Tracks Puccini: Manon Lescaut
- Che ceffi son costor? ... Sulla vetta tu del monte - James Levine, Dwayne Croft, Mirella Freni, Cecilia Bartoli, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Discendono, vediam! - Ramón Vargas, Dwayne Croft, Luciano Pavarotti, Federico Davia, Giuseppe Taddei, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Ansia eterna, crudel - Luciano Pavarotti, Dwayne Croft, Mirella Freni, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Sei tu che piangi? - Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Manon, senti, amor mio - Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Sola, perduta, abbandonata - Mirella Freni, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Non c'è più vino? - Dwayne Croft, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Vedete? Io son fedele - Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- All'armi! All'armi! - Dwayne Croft, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, James Courtney, Federico Davia, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Dispettosetto questo riccio! - Mirella Freni, Dwayne Croft, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Donna non vidi mai - Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Intermezzo - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Ave, sera gentile - Ramón Vargas, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Senti, di qui partiamo ... Ah, Manon mi tradisce - Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Ah! Affé, madamigella - Mirella Freni, Giuseppe Taddei, Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- In quelle trine morbide - Mirella Freni, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Minuetto - Anthony Laciura, Giuseppe Taddei, Mirella Freni, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Di sedur la sorellina è il momento - Giuseppe Taddei, Federico Davia, Ramón Vargas, Dwayne Croft, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Tutta su me ti posa - Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- La tua ventura ci rassicura - Ramón Vargas, Giuseppe Taddei, Dwayne Croft, Federico Davia, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Poichè tu vuoi saper? - Dwayne Croft, Mirella Freni, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Rosetta! - James Courtney, Dwayne Croft, Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- La tua Proserpina - Ramón Vargas, Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- ... e Kate ripose al Re - Paul Groves, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Fra le tue braccie, amore - Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Tra voi belle, brune e bionde - Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Paga costor! - Mirella Freni, Dwayne Croft, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Ma bravo! - Ramón Vargas, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Cortese damigella - Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Dwayne Croft, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Presto! In fila! - James Courtney, Luciano Pavarotti, Federico Davia, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Oh, sarò la più bella!...Tu, tu, amore tu - Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- Lescaut? Tu qui? - Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Dwayne Croft, James Courtney, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
- L'amor?! L'amor?! - Luciano Pavarotti, Ramón Vargas, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine
Release date: 1993-10-12
Run time: 119 min.
Creator: Giacomo Puccini
RRP: £22.99
Price: £11.98
Review Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Decca:
Tracks Puccini: Turandot
- O mondo, O mondo - Mariano Caruso, Fernando Corena, Mario Carlin, Renato Ercolani, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Un giuramento atroce mi costringe - Gaetano Fanelli, Mario del Monaco, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Nessun dorma! - Mario del Monaco, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Tu che di gel sei cinta - Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Che è mai di me? - Inge Borkh, Mario del Monaco, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- "Del primo pianto" - "Più grande vittoria non voler" - Inge Borkh, Mario del Monaco, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Olà, Pang! Olà, Pong! - Mariano Caruso, Fernando Corena, Mario Carlin, Renato Ercolani, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Signore, ascolta - Renata Tebaldi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Liù! Liù! Sorgi! Sorgi! - Nicola Zaccaria, Fernando Corena, Renato Ercolani, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- O giovinetto! Grazia, grazia! - Mario del Monaco, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Popoli di Pekino! - Ezio Giordano, Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Nicola Zaccaria, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Gloria, gloria, o vincitore - Inge Borkh, Gaetano Fanelli, Mario del Monaco, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Principessa divina! - Fernando Corena, Inge Borkh, Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Gira la cote! - Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Tre enigmi m'hai proposto - Mario del Monaco, Gaetano Fanelli, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Non piangere Liù - Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Nicola Zaccaria, Fernando Corena, Mario Carlin, Renato Ercolani, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- In questa reggia - Inge Borkh, Mario del Monaco, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Gravi, enormi ed impotenti - Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Figlio, che fai? - Nicola Zaccaria, Mario del Monaco, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- "Diecimile anni al nostro Imperatore"-"Padre augusto" augusto" - Inge Borkh, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Introduzione - Così comanda Turandot - Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Introduzione (Scene 2) - Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- So il tuo nome! - Inge Borkh, Mario del Monaco, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Straniero, ascolta - Inge Borkh, Mario del Monaco, Gaetano Fanelli, Renata Tebaldi, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Ho una casa nell'Honan - Mariano Caruso, Fernando Corena, Mario Carlin, Renato Ercolani, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Popolo di Pekino - Ezio Giordano, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Principessa di morte! - Mario del Monaco, Inge Borkh, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
- Fermo! Che fai? T'arresta - Mariano Caruso, Fernando Corena, Mario Carlin, Renato Ercolani, Mario del Monaco, Nicola Zaccaria, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Release date: 1999-01-18
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Fernando Corena
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.87
Review Puccini: Turandot / Opera Double Decca:
Tracks Songs from a Secret Garden by Secret Garden
- Song From A Secret Garden
- Nocturne
- Sigma
- Heartstrings
- Chaconne
- Ode To Simplicity
- Pastorale
- Papillon
- Atlantia
- Serenade To Spring
- The Rap
- Cantoluna
- Adagio
Release date: 1998-10-26
Run time: 43 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.97
Review Songs from a Secret Garden by Secret Garden / Secret Garden:
Tracks Brahms - Violin Concerto
- I: Allegro
- IV: Presto Agitato
- I: Allegro No Troppo (Cadence: Jaochim)
- III: Allegro Giocoso, Ma Non Troppo Vivace
- II: Adagio
- III: Un Poco Presto E Con Sentimento
- II: Adagio
Release date: 2003-02-03
Creator: David Oistrakh
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.75
Review Brahms - Violin Concerto / EMI Classics:
Tracks Bach, J.S.: Art of Fugue
- Contrapunctus 9. a 4 alla Duodecima
- 14. Canon alla Ottava
- Contrapunctus 8. a 3
- 15. Canon alla Decima in Contrapunto alla Terza
- 16. Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta
- Contrapunctus 4
- Contrapunctus 3
- Contrapunctus inversus 13.2 a 3
- Contrapunctus inversus 12.2 a 4
- Contrapunctus 5
- Contrapunctus 11. a 4
- Contrapunctus 1
- Contrapunctus 10. a 4 alla Decima
- Contrapunctus 2
- Contrapunctus inversus 12.1 a 4
- 17. Canon per augmentationem in Contrario Motu
- 18. Fuga a 3 Soggetti (Contrapunctus 14)
- Contrapunctus 6. a 4 in Stylo Francese
- Contrapunctus inversus 13.1 a 3
- Contrapunctus 7. a 4 per Augmentationem et Diminutionem
Release date: 2008-01-21
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.97
Review Bach, J.S.: Art of Fugue / Pierre-Laurent Aimard:
Tracks Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
- 37/38. Introduction - Romeo and Juliet
- 50. At Juliet's bedside
- Meeting of Tybalt and Mercutio - Duel - Death of Mercut
- 44/45. At friar Laurence's cell - Interlude
- 17. Tybalt recognizes Romeo
- 16. Madrigal
- 47. Juliet alone
- 18. Gavotte
- 6. The fight
- 1. Introduction
- 15. Mercutio
- 42/43. Juliet alone - Interlude
- 22. Folk dance
- 40. Nurse
- The nurse - The nurse and Romeo
- 28. Romeo at friar Laurence's
- 49. Dance of the girls with lilies
- 10. The young Juliet
- 39. Romeo bids Juliet farewell
- 23. Romeo and Mercutio
- Juliet's funeral - Juliet's death
- 12. Masks
- The Duke's command - Interlude
- 29. Juliet at friar Laurence's
- 14. Juliet's variation
- Public merrymaking - Further public festivities
- 25. Dance with mandolins
- 41. Juliet refuses to marry Paris
- The street wakens - The quarrel
- 11. Arrival of the guests
- 5. The quarrel
- 24. Dance of the five couples
- 48. Aubade
- 46. Juliet's room
- 13. Dance of the knights
- Balcony scene - Romeo's variation - Love Dance
- 9. At the Capulets' (Preparations for the ball)
- 35/36. Romeo decides to avenge Mercutio - Finale
- 2. Romeo
Release date: 1998-03-16
Run time: 140 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.74
Review Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet / The Cleveland Orchestra Lorin Maazel:
Tracks Beethoven - Symphony No 9, 'Choral' (LSO, Haitink)
- Adagio Molto E Cantabile
- Presto-Allegro Ma Non Troppo-Vivace-Adagio Cantabile
- Scherzo: Molto Vivace
- Allegro Ma Non Troppo, Un Poco Maestoso
Release date: 2006-09-04
Run time: 68 min.
Creator: London Symphony Chorus
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.87
Review Beethoven - Symphony No 9, 'Choral' (LSO, Haitink) / Twyla Robinson:
Tracks Schubert: The Late String Quartets; String Quintet
- 4. Allegro moderato - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Martin Haskell, Martin Compton, Franz Schubert
- 1. Allegro ma non troppo - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Martin Haskell, Martin Compton, Franz Schubert
- 1. Allegro - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Andrew Keener, Mike Clements, Franz Schubert
- 1. Allegro molto moderato - The Lindsays, Martin Haskell, Martin Compton, Peter Cropper, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Franz Schubert
- 1. Allegro ma non troppo - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Roy Emerson, Martin Haskell, Franz Schubert
- 3. Scherzo (Presto) - Trio (Andante sostenuto) - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Douglas Cummings, Ronald Birks, Roger Bigley, Bernard Gregor-Smith, John Boyden, Martin Haskell, Franz Schubert
- 2. Andante un poco moto - The Lindsays, Martin Haskell, Martin Compton, Peter Cropper, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Franz Schubert
- 4. Presto - The Lindsays, Peter Cropper, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Roy Emerson, Martin Haskell, Franz Schubert
- 2. Adagio - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Douglas Cummings, Ronald Birks, Roger Bigley, Bernard Gregor-Smith, John Boyden, Martin Haskell, Franz Schubert
- 4. Presto - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Andrew Keener, Mike Clements, Franz Schubert
- 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) - Trio (Allegretto) - The Lindsays, Martin Haskell, Martin Compton, Peter Cropper, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Franz Schubert
- 3. Scherzo (Allegro molto) - Trio - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Andrew Keener, Mike Clements, Franz Schubert
- 2. Andante sostenuto - The Lindsays, Peter Cropper, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Roy Emerson, Martin Haskell, Franz Schubert
- String Quartet No.12 in C minor, D703 - "Quartettsatz" - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Andrew Keener, Mike Clements, Franz Schubert
- 2. Andante con moto - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Andrew Keener, Mike Clements, Franz Schubert
- 1. Allegro ma non troppo - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Douglas Cummings, Ronald Birks, Roger Bigley, Bernard Gregor-Smith, John Boyden, Martin Haskell, Franz Schubert
- 3. Menuetto (Allegretto) - The Lindsays, Peter Cropper, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Roy Emerson, Martin Haskell, Franz Schubert
- 2. Andante - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Martin Haskell, Martin Compton, Franz Schubert
- 4. Allegro assai - The Lindsays, Martin Haskell, Martin Compton, Peter Cropper, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Franz Schubert
- 4. Finale. Allegretto - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Douglas Cummings, Ronald Birks, Roger Bigley, Bernard Gregor-Smith, John Boyden, Martin Haskell, Franz Schubert
- 3. Menuetto (Allegretto) - Peter Cropper, The Lindsays, Ronald Birks, Robin Ireland, Bernard Gregor-Smith, Martin Haskell, Martin Compton, Franz Schubert
Release date: 2008-07-22
Run time: 225 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £11.67
Review Schubert: The Late String Quartets; String Quintet / Franz Schubert:
Publisher: Virgin Classics
Release date: 2006-02-06
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.50
Review The Very Best of Mozart / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Tracks Bach - Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 4
Release date: 2001-03-12
Run time: 53 min.
Creator: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.20
Review Bach - Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 4 / Sony Classical:With this disc of Bach keyboard concertos, it seems that Murray Perahia is in the midst of an intense love affair with Bach-not so long ago he presented the world with an impeccably sensitive yet wonderfully energised version of the Goldberg Variations. Reassuringly, the more recent release is called Volume 1, so presumably there must be a second on the way. Every ornament, every note, every phrase is beautifully moulded, the piano the physical and emotional epicentre of the musical vision. We may get to hear these pieces on harpsichord more than piano these days, but there's nothing to beat the sheer exhilaration of the piano's percussive punch, its pingy bottom register, the uncluttered way it can reveal the sheer athleticism of Bach's linear passagework. Highlights are to be found in every bar but for an appetiser sample the opening movement of the First Concerto (track 1), or the lilting soulfulness of the slow movement of the Second (track 5). The orchestra are as masterly as the soloist and together they make sublime music. This is one purchase you'll never regret. -Harriet Smith.
Tracks Chopin: The Nocturnes
- Nocturne No.19 in E minor, Op.72 No.1
- Nocturne No.3 in B, Op.9 No.3
- Nocturne No.13 in C minor, Op.48 No.1
- Nocturne No.20 in C sharp minor, Op.posth.
- Nocturne No.16 in E flat, Op.55 No.2
- Nocturne No.12 in G, Op.37 No.2
- Nocturne No.5 in F sharp, Op.15 No.2
- Nocturne No.1 in B flat minor, Op.9 No.1
- Nocturne No.6 in G minor, Op.15 No.3
- Nocturne No.11 in G minor, Op.37 No.1
- Nocturne No.15 in F minor, Op.55 No.1
- Nocturne No.21 in C minor, Op.posth.
- Nocturne No.10 in A flat, Op.32 No.2
- Nocturne No.4 in F, Op.15 No.1
- Nocturne No.18 in E, Op.62 No.2
- Nocturne No.2 in E flat, Op.9 No.2
- Nocturne No.17 in B, Op.62 No.1
- Nocturne No.8 in D flat, Op.27 No.2
- Nocturne No.7 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.1
- Nocturne No.9 in B, Op.32 No.1
- Nocturne No.14 in F sharp minor, Op.48 No.2
Release date: 1996-09-16
Run time: 109 min.
Creator: Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
RRP: £22.99
Price: £15.11
Review Chopin: The Nocturnes / Deutsche Grammophon:Can 21 Nocturnes be a bit too much of a good thing in one go? Not if the composer is Chopin, undisputed king of the genre, and the pianist is Maria Joâo Pires. She's not exactly a prolific recording artist, but the results are invariably special. Not for her the namby-pamby, soft-focus approach that these pieces sometimes provoke. Chopin's approach to the form is by no means straightforwardly lyrical-take No. 4: it starts innocently enough, but in its middle section that mood is abruptly flung aside by a considerably more passionate section. To Pires, each is a song, a narrative urgently to be expounded (just try the famous No. 12-an entirely new experience in her hands, or the way she becomes the most expressive of sopranos in No. 20). Night casts strange shadows, shedding a different perspective on what seems so familiar by day. No one is more aware of that than Chopin. [+]And no protagonist relishes the very innovative aspect of these pieces better than Pires. -Harriet Smith.
Tracks Albéniz/Granados: Piano Works
- 3. El Fandango del Candil
- 8. El Polo
- 5. El amor y la muerte (Balada)
- 7. El Albaicin
- 11. Jerez
- 1. Evocación
- 12. Eritana
- 10. Malaga
- 3. Fête - Dieu à Seville
- 2. Coloquio en la reja
- 4. Rondena
- 1. Los requiebros
- 5. Almeria
- 2. El Puerto
- 9. Lavapies
- 4. Quejas ó la maja y el ruiseñor
- Navarra
- 6. Epilogo (Serenata del espectro)
- 6. Triana
Release date: 1996-01-15
Run time: 140 min.
Creator: Alicia de Larrocha
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.95
Review Albéniz/Granados: Piano Works / Double Decca:An essential package, containing as it does the two most indispensable masterpieces of the entire Spanish piano music repertoire, in performances which have long (and justly) been regarded as classics. The twelve "impressions" that comprise Iberia occupied Isaac Albèniz for the last four years of his life (he completed the fourth and final set of three in January 1909). They form an exuberant, sun-drenched sequence, astoundingly virtuosic (Albèniz was himself a renowned pianist) and brimful with toe- tapping rhythmic verve and irresistible local colour. In his gorgeous Goyescas (premiered in 1911, two years after Albèniz's death) Enrique Granados explores a more harmonically searching, wistfully introspective vein: the heavenly "Maiden and the Nightingale" (based on a folk melody) is deservedly one of the most popular of all 20th-century piano gems. The great Barcelona-born pianist Alicia de Larrocha has been playing this music all her life and it shows time and again in the improvisatory imagination, pellucid tone-colouring and glitteringly idiomatic flavour of her intensely poetic and technically commanding readings. The remastered mid-70s recordings have come up as clean as a whistle, with all the heady bloom and admirable focus of the excellent original masters retained. Terrific value. -Andrew Achenbach.
Tracks Beethoven - Piano Sonatas, Vol 3
- II. Adagio
- I. Andante Con Variazioni
- III. Adagio Con Espressione
- I. In Tempo Di Menuetto
- I. Adagio Sostenuto
- I. Allegro Molto E Con Brio
- I. Andante
- III. Scherzo
- IV. Rondo. Poco Allegretto E Grazioso
- I. Allegro
- III. Schezo. Allegretto
- III. Presto Agitato
- III. Marcia Funebre 'Sulla Morte D'un Eroe'
- IV. Allegro Assai
- II. Adagio
- I. Allegro Vivace
- IV. Allegro
- II. Allegro Molto E Vivace
- II. Largo Con Gran Espressione
- I. Allegro Con Brio
- IV. Rondo. Grazioso
- II. Scherzo. Allegro Molto
- I. Allegro Assai
- II. Andante Con Moto
- III. Allegro
- III. Menuetto. Allegretto
- IV. Prestissimo
- IV. Finale. Allegro Vivace
- II. Largo Appassionato
- II. Allegretto
- III. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
- II. Allegretto
Release date: 2007-09-03
Run time: 189 min.
Creator: Ludwig van Beethoven
RRP: £31.99
Price: £19.07
Review Beethoven - Piano Sonatas, Vol 3 / Harmonia Mundi:
Tracks The Original Four Seasons
- Summer
- Devil's Trill Sonata
- Spring
- Autumn
- Winter
- Reflections
Release date: 1998-11-09
Run time: 63 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.98
Review The Original Four Seasons / Vanessa-Mae:This recording achieves the Herculean task of rescuing Vivaldi's oft- performed concerti from the hackneyed oblivion of elevator music, and ingeniously resuscitating them in an arresting and enthralling manner. It as if the parched roots of these pieces have been watered with something rather bracing and slightly alcoholic, and suddenly shot into blooms of brilliant red and electric blue. Vanessa-Mae, her producer Pamela Nicholson, and the group of highly acclaimed soloists and professors which makes up the orchestra Laureate, have all contributed to these exciting arrangements. The starting premise was that Vivaldi would have expected his soloists to embellish and elaborate the solo parts for themselves: on this recording that has meant fleshing out the orchestral parts so that they stretch the techniques of everyone involved, and turning the solo part itself into a Paganini-esque jeu d'esprit. (Following Sir Thomas Beecham's advice, who said that a harpsichord sounds like "skeletons copulating on a galvanised tin roof", that instrument has judiciously been omitted!) And the wonderful thing is that the programmatic sense of the seasons- - birds twittering, teeth chattering, hay-gathering etc-is not mocked, but reinforced. -Warwick Thompson.
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Tracks Puccini - Tosca [1985]
- Hildegard Behrens
- Plácido Domingo
- James Courtney
- Cornell MacNeil
- Italo Tajo
- Kirk Browning
Release date: 2006-10-09
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Victorien Sardou
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.94
Review Puccini - Tosca [1985] / Universal Classics & Jazz:
Tracks The Christmas Album
- Christmas Concerto (Concerto Grosso) - James Last
- Uns ist ein Kindlein heut' gebor'n - James Last
- Der Winter (Largo) - James Last
- Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt - James Last
- Ave Verum Corpus - James Last And His Orchestra
- Ich steh an deiner Krippe hier (59. Choral) - James Last
- Adagio (aus dem Violinkonzert Nr. 1 g-moll) - James Last And His Orchestra
- Largo (aus dem Weihnachtskonzert) - James Last
- Largo (aus Xerxes) - James Last And His Orchestra
Release date: 2001-10-26
Run time: 48 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.62
Review The Christmas Album / James Last:
Tracks J.R.Brown - Songs for a New World-original Broadway Cast
- I'm Not Afraid Of Anything
- On The Deck Of A Spanish Sailing Ship
- Flagmaker
- River Won't Flow
- I'd Give It All For You
- Opening/The New World
- She Cries
- Just One Step
- Christmas Lullaby
- Surabaya Santa
- Flying Home
- Hear My Song
- World Was Dancing
- Steam Train
- Stars And Moon
- King Of The World
Release date: 1997-05-12
Creator: Instrumental Ensemble
RRP: £18.99
Price: £6.25
Review J.R.Brown - Songs for a New World-original Broadway Cast / RCA:
Tracks Le Roi Danse
- Air pour les esclaves et singes dansants
- La Bocanne primitive
- Le Roi représentant le soleils levant
- Passacaille
- Ouverture
- Ombre de mon amant (Air de cour) - Céline Scheen, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel
- Passons nos jours dans ces vergers - Céline Scheen, Goedele Heidbüchel, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel
- Esprits empressés à nous plaire - Céline Scheen, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel, Ex Tempore, Florian Heyerick
- Ritournelle et air de Mademoiselle Hilaire
- Ouverture
- Entrée des divinités infernales
- Air pour les matelots jouants des trompettes marines
- Air pour les docteurs, Frivelins et Polichinelles
- Dormons, dormons tous
- Que voyez-vous mes yeux - Céline Scheen, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel
- Giourdina - Conor Biggs, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel, Ex Tempore, Florian Heyerick
- Troupe d'Astrée dansante
- Entrée d'Apollon
- Air pour Madame la Dauphine
- Prélude pour la nuit
- Ouverture
- Sarabande
- Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs
- Deuxième air
- Air pour les esclaves dansants
- Chaconne des Scaramouches, Frivelins et Arlequins
- C'est lui dont les dieux ont fait choix - Ex Tempore, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel, Florian Heyerick
- La Bocanne compliquée
- Prelude
- Air pour les postures de Scaramouche
- Entrée d'Apollon
- Te Deum Motet à deux choeurs
- Que l'éclat de son nom - Céline Scheen, Goedele Heidbüchel, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel, Ex Tempore, Florian Heyerick
- Plus j'observe ces lieux
- Les Folies d'Espagne
Release date: 2002-07-08
Run time: 76 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.87
Review Le Roi Danse / Musica Antiqua Köln Reinhard Goebel:
Tracks Lully: Ballet Music For The Sun King
- Air Pour L'Este Et Ses Suivants
- Gavotte Pour Les Suisses
- Gavotte En Rondeau
- Gigue Pour Scaramouche
- 2 Air Pour Les Mesmes
- Air Pour Le Vieillard Et Sa Famille
- Recits Italiens Chantes Par Mademoiselle De La Barre Et La Signora Anna Bergerotti
- 2 Air Pour Les Braves Jaloux
- Ritournelle Et Recit Italien
- Ouverture
- Recit Chante Par La Signora Anna
- Ouverture
- 2 Air Pour Les Matelots Jouans Des Trompettes Marines; 3 Air Pour Les Esclaves Et Singes Dansans
- Chaconne Des Scaramouches, Frivelins Et Arlequins
- Air Pour Les Matassins
- Air Pour Les Esclaves Dansans
- 2 Air Pour Les Postures De Scaramouche
- Air Pour Les Paysans Et Paysanes
- Ritournelle Et Recit Chante Par Mademoiselle Hilaire
- Gavotte Pour Les Satyres
- 1 Entree
- Gigue Pour Bacchus
- Sarabande
- Ouverture
- Bourree Pour Les Basques
- 3 Air Pour Les Docteurs, Frivelins, Et Polichinelles
- Ritournelle Et Recit De La Fortune Chante Par Mademoiselle Hilaire
- Chaconne Des Maures
- 2 Ouverture
- Petite Chaconne
- Bourree Pour Les Coutisans
- Ritournelle Et Chanson Contre Les Jaloux
- Le Damigelle Delle Cochette
- 1 Air Pour Les Braves Et Les Coquettes
- 2 Entree
Release date: 1998-06-01
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Jean-Baptiste Lully
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.72
Review Lully: Ballet Music For The Sun King / Naxos:
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Tracks Peter Wright's Production of The Nutcracker - The Royal Ballet Covent Garden [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
- John Vernon
- Joan Fontaine
- Anthony Dowell
- Lesley Collier
- Michael Coleman
- Jonathan Cope
Release date: 2003-04-15
Run time: 99 min.
Creator: E.T.A. Hoffmann
Price: £11.50
Review Peter Wright's Production of The Nutcracker - The Royal Ballet Covent Garden [1985] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kultur:
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