classical music: Petteri Salomaa     classical music:     Petteri Salomaa      Haydn: Masses Franz Joseph Haydn, Neville Marriner, ... EMI Classics, 1997 Broad and solid One of my first experiences with classical music concerts was a performance of Haydn's "Creation" conducted by Neville Marriner. From this concert I had the impression that Marriner has a faible for rather fast tempi - as far as classical choral works are concerned, ...             Purcell - King Arthur / Les Arts Florissants · Christie [Highlights] Henry Purcell, Les Arts Florissants, ... Elektra / Wea, 1997 One of the best baroque performances on disc I guess, if you're unsure whether you will like this kind of music you may decide to try a "highlights" recording. I'd encourage you, however, to buy the entire thing. When it comes to Les Arts Florissants, you can't go wrong. As with many other Les Arts ...             Purcell - King Arthur / Gens, McFadden, Piau, S. Waters, J. Best, Padmore, Paton, Salomaa, Les Arts ... Henry Purcell, William Christie, ... Erato (Warner Classics), 1995 Possibly the best recording of a Baroque opera on CD There is a marvellous sense of energy and joy which comes from this recording. I have the Pinnock recording of King Arthur and I used to have the Gardiner recording (it was stolen from me). I enjoy many things in all the recordings of this work, but Les Arts ...             Hallelujah: 35 Great Sacred Choruses David Thomas [bass], James Morris, ... Sparrow, 2004 lovely works... Excellent selections... my favorite is the Sanctus by Gounod. The music seems to build in the blood... the organ being the heartbeat. If you turn the volume up just right... a memorable experience. Beautiful!             Beethoven - Symphonies 1-9 · Overtures / London Classical Players · Sir Roger Norrington Ludwig van Beethoven, Roger Norrington, ... EMI Classics, 2001 Great sound, but Symphonies 1, 2 and 4 are the best here. Roger Norrington's controversial and ground breaking period instrument Beethoven Symphony cycle with the London Classical Players, recorded and released in the mid-late 1980s, is here offered by Virgin Classics at budget price. Norrington's recordings have great ...             Verdi: La Forza del Destino Giuseppe Verdi, Giuseppe Sinopoli, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2006 Excellent in every way, yet another ignored Verdi Voice! Fortunately, we do not have too many recordings of Forza to choose from. It is hard to cast those roles, so dramatic and long winded and phrases requiring piano and fortissimo and Rosalind Plowright was up to the challenge, but you need more than a big voice to ...             Haydn: Heiligmesse; Nelsonmesse; Kleine Orgelsolomesse; Theresienmesse Hermann-Christian Polster, Petteri Salomaa, ... EMI Classics, 2005 Haydn's MASS Appeal The great Franz Joseph Haydn remains unquestionably one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music, having laid down the template for the forms of the string quartet, and perfecting the symphonic form a hundred and four times over. But "Papa" Haydn also ...             Mozart - La Finta Giardiniera / Richard Croft, Ann-Christine Biel, Petteri Salomaa, Stuart Kale, Britt-Marie ... Richard Croft, Britt-Maria Aruhn Arthaus Musik, 2006 A marvelous opera from Mozart's youth Even a casual knowledge of operatic history enables one to list the seven operas that frame Mozart's "Golden Decade": 1781-1791. That same casual listener might have come across operas whose titles, exotic sounding names all, are described as products of Mozart's ...             Giovanni Paisiello: La Serva Padrona Petteri Salomaa, Giovanni Paisiello, ... Arts Music, 1998 A delightful little gem La Serva Padrona by the Napolitan composer Giovanni Paisiello is really a delightful little gem. Written in 1781 while the composer was in the service of the court in St Petersburg, the opera was written to celebrate the wedding anniversery of the Grand Duke ...             Cimarosa - Il matrimonio segreto / Patterson · Matteuzzi · Antoniozzi · J. Williams · Banditelli · Salomaa · ... Domenico Cimarosa, Gabriele Bellini, ... Arts Music, 1996             Mozart Operas (Le nozze di Figaro / Don Giovanni / Così fan tutte / Die Zauberflöte) / The Drottningholm ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Arnold Ostman, ... Decca, 2003 Best ever!! Ostman created a stir when he made these recordings in the 1980s. And now it available in a collectors' edition box. I'm so excited. Sumi Jo's Queen of the Night here is even better than her recording for Solti. Ostman's Don Giovanni is the fastest I've ever heard, not ...             Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix Alfonso Antoniozzi, Petteri Salomaa, ... Arts Music, 1996 I love it I wrote a review of this CD set (not a very good review) and it doesn't look like it's going to be posted. I hope not. This one is better, as though either were good. I had Gruberova singing this opera, but with all her facility and the beauty of her voice, I just ...             Rautavaara: Vigilia Petteri Salomaa, Einojuhani Rautavaara, ... Ondine, 1998 Instantly communicative, rich and very rewarding The Finnish Radio Chamber Choir consists of some of Finland's finest singers, and they have made a strong case in recent years for Rautavaara's sacred music. On this outstanding CD, they present a concerted version of his settings for the Orthodox Vigil and Mattins ...             Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel Sergey Prokofiev, Neeme Järvi, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 A Horror Opera The story of this opera is dated now, but when it was first written, it was a true horror story. I won't give the plot away, but it has its moments. Prokofiev was a very underrated composer, and this music is wonderful for the story. Even if you don't like opera, ...             Mozart - Die Zauberflöte / Streit · Bonney · Jo · Cachemaille · Sigmundsson · Hagegard · Drottningholm Court ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Kurt Streit, ... Polygram Records, 1994 Magic Die Zauberflöte Everything went well in this superb recording from Sweden: the casting, the playing and the conducting. Arnold Östman is an expert XVIII Century opera conductor and a natural mozartean. He sees the Magic Flute with the wondrous eyes of a child, and his reading is not ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music ann-christine, drottningholm, giardiniera, orgelsolomesse, theresienmesse, zauberflöte      toavi.com    web we recommend A marvelous opera from Mozart's youth randomly chosen book: The Cardiovascular System at a Glance (At a Glance)