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Rimsky-Korsakov: Kashchey the Immortal
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Valery Gergiev, ...
Philips, 1999
Well done
+ Gergiev is a true maestro!
+ A Marvelous Fantasy Opera
+ Underappreciated, Lesser Known Gem
+ Dark and pithy fantasy.
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French Arias
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, Charles Gounod, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 2003
Pure!
+ Un repertorio nuevo para Magdalena Kozena
this mzzo-soprano is great... she is a lighter and lyric mezzo. In this album... she sung the french arias with phrasing in detail... especially in the "Nuit Resplendissante". The balance between head vioce and chest voice in her singing is good. Her singing can really touches my heart... it is ...
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Susan Graham ~ Berlioz - Les nuits d'été
Hector Berlioz, John Nelson, ...
Sony, 1997
Prime Berlioz from two most gifted advocates
+ Sumptuous
+ At its best as pure singing, but a little short emotionally
+ A concerto for voice. Bravo!
+ A Berlioz singer to treasure
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Olga Borodina - Arias
Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, ...
Philips, 1997
Greatest Voice of our Time
+ The Divine Olga!
+ Tremendous singer--better than this disk suggests
This recording shows Borodina at her most marvelous - so far - and she IS marvelous. Her technique is superb, with a range of notes, volumes, timbres, even vibratos which she uses with amazing skill to bring her characters and every word they sing to life. Her empathy with the audience and with the ...
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Stephanie Blythe - Handel & Bach Arias
George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...
Virgin Classics, 2001
When I directed her in muscials in High School, I knew she was special
+ Sublime Performances !!!
+ deep
+ What a superb CD!!
+ A Blythe Spirit and a Magical Duet With David Daniels
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Lieder: Mahler: from Das Knaben Wunderhorn and the Ruckert songs / Haydn: from Arianna a Naxos / Schumann: ...
Franz Joseph Haydn, Gustav Mahler, ...
EMI Classics Imports, 2004
The Very Essence of Collaboration - Sign of a Great Singer
+ Alice Coote is an excellent performer!
+ Another Great Mezzo Has Arrived
LIEDER RECITAL is one of the finest recordings of the lieder repertoire to be released in a long time, and once again we are indebted to EMI Classics for introducing young singers in recital recordings before their fame on stage up to them! Alice Coote not only is an extraordinary musician and ...
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Anne Sofie von Otter - Grieg Songs
Edvard Grieg, Anne Sofie von Otter, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 1993
A warm Spring in Norway
+ GRIEG APPASSIONATO
This is one delicious album. Von Otter has made a wonderful selection of love songs from Grieg. You very seldom hear the Nordic iciness that can be found so often in Grieg's instrumental chamber works. There is beautiful lyrical warmth in these songs written for his wife, springing out of the ...
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Patrizia Ciofi & Joyce DiDonato - Amor e gelosia (Handel Operatic Duets)
George Frideric Handel, Alan Curtis, ...
Virgin Classics, 2004
A feast
+ A uniqe CD
+ Stellar Singing
+ From still waters to fireworks in baroque singing - Duets sung exquisitely
+ Supreme Handel Duets Lack Dramatic Context But Still Lovely
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Gluck - Orfeo & Euridice
Christoph Willibald Gluck, Rene Jacobs, ...
Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2001
A wonderful version with a female contralto as Orfeo
+ beautiful
What makes this set so special is that, although this is (again) a recording of the original 1762 Italian version of Gluck's most celebrated (and recorded) opera, Jacobs has decided to cast a female alto as Orfeo rather that a countertenor, as has become "fashionable" in the recent(ish) recordings ...
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Lieder: Katarina Karnéus - R. Strauss, Mahler, Marx
Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, ...
EMI Classics, 1999
A beaautiful tone and appealing femininity carry this debut CD
Having released this album in their "Debut" series, EMI realized that young Swedish mezzo Kararina Karneus, who was trained in London, has turned into a rising star, so you will see the CD repackaged with a more attractive cover. The company has gamely promoted quite a few young female singers -- ...
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Bach: Alto Cantatas / Kangas, Groop, et al
Johann Sebastian Bach, Monica Groop, ...
Finlandia, 1999
Superb
+ Stellar Performance--Intimate and Bold
This is one of those recordings that you run across once in a while and which truly stand out when discovered. The CD won a "Best of the Year" award from Finnish broadcasting, and for good reason. To begin with, the three Bach cantatas chosen, 35, 169 and 170, are among his most beautiful. Then, ...
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Bizet - Carmen / Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Papis, Vaduva, Le Texier, Lombard [highlights]
Georges Bizet, Alain Lombard, ...
Valois, 1999
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Bel Canto Arias; Vivica Genaux
Vivica Genaux, Gioachino Rossini, ...
EMI Classics, 2003
Pure pleasure....
+ Rich singing by a talented mezzo
+ Viveca sparkles
I have her Farinelli CD, as well. I also saw her on A&E some time ago. My only criticism was her excessive chin movements but, then, I don't get all bent out of shape over Bartoli's grimaces -- and the voice is the thing, after all.
As for Fach, a singer doesn't need to enjoy merely one, ...
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Ewa Podles · Russian Arias
Ewa Podles, Alexander Borodin, ...
Delos Records, 2002
TODO LO QUE ELLA CANTE ESTÁ BIEN
+ Don't miss it!
+ Delectable!
+ She's back!
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Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) / Servile, Ganassi, Vargas, Romero, de Grandis; ...
Gioachino Rossini, Will Humburg, ...
Naxos, 1994
A refreshing and vital contribution to this Rossini masterpiece
+ Vargas' "Cessa di piu resistere" !
+ A fun cd to have
+ First choice.
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