"[Cavalleria Rusticana:] Bergonzi is a stylish, ardent Turiddu whose virile charms glitter in his every phrase and Fiorenza Cossotto makes a thrilling Santuzza motivated and driven by a palpable conviction; (...) But the real hero of the opera is Karajan, whose direction of this powerful work is magnificent. (…) [Pagliacci:] As the rivals, Carlo Bergonzi and Giuseppe Taddei are superb. Taddei’s sinister, hunch-backed clown, gently forcing the play-within-the-play closer to reality until it finally bursts out violently is a masterly assumption, and Karajan controls the slow build-up of tension with a grasp that few conductors could equal. (…) The third disc is filled by a selection of very rich, very soft-centred opera intermezzos."

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This is a continuation of the 8-disk Italian course that Michel taught using the two students in the classroom method. Except this time you are the only student so it goes much faster and you cover a lot of ground…

Sabrina Malheiros is the daughter of Alex Malheiros, bass player in legendary Brazilian jazz/funk trio Azymuth, and she was clearly paying attention while she was growing up.
This is a remastered, repackaged and, on half a dozen tracks, reworked version of an album that first came out in summer 2008, and the new approach ups the instrumental ante.
Although for a vocalist this might seem a slightly reckless move, it was clearly a smart thing to do, as by allowing the players to show off a bit more the album hits a fabulous balance. The intricate, interlaced rhythms now combine with virtuoso musicianship to allow Malheiros’s honey-dripping singing to work as part of the whole, instead of merely riding on top of it…….

Music writen by Perico Sambeat except "Crazy She Calls Me" by Ben Sigman and Jaff Russell. Spanish alto saxophonist Perico Sambeat, sometimes heard in Britain with Guy Barker or Tim Garland, is a performer with echoes of Art Pepper, Lee Konitz and Eric Dolphy who is none the less an artist of imposing character within a straightish postbop context.

In its brief existence, THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES has firmly established itself as a peerless suspense anthology. Marking the series' debut in audio with seven selected stories and an introduction by guest editor Ed McBain, this collection features such literary luminaries as John Updike, Lawrence Block, Joyce Carol Oates, and Brendan DuBois…

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