Classical & Opera

Ethereal voices

Advantages: Surreal, peaceful, hypnotic, magic
Disadvantages: Nono other than shedding the odd tear

"One only sees clearly through the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes". Antoine de Saint-Exupery; Do I like opera? Not really. As much as I appreciate its cultural value it was never present in my life and I was never drawn to it. In the mi ...

lazuli77 15.09.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Andrea Bocelli

A Voice of Our Time

Advantages: An extraordinary voice from an extraordinary man.
Disadvantages: He doesn't have enough CD's out to keep me happy.

Andrea Bocelli's voice is soothing and mellow, and it just keeps getting better and better. It does not matter if you can understand the language he is singing in or not because the emotion is transmitted by his voice in such a way that language is meani ...

maureenjallen 16.05.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Andrea Bocelli

The day the music died

Advantages: A true great amongst men
Disadvantages: none

...think a life spent in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I devoted my life to.' Luciano Pavarotti 1935 - 2007 I am not a particularly sentimental person and I certainly have no respect for the cult of celebrity, but I will not deny ...

Digbycat 06.09.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Luciano Pavarotti

Morning in the Hall of the Mountain King

Advantages: Slow laments, sensuous dances
Disadvantages: None are possible

Composed by Edvard Grieg Performed by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Herbert von Karajan Label Deutsche Grammophon Price £6.99 Released: April 1, 1989 Available in most good music stores Edvard Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway in 184 ...

MAFARRIMOND 10.05.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Grieg - Peer Gynt

Music For The Ages-- Beethoven's Late Quartets

Advantages: Music of astonishing perfection; performances that are breathtaking and up to the task.
Disadvantages: Cheesy cover art.

Certain compositions stand out in history as the quintessence, the ne plus ultra of their form. Think: Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations,’ ‘Mass in B Minor,’ and ‘Art of Fugue,’ Mozart’s ‘Requiem,’ and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Piano Sonatas, Opus 109-111. ...

Soaring_Chicken 15.04.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Quartetto Italiano