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141.Puccini - Tosca by: Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra November 12, 2001
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This is without doubt the best of the most recent versions of Tosca. Everyone is on tip top form and Pappano really excels in this music. There really isn't a weak link in this set. I did think Raimondi may be past his best but his performance is excellent. What happened to Angela between this recording and her performance at CG in the role we may never know, but there is no comparison between this top flight performance and the one she phoned in when I saw her at Covent Garden. Buy this set it is glorious.

142.Tallis: Spem in alium · Latin Church Music /Taverner Consort & Choir · Parrott from: Virgin Veritas August 04, 2003
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As a fervent atheist, I was move greatly by the sheer depth of devotion reflected in this music. A conversation of a profound nature is started across the short chasm of four and a half centuries. I was exposed to later choral music as a schoolboy (particularly Byrd- Tallis' protege) but never felt so overwelmed. Other recordings may be technically superior, but this is great value.

143.Debussy: Orchestral Music by: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Bernard Haitink Eduard Beinum November 09, 1993
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This is a superb introduction to Debussy's music. Great performances, especially La Mer which is totally mesmerising.

144.Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance by: The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Isidore Godfrey March 24, 2003
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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!

145.Bach: Christmas Oratorio from: Archiv Produktion November 04, 1987
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This disc is a bit of an oddity. I can give it a perfectly sincere recommendation, but I think I had better explain myself carefully, and explain exactly what I am recommending. The spirit of the selection is much what you would expect in a disc entitled `Christmas Treats from JSB' or `Immortal Melodies from The Christmas Oratorio' or something of that sort. Bach's Christmas Oratorio is not an oratorio in the Handelian sense. In the 1730's Bach faithfully turned out a cantata for each Sunday and major feast, but in one particular year he elected to reprocess some of his older music, most of it secular originally, and string the numbers together for the entire festive season under the overall title of `Christmas Oratorio'. Borrowing, adaptation and ... Read More:

146.Holst Conducts Holst The Planets by: London Symphony Orchestra April 04, 2005
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This disc is a bit of an oddity. I can give it a perfectly sincere recommendation, but I think I had better explain myself carefully, and explain exactly what I am recommending. The spirit of the selection is much what you would expect in a disc entitled `Christmas Treats from JSB' or `Immortal Melodies from The Christmas Oratorio' or something of that sort. Bach's Christmas Oratorio is not an oratorio in the Handelian sense. In the 1730's Bach faithfully turned out a cantata for each Sunday and major feast, but in one particular year he elected to reprocess some of his older music, most of it secular originally, and string the numbers together for the entire festive season under the overall title of `Christmas Oratorio'. Borrowing, adaptation and ... Read More:

147.Elgar: Cello Concerto by: Natalie Clein September 24, 2007
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About 13 years ago, Natalie Clein won the BBC Young Musician of the year with a memorable performance of the Elgar. She has lived with it some years now and this recording is no disappointment. It is a wonderfully sombre reading of the piece that Elgar intended as a requiem to the dea of the First World War. More restrained than Du Pre's wonderful version, I wonder if it didn't hit an even deeper note at times. But comparisons are odious. Both have great music making to enjoy. One slight disappointment is in the fairly meare fill-up of salon pieces. Would have liked to hear Clein in another concerto. But this record also acts as a memorial to the fine British conductor, the late Tod Handley, so that's another reason for buying it.

148.Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 from: Emi Classics September 06, 1999
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This performance of Rachmaninov's second symphony made quite a stir when it was released on vinyl back in 1973 and although that may seem like a generation ago (because it is, sadly!), this newly (1999) re-mastered version succeeds in recapturing the excitement which its original release created. Prior to this recording, Previn and the LSO had toured with the symphony to Russia, where the unexpurgated version had not been heard for years, and it caused a sensation. Listening to this recording, it is not hard to understand why. This is unashamedly beautiful and lyrical music, played by an orchestra and conductor who had no misgivings about whether the music was fashionable or not, and given its full measure of feeling, with great drama and passion. In its newly re-mastered version, ... Read More:

149.Verdi: Rigoletto by: Sherrill Milnes, Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti May 02, 1985
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Pavarotti in his prime in the role he embodied perfectly, bringing the wicked Ducca a charm that adds a whole new dimension to his lecherous wickedness, and he has in la Stupenda a wonderful Gilda, [albeit slightly long in the tooth] each seemingly inspired by the other, and Richard Boynge handles both very well, the music rolling and crashing beautifully with the story and the singers and never dominating. A truly great Rigoletto, almost certainly the best recorded so far.

150.Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty narrated by Brian Cant by: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra October 04, 1999
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This is an excellent CD to introduce young children to classical music generally , and ballet music in particular. If you are thinking of taking young children to see either of these ballets, then get this CD first and Brian Cant will tell the stories, and the orchestra will play the main themes. Higly recomended and at a good low price.

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