classical music: Stafford Dean     classical music:     Stafford Dean      Britten: Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten, Bernard Haitink, ... EMI Classics, 2008 A fine orchestral approach Bernard Haitink brings an orchestral focus to this recording of Peter Grimes. There are some details in the brass and reeds that catch my ear, for instance the overlapping horn dissonances in the opening of Act II. The conductor uses the chorus as one large vocal ...             Verdi: Les Vêpres Siciliennes Giuseppe Verdi, Ashley Lawrence, ... Opera Rara UK, 2005 A Long Waited Release No Verdi fan should be without this recording. This opera is sung in flawless French and the cast, although with no major stars, does an incredible job bringing this important work to life. You will not be disappointed.             Gilbert & Sullivan - The Yeomen of the Guard / McNair · Streit · Howarth · Dean · Lloyd · Allen · Terfel · ... Arthur Sullivan, Neville Marriner, ... Philips, 1999 Finally a treatment suitable for G&S! I don't understand the many recordings out there that do not treat Gilbert & Sullivan operettas with the care that they deserve. The recordings of most G&S out there tend to have uneven or subpar singing and/or unintelligible enunciation, even if they follow in the ...             Richard Wagner: The Mastersingers of Nuremberg [Archive Edition] Derek Hammond-Stroud, Norman Bailey, ... Chandos, 2008 'Meistersinger' in English: Good News, Bad News -- Mostly Good This is a much-talked-about live recording, long thought lost, of a BBC broadcast in 1968 of an English-language production of Wagner's 'Die Meistersinger' from the Sadler's Wells Opera (now called the English National Opera). It was conducted by Reginald Goodall who ...             Verdi: I Lombardi Giuseppe Verdi, Lamberto Gardelli, ... Philips, 2007             Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia / Bonynge, Sutherland, Kraus, Royal Opera Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus Kultur Video, 1999 glamorous Old School Donizetti This is a spectacular 1980 performance from Covent Garden starring Sutherland and Kraus. This is the glamorous way opera performances are supposed to be... with lavish costumes. The purple number that Sutherland wears in the Prologue gets us off to a great start. ...             Guiseppe Verdi: I Lombardi Clifford Grant, Ruggero Raimondi, ... Polygram Records, 1989 Still excellent This was my first introduction to this opera by Verdi, as was the Phillips recording of Attila (which more or less the same singers). It seemed that many early Verdi operas (excepting Nabucco, of course) were simply names in the history books. Then out came a number of ...             A Baroque Christmas Geoffrey Coleby, Stafford Dean, ... Polygram Records, 1991 Sophisticated Singing This is a gem of an album, containing not only some glorious and seldom heard pieces, but also the only available recorded version of "Soberana Maria" (anon.), a piece of heart-breaking beauty, sung exquisitely a capella.             Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia / Bonynge, Sutherland, Kraus, Royal Opera Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus Kultur Video, 2002 glamorous Old School Donizetti This is a spectacular 1980 performance from Covent Garden starring Sutherland and Kraus. This is the glamorous way opera performances are supposed to be... with lavish costumes. The purple number that Sutherland wears in the Prologue gets us off to a great start. ...             Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of The Guard / Marriner Arthur Sullivan, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, ... Philips, 1993 Grand Opera comes to G&S! or is it the other way round? This recording has been available in the UK for some time, and in a market that has some competition. Sir Neville Marriner conducts a disciplined orchestra and cast. The superbly idiomatic Kurt Weill is a tenor worthy of the best G&S performers. Having an 'English' ...             Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet Frederick Delius, Charles Mackerras, ... Polygram Records, 1990 Review from The Financial Times Sir Charles Mackerras's new recording of A Village Romeo and Juliet should do much to remove that lovely work from the ranks of 'operas for connoisseurs' and place it where it belongs, in the main repertory. In spite of his cosmopolitan-intellectual tastes and ...             Tippett: The Midsummer Marriage David Whelan, Raimund Herincx, ... Lyrita, 2007 A great recording of a joyous, rambunctious opera This splendid 1971 recording of Tippett's early, gorgeous masterpiece, The Midsummer Marriage, has to be considered against the fact that American listeners know nothing of the work and little more about the composer. At its premiere in 1955, ciritcs found Tippett's ...             Mozart - Don Giovanni / Raimondi, Price, Varady, Popp, Moll, Sawallisch Wolfgang Sawallisch, Enrico Fissore, ... Melodram, 2001 A wondefully lyrical Giovanni My favorite Giovanni. With artists like Popp and Moll supporting Raimondi and Price, this CD is a musical treasure for anyone who cares first and foremost about vocal quality. Sawallisch is excellent and the recording is exceptionally well remastered.             Best of Mozart Operas Gottlob Frick, Stafford Dean, ... Royal Opera, 1997             The String Quartet Tribute to George Strait Beth Baldwin, James Baird, ... Vitamin Records, 2004          products you might be interested in   search for classical music donizetti, mastersingers, midsummer, sawallisch, siciliennes, sutherland      toavi.com    web we recommend glamorous Old School Donizetti randomly chosen book: Sweet Valley #3: Playing with Fire (Sweet Valley High)