Scenes D'amour [Import]

1. Les Yeux Au Ciel

2. Ballade De Jean Batailleur

3. Le Retour De Don Quichotte

4. L'heroine De Cette Histoire

5. Planchers Fragiles

6. Tandem

7. Tombee De Toi

8. Le Banc Des Delaisses

9. Quand J'aime Une Fois, J'aime Pour Toujours

10. J'ai Mal A L'amour

11. Frederic

12. Perdus Dans Le Meme Decor

13. Naufrage

14. Couleur Cafe

15. D'aventures En Aventures

16. Amsterdam

17. C'etait L'hiver

Scenes D'amour,Isabelle Boulay,Sider,World Music

Average customer rating: Great Guitars A good mix Great music CD collection for guitar music listeners This is a really good choice for your morning music CD Great music played by great musicians

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Tracks:

1. Cavatina
2. Granada
3. Spanish Dance No. 5
4. Romance D'Amour
5. Fantasia For A Gentleman: Adagio
6. Fantasia For A Gentleman: Danza de las hachas
7. Malaguena
8. La Filla Del Marxant
9. The Three Cornered Hat: The Miller's Dance
10. Recuerdos de la Alhambra: Andante
11. Sonata: Presto
12. Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio
13. Concierto de Aranjuez: Allegro gentile
14. Portrait
15. Sonata, K. 322: Allegro
16. Greensleeves
17. Georgia On My Mind
18. Fugue In G Minor - Bach

Customer Reviews:

Great Guitars.......2007-03-28

A really spectacular show of top guitarists in famous works
I enjoy it often and it inspires me when I write my columns

Leo Blok
(Journalist from the Netherlands)

A good mix.......2006-11-11

A good collection for someone fairly new to classical guitar. I have over 300 guitar recordings, but I still enjoyed this CD - a good one on the road, for example. Nice pieces and performances.

Great music CD collection for guitar music listeners.......2002-03-15

I really understand that there's no music CD could fulfill our satisfaction of music. But it does. I can find most of my favorite guitar classical songs here, and it's very nice listening them: Cavatina (from the Deer Hunter), Romance D'Amour, Recuerdos de la Alhambra, etc. I have several favorites not included in this album: Capricho Arabe-Lagrima-Adelita, and lucky me I have them on my other CDs. Go get this CD!! By buying this 1 CD, you'll have more than half of classical guitars you've ever wanted!

This is a really good choice for your morning music CD.......2001-11-08

There is something about classical guitar that is just so appropriate to background morning music as "Mad About Guitars" will quickly prove to you. Like most people, I am not overly familiar with classical guitar pieces; once you get past "Granada" I certainly could not name another work that I would expect to hear on such an album. The only other familiar pieces are "Greensleeves" and "Georgia on My Mind," and, yes, now that I think of it "Greensleeves" is a guitar piece, but then this album concludes with Bach's Fugue in G. So this collection is certainly going to broaden your horizons in terms of classical guitar. You will also come away with a great appreciation for Giran Sillscher, who plays the guitar on two-thirds of the selections. In fact, "Portrait," was written for Sillscher by Stanley Myers, which is certainly a nice testimonial to his skill. If you have a CD player in your alarm clock, this is an excellent choice for finding a happy home therein.

Great music played by great musicians.......2000-03-20

I think this CD is the best compilation of classical guitar music that's out there. Deutsche Grammophon has done a great job of picking the best pieces and the best players. Buy this CD!

Average customer rating: complete but lacking good for completists, but... Yes, its worth five discs

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Customer Reviews:

complete but lacking.......2005-06-14

While I am a fan of Thibaudet in general, he just seems lost here. Satie is deceptively difficult to judge as a performer, the music is at times mercurial or static, profound or frivolous, or all of the above. Yet one hardly needs to underline the oddness, it's perfectly revealed if you play it straight.
While some misread notes suggest he may not really know these pieces, Thibaudet manages to project something less than a competent sight reading. In such an endeavor he would certainly get the right feel occasionally by accident. Instead, he regularly puts the wrong foot forward, with odd accents and effects getting in the way, perhaps trying too hard to add spin to music whose mysteries refuse to unfold under such duress.
I would recommend collecting a number of different performers: Reinbert DeLeeuw, Pascal Roge, Anne Queffelec, JoAnna MacGregor and Michel Legrand have all made worthy contributions to the recent discography and their combined recordings would make a pretty-near complete survey.

good for completists, but..........2004-05-18

I jumped at the chance to buy this set; a new digital recording of Satie's complete solo piano music. I had admired Jean-Yves Thibaudet in the past and had seen him perform Messiaen's "Turangalila Symphony"; a great performance. However, after listening to this set for three straight months, I'm rather frustrated with it, mostly on aesthetic grounds, since I can't deny Thibaudet's talents; I just disagree with some of his interpretations.

To start, most of the shorter, "lite" pieces are performed very well on disc 4. Even the most popular, (Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes) are excellent. I am also thankful I now have performances of "Uspud" and many of Satie's conservatory assignments, played expertly and with good humor. For these, the set is worth having.

But now, the bad news. As I have complained about in the past with Thibaudet's Ravel discs, I'm frankly rather put-off by his inexplicable, pointless staccato in many of the pieces. "Petite Overture a la Danser" is one of my favorite Satie miniatures, and here Thibaudet botches it by playing it way too fast with no pedal. It sounds like a joke, and I think he totally misses the point of the piece. In the "Nazareen" preludes, he adds his own extreme dynamics which are not indicated in the original scores, and the effect seems like a cheap attempt to add "spice" to what are supposed to be meditative sound constructions, based on poetry forms rather than classical forms.

"Prelude to the Heroic Gate of Heaven" is taken far too slow, and Thibaudet completely cuts out the "Curtain" coda in the original Salabert edition for no apparent reason; he seems determined to give the piece a more "proper" ending, and for this listener, it's a terrible, narcissistic, and disrespectful miscalculation.

I will keep this set since it is a complete document, flawed though it may be. But I still must insist that the best living interpreter of Satie's piano music is the ever-underrated Reinbert DeLeeuw, who is completely in-tune with Satie's sly magic. His tempos may be slow, his dynamics few, but that's the whole point; this is highly personal music, and DeLeeuw has an aesthetic I can personally agree with. For an audible explanation of what I'm talking about, compare the performances of "Petite Overture a la Danser" by DeLeeuw and Thibaudet, and you'll see what I mean.

Yes, its worth five discs.......2003-12-17

Each disc averages about 75 minutes of music. Over six hours of Satie? Definitely yes. If you have an affinity for Satie's classic pieces you should not pass up this set. There are so many standout pieces in so many wonderful styles you can only leave this set with wonder. And Thibaudet seems made for this music. The best interpreter of Satie that I've heard. His technique is amazing with such a range of subtle fingering tempo and dynamics. Its as though I've heard some of these for the first time with new shocks of emotion I hadn't experienced before. Not to be missed.

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Tracks:

1. Salut d'amour
2. Etude Op. 10, No. 3: Edude Op. 10, No. 3
3. Spartacus - Adagio Of Spartacus And Phrygia
4. Xerxes: Largo
5. Piano Concerto No. 23 In A Major, K. 488 - Adagio
6. Adagio For Oboe, Cello, Organ And String Orchestra
7. Piano Sonata Op. 27, No. 2 - Moonlight - Adagio sostenuto
8. Symphony No. 3 - Poco Allegretto
9. Piano Concerto No. 2 - Andante
10. Gymnopaedie No. 1
11. Clair de Lune
12. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
13. West Side Story: Somewhere
14. The Last Sleep of the Virgin
15. Kinderszenen Op. 15 Tramerei - Dreaming
16. Tristan And Isolde: Liebestod

Tracks:

1. Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85. Adagio-Moderato
2. Concerto for Clarinet in A major, K.62. Adagio
3. Fse
4. Adagio in G minor
5. Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet
6. Liebestraum
7. Piano Concerto Op. 16 in A minor. Adagio
8. Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
9. Adagio from Syphony No.2
10. Canon and Gigue in D Major
11. Adagio for Strings
12. Bolero

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Elgar's Salut d'amour performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Andrew Davis opens this two-CD set. After that, we go on a bumpy ride over performances of drastically varying quality. The "Poco Allegretto" from Brahms's Symphony No. 3 under Christoph von Dohnányi and the Cleveland Orchestra is breathtaking. Throughout the program there are a number of bite-sized editions of selections apparently deemed too long to sit through in their natural state. These leave the listener strangely empty. And this disc also contains a very weird arrangement of "Somewhere" from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, scored for two pianos and percussion, played by Guher and Suher Pekinel and Peter Sadio. That one's absolutely awful.--Gwendolyn Freed

Average customer rating: Berlioz's ambitious Op. 1 is well worth hearing It is really good! Francophiles take note!

Berlioz: Huit Scènes de Faust Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Berlioz | Berlioz, Hector | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Dutoit, Laurence | ( D ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Berlioz - La Révolution Grecque (Grandes Oeuvres Chorales) Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini ASIN: B0000B0A0D Release Date: 2003-11-11

Tracks:

1. I Chants De La Fete De Paques - Susan Graham
2. II Paysans sous Les Tilleuls - Susan Graham
3. III Concert De Sylphes - Susan Graham
4. IV Ecot De Joyeux Compagnons - Susan Graham
5. V Chanson De Mephistopheles - Susan Graham
6. VI Le Roi De Thule - Susan Graham
7. VII Romance De Marguerite - Choeur De Soldats - Susan Graham
8. VIII Serenade De Mephistopheles - Susan Graham
9. L'Imperiale, Op.26 - Choeur De L'Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal
10. Sur Les Iagunes (Lamento) - Choeur De L'Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal
11. Le Chasseur Danois, Op.19 No.6 - Choeur De L'Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal
12. Plaisir D'amour - Choeur De L'Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal
13. Hymne Des Marseillais - Choeur De L'Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal

Customer Reviews:

Berlioz's ambitious Op. 1 is well worth hearing.......2006-03-12

Berlioz was fired up by reading Goethe's Faust in its first French translation, and the result from the 25-year-old was his Op. 1, Eight Scenes from Faust. It deals almost not at all with the events in the Damnation of Faust, which would follow 16 years later. Instead, Berlioz set various dances and poems to music for chorus and soloists (choosing a different combinaiton for each scene). Even at this stage, however, his Faust music is evocative and sounds fully like Berlioz, if somewhat simplified. Various melodies that would appear in the later Faust treatment make their first appearance here. Since the composer withdrew the work soon after publication, recorded versions are rare. Neither Munch (RCA) nor Colin Davis (Philips) included it in their extensive surveys.

A charged-up conductor like Munch could make more of this music than the somewhat phlegmatic Dutoit. But as usual, Decca gives him gorgeous sound and the choral and orhcestral forces from Montreal are expert. Of the four soloists Susan Graham is the standout; her voice in 1995 was at its freshest. Everyone else is good to very good. The remainder of this 68 min. CD, roughly half, is devoted to individual vocal pieces that Berlioz orchestrated, including one song from Les Nuits d'Ete (interesting for being sung by a baritone rather than a higher femaile voice) and Berlioz's grandiose arrangement of the Marseillaise. In all, a very satisfying detour into Berlioz's minor works, worth a listen or two.

It is really good!.......2005-10-04

I love my Faust CD, it is really good! But I'd really love to see Faust performed live, maybe if I still lived in the 18th Century when the music was composed(not sure if factual) I'd go and see it performed in person. But ohh well, who knew time machines weren't yet invented??
Later

Francophiles take note!.......2005-09-11

This is a recording meant to rejoice in the French spirit. Charles Dutoit leads Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Montreal Symphony Chorus, and soloists through a spectrum of works by Hector Berlioz that range from the sublime to the mundane. The juicy programming ends in a 'make the audience stand' version of Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle's 'La Marseillaise' for full chorus and orchestra!

Along the way there are 'Huit Scénes de Faust, for solo voices, chorus, orchestra & guitar' which benefit from the luxurious singing of Susan Graham, Suzanne Mentzer and some other fine vocalists. Dutoit coaxes a thoroughly French sound (!) from his forces and the result is ravishingly beautiful. Also included on this disc are lesser known works such as 'L' impériale, cantata for double chorus & orchestra', a mildly out of context excerpt from 'Les Nuits d'été' (Sur les lagunes) sung by a male (François Roux) which gives a different slant to the cycle, 'Le Chasseur danois, for baritone & piano (or orchestra)', and a lovely rendition of the ever-popular 'Plaisir d'amour' by Johann Paul Aegidius Martini effectively sung by François Roux.

It is a mixed bag but the good moments far overshadow the lesser ones. If for nothing else the collectors of Susan Graham's recordings will most assuredly want to add this CD to their collection! Grady Harp, September 05

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Tracks:

1. Ouverture - London Symphony Orchestra
2. No.2: Air-'Ah! Si De La Tendresse - Janet Baker
3. La Captive, Op.12 - Josephine Veasey
4. Resurrexit - Monteverdi Choir
5. IV. Marche Au Supplice - Pierre Boulez
6. II. Choeur D'Ombres - Lambert Wilson
7. IX. Sanctus - John Mark Ainsley
8. Ouverture - Nicolai Gedda
9. 'Une Heur Encore' - Nicolai Gedda
10. 'La Gloire Etait Ma Seule Idole' - Nicolai Gedda
11. III. Marche Funebre Pour La Derniere Scene D'Hamlet - Pierre Boulez

Tracks:

1. Marche Hongroise - Anne Sofie Von Otter
2. 'D'Amour L'Ardente Flamme' - Anne Sofie Von Otter
3. 'Au Son Des Trompettes' - Anne Sofie Von Otter
4. Chasse Royale Et Orage - Charles Dutoit
5. 'Nuit D'Ivresse Et D'Extase Infinie!' - Jon Vickers
6. III. Serenade - Pinchas Zukerman
7. I. Villanelle - Regine Crespin
8. IV. La Reine Mab, Ou La Fee Des Songes (Scherzo) - London Symphony Orchestra
9. L'Adieu Des Bergers A La Sainte Famille: 'Il S'En Va Loin De La Terre' - Choeur De Montreal
10. IV. Christe, Rex Gloriae (Hymne) - London Symphony Chorus
11. Ouverture - John Alldis Choir
12. 'Dieu Qui Guidas Nos Bras' - John Alldis Choir
13. 'Approchez, Claudio!' - John Alldis Choir
14. 'Ici L'On Voit Benedict' - John Alldis Choir
15. 'L'Amour Est Un Flambeau' - John Alldis Choir

Average customer rating: The Best Recording of Classical Spanish Guitar Music. Period

Romance D'Amour Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Albeniz, Mateo Pérez de | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Falla | Falla, Manuel de | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Granados, Enrique | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatinas | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Tárrega: Recuerdos De La Alhambra; Lágrima; Danza mora; Etc. [Germany] Malagueña: Spanish Guitar Music Bach J.S.: Works For Lute [Germany] Guitarra española Sor, Aguado, Tárrega: 19th Century Guitar Favourites ASIN: B000001G9T Release Date: 1989-11-01

Tracks:

1. Cantigas De Santa Maria
2. Malaguena
3. Petenera Para Guitarra
4. Andaluza
5. Madronos Para Guitarra
6. Sonata
7. Cancion De Cuna
8. Ei Abejorro
9. Filla Del Marxant
10. Tema Con Variaciones, Op.9
11. Habanera
12. Danza Espanola No.5
13. Hommage Au Tombeau De Debussy
14. Danza Del Molinero
15. Cancion Danza No.1
16. Jeux Interdits

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The Best Recording of Classical Spanish Guitar Music. Period.......2004-01-13

This recording easily deserves 6 stars. The world of the guitar simply has no equal to the mastery of Narciso Yepes.

Yepes was a consummate technician and a knowledgeable interpreter of all musical idioms from the Middle Ages through to the height of the 20th Century avant-garde. His playing was characterized by intelligence, sensibility, clarity, power, majesty, poetry, and a devilish ability to separate and sustain contrapuntal lines like no other guitarist could.

This is one of his last recordings and one of his best. It opens with Yepes's majestic, evocative transcription of some of the "Cantigas de Santa Maria", music of surprising beauty and rhythmic complexity from the court of a 13th Century Spanish king. It continues with a selection of well-loved, mostly 19th and early 20th Century, Spanish music: works that will certainly appeal to a wider audience than the Baroque and Modern works for which Yepes was equally noted.

Buy this CD; you will not regret it.

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It's Peaceful Here - Short works for violin played by Vladimir Spivakov - Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Kreisler, etc. Vladimir Spivakov , Edward Elgar , Fritz Kreisler , Sergey Rachmaninov , Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky , Jules Massenet , Cyril Scott , Leopold Godowsky , Franz Schubert , Antonin Dvorak , Johannes Brahms , Sergei Bezrodny , Robert Salter , and Chris West Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dvorák, Antonín | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Elgar | Elgar, Sir Edward | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Godowsky | Godowsky, Leopold | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Kreisler | Kreisler, Fritz | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Massenet | Massenet, Jules | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rachmaninov | Rachmaninov, Sergei | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Short Sleeves | Sleeve Length Browse (feature_browse-bin) | Refinements | Apparel ASIN: B00000E6QM Release Date: 1995-01-10

Tracks:

1. Salut d'amour/Liebesgrub Op.12
2. Liebesfreud
3. Liebesleid
4. Schon Rosmarin
5. It's Peaceful Here, Op. 21 No.7
6. Vocalise, Op.34 No.14
7. Melodie, Op.42 No.3
8. Valse sentimentale, Op.51, No.6
9. Valse scherzo, Op.34
10. Meditation (from Thais)
11. La capricieuse, Op. 17
12. Lotus Land, Op.47, No.1
13. Alt-Wien
14. Valse Sentimentale
15. Romantic Pieces, Op.75
16. Romantic Pieces, Op.75
17. Romantic Pieces, Op.75
18. Romantic Pieces, Op.75
19. 2 Hungarian Dances (Nos.9 & 6)
20. 2 Hungarian Dances (Nos.9 & 6)
21. Hymne zur Verherrlichung des groben Joachim

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Lully: Atys (Highlights) Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Lully | Lully, Jean-Baptiste | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Christie, William | ( C ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Imports | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Delalande - Te Deum /Gens * Piau * Steyer * Fouchecourt * Piolino * Correas * Les Arts Florissants * Christie Lully - Persee / Novacek, Auvity, Lenormand, Whicher, Laquerre, Coulombe, Niquet, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Toronto ASIN: B00009IC6L Release Date: 2003-09-09

Average customer rating: The transfers project voices and orchestras boldly.

Top Twenty Operatic Scenes and Arias Manufacturer: Memoir Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Flotow | Flotow, Friedrich von | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Leoncavallo | Leoncavallo, Ruggiero | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Offenbach | Offenbach, Jacques | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rossini | Rossini, Gioacchino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Arias | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000044RX Release Date: 1994-02-01

Tracks:

1. Largo Al Factotum - Riccardo Stracciari
2. Belle Nuit, O Nuit D'amour - Ninon Callin And Madeleine Sibelle
3. Caro Nome - Lily Pons
4. La Donna E Mobile - Miguel Fleta
5. Se Quil Guerrier...Celeste Aida - Aureliano Pertile
6. Vissi D' Arte - Claudia Muzio
7. Che Gelida Manina - Benjamino Gigli
8. Un Bel Di - Gota Ljungberg
9. Nessun Dorma - Alessandro Valente
10. O Mio Babbino Caro - Joan Hammond
11. E Lucevan Le Stelle - Alfred Piccaver
12. Ebben?...Ne Andro Lontana - Rosetta Pampanini
13. Recitar!...Vesti La Giubba - Giovanni Martinelli
14. Toreador's Song: Votre Toast - Lawrence Tibbet
15. Flower Song: La Fleur Que Tu M'avais Jetee - Enrico Caruso
16. O Fond Du Temple Saint - Beniamino Gigli And Giuseppe De Luca
17. Voi Che Sapete - Conchita Supervia
18. Finch'han Dal Vino - Ezio Pinza
19. Ach So Fromm - Peter Anders
20. Prize Song: Morgenlich Leuchtend - Helge Rosvaenge

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The transfers project voices and orchestras boldly........2001-06-27

Nobody would deny that the scenes and arias here are amongst opera's "top twenty". A few might be surprised to find that three of them are not sung in their original language, however, and others might wish that renditions by different artist had been chosen. To sing Butterfly's "Un bel di", surely Göta Ljungberg's 1929 version, sung in German, is an odd choice.

Apart from slight gripes like this, I have nothing but praise for this compilation, which uses recordings made between 1909 and 1941. The earliest is of Caruso singing in remarkably good French the "Carmen" tenor aria. Voices and orchestras are projected boldly in these transfers, as you'll hear if you sample the first couple of tracks.

Collectors of recordings by singers of the past will find items here that have been reissued umpteen times (Tibbett's "Toreador Song", for example), together with several that are rare. Amongst the latter is Alessandro Valente's 1927 "Nessun dorma". This singer, whose career in opera was negligible, may have been the first tenor to record the unauthorised version of the aria with the long held penultimate note - a version that audiences have wanted tenors to sing ever since.

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The Complete Recordings of Maud Powell, Vol. 2 Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Boccherini | Boccherini, Luigi | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Chopin | Chopin, Frédéric | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Massenet | Massenet, Jules | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Offenbach | Offenbach, Jacques | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Robert Schumann | Schumann, Robert | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Vieuxtemps | Vieuxtemps, Henri | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wieniawski | Wieniawski, Henri | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Divertimentos | Serenades & Divertimentos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Opera & Vocal | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Complete Recordings of Maud Powell, Vol. 1 Maud Powell: Pioneer American Violinist ASIN: B00005QIS2 Release Date: 2001-11-20

Tracks:

1. Bach: Sonata No. 3 in E major: Mvt. II, Allegro
2. Bach: Sonata No. 3 in E major: Mvt. IV, Allegro
3. Handel: Xerxes: Largo
4. Mozart: Divertimento No. 17 in D major: Minuet
5. Boccherini-Powell: Quintet in E, Op. 13 No. 5: Tempo di Minuetto
6. Martini-Powell: Plaisir d'amour
7. Vieuxtemps: Bouquet americain, Op. 33: St. Patrick's Day
8. Vieuxtemps: Bouquet americain, Op. 33: Polonaise, Op. 38
9. Wienawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, Op. 22: Mvt. II, Romance
10. Wienawski: Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major, Op. 22: Capriccio Valse,
11. Schubert: Ave Maria
12. Schubert: Rosamunde, Op. 26: Entr'acte III in B flat
13. Raff: Cavatina, Op. 85 No. 3
14. Zarzycki: Mazurka, Op. 26
15. Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Traumerci
16. Grieg-Marcosson: To Spring
17. Leybach: Fifth Nocturne, Op. 52
18. Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffman: Barcarolle
19. Ogarew: Caprice, Op. 51 No. 2
20. Chopin-MacMillen: The Maiden's Wish
21. Massanet: Les Erinnyes: No. 3, Invocation (Elegie)
22. Poldini-Hartman: Poupee, valsante
23. Cadman: Little Firefly

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