classical music: Sandrine Piau     classical music:     Sandrine Piau      Handel - Serse / Rasmussen, Piau, Bayrakdarian, Bardon, Hallenberg, Peirone, Lippi, Rousset, Les Talens ... Sandrine Piau, Paula Rasmussen Euroarts, 2005 Superb performances Superb singing, acting, and conducting, a classic. It will be a long time before this production is exceeded on a musical level. The settings and the costumes make reference to the turn of the 19th century Turkish Ottoman empire. It works to an extent, although the ...             Handel - Serse / von Otter, Norberg-Schulz, Piau, Zazzo, Tro Santafe, G. Furlanetto, Abete, Les Arts ... George Frideric Handel, William Christie, ... Virgin vertias (EMI Classics), 2004 A Christie triumph The competition for this recording is not exactly stiff. Malgoire's 1970s effort is a worthy complete recording with some superb singing from Carolyn Watkinson in the title role, though some less than distinguished singing from others. McGegan's recording had a ...             Offenbach - La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein / Lott, Piau, Beuron, Le Roux, Les Musiciens du Louvre, ... Felicity Lott, Sandrine Piau Virgin Classics (EMI Music), 2006 An absolute delight! An outstanding production of a deligthful opera-bouffe. I showed it to a bunch of opera fans and everybody raved about it. Fabulous entertainment for very little cost! Don't miss it!             Haydn - The Creation / Piau, Padmore, Davies, Gabrieli Consort & Players, McCreesh Joseph Haydn, Paul McCreesh, ... ARCHIV Produktion, 2008 McCreesh & Co.: Haydn Creation : English Libretto: Most Modern Yet Timeless Okay first things first. This new recording of the English version of Haydn's Creation oratorio goes right to the fav shelf. There you will also find several German language versions, plus a few English ones. Old favs tend to be big bands with conductors like ...             Prokofiev - L'Amour des Trois Oranges (The Love for Three Oranges) Sandrine Piau, Alain Vernhes BBC / Opus Arte, 2006 Three oranges from Amsterdam Prokofiev opera The Love for Three Oranges Op. 33 is generally regarded as a masterpiece of the twentieth century opera. This new and brilliant DVD version of the opera is from a 2005 performance at the De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam. Until now, the only DVD for this ...             Sandrine Piau - Handel Opera Seria George Frideric Handel, Christophe Rousset, ... Naïve, 2005 Seriously incredible Handel If you don't like Handel recitals that come with a lot of hype, be warned that this album comes with a heavy load of uniform critical praise, plus raves and adoration of music aficionados. It may not be selling as well as it should, as there is a law in the music ...             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 ...             Sandrine Piau - Debussy mélodies Claude Debussy, Sandrine Piau, ... Naïve, 2003 An "Apparition" of transparent beauty There is a certain quality to the music of Debussy which is unmistakably his... It's not just that this is Impressionistic - it is in an innate timbre, an internal quality. Something about Debussy's music susurrates his very essence... This is the finest recording ...             Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres Jacques Bona, Paul Haddad, ... Virgin Classics, 2008 Wnderful CD It is a beautiful CD well recorded and the music by Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres is simply out of this world, the singing can not be bettered.             Rameau - Les Paladins / Piau, Naouri, Lehtipuu, d'Oustrac, Piolino, Schirrer, Gonzalez-Toroi, Christie, Paris ... William Christie, Les Arts Florissants BBC / Opus Arte, 2006 Rejuvenating the Baroque My two favorite amazon music reviewers, Mike Birman and Steven Guy, have already given this amazing performance their stamps of approval, so I'll be brief. Imagine combining the Beatles' film Yellow Submarine, a big top show by Cirque de Soleil, and the most ...             Cantatas for Solo Countertenor Bruno Cocset, Giovanni Bononcini, ... EMI Classics, 2004 Dellightful Baroque performances from a masterful contralto One wonders how Virgin Classics manages to produce and market these "Pleasure 4" 4-CD sets for such low prices, but prospective buyers need not worry that they might be getting an inferior product. While an avid lover of Baroque music, before buying this set I had ...             Frank Martin - Le vin herbé / Piau, Davislim, Böhnert, RIAS, Scharoun-Ensemble, Reuss Frank Martin, Daniel Reuss, ... Harmonia Mundi (France), 2007             Atenaide / Piau, Agnew, Laurens, Stutzmann, Genaux, Basso, Ferrari, Modo Antiquo, Sardelli (Vivaldi Edition) Antonio Vivaldi, Federico Maria Sardelli, ... Naïve, 2007 Another gem in the Naive series Based on a libretto by Apostolo Zeno, and first performed in Florence in 1728, Vivaldi's Atenaide is a remarkably satisfying piece. Many of the arias were originally written for Orlando furioso, the opera completed immediately before this one, but they work ...             Rameau - Les Indes galantes / Les Arts Florissants, Christie Jean-Philippe Rameau, William Christie, ... Harmonia Mundi Fr., 1992 Beautiful and entertaining The music of Les Indes Galantes is absolutely beautiful, although the libretto is a bit under par. The plot of the opera consists of a prologue (predictably, with a cupid), followed by four discrete scenes. Each of these scenes is dealing with characters who, in the ...             Heavenly Handel: Arias and Duets Antonio Abete, Laurent Naouri, ... Virgin Classics, 2005 Best of the Best...Handelian Masters for the Uninitiated For those who would prefer their Handel in bite-size portions, this excellent two-disc set may do the trick. Virgin Classics has chosen stellar aria and duet selections from their extensive Handel discography (1978-2003) and in the process, come up with as definitive a ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music bayrakdarian, countertenor, gonzalez-toroi, grande-duchesse, norberg-schulz, scharoun-ensemble      toavi.com    web we recommend Three oranges from Amsterdam randomly chosen book: Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name - Alphabetic Spellers (2nd ...