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Artist:
Chanticleer
Christmas is the season for whipping out those holiday-specific standard recordings. This splendid gift by Chanticleer should top the list, for one will never tire of this a cappella choir's interpretations. With selections spanning the last five centuries of Latin, German, English, Spanish, and French festive fare, this recording exemplifies the sacrifice of the ego to the higher form of choral sound. Jacob Handl's "Mirabile Mysterium" takes you on a trip into the chromatic wonderlands, where you temporarily lose tonal balance. Victoria's eerie and dissonant "O Magnum Mysterium" treats us to ...
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Artist:
Sarah Brightman,
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni,
Francisco Tarrega,
George Frideric Handel,
Fryderyk Chopin,
Sergey Rachmaninov,
Giacomo Puccini,
Antonin Dvorak,
Andrew Lloyd Webber,
Ludwig van Beethoven,
Joseph Marie Canteloube,
Francesco Sartori,
Paul Bateman
Sarah Brightman Photos ...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Renata Scotto,
Luciano Pavarott,
Maralin Niska,
Ingvar Wixell,
James Levine
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Artist:
Luciano Pavarotti
Back by popular demand--Pavarotti's Greatest Hits! Celebrate the life and career of Luciano Pavarotti--the world's most famous tenor and King of the High C's! First released as an LP in 1980 and then again in 1985, this is one of Pavarotti's best-selling albums. Instantly recognizable cover features classic photo of Luciano Pavarotti dressed as Pagliaccio from I pagliacci. Chock-full of his all-time greatest hits including Nessun dorma, La donna è mobile, Vesti la giubba, Funiculi Funiculà and more! Reissued in a slim-line jewel box for the first time and at a special "2 for 1" price point.
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Ennio Morricone is well-known to moviegoers. His soundtracks for The Mission, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, Cinema Paradiso, and others are invariably warmly melodic and superbly suited to the films they grace. They not only add atmosphere; they help tell the story. For this CD Morricone has created new orchestrations for many of his scores, adding a solo cello part for the indefatigable Yo-Yo Ma, whose musical curiosity seems to be endless. Outside the films, these pieces tend to be lovely melodies, mostly pretty sentimental stuff, an...
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Artist:
Jules Massenet,
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine,
Renée Fleming,
Thomas Hampson,
Yves Abel,
Giuseppe Sabbatini,
Elisabeth Vidal,
Marie Devellereau,
Enkelejda Shkosa,
Stefano Palatchi
Given the renaissance in recent years of an interest in Jules Massenet--consider, for example, the 1999 release of two Werthers back to back--the time definitely has become ripe for a new account of his late opera, Thaïs. This is the first alternative to appear on CD since the problematic version with Beverly Sills from the 1970s. While far from flawless (curiously, it was recorded in two stretches, with a pause of 15 months between them), it makes a mostly convincing case for the stirring beauty of Massenet's much-misunderstood work. For Thaïs, with its exotic s...
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Artist:
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter's new recording combines the popularity of Bach with the radiance and intensity of the contemporary composer Sophia Gubaidulina. Gubaidulina's In tempus praesens receives its world-premiere recording; the work was commissioned by Ms.Mutter herself. This is also Anne-Sophie Mutter's first Bach recording for Deutsche Grammophon. The Bach Concertos reunites Mutter with the Trondheim Soloists, with whom she recorded the Vivaldi Four Seasons. Also available is a deluxe version of this recording that presents this CD in a hard bound book format that features the essay in various l...
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With the help of some friends (James Taylor and Alison Krauss lend some vocal support), the trio of Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor have created yet another fascinating hybrid of chamber music and bluegrass. This follow-up to 1996's Appalachia Waltz is filled with highly lyrical string passages, a homage or two to Copland, and plenty of tracks where Meyer's bass vamps with the best of them. This is reflective (and relaxing) music, lacking the intricate structure of classical music and the rough edges of folk. But, boy, is it catchy! Yo-Yo Ma fans may be disappointed to hear tha...
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Artist:
Kristin Chenoweth,
Jule Styne,
George Gershwin,
Richard Rodgers,
Jeanine Tesori,
Kurt Weill,
Jerome Kern,
Vincent Youmans,
Ricky Ian Gordon,
Richard Dworsky,
Lawrence Ellington Duke / Brown,
Harry Warren,
Bobby Troup,
Jason Alexander,
Irving Berlin,
Rob Fisher,
The Coffee Club Orchestra
Kristin Chenoweth won a Tony for the supporting role of Sally Brown in the 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, made a memorably vampy Lily in the 1999 television film of Annie, and had an NBC sitcom created for her, Kristin! Now she grabs the spotlight in Let Yourself Go, her first solo recording. She mixes torchy standards ("My Funny Valentine," "How Long Has This Been Going On?") with Faith Prince-style sauciness ("If"), gets to show off her operatic and scat chops in the miniplay "The Girl in 14G," and shares a light duet with Jason Alexander (reviv...
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