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ADVENTURE

Symphonie Fantastique, by Hector Berlioz

Symphonie Fantastique
Hector Berlioz
The quintessential Romantic, Berlioz built this lush, emotional work around the story of a gifted artist who, in the depths of lovesickness, poisons himself with opium. Leonard Bernstein said this was the first musical expedition into psychedelia, due to its hallucinatory, dream-like nature.


intense, emotional

WORK OF ART

Rite of Spring, by Igor Stravinsky

Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky
When first performed in 1913, this complex and unpredictable masterpiece caused fistfights in the aisles. It continues to shock, stir, and confound listeners to this day. Written as a ballet around a series of episodes depicting a pagan spring ritual, it's a powerful and dramatic statement.

dazzling & powerful

SYMPHONY

Symphony No. 1, by Johannes Brahms

Symphony No. 1
Johannes Brahms
Brahms's First is surely the most overtly dramatic of his four symphonies. Grand in its large and emphatic gestures and integrating high drama, lyricism, and an emotional, magnificent finale, this work firmly established Brahms as a worthy successor to Beethoven.

final masterwork &

TRUE GENIUS

Requiem, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Requiem
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mystery and myth still surround this, one of classical music's most towering and iconic artistic achievements. Featuring solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, much of this solemn and powerful rumination on the gravitas of mortality was written from Mozart's own deathbed.


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Complete Original Jacket Collection [Box Set] [Limited Edition] [United Kingdom]

Complete Original Jacket Collection [Box Set] [Limited Edition] [United Kingdom]

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The Best

The Best (2005) more music like this

performed by Alberto Bartoli (percussion), Antonella Pepe (soprano), Eric Garrett (baritone), Fabio Sartoni (drums), Joan Sutherland (soprano), Kameron Brown (double bass), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Marco Tamburini (trumpet), Michele Centonze (guitar)
composed by Cesare Andrea Bixio, Domenico Modugno, E.A. Mario [pseudonym of Giovanni Gaeta], Eduardo di Capua, Ernesto de Curtis, Friedrich von Flotow, Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Lucio Dalla, Paolo Tosti

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Pavarotti's Greatest Hits

Pavarotti's Greatest Hits (1985) more music like this

performed by Eric Garrett (vocals), Gian Carlo Laccardi (vocals), Joan Sutherland (soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Nicolai Ghiaurov (vocals), Royal Opera House Chorus Covent Garden (choir, chorus)
composed by Amilcare Ponchielli, César Franck, Charles Gounod, Ernesto de Curtis, Franz Schubert, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Luigi Denza, Richard Strauss, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Vincenzo Bellini

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Jardim abandonado

Jardim abandonado (2007) more music like this

performed by Odair Assad (guitar), Sergio Assad (guitar)
composed by Adam Guettel, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Clarice Assad, Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud, George Gershwin, Sergio Assad

Sérgio and Odair Assad's Nonesuch disc Jardim abandonado apparently has been in the pipeline for some time; part of it was recorded in 2002 and the rest in 2006. However, this mixed program of works... read more

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Maria

Maria (2007) more music like this

performed by Ada Pesch (violin), Benjamin Forster (drums), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Celso Albelo (tenor), Claudio Mermoud (guitar), Daniel Pezzotti (cello), Elena Vicini (castanets), International Chamber Soloists, Isabel Amaya (clapping), Luca Pisaroni (bass)
composed by Felix Mendelssohn, Fromental Halévy, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioachino Rossini, Giovanni Pacini, Giuseppe Persiani, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Lauro Rossi, Manuel Garcia, Maria Malibran, Vincenzo Bellini

In this tribute to the great nineteenth century mezzo-soprano, Maria Malibran, Cecilia Bartoli sings selections from the repertoire for which Malibran was known. Malibran also ventured into soprano... read more

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Bach: Goldberg Variations

Bach: Goldberg Variations (2007) more music like this

performed by Simone Dinnerstein (piano)
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

2007 has been a banner year for Goldbergs; no less than five recorded versions of the piece had appeared by the end of July, including a digitally reinterpreted incarnation of Glenn Gould's famous... read more

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Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies

Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies (2003) more music like this

performed by Eileen Farrell (soprano), Jan Peerce (tenor), Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano), Norman Scott (bass), Robert Shaw Chorale (choir, chorus), NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (conductor)
composed by Ludwig van Beethoven

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Mozart: Don Giovanni

Mozart: Don Giovanni more music like this

performed by Alessandro Guerzoni (bass), Alexandrina Pendatchanska (soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Lorenzo Regazzo (bass baritone), Nikolay Borchev (bass), Olga Pasiecznik (soprano), Sunhae Im (soprano), RIAS-Kammerchor (choir, chorus)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

René Jacobs is an acknowledged master of informed period performance practice, and he turns his considerable arsenal of research, insight, and experience to Don Giovanni, which he maintains has... read more

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25 Classical Favorites

25 Classical Favorites more music like this

performed by Alexander Pervomaysky (violin), Dubravka Tomsic (piano), Ernst Muhlbacher (horn), Frank Morelli (bassoon), Guiomar Novaes (piano), Humbert Lucarelli (oboe), Ingrid Haebler (piano), Jack Wellbaum (piccolo), New York Philomusica Winds, Susan Jolles (harp)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi, Frédéric Chopin, George Frederick Handel, Georges Bizet, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Strauss II, Johannes Brahms, John Philip Sousa, Maurice Ravel, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Rachmaninov, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazón: Duets

Anna Netrebko & Rolando Villazón: Duets (2007) more music like this

performed by Anna Netrebko (soprano), Nadine Weissmann (mezzo-soprano), Nicola Luisotti (vocals), Rolando Villazón (tenor), Dresden Staatskapelle, Nicola Luisotti (conductor)
composed by Charles Gounod, Federico Moreno Torroba, Gaetano Donizetti, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Jules Massenet, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

Soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Rolando Villazón are paired here in "opera's greatest love duets," music that allows their ample and expressive voices to soar. Villazón has been compared to Domingo... read more

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