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The English Songbook / Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2008-03-04

Works: Charles Villiers Stanford: La Belle Dame Sans Merci, ballad for voice & piano; Songs (50) of Old Ireland, for voice & piano, "My love's an arbutus"; Ivor Gurney: Elizabethan Songs (5) for voice & pia...
Performers: Bostridge, Ian; Drake, Julius [Piano]

"These 24 songs are, according to Bostridge, among 'the greatest and best-loved in the English tradition' and add up to a recital of infinite lyrical...continue...

On Wings of Songs & Zarzuela Arias / Victoria de los Angeles

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2006-08-01

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: On Wings of Song; Edvard Grieg: Jeg elsker dig! (I Love Thee!), song for voice & piano, Op. 5/3; Johannes Brahms: Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 49; Antonin Dvorák: Gypsy So...
Performers: de los Angeles, Victoria
Conductors: Frühbeck de Burgos, Rafae

"Victoria de los Angeles's recital of zarzuela arias is a most rewarding disc. A carefully selected programme, finely sung and played, offers the most persuasive...continue...