Tracks Vaughan Williams: Choral, Orchestral and Vocal Works
- Ten Folk Songs And Carols
- Symphony No 5
- Eight Folk Dances
- On Wenlock Edge
- Symphony No 4
- Tallis Fantasia
Release date: 1999-10-01
Run time: 142 min.
Creator: Benjamin Britten
RRP: £21.99
Price: £15.29
Review Vaughan Williams: Choral, Orchestral and Vocal Works / Pearl:
Tracks Best Loved Classics, Volume 5
- Prld A L'apres-Midi D'un Faune - Peter Lloyd
- Cantata No.147: Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Cant No.147) - Celia Nicklin
- Invitation To The Dance, Op.65 - Philharmonia Orch/Herbert Von Karajan
- Lohengrin, Act III: Prld - BPO/Klaus Tennstedt
- Madama Butterfly, Act II: Un Bel Di Vedremo - Montserrat Caballe
- La Gioconda, Act III: Dance Of The Hours - ASMF/Sir Neville Marriner
- Adagio - Iona Brown
- Nocturne No.2 in E-Flat, Op.9 No.2 - Rudolf Buchbinder
- Facade: Popular Song - Halle Orch/Owain Arwel Hughes
- Trumpet Voluntary - Maurice Andre/Jane Parker-Smith
- Karelia Ste, Op.1: I. Intermezzo - Halle Orch/Sir John Barbirolli
- Le Nozze Di Figaro, Act 1: Non Piu Andrai - Thomas Allen
- Peer Gynt: Morning - RPO/Sir Thomas Beecham
- Aida, Act I: Se Quel Guerrier...Celeste Aida - Placido Domingo
Release date: 2001-06-25
Run time: 76 min.
Creator: Iona Brown
RRP: £6.99
Price: £10.95
Review Best Loved Classics, Volume 5 / London Symphony Orchestra:
Publisher: Pearl
Release date: 1999-10-01
Creator: Edmond Clément
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.94
Review Great Tenors, Vol.2 / Pearl:
Tracks Verdi: Messa da Requiem
- Ave Maria - Cheryl Studer, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 5. Agnus Dei - Cheryl Studer, Marjana Lipovsek, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 4. Sanctus - Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 2. Confutatis - Ruggero Raimondi, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 2. Quid sum miser - Marjana Lipovsek, Cheryl Studer, José Carreras, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- Te Deum - Cheryl Studer, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 2. Dies irae - Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 2. Tuba mirum - Ruggero Raimondi, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 7. Libera me - Cheryl Studer, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 2. Rex tremendae - Marjana Lipovsek, Cheryl Studer, José Carreras, Ruggero Raimondi, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 2. Lacrymosa - Cheryl Studer, Marjana Lipovsek, José Carreras, Ruggero Raimondi, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 2. Ingemisco - José Carreras, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- Stabat Mater - Cheryl Studer, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- Laudi alla vergine Maria - Cheryl Studer, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 6. Lux aeterna - Marjana Lipovsek, Ruggero Raimondi, José Carreras, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 2. Liber scriptus - Marjana Lipovsek, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 2. Recordare - Marjana Lipovsek, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 3. Offertorium - Cheryl Studer, Marjana Lipovsek, José Carreras, Ruggero Raimondi, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
- 1. Requiem - Cheryl Studer, Marjana Lipovsek, José Carreras, Ruggero Raimondi, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Release date: 2003-04-29
Run time: 126 min.
Creator: Giuseppe Verdi
RRP: £30.99
Price: £14.95
Review Verdi: Messa da Requiem / Deutsche Grammophon:
Tracks Mr Music
- Understanding
- Only You
- Street Strut
- Our House
- Teach Your Children
- Road to Nowhere
- Snoop Dog Baby
- Songbird
- At the Top of the World
- Circles
- Puppy Munchies
- Crossing the Bridge
- Friend of Mine
- My New Home
- Out of Habit
- River of Love
- Feels Like a Sunday
- Strawberry Wine
Release date: 1999-12-23
Creator: Margarethe Arndt-Ober
RRP: £20.99
Price: £3.14
Review Mr Music / Lebendige Vergangenheit:
Publisher: EMI
Release date: 1997-02-01
Creator: Júlia Hamari
RRP: £9.99
Price: £78.62
Review Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (highlights)/Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (highlights) / EMI:
Tracks Enrico Caruso In Song, Volume 2
- Addio - Francesco Paolo Tosti
- Manella Mia
- Lolita
- Alba Separa Dalla Luce l'Ombra - Francesco Paolo Tosti
- Tu Ca Nun Chiagne
- Sei Morta Ne la Vita Mia - Francesco Antonio Costa
- Serenata
- Musica Proibita
- Noche Feliz
- Scordame
- 'A Vucchella - Francesco Paolo Tosti
- Vaghissima Sembianza - Stefano Donaudy
- Mamma Mia, Che Vo' Sapè?
- Mia Canzone - Francesco Paolo Tosti
- Tiempo Antico
- Uocchie Celeste
- Senza Nisciuno
- Core 'Ngrato
- I' M' Arricordo 'E Napule!
- Addio a Napoli - Teodoro Cottrau
Release date: 2003-08-23
Run time: 71 min.
Creator: Vincenzo Bellezza
RRP: £6.99
Price: £3.67
Review Enrico Caruso In Song, Volume 2 / Nimbus:
![Review Laserlight / Great Opera Tenors, Vol.2 [IMPORT]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/2100874CCEL._SL160_.jpg)
Tracks Great Opera Tenors, Vol.2 [IMPORT]
- Il Travatore: Se M'ami Ancor - Placido Domingo
- La Boheme: Che Gelida Manina - Luciano Pavarotti
- Il Trovatore: Ah Si, Ben Mio - Placido Domingo
- Il Trovatore: Quale D'armi Fragor - Placido Domingo
- Turandot: Nessun Dorma - Jose Carreras
- Carmen: La Fleur Que Tu M'avais Jetee - Placido Domingo
- I Puritani: A Te, O Cara, Amor Talora - Giuseppe Sabbatini
- Un Ballo In Maschera: Forse La Soglia Attinse... Ma Sc M'e Forza Perderti - Luciano Pavarotti
- Werther: Pourquoi Me Reveiller - Jose Carreras
- L'elisir D'amour: Una Furtiva Lagrima - Luciano Pavarotti
- Simon Boccanegra: Udisti?/Vil Desegno!... Sento Avvampar Nell'anima... Cielo Pietoso... - Giuseppe Sabbatini
- Il Trovatore: Di Quella Pira - Placido Domingo
- La Traviata: De Miei Bollenti Spiriti - Jose Carreras
- Madama Butterfly: Addio, Fiorito Asil - Peter Dvorsky
Release date: 1999-06-08
Run time: 63 min.
Creator: Plácido Domingo
RRP: £9.70
Price: £9.25
Review Great Opera Tenors, Vol.2 [IMPORT] / Laserlight:
![Review Russell Watson / Russell Watson Live [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) [2003]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51m8ccKi6FL._SL160_.jpg)
Publisher: Decca
Release date: 2003-02-11
Run time: 83 min.
Price: £9.67
Review Russell Watson Live [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) [2003] / Russell Watson:
![Review Polydor / Andréa Bocelli - Viaggio Italiano [IMPORT]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31GD5DEX83L._SL160_.jpg)
Tracks Andréa Bocelli - Viaggio Italiano [IMPORT]
- 'Arlesiana: Lamento di Federico
- I' Te Vurria Vasà
- Macbeth: Ah, la Paterna Mano
- Marinarello
- Tu, 'Ca Nun Chiagne!
- Rigoletto: La Donna è Mobile
- Elisir d'Amore: Una Furtiva Lagrima
- Adeste Fideles [*]
- Ave Maria
- Core N'Grato
- Santa Lucia Luntana
- Piscatore 'e Pusilleco
- Panis Angelicus
- O Sole Mio
- Turandot: Nessun Dorma
- Messaggio Bocelli [Message from Bocelli]
Release date: 1999-03-01
Run time: 62 min.
Creator: Andrea Bocelli
RRP: £21.99
Price: £4.98
Review Andréa Bocelli - Viaggio Italiano [IMPORT] / Polydor:Opera is in fashion, and the woods are full of pop vocalists who think they have the chops to sing arias. The best contender so far is Andrea Bocelli, who at least has a real voice, if a small one, and sometimes manages a really exciting tenor sound. The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev, plays stodgily. Anyone with a real interest in tenor arias would be much better advised to check out recordings by the young Luciano Pavarotti. -Sarah Bryan Miller.
Publisher: Sony Classical
Release date: 1994-08-01
Creator: James Morris
RRP: £9.99
Price: £16.99
Review Verdi: Aida (highlights) / Sony Classical:
Tracks Puccini: Tosca (highlights)
- TOSCA: Atto II: Sciarrone, che dice il Cavalier? (Scarpia)
- TOSCA: Atto II: Foria... - Amore (Cavaradossi, Tosca)
- TOSCA: Atto I: Or lasciami al lavoro (Cavaradossi)
- TOSCA: Atto I: Tre sbirri, una carrozza ... Te Deum (Scarpia)
- TOSCA: Atto II: Io tenni la promess (Scarpia)
- TOSCA: Atto III: Presto, su! Mario! Mario! (Tosca)
- TOSCA: Atto II: Chi e la? (Scarpia)
- TOSCA: Atto II: Ov'e Angelotti? (Scarpia)
- TOSCA: Atto III: E lucevan le stelle (Cavaradossi)
- TOSCA: Atto II: Vissi d'arte (Tosca)
- TOSCA: Atto I: Gente la dentro! (Cavaradossi)
- TOSCA: Atto III: Come e lunga l'attesa! (Tosca)
- TOSCA: Atto II: Orsu, Tosca, parlate (Scarpia)
- TOSCA: Atto I: Sante ampolle! ... Recondita armonia (Cavaradossi)
- TOSCA: Atto III: O dolci mani (Cavaradossi)
- TOSCA: Atto III: Ah! Franchigia a Floria Tosca (Cavaradossi)
- TOSCA: Atto II: Vittoria! Vittoria! (Cavaradossi)
- TOSCA: Atto I: Mario! Mario! Mario! (Tosca)
Release date: 1999-05-24
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Richard Van Allan
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.90
Review Puccini: Tosca (highlights) / Opera Gala:
Publisher: Preiser
Release date: 2001-03-12
Run time: 156 min.
Creator: Ferruccio Tagliavini
RRP: £23.99
Price: £22.11
Review Viva VERDI! / Preiser:
![Review DG / Ave Verum - The Soul Ascends [CASSETTE]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31GXV89ZSSL._SL160_.jpg)
Publisher: DG
Release date: 1998-04-01
Creator: Rome Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus
RRP: £9.99
Price: £10.00
Review Ave Verum - The Soul Ascends [CASSETTE] / DG:
Tracks Ten Top Tenors, Vol.2
- Lohengrin: In fernem Land - Placido Domingo
- Granada - Jose Carreras
- Faust: Quel trouble inconnu...Salut! Demeure chaste et pure - Franco Corelli
- Guglielmo Tell: Non mi lasciare...O muto asil...Corriam! voliam! - Luciano Pavarotti/Vienna Opr Chor
- Das Land des Lachelns: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz - Jussi Bjorling
- Otello: Niun mi tema - Mario del Monaco/Coro dell'Acad di Sta Cecilia
- Andrea Chenier: Colpito qui m'avete...Un di, all'azzurro spazio - Giuseppe Di Stefano
- Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein - Rene Kollo/Norman Bailey/Vienna St Opr Chor
- Matthaus-Passion: O Schmerz! Hier zittert...Ich will bei meinem - Fritz Wunderlich/Stuttgart Hymn Boys Chor
- La forza del destino: La vita e un inferno...O tu che in seno agli angeli - Carlo Bergonzi
Release date: 1995-01-01
Run time: 61 min.
Creator: Mario Del Monaco
RRP: £13.99
Price: £12.95
Review Ten Top Tenors, Vol.2 / Decca:
Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon
Release date: 1999-10-01
Creator: Giuseppe Verdi
RRP: £15.99
Price: £37.95
Review Verdi: Don Carlos (highlights) / Deutsche Grammophon:
Publisher: Classikon
Release date: 1996-12-01
Creator: Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus
Price: £4.99
Review Verdi - Nabucco (highlights) [CASSETTE] / Classikon:
Publisher: Decca
Release date: 1996-04-01
Creator: Gabriele Fontana
Price: £14.99
Review A Night at the Opera 2 - Great Duets / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra:
Tracks Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
- Dido and Aeneas: Act II: The Grove
- Dido and Aeneas: Overture
- Dido and Aeneas: Act I, Scene II: The Cave
- Dido and Aeneas: Act III: The Ships
- When Night Her Purple Veil Had Softly Spread
- Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Supplement
- Dido and Aeneas: Act I, Scene I: The Palace
Release date: 1999-03-15
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Arda Mandikian
RRP: £12.99
Price: £18.23
Review Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / IMG Artists/Britten the Performer:
Publisher: Hyperion
Release date: 1996-10-03
Run time: 67 min.
Creator: John Mark Ainsley
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.29
Review Gerald Finzi - Intimations of Immortality; Dies natalis / Hyperion:Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" is said to be one of the great masterpieces of English poetry. Finzi's setting of it has been criticised in the UK as being inappropriate due to the "fact" that "great poetry requires no musical setting. " And so, by the same argument, composers should only use less-than-great texts. Now of course many of them do just that, particularly opera composers, but the truth is that when words meet music, it's the music that matters, and Finzi's is wonderful music indeed. Granted he was only a "minor master", but in the careful setting of words his talent was pretty impressive, as this lovely disc so eloquently demonstrates. -David Hurwitz.
| Models & Brands:
Vaughan Williams: Choral, Orchestral and Vocal Works, Best Loved Classics, Volume 5, Great Tenors, Vol.2, Verdi: Messa da Requiem, Mr Music, Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci (highlights)/Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (highlights), Enrico Caruso In Song, Volume 2, Great Opera Tenors, Vol.2 [IMPORT], Russell Watson Live [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) [2003], Andréa Bocelli - Viaggio Italiano [IMPORT], Verdi: Aida (highlights), Puccini: Tosca (highlights), Viva VERDI!, Ave Verum - The Soul Ascends [CASSETTE], Ten Top Tenors, Vol.2, Verdi: Don Carlos (highlights), Verdi - Nabucco (highlights) [CASSETTE], A Night at the Opera 2 - Great Duets, Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Gerald Finzi - Intimations of Immortality; Dies natalis |
