Cuore [Import]

1. Il Geghege'

2. Non E' Facile Avere 18 Anni

3. Pel Di Carota

4. Alla Mia Eta'

5. Datemi un Martello

6. Questo Nostro Amore

7. Sul Cucuzzolo

8. Che M'Importa del Mondo

9. Partita Di Pallone

10. Fortissimo

11. Lui

12. Come Te Non C'e' Nessuno

13. Amore Mio

14. Viva la Pappa Col Pomodoro

15. Cuore

16. Il Ballo del Mattone

Tracks:

Canto Della Terra
The Prayer (duet with Celine Dion)
Sogno
O Mare E Tu (duet with Dulce Pontes)
A Volte Il Cuore
Cantico
Mai Piu' Cosi' Lontano
Immenso
Nel Cuore Lei (duet with Eros Ramazzotti)
Tremo E T'Amo
I Love Rossini
Un Canto
Come Un Fiume Tu
A Mio Padre

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Andrea Bocelli's Sogno ("Dream") is a pop album of entirely original compositions that evoke traditional and modern influences. Bocelli himself describes the CD as secular Italian traditional melodic music with a contemporary twist. The album's 14 tracks include "The Prayer," a Bocelli and Celine Dion duet produced by David Foster; "Come un Fiume Tu," an intriguing collaboration with soundtrack maestro Ennio Morricone; "O Mare e Tu," a duet with Dulce Pontes; and "Sogno" (the first single excerpted from the album), a light-as-a-feather, emotional composition sung by Bocelli with his typical vocal emphasis, which has made him famous around the world since the release of his self-titled debut. --Ernesto De Pascale

Customer Reviews:

Romance.......2007-06-12

If you like your music nice and low and in Italian, you'll love Andrea Bocelli. I do, that's why I have almost everything he's done. This truly is music for people over 40 who want and like romance in their life. (what can I say except I'm getting old)

Andrea's masterpiece.......2007-04-20

This is the most beautiful music you will ever listen to.Andrea has a way of bringing out your innermost soul.The music can make you cry just to listen to it,even if you don't understand the words(which are translated in the booklet).Highlights are Sogno and Immenso for beauty,The Prayer and Nel Cuore Lei for stellar duets,and Canto Della Terra for the rapturous glory of Andrea's voice.If you buy nothing else from Andrea,buy this.

A Great Collection Of Songs!.......2007-03-28

The tone of so many of this album's songs is almost reverent. Truly, this group of songs is one of Mr. Bocelli's best works. I recommend it for your own collection, as well as for gift-giving.

Sogno by Bocelli.......2007-03-09

Bocelli is awesome! The Prayer is absolutely gorgeous! He is one of my favorite singers!

Wow, Great Artist, & Great CD.......2007-01-04

I've enjoyed this CD so much I have given several copies as gifts!

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Emotional therapy!
Great music!
Cieli di Toscana
LOVE IT!!!!

Cieli di Toscana
Paolo Gianolio , Margherita Graczyk , Gary Miller , John Reid , Luis Jardim , Francesco Sartori , Mauro Malavasi , and Massimo Guantini
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Andrea Bocelli - Sacred Arias / Myung-Whun Chung

ASIN: B00005OWJV
Release Date: 2001-10-16

Tracks:

Melodramma
Mille Lune Mille Onde
E Ara 'A Settembre (Someone Like You)
Chiara
Mascagni
Resta Qui
Il Mistero Dell 'Amore
Se La Gente Usasse Il Cuore
Si Volto'
L 'Abitudine
L 'Incontro
E Mi Manchi Tu
Il Diavolo E L 'Angelo
L 'Ultimo Re

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Not content with the simplistic "crossover" formula, superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli has been pursuing alternative paths since he emerged as a vocal phenomenon in the mid-1990s: operatic classics and contemporary popular song. The singer's last few albums have showcased his love for the former (including homages to his beloved Verdi: the Requiem and Verdi aria collection). But Cieli di Toscana ("Tuscan Skies") marks a triumphant return to the pop idiom last explored on Sogno, offering a highly varied series of the kind of beautifully crafted contemporary melodies that initially won Bocelli acclaim.

The familiar cast of songwriter-collaborators (including Francesco Sartori, responsible for the smash success "Time to Say Goodbye") mixes with new blood; Bocelli himself unveils his songwriting talents on "Il Diavolo e l'Angelo." It's a highly produced affair, but behind all the gloss, Bocelli sings with a newfound, relaxed, even mellow quality. There are intimately touching moments--"L'Incontro," a tribute to his first son featuring Bocelli's own poetry as read by U2's Bono--as well as soaring flights of lyricism (the duet "L'Abitudine" with Italian singer Helena). And on "Mascagni," with its quotes from that composer's operas, Bocelli makes another nod to his classical affinities. But whatever the style, Bocelli is a singer who knows how to go straight to his listeners' hearts. --Sarah Chin

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Exclusive UK version of Bocelli's third pop release includes the exclusive bonus track 'Tornera La Neve' and CD-ROM. The album also features 'L'Incontro' a duet with Gerard Depardieu. David Foster co-composes some of the tracks on this album as well. 2001.

Customer Reviews:

See Other Andrea Bocelli Review.......2007-07-06

Just what it says. See my other Andrea Bocelli reviews to get the idea I really like this guy.

Emotional therapy!.......2007-05-14

"He is all heart; there's no pretense. You can feel it." No kidding. These were my mom's last comments about Bocelli two months before she left earthly existence.

This album helped me process a lot of emotional residue affiliated with the strain of difficult dynamics between my mom and myself.

Don't get me wrong. The music isn't sad; it's pure heart and emotion, so it may evoke emotions. The last cut, "L'Ultimo Re" is gorgeous with the way his voice soars!

E.A. Davis, author: Waiting for Wings: Accompanying a Parent to the Edge of Life

Great music!.......2006-12-18

I bought the album before listening to any of the songs, because i'm a Bocelli fan. I was not disappointed. Wonderful melodies, beautiful voice.My personal favourites are Melodramma, Chiara and Resta Qui, but this is a great cd overall.

Cieli di Toscana.......2006-08-25

There is no other voice quite like Andrea's voice. I keep listening to this CD over and over as some of the songs just touch my heart, both with his voice and the written arrangements. One of my very favorites from Andrea. He has the same qualities to his voice with popular songs as he does with opera. When following the English translations in the CD case, the message of each song becomes very clear through the inflections and tonal quality of his voice.

LOVE IT!!!!.......2006-08-25

What more can I say once agian a total great cd, that will sure to become my favorite and my kids love it too!!! Ages 5, 8, and 15. WOW>>>>> Pleases all ages,LOVE IT LOVE LOVE IT

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Rustic Chivalry

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Quartetto Gelato
Aria Fresca
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Travels the Orient Express
Neopolitain Cafe

ASIN: B00066U2V0
Release Date: 2004-09-15

Tracks:

Espagna Capriccioso/Cavalleria Rusticana
Prelude
Siciliana
Intermezzo
Entr'acte
O Waly, Waly
Tango Del Cuore
Passacaglia
Catari Catari Capriccio
Allegro non Tanto-Andante
Allegro-Allegreeto Moderato - Finale
Czardas
Granada

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Linus Entertainment is proud to re-issue the first four albums by the critically acclaimed Quartetto Gelato. With members from three countries playing nine instruments and a repertoire that unites classical masterworks and operatic arias with tangos, gypsy fiddling and folk songs, Quartetto Gelato is one of classical music's most imaginative ensembles. They have sold in excess of 30,000 units in Canada alone over their 5 albums. Their latest album Quartetto Gelato Travels The Orient Express (2 70025) released in March 2004 is one of the Top 10 best selling Classical albums in Canada for the first half of 2004, according to Neilson Soundscan.

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Even better than the film
The Starving Crocodiles...

Bad Education
Alberto Iglesias
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Todo Sobre Mi Madre
Songs of Almodóvar
Volver
Talk to Her
Almodóvar Early Films

ASIN: B0006A9GNQ
Release Date: 2004-11-16

Tracks:

Tlos de Cabecera
Quiz Quiz Quiz- Little Tony
Cine Olimpo
Kyrie
Viaje a Galicia
Noche Oscura
Cuore Matto
Plegaria Atendida
Por Mi Grandma Culpa
Cocodrilos Hambrientos - Sara Montiel
Carta del MAll
Piscina - Sara Montiel
Escena Familiar
Foulard de Seda
Noir
Juan y el Sr. Berenguer
Cine Como Espejo
Saxo + Cuarteto
Puerta Final
Exa
Maniqui Parisien
Plat
Adagietto
Moon River
Valsetto
Jardinero (Torna a Surriento)

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Informed by a vintage Hollywood production sheen and flashback-fueled, identity-questioning melodramatics worthy of Hitchcock, Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar's sexually-charged film was quickly hailed as a mature masterpiece. The film's classic Hollywood conceits are deep-rooted, and Iberian composer Alberto Iglesias reinforces the film's often retro mood via a brooding, classically oriented score with an ear towards history. It may briefly excerpt Rossini's "Kyrie" to haunting effect, but the touchstone here is the Bernard Herrmann of Hitchcock's prime, with an emphasis on their epochal Vertigo and especially the tense, dark strings of Psycho (which "Escena Familiar" and "Cine Olimpo" echo with haunting grace). But while Iglesias capably evokes the color and spirit of those iconic touchstones, he crucially does it without sacrificing his own identity. Evocations of Spanish culture come mostly via vintage performances of "Quiza, Quiza, Quiza," "Cuoro Matta" and others, but on the expansive "Puerta Finale" the composer skillfully interweaves his Herrmann influences with touches of mournful jazz, flamenco and "Kyrie"'s choral echoes, creating a compelling, oft chilling post-modern new whole. -- Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Even better than the film.......2004-11-21

Alberto Iglesias did it again, a wonderful soundtrack!

His last collaboration with Pedro Almodovar, "Talk to her", is one of the best scores I've heard in recent years. In that movie, the scenes of the country villa, accompanying with the touching song of "Cucurrucucu Paloma" by Caetano Veloso, easily became one of the most beautiful five minuets I ever had in a theatre.

Before I went to see "Bad education", I can't help wondering, Could I have another enjoyable moment like "Cucurrucucu Paloma"? Luckily, I did have one, sort of. The Spanish rendition of "Moon River" is such a beautiful and haunting piece. But unluckily, the way the music delivered in the film is so disturbing. It started as a beautiful and innocent singing by a boy standing by the river while ended up with an innuendo of the ugly fact of sexual violations. However, if you didn't see the movie, the "moon river" will be a pure pleasant enjoyment.

Compared to the slightly weak movie, the music itself is powerful and flawless. From the beginning to the end, it doesn't have a single dull moment. In a word, buy this awesome CD!

The Starving Crocodiles... .......2004-11-17

The Starving Crocodiles

Almodovar's latest movie is undoubtedly his best, and a very inventive film-noir that absorbs and electrifies you from the very beginning. Alberto Iglesias' score serves "as a cradle where the movie rests" as the auteur himself said.

La Mala Educacion (Bad Education) is one of -if not- the best soundtrack composed this year, and its style is absolutely magnificent. Following the film-noir trend, Iglesias' score is a mixture of tunes a la Herrman ("Juan y el Sr. Berenguer", "Por mi grandisima culpa", "Escena Familiar"), poignant waltzes ("Foulard en seda", "La Carta", "Valsetto"), and vocalized cues that reflect the theme of the movie, and illustrate it fittingly ("Kyrie", "La piscina", "El cine como espejo"). "Cine Olympo", an exquisite theme for the movie-within-the-movie manifests itself disguisedly many times, in variations, as Iglesias' has done in previous scores where a parallel story is narrated - The Flower of my Secret, Live Flesh, Talk to Her, and All About my Mother- however the best track in the score is the "Overture". Other superb tracks are "Carta del mas alla", "Plato", and "Adagietto"... melodies that crave lust, but "Puerta Final" -the MAIN theme- is absolutely grand; probably the best potpourri of songs written in the last decade, that will grab you by the horns from the moment it opens to the last saxophone refrain, in an orgasm of eight minutes that you will want to experience over and over again.

The soundtrack also consists of key songs that in one way or another relate to the main characters and the story: "Maniqui Parisien", "Cuore Matto", "Moon River" (a very avant-garde arrangement), and "Jardinero".

Alberto Iglesias has composed a score so dark, rich, hunting, powerful, and mysterious... that proves to be irresistible.

Experience the Bad Education!!!

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What's Essential About This?
Pros and Cons..
Love Morricone, hate this collection
Essential Morricone
Another Morriconne Collection

Crime and Dissonance

Manufacturer: Ipecac Recordings
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ASIN: B000AA4LLO
Release Date: 2005-11-29

Tracks:

Girono Di Notte
Astratto 3
Corsa Sui Tetti
Ric Happenning
Memento Riereazione Diverdita
Studio Di Colore
Forza G
Placcaggio
Seuita
Postludio Alla Terza Moglia
L'uccello Dalle Piume
II Buio
Raprimento In Campo Aperto
De Fotografie
Bambola
Minna Nanna Per adulteri
Astrazione

Tracks:

Trafelato
Sensi
Gil Intoccabili
Fondante Paure
L'Attento - Version 1
Fumerie' d'Opium
1970
Esplicitamente Sospeso
Squenz 10
Paura e Aggrellione
Folle Folle
Un Uomo Da Rispettare

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Finally, the listening public is treated to a Morricone compilation that focuses on his more daring, outre, and lesser known score music. Nothing against his better-known spaghetti western soundtrack work; there is a reason after all that stuff is so well known, because it's fantastic and wholly original. But did you know the dude scored more films than any other composer (over 500), that his discography is twice that of Sun Ra, that he made amazing psychedelia and crazy funk and subtle experimental music? Assembled by the brilliant musician/ musical curator Alan Bishop for Mike Patton's Ipecac label with liner notes by John Zorn, the aptly titled Crime and Dissonance is culled from extremely rare releases from the early `70s. It's strange stuff, but very enjoyable and easily among the finest and most necessary reissues of the entire year. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews:

What's Essential About This?.......2007-04-21

A sticker on the jewel case proclaims Crime and Dissonance "an absolutely essential Morriconography". A couple of listens had me wondering what is so essential about this? Unfortunately, essential is an abused term when it comes to describing music. This might be said to be essential if you are a Morricone completeist, but when you compare the quality of the music here with that of some of his other compositions, you'll find that Crime and Dissonance is rather easily dispensible.
Is the music here unusual? Quite. But the question must be asked why anyone would sit around and just listen to it. This stuff belongs in a movie. Unlike many other Morricone compositions, the pieces here do not fit with any kind of mood you might have except that generated while you are watching a film.
I know a lot of folks with broad musical tastes, but I don't know of anyone who would listen to this CD just for pleasure or even for background music unless one was operating a commercial haunted house or having some kind of themed party. There's too much other better Morricone music out there!
I like Ennio Morricone and I am sure these pieces fit in the contexts for which they were intended, but I could have gone on quite happily without ever having heard Crime and Dissonance.

Pros and Cons.........2006-03-10

Pros:
Ennio Morricone was a terrific experimental composer. This music is Wierd.

Cons:
Kind of wierd combination of songs.. a lot of them don't feel like they should be on the same album.

Love Morricone, hate this collection.......2006-01-08

It's as if they took the most obnoxious parts they could find, and memorialized them.

Morricone is the master. But this collection misrepresents his genius.

I guess the Dissonance part in the title excuses all.

Essential Morricone.......2005-12-20

Crime and Dissonance is by far the best collection of Ennio Morricone's film music on the market. Primarily, because it focuses exclusively on a phase of Morricone's career that's largely been ignored (until now). This 2 disc collection contains some of Morricone's most startling, dark, spooky and adventurous music. Composed largely for obscure Italian horror movies and crime dramas, the music contained here is quite innovative for its time. Filled with almost avant jazz and psychedelic sounds, this is a great listen. The excellent tracklisting ignores chronology in favor of a thematic flow, and it works. This two disc set along with one of the many fine Morricone Western score collections is essential for any good music library. The man was far more than just a film composer, as this disc proves. Excellent.

Another Morriconne Collection.......2005-12-14

This compilation is gifted with lush photographs that depict the films they represent. However, not only are there far more vibrant Morriconne compilations available but the majority of these "rare" tracks already exist on other compilations. I love and treasure anything by Morriconne but, this compilation seems inappropriate especially with the Thriller Collection available (which mirrors this compilation in selections and tone). Out of the Argento/Morriconne collection, main titles compilations, and miscellaneous other soundtracks this one ranks among Wolf at a groveling beautiful suspensful mediocrity. But, when mediocore is written in the same sentence as Morriconne; one can only expect it to be the most heavenly kind of medicore.

Main Titles: 40 Motion Pictures, Volume One - Music Composed, Orchestrated And Conducted By Ennio Morricone, 1965-1995

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Main Titles: 40 Motion Pictures, Volume One - Music Composed, Orchestrated And Conducted By Ennio Morricone, 1965-1995

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With Love, Vol. 2
With Love: Music Composed & Conducted By
Ennio Morricone - Film Music, Vol.1

ASIN: B000000PJ9
Release Date: 1996-11-19

Tracks:

Slalom: Main Title
The Hellbenders: Main Title
Blood And Guns: Viva La Revolucion
L'Alibi: Una Fotografia
The Heart Of A Mother: Ricreazione Divertia
The Invisible Woman: Alla Serenita
The Nun From Monza: Main Title
Machine Gun McCain: La Ballata Di Hank McCain
The Lady Caliph: Main Title
The 5th Dawn: Lontano
Private Pictures Of A Lady: Main Title
Revolver (Blood In The Streets): Un Amico
Maddalena: Chi Mai
The Poetry Of A Woman: Main Title
What Am I Doing In The Middle Of The Revolution?: Main Title
This Kind Of Love: Main Title
Devil In The Brain: La Ragione, Il Cuore, L'Amore
Two Seasons Of Life: Main Title
The Children Who Are Asking Why: Main Title
Without Apparent Motive: Main Title
One Could Die Of Love: Main Title
My Name Is Nobody: Main Title
The Secret: Main Title

Tracks:

The Infernal Trio: Main Title
The Cousin: Main Title
Around The World With The Lovers Of Peynet: Forse Basta
Who Saw Him Die?: Main Title
The Lady Bunker: Dedicace
The Professional: Le Vent, Le Cri
The Outsider: Main Title
The Resenter: Main Title
The Venetian Woman: Baci Dopo Il Tramonto
Farewell To Moscow: Main Title
The Neighborhood: Romanza Quartiere
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso: Main Title
A Time To Kill: Main Title
To Forget Palermo: Main Title
Three Columns On The Front Page: Main Title
Piazza Di Spagna: Main Title
The Night And The Moment: A Caccia Di Lei

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This double-disc treat covers Morricone's work from 1965 to 1995 and contains mostly never-before-released material from 40 different motion pictures, many of which demonstrate his quirkier side. Many are from less-known films like To Forget Palermo and What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? But there are also more famous tracks like the main titles to Cinema Paradiso and My Name Is Nobody as well as the haunting "Chi Mai" from Maddalena. Though best known for his much-imitated and oppressively cute spaghetti-Western themes, Morricone here demonstrates his much more intriguing romantic and melancholic sides. His title song to Farewell to Moscow is among his saddest and menacing works and, like several other selections, can be the preferred antidote to Prozac. --Joseph Lanza

English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals

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Not stilted but powerfully alive
Better at Italian than English

English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals

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ASIN: B000031WJ8
Release Date: 2000-04-11

Tracks:

Cantiam Lieti Cantiamo
E D'Un Bel Matin D'Amore
Quella Bella E Biancha Mano
Una Leggiadra Nimpha
Venite Amanti Insieme
Divini Occhi Sereni
Con L'Angelico Riso
Madonna, Il Tuo Bel Viso
Fuggi, Fuggi, Cor Mio
Si Liet' E Grata Morte
Se La Dura Durezza
Ahime, Ahime, Dov'E 'L Bel Viso
Madonna, S'Io V'Offendo
II Bianco E Dolce Cigno
Donne, Venete Al Ballo
Morir Non Puo Il Mio Cuore
Se La Mia Vita
Mia Benigna Fortuna
Ancor Che Col Partire
O Sonno
Chi La Gagliarda
Madonna Mia Fa
Medici Noi Siamo
Quando Sara Mai Quel Zorno
Matona, Mia Cara
Tre Ciechi Siamo

Tracks:

O Grief Even On The Bud
When Lo By Break Of Morning
April Is In My Mistress' Face
The First Part
The Second Part
Sweet Nymph Come To Thy Lover
The First Part
The Second Part
Miraculous Love's Wounding
Adieu Sweet Amarillis
Weep O Mine Eyes
The Silver Swan
The First Part
The Second Part
Since Robin Hood
Fire And Lightning
Strike It Up Tabor
See, See, The Shepherds' Queen
Come Sable Night
Sweet Suffolk Owl
In Nets Of Golden Wires
Draw On Sweet Night

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A "Regular People" Review.......2007-03-20

So I was on a Renaissance kick for a while and picked this up, first of all, great value. I enjoy listening to a few of these every now and then but can't take too much at once, check out the previews and if you interested, go for it!

Not stilted but powerfully alive.......2005-02-24

My idea of stilted is to sing these madrigals in the phony, glee-club RP style endured for so many years, that made precious, quaint curiosities of them. The Elizabethan pronunciation on this CD is an eye and ear-opener. We may appreciate how much of that speech actually endures in regional accents in both the US and UK. More importantly, this CD brings us the sounds of the long-forgotten English human beings of the Renaissance, people who drank, fought and screwed, who brought us Shakespeare and the King James Bible. I love this recording.

Better at Italian than English.......2003-07-25

A stilted style and even more stilted attempts at Renaissance-English pronunciation make the English Madrigal disk a terrible disappointment. All emotional content -- the mellow, lumimous melancholy with flashes of fire that characterizes English music at its best -- has been drained in this attempt to kill, skin, and stuff these madrigals in order to present them as museum pieces. The pronunciation problem is particularly galling -- if these songs are going to be made incomprehensible to modern English speakers, where, then, is their cultural home?

Tracks:

Op.410: Fruhilingsstimmen
Le Rossignol et la rose
Lo spazzacamino
Jocelyn: Wiegenlied
Parla-Walzer
Boccaccio: Hab' ich nur deine liebe
Rusalka: Lied an den Mond
Dinorah: Schattentanz
Osterreich, Op.164: Dorfschwalben
Die Nachtigall
Les Filles de Cadix
Chi sa?
La felletta
Last Rose Of Summer
Villanelle
Draussen In Sievering
Il bacio

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A Must-own Album for Lovers of Coloratura Singing.......2007-07-31

This a compilation of three LPs by the late Austrian coloratura Rita Streich.
What is it like to sing like a bird? Listen to this CD for the answer.
The songs demonstrate the jaw-dropping coloratura technique owned by Rita Streich. In addition to a beautiful light timbre, impeccable trills, there is the crystal clear diction so sadly lacking in other top-notch coloraturas after her: she never sang `nonsense', no matter what style, no matter how great the demand for pyro-technique, the diction was always clear. The language ability of Streich is quite phenomenal. In this disc, she sang in German, Italian, Czech, French, Russian, and even English, though admittedly the English is a bit of a stretch for her.
I don't think Streich owned a big voice, but her very pearly and silvery tone served the songs to perfection. Unlike some modern coloratura who often sings beyond her range and displaying lack of covering that often ends up in damages to the vocal chords, Streich had a much sounder technique and deployed her breath to almost perfection in the break-neck high passages.
Of all the beautiful songs, I like the Russian "Nightingale" and the French "Les Filles de Cadiz" the most. The former is a hauntingly beautiful Russian folksong not often performed in the West (the other only version I've heard is sung by Chinese coloratura Dilber in Beijing). Her Les Filles de Cadiz, I must admit, topped numerous big names' - Sutherland, de Los Angeles, just to name two very top ones. To think that Streich excelled only in Austro-German repertoire would be a gross understatement.
After reviewing this CD, I can only say with deep regret that this level of artistry has already left us without replacement.

Truly stunning voice, beautifully recorded.......2006-04-12

A most amazing and effortless coloratura voice, handling the German (of course) and Viennese style with native ease. A stunning "Fruhilingsstimmen." Easy on the ears and still exciting after much replaying.

Especially considering the era, the recording quality is quite clear and good. Delighted to find this on CD.

Delightful recital! .......2004-08-07

Rita Streich shines in this recital! Each piece is performed with remarkable accuracy and beauty of tone. She is particularly effective in communicating the Viennese spirit of the Walzer. There aren't sopranos today who sound this good in the German repertoire. Sadly, a lost tradition. Her Italian accent is not perfect but it's not distracting and besides there aren't many Italian arias here. She nevertheless sings them beautifully. Pity that not all tracks were recorded in stereo sound. Overall, a superb memento of Streich's rare artistry.

NOT SINGING BUT A SILVER HEAVEN GLITTERING WITH STARS.......2001-07-10

I have no single vocal record more prized than this. The other reviewers above all speak more knowledgably of her technique than I can. I can say only that this record puts me adrift in the heavenly beyond. Rita isn't just artful, she's a gift of God driven into your breast. She brightens one's whole sense of existence. Her yearning youth and richness blend the blue of spring with the heart of an agonizingly green June day. Just lovely, lovely, lovely. After you hear Rita Streich: Walzer & Arien, you'll want to get her double album with the reverse title: Rita Streich: Arien & Walzer, which is just as heavenly but slightly more mature and grandly brilliant. You may think Callas singing "Casta Diva" the height of vocal art. You are in for a wonderful surprise.

What angels must sound like..........2001-04-25

I will cut this short.. Streich has the most beautiful voice and tone, I in all likelihood will ever lend an ear to... (...Save that of an Angel, should I by some strange coincidence be allowed into heaven...) This compilation magnificantly dokcuments Streich's vocal talents in the more light-hearted repetoire, and it is a gem.. Get it!