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Trumpet Voluntary
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Gwynne Howell, John Wilbraham (trumpet), Simon Preston (organ), with Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet), Roland Pöntinen (piano)
The Michael Laird Brass Ensemble, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The London Festival Orchestra, Tutti Camarata, I Musici, Peter Hurford,...
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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Angela Gheorghiu (Adina), Roberto Alagna (Nemorino), Simone Alaimo (Dulcamara), Roberto Scaltriti (Belcore), Elena Dan (Giannetta)
Orchestra & Chorus of l'Opéra National de Lyon, Evelino Pidò
[Gheorghiu] is very much the star...She sings with a lovely phrased line with a light vocal tone and flexibility. Alagna’s singing lacks the honeyed tenor edge evident on his earlier Erato recording...Scaltriti... —
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Beethoven For All: Music of Power, Passion and Beauty
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Anja Harteros (soprano), Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Peter Seiffert (tenor), René Pape (bass)
West Eastern Divan Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, Vokalensemble Kölner Dom & West Eastern Divan Orchestra
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Verdi: Oberto
Samuel Ramey (Oberto), Maria Guleghina (Leonora), Sara Fulgoni (Imelda), Violeta Urmana (Cuniza), Stuart Neill (Riccardo)
Academy of st. Martin in the Fields & London Voices, Neville Marriner
Verdi's first opera is an uneven work but with some fine inventive passages within a Donizettian framework. This is a fine recording, though lacks theatrical atmosphere. —
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Alvy Powell (Porgy), Marquita Lister (Bess), Nicole Cabell (Clara), Robert Mack (Sportin' Life), Lester Lynch (Crown), Abigail Burke (Serena), Leonard Rowe (Jake), Linda Thompson Williams (Maria), Chauncey Packer (Mingo/Nelson/Crab Man), Calvin Lee (Peter), Tamica Harris (Annie), Tiffany Wharton...
… for the most part this version is extremely effective in removing the work's longueurs and heightening its theatricality. And it's very well served by the performance, with Powell and Lister... —
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Kathleen Ferrier Edition, Vol.3
Selected works for contralto by Gluck, Handel etc.
Jonathan Taylor
Jacques Orchestra, Nottingham Oriana Choir
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It might not be to purists’ taste, but the disc evokes hypnotic atmosphere...Reverb gives the impression of an ecclesiastical setting (though the programme was recorded in London’s Henry Wood... —
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Ten Top Tenors
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Jose Carreras (tenor), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Rolando Villazon (tenor), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Juan Diego Florez (tenor), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Placido Domingo (tenor)
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