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BALFE / WALLACE / SULLIVAN / FARADAY
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Power of Love - British Opera Arias Deborah Riedel (soprano) / Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Melba Recordings SACD / CD - released 20/Aug/2000 ] A beautiful recording of neglected British Opera arias... "Obviously this album is a work of great love and every attempt has been to do it right." |
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MI VERRY JOY
Mi Verry Joy: Songs of Fifteenth Century Englishmen The Medieval Ensemble of London / Peter Davies & Timothy Davies [ L'Oiseau-Lyre / CD - released 14/Jun/2008 ] L'Oiseau-Lyre is the specialist early music label from Decca. It has a fine reputation for quality recordings performed by renowned artists from the early music world. Now they are being re-mastered and re-issued. |
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WAGNER
Siegfried (complete opera) Gary Rideout / Richard Greager / John Brocheler / Lisa Gasteen / The State Opera of South Australia / Asher Fisch (Conductor) [ Melba Recordings SACD / 4 SACD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "The overall sense of the project is one of deserved community and company pride in an enterprise which can stand its ground with pretty much anything elsewhere. I welcome the issue" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
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W.A. MOZART
Sublime Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet Paul Dean (clarinet) / The Queensland Symphony Orchestra / Grainger Quartet [ Melba Recordings SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Apr/2009 ] 'In both works Paul Dean demonstrates his exemplary fluency and a stylish, marvellously phrased affinity for Mozart's classical demands. Moreover conductor Tourniaire appears to have the measure of the enduringly superlative score.' Music and Vision... |
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MASSENET
Amoureuse: Sacred and Profane Arias Rosamund Illing (soprano) / The Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra / Richard Bonynge (conductor) [ Melba Recordings SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "Rosamund Illing - we do appreciate her full and brilliant tone - sings them with sincerity. Her voice shows many colours, her diction is refined ... her charm is evident ... Bonynge weaves a voluptuous accompaniment around the singer ... 4... |