Jo Sgammato
Jo Sgammato is a writer and journalist who writes about popular culture. She is the author of His pure tenor voice, amazing guitar playing, and superb songwriting skills have earned Vince Gill eleven Grammies and seventeen Country Music ... [... more]
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The Irish Tenors / McNamara, McDermott, Kearns, Tynan
From Amazon.com: Forty years after the Clancy Brothers found popularity singing traditional Irish folksongs to an American audience, along comes the Irish Tenors, the trio of John McDermott, Anthony Kearns, and Ronan Tynan. Backed by plenty of coverage [... more]
CDN$20.99
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Creation Comp
Amazon.com essential recording: This classic performance of Haydn's greatest choral masterpiece was beloved tenor Fritz Wunderlich's last recording. He sings all of the arias, but he died before finishing the recitatives, which are here taken by Werner [... more]
CDN$28.99
Amazon CA |
José Cura: Puccini Arias
From Amazon.co.uk: The Argentinian tenor José Cura took nine days in summer 1997 to record these 21 Puccini arias, which is about par considering there are rarely more than two in any opera. Counting Il Trittico (the trilogy of Il Tabarro, Gianni [... more]
CDN$19.99
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Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Another side of John McDermott: John McDermott, one of the original Irish Tenors, has released a dozen or more solo recordings over the past ten years, ranging in composition from traditional Irish ballads to songs honoring Veterans of all wars. In " [... more]
CDN$21.99
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Aria The Opera Album
From Amazon.co.uk: Andrea Bocelli is no opera singer, but he shows far more potential in this album than does another pop-vocalist tenor-wannabe, Michael Bolton. For one thing, he can shake off the crooner mannerisms and really sing when performing music [... more]
CDN$17.99
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Puccini: Tosca
Amazon.com essential recording: Little can be added to what's been written about this landmark recording, except that Walter Legge's 1953 mono production yields nothing to modern Tosca recordings for vivacity and theatrical impact--especially Maria [... more]
CDN$34.36
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My Wild Irish Rose
Even if you're under the shower, you'll hear every word.: The great Irish tenor's art is still accessible to music lovers. New reissues have appeared very recently. RCA Victor selected from their vast archive this collection of 22 of his recordings for 19 [... more]
CDN$10.99
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Very Best of the Irish Tenors,
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CDN$20.99
Amazon CA |
Danny Boy
OUR DESERT ISLAND CHOICE!: MY WIFE AND I AGREE THAT IF WE COULD TAKE ONLY ONE DISC TO A DESERT ISLAND WITH US, IT WOULD BE THIS ONE (ALTHOUGH I WOULD MISS A BEETHOVEN'S 9TH AND A FEW OTHERS!) HE 'OWNS' DANNY BOY AND THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER HAS EVEN [... more]
CDN$13.99
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La Rondine: Comp
From Amazon.com: This is one of the problem operas of Puccini's maturity, something he began writing while under the spell of Lehar's The Merry Widow that never quite came together as a piece of theater. But the score contains some of Puccini's most [... more]
CDN$36.99
Amazon CA |
Joshua
From Amazon.com: Handel's Old Testament oratorios can be difficult to tell apart--tenor Israelite hero, bass enemy or éminence grise, soprano ingenue, and alto priest or youth. What distinguishes Joshua? Real characters: tenor Joshua, confident to [... more]
CDN$39.99
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