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Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert

CD-Charts > Music > Classical Instrumental
from: Decca

Release Date June 29, 1998

Living in Oman/ Arabia, working in Abu Dhabi & Dubai/ U.A. Emirates and travelling for business reasons all over the Gulf region and the Middle East I like to discuss with my Arabian friends and customers about the world most famous opera singers and most popular popmusic singers of both cultures - the Western (European & North American) and the Oriental culture.

We enjoy to listen to the best opera singers in Europe and in the Middle East. I was astonished to find CDs with music of Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti in the homes of my Arabian friends - no wonder, many of them studied in their youth in the U.S. or in U.K.! My friends in Arabia deeply admire and truly appreciate CARRERAS, DOMINGO and PAVAROTTI !
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Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites

CD-Charts > Music > Classical Instrumental
from: Deutsche Grammophon

Release Date April 17, 1989
This marvellous suite is the very embodiment of the Henrik Ibsen's unparalelled work of fantasy. The music is more than an accompaniment to the play, it is essential to a successful performance, enabling both the actors and the audience alike to become completely absorbed by Ibsen's stunning world.

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John Barry: The Beyondness of Things

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by: English Chamber Orchestra John Barry

Release Date April 19, 1999
I bought this after reading reviews here, and also on discovering one of my fav films "Somewhere In Time" had a CD soundtrack, which is priceless. This CD is good, but there is no magic, no soul, no free passage to another realm, unlike the film sountrack.

I also bought the book by Matheson on the back of the film, and boy is he a weird writer! His style sucks. The director of "Somewhere in Time" read the book and decided he must make a film of it, much to our good fortune.

It really was a question of being in the right place at the right time. A very rare alignment of director (film), J Barry (music) and Matheson (book) but sadly I dont think the magic could ever be repeated.

Still it was fun trying.

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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7

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by: C. VPO/Kleiber

Release Date April 04, 1995
I am not musically literate, i.e i dont know a crotchet from a quaver but i know what i like, is it an exagerration to say that if we had to show one example of the greatness and potential of human culture, to say some visiting aliens, would it be reasonable to play them these recordings?

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A Christmas Caroll from Westminster Abbey

CD-Charts > Music > Classical Instrumental
by: Various Composers

Release Date September 29, 2008
Excellent album, but the track listing on this page is wrong. This is the correct listing:

1. In dulci iubilo -- Anonymous - Medieval, arr. Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795-1856)

Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël -- Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
2. O magnum mysterium
3. Quem vidistis pastores dicite
4. Videntes stellam
5. Hodie Christus natus est

6. A Christmas Caroll -- Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
7. All this time -- Sir William Walton (1902-1983)
8. Nativity -- James Lavino (b1973)
9. Dormi, Jesu -- John Rutter (b1945)
10. The Shepherd's Carol -- Bob Chilcott (b1955)
11. The Three Kings -- Jonathan Dove (b1959)
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

CD-Charts > Music > Classical Instrumental
from: Decca Eloquence

Release Date October 16, 2000
This has become my very favourite piece of music (among let's say appr. 2000 cds).
Pity that so few of Rimsky-Korsakoff's works are available as recordings.

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On the Banks of Green Willow

CD-Charts > Music > Classical Instrumental
from: Belart

Release Date May 19, 1997
I first heard 'The Banks of Green Willow' as incidental music to a BCC 'Lorna Doone' in the 1960s and wrote to the BBC to find out what this achingly beautiful piece was. 'A Shropshire Lad' is even better. The poignancy is intensified when you know that Butterworth (the dedicatee of Vaughan Williams' 'London' Symphony) died in the First World War. 'Tintagel' is grand and imposing, echoing Arthurian legend and the beat of waves round the ancient castle. This collection is absolutely authoritative, conducted by the best of all conductors of English music and wonderful value at its low price. No-one who is interested should hesitate.

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Vivaldi: Concertos for two Violins

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by: Viktoria Mullova Giuliano Carmignola Venice Baroque Orchestra Andrea Marcon

Release Date October 27, 2008
It was illuminating to hear the renowned musicologist Michael Talbot reviewing this release on BBC R3's CD Review last week. He conceded that although the Bach Concerto for 2 Violins has eclipsed Vivaldi's concertos in this genre, he wrote only one of them. Vivaldi, by contrast, wrote 28 - of consistently high quality. Talbot also said that he found it impossible to distinguish between Carmignola and Mullova (and in its refusal to identify the players as Violin 1 & 2, the booklet doesn't help).

But this reticence is revealing. Although 'stars', neither soloist puts themself before the music. This is not the case with Nigel Kennedy's venture into Vivaldi's double violin concerti (in Vivaldi II), where there isn't the slightest doubt who has star ... Read More:

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Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance

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by: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Isidore Godfrey

Release Date March 24, 2003
I agree that this is the definitive recording. Doyly Carte at their very best. I like the quaint dialogue and I think its integral to the performance and fixes the piece in its very Victorian place. For me the high point is Valerie Masterson's brilliant "Poor wand'ring one" - absolute perfection!

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Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 16; Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54

CD-Charts > Music > Classical Instrumental
from: Recommends

Release Date September 24, 2007
I agree that this is the definitive recording. Doyly Carte at their very best. I like the quaint dialogue and I think its integral to the performance and fixes the piece in its very Victorian place. For me the high point is Valerie Masterson's brilliant "Poor wand'ring one" - absolute perfection!