Tracks Sibelius - Violin Concerto; Karelia Suite; Finlandia
- II. Adagio Di Molto
- III. Alla Marcia
- En Saga - Scottish National Orchestra
- I. Intermezzo
- III. Allegro, Ma Non Tanto
- II. Ballade
- I. Allegro Moderato
- Finlandia
Release date: 2002-07-01
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Eugène Sarbu
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.12
Review Sibelius - Violin Concerto; Karelia Suite; Finlandia / Cfp:
Tracks The Best of Puccini
- La Boheme: Che gelida manina
- La Boheme: O soave fanciulla
- La Boheme: Si, Mi chiamo Mimi
- EDGAR: Prelude to Act III
- Manon Lescaut: Donna non vidi mai (Des Grieux)
- La rondine: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
- Turandot: Signor, ascolta
- Suor Angelica: Senza Mamma
- Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo
- Gianni Schicchi: O, mio babbino caro
- Madama Butterfly: Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia
- Manon Lescaut: In quelle trine morbide
- TOSCA: Recondita armonia
- Turandot: Nessun Dorma
- Madama Butterfly: Humming Chorus
- La Fanciulla del West: Ch'ella mi creda
- TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle
- TOSCA: Vissi d'arte, vissi d'armore
- Madama Butterfly: Un bel di, vedremo
- La Tregenda
Release date: 1997-08-01
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Giacomo Puccini
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.66
Review The Best of Puccini / Naxos:
Publisher: Sony Classical
Release date: 2004-07-26
RRP: £6.99
Price: £2.97
Review Celebrated Scarlatti Recordings (Horowitz) / Domenico Scarlatti:
Publisher: Delphian
Release date: 2008-10-27
Creator: National Youth Choir of Great Britain
RRP: £15.99
Price: £13.69
Review Sanctum Est Verum Lumen (National Youth Choir of Great Britain / Mike Brewer) / Delphian:
Tracks Brahms Cello Sonatas
- 2. Adagio Affettuoso
- 3. Allegro
- 3. Allegro Passionato
- 1. Allegro Non Troppo
- 2. Allegretto Quasi Menuetto
- 1. Allegro Moderato
- 3. Allegretto
- 1. Allegro Vivace
- 4. Allegro Molto
- 2. Adagio
Release date: 2004-10-18
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.94
Review Brahms Cello Sonatas / Natalie Clein:
Tracks Natalie Clein - The Romantic Cello
- II: Allegro Scherzando
- II: Andante
- IV: Finale: Allegro Mosso - Moderato - Vivace
- III: Largo
- I: Lento - Allegro Moderato
- I: Allegro Moderato
- Polonaise Brillante Op.3
- II: Scherzo
- Vocalise
- IV: Finale: Allegro
Release date: 2006-09-25
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Charles Owen
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.77
Review Natalie Clein - The Romantic Cello / EMI Classics:
![Review Deutsche Grammophon / Tosca - Puccini [1976] (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41W1WNA28AL._SL160_.jpg)
Tracks Tosca - Puccini [1976] (NTSC)
- Plácido Domingo
- Raina Kabaivanska
- Gianfranco De Bosio
- Alfredo Mariotti
- Giancarlo Luccardi
- Sherrill Milnes
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Victorien Sardou
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.07
Review Tosca - Puccini [1976] (NTSC) / Deutsche Grammophon:Opera is an inherently theatrical medium that does not lend itself readily to the realism of film treatment. The shining exception is Puccini's Tosca, an action-packed melodrama that unfolds in three taut and gripping acts, like the meatiest of Hollywood films noir. And unlike most operas, these three acts are set in three very specific Roman locales. Thus this 1976 film takes place in the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle (Act 1), the Palazzo Farnese (Act 2) and the Castel Sant'Angelo (Act 3). The evocative settings, however, would be mere window-dressing if the cast wasn't just right; fortunately here Placido Domingo is at his virile peak in the heroic tenor role of Cavaradossi; Raina Kabaivanska is a sultry, vocally beautiful Tosca; while a more infamous and domineering Scarpia than that of Sherrill Milnes can hardly be imagined. Bruno Bartoletti and the New Philharmonia Orchestra give lustily dramatic support. Here the music and vocals are pre-recorded and the singers mime to the playback. Occasionally the result is a little unnatural, but overall the cast are good enough actors to bring off the conceit even in the close-ups. It all pays off triumphantly with the gripping realism of the rooftop finale, the one place where film can improve on stage. With the authenticity of the settings assured and such distinguished leads singing so well, this is an almost ideal filmed Tosca. [+]On the DVD: Tosca on disc is presented in 4:3 ratio with a choice of Dolby 5. 1 or LPCM Stereo. The picture is adequate but a little flat (possibly because the format is NTSC not PAL) and the same can be said for the sound, which does what it should but is never revelatory. Subtitles are provided in the main European languages and Chinese. -Mark Walker.
Tracks Bach at Bedtime: Lullabies for the Still of the Night
- Violin Concerto No.1 In A Minor: Andante
- Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins: Largo ma non tanto
- Sheep May Safely Graze
- Sinfonia, Part II 'Easter Oratorio': Adagio
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 In G: Adante
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in E: Adagio
- Concerto In A For Oboe d'amore: Larghetto
- Christmas Oratorio: Sinfonia
- Suite in D: Sarabande
- Concerto In F For Oboe: Siciliano
- Sonata No. 1 In G For Cello & Piano: Andante
- Partita In D Minor: Sarabande
- Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor: Sarabande
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 In D: Affetuoso
Release date: 1995-10-17
Run time: 67 min.
Creator: Herman Krebbers
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.21
Review Bach at Bedtime: Lullabies for the Still of the Night / Philips:
Tracks The Very Best of James Galway
- Briccialdi: Carnival of Venice
- Massenet: Méditation (from Thaïs)
- Bach: Siciliana (from Sonata BWV 1031)
- Khachaturian: Sabre Dance (from Gayaneh)
- Rachmaninoff: Vocalise
- Fauré: Berceuse (from Dolly Suite)
- Bach: Minuet & Badinerie (from Suite No. 2)
- Mozart: Rondeau (from Concerto No. 2)
- Grieg: Morning (from Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1)
- Field: Nocturne No. 5 in B-Flat
- Narita: Song of the Seashore (Hamabe No Uta)
- Gluck: Dance of the Blessed Spirits (from Orfeo ed Euridice)
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
- Debussy: Clair de lune
- Handel: Largo (from Serse)
- Saint-Saëns: The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals)
- Pachelbel: Canon
- Chaminade: Concertino
- Mendelssohn: Scherzo (from A Midsummer Nights Dream)
Release date: 2002-11-04
Creator: James Galway
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.54
Review The Very Best of James Galway / RCA Red Seal:
Tracks Porcelain
- Turn Away
- Echo
- Doll
- Out Of It All
- Expression
- Eclipse
- Release
- Rockerbye
- Stars
- Through The Dark
- Lost Wind
- Broken
- Porcelain
Release date: 2007-06-25
Run time: 54 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.25
Review Porcelain / Helen Jane Long:
Tracks Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker
- A) Chocolate - Spanish Dance
- Scene 1 Decoration of the Christmas Tree
- Act I
- Scene 5: Grandfather's Dance
- Scene 14: C) Variation II: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- D) Trepak - Russian Dance
- Act II
- Scene 3: Children's Gallup and Entry of the Parents
- C) Tea - Chinese Dance
- Scene 6: Clara and the Nutcracker
- Scene 15: Waltz Finale
- Music from the Nutcracker
- Scene 2: March
- Scene 9: Waltz of the Snowflakes
- Apotheosis
- Scene 12: Divertissement
- Scene 8 (In the Pine Forest)
- E) Dance of the Reed Flutes
- F) Mother Gigogne and the Puppets
- Scene 4: Arrival of Drosselmeyer
- Scene 7: The Battle
- Scene 13: Waltz of the Flowers
- Overture
- B) Coffee - Arabian Dance
Release date: 2001-11-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.64
Review Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker / Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky:
Tracks Something Wonderful - Bryn Terfel
- What A Lovely Day For A Wedding
- Younger Than Springtime
- This Nearly Was Mine
- Fellow Needs A Girl
- Soliloquy
- Surrey With The Fringe On Top
- Something Wonderful
- So Far
- You'll Never Walk Alone
- If I Loved You
- No Other Love
- Bali Ha'i
- Oh What A Beautiful Morning
- There Is Nothing Like A Dame
- Come Home
- Edelweiss
- It Might As Well Be Spring
- Some Enchanted Evening
- I Have Dreamed
- June Is Bustin' Out All Over
Release date: 1996-10-14
Creator: Maurice Bowen
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.99
Review Something Wonderful - Bryn Terfel / DG:In previous decades, an opera singer would have committed commercial suicide by daring to sing songs from the musical theatre, but not anymore. The magnificent Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel did his serious career no harm at all when he agreed to record this selection of 20 songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein in 1995. Of course, he has yet to appear on stage in any of their shows, but that is not the point. Eight of the partnership's 10 shows are represented. The album opens bracingly with "Oh What A Beautiful Mornin'" from Oklahoma and ends inspirationally with "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel. Terfel sings the title track, "Something Wonderful", from The King And I as if it were autobiographical. He characterises little but delivers everything as if he were wearing tails and enunciates mostly as an Anglo-Saxon, although he is undecided about the middle syllable of "Some Enchanted Evening". He employs the most magical sotto voce in the business sparingly and to greatest effect in "Edelweiss" from The Sound of Music: he sings as if he might damage the fragile thing if he did not whisper. Paul Daniel conducts the English Northern Philharmonia and Chorus of Opera North who are suitably camp in "Nothin' Like A Dame". -Rick Jones.
Tracks Boom of the Tingling Strings
- I Adagio assai
- III Il buffone (G.C.)
- I M.A.s.q.u.e
- III Adagio
- II L'istesso tempo
- II Music for Miriam
- IV Allegro giustoDisguises - Suite for Strings (2003)
Release date: 2008-03-24
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.50
Review Boom of the Tingling Strings / Jon Lord:
Tracks Poison Sweet Madeira
- I Can Only Ask Why
- Pin Pricks And Gravy Stains
- Holy Devil
- Lazarus
- Burnt By The Sun
- Meditation On Dvorak's Slavonic Fantasy
- Poison Sweet Madeira
- Hazy
- A Light That Never Dies
Release date: 2006-03-06
Run time: 36 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.40
Review Poison Sweet Madeira / Sophie Solomon:Sophie Solomon's voice is her violin. Whether she's performing with the LSO or playing with her own band, her music is a thrilling combination of technique and passion that refuses to be confined by the conventional parameters of the instrument. Her unique musical vision reaches its full flowering on her self-composed Decca debut solo album Poison Sweet Madeira, an audacious mix of different styles and influences given purpose and unity by her extraordinary violin playing. Poison Sweet Madeira features guest appearances by Richard Hawley, KT Tunstall and Ralph Fiennes.
Tracks Csárdás - Hungarian Gypsy Music
- Hungarian Songs
- Csárdás Music
- Hungarian Songs
- Kuruc Songs
- Hungarian Songs
- Skylark (Dinicu)
- Csárdás (Monti)
- Hungarian Songs
- Hungarian Songs
- Lightning Csárdás
- Doïna and Hora
- Hungarian Songs
- Whistle Hora
- Romanian Folk Dances
- Quick Csárdás
Release date: 1995-03-29
Run time: 59 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £4.48
Review Csárdás - Hungarian Gypsy Music / Ferenc Santa and His Band:
Tracks The Best Baroque Album in the World ... Ever!
- Sheep May Safely Graze - Sir Neville Marriner
- Trumpet Voluntary (The Prince Of Denamrk's March) - Maurice Andre
- Musette Et Tambourin En Rondeau - English Chamber Orchestra
- Gloria In Excelsis Deo - Sir Neville Marriner
- The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba - Sir Neville Marriner
- Thou Knowest, Lord - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
- Air - Sir Charles Mackerras
- Bist Du Bei Mir - Dame Janet Baker
- I. Allegro - William Bennett
- Laudate Pueri - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
- Rondeau - Maurice Andre
- Rondeau - Yehudi Menuhin
- Aria - Alan Curtis
- When I Am Laid In Earth - Victoria De Los Angeles
- Dance Of The Blessed Spirits - Sir Neville Marriner
- III. Allegro Assai - George Malcolm
- Hallelujah Chorus - Ambrosian Singers
- VII. Badinerie - William Bennett
- I. Allegro - Linde Consort
- Water Music Suite No.2 In D - Sir Charles Mackerras
- Zadok The Priest - Ambrosian Singers
- Rejouissance - Christopher Hogwood
- I. Allegro Giusto - Anthony Bailes
- Zion Hort Die Wachter Singen - South German Madrigal Choir
- Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
- Air On The G-String - Sir Neville Marriner
- I. Allegro - Yehudi Menuhin
- March - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
- II. Largo - Yehudi Menuhin
- Toccata In D Minor - Wayne Marshall
- II. Adagio - Ton Koopman
- Miserere Mei, Deus - Stephen Cleobury
- La Rejouissance - Yehudi Menuhin
- Prelude - Philip Ledger
- Minuet - Sir Neville Marriner
- Sonata In B-Flat - Bob Van Asperen
- II. Largo - Yehudi Menuhin
- Pastorale (Largo) - Jean-Patrice Brosse
- II. Largo - George Malcolm
- Adagio In G Minor - Sir Neville Marriner
- Canon In D - Sir Neville Marriner
- Prelude No.1 In C - Bob Van Asperen
Release date: 2006-04-04
Run time: 154 min.
Creator: Linde Consort
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.35
Review The Best Baroque Album in the World ... Ever! / EMI:
Publisher: Warner Classics
Release date: 2003-07-07
Creator: David Pyatt
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.50
Review Classic Flicks / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra:
Tracks Handel: Belshazzar
- "All empires upon God depend" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "I thank thee, Sesach" - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Be it thy care, good Gobrias" / "Destructive War, thy limits know" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Oh glorious prince!" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "Fain would I hope" - Arleen Augér, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Let the deep bowl thy praise confess" - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Say, venerable prophet" - Catherine Robbin, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "My hopes revive" - Arleen Augér, Nicolas Robertson, Richard Wistreich, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Oh sacred oracles of Truth!" - James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Lament not thus, oh Queen, in vain!" - James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Ye sages! welcome always to your king" / "Alas! too hard a task the king imposes" - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Nigel Short, Nicolas Robertson, Richard Wistreich, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Behold, by Persia's hero made" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "For you, my friends" - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Arleen Augér, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Rejoice, my countrymen" / "Thus saith the Lord to Cyrus" - James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Thou, God most high, and Thou alone" - Arleen Augér, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Oh God of Truth! oh faithful guide!" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Amaz'd to find the foe so near" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Now, tell me, Gobrias" - Catherine Robbin, David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Yet, to obey his dread command" - James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Oh misery! - oh terror! - hopeless grief!" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "Opprest with never-ceasing grief" - David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Oh king, live for ever!" - Arleen Augér, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "By slow degrees the wrath of God" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "The leafy honours of the field" - Arleen Augér, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Well may they laugh" / "Oh memory! Still bitter to my soul!" - David Wilson-Johnson, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "To arms, to arms! no more delay!" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "You see, my friends, a path" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Dry those unavailing tears" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "The fate of Babylon, I fear, is nigh" - Arleen Augér, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Alternate hopes and fears" - Arleen Augér, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Yes, I will build thy city" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- Overture - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Let festal joy triumphant reign!" - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Sing, oh ye heav'ns!" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "Oh dearer than my life, forebear!" - Arleen Augér, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Tell it out among the heathen" - Julia Gooding, Nigel Short, Nicolas Robertson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "You, Gobrias, lead directly to the palace" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Where is the God of Judah's boasted pow'r?" - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "Ye tutelar gods of our empire" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "I will magnify thee" - Arleen Augér, James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- A Sinfony - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "My friends, be confident" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Be comforted: safe though the tyrant seem" / "Methought, as on the bank of deep Euphrates" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Bel boweth down!" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "Behold the monstrous human beast" - David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Can the black Aethiop change his skin?" - James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "They tell you true" - Arleen Augér, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "See, from his post Euphrates flies!" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "Can you then think it strange" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Vain, fluctuating state of human empire" - Arleen Augér, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "To pow'r immortal my first thanks" - David Wilson-Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "It is the custom, I may say, the law" - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Arleen Augér, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "No! to thyself thy trifles be" - James Bowman, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Call all my Wise Men" - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Oh sentence too severe!" / "Regard, oh son, my flowing tears" - Arleen Augér, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Great victor, at your feet I bow" - Arleen Augér, Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- "Recall, oh king! thy rash command" - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert Choir
- "Great God! who, yet but darkly known" - Catherine Robbin, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
- A Martial Symphony - The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
Release date: 2004-06-07
Run time: 171 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.72
Review Handel: Belshazzar / Trevor Pinnock:
Tracks Pärt - Summa
- Trysagion
- Sinfonie Nr.3
- Fratres
- Silouans Song
- Canticles in Memoriam Britten
- Summa
- Festina Lenta
Release date: 2002-11-11
Run time: 73 min.
Creator: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.49
Review Pärt - Summa / Virgin Classics:
Tracks The Best of Fauré
- Ouverture - John Georgiadis
- Shylock, Musique De Scène, Op. 57: Nocturne - John Georgiadis
- Reqiem, Op. 48 - In Paradisum - Colm Carey
- Requiem, Op. 48: Pie Jesu - Lisa Beckley
- Le Pas Espagnol - John Georgiadis
- Sicilienne - John Georgiadis
- Pavane, Op. 50 - Keith Clark
- Trois Romances Sans Paroles, Op. 17, No. 1 In A Flat Major - Jean Martin
- Prelude - John Georgiadis
- Berceuse, Op. 16 - Pascal Devoyon
- Pastorale - John Georgiadis
- Tendresse - John Georgiadis
- Romance, Op. 28 - Pascal Devoyon
- Ballade In F Sharp Major, Op. 19 - Francois-Joel Thoillier
- Kitty-Valse - John Georgiadis
- Barcarolle No. 1 In A Minor, Op. 20 - Pierre-Alain Volondat
- Ballade - The Best Of Faure
Release date: 1997-08-01
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Gabriel Fauré
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.37
Review The Best of Fauré / Naxos:
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