Duo YumEno - Hagen: Heike Quinto - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The first volume of the Naxos selection of operatic excerpts includes music ranging from Mozart to Puccini. The first of these composers is represented by the famous aria of the Queen of the Night from The Magic Flute. Mozart had settled in Vienna, independent of a patron and of his father's guidance, in 1781. Ten years later, after variable successes, his fortunes seemed about to take a turn for the better. In 1791, the year of his death, he w rote two operas, the coronation opera La clemenza di Tito for Prague and the German Singspiel Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) for a suburban theatre in Vienna. The latter was still running at the time of his death in early December. The opera, imbued with Masonic symbolism and with a libretto by the actor-manager Emanuel Schikaneder, who took a leading comic role in the work, deals with the ordeals and initiation of Tamino and his earthier companion, the bird-catcher Papageno, into the mysteries of enlightenment and his final union with Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night. In the first act of the opera the latter appears to Tamino, seeking his help in the rescue of her daughter from Sarastro, whom she brands as evil, although it later transpires that he is the leader of the enlightened band into which Tamino is eventually admitted. In Der Hölle Rache she declares, in brilliant coloratura, her enmity to her former consort Sarastro. Album Tracks 1. Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg Ov - Polish Nrso/Johannes Wildner 2. Aida Ritorna Vincitor! - Maria Dragoni 3. Il Trovatore Manrico?... Di Quella Pira - Daniela Longhi/Maurizio Frusoni/Jozsef Mukk/Budapest Festival Chor 4. Cosi Fan Tutte Come Scoglio - Johanna Borowska 5. Thais Meditation - Janos Selmeczi 6. Manon Lescaut Sola, Perduta, Abbandonata - Miriam Gauci 7. L'elisir D'amore Una Furtiva Lagrima - Vincenzo la Scola 8. La Traviata Follie!... Se

Hanukka, the Festival of Dedication, is celebrated by Jews everywhere to commemorate the heroic Maccabean victory in 165 B.C.E. over the Greco-Syrians in the fight for religious freedom. It marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem. Album Tracks 1. B'rakhot L'hanukka - Raymond Goldstein 2. Hannerot Hallalu - Hugo Adler 3. Ma' Oz Tzur - Aaron Miller 4. To Celebrate a Miracle - Samuel Dler 5. Likhtelekh - Leo Low 6. Di Khanike Likht - Zavel Zilberts 7. Hanukka Madrigal (Mi Y'mallel?) - Herbert Fromm 8. The Flames of Freedom O Rock of My Salvation - Samuel Adler 9. The Flames of Freedom The Lights We Have Kindled - Samuel Adler 10. The Flames of Freedom For the Miracles - Samuel Adler 11. The Flames of Freedom Who Kindled These Lights? - Samuel Adler 12. The Flames of Freedom Into the Temple Judah Came - Samuel Adler 13. The Flames of Freedom Who Can Retell? - Samuel Adler 14. The Flames of Freedom Candles in the Night - Samuel Adler 15. The Flames of Freedom Rock of Ages - Samuel Adler 16. Mizmor Shir Hannukkat Habbayit - Solomon Ancis 17. Nun, Gimel, Hei, Shin - Judith Shatin 18. Adonai Z'kharanu - Alexander Olshanetsky 19. Aspects of a Great Miracle Light the Legend - Michael Isaacson 20. Aspects of a Great Miracle A Hanukka Dreidl - Michael Isaacson 21. Aspects of a Great Miracle Light - Michael Isaacson 22. Aspects of a Great Miracle Psalm 150 - Michael Isaacson

From the kingdom of the castanets to the land behind the rainbow, Duo Intermezzo presents a second CD of colorful music. From Manuel de Falla to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Fritz Kreisler to Johannes Brahms, this is an amusing tour around the world with so much to discover! Album Tracks 1. Chanson Serenade Espagnole, Op. 150 2. Danse Espagnole No. 1 3. Tanzlied Des Pierrot 4. Flight of the Bumble-Bee 5. Zdes' Khorosho 6. Guitarre, Op. 45, No. 2 7. Intermezzo, 'Souvenir de Vienne' 8. No. 2 in D minor 9. Vogel Als Prophet 10. Tambourin Chinois, Op. 3 11. Estrellita 12. Als Die Alte Mutter 13. Arise, 'Sea Murmurs' 14. No. 7 in a Major 15. The Swan 16. Hora Staccato 17. Meditation 18. No. 5 in G minor 19. Over the Rainbow 20. Dance of the Blessed Spirits 21. Alt-Wien 22. Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20