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The most thrilling, magnificent score out there, Sondheimtruly created a masterpiece with this complex, rich, lyrical score.Sung by the delightfully wicked Angela Lansbury and the powerful Len Cariou - this is IT for musical theatre.
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Mr. Sondheim might have shown us a man torn between the competing impulses of revenge and mercy. He might have given life to the melancholic gloom of a man who lives according to nothing but the principle of vengeance, of an eye for an eye. I...
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This recording is just ok. Cariou is allright at times, but he just doesn't display a whole lot of emotion in his singing. This is esp. evident in "Epiphany." Lansbury, I feel, is not even trying to sing at all. She croaks, and is not an asset to...
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Carole King embodied so much of what the 60's were about, yet her lyrics and vocals still hit a chord today. A classic and timeless offering.
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I've read the female empowerment stuff in here. Huh? "Where you lead, I will follow" There are quite a few others in a similar vein. Maybe it's just all these years of changing sounds and expectations, but boy do these lyrics and arrangements...
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I have this record on vinyl and now twice on cd.We all know the music is N0 1 but to say its remastered and the best yet on cd is just not true. The only thing i can say is the original session must have been recorded on second rate equipement,...
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Simone Dinnerstein has recorded the ultimate goldberg. It's technical mastery, is infused with love and warmth (perhaps we can glimpse some Shubert shadings). I can only think that if Bach were living today, after all the music...
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Amazon editorial review Thomas May starts out, "This is destined to be one of the best-remembered and significant classical releases of 2007," and then goes on to say, "Within a classical-music circuit increasingly unwilling to take artistic...
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Given the publicity surrounding this disc's performer, Oprah's recommendation of it, and its subsequent, unsurprising debut at the top of Billboard's classical chart, a review of "just the music" here seems doomed amidst the deluge of journalistic...
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This is a beautiful cd especially the last two tracks. A totaly emotional suite. Everyone should buy.
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... if you have never listened to Debney, or Korngold, or Herrmann, or Williams. Everything in life is relative. Compared to the previous two installments, "At World's End" is a top-notch orchestral work.
Compared to other entries in the...
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Even if I knew nothing about the Pirates franchise's soundtracks, it was obvious to me within about 30 minutes of sitting down to see the film this weekend that Hans Zimmer was the composer. I don't know if that is a good thing or not - I suppose...
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"The Nutcracker" is one of the most celebrated and beautiful ballets ever performed, and "The Nutcracker Suite" is one of the best scores ever written. According to Mary Clarke: It seems always to have been part of our consciousness... we do not...
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I am an avid fan of the Tchaikovsky ballets and seem to have collected a few recordings of all three. I can generally find something new or interesting about each of my recordings, but I have to say that Gergiev with the Kirov Orchestra has...
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It is true that this is an up tempo recording and as such it steals the moodiness inherent in the ballet as created and desired by Tchaikovsky who would not bow to the sanitised version of the original story. Having danced the role of Clara's...
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Most people who have heard this band were probably first exposed to them via the movie Daredevil. I, for one, would like to thank whomever hooked up Evanescence with that deal. Now, what used to be a realtively unknown band from Little Rock is...
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Granted, very few people have heard Evanescence's previous album called "Origin." If they had, there would be very little reason to purchase this new album "Fallen." At least 4 tracks have been re-used from their former album, and all four have...
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I originally heard Evanescence on the radio while driving with a friend of mine. We both turned to each other and had the same exact question: "Who is that singing on the new Linkin Park single?" Well...unfortunately, the station never gave the...
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These three pieces of Golijov are important works. The compilation is united by a solemnity and cognition of transience, of memories, of life; the ever changing sea conveying fleeting travelers, the pain and loss of the diaspora and holocaust of...
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Golijov is in danger of being priased for music that strikes me as glib and slick. The main work here, "Ocieana,' begins with a blatant appeal of pop taste: strumming guitars against a taped background of waves softly lapping the shore. I can't...
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I just love BACH's pieces.

My favor is the violin and the piano/keyboard pieces, all of them, so stop asking me particular. Perhaps the age just click my training since early childhood.

I was not in favor to study cello...
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The soundtrack to the movie by the same title is excellent. The restoration was superb. The voice of Edith Piaf is masterful.
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I love Piaf and I didn't care for this CD. This singer is simply not believable as Piaf. If I had a voice, I could do better myself. Very disappointing. The passion of Piaf just isn't there, sorry.
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Those who have seen Marion Cotillard's Oscar caliber performance in "La Vie En Rose" will love this disk for the eleven songs she lip-synched so brilliantly in the film--10 of them by Piaf. The old recordings were enhanced with modern technology...
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Yo-Yo Ma performs Appassionato with superb technique, and the music on this album is sublime, mystical, sensual, optimistic, gentle and powerful at the same time. A real treat for those who seek an emotional challenge and a profound artistic...
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I heard this CD being reviewed on NPR's All Things Considered and really liked the snippets they played. However, most of the music on this CD is not Yo-Yo Ma's best work. It was a spur of the moment purchase that I now regret.
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