Advantages: A great way to get the best of the Tallis Scholars on one double CD Disadvantages: are you joking?!
...Sheer delight! If you're already familiar with the work of the Tallis Scholars, then this 25th anniversary CD will need no recommendation from me at all. If not... then let me just say that this group of singers has not and will not be bettered at this kind of music. Their repertoire is mostly but not exclusively mediaeval, and this CD contains some of their best-known works, in particular their rendition of Allegri's Miserere, in my opinion by far the best version *ever* of this beatiful composition. The pure soprano voices render this piece achingly beautiful. If you don't already have an extensive Tallis Scholars collection, or - like me - want to start replacing your old vinyl collection with CDs, this is an excellent place to start....
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Advantages: Classic recordings from a master of his trade. Disadvantages: Mono recordings, Crackly in parts.
...Verdi
La forza del destino: Solenne in quest' ora by Giuseppe Verdi
La forza del destino: O, tu che in seno agli angeli by Giuseppe Verdi
La traviata: Libiamo ne' lieti calici "Brindisi" by Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth: Ah, la paterna mano by Giuseppe Verdi
Requiem Mass: Ingemisco by Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Ora e per sempre addio by Giuseppe Verdi
Otello: Si, pel ciel marmoreo giuro! by Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Questa o quella by Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: La donna è mobile by Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Parmi veder le lagrime...Possente amor mi chiama by Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Bella figlia dell' amore [Quartet] by Giuseppe Verdi
Un ballo in maschera: Di' tu se fedele by Giuseppe Verdi
I Pagliacci: Recitar!...Vesti la giubba by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Stabatmater: Cujus animam by Gioachino Rossini
Petite Messe solennelle: Crucifixus...
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Advantages: Everything you could ever want from a classical CD Disadvantages: none
.... The Nutcracker - Suite
Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
17. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
18. Cavalleria rusticana
Composed by Pietro Mascagni
19. Gloria in D
Composed by Antonio Vivaldi
20. Coronation Anthems
Composed by George Frideric Handel
21. Cantata No. 147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
22. Requiem in D minor
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
23. Ave Maria
Composed by Charles Gounod
24. Miserere mei
Composed by Gregorio Allegri
25. Requiem
Composed by Gabriel Fauré
26. Lakmé
Composed by Léo Delibes
27. Les contes d'Hoffmann
Composed by Jacques Offenbach
28. Pavane
Composed by Gabriel Fauré
29. Gianni Schicchi
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
30. Madama Butterfly
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
31. Nabucco
Composed...
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