Sopranos

Idomeneo: Comp (Ital)

Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Premiered two days before Mozart's 25th birthday, this is the first opera of his maturity (i.e., the amazing last 10 years of his too-short life). It is written in a modified form of opera seria, a Baroque rather than a classical style ...More…

Msa Glagolskaja & Sinfonietta

Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Here's a word one wouldn't normally use to describe a performance of this music: transparent. Eliahu Inbal and Denon's engineers make every detail of Janácek's complex orchestration and rhythmic interplay audible. Such ...More…

A Portrait: Favourite Mezzo Soprano Arias

Amazon CA — From Amazon.com The title "A Portrait" would suggest some sort of a cohesive look at this talented Bulgarian mezzo-soprano. But she is so astonishingly versatile, one wonders if there are at least two singers at work here. Her more athletic ...More…

Victor Recordings

Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Few singers received the adulation accorded Lucrezia Bori, whose glorious soprano finally gets its recorded due in these miraculous transfers by Ward Marston, which convey the body and warmth slighted in her previous incarnations on LP and ...More…

German Opera Arias

Amazon CA — Artist Kiri Te Kanawa Artist Rudel Artist Philharmonia Orch EAN 0724355641724 Format Import Release Date 1997-10-14 SKU UB000002RYR UPC 724355641724 Tracks: Der Freischutz, Act 3: Und Ob Die Wolke Der Freischutz, Act 3: Wie Nahte Mir...Leise, Leise Die ...More…

Debut Recital Recording

Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Luckily, the current profusion of mezzo-sopranos doesn't leave one jaded to talented newcomers such as Angelika Kirchschalger. Besides looking like a fashion model, this young Austrian singer has a voice of such lustrous perfection ...More…

Seasons

Amazon CA — Amazon.com essential recording Vivaldi wasn't the only composer to write a Four Seasons. Haydn's version is an oratorio--essentially an opera without staging--in which three archetypal peasants sing of the joys and travails of country life ...More…

Turandot Comp (Ital)

Amazon CA — Amazon.com essential recording Joan Sutherland is not usually considered a Puccini singer, and in fact she sang the role of Turandot only in the recording studio. But for that assignment she had exactly what was needed: a voice that seemed to have no ...More…

Melodies

Amazon CA — From Amazon.com Faure is the great 19th-century song writer, a composer with a positive gift for evoking mood or setting an atmosphere with the bare minimum of means, and "La bonne chanson is his song-cycle masterpiece. Anna Russel, the famous ...More…

Requiems

Amazon CA — Artist M-Phil Orch/Am Various/Legrand EAN 0074509908792 Release Date 2003-02-28 SKU jp-bk-B000000SJO-2-2 UPC 074509908792 Tracks: Requiem Op. 48: Introit et Kyrie Requiem Op. 48: Offertoire Requiem Op. 48: Sanctus Requiem Op. 48: Pie Jesu Requiem Op. 48: ...More…

Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Milan 1950)

Amazon.com — Crude recorded sound, but superb cast and conductor No doubt this has a stellar cast and conductor, but I have a hard time getting beyond the "crude recorded sound" as mentioned in the editorial review. One has to imagine how good the singers ...More…

Mozart: Idomeneo

Amazon.com — Pavarotti's "Mozart" Experiment Goes Horribly Wrong This London/Decca recording is simultaneously wonderful and horrible. I don't mean to sound like I'm an Anti-Pavarotti detractor/basher but this role never suited him and is purely ...More…