He no complain...
Simon, as the experienced youth and opera expert of the Classical store, extends his hand to you in welcome. Into the world of his mind...
He likes high Ds, hemiolas, monkeys and purple things, and doesn't like pitch inaccuracy, contact sports or custard. He mostly spends his time at university, where he busily studies Japanese and Politics at all hours. When not there, he lurks in the Classical store, in the Online office and appears as 8th Ukulele in The Mutherpluckers, a local ukulele band.
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VICTORIA de los ANGELES Icon: Victoria de los Angeles - The Voice of an Angel (opera arias, Popular Songs & Zarzuela Arias) Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) with various orchestras & conductors |
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[ EMI Icon / 7 CD BOXSET ] Release Date: Saturday, 1 November, 2008
"Seven discs well-filled with 'The Voice of an Angel' may seem a daunting prospect. However with beauty of tone, charming delivery and the singer's communicative personality there isn't a dull moment. There is anyway no need to play it through from beginning to end. This box is a treasure-trove to pick and choose from and as such it should last a lifetime." |
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ROSSINI Colbran, the Muse Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) / Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Edoardo Muller |
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[ Virgin Records / CD ] Release Date: Monday, 14 December, 2009 "DiDonato is proving herself one of the most delightful artists of our time. She sings with a rare purity of tone, ease on the high Bs, an impressive degree of technical skill and lively powers of characterisation. She is invigoratingly precise in her placement, fluent in scale work and well furnished with staccati and trills. ...the difficult repertoire is... |
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VERDI Un Ballo in Maschera [The Masked Ball] (Complete opera recorded in 1967) Leontyne Price, Carlo Bergonzi & Shirley Verrett / RCA Italiana Opera Chorus & RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf |
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[ Sony Opera House / 2 CD ] Release Date: Saturday, 20 February, 2010 "Leontyne Price made Amelia one of her great roles. She invests the role with a femininity that is more pronounced than her otherwise illustrous rivals. but serves the drama quite well as a result. Ms. Price's voice soars radiantly in "Consentemi Signore" (ActI) and masterfully copes with the huge vocal demands of the Act II scena, topped by a sterling high... |
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MOZART / BRAHMS Clarinet Quintets Eric Hoeprich (clarinet) / London Haydn Quartet |
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[ Glossa / CD ] Release Date: Friday, 20 November, 2009
Eric Hoeprich returns to Glossa on splendid form with two pillars of the chamber music repertory in the Clarinet Quintets of Mozart and Brahms. For this release - recorded in the tranquil English surroundings of St Martin's Church, East Woodhay in Hampshire, Hoeprich is joined by the recently-established and much-lauded London Haydn Quartet. |
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HANDEL Italian Cantatas Volume 6 - Olinto Pastore Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Yetzabel Arias Fernández (soprano) & Romina Basso (alto) / La Risonanza / Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction) |
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[ Glossa Handel Italian Cantatas / CD ] Release Date: Thursday, 1 October, 2009 The Accademia degli Arcadi - that thought provoking and ideas-creating literary circle set up by a group of poets, composers, aristocrats and churchmen, which championed a return to classical (and pastoral) ideals and one of whose keenest members was the Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli, Handel's patron in Rome - forms the aesthetic background for this sixth... |
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[ Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment / DVD ] Release Date: Wednesday, 13 January, 2010
PG :- Some scenes may scare very young children. |
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