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Handel: The Masterworks (Box Set)
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ASIN: B00062FLI8 Release Date: 2004-11-30 |
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Four Famous Baritones of The Past
Manufacturer: Preiser Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000009UCM Release Date: 1998-07-04 |
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Viva Montagnana!!.......2004-05-17
ONE GOLD, TWO SILVERS AND ONE BRONZE.......2001-05-16
The four tenors on this superb CD have a lot in common. Born within seven years apart, between 1885 and 1892, they (except Pertile) sang at the Met, the temple of operatic singing. All of them displayed mezza voce and heroic top notes on the stage.
This CD has collected and handed to posterity their prowess, when the tenors were in their late thirties and at their prime. Interestingly, one may draw vocal attributes from their performances and make comparisons.
Martinelli displayed a heroic and massive, Pertile, a sage but hard-driven, Gigli, an elegiac or turgid and Lauri-Volpi a robust, limpid and easily extended voice. The gold medal goes to Lauri-Volpi, the silver to Martinelli and Gigli, the bronze to Pertile.
I liked Martinelli in "Come un bel di di maggio"(Chenier) full of pathos, Pertile "Vesti la giubba" (Pagliacci) for great artistry, Gigli "Dai campi, dai prati" (Mefistofele) for inspired mysticism and Lauri-Volpi "Bianca al par di neve"(Les Huguenots) for unique mezza voce.
Lauri-Volpi gets top marks for "E lucevan le stelle"(Tosca) recorded in 1928, when he was at his artistic splendour. The painter Cavaradossi is not his conspiring and patriotic self. He is in prison, reminiscing Tosca's sweet hands, languid caresses and voluptuous appearance. Lauri-Volpi with an extraordinary, exquisite pianissimo sets up the mood before unleashing his despair with a powerful crescendo. It is an unsurpassed rendition of the great aria, as Puccini intended it.
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Handel: Water Musick; Telemann: Wassermusik
Manufacturer: Ambroisie ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000Y8OC2 Release Date: 2004-04-13 |
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Lebendige Vergangenheit: Heinrich Schlusnus
Manufacturer: Preiser Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000023OE Release Date: 1995-08-22 |
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Unvergessene Stimmen der Wiener Staatsoper
Manufacturer: Preiser Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000023QF Release Date: 1995-02-07 |
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Peter Edelmann Sings
Duparc , Schilling , R Strauss , Ravel , and Edelmann Manufacturer: Preiser Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000084T7F Release Date: 2003-07-29 |
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Johannes Brahms: Choral Works
Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000413G Release Date: 1992-05-12 |
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The Monteverdi Choir excels during the a capella selections (Opus 42 and 104) due to their precision tuning and group sensitivity. Brahms's deep, romantic textures and mounds of sound are most vividly experienced when no instruments join in the blend. But in the accompanied pieces (Opus 92, 17, and the Liebeslieder Waltzes, Opus 52), the chorus sounds mechanical, metronomic. The Waltzes are pleasant, but the group can't find a personal identity to enliven the expressiveness of the material; they are simply a poetic mural. Still, this disk, chock full of music, is a lot of worthwhile Brahms for your bucks. --Barbara Eisner Bayer
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Tiana Lemnitz: Sopran
Manufacturer: Berlin Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000035RC Release Date: 2005-10-01 |
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Tiana Lemnitz.......2000-08-18
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