classical music: Peter Cornelius

classical music: Peter Cornelius

classical music:

Peter Cornelius

Gerald Finley, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Philips, 1994

An Outstanding Holiday Recording
In 1994 I worked at a music store where I was considered "the classical music expert." How did I earn this distinguished honor you may ask? Well, I had music lessons as a child, had a somewhat good knowledge of classical music as a hobbyist (I am a die hard opera buff ...

Noel: Christmas at King's

Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Cornelius, ...

Decca, 1995

The Best Christmas CD Ever
If you are seeking a CD of traditional Christmas music to help you 1) focus on the true meaning of the holiday and 2)draw near to God, this is it. The choral arrangements are alternately beautiful and powerful, delicate and majestic. There is a rich heritage of ...

Christmas Night: Carols of the Nativity

Gerald Finley, Nicholas Sears, ...

Collegium, 1993

Beautiful Music, Beautifully Sung
This compilation of Christmas carols both traditional and modern stands in stark contrast to much of the bubble gum, soda pop Christmas music so often heard on popular radio these days. There are no divas or over the top performances or attempts to make "a moment". ...

The Voices of Christmas
Voice of Christmas

© 2002 Universal Classics Group / DECCA, 2002

Christmas Present From Polyphony

Polyphony, Stephen Layton

Hyperion UK, 2004

Sublimely beautiful!
Heavenly music, beautifully captured in a location with fantastic acoustics. This is music that needs to be heard on headphones or outstanding surround sound to be really appreciated. Here I am in February still listening to this CD of Xmas music... it's very calming ...

Christmas Adagios

Gerald Finley, Adolphe Adam, ...

Decca, 2001

One of my very top 5 favorite holiday albums!
What a delightful surprise this 2 disc album was and I'm not a big fan of Christmas music. I loved all the selections and felt they were well performed. This is a true "must have" for any Christmas collection. Superior to many other compliations on the market. This ...

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 ...

Best Loved Christmas Carols

Stephen Varcoe, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

EMI Classics, 2004

a voice teacher and early music fan
ECLECTIC CAROLS THAT TRANSCEND THE COMMONPLACE Listening to these carols extracted from the various Festival and Nine Lesson services held in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge on Christmas Eve is incredibly inspiring and brings out the real meaning of ...

Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective(10 CD)
Alexander Blachly, Bruce Rogers, ...

Nonesuch, 2008

This elegantly packaged 10 disc retrospective surveys four decades of work by Philip Glass, from his earliest solo pieces to his world-renowned operas to his Oscar-nominated film scores. In music, words and pictures, it traces the evolution, as critic Tim Page puts it in his liner notes essay, of 'the first composer to win a wide, ...

Christmas With the Vienna Choir Boys/Placido Domingo/Hermann Prey

Anonymous, Ritson Manscript Anonymous, ...

RCA, 1990

Best CD I own
I have purchased and listened to about 15 CD's performed by the Vienna Boys' Choir. I enjoy them all, but this one stands out as my favorite. It is not a collection of traditional Christmas music as you might expect, but one section of Latin mass by Mozart (sung in ...

Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail / Orgonasova, Sieden, Olsen, Peper, Hauptmann, Minetti; Gardiner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Eliot Gardiner, ...

Archiv Produktion, 1993

Delightful recording of a favorite Mozart opera (Singspiel)
This opera has always been one of Mozart's most popular. Except, apparently, for the very first performances, audiences have loved it. If you have somehow not heard it yet, I believe you will love it as well. The music is delightful and the story is wonderfully ...

Wagner - Parsifal / Meier, Jerusalem, Hölle, van Dam, von Kannen, Tomlinson, Berlin Phil., Barenboim

Richard Wagner, Daniel Barenboim, ...

Teldec, 1991

The best digital Parsifal that I know.
Wagner's interpretation has a lot of fans that are not very open-mind to new ways of performing the works of the great Richard. This affects conducting, playing and singing and those listeners use to be much more closed to a kind of performances that come from the ...

Christmas At Trinity

The Choir of Trinity Church - Wall Street New York, Harold Darke, ...

Naxos, 2001

Excellence at its Best
Trinity Church at Wall Street was directly in the path of the World Trade Center's monumantal rubble showers when the buildings collapsed on 9/11. Consequently Trinity's magnificinet organ was a victim of dust and debris along with everything else in its path. As a ...

Fritz Wunderlich: Great German Tenor

Fritz Wunderlich

EMI Classics, 1991

German bel canto indeed
This three CD set of Wunderlich is a gem. It features one of the most beautiful pure lyric tenor voices of the century at its absolute best. Though Wunderlich sings all the arias, including the Italian and French ones, in German, his innate musical understanding of ...

Bach: Sacred Vocal Works

Andreas Schmidt, Olaf Bär, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2004

Bargain price for the best of the best!
Below are the Amazon.com asin numbers for all four of the works in this box: St. Mathew Passion - B0000057DG (1989) St. John Passion - B0000057CW (1990) Christmas Oratorio - B0000057D5 (1990) Mass in b minor - B0000057CN (1990) The numerous reviews already ...