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Andre Rieu - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
:Description:Track List: 1) Ballade 2) My Heart Will Go On - Theme to 'Titanic' 3) Sous les ciel de Paris (The Sky of Paris) 4) Autumn in Venice 5) Granada 6) Marino Waltz 7) Kirmesliebe 8) Yeux Noires 9) Send in the Clowns 10) True Love 11) Moon River from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' 12) Edelweiss from 'The Sound of Music' 13) Lost Heroes 14) The Blue Danube Waltz 15) Greensleeves 16) Adagio (Albinoni) 17) Internezz (mascagni) 18) Lullaby (Brahms)
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Voce D'Italia: Arias For Rubini
from: Decca
: :The remarkable young Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez continues his triumphs over the difficulties of the bel canto repertory with this recital devoted to arias sung by Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854). Rubini redefined the role of the tenor, singing heroically, with warmth, sensitivity, an amazing capacity for florid music, and an upper extension that allowed him to sing an F above high C. Florez seems to have it all (although his highest note here is a still-staggering high E-flat). The bright tone, charm, ease of ...
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Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (The Royal Ballet)
:Description:The Sleeping Beauty has been performed at many key moments in the Royal Ballet's history. To coincide with the Company's 75th Anniversary, Monica Mason and Christopher Newton created a new production based on the Sergeyev/De Valois/Messel production that was first performed by the company in 1946. Peter Farmer recreated and augmented Oliver Messel's designs adn Christopher Wheeldon choreographed a new Garland Dance for this production.
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La Luna
: :Superstar crossover vocalist Sarah Brightman greets the new millennium with an even surer, bolder sense of her unique musical niche than that evident from 1999's Eden. Like Eden, La Luna is a concept album only in a vaguely free-associative sense. The selection of material here touches on images of the moon that reinforce its ambiguity as a force known to draw together 'the lunatic, the lover, and the poet' (Brightman's photo shoots for the album do seem to suggest a sort of Titania-like figure out ...
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Baroque Guitar
from: RCA
: :Superstar crossover vocalist Sarah Brightman greets the new millennium with an even surer, bolder sense of her unique musical niche than that evident from 1999's Eden. Like Eden, La Luna is a concept album only in a vaguely free-associative sense. The selection of material here touches on images of the moon that reinforce its ambiguity as a force known to draw together 'the lunatic, the lover, and the poet' (Brightman's photo shoots for the album do seem to suggest a sort of Titania-like figure out ...
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Nature's Colors [Blu-ray]
: :This stunning High Definition 1080i video release is accompanied by the world's greatest and most recognizable music-from Bach to Beethoven to Ravel to Debussy-all in True HD and Dolby Digital Plus Surround. From Bora Bora to Africa from the Midwest to the Pacific Coast from Costa Rica to Bali from Hawaii to Arizona from the Rocky Mountains to the Redwood Forest-this is Nature at it's most colorful and beautiful.Track listing: Clair de Lune * Debussey Cannon in D * Pachebel Dawn From Peer Gynt ...
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Piano Sonatas VIII
:Album Description:This is the eagerly awaited final instalment of András Schiff's acclaimed complete Beethoven cycle. Collectors can now finally explore the extraordinary interpretative and editorial qualities of this cycle in full.Schiff's much-admired art of musical characterisation is particularly evident in these last six sonatas that combine dramatic and symphonic grandeur with intimate beauty. As Schiff completed his Beethoven performances at the Tonhalle in Zurich where all 8 volumes have been recorded live, a journalist wrote 'This was a Beethoven which transfixed the audience with its ...
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La Traviata at La Scala
:Album Description:This is the eagerly awaited final instalment of András Schiff's acclaimed complete Beethoven cycle. Collectors can now finally explore the extraordinary interpretative and editorial qualities of this cycle in full.Schiff's much-admired art of musical characterisation is particularly evident in these last six sonatas that combine dramatic and symphonic grandeur with intimate beauty. As Schiff completed his Beethoven performances at the Tonhalle in Zurich where all 8 volumes have been recorded live, a journalist wrote 'This was a Beethoven which transfixed the audience with its ...
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Amore: Romantic Italian Love Songs
from: Decca
: :From Calaf's 'Nessun dorma' from Turandot, in which the singer exclaims his love for the ice princess and the victory he will have over her, through Lionel's realization that he will have a new life and be happy with Lady Harriet in Martha ('M'appari'), and on to Rodolfo's falling in love with Mimi in La Bohème when he touches her hand ('Che gelida manina'): here we have some of opera's most beautiful love songs, sung by Pavarotti when he was in his golden-voiced prime. His ...
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Faure Requiem Op.48 / Durufle Requiem Op.9
: :The chorus is at center of Shaw's reading of the score, presumably the more lightly scored 1893 version that Fauré, himself created (Telarc does not specify). The account flows very well, and the work of both soloists is highly satisfying, particularly Judith Blegen's airy soprano in Pie Jesu. The recording dates from 1985-86 and is one of Telarc's best, with excellent presence overall and real bass in the organ. --Ted Libbey
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