classical music: Peter Grant

classical music: Peter Grant

classical music:

Peter Grant

Prokofiev - Cinderella / Sibley, Dowell, Royal Ballet

Anthony Dowell, Frederick Ashton

Kultur Video, 2001

Rare performance....
It's a pleasure to view this rare performance....the step-sisters at their best. I am not a fan of the music, but the choreography and the dancing is wonderful.

Bach: St. John Passion; Mass in B Minor; Easter Oratorio; Ascension Oratorio

Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Parrott, ...

EMI Classics, 2002

One-voice-per-part in all its glory
Pick up this set. When I saw the ... price on these gems, I immediately ordered it. Andrew Parrott is a wonderful conductor who subscribes to the theory that Bach intended his choral music to be sung with one voice on a part. Quite a contrast to many recordings out ...

Infinite Voice

Darlene Koldenhoven

Time Art, 2007

Wonderful Singer
Surely Darlene Koldenhoven has one of the most beautiful female voices in the world. The song selections, the accompanying music and the quality of recording are supurb.

Meredith Willson's The Music Man (1991 Studio Cast)

Meredith Willson, Michael Bell, ...

Telarc, 1991

Susan Stroman Never Fails!
If you like musicals, buy this CD. It is THE best Music Man cast recording of all time for one main reason; Susan Stroman (many Tony awards) directed it. Since Susan is a choreographer as well as a director she included dance music on this recording. It is great to ...

Two for the Road: The Music of Henry Mancini

John Patitucci, Henry Mancini, ...

Grp Records, 1997

Moonlight homage!
Dave Grusin made a very heartfelt homage in Henry Mancini `s memory with this striving album that deserves all your special attention. If I had to find any motive of complaint around this invaluable CD is the few number of songs. Perhaps Moon river, Charade, and ...

Colored Lights: The Broadway Album

Debbie Gibson, Jule Styne, ...

Varese Sarabande, 2003

A Taste of Broadway
I've been a fan of her since God only knows. I know she's not just talented but she is very passionate of (her) music. Knowing that she moved herself into broadways, it's rather of a challenge for me to listen to the songs especially when I'm too familiar with her pop ...

Bach: Magnificat; Easter Oratorio

Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Parrott, ...

EMI Classics, 2000

The Extreme End of the Minimalist Spectrum: The Purity of Bach
Andrew Parrott conducts the Taverner Consort and Players is a very affordable set of discs that allow everyone to experience the 'non-choral' choral Bach. Instead of the usual chorus (even the pared down choruses of 16 - 30 members the way most 'authentic' ...

25 Piano Favorites

Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, ...

Vox (Classical), 1996

25 Piano Favorites
This is my favorite classical CD since it is geared to a wide audience. Many of my friends and acquaintances enjoy it, too.

Elgar: The Collector's Edition (30 CDs)

Derek Hammond-Stroud, Peter Glossop, ...

Emi Classics, 2007

Great Bargain of Elgar Masterworks and Forgotten Gems!
Like Sony's Stravinsky set, this Elgar set from EMI seems to want to challenge the Brilliant Classics label by providing lots of music for little money. This costs more than the Stravinsky, but you get 30 cds here as opposed to the 22 in the Stravinsky set. On the ...

Bright Eyed Joy: The Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon

Ricky Ian Gordon, Eric Stern, ...

Nonesuch, 2001

Incredible
This is an incredible CD, from the sparkling orchestrations which are chamber but in the way they are mixed everything dances out at you, to the vocal interpretations which are so innovative for a recording of this type...settings of poetry but sung by regular, albeit, ...

Karita Mattila Live in Helsinki

Antonin Dvorak, George Gershwin, ...

Ondine, 2001

Mattila superb in Verdi, Puccini, and Wagner!
A friend of mine sent this CD for me, and I was stunned. There are great Verdi singers in the world after all! The opera arias are all outstanding, packed with emotion, sung in resplendent tone and perfect technique (portamento, legato line, strong chest voice). My ...

Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan

Arthur Sullivan, Charles Mackerras, ...

Avid (City Hall), 2004

Not the best sung but among the best in characterization
Between 1949 and 1951, the D'Oyly Carte Company was very busy recording nine of the Gilbert & Sullivan works onto mono LPs for the Decca label (or the London, as it was known over here), with comic lead Martyn Green in all but "Trial By Jury." After he left the ...

Oboist Peter Christ
David Atkins, Alberto Ginastera, ...

Crystal Records, 1993

Mozart: Missae; Requiem; Organ Sonatas & Solos

Andreas Schmidt, Clifford Grant, ...

Philips, 2006

I guess I;ll be the first to comment
If you are anything of a Mozart fan, you need this set. Superb performances of these masterpieces. The requiem offered may not be the best, but its better than many others I've heard. Still the first 9 cds are all masses, and what hidden gems they are. This 11 cd ...

Visions from the Book

Sequentia, Peter Abelard

RCA, 1996

Excellent Performances of a 'different kind of old music'
'Visions from the Book' performed by the 'Ensemble for Medieval Music', otherwise known as SEQUENTIA gives us a genre of old music which is neither purely liturgical (part of a mass) or minstral or part of a masque (dance). It is singing, with some instrumental ...