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Simply Anne-Sophie
(more) »rank: 38066from: Deutsche Grammophon
:Album Description:ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER is one of the best-known classical musicians in the US, and her concert appearances here are sold-out events. Her contributions to the violin repertoire, her extraordinary collaborations with the most accomplished and elite of musical partners, and her unstinting devotion to excellence point to a legacy of unequalled brilliance. 2006 is the 30th anniversary of the beginning of Ms. Mutter’s public career, which has intersected with and influenced the lives of so many important musicians of the era and inspired the minds and hearts of millions of listeners around the globe. Simply Anne-Sophie offers a great musical overview of her ...
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Classic Perlman: Rhapsody
(more) »rank: 37795from: Sony
: :This compilation of selections from recordings made between 1975 and 1998, including one previously unreleased to create a framework, is a curious mix. All the pieces are slow, and this being the age of the soundbite, none is longer than five minutes except the Romance by Dvorák, who is also represented by two other popular pieces, specifically arranged to include a cello part for Yo-Yo Ma. Half the program consists of 'themes' from movie soundtracks, and the comparison between them is interesting. John Williams, André Previn, and Max Steiner are film composers whose juicy melodies and swooping orchestrations are appropriate to the medium, ...
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Renée Fleming - I Want Magic! ~ American Opera Arias
(more) »rank: 84469by: George Gershwin, Carlisle Floyd, Leonard Bernstein, Douglas S. Moore, Bernard Herrmann, Gian Carlo Menotti, Igor Stravinsky, Samuel Barber, André Previn, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine, Renée Fleming
: :Like Dawn Upshaw's The World So Wide on Nonesuch, this program is such an inviting cross section of American opera of the last 50 years, you wonder why more of it hasn't been recorded. Composers include Carlisle Floyd, Douglas Moore, Samuel Barber, and Gian Carlo Menotti, whose childlike 'Monica's Waltz' from the otherwise lurid opera The Medium is a highlight. Old favorites are here, such as Gershwin's 'Summertime.' And new favorites, too: Andre Previn's forthcoming 'A Streetcar Named Desire' graciously offers Straussian lushness and bitonal wind-instrument details suggesting Blanche DuBois's mind departing from reality, all sounding remarkably true to Previn's pre-World War II ...
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Previn: From Ordinary Things: Cello Sonata, Four Songs, Two Remembrances, Vocalise
(more) »rank: 162953by: André Previn, Yo-Yo Ma, Jeff B. Francis, Sandra Church, Sylvia McNair
: :Like Dawn Upshaw's The World So Wide on Nonesuch, this program is such an inviting cross section of American opera of the last 50 years, you wonder why more of it hasn't been recorded. Composers include Carlisle Floyd, Douglas Moore, Samuel Barber, and Gian Carlo Menotti, whose childlike 'Monica's Waltz' from the otherwise lurid opera The Medium is a highlight. Old favorites are here, such as Gershwin's 'Summertime.' And new favorites, too: Andre Previn's forthcoming 'A Streetcar Named Desire' graciously offers Straussian lushness and bitonal wind-instrument details suggesting Blanche DuBois's mind departing from reality, all sounding remarkably true to Previn's pre-World War II ...
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The Radiant Voice of Barbara Bonney
(more) »rank: 159009by: Barbara Bonney
: :Of all the laudatory epithets applicable to Barbara Bonney, the term 'radiant' might not be the one that springs to mind--at least, not insofar as it suggests the warm luxuriance of sunshine. Bonney's light, bright lyric soprano is something else: a voice of delicate refinement and transparent, pure-toned beauty. But it's capable of silkily seductive textures, too. And there are wonderful examples on this compilation disc that, if featuring a less-established artist, might qualify as a demo tape. Most of the tracks are previously issued, but together, they define her capabilities and home-base repertory, from Bach, Purcell, and Mozart through to Scandinavian song ...
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Ballads/Solo Jazz Standards
(more) »rank: 86881from: Angel Records
: :Of all the laudatory epithets applicable to Barbara Bonney, the term 'radiant' might not be the one that springs to mind--at least, not insofar as it suggests the warm luxuriance of sunshine. Bonney's light, bright lyric soprano is something else: a voice of delicate refinement and transparent, pure-toned beauty. But it's capable of silkily seductive textures, too. And there are wonderful examples on this compilation disc that, if featuring a less-established artist, might qualify as a demo tape. Most of the tracks are previously issued, but together, they define her capabilities and home-base repertory, from Bach, Purcell, and Mozart through to Scandinavian song ...
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Previn: Honey and Rue; Barber: Knoxville; Gershwin: Porgy And Bess / Battle, Previn, et al
(more) »rank: 168810from: Deutsche Grammophon
: :Back at the beginning of the 1990s, with some help from Carnegie Hall, soprano Kathleen Battle commissioned André Previn and Toni Morrison to write a song cycle for her. The result was a set of six songs called Honey and Rue, referring to 'the bitter and the sweet' that comes with life and love and is part of the African American experience. One of the songs, the last to be composed, is unaccompanied. The remaining five are scored for chamber orchestra and showcase Previn's chameleon-like abilities as an arranger--here capturing echoes of such European masters as Mahler and Berg, there a hint of ...
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The 20th Century Album
(more) »rank: 153303from: Decca
: :Back at the beginning of the 1990s, with some help from Carnegie Hall, soprano Kathleen Battle commissioned André Previn and Toni Morrison to write a song cycle for her. The result was a set of six songs called Honey and Rue, referring to 'the bitter and the sweet' that comes with life and love and is part of the African American experience. One of the songs, the last to be composed, is unaccompanied. The remaining five are scored for chamber orchestra and showcase Previn's chameleon-like abilities as an arranger--here capturing echoes of such European masters as Mahler and Berg, there a hint of ...
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Music of Andre Previn
(more) »rank: 178645from: Arabesque Recordings
: :Back at the beginning of the 1990s, with some help from Carnegie Hall, soprano Kathleen Battle commissioned André Previn and Toni Morrison to write a song cycle for her. The result was a set of six songs called Honey and Rue, referring to 'the bitter and the sweet' that comes with life and love and is part of the African American experience. One of the songs, the last to be composed, is unaccompanied. The remaining five are scored for chamber orchestra and showcase Previn's chameleon-like abilities as an arranger--here capturing echoes of such European masters as Mahler and Berg, there a hint of ...
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The Art Of Itzhak Perlman
(more) »rank: 64185from: EMI Classics
: :Back at the beginning of the 1990s, with some help from Carnegie Hall, soprano Kathleen Battle commissioned André Previn and Toni Morrison to write a song cycle for her. The result was a set of six songs called Honey and Rue, referring to 'the bitter and the sweet' that comes with life and love and is part of the African American experience. One of the songs, the last to be composed, is unaccompanied. The remaining five are scored for chamber orchestra and showcase Previn's chameleon-like abilities as an arranger--here capturing echoes of such European masters as Mahler and Berg, there a hint of ...
