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Price: $33.98
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Sale: $19.99
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Manufacturer: Decca
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Giacomo Puccini::Mirella Freni::Luciano Pavarotti::Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra::Herbert von Karajan::Elizabeth Harwood::Rolando Panerai::Nicolai Ghiaurov
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Label: Decca
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NumberOfDiscs: 2
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ReleaseDate Date: 1990-10-25
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Description: The score for La Bohème comes to glowing life under Herbert von Karajan's baton, and Mirella Freni and Luciano Pavarotti make beautiful music together as the ill-fated lovers. The smaller parts are wonderfully sung, the comedy sharply profiled, and the pathos contained in such a way that the opera's ending proves remarkably gripping. London's sound is excellent. --Ted Libbey
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Price: $18.98
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Sale: $10.43
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Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: EMI Classics
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NumberOfDiscs: 2
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ReleaseDate Date: 2001-03-27
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Price: $23.98
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Sale: $14.49
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Sony
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NumberOfDiscs: 2
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ReleaseDate Date: 1997-10-28
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Description: While critics at the 1971 premiere found the work derivative and even tasteless, audiences loved this ardent, resourceful, somewhat brazen, ultimately moving Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers. Leonard Bernstein's affinity for his public and for the age in which he lived enabled him to successfully outfit his Mass with a stylish mix of contemporary and ancient modes--rock, jazz, electronic music, Gregorian chant--and place it in a context somewhere between Broadway and opera. Though it lacks the visual component of a live performance, the work holds up well on this Bernstein-led recording, the only complete version on disc. From the popular "Simple Song" to the Stravinskian rhythmic devices and abundant, memorable melodies, the vital creative force of Bernstein is never absent. --David Vernier
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Price: $17.98
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Sale: $5.86
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Manufacturer: Angel Records
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Sarah Brightman
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Label: Angel Records
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 2000-08-29
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Description: Superstar crossover vocalist Sarah Brightman greets the new millennium with an even surer, bolder sense of her unique musical niche than that evident from 1999's Eden. Like Eden, La Luna is a concept album only in a vaguely free-associative sense. The selection of material here touches on images of the moon that reinforce its ambiguity as a force known to draw together "the lunatic, the lover, and the poet" (Brightman's photo shoots for the album do seem to suggest a sort of Titania-like figure out of a New Age Midsummer Night's Dream). And it's a stylistic as well as thematic voyage, coursing from such contemporary sounds as synth pop (on "This Love") through vintage jazz standards (Billie Holiday's atmospheric and haunting "Gloomy Sunday") to high opera for the title track (a version of the sublime "Song of the Moon" from Dvorák's fairy-tale opera Rusalka), and drawing elsewhere on the gorgeously sinuous melodies of Bach, Handel, and Rachmaninov--one song, "Figlio Perduto," even adapts the slow movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Throughout, producer Frank Peterson swathes Brightman's shiny small voice in luxuriant fabrics of sound. Detractors will lament the resulting sameness of tone--no matter what the style involved--but Brightman's focus on spinning an ethereal spell never gets eclipsed. This domestic release includes three tracks not available on the import version and has a special treat hidden in the final track as a bonus. --Thomas May
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Price: $18.98
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Sale: $11.84
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Manufacturer: Denon Records
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Denon Records
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 2007-11-06
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Price: $18.98
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Sale: $8.98
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Manufacturer: Angel Records
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Sarah Brightman::Frank Peterson
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Label: Angel Records
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 2003-06-10
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Description: If one's notion of "world music" promises a touch of the exotic and indigenous, often overlooked is the fact that the influence of western pop music has seeped into every corner of the globe, creating a hybrid that's often more than merely the sum of its influences. Theater vet Brightman steps into that pan-cultural hall of mirrors here, wedding her fascination with the music and rhythms of the "forbidden places" (the title's Arabic meaning) of the Middle East to her own oft ethereal vocal charms and rock-solid sense of drama. And if the diva's equally sound crossover sensibilities (and that of longtime producer Frank Peterson) sometimes mire it in familiar world-beat pastiche, Brightman's charmed muse manages some transcendent moments nonetheless. Her musical borrowings (Borodin for the title track; Puccini's *Madame Butterfly* for "It's a Beautiful Day") are as compelling as her choice of collaborators: classical violin star Nigel Kennedy and Iraqi vocalist Kadim Al Sahir add compelling touches to the weary timeliness of "The War is Over." The musical influences range from Europe across the Mediterranean and as far East as the Indian roots of "Bollywood" composer A.R. Rahman's "The Journey Home" and Brightman's own "You Take My Breath Away" to evocative recastings of the emblematic standards "Stranger in Paradise" and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World," while ex-Killing Joke keyboardist Jaz Coleman provides the savory East-meets-West orchestrations that ensure Brightman's star turns the seamless foundations they deserve. --Jerry McCulley
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Price: $12.98
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Sale: $8.72
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Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd
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Binding: Audio CD
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Label: Rounder / Umgd
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 2004-03-16
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Description: From a pure-pleasure standpoint, the first Beethoven's Wig was nothing to flip over, and the second disc in the series follows suit. However, that is not to say that this is not a valuable and possibly ingenious record. Those unfamiliar with the premise will quickly get the picture: Producer/writer/lead singer/chief clever guy Richard Perlmutter gathers a bundle of important classical works (Paganini's "Violin Concerto #2," Strauss' "Blue Danube Waltz") and makes up silly, catchy lyrics to lay over them, informing the listener about the piece or its composer. Standing out for their offbeat brilliance this time are "Dvorak the Czechoslovak" ("Humoresque #7," Dvorak) and "Wow What a Wedding Cake" (Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mendelssohn). Few stabs at mixing education with entertainment succeed so well. As a bonus, the second half of the CD repeats the symphonies straight up, presenting a neat opportunity to quiz kids 5-12 on what and who they've just heard. --Tammy La Gorce
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Price: $14.98
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Sale: $8.51
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Manufacturer: Rounder / Pgd
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Beethoven's Wig
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Label: Rounder / Pgd
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 2008-08-12
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Description: Boogie with Beethoven's Wig! Move to the music while delighting in zany lyrics set to classic music pieces written especially for dance. Step into a fun foundation for classical music and timeless dances that will last a lifetime.
Inspired and wildly imaginative, the Beethoven's Wig series has won 40 national awards including three Grammy Award nominations. It has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered and on NBC's Today Show.
The CD booklet includes lyrics, trivia questions and activities. The instrumental performance of each piece is also included without lyrics.
Beethoven's Wig is the classical music sensation for the whole family!
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Price: $16.98
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Sale: $8.96
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Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Maria Callas
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Label: EMI Classics
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 2002-02-12
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Price: $9.98
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Sale: $5.10
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD
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Artist: Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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Label: Sony
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NumberOfDiscs: 1
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ReleaseDate Date: 1992-07-14
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