Maria Callas - New Sounds of Maria Callas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Not only do people all around the world continue to discover the beauty and power of Maria Callas's voice, but it's because of that voice that many first discover the beauty and power of opera. The myths and misconceptions about the opera icon are probed in the Callas Effect, the new documentary on DVD included in the Experience Edition here. That set also includes a 60-page booklet and photos inside a luxury hardcover package; both editions contain 2 CDs of her best-loved aria recordings from Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, MacBeth, Turandot, Tosca, Faust, La Traviata, La Boheme, Il Trovatore, Manon Lescaut, La Gioconda, Carmen and more!

2014 Maria Callas remastered series reissue. With this Abbey Road 24-bit 96kHz remaster, engineers returned to the original master tapes, bringing new clarity & brilliance to her legendary studio recordings. This collection from one of the most renowned and influential Opera singers of the 20th century features Callas in a glittering selection of Opera favorites by Bizet, Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini, Rossini, Verdi and many more showcasing her unique voice & her heartbreaking portrayal of tragic heroines.

At the age of just fifteen, the budding composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) lost his way during a summer hike on the Heimgarten in the Bavarian Alps, and ended up in a thunderstorm. The next day, he fantasized about the experience on the piano. - Twenty years later, that memory had matured into a concept describing a one-day hike in the form of a symphonic poem, and in 1915 - a further fifteen years later - Strauss finally completed his masterpiece. The hike begins in the darkness before dawn, and after sunrise the ascent goes through a forest, past a stream and a waterfall, through meadows and pastures, and up to a glacier. The hiker then loses his way, and after several risky moments arrives at the summit, where he also experiences a vision. The weather then suddenly worsens, and the descent is accompanied by heavy rain and fierce thunderstorms. The eventful day - summarized in just sixty minutes of music - ends with a sunset, and darkness returns. InchAn Alpine SymphonyInch is probably Strauss' most famous symphonic poem. It's content is easily understandable, and the work became especially well-known for it's gigantic orchestra. The music is far from heavy-handed, however, with many of the passages orchestrated like chamber music. Like a kind of greeting from the Bavarian Alps, as it were, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and it's chief conductor Mariss Jansons have placed this masterpiece, and the music of Richard Strauss in general, on the programme of their forthcoming tour of Asia in late 2016. The live recording of InchAlpine SymphonyInch concerts planned for October 2016 in Munich's Philharmonie i'm Gasteig is enhanced on this latest from BR-KLASSIK by the addition of Strauss' symphonic poem InchDeath and TransfigurationInch, first performed in 1890; the recording here is of concerts performed in Munich in February 2014. - We thus have two