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FREDERIC CHOPIN / FRANZ LISZT / MAURICE RAVEL
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Santo - Sacred Songs Juan Diego Florez (tenor) & Nicoletta Mezzini (organ & harpsichord) / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Michele Mariotti [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 28/Oct/2010 ] "Good for Juan Diego Florez for this release! I'm second to none in my love for the bel cantists, but it's good to hear a "pigeon-holed" tenor in repertoire that is somewhat different. The engineering is superb and the accompaniments are excellent." |
PUCCINI / BIZET / DVORAK / OFFENBACH / DONIZETTI / VERDI / etc
40 Most Beautiful Arias Maria Callas, Placido Domingo, Cecilia Bartoli, Kiri te Kanawa, Jose Carreras, José Cura, Angela Gheorghiu, etc [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2009 ] Nothing stirs the soul and tugs at the heartstrings more than an inspired operatic aria. Warner Classics CD set 40 MOST BEAUTIFUL ARIAS collects forty of the most moving ones the world has known on this star-studded collection. |
LEHAR / J. STRAUSS / OFFENBACH / NORTON / SULLIVAN / COWARD / NOVELLO / etc
100 Best Operetta [six CDs - special price] Various Artists incls Victoria de los Angeles, Sari Barabas, Teresa Berganza, June Bronhill, José Carreras, Michel Dens, Nicolai Gedda, etc [ EMI Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 2/Nov/2012 ] This 6CD set contains 100 tracks from the international catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics of the best songs from the most famous operettas from Vienna, Berlin, London, New York and Madrid. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
1612: Italian Vespers I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 14/Jun/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Early Music |
CORELLI
Mr. Corelli in London [with FREE Harmonia Mundi catalogue] Maurice Steger (recorder) / The English Concert, Laurence Cummings [ Harmonia Mundi / CD/Book - released 15/Jan/2015 ] "Steger's playing is unfailingly seductive; the English Concert under Cummings is equally delectable." Stephen Pettitt, Sunday Times, 18 April 2010 |