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The Naxos label, perhaps trying to drum up business for its five Perfect Wedding CDs (one for each season, plus one all-purpose release), offers Perfect Romance, a set of 15 selections from its vast catalog. They are not identified by performer; the only liner materials are a paragraph on love, "the greatest of all emotions," a track list, and a big red rose. If you're planning to use this disc in the big seduction, here are some things you need to know. There is little or no space between tracks (interesting how, thanks to the iPod, this conception of the segue is catching on). The instrumental media range from orchestral pieces to string quartet, piano, a harp solo, and so on -- there's quite a variety. And there are three operatic selections, all famous Puccini pieces. Given all this, the track sequencing makes sense; each piece flows into the next and complements it gently.
The big question is why it's all so dreamy. Romance is intense, but the most churned-up the music here gets is a selection from Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, a tuneful but hardly passionate thing. Most of the works do represent romance in some way, but the inclusion of the orchestral version of Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess, here just called, understandably enough, "Pavane") really makes you wonder. Your romance might be, well, stillborn unless you spice the playlist up with some Liebestod, Liebesfreud, or Liebesleid.
© TiVo
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3 Concert Études, S. 144 (Franz Liszt)
Franz Liszt, Composer - Elizabeth Hainen, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Salut d'amour, Op. 12 (version for orchestra) (Edward Elgar)
Edward Elgar, Composer - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Adrian Leaper, Conductor
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
La bohème, Act I (Giacomo Puccini)
Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Will Humburg, Conductor - Jonathan Welch, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Concerto nach Italienischen Gusto, F dur, BWV 971 (Claude Debussy)
Claude Debussy, Composer - François-Joël Thiollier, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Lakmé (Léo Delibes)
Léo Delibes, Composer - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Johannes Wildner, Conductor - Adriana Kohutkova, Artist, MainArtist - Denisa Slepkovska, Artist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Gymnopédie No. 1, Lent et douloureux (Arr. D. Sosin for Flute & Harp) (Erik Satie)
Erik Satie, Composer - Judy Loman, Artist - Nora Shulman, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 (Frédéric Chopin)
Frederic Chopin, Composer - Idil Biret, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
String Quartet No. 2 in D major
Alexander Borodin, Composer - Budapest Haydn Quartet, Ensemble, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Turandot (Giacomo Puccini)
Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Michael Halasz, Conductor - Thomas Harper, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Gianni Schicchi (Giacomo Puccini)
Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Luba Orgonasova, Artist, MainArtist - Will Humburg, Conductor
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43 (Serge Rachmaninoff)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Composer - Antoni Wit, Conductor - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Idil Biret, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Pavane pour une infante defunte (version for orchestra) (Maurice Ravel)
Maurice Ravel, Composer - Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Keith Clark, Conductor
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Liebesträume, S. 541 (Franz Liszt)
Franz Liszt, Composer - Jenö Jando, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
2 Arabesques, L. 66 (Claude Debussy)
Claude Debussy, Composer - Balázs Szokolay, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, 'Pathetique'
Antoni Wit, Conductor - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
Album review
The Naxos label, perhaps trying to drum up business for its five Perfect Wedding CDs (one for each season, plus one all-purpose release), offers Perfect Romance, a set of 15 selections from its vast catalog. They are not identified by performer; the only liner materials are a paragraph on love, "the greatest of all emotions," a track list, and a big red rose. If you're planning to use this disc in the big seduction, here are some things you need to know. There is little or no space between tracks (interesting how, thanks to the iPod, this conception of the segue is catching on). The instrumental media range from orchestral pieces to string quartet, piano, a harp solo, and so on -- there's quite a variety. And there are three operatic selections, all famous Puccini pieces. Given all this, the track sequencing makes sense; each piece flows into the next and complements it gently.
The big question is why it's all so dreamy. Romance is intense, but the most churned-up the music here gets is a selection from Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, a tuneful but hardly passionate thing. Most of the works do represent romance in some way, but the inclusion of the orchestral version of Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess, here just called, understandably enough, "Pavane") really makes you wonder. Your romance might be, well, stillborn unless you spice the playlist up with some Liebestod, Liebesfreud, or Liebesleid.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:09:02
- Main artist: Elizabeth Hainen
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Classical Opera
(C) 2006 Naxos (P) 2006 Naxos
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