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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Falla: La vida brevePalau de les Arts Reine Sofia, Valencia, 2011
Cristina Gallardo-Domâs (Salud), Jorge de León Paco (Paco), María Luisa Corbacho (Grandmother), Sandra Ferrández (Carmela), Felipe Bou (Uncle Sarvaor), Isaac Galan (Manuel), Juan Carlos Gómez Pastor (Guitarrista), Antonio Lozano (Forge's Voice) Orchestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana, Lorin Maazel Staged by Giancarlo del Monaco Released for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray! A national monument in Spain, Manuel de Falla’s La vida breve is perhaps the greatest opera ever written in the Spanish language. A kind of ‘tragic zarzuela’, it unites verismo atmosphere, Andalusian local colour and a score shimmering with reminiscences of French Impressionism. La vida breve is the story of a poor gypsy and her lover, who is engaged to wed a wealthy girl. “Simply a stroke of genius” wrote Spain’s Opera Viva about Guancarlo del Monaco’s austere, minimalist staging at Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reine Sofia. Giancarlo del Monaco has worked with most important opera houses and festivals (MET, La Scala, Bregenz etc.) Running Time Total: 82 minutes DVD: DTS 5.0, PCM Stereo Subtitles English, German, French, Spanish “Gallardo-Domâs is vocally dominating and give a remarkable study in physicality and sexual frustration...Jorge de Leon as the faithless Paco and Maria Luisa Corbacho as the Grandmother are also powerful presences...Maazel conducts with fire, and the ensemble dances are vividly staged. A short, unhappy life, magnificently rendered.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2013 ***** “this highly sympathetic video reveals the piece's strengths without trying to convince you that it's something more than it is...It's a compliment to say that a number of moments are hard to watch because the emotion is so undiluted...[Gallardo-Domas's] theatrical savvy is such that she can sustain her emotional torment during long non-singing passages. Vocally, the role fits her like a glove...Other voices are all excellent verismo-weight singers” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 “Its brutality is reinforced by Giancarlo Del Monaco's production. Although the stage is large, the stark setting...gives a suffocating sense of claustrophobia...Tempos tend to be slow, often hypnotically so; and even when they're not, Maazel's stress of dark colours and his bass-tilted balances give the music a consistent sense of threat...Gallardo-Domâs holds us in her grip from her opening notes.” International Record Review, October 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Victoria de los Angeles, Pablo Civil, Rosario Gomez, Emilio Paya & Josefina Puigsech Orquesta Sinfonica de la Opera de Barcelona & Capilla Clasica Polifonica, Ernesto Halffter Recorded in the Palacio de la Musica, Barcelona, 1954 “De los Angeles's 1965 stereo remake under Frühbeck de Burgos outclasses this 1954 version in depth of characterisation and finely tuned nuance… Yet there's still a great deal to make this earlier recording well worth hearing. De los Angeles's voice is purer and more youthful, portraying a correspondingly greater vulnerability in her relationship with the man she worships. Her solos are sung with the utmost beauty and clarity, and she's incomparably affecting in her second solo as she realises Paco's treachery.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2006 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Falla: La vida brevePalau de les Arts Reine Sofia, Valencia, 2011
Cristina Gallardo-Domâs (Salud), Jorge de León (Paco), María Luisa Corbacho (Grandmother), Sandra Ferrández (Carmela), Felipe Bou (Uncle Sarvaor), Isaac Galan (Manuel), Juan Carlos Gómez Pastor (Guitarrista), Antonio Lozano (Forge's Voice) Orchestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana, Lorin Maazel Staged by Giancarlo del Monaco Released for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray! A national monument in Spain, Manuel de Falla’s La vida breve is perhaps the greatest opera ever written in the Spanish language. A kind of ‘tragic zarzuela’, it unites verismo atmosphere, Andalusian local colour and a score shimmering with reminiscences of French Impressionism. La vida breve is the story of a poor gypsy and her lover, who is engaged to wed a wealthy girl. “Simply a stroke of genius” wrote Spain’s Opera Viva about Guancarlo del Monaco’s austere, minimalist staging at Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reine Sofia. Giancarlo del Monaco has worked with most important opera houses and festivals (MET, La Scala, Bregenz etc.) Running Time Total: 82 minutes BD: DTS-HD MA 5.0, PCM Stereo Subtitles English, German, French, Spanish “Gallardo-Domâs is vocally dominating and give a remarkable study in physicality and sexual frustration...Jorge de Leon as the faithless Paco and Maria Luisa Corbacho as the Grandmother are also powerful presences...Maazel conducts with fire, and the ensemble dances are vividly staged. A short, unhappy life, magnificently rendered.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2013 ***** “this highly sympathetic video reveals the piece's strengths without trying to convince you that it's something more than it is...It's a compliment to say that a number of moments are hard to watch because the emotion is so undiluted...[Gallardo-Domas's] theatrical savvy is such that she can sustain her emotional torment during long non-singing passages. Vocally, the role fits her like a glove...Other voices are all excellent verismo-weight singer” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 “Its brutality is reinforced by Giancarlo Del Monaco's production. Although the stage is large, the stark setting...gives a suffocating sense of claustrophobia...Tempos tend to be slow, often hypnotically so; and even when they're not, Maazel's stress of dark colours and his bass-tilted balances give the music a consistent sense of threat...Gallardo-Domâs holds us in her grip from her opening notes.” International Record Review, October 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Falla - Piano Music Volume 2
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Ana María Sánchez, Vincente Ombuena, Alicia Nafé, Alfonso Echeverría, Enrique Baquerizo, María José Suárez, Manuel Cid, Pedro Sanz, Antonio Reyes (guitar) Coro de la Fundación Príncipe de Asturias, Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, Maximiano Valdés | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Fernando de la Mora (tenor), Martha Senn (mezzo-soprano), William Alvarado (baritone), Cecilia Angell (mezzo-soprano), Claudio Muskus (baritone), Elizabeth Almenar (soprano), Elvira Torres (vocals), Maria Eglee Perez (vocals), Lisbeth Rojas (vocals), Carlos Silva (vocals), Carlos Enrique Iglesias (vocals), Jorge Luis Negrete Martinez (guitar), Hector Talavera Medina (guitar) Schola Cantorum de Caracas, Alberto Grau Cantoria, Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, Rafael Suarez Polyphonic Choir, Eduardo Mata | |
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| |  | Kreisler - Transcriptions for Violin and Piano
Dimitry Sitkovetsky (violin) & Bruno Canino (piano) | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | La vida breve & Goyescas
Maria Rodriguez (soprano), Paola Pellicciari (mezzo), Giorgia Milanesi (soprano), Cesar Hernandez (tenor), Rafaella Angeletti (soprano), Yikun Chung (tenor), Davide Damiani (baritone), Francesca Franci (mezzo) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos De Falla composed ’La vida breve’ between 1904 and 1905 for a competition which promised to stage the winner’s opera at the Teatro Real in Madrid. De Falla won, but the opera had to wait until 1913 and undergo a long process of revision before it went on stage at the Municipal Casino in Nice. It was a resounding success. The best of the opera lies in its picturesque parts: impressions of the Spanish land, feeling for landscape, for the sky, the day, the time all envelop the characters like a subtle atmosphere: the picturesque is thus intimately bound up with the life of the drama. ’Goyescas’ by Enrique Granados was first performed in public three years after ’La vida breve’. It is a zarzuela which cites literally many of the pieces in the piano collection of the same name - inspired by the famous paintings by Goya exhibited at the Prado museum. Completed in 1911 it soon became one of Granados’s best-known instrumental works. The Parisian première of ’Goyescas’ was postponed on account of the outbreak of the first world war. Granados thus accepted the invitation of the Metropolitan in New York, where the opera received its first (very successful) performance on 28th January 1916. In a very natural manner Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and the entire cast bring across the depth and passion of these beautiful operas. | |
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| |  | Piano FantasyMusic for Two Pianos
Albéniz: | Suite española No. 1, Op. 47 Pavana-Capricho Op. 12 Triana (from Iberia, book 2) (trans. E. Granados) Navarra (trans. Frank Marshall) | Bizet: | Jeux d'enfants (Petite Suite), Op. 22 | Brahms: | Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 Nos. 1-21 (complete) | Dvorak: | Slavonic Dances Nos. 1-8, Op. 46 Nos. 1-8 Slavonic Dances Nos. 9-16, Op. 72 Nos. 1-8 | Falla: | La vida breve El amor brujo | Fauré: | Dolly Suite, Op. 56 | Gershwin: | Rhapsody in Blue (version for 2 pianos) Piano Concerto in F major (version for 2 pianos) Rhapsody in Blue (version for 2 pianos & orchestra) Cleveland Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly | Infante: | Danses andalouses | Lecuona: | Suite Andalucía: Malagueña | Milhaud: | Scaramouche, suite for two pianos, Op. 165b | Poulenc: | Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos & Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seija Ozawa Capriccio (d'après Le Bal masqué) for two pianos Elégie for two pianos, FP175 L'Embarquement pour Cythère, for 2 pianos | Ravel: | Ma Mère l'Oye | Scriabin: | Fantasy in A minor Op. post. | Tchaikovsky: | Capriccio italien, Op. 45 (transcr. Tchaikovsky) Swan Lake, Op. 20 (excerpts) (arr. Debussy) Sleeping Beauty, Suite, Op. 66a (arr. Rachmaninov) Marche slave, Op. 31 (arr. Batalina) |
Katia & Marielle Labèque (piano) | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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