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Price: $16.98
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Sale: $10.62
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Manufacturer: London/Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: London/Decca
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1998-02-10
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Description: This vocal recital certainly lives up to its title, perhaps too well. It's a collection of arias and songs Fleming has sung for years that for some may be too much frosting and not enough cake. Surely, her performances are rich with interpretive nuances, wonder-filled portamentos and word colorings that reflect a long history with this repertoire, which ranges from Charpentier's "Depuis le jour" to Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise." Some may find Fleming a bit much, but agree with her or not, she's far more interesting than singers who keep a safe, discreet distance from the music. --David Patrick Stearns
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Price: $50.98
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Sale: $38.79
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Antonín Dvorák::Charles Mackerras::Renée Fleming::Ben Heppner::Czech Philharmonic Orchestra::Kühn Mixed Choir::Franz Hawlata::Eva Urbanová::Zdena Kloubová Dolora Zajick::Ivan Kusnjer
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Label: Decca
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NumberOfDiscs: 3
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ReleaseDate Date: 1998-10-20
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Description: Though Czech opera has often had questionable export value due to linguistic barriers, this first truly international recording of Dvorák's most viable opera--inspired by Wagner's love of mythology and Verdi's melodic drama--suggests that non-Czech artists can be more than just credible. As a water sprite who becomes human for love of a prince, Renée Fleming gives her best recorded performance so far with a dramatic heat and theatrical dimension (plus her customary vocal luster) that her Czech predecessors haven't always mustered. Ben Heppner is a robust-voiced prince, though this one- dimensional role doesn't inspire any special affinity from him. Dolora Zajick is a vivid, vocally commanding witch. The one substantial disappointment is Franz Hawiata as the leathery-voiced water goblin. Conductor Sir Charles Mackerras is less interested in creating surface excitement than in bringing out subtleties that help compensate for the composer's occasional lack of melodic precision, though the big moments are by no means slighted. --David Patrick Stearns
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Price: $17.98
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Sale: $19.65
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Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Polygram Records
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NumberOfDiscs: 2
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ReleaseDate Date: 1997-09-16
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Description: This really is a remarkable collection, and anyone even remotely interested in opera is bound to be vastly entertained by it. Almost everything and everyone is here, albeit in small doses: Tebaldi, Pavarotti (a lot), Bjoerling, Bartoli, Sutherland, Solti, Karajan, Troyanos, Gheorghiu, Nucci; the composers are Puccini, Verdi, Bizet, and all the other usual suspects. There are plenty of fine compilation sets on the market, and this is one of the best. One can only hope that it whets listeners' appetites for whole operas. --Robert Levine
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Price: $16.98
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Sale: $5.99
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Gioachino Rossini::Giuseppe Verdi::Alfredo Catalani::Umberto Giordano::Amilcare Ponchielli::Giacomo Puccini::Vincenzo Bellini::Georges Bizet::Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart::Richard Wagner::Modena Community Theater Orchestra::Royal Opera House Orchestra Covent Garden::Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra::National Philharmonic Orchestra::Saint Cecilia Academy Orchestra::Wiener Philharmoniker::London Symphony Orchestra::London Philharmonic Orchestra::Riccardo Chailly::Sir Georg Solti::Henry Lewis::Fausto Cleva::Fernando Previtali::Herbert von Karajan::Richard Bonynge::Hans Knappertsbusch::Cecilia Bartoli::Renée Fleming::Angela Gheorghiu::Marilyn Horne::Renata Tebaldi::Frank Lopardo::Zinka Milanov::Joan Sutherland::London Symphony Chorus::Leontyne Price::Montserrat Caballé::John Alldis Choir
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Label: Decca
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1998-09-15
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Price: $17.98
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Sale: $1.94
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Leonard Bernstein::Giuseppe Verdi::Carlos Gardel::Federico Moreno Torroba::Charles Gounod::Edward Duke Ellington::Franz Lehar::Chicago Symphony Orchestra::Daniel Barenboim::Renée Fleming::Plácido Domingo::Duke Ellington
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Label: Decca
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1999-02-02
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Description: Romeo and Juliet were the original star-crossed lovers; Shakespeare coined the phrase in his tragedy about their young love and tragic death. But the expression can be applied to doomed couples of all kinds: Faust and Marguerite, Othello and Desdemona, and of course Tony and Maria in West Side Story, which updates Romeo and Juliet to modern New York. This recording, taped at a gala concert in Chicago in 1998 and videotaped for a telecast on the PBS series Great Performances, presents music about doomed love composed by Leonard Bernstein, Charles Gounod, Franz Lehar, Duke Ellington, and others, including several Spanish songs that show Plácido Domingo in top form. After all the tragedy, there is a duet that signals one happy ending: the Merry Widow waltz. Domingo and Renée Fleming are two of today's greatest singers, and they live up to their reputations. The voices are too operatic for West Side Story, but Bernstein would have disagreed. For his definitive recording of the show, he chose similar voices: José Carreras and Kiri Te Kanawa. --Joe McLellan
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Price: $50.98
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Sale: $29.33
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Sir Georg Solti::Mozart
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Label: Decca
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NumberOfDiscs: 3
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ReleaseDate Date: 1997-09-16
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Price: $33.98
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Sale: $21.98
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Libby Crabtree
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Label: Decca
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NumberOfDiscs: 2
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ReleaseDate Date: 1997-10-14
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Description: Mendelssohn (1809-1847) is a perennially underrated composer who finally may be coming to greater appreciation. Certainly this fine recording (in English) of a masterpiece that he believed joined the Jewish faith of his fathers with his own Protestant Christianity should not hurt his reputation. The superb Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel gives a dramatically charged performance in the title role, while soprano Renee Fleming sings with beauty and limpid understanding; the cast is almost uniformly strong. The Edinburgh Festival Chorus, directed by David Jones, sings with care and conviction, and Paul Daniel conducts his forces firmly. --Sarah Bryan Miller
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Price: $16.98
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Sale: $11.90
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Franz Schubert::Renée Fleming::Christoph Eschenbach
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Label: Decca
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1997-03-11
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Description: This is where Renee Fleming proved herself as a voice of international importance, not just with the luster of her instrument but with her artistic integrity. Her song selection includes some rarely heard items such as the 15-minute ballad "Viola" and lots of the Schubert hits, such as "Ave Maria," "Die Forelle" and especially "Gretchen am Spinnrade," which she renders with a chillingly intense sense of drama. Throughout this disc, she eschews the usual tidy, well- mannered lieder approach of so many, giving each song a highly individualistic, even rugged profile. -- David Patrick Stearns
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Price: $35.98
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: André Previn::Renée Fleming::Elizabeth Futral::Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera::Rodney Gilfry::Anthony Dean Griffey::Matthew Lord::Judith Forst Josepha Gayer
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Label: Deutsche Grammophon
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NumberOfDiscs: 3
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ReleaseDate Date: 1998-12-22
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Description: This Deutsche Grammophon recording stems from San Francisco Opera's 1998 premiere production of André Previn's opera based on the harrowing Tennessee Williams play, with the composer himself at the helm of a strong and supportive cast. Previn's eclectic style embraces rather than challenges operatic conventions. He evokes Williams's New Orleans setting through loping, jazz-tinged motives and wistful, asymmetrical commentaries from solo winds and brass. By contrast, Previn reveals the protagonists' sense of longing and alienation by way of lyrical set pieces scored with lush economy. Philip Littell's libretto emerges at a leisurely gait, while the music underscores and follows the action with dramatic restraint instead of leaping center stage. Similarly, the cast's Southern accents are distinct but never distracting. Renée Fleming handles Blanche's taxing tessitura with effortless aplomb, although she sacrifices diction for tone in her middle register. Elisabeth Futral's light, agile soprano suits Stella's vulnerability to a fare-thee-well, while Rodney Gilfrey is careful to a fault in not letting Stanley Kowalski lapse into caricature. Most valuable player award, however, goes to Anthony Dean Griffey, who infuses Blanche's wooer Mitch with immense dignity and a sense of need. Stage noises and between-numbers applause may enhance the recording's sense of occasion, but they distract as much as those few niggling instances of thin string tone and shaky intonation. That's why God invented studio patching sessions. Still, Streetcar proves a solid achievement overall, priced at three discs for two, with full texts and annotations. --Jed Distler
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Price: $49.98
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Sale: $42.98
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Manufacturer: Opera Rara UK
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Gaetano Donizetti::David Parry::London Phiharmonia Orchestra::Renee Fleming::Nelly Miricioiu::Geoffrey Mitchell Choir::Bruce Ford::Alastair Miles::Diana Montague
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Label: Opera Rara UK
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NumberOfDiscs: 2
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ReleaseDate Date: 1998-07-14
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