Russian Album (2006) more music like this

performed by Alexandr Morozov (baritone), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitry Voropaev (tenor), Ilya Bannik (bass), Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-soprano), Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersberg (choir, chorus), Mariinsky (Kirov) Theater Orchestra
composed by Mikhail Glinka, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Rachmaninov

What makes Anna Netrebko more than just the next Russian soprano? Is it her as direct but not as quite so refined technique, her less restrained but much more effective interpretations, and her intensely expressive but always under control tone? Or is it her distinctively non-Russian vibrato -- leaner, cleaner, and with a much tighter focus but ...

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Truly Domingo (2006) more music like this

performed by Carlos Alvarez (vocals), Carlos Chausson (vocals), Catarina Ligendza (vocals), Cheryl Studer (vocals), Gerd Feldhoff (vocals), Giacomo Prestia (vocals), Hans Sotin (vocals), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (vocals), Nicolai Ghiaurov (vocals), Peter Lagger (vocals)
composed by Agustin Lara, Carl Maria von Weber, Carlos Gardel, César Franck, Ernesto de Curtis, Franz Lehár, Franz Schubert, George Frederick Handel, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Juan Carlos Cobian [Cabiaŕn], Manuel Penella Morena, Paolo Tosti

This collection of Plácido Domingo's recordings on the Deutsche Grammophon label, allegedly selected by Domingo himself, doesn't include any texts or even a link to them. Opera has increased in popularity as other classical genres have contracted partly because opera presenters have met audiences halfway with such devices as supertitles -- but ...

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Prokofiev: Scythian Suite; Alexander Nevsky (2003) more music like this

performed by Olga Borodina (mezzo-soprano), Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersberg (choir, chorus), Kirov Orchestra, St.Petersburg, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
composed by Sergey Prokofiev

Is Prokofiev's Scythian Suite a deliberate parody of Stravinsky's La sacra du printemps? On the basis of Valery Gergiev's recording of it, yes, it is. Gergiev's interpretation is comic and a big, brutal slapstick Stravinsky with bone-crushing percussion and brain-rattling brass, with squealing winds and skittering strings. Gergiev's rhythms in ...

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