Verdi Essential

Gershwin – Rhapsody In Blue – Cuban Overture - SASF (1957 & 1962) Music

Posted by janwal46 at Oct. 18, 2009

Gershwin – Rhapsody In Blue – Cuban Overture – Stars And Stripes Forever – Howard Hanson – Eugene List – The Eastman-Rochester Orchestra (1957 & 1962)

This is one of the best recordings I've heard of Gershwin's two big piano works. Eugene List is just phenomenal. He plays with a big, steely sound, but has plenty of feeling for the jazzy accents of both works. I can't praise Howard Hanson's contribution enough. The orchestra simply speaks Gershwin, in a manner that only a great conductor who absorbed this music and the influences on it in his youth could bring off. Hearing Hanson conduct Gershwin is like hearing Serafin conduct Verdi, so complete is the identification with the composer. The sound engineering is some of the best Mercury produced in Rochester, wide ranging with plenty of detail. I do question what Stars and Stripes is doing here, although it is a good performance with a student orchestra. Nevertheless, this is essential listening for the Gershwinaholic, as iconic in its way as Oscar Levant's performances.

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Arab Patriotism: The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt (Repost) eBooks & eLearning

Posted by step778 at Jan. 7, 2024

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The Impossible Art: Adventures in Opera eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at Dec. 8, 2021

A user's guide to opera—Matthew Aucoin, "the most promising operatic talent in a generation" (The New York Times Magazine), describes the creation of his groundbreaking new work, Eurydice, and shares his reflections on the past, present, and future of opera

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London Philharmonic Orchestra & Ben Gernon - Spatial Audio - The 3D Classical Collection (2021) Music

Posted by Rtax at March 5, 2022

London Philharmonic Orchestra & Ben Gernon - Spatial Audio - The 3D Classical Collection (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 998 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 443 MB
3:11:13 | Classical | Label: A Warner Classics/Erato Release

“The 3D Classical Collection goes one step further: each track completely submerges the listener in the orchestral sound experience. What could be more exciting than to step into the midst of the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Abbey Road, with the young and talented Ben Gernon on the conductor’s podium? This new dimension in sound reproduction opens up creative perspectives that we look forward to exploring in the coming years”

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Various Artists - Classical Chillout (2002) [DVD+CD] Music

Posted by robi62 at Aug. 18, 2013

An audio-visual experience with Mozart…Strauss…Vivaldi…Beethoven… Bach and many more… A collection full of relaxing and delightful classical music compositions fused with a modern visual interpretation. The visual element to Classical Chillout is expressive, capturing the mood of the music by means of movement, contemporary dance and mime, making it just the one to play when you need to relax and escape the cares of the world.

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V.A. - La Discotheque Ideale Classique (100CDs Box Set, 2007) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Feb. 8, 2020

V.A. - La Discotheque Ideale Classique (100CDs Box Set, 2007)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Run Time: 109:23:22 | 18,71 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics / Erato

La Discotheque Ideale Classique brings together the masterpieces of 47 composers (Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Ravel, Wagner …) performed by the greatest artists of the prestigious Erato-Warner Classics catalog. The 100 CDs of the box, which contain more than 100 hours of listening, allow you to rediscover the essential works of the classical repertoire.

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Choral Monuments: Studies of Eleven Choral Masterworks eBooks & eLearning

Posted by nebulae at June 30, 2017

Dennis Shrock, "Choral Monuments: Studies of Eleven Choral Masterworks"
English | ISBN: 019046903X, 0190469021 | 2017 | 464 pages | PDF | 7 MB

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The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th Anniversary (Boxset) (2006) Music

Posted by bakuman at July 31, 2010

The Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating its 70th Anniversary with this grand collection of its most memorable recordings. In this large collection, the magnificent history of the Israeli Philharmonic is revealed in its full glory. The recordings include artists like Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Arthur Rubinstein, Itzhak Perlman, Daniel Barenboim, Isaac Stern and many more.

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 70th anniversary essential collection is a must have!

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Nadine Sierra - There's a Place for Us (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Aug. 25, 2018

Nadine Sierra - There's a Place for Us (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 66:38 minutes | 1.18 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

Nadine Sierra, 2018 winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Beverly Sills Artist Award, has made her first album for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca Gold, having signed an exclusive contract with the labels last year. Recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Robert Spano, There’s a Place for Us is scheduled for international release on 24 August 2018, in time to mark the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth the following day. The album presents the soprano’s stunning vocal abilities in an eclectic choice of American classical music – as well as works by Bernstein, the repertoire ranges from Stephen Foster and Douglas Moore to Stravinsky and Villa-Lobos, and on again to Ricky Ian Gordon, Osvaldo Golijov and Christopher Theofanidis, with texts in Spanish and Portuguese as well as English.

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Fritz Wunderlich - Geistliche Musik: Sacred Music Johann Sebastian Bach [7CD Box Set] (2021) Music

Posted by Discograf_man at Aug. 12, 2023

Fritz Wunderlich - Geistliche Musik: Sacred Music Johann Sebastian Bach [7CD Box Set] (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) | Run Time: 7 hours 10 minutes 6 seconds | 2.08 GB | Covers 16 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: SWR Music

Stories about Wunderlich's meteoric rise to success, his incredibly heavy workload or his seemingly effortless acquisition of new repertoire have been told again and again - sometimes painting an idealized and sometimes a distorted picture of the artist. The nine installments of the SWR retrospective that have been released by SWR CLASSIC to this day feature Fritz Wunderlich as a singer of songs, (an unequalled) Mozart tenor, a brilliant interpreter of the greatest tenor hits, a fascinating singer of operettas and as a tasteful interpreter of light music, to name but a few of the genres that made up his repertoire.

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