classical music: Nicolai Ghiaurov     classical music:     Nicolai Ghiaurov      Verdi - Don Carlo (remastered) Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 Verdi's opera of love and politics Under the sensitive direction of James Levine, Placido Domingo plays Don Carlo, heir to the Spanish throne, as close to the edge of madness. I think this interpretation works much better than playing him as Schiller's romantic hero--plus it's more accurate, since the ...             The Essential Borodin Nicolai Ghiaurov, Alexander Borodin, ... Universal Int'l, 1997 Excellent value The audio, numbers, and performances of very good, and the value outstanding, as you get almost everything that Borodin, the composer, created in his career on this dual release - more complete than the previous DECCA version, as this one is expanded, of course. ...             Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème / Francesca Zambello · Tiziano Severini - M. Freni · L. Pavarotti · San Francisco ... Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti Kultur Video, 1999 Heartbreaking! Anyone who has read my reviews knows that I am the biggest Freni fan imaginable. She does not disappoint me here. Yes, at this stage, her voice is a size too large for Mimi, more suitable for heavy verismo such as Tosca, Fedora and Manon Lescaut. The voice is far ...             Puccini - La Bohème / Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Berlin Phil., Karajan [Highlights] Giacomo Puccini, Elizabeth Harwood, ... Decca, 1990 One of the best recordings ever of a magnificent voice that will be missed. Thanks Mr Pavarotti! I am writing this review a few days after the death of Luciano Pavarotti. Even if I do not know music, I like opera, and I love Puccini. This recording is one of the most beautiful I ever heard, and will make it clear, if ever there was any doubt, that we just lost one ...             Puccini - La Bohème / Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Ghiaurov, Karajan Giacomo Puccini, Mirella Freni, ... Decca, 1990 A Definitive Production of La Bohème. Puccini's iconic La Bohème (1896) is among the most popular operas in history (second only to Puccini's Madama Butterfly), and "Che gelida manina" is one of the most familiar arias in opera. Based on Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger, La Bohème is a romantic ...             Verdi: Rigoletto / Cappuccilli, Cotrubas, Domingo, Ghiaurov, Obraztsova, Moll; Giulini Giuseppe Verdi, Wiener Philharmoniker, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1999 Wonderful story, fabulous duets, marvelous singing Verdi based this opera on a play, "Le roi s'amuse" by Victor Hugo. It is hard to understand today, but Hugo's play ran into trouble with the censor's because of the scandalous way it presented royalty and was shut down after a single performance. In fact, Hugo had ...             Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor / Sutherland · Pavarotti · Milnes · Ghiaurov · ROH Covent Garden · Bonynge Richard Bonynge, Joan Sutherland, ... Decca, 1985 A splendid version of Lucia This is probably one of the top versions of Lucia di Lammermoor, one of Donizetti's greatest works. The cast displays such stalwarts as Sherrill Milnes, Nicolai Ghiarov, Luciano Pavarotti, and--of course--Joan Sutherland. Richard Bonynge did much background research ...             Verdi - Simon Boccanegra / Freni, Cappuccilli, Carreras, Ghiaurov, van Dam, Foiani, Teatro alla Scala, Abbado Giuseppe Verdi, Claudio Abbado, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1998 The best Verdi opera in Abbado's Studio discography Claudio Abbado's reign at La Scala produced some of the finest productions of Verdi's operas ever mounted on the stage. From that prolific era came his dark and revolutionary Macbeth (Verrett, Cappuccilli, Tagliavini), the greatest Don Carlo (Freni, Carreras, ...             Puccini - Turandot / Sutherland · Pavarotti · Caballé · Ghiaurov · Krause · Pears · LPO · Mehta Giacomo Puccini, Zubin Mehta, ... Decca, 1990 I Wish There Is a DVD for This Cast!!! I bought the recording in the tape form years ago. I could not listen to it any more because of the wear after I played it too many times. Fortunately, technology came to the resue, CD!!! The tenderness, emotion, range, and capacity, from a delicate note to a full ...             Gounod: Faust (Complete Opera); Domingo, Freni, Ghiaurov, Allen, Pretre Placido Domingo, Georges Pretre, ... EMI Classics, 1990 Gounod: Faust (Complete Opera); Domingo, Freni, Ghiaurov, Allen, Pretre Excelente en todo. Grandes intérpretes, gran orquesta y muy burns dirección.Aún habiendose grabado en 1979, el sonido es muy bueno. Gran presentación de la discográfica. Para mí, la mejor grabación del Faust de Gounod que he oñido jamás.             Essential Rossini G. Rossini Decca, 2002 Very Nice, Maybe not Essential Focusing mainly on Overtures this CD is full of delightful music. Personally I have not graduated to becoming an afficanado of operas so I enjoy these type of CDs a great deal. The performance are all quite good though there are better versions out there for certain ...             Verdi - Aida / Caballé · Domingo · Cossotto · Ghiaurov · Cappuccilli · Roni · NPO · Muti Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Muti, ... EMI Classics, 2001 Marvelous Aida! I love Aida. I own so many recordings that I've lost count as to how many I have in my library. In many ways, I think this is one of Verdi's most beautiful and sophisticated scores. Several conductors have handled (and butchered) the score, yet this recording shows ...             100 Best Opera Classics Andreas Schmidt, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, ... Emd Int'l, 2007 Amazing Value I am so impressed by this collection that I must share my joy at getting so many beautiful arias, duets, et al in one collection. It captures many of the great operatic voices in stellar performances spanning the last 50 years. If you are enchanted by beautiful ...             Rossini: Guglielmo Tell Gioachino Rossini, Riccardo Chailly, ... Decca, 2006 Best Guglielmo Tell Availabe, Now Remastered! This is the Remastered edition (96 Khz · 24 bit) in the Legendary Recordings from the Decca Catalogue · The Originals Collection 4CD. This is the best Guglielmo Tell available on record, even better because of the remasterization of the original tapes recorded in 1979. ...             For Lovers Only: The Romantic Pavarotti (Includes Bonus CD) Eric Garrett, Nicolai Ghiaurov, ... Decca, 2005 Let your emotions out I'm a contractor but I cry every time I listen to the maestro. If you have any sensitivity and/or a nostalgic bone in your body... go for it. I received it as a gift from my wife and purchased a used one on Amazon for my sister. A lot of music with two full CD's and ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music boccanegra, cappuccilli, highlights, lammermoor, obraztsova, sutherland      toavi.com    web randomly chosen music: War's Embers: Songs by Browne, Butterworth, Farrar, Finzi, Gurney, Kelly