflorece
- Ven querida
- Adio, querida
- Durme, durme, hermozo hijico
- Paxaro d'hermosura
- Avrix, mi galanica
- Irme quiero, la mi madre
- Ya viene el cativo
- Yo m'enamori d'un aire
- Una matica de ruda
- Anda, jaleo
- Los cuatro muleros
- Las tres hojas
- Los mozos de Monleon
- Las morillas de Jaen
- Sevillanas del siglo 18
- El cafe de Chinitas
- Nana de Sevilla
- Los pelegrinitos
- Zorongo
- Romance de Don Boiso
- Los reyes de la baraja
- La tarara
- El combat del somni: Damunt de tu, nomes les flors
- A l'ombra del Lledoner: Canco de grumet
- Canciones negras: Cancion de cuna para dormir a un negrito
- Cuatro madrigales amatorios: De los alamos vengo, madre
- Coleccion de tonadillas: Callejeo
- Coleccion de tonadillas: El tra la la y el punteado
- Seis canciones castellanas: No quiero tus avellanas
- Seis canciones castellanas: Jota
- Panxolina
- Tu pupila es azul
- Cantos populares espanolas: Malaguena
- Cantos populares espanolas: Granadina
- Cantos populares espanolas: El Vito
- Cantos populares espanolas: Pano murciano
- Clavelitos
- Adios, Granada
- Madrigal
Tracks:
- Coleccion de tonadillas: Amor y odio
- Coleccion de tonadillas: Callejeo
- Coleccion de tonadillas: El majo discreto
- Coleccion de tonadillas: El majo olvidado
- Coleccion de tonadillas: El majo timido
- Coleccion de tonadillas: El mirar de la maja
- Coleccion de tonadillas: El tra la la y el punteado
- Coleccion de tonadillas: La maja de Goya
- Coleccion de tonadillas: Las currutacas modestas
- Tres majas dolorosas: Oh muerte cruel!
- Tres majas dolorosas: Ay majo de mi vida
- Tres majas dolorosas: De aquel majo amante
- Goyescas: La maja y el ruisenor (Rosario)
- 'La vida breve': Vivan los que rien! (Salud - Act 1)
- 'La vida breve': Alli esta! Riyendo! (Salud - Act 2)
- 'Acis y Galatea': Confiado jilguerillo
- El tripili
- Llorad, corazon
- Iban al pinar
- No lloreis, ojuelos
- Mananica era
- Mira que soy nina
- Gracia mia
- El pano moruno
- Seguidilla murciana
- Asturiana
- Jota
- Nana
- Cancion
- Polo
- 'La Tempranica': Zapateado (La tarantula e un bicho mu malo)
Customer Reviews:
The most noble voice.......2004-05-28
PURCHASE THIS JEWEL WHILE YOU CAN.......2002-01-08
luminous artistry from a genius.......2000-12-26
A special Dignity and an Unfailing Beauty of Voice........2000-09-17
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Brava Berganza! A Birthday Tribute
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0007DHPRG Release Date: 2005-04-12 |
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The Art of the Recorder
Manufacturer: Testament UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0007VXZDQ Release Date: 2005-06-14 |
Customer Reviews:
great interpretation!.......2007-05-13
A landmark recording, finally on CD.......2005-07-11
Speaking as a music lover, the repertoire in "The Art of the Recorder" went a long way to feed my interest in early music, spanning from medieval to 20th century works, solo recorders to ensembles that represent all the musical instruments, including vocal selections from the late baroque. The performance practices may seem a bit dated now (perhaps the baroque era more than others), but it's played with liveliness and conviction from start to finish.
The CD set also includes 36 tracks from Munrow's "Instruments of the Middle Ages". In the LP form where I first knew it, Munrow narrates with descriptions of the instruments; the narration is unfortunately absent, and the audio transfer sounds fuzzy compared with my memory of the LP. But it's still nice to have if you want to hear a gittern contrasted with a citole.
If you collect period instrument recordings, I heartily recommend "The Art of the Recorder" for your library.
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Star Crossed Lovers / Domingo, Fleming, Barenboim, Chicago SO
Leonard Bernstein , Giuseppe Verdi , Carlos Gardel , Federico Moreno Torroba , Charles Gounod , Edward Duke Ellington , Franz Lehar , Chicago Symphony Orchestra , Daniel Barenboim , Renée Fleming , Plácido Domingo , and Duke Ellington Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000I088 Release Date: 1999-02-02 |
Tracks:
- West Side Story: Prologue
- West Side Story: Tonight
- West Side Story: Rumble
- West Side Story: Somewhere
- Faust: Il se fait tard...O nuit d'amour!
- El dia que me quieras
- !Quisiera verte y no verte!
- Jota castellana
- Otello: Gia nella notte densa
- In a Sentimental Mood
- Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me
- Prelude to a Kiss
- Das Land des Lachelns: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz
- Die lustige Witwe: Lippen schweigen
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Romeo and Juliet were the original star-crossed lovers; Shakespeare coined the phrase in his tragedy about their young love and tragic death. But the expression can be applied to doomed couples of all kinds: Faust and Marguerite, Othello and Desdemona, and of course Tony and Maria in West Side Story, which updates Romeo and Juliet to modern New York. This recording, taped at a gala concert in Chicago in 1998 and videotaped for a telecast on the PBS series Great Performances, presents music about doomed love composed by Leonard Bernstein, Charles Gounod, Franz Lehar, Duke Ellington, and others, including several Spanish songs that show Plácido Domingo in top form. After all the tragedy, there is a duet that signals one happy ending: the Merry Widow waltz. Domingo and Renée Fleming are two of today's greatest singers, and they live up to their reputations. The voices are too operatic for West Side Story, but Bernstein would have disagreed. For his definitive recording of the show, he chose similar voices: José Carreras and Kiri Te Kanawa. --Joe McLellanCustomer Reviews:
Terrible.......2002-09-01
Please only purchase this item if you have enjoyed better works from both artists, for it was my introdution to them both, and I regret to say that I was most dissapointed! ~
How Can You Give This Less Then Five Stars ???.......2002-08-16
This is really very nice!.......2002-02-17
Below Their Standards.......2000-02-22
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Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Alagna, van Dam, Dessay, Vaduva, Jo, Lascarro, Dubosc, Ragon, Sénéchal, Bacquier, Lamprecht, Nagano
Jacques Offenbach , Roberto Alagna , Natalie Dessay , Kent Nagano , Choeur et Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon , Leontina Vaduva , Sumi Jo , José van Dam , Catherine Dubosc , Gilles Ragon , Gabriel Bacquier , Doris Lamprecht , and Juanita Lascarro Manufacturer: Erato ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000005E4D Release Date: 1996-10-29 |
Tracks:
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Prelude - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Act 1, Scene 1: Glou! Glou! - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Couplets de la muse: La verite, dit-on, sortait d'un puits - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Elle est sur la scene, un peuple l'acclame - La Muse - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 2: Le conseiller Lindorf, morbleu! - Lindorf, Andres - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 3: Vayons? Pour Hoffmann! - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Couplets: Dans les roles d'amoureux - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Deux heures devant moi - Scene 4: Vite, vite, qu'on se remue! - Lindorf, Luther - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 5: Choeur des Etudiants - Drig, drig - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Vrai Dieu! Mes amis - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Eh! Luther! Ma grosse tonne - Lindorf, Luther, Nathanael, Hermann, Wolfram, Wilhelm - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 6: Bonjour, amis! - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Couplets and Andante: Va pour Kleinzach! - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Peuh! Cette biere est detestable! - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Duo: Et par ou votre Diablerie - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Simple echange de politesse - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Je vous dis, moi - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Ma maitresse? - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Final: Messieurs, on va lever le rideau! - Hoffmann, Nicklausse, Lindorf, Luther, Nathanael, Hermann, Wolfram, Wilhelm - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Act 2: Entracte - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 1: La! Dors en paix - Spalanzani - Scene 2: Ah! Bonjour! Enchacte! - Spalanzani, Hoffmann - Scene 3: Fais allumer partout! - Spalanzani, Cochenille - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 4: Allons! Courage et confiance! - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Pardieu! J'etais bien sur - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Couplets: Une poupee aux yeux d'email - Nicklausse, Hoffmann - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 5: C'est moi, Coppelius! - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Je me nomme Coppelius - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: J'ai deux jeux, de beaux yeux - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Serviteur - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Ah! Ange du ciel, est-ce bien toi? - Nicklausse, Hoffmann, Coppelius - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 6: Hein! Vous! - Hoffmann, Coppelius, Spalanzani - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 7: Choeur des Invites: Non aucun hote vraiment - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Vous serez satisfaits, messieurs - Hoffmann, Spalanzani, Nicklausse - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 8: Mesdames et Messieurs - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Mesdames et Meisseurs, fiere de vos bravos - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Air: Les oiseaux dans la charmille - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Ah! Mon ami! Quel accent! - Hoffmann, Spalanzani, Nicklausse, Olympia, Cochenille - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 9: Ils se sont eloignes! Enfin! - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Ah! Vivre deux! - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Tu me fuis? - Hoffmann, Olympia - Scene 10: Eh! morbleu! modere ton zele! - Hoffmann, Nicklausse - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 11: Voleur! Brigand! Quelle deroute! - Coppelius - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Scene 12: En place les danseurs - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Voila! Assez, assez, ma fille - Kent Nagano
- Les Contes D' Hoffmann: Ah! Quoi? L'homme aux lunettes, la! - Spalanzani, Cochenille, Hoffmann, Olympia, Nicklausse, Coppelius - Kent Nagano
Tracks:
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Act 3: Entracte - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 1: Elle a fui, la tourterelle - Antonia - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 2: Malheureuse enfant! - Crespel, Antonia - Scene 3: Desespoir! Tout a l'heure, encore! - Crespel - Scene 4: Frantz! n'ouvre a personne! - Crespel, Frantz - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 5: Jour et nuit je me mets en quatre - Frantz - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 6: Frantz, c'est ici! - Hoffmann, Frantz - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 7: Enfin je vais savoir pourquoi - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Romance: Vois sous l'archet fremissant - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: C'est une chanson d'amour - Hoffmann, Antonia, Nicklausse - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 8: Ah! Je le savais bien - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Ah! J'ai le bonheur dans l'ame - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Pourtant, o ma fiancee - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Viens la comme autrefois - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Qu'as-tu donc? - Antonia, Hoffmann - Scene 9: Rien! J'ai cru qu'Hoffmann etait ici! - Hoffmann, Crespel, Frantz, Miracle - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 10: Pour conjurer la danger - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Allons, parle! et sois bref! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: J'ai la certains flacons - Miracle, Crespel, Hoffmann, Antonia - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 11: Ne plus chanter - Hoffmann, Antonia - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 12: Tu ne chanteras plus? - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Ah! Quelle est cette voix? - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Ta mere, oses-tu l'interroger? - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Non! Assez! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Ja cede au transport qui m'enivre! - Miracle, Antonia, La Voix - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 13: Mon enfant, ma fille! - Crespel, Antonia, Hoffmann, Nicklausse, Miracle - Jacques Offenbach
Tracks:
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Act IV: Entracte - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 1: Messieurs, silence! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Recit et Chant bachique: Et moi, ce n'est pas la - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Amis, l'amour tendre et reveur - Hoffmann, Nicklausse, Giulietta - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 2: Je vois qu'on est en fete! - Schlemil, Giulietta, Pitchinaccio, Hoffmann - Scene 3: Au premier reve je t'enleve - Nicklausse, Hoffmann - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 4: Tourne, tourne, miroir - Dapertutto - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 5: Cher ange! - Dapertutto, Giulietta - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 6: Melodrame: Vivat! J'ai tout gagne! - Giulietta, Schlemil, Dapertutto - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 7: Giulietta, palsembleu! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Air de Giulietta: Vous ne jouez pas? - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Que dit-elle? - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Giulietta, je vous jure! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Oui, fut-ce au prix de ma vie - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Sextuor and Choeur: Helas! Je vais encore la suivre - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Morbleu! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Il a ma cle - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 1: Ton ami dit vrai! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Romance: O Dieu, de quelle ivresse - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Jusque-la, cependant - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Si ta presence m'est ravie - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Ah! Tu m'as defiee - Giulietta, Hoffmann, Dapertutto, Pitchinaccio - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 2: Alerte, Hoffmann! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Voyez! Il n'a plus le moindre reflet! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Je n'aime pas qu'on me defie! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Ainsi, tu mentais! - Nicklausse, Hoffmann, Dapertutto, Pitchinaccio, Giulietta - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Act V: Entracte - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 1: Choeur: Folie! Oublie tes douleurs - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Voila quelle fut l'histoire - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Choeur des Esprits et des Etudiants: Glou! Glou! - Hoffmann, Luther, Lindorf, Nathanael, Nicklausse - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Scene 2: Stella, Stella! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Couplet: Pour le coeur de Phrygne - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Denouement: Hola! Quelqu'un de fort pour emporter Hoffmann! - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Ingrat! Et moi? - Jacques Offenbach
- Les Contes d'Hoffmann: Adieu! Je t'abandonne - Andres, Hoffmann, Nicklausse, Stella, La Muse, Lindorf - Jacques Offenbach
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Of all the revisionist Hoffmanns, this one is the best, using the latest (and one trusts) last version of Michael Kaye's edition, based on sketches recently discovered for the unfinished opera. Most of the changes are in the Giulietta act; it now tracks better dramatically, and unlike some restoration attempts, its length is sensible. In the title role, Roberto Alagna is full of imaginative touches of characterization, singing the famous Kleinzach song with an intentional vocal roughness in a worthy effort to convey the Hoffmann's debauched state. As the mechanical doll Olympia, Natalie Dessay proves she's not only a phenomenal singer but a great comedienne. Kent Nagano deploys his Lyon Opera forces with great stylistic authority. --David Patrick StearnsCustomer Reviews:
Not a flawless version, but one to be REALLY loved.......2006-05-09
First, about the edition. The Kaye edition restores a lot of music including recitatives written by Offenbach and a number of musical numbers. It also goes for the Guiraud recitatives which some versions totally omit and replace by the dialogues which Offenbach likely might have intended. Compared to, say, the historical Sutherland/Domingo/Bonynge version, this version is significantly longer and more substantial, musically speaking. With more than 30 minutes of music compared to the Bonynge edition, it is understandable why the Kaye version needs up to 3 CDs to bear the substantial amount of music.
While fans of Contes d'Hoffmann would likely be grateful at the ressurrection of so much musical material, I personally find this version sometimes just too painfully long. The Guiraud recitatives sometimes simply are bland and cause the opera to just drag along. Yes, Guiraud obviously has a lot of skills and bright ideas in these recitatives, mostly shown by the quoting of music by Offenbach in these recitatives to give the opera a better sense of unison. But compared to the simpler recitatives that Offenbach himself wrote, the Guiraud sometimes just seems aloof. Unless you really have a lot of time, you might want to stick to the more important musical numbers. Also, the new ending, with Hoffmann facing the Muse in the apotheose is a wonderful ensemble, with sounds from the church organ that gives the scene its necessary "holy" feel.
Now to the singers. Alagna has a masculine voice and is dramatically very effective. He also has a perfect French diction-crisp, idiomatic and a real joy to listen to. His instrument naturally is not very beautiful; and I personally find his Hoffmann a bit beefy and hysterical; but his good understanding of the role still helps him come across as a better Hoffmann. The best Hoffmann is in my opinion either Domingo or Schicoff.
The ladies are provided with quite a luxury cast. Natalie Dessay's Olympia is perhaps second only to Sutherland and Sills. To everyone who honors La Stupenda's E flats, listen: Dessay presents the role of the mechanical doll with FOUR Gs, yes 4 full-voiced, stunning, jaw-dropping Gs!!! Musically speaking, Dessay is not as comedic as Sutherland; her tone is a little thin and nasal but her coloratura and lovely portrayal of the role is simply untterly convincing.
Vaduva's Antonia is excellent: excellent diction, girly tone and very successfully portrays the youngsinger's vulnerability and sensibility. She however lacks power in the trio and that C sharp falls flat. Her "Elle a fui la tourterelle" is however wonderfully touching and moving. The best Antonia, in my opinion, is Victoria de Los Angeles. To one of the reviewers here, Vaduva is not a Slavic singer. She is a French singer of Romanian origin. A totally Latin singer!
Sumi Jo portrays a very convincing Giulietta with very believable spinto qualities, which she provides effectively with chaning in tone. The rediscovered coloratura, with a couple of E flats and spellbinding runs, well, brings the wonderful Korean coloratura soprano to her prime best. Her French is surprisingly idiomatic.
Lascarro's got a small role as Stella. I personally don't like her tone; but she is good enough in the beautiful apotheose ensemble.
Jose Van Dam's quartet villain almost matches Bacquier's famous portrayal. His voice is not as dark or evil-sounding as Bacquier's but still gives a top-notch interpretation. His doctor Miracle might have been the best on record if he took some of those melodramatic laughs in the Trio. His reluctance, combined with Vaduva's small voice, creates a flat Trio. This being said, the French bass's quartet of villains stills ranks among the undisputed best. My favorite villain quartet, Gabriel Bacquier has a cameo role here as Crespel, which he does a great job.
Gilles Ragon's a good tenor and his stuttering in the portrayal of Cochenille is very convincing. I however find him a bit too serious and heavy for these tenore buffo roles. The same can be said for Senechal's Spalanzani. Compared to Charon's Spalanzani on the Bonynge recording, he is very unfunny. The "brigand! Bandit!" quarrel after the destruction of the doll is bland and lifeless.
Catherine's Dubosc has a lovely voice and does great job as Nicklausse. There is nothing to criticize about her singing qualities. My only objection is that the casting of this trouser role for a soprano harms the overall balance of the opera: 5 soprano roles and 1 mezzo role (the voice of the mother): this is not a good balance. The Barcarolle duet, in particular, suffers from both a misbalance and a ridiculous fast tempo.
Kent Nagano's conducting does not have the solid tempos of Bonynge and sometimes overwhelms the singers: most notably in that C sharp of the Trio. But he has really interesting ideas and provides invaluable support.
With the exception of a bland Spalanzani, some strange tempos and the unusual length of the edition, this is a very good Hoffmann. Together with the Bonynge version, this is another very good all-around recording. The set is a tad expensive, but given the substantial amount of music and a very informative booklet, this is a recording to really consider. It will provide a lot of listening pleasures. You will not be disappointed.
The best of a mediocre-to-bad lot.......2003-10-30
Now that musicologists have finished playing with the Mahler 10th Symphony (which ended rather well) and the Beethoven 10th (which ended rather badly), they have been taking a whack at "Hoffmann," rushing to revise music the composer never sanctioned and adding music found in buckets and boxes long after his death. My personal feeling was, if it ain't broke, don't fix it: you're not Offenbach, and to speak for him requires a tremendous amount of chutzpah. And a lot of the revisions, to my ear, simply do not work well, such as turning Giulietta into a coloratura soprano, spinning out an aria that ends much like Olympia's doll song as on this recording.
I'm also not fond of switching the Antonia and Giulietta acts from their traditional positions for both dramatic and musical reasons. To begin with, having the "tales" end with Antonia gives Hoffmann's character a certain sense of redemption that simply isn't there the other way. Also, the Giulietta act is musically the weakest: as primiarily an operetta composer, Offenbach simply had a hard time creating music for this act which is darker and more tensely dramatic than anything else in the work. The superp trio that climaxes the Antonia act, on the other hand, is one of the most brilliant and transcendent things he wrote.
That being said, there is much to admire in this set. Kent Nagano conducts briskly, which is his wont, thereby tying together the music in a cohesive and satisfying way where others (particularly Cluytens and Cambreling) sound slow and rambling. On the other hand, his chorus of the spirits, though light and brisk, just misses the rapt, enchanting sound achieved by Bonynge; and though it was probably Offenbach's intent to have only a few strings play the violin motif in the Antonia trio, they sound too thin, not sweeping or driven enough, for the dramatic situation. Nagano also conducts the famed "Barcarolle" at a shade-too-fast tempo, thus robbing the music of its mysterious charm (even Arthur Fiedler made a better recording of the instrumental version). These moments point to a lack of "theatricality" in Nagano's conducting style that Bonynge, Rudel and even Beecham managed to capture.
Alagna is not as suavely beautiful or haunting in the role as Robert Rounseville or Stuart Burrows were. This is something of an abrupt, nervous reading, though if one knows something about E.T.A. Hoffmann and his tales it is perfectly in keeping with his character. (I have yet, however, to see ANY tenor perform the role made up to LOOK like Hoffmann, a scrawny little man with a square jaw, popping eyes and a shock of unruly, frizzy hair. I guess no tenor really wants to look like that!)
This is unquestionably the finest performance Dessay has ever recorded: her voice is brilliant, in focus, on pitch and wonderfully secure. Only Bond in the Beecham performance and Sutherland come close, though I personally feel that Sutherland was funnier in the role. She had a real flair for comedy, whereas she did not possess enough personal warmth for Antonia or Giulietta.
The Sutherland recording also had the best "villains" in Gabriel Bacquier in his prime, but to my ears Van Dam is an excellent second. (Treigle, in the Sills set, was good but not great, his somewhat gruff voice rather overwhelimg the roles with too much histrionics.)
Vaduva has a pretty tone but your typical "Slavic wobble," more noticeable in the early and late parts of her act. For some reason, the voice is better focused in the middle sections, but she does not efface memories of de los Angeles who was the best Antonia ever.
Jo is surprisingly good as Giulietta: though her voice is even smaller than Dessay's, it had a fuller lyric sound in the mid-range which captured well on records. (I have beel told that her "live" career is just about over on stage as the voice is too small to carry in most modern theaters.) I liked Margherita Grandi in the old Beecham film, but a chesty, spinto Giulietta is apparently persona non grata in the new Michael Kaye edition of the work.
Dubosc is a good Nicklausse, though I preferred Tourangeau and the singer (I forget her name) from the Beecham film. Bacquier, with far less voice, is still predictably good as Crespel; the timeless Senechal is a classic Spalanzani; Ragon is an excellent Cochenille, not so memorable as Franz. (I miss Andrea Velis, the old Met comp, who was brilliant in these roles but was never recorded in them.) The other small roles range from excellent (Tezier as Schlemil) to poor (Juanita Lascarre as Stella).
An ideal modern "Hoffmann" would have Elisabeth Vidal as Olympia, Hong as Antonia, Fleming as Giulietta, Alvarez as Hoffmann, Rene Pape as the three villains, and someone like Pappano or Plasson conducting.....but we can dream all we want. The era of complete opera recordings, according to many inside sources, is over as we know it--even the Bobby & Angela act is being shelved--so we must pick from what we have, and this is simply the finest over all "Hoffmann" on record, with Bonynge's being a good second choice, though I do not like Domingo's hard-voiced, beefy Hoffmann.
Hoffman contines to elude the recording world.......2001-10-03
I prefer Domingo's more passionate Hoffman to Alagna's workmanlike effort, which is still quite fine.
On the other hand, having different female vocalists, as this recording does is preferable to my ear than having the same throughout as the Domingo/Sutherland recording does. The three female leads here range from good (Dessay) to excellent (Jo). Having heard Sumi Jo sing Olympia on record and in person, I find it hard to enjoy Dessay's quite as much. Jo is here as Antonia however.
No single recording of Hoffman is clearly preferable and listening to each is recommended. In the meanwhile, there is still an opening here for a more fully satisying Hoffman.
Excellent but not definitive.......2001-04-20
First, the good points. Listening to this recording one definitely thinks of the opera's characters rather than the artists portraying them.... I find Alagna's voice quite beautiful on this recording and feel that he portrays the character of Hoffmann with spectacular success....
Van Dam is one of the recording's great assets as the villains. The three main heroines are each memorable(.).......(Jo's) interpretation of Giulietta's long-lost coloratura aria is spectacular and features a spine-chilling moment in her climactic cadenza ...she sings a rising series of notes almost identical to one sung by Dessay as Olympia in Act II, emphasizing the connection of the heroines. ...Lascarro does a very good job in the small role of Stella (....Dubosc is excellent as the Muse and Nicklausse, giving a truly memorable performance of nearly the entire role. Unfortunately, Nicklausse's Antonia-act aria, arguably the artistic and emotional heart of the entire opera ...,seems somehow disappointing on this recording. Dubosc's voice does not cut through the orchestra as it should when she sings in her lower register, and as a result the aria fails to have the cathartic impact on me that it has when I have heard it in Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. .... Ragon gives an excellent, highly memorable performance in the four "grotesque" roles.
Now I may turn to the disappointing features of this recording. ....(T)his recording contains no extra-musical sound effects whatsoever. To a certain extent this is a valid approach to recording an opera. The problem is that "Hoffmann" contains an unusually high number of passages which were composed with the extra-musical sounds that would be heard from the stage in mind and which lack some of their intended impact without sound effects. The effectiveness of the students' drinking song is reduced when we don't hear them banging their glasses together and on the tables, and without the winding-up sound the pauses in Olympia's song when she runs down make less sense. We also should hear Coppelius smashing Olympia, Hoffmann and Schlemil moving around heavily as they duel, the death-gasp of another character who dies in the new ending of the Giulietta act (I won't spoil the unfamiliar twists of plot here), and various other sound effects which would add to the drama of the story. Moreover, Van Dam's villains never laugh except when their laughter is notated in the score, even though the libretto specifies some additional evil laughs, notably the one as Dr. Miracle disappears and Antonia falls dying at the end of the trio for Miracle, Antonia and the voice of Antonia's mother.
One of the main problems with the recording is that Van Dam, Ragon and Dubosc are the only performers to play multiple roles. Not only are the heroines played by four different sopranos, but none of the artists who play Luther and the students reappear in other roles in the acts devoted to Hoffmann's three stories. All of this goes against what are presumed to be Offenbach's wishes for his opera, despite the fact that this is a recording of Kaye's critical edition (in its "grand opera" version). Moreover, this recording was, unfortunately, made before Offenbach's own finished finale for the Giulietta act, written very shortly before his death, became available for inclusion in Kaye's edition. ....
Finally, it seems bizarre that the aria "Scintille, diamant," which has been one of the most popular numbers in the opera for a long time, is not included on this recording. ....
Despite these flaws, this recording is recommended. It is extremely enjoyable and represents the totality of Offenbach's intentions for "Hoffmann" more fully than any other recording currently available. One hopes that a new recording of Kaye's edition, with the definitive ending for the Giulietta act and with a single soprano playing all four heroines, will be made in the not-too-distant future.
O Dieu, de quelle ivresse embrasse-tu mon âme?.......1999-11-21
This recording is undoubtedly one of the two benchmark recordings of this opera, the other one being the classic Sutherland/Domingo/Bonynge set. It is the most complete set with the "newly-discovered" Giuletta ending, and even includes the terrific but apocryphal sextet that is missing in the Bonynge recording. Alagna is the true star here, reflecting the spirit of Hoffmann throughout the opera, and singing in a very ideomatic French (unlike Domingo). The four heroines are marvellous, even though I prefer a single soprano singing all the four roles. Van Dam is great as the four villians, but he could have been more sinister in the trio in the Antonia act. Nagano is fine, but has some problems with the tempi at times.
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Leontyne Price (The Prima Donna Collection)
Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003FAF Release Date: 1992-08-11 |
Tracks:
- Dido and Aeneas: Act 3: Thy Hand, Belinda!
- Dido and Aeneas: Act 3: When I Am Laid In Earth
- Le nozze di Figaro: Act 3: E Susanna non vien!
- Le nozze di Figaro: Act 3: Dove sono
- La traviata: Act 3: Teneste la promessa
- La traviata: Act 3: Addio del passato
- L'africaine: Act 2: Sur mes genoux, fils du soleil
- Manon: Act 2: Allons! il le faut!
- Manon: Act 2: Adieu, notre petite table
- Otello: Act 4: Era piu calma?
- Otello: Act 4: Mia madre aveva una povera ancella (Willow Song)
- Otello: Act 4: Ave Maria
- Adriana Lecouvreur: Act 1: Ecco: respiro appena
- Adriana Lecouvreur: Act 1: Io son l'umile ancella
- Louise: Act 3: Depuis le jour
- Turandot: Act 2: In questa reggia
- Die tote Stadt: Act 1: Marietta's Lied
- Vanessa: Act 1: He Has Come, He Has Come!
- Vanessa: Act 1: Do Not Utter A Word
Tracks:
- Atalanta: Act 1: Care Selve
- Don Giovanni: Act 1: Don, Ottavio, son morta!
- Don Giovanni: Act 1: Or sai chi l'onore
- Der Freischuetz: Act 2: Wie nahte mir der Schlummer
- Der Freischuetz: Act 2: Liese, leise
- Tannhaeuser: Act 2: Dich, teure Halle
- Macbeth: Act 2: La luce langue
- Macbeth: Act 4: Vegliammo invan due notti (Sleepwalking Scene)
- Macbeth: Act 4: Una macchia e qui tuttora
- Mefistofele: Act 3: L'altra notte in fondo al mare
- Rusalka: Act 1: Song To The Moon
- L'Enfant Prodigue: Air de Lia: L'annee en vain
- Andrea Chenier: Act 3: La mamma morta
- Francesca da Ramini: Act 3: Paolo, datemi pace
- Suor Angelica: Senza mammo, o bimbo, tu sei morto!
- Amelia Goes To The Ball: While I Waste These Precious Hours
Tracks:
- Alceste: Act 1: Divinites du Styx
- Don Giovanni: Act 2: Crudele? Ah, no, mio bene
- Don Giovanni: Act 2: Non mi dir
- I lombardi: Act 2: O madre, dal cielo
- I lombardi: Act 2: Se vano e il pregare
- Martha: Act 2: The Last Rose Of Summer
- Simon Boccanegra: Act 1: Come in quest'ora bruna
- La Perichole: Act 3: Tu n'es pas beau
- Die Walkuere: Act 1: Du bist der Lenz
- Die Fledermaus: Act 2: Czardas: Klange der Heimat
- Carmen: Act 3: Ces des contrebandiers
- Carmen: Act 3: Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante
- Cavalleria Rusticana: Voi lo sapete
- Thais: Act 2: Ah! je suis seule
- Thais: Act 2: Dis-moi que je suis belle
- Gianni Schicchi: O mio babbino caro
- Les dialogues des Carmelites: Act 3: Mes filles, voila s'acheve
Tracks:
- Semele: Act 2: Where 'er You Walk
- Idomeneo: Act 3: O smania! O Furie!
- Idomeneo: Act 3: D 'Oreste, d' Ajace!
- La damnation de Faust: Part 4: D'amour l'ardente flamme
- Oberon: Act 2: Ozean, du Ungeheuer!
- Norma: Act 1: Sediziose voci, voci di guerra
- Norma: Act 1: Casta diva
- Norma: Act 1: Ah! bello a me ritorna
- Rigoletto: Act 1: Gualtier Malde
- Rigoletto: Act 1: Caro Nome
- Tristan und Isolde: Act 3: Liebestod: Mild und leise
- Pagliacci: Act 1: Ballatella: Qual fiamma avea nel guardo
- Adriana Lecouvreur: Act 4: Poveri fiori
- Gloriana: Act 1, Scene 2: Soliloquy & Prayer: On Rivalries 'tis Safe For Kings
- Gloriana: Act 1, Scene 2: Soliloquy & Prayer: O God, My King, Sole Ruler Of The World
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A brilliant collection from a great soprano.......2007-04-30
If I could have only one collection.............2006-11-12
Yes this is great!.......2006-10-14
The Grandest Collection of Leontyne Price Arias.......2005-08-08
This collection does not showcase the more famous roles that were in fact her signature ones - Leonora from Trovatore and Forza, Aida is'nt even in here and that one even she considered her greatest role, we don't find her Madame Butterfly here. Instead we find rare pieces that she sings beautifully and dramatically, making us wish she had sung the entire operas in full on stage. She never sang a full-length Norma and that's a pity- even Grace Bumbry and Shirley Verrett did in their careers. Price seemed to enjoy singing Samuel Barber's vocal works - she opened the 1965-1966 Met season with Barber's Antony and Cleopatra (a bad production by the way but not through any fault of Miss Price but the overblown spectacle of the design of the opera itself) and here she sings his Vanessa. Benjamin Britten's Gloriana sounds lovely in her hands. Her Norma and Dona Anna in Mozart are dramatic and fiery, her Lady Macbeth darkly mysterious, her Suor Angelica peaceful with powerful inner fire and her Dialogue Des Carmelites are also sensational. Yes, many of these arias are beautiful to hear, and thank God she doesn't have any of the flaws critics keep hearing in her later recordings. Without a doubt, this is her finest album. I think you should listen via audio samples here the following to make you get this recording: the Countess aria from Nozze Di Figaro, her Manon (Adieu Petit Table) La Mamma Morta, her version of Sediziose Voce/Casta Diva from Norma, the excerpt from Carmen, "Don Ottavio son Morta...Or Sai Chi L'Onore" from Don Giovanni, Care Salve, the Dido and Aeneas excerpts, the La Traviata excerpts (Addio Del Passato) and the beautifull, mystic, haunting and well-executed Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde, which I even feel surpasses Birgit Nilsson's version. Just listen to how heart-felt that Liebestod is! I have not heard the likes of it anywhere else.
The Greatest Soprano Ever Recorded.......2005-03-20
This collection is pretty impressive. I didn't know a soprano could be that versatile. Leontyne Price is remarkable. Her rich, lyric voice, capable of plaintive and melancholy lines as well as powerful high C's and dramatic whoops, was always clean, smooth and intense. Of course, like most sopranos, she had her bad days. Her later Toscas (in the mid or late 70's) became too melodramatic and sloppy, when she used to be more mannered and poised with the role, her Cleopatra in Samuel Barber's opera was a fiaco because the production was too bizarre and messy, etc. But for the most part, mostly in Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and as Norma, she was radiant, glorious and perfect. Her background in Church music made her incredibly suited to singing Requiems, such as Verdi's Requiem. There will never be another Leontyne Price. She was a one woman Golden Age of Opera, and sang with the best of the best- Bjussi Bjorling, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo.
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The Best of José Carreras
Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000411R Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Torna A Surriento
- Fenesta Che Lucive
- E Lucevan Le Stelle (Tosca)
- My Own True Love (Gone With The Wind)
- Nessun Dorma (Turandot)
- Non Ti Scordar Di Me
- Una Furtiva Lagrima (L'elisir D'amore)
- Granada
- Core 'Ngrato
- Che Gelida Manina (la Boheme)
- Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing
- Pourquoi Me Reveiller? (Werther)
- Memory (Cats)
- Mattinata
- Ave Maria
- Tonight
- Tu Che A Dio Spiegasti L'ali
Tracks:
- Because You're Mine
- 'A Vucchella
- Di Rigori Armato Il Seno (Der Rosenkavalier)
- Forse La Soglia Attinse - ma Se M'e Forza Perderti
- Parlami D'amore, Mariu
- Vesti La Giubba (I Pagliacci)
- As Time Goes By
- Oh, Fede Negar Potessi - Quando Le Sere Al Placido (Luisa Miller)
- Panis Angelicus
- 'O Sole Mio
- E La Silita Storia (L' Arlesiana)
- Be My Love
- Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz (Das Land Des Lachelns)
- Because
- Donna Non Vidi Mai (Manon Lescaut)
- You Belong To My Heart
- Di Quella Pira
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The World's Greatest Tenors
Manufacturer: Eagle ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000001YBQ Release Date: 1996-04-23 |
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Das Buxheimer Orgelbuch (The Buxheim Organ Book): Chanson and basse danse intabulations), Volume 2 - Joseph Payne
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001495 Release Date: 1996-03-26 |
Tracks:
- Tout a par moy (252) Walter Frye
- Colinetto tertium notarum (56)
- Colinetto quartum notarum (57)
- Mi ut re ut (Venise)(118)
- Annavasanna quarta (Une fois avant que mourir)(89)
- Annavasanna tertia (90)
- Annavasanna tertia (91)
- Stublin (Languir en mille destresse) (135)
- Stublin (136)
- Franc cuer gentil (116) Guilaume Dufay
- Adieu mes tres belle (143)
- Portugaler (43)
- Le souvenir (256) Robert Morten
- Deuil angoiddeux (59) Gilles Binchois
- Longus Tenor (54)
- Longus tenor quartum noterum (55)
- Qui veut mesdire (128) Gilles Binchois
- Je loe amours (16) Gilles Binchois
- L'ardant desire (128)
- J'ay pris amours (16)
- Je loe amours (133)
- J'ay pris amours (239)
- Se la face ay pale (255) Guilauame Dufay
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Centenary Edition - 100 Years of Great Music
Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD |