Label / Distributor: Duo / Universal Manufacturing and Logistics
Pieces in Set: 2
Running Time: 2 hours 22 minutes
Genre(s): Stage works
SPAR Code: ADD
EAN: 28943876322
Catalogue Number: 438
Work 1
Work Title: Coppélia
Excerpt(s): 1. ACT 1 - Prélude et mazurka 2. Valse lente 20. Scène 4. Mazurka 6. Ballet de l'épi 7. Thème slave varié 8. Czárdás (Danse hongroise) 9. Final 10. ACT 2 - Entr'acte et valse 13. Musique des automates 15. Chanson à boire 16. Scène et valse de la poupée 18. Boléro 19. Gigue 21. Marche de la cloche 22. Fête de la cloche-Divertissement Introduction; Valse des heures; L'Aurore; La Prière; Le Travail (La Fileuse); L'Hymen ( 23. Suite
Advantages: Great performances of popular favourites and some rare gems Disadvantages: Barely none, with perhaps slight issues with sound.
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As is appropriate, there is quite a lot of Berlioz included, for he is one of the greatest orchestrators that ever was and his music really defines what "colour" in music is. There are two selections from the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust (a strange cantata-opera-symphony hybrid), beginning with the "Ballet de Sylphes," a light and fairy-like little waltz, giving ample proof that Berlioz could write music subtle as wind when he wanted to. The following "Menuet des feux follets" is likewise sweetly light, but features little surges of drama appropriate in a witches' sabbath, which allows the good humour of drunken dancing to sweep the section to a close. To cap off the sensitive Berlioz, there is the subtle and magical "Queen Mab Scherzo" from his "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette that is filled with quicksilver movement, magical feeling...
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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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Advantages: A discovery unforgettable Disadvantages: Nothing
...(Rewrite on 09/07/2001)
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (great italian "virtuoso") spent his life to search a kind of perfection during interpretations.
He knew this perfection to be impossible but, for him, "perfection" was union between composer and player.
Then,this perfection isn't impossible...
Glenn Gould tryed the same sound by his pianos: in this way he was very careful to music structure: beauty of musical phrases, to give a geometrical "presence" to music a.s.o.
Of course his Bach interpretations (but Beethoven and Mozart also), even if on a piano and not on a harpsichord or "fortepiano" , are excellent.
Michelangeli is on the other side of the moon...
His Chopin is mysterious, full of shadows and, in some compositions, unknowable.
But, how does Michelangeli obtain this wonderful result?
To answer it is simple and very...
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