This disc received Grammy Award for "Best Classical Vocal Performance." It was also nominated for the Award for "Best Classical Album."Sure, it takes guts for a soprano to call an album THE BEAUTIFUL VOICE. But Renée Fleming did it, an...
Silva Screen Records offers an intriguing collection of highly energized yet perhaps underappreciated themes from several Hollywood favorites, as well as a handful of lesser known films. The appropriately titled CULT CUTS: MUSIC FROM THE MO...
This selection contains both ADD and DDD recordings.Personnel: Alexandre Lagoya, Steve Erquiaga, Eduardo Fernandez, Nicola Hall, Pepe Romero, Göran Söllscher (guitar).Another volume in Decca's lifestyle classical music series, For a Q...
The recordings on this disc were compiled and sequenced by Don Campbell.Personnel: Takako Nishizaki (violin).The theory behind THE MOZART EFFECT is that pleasant-but-not-emotional, tuneful-in-the-upper-register music (according to res...
Personnel: Hermann Prey, Plácido Domingo (vocals); Osian Ellis (harp); John Sonnleitner (organ).Recording information: 1975-1979.Christmas With the Vienna Choir Boys/Placido Domingo/Hermann Prey is a collaboration between the choir an...
Recording information: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, England.The world is tragically full of string quartets desperate to prove that they can rock -- and those who know they can't rock often want to prove that they can swing. In the vas...
Recording information: 1976-1992.The career of José Carreras will surely go down in opera history as one of the greats. This Philips retrospective, covering the years 1976-1992, includes some of the brightest performances he has recorded...
2006 Grammy nominee for Best Classical Crossover Album.Reconstructed for CD release by John Morgan and performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Max Steiner's score for the 1944 motion picture The Adventures of Mark Twain re...
Personnel: Heidi Grant Murphy, Christopher Murphy (vocals); Richard Clark (violin, viola); Meg Okura, Karen Rostron (violin); Egil Rostad (cello); Stacey Shames (harp); Laura Gilbert (flute); Angelo DiPippo (accordion); Kevin Murphy (piano)...
Denyce Graves has made quite a splash in the opera world with her performances of sultry mezzo roles such as Carmen and Dalila at the Metropolitan Opera and elsewhere. Both of those roles are naturally featured here, as the opening and clos...
This eclectic collection spotlights the talents of these three Ahn sisters, all virtuosos on their respective instruments. Pieces range from the stuffy highbrow (like Bernstein's "Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano") to the pop instrumental ...
This is an unusual crossover collaboration between violinist Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg and the Brazilian guitar duo of Sergio and Odair Assad. The music, all arranged or composed by Sergio Assad, claims a wide variety of cultural influences....