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Buy Now	Dinner Classics: The Japanese Album (more) »rank: 31719 from: Sony	Buy Now	The Voice: The Ultimate Collection (more) »rank: 39505 from: Decca Records :Album Description:The story of Russell Watson is inspirational: a factory worker born in Salford, North West England, Russell went from performing on the pub and club circuit in his spare time to singing for the Pope, prime ministers and presidents and selling over 5 million albums worldwide. Watson, otherwise known as 'The Voice,' is back with all his most popular hits on one CD. The Ultimate Collection features 'Nessun Dorma,' 'Funiculi, Funicula' 'Miserere,' and 'Nella Fantasia.' The new collection also contains two new bonus tracks, Elvis's #1 hit 'Can't Help ...
Buy Now	Elgar: The Collector's Edition (30 CDs) (more) »rank: 26346 from: Emi Classics :Album Details:Elgar is the Quintessential English Composer. He is Loved as Our Shakespeare of Music, and We Turn to Him at Times of Solemn Remembrance and National Rejoicing. This Edition, Released to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Composer's Birth, Presents all the Major Orchestral, Choral, Chamber and Stage Works, as Well as Many Lesser Pieces and Rarities, in Interpretations by the 20th Century's Finest Elgarians. All Your Favourite Elgar is Here, in Over 32 Hours of Music on 30 Cds.	Buy Now	Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar (more) »rank: 25940 from: Deutsche Grammophon : : This unique, 80-minute opera must be heard. The title means 'Fountain of Tears' in Arabic and refers to the place in Granada where Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by Fascist soldiers in 1936. The work opens in a theater in Uruguay in 1969. As the actress Margarita Xirgu, who collaborated with Lorca in the 1920s and '30s, is about to go on stage, she recalls memories of him and his death and the survivor's guilt she feels. Musical images take us back as well. The sounds of hoofbeats, a ...
Buy Now	Rossini - La Cenerentola / Frederica von Stade, Francisco Araiza, Paolo Montarsolo, Claudio Desderi, Laura Zannini, Claudio Abbado (more) »rank: 26377 starring: Frederica von Stade, Paolo Montarsolo, Francisco Araiza, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Claudio Abbado : : This unique, 80-minute opera must be heard. The title means 'Fountain of Tears' in Arabic and refers to the place in Granada where Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by Fascist soldiers in 1936. The work opens in a theater in Uruguay in 1969. As the actress Margarita Xirgu, who collaborated with Lorca in the 1920s and '30s, is about to go on stage, she recalls memories of him and his death and the survivor's guilt she feels. Musical images take us back as well. The sounds of hoofbeats, a ...	Buy Now	Amore: Romantic Italian Love Songs (more) »rank: 5573 from: Decca : :From Calaf's 'Nessun dorma' from Turandot, in which the singer exclaims his love for the ice princess and the victory he will have over her, through Lionel's realization that he will have a new life and be happy with Lady Harriet in Martha ('M'appari'), and on to Rodolfo's falling in love with Mimi in La Bohème when he touches her hand ('Che gelida manina'): here we have some of opera's most beautiful love songs, sung by Pavarotti when he was in his golden-voiced prime. His 'Una furtiva lagrima' is touching ...
Buy Now	Faure: Requiem and other choral music (more) »rank: 15084 from: Collegium : :John Rutter's groundbreaking research and subsequent performing edition of Fauré's beloved Requiem has enabled us to hear the work as the composer originally intended. His first version of the piece included only a chamber orchestra with lower strings, harp, timpani, and organ. Four years later, Fauré added two movements and slightly expanded the orchestration. This is the version that Rutter and his inimitable Cambridge Singers perform here-- and it's a glorious revelation, especially if the only Fauré Requiem you've heard is that for full orchestra, which the composer himself neither ...	Buy Now	Mahler: Symphony No. 2 / Mehta, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (more) »rank: 23688 by: Gustav Mahler, Zubin Mehta, Ileana Cotrubas, Christa Ludwig, Wiener Philharmoniker : :'Beg to report safe delivery of a strong, healthy last movement to my Second. Father and child doing as well as can be expected.' So ran Mahler's jubilant message on completion of his 'Resurrection' Symphony, which after several years' painful gestation had come together in his mind with a sudden flash of inspiration. It had begun as a single-movement funeral rite, and gradually taken shape under the influence of Schubert's music, but the choral conclusion of Beethoven's Ninth was its Grail. Zubin Mehta's 25-year-old recording is a superb addition to ...
Buy Now	Songs of the Civil War & Stephen Foster Favorites (more) »rank: 42065 by: Mormon Tabernacle Choir : :'Beg to report safe delivery of a strong, healthy last movement to my Second. Father and child doing as well as can be expected.' So ran Mahler's jubilant message on completion of his 'Resurrection' Symphony, which after several years' painful gestation had come together in his mind with a sudden flash of inspiration. It had begun as a single-movement funeral rite, and gradually taken shape under the influence of Schubert's music, but the choral conclusion of Beethoven's Ninth was its Grail. Zubin Mehta's 25-year-old recording is a superb addition to ...	Buy Now	Party at the Palace: Queen's Golden Jubilee / Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Queen, Rod Stewart, Annie Lennox, Tom Jones, Opus Arte (more) »rank: 11442 starring: Eric, Paul, Ray, Rod, Brian directed by: Elizabeth Windsor : :The Party at the Palace was in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, held over the Golden Jubilee Weekend, 1-4 June 2002. The concert itself was the pop equivalent of the Prom at the Palace, a classical music event.The concert was held at the gardens of Buckingham Palace Garden as part of the Golden Jubilee. It was touted as the greatest concert in Britain since Live Aid or possibly ever. Tickets to the event were determined by a lottery, and 12,000 people attended the concert, and ...