Safari Style
 From Amazon.com: As Western lavishness collided with striking native elements in the vast reaches of the East African savanna, the Safari style was born. Blending ethnic African with colonial European, the look emphasizes relaxed yet luxurious living, [... more]
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Most Beautiful Villages Of Ireland
From Amazon.co.uk: Many a travel picture book is designed to make us dream, and like its equivalent in the cookery field, we can often gaze lovingly at things that we will have no experience of. Christopher Fitz-Simon's The Most Beautiful Villages of [... more]
CDN$50.00
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Gregorian Chant for Good Frida
Let it become a tradition: It has become a tradition for me to listen to this CD around Passion Week. The disc includes Gregorian chants associated with the liturgy of Good Friday. The Passion narrative from the Gospel of John - over a half-hour of [... more]
CDN$6.99
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Coro
plan for an imaginary city: That is how Berio characterizes "Coro." He also calls it "a substantially epic and and narrative structure made up mostly of self-contained and often contrasting episodes." As the title indicates, " [... more]
CDN$17.99
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V1 Collection
Volume I is not enough: It is a welcome development that more and more of Eleanor Steber's work from 1940-1960 is being reissued. She was the greatest American soprano in her prime and too few of her complete opera performances were recorded. People who [... more]
CDN$15.99
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Tannhauser Comp
From Amazon.co.uk: Another Paris Tannhäuser recording, this one seeing the adaptable Plácido Domingo take a break from the world of Italianate opera to try on the mantle of Heldentenor. Domingo's clear, manly voice is well suited to the [... more]
CDN$57.99
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Semele, Gardiner
From Amazon.com: Although he billed this piece as an oratorio, it's really an opera--the first ever in English, and one of the finest too. Handel's audience wasn't fooled for a minute, and a successful performance needs a dazzling cast of singers, just [... more]
CDN$28.99
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V22 Romantic Pno Cto
From Amazon.com: Back when the film Shine was popular, Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto became all the rage as a work making nearly suicidal demands of its soloist. But one mountain of challenges to the virtuoso you're not likely to encounter in live [... more]
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Very Best Of
In a class by himself: Franco Corelli (1921-2003), who sang from 1951 to 1976, was the greatest tenore di forza of the post-WWII era. A powerful and viscerally exciting singer, never a subtle, elegant, or refined one, he had his detractors (who found him [... more]
CDN$13.99
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Mendelssohn Discoveries
Not such major discoveries, regarding calibre of these works, but lovely & important to own if one loves Mendelssohn's music!: Being surprised that nobody yet has contributed comments about this disc of previously unrecorded piano works by Felix [... more]
CDN$18.99
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American Houses: A Field Guide to the Architecture of ...
An artist's perspective: The author is the illustrator as well, and his pen and ink renditions are museum worthy. As an artist, and not an academic, his approach is informal and slightly irreverent. The book's emphasis is on the Colonial era, whose [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Four Syms
English music of strong character and originality: Arne is not one of those countless Handel imitators who sprung up to fill his shoes after the great German master's death. Although I personally like the music of such composers as Boyce and Stanley, [... more]
CDN$21.99
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