Duets in Love

Duets in Love

Duets in Love

ASIN: B000002YX7

Track Listings
 
1. Sometimes When We Touch - Mark Gray, Tammy Wynette
2. Size Seven Round (Made of Gold) - Lacy J. Dalton, George Jones
3. Place to Fall Apart - Janie Fricke, Merle Haggard
4. Paradise Tonight - Mickey Gilley, Charly McClain
5. On My Knees - Janie Fricke, Charlie Rich
6. Let's Get over Them Together - Moe Bandy, Becky Hobbs
7. I Love You, I Love You - David Houston, Barbara Mandrell
8. If I Were a Carpenter - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
9. Love Can't Ever Get Better Than This - Ricky Skaggs, Sharon White
10. Very First Lasting Love - Shelby Lynne

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Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy - My Favorite Love Duets
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Excellent value
Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy - My Favorite Love Duets

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  5. Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy: My Favorite Puccini

ASIN: B000004258
Release Date: 1994-08-23

Tracks:

  1. La Boheme: O soave fanciulla
  2. La Traviata: Un di felice
  3. La Traviata: Parigi, o cara
  4. Lucia di Lammermoor: Ah! Verranno a te sull'aure
  5. Rigoletto: E il sol dell'anima...Che m'ami, deh, ripetimi
  6. Don Giovanni: La ci darem la mano
  7. A Masked Ball: M'ami, m'ami!...Oh, qual soave brivido
  8. Madame Butterfly: Vogliatemi bene
  9. Aida: Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida...Fuggiam gli ardori inospiti
  10. Manon Lescaut: Oh, saro la piu bella!
  11. TOSCA: Gente la dentro...Mario! Mario! Mario!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent value.......2001-04-18

This is a great CD of popular operatic love duets, my favorites being the last duet from Traviata and the magnificent extended duet from Tosca. I love this CD so much that I am very tempted to get to know most of the operas featured in more detail. Very enjoyable!!
Love Duets
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Never More Beautiful Have I Heard . . .
Love Duets
Handel , Leblanc , Taylor , and Ensemble Arion
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ASIN: B000087D76
Release Date: 2003-01-01

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Never More Beautiful Have I Heard . . ........2006-06-14


These songs are among the most beautiful ever crafted; songs that lay bare the truest truism and the one for which we most often dearly wish to be true: there is love, a perfect love, a perfect expressed love . . . and here it is: the songs of George Friederic Handel presented to us by Suzie LeBlanc and Stephen Stubbs.

Oblique and loath as you are to sounds more than a week past their date of release or interrupted from your Jane's Addiction listening by this, you will be caught by the heart the very moment Suzie LeBlanc begins to tease down the tears from heaven. Suzie LeBlanc - the one to whom I would point to confess the true creative genius of our heavenly father - is very well matched with Stephen Stubbs, whose voice rises and falls and plays about the soavemente curlings of Suzie LeBlanc with the nearest perfection I can name.

"Io t'abbraccio" will do as it promises; you will feel the embrace and you will never feel anything so perfect again in you lifetime. This CD is a masterpiece, and the songs are as fresh at this very moment as they were nearly 300 years before today.
Sweet Power of Song
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Compilation release
  • Text Translations Please!
Sweet Power of Song

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ASIN: B00004Z34R
Release Date: 2003-01-07

Tracks:

  1. Irish Songs: Sweet Power Of Song, Wo0152 No.2 - Felicity Lott/Ann Murray/Graham Johnson/Galina Solodchin/Jonathan Williams
  2. Irish Songs: The Elfin Fairies, Wo0154 No.1 - Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson/Galina Solodchin/Jonathan Williams
  3. Irish Songs: Oh! Would I Were But That Sweet Linnet!, Wo0154 No.9 - Felicity Lott/Ann Murray/Graham Johnson/Galina Solodchin/Jonathan Williams
  4. Irish Songs: English Bulls, Or The Irishman in London, Wo0152 No.12 - Ann Murray/Graham Johnson/Galina Solodchin/Jonathan Williams
  5. Liederalbum Fur Die Jugend, Op.79: No.24 Er Ist's - Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson
  6. Liederalbum Fur Die Jugend, Op.79: No.19 Fruhlingslied
  7. Liederalbum Fur Die Jugend, Op.79: No.27 Schneeglockchen - Ann Murray/Graham Johnson
  8. Liederalbum Fur Die Jugend, Op.79: No.16 Das Gluck
  9. Vier Duette, Op.61: No.1 Die Schwestern
  10. Vier Duette, Op.61: No.2 Klosterfraulein
  11. Vier Duette, Op.61: No.3 Phanomen
  12. Vier Duette, Op.61: No.4 Die Boten Der Liebe
  13. Pleure, Pauvre Colette
  14. Le Trebuchet, Op.13 No.3
  15. D'un Coeur Qui T'aime
  16. L'Arithmetique
  17. La Nuit, Op.11 No.1
  18. Reveil, Op.11 No.2
  19. Pastorale
  20. El Desdichado
  21. Pleurs D'or, Op.72
  22. Tarentelle, Op.10 No.2

Tracks:

  1. Sound The Tpt
  2. I Attempt From Love's Sickness To Fly - Ann Murray/Graham Johnson
  3. Lost Is My Quiet For Ever
  4. Fairest Isle - Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson
  5. What Can We Poor Females Do?
  6. Wasserfahrt
  7. Volkslied, Op.63 No.5
  8. Auf Flugeln Des Gesanges, Op.34 No.2 - Ann Murray/Graham Johnson
  9. Neue Liebe, Op.19 No.4 - Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson
  10. Abendlied
  11. Maiglockchen Und Die Blumelein, Op.63 No.6
  12. La Pesca
  13. Anzoleta Co Passa La Regata - Ann Murray/Graham Johnson
  14. La Promessa - Felicity Lott/Graham Johnson
  15. Duetto Buffo Di Due Gatti
  16. La Siesta
  17. Les Trois Oiseaux
  18. Revons, C'est L'heure
  19. Joie!
  20. Au Bord De L'eau
  21. Cache-cache
  22. Trust Her Not
  23. Coming Home
  24. It Was A Lover And His Lass
  25. Mother Comfort
  26. Underneath The Abject Willow

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Compilation release.......2005-11-24

This release is a remastering of the two previous releases: Sweet Power of Song and On Wings of Song. Both original CDs are still available if you hunt for them. The original releases do have the texts included in the booklets (lamented by a previous reviewer of this compilation release). The lack of text is not a problem for me. I just listen to these incredible singers. I don't need to read what they are singing.

If you even slightly enjoy listening to the soprano voice, you will love these two luscious singers. Soprano duets are among my favorite classical music selections. Lott's clear, strong voice rings with authority and joy. Murray provides perfect harmony and occasional counterpoint.

I prefer the first disk (Sweet Power of Song) because it is more balanced and seems to represent the sopranos' favorite selections. However, disk 2 (On Wings of Song) has Rossini's delightful Cat Duet which is worth the price of both CDs as performed by this amazing duo.

Whether you buy this compilation set or the individual releases, I promise that you will love them and keep them near your player all the time.

4 out of 5 stars Text Translations Please!.......2002-01-11

Musically, I give this double CD set 5 stars. I love the warm soprano of Felicity Lott and the beautiful mezzo of Ann Murray. They always are a pleasure to listen to, each on their own, and together, they make music that is, more than simply beautiful and technically impeccable, but truly a joy to listen to. It adds so much to musical enjoyment to understand what the lyrics are, however, so rather than buying this double CD set, for which the text translations have been stingily omitted by the label, I would recommend buying each of them separately. I bought this CD set not realizing that one of the two CDS is one that I had bought previously, and been enjoying for many years. It is entitled "On Wings of Song" and the texts and the translations are all included. I highly recommend buying it. I don't know under what title the other CD might have been released. If you are so fluent in foreign languages that the lack of translation does not bother you, then I would highly recommend this CD.
Leonard Berstein Arias & Barcarolles ¿ Songs & Duets
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Superb Bernstein collection
  • I hope you like crazyness......
Leonard Berstein Arias & Barcarolles ¿ Songs & Duets
Leonard Bernstein , Michael Barrett , Steven Blier , Judy Kaye , and William Sharp
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ASIN: B000001SCZ
Release Date: 1994-04-20

Tracks:

  1. Some Other Time
  2. A Little Bit In Love
  3. Lonely Town
  4. Storyette, H.M.
  5. To What You Said
  6. Carried Away
  7. I Can Cook
  8. Dream With Me
  9. Prelude
  10. Love Duet
  11. Little Smary
  12. The Love Of My Life
  13. Greeting
  14. Oif Mayn Khas'neh (At My Wedding)
  15. Mr. And Mrs. Webb Say Goodnight
  16. Nachspiel (In Memoriam)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Superb Bernstein collection.......2003-12-22

The song cycle "Arias and Barcarolles" was Leonard Bernstein's last completed work. This recording documents the interpretations of the performers from the New York premiere: soprano Judy Kaye, baritone William Sharp, with Michael Barrett and Steven Blier on piano.

The piece is one of Bernstein's most successful concert works. All but one of the texts are in English and are by Bernstein (well, one is attributed to his mother, recreating a bedtime story she used to tell him when he was a child). The exception is "Oif Mayn Khas'neh" ("At My Wedding") for the baritone, from a Yiddish text by the poet Yakov Yitzkhok Segal, which Bernstein set in a way that creates a rather nightmarish atmosphere that you might not expect from reading the poem. Some of the pieces are for just one singer, while others are duets. There is no particularly obvious throughline holding the individual numbers together.

The music is in Bernstein's standard, eclectic concert-music style, with some twelve-tone sections but with other parts in a style not very diffferent from that of his musicals.

The performances are excellent. Judy Kaye has the ability, not often encountered, to sing this kind of music strongly while skillfully and clearly conveying both the words of the text and the feelings behind them. William Sharp matches her with powerful and disciplined performances, their voices blending well when necessary, and there is a palpable sense of communication between them in the duets.

The CD is filled out with songs and duets from musicals, as well as two selections from "Songfest," another Bernstein song cycle. Kaye really shines here, especially in the duet "Storyette H.M." from "Songfest," an exquisite "Dream With Me," and a swinging "I Can Cook Too." Sharp is also very good, if occasionally a little stiff in the musical-theatre songs, but particularly strong in the two selections from "Songfest."

This CD is a winner.

3 out of 5 stars I hope you like crazyness.............2000-05-29

The Arias & Barcarolles were a little wierd. It really has no plot and the music follows up on the wierdness. Now this isn't funny obsurdity as you might think of in such shows as Monty Python. The awkwardness is more of a seriousness. As far as I can tell it appears to be about a couple and thier life; there strange awkward life with music. Be aware too that this entire CD has a piano opposed to an orchestra. This isn't bad. It's just another way to view these songs. The first 8 selections were good selections. Many of these songs will not be found on other highlights, and in then case of Dream with Me, won't even be found in a full length recording of the piece. Dream of Me is a wonderful song. The passion and intense emotion thrown into this work is almost overwhelming. It tops my favorite love song list. I Can Cook is quite jumpy and comical; very broadway-like. The two Songfest songs are deserving of their title. Very catchy tunes. The other On the Town songs are amongst the popular ones you've probaly heard before. A Little Bit in Love displays the mood and emotion of a simple childhood crush. Overall, I must say I do enjoy the first half of this CD more then the Arias & Barcarolles. There are a couple of songs I do enjoy from them like the lovely song about a new born baby.
Mendelssohn - Songs and Duets 2 / Sophie Daneman, Stephan Loge, Eugene Asti
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    Mendelssohn - Songs and Duets 2 / Sophie Daneman, Stephan Loge, Eugene Asti
    Félix Mendelssohn , Sophie Daneman , Stephan Loge , and Eugene Asti
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    ASIN: B00005NUPI
    Release Date: 2001-10-09
    Plácido Domingo & Deborah Voigt - Wagner Love Duets ~ Tristan und Isolde, Siegfried
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Plácido Domingo & Deborah Voigt - Wagner Love Duets ~ Tristan und Isolde, Siegfried
    Richard Wagner , Antonio Pappano , Plácido Domingo , Deborah Voigt , and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - Covent Garden
    Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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    ASIN: B00004TVUO
    Release Date: 2000-08-15

    Tracks:

    1. Siegfried Akt III, Szene 3: Sehr Langsam
    2. Siegfried Akt III, Szene 3: Heil Dir, Sonne! Heil Dir, Licht!
    3. Siegfried Akt III, Szene 3: O Wusstest Du, Lust Dir Welt
    4. Siegfried Akt III, Szene 3: Dort Seh' Ich Grane, Mein Selig Ross
    5. Siegfried Akt III, Szene 3: Heilig Schied Sie Aus Walhall
    6. Siegfried Akt III, Szene 3: Ewig War Ich, Ewig Bin Ich
    7. Siegfried Akt III, Szene 3: Dich Lieb' Ich: O Liebtest Mich Du!
    8. Siegfried Akt III, Szene 3: Siehst Du Mich Nicht?
    9. Tristan Und Isolde Akt II, Szene 2: O Sink Hernieder, Nacht Der Liebe
    10. Tristan Und Isolde Akt II, Szene 2: Nie-wieder-Erwachtens Wahnlos...Einsam Wachend In Der Nacht
    11. Tristan Und Isolde Akt II, Szene 2: Lausch', Geliebter!
    12. Tristan Und Isolde Akt II, Szene 2: Doch Uns're Liebe
    13. Tristan Und Isolde Akt II, Szene 2: So Starben Wir, Um Ungetrennt...Haber Acht!
    14. Tristan Und Isolde Akt II, Szene 2: Soll Ich Lauschen?

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    This stunning disc includes the two long love duets from Act III of Siegfried and Act II of Tristan und Isolde (including a new "resolution" that was written into the latter from the Act III "Liebestod"). In Plácido Domingo and Deborah Voigt, Richard Wagner's characters find powerful, vulnerable, almost transcendental exponents. Domingo's voice, of course, is no longer in the freshest bloom of youth. But, if he is not the impossibly ideal 25-year-old Heldentenor about whom one fantasizes singing Siegfried, he brings an authority and sensitivity to the role that sweeps one away. Voigt, too, gets to the heart of the female characters, and sings Brünnhilde with such subtle vulnerability that her moments of powerful exclamation sound as if she is trying to convince herself of their truth. There is no bombast for bombast's sake, and the result is psychologically all the more true. Antonio Pappano, a conductor alive to every nuance of the singers' phrasing, brings a Mediterranean sensuousness to the score, and draws some remarkably luxurious sounds from the Royal Opera House band. The acoustic also gives a wonderful depth to the texture, and the brass especially sounds gorgeous. --Warwick Thompson

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Really a delightful album.......2007-01-20

    When I bought this CD, I had been looking, in vain, for a certain Chicago Symphony recording, when this item popped up as a "people screwy enough to buy what you're looking for also bought this:" selection. Domingo, the Orchestra, and the music were all a plus, but I'd never really warmed up to Debby Voight. I took a flyer and ordered the CD anyway.

    This album, in short, contains performances so beautiful as to make a stone weep!

    Domingo, Voight, the Covent Garden Orchestra and Wagner are a sublime combination.

    The sole drawback to this CD is EMI's goofy copy protection scheme. It can be defeated with only moderate effort, but does leave a bad taste in one's mouth as regards EMI releases.

    Now quit reading these boring reviews, and buy this CD. You won't be sorry.

    5 out of 5 stars Voices flowing on currents of sensuous emotion ..........2006-10-17

    First of all it would be fair to tell you - putting any of my qualifications of the album under review here in clearer perspective - that I have a special fondness for the 'Barenboim Ring' in all of its aspects, but especially the music as conducted by Daniel Barenboim: the clear instrumental articulation and phrasing combined with the dramatic purposefulness and powerful, 'muscled' orchestral playing of the Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele in top form under maestro Barenboim is IMHO unbeatable. (I also believe his Tristan und Isolde is quite legitimate, and I think it is just beautiful - the same clear and purposefully dramatical playing, which I like.)

    Now here we have something quite different!
    Where Daniel Barenboim is intent on purposefully underlining the drama that is happening on stage in robust but clearly delineated, freshly articulated musical lines in all of the orchestral 'registers' - a Parthenon or Pantheon in music -, Antonio Pappano is intent on creating more of what I feel as a flowing, sensuous (or even sensual) (under)current of emotions on which the singers float along in flowing musical lines, their voices truly 'voicing' the emotional currents the orchestra expresses in 'one great, heaving voice' of its own. This more sensuous approach is as legitimate as any other, and maybe comes closest to what Wagner meant when he said his singers should sing his lines in a more Italian(ate) manner, with a more flowing legato. Indeed, Pappano and Placido Domingo are an ideal match in this respect, of course, as they both hail from Europe's southerly regions steeped in Italian operatic tradition.
    And Deborah Voight matches excellently with Placido Domingo, I believe, both of them singing their legato lines with heroic, but at the same time sensually seductive, tones and in burnished colors. Quite different from, for example, Anne Evans' Brunnhilde and Siegfried Jerusalem's Siegfried in the 'Barenboim Ring', but maybe balm to the ears for those who want to hear his Wagner 'differently'.
    Anyway, the sheer opulent beauty of tone is especially convincing (and seductive) in the duets/pieces from Tristan und Isolde, I think. But at the same time something strange happens on this recording with this more flowingly 'Italianate' approach under this conductor and with these singers: the harsher, darker, brooding sentiments (these lovers are destined to die!) are downplayed somewhat, it seems - at least to the ears of this particular listener.

    This album is for pure, sensuous listening pleasure, bringing Wagner in more refined shades of color and with finer orchestral nuances of light and shadow than we have come used to in Wagner, maybe. This is also result of the recording as such, which blends the orchestral colors nicely together in a warm and sonorous soundstage.
    Together with the later album of Antonio Pappano and Placido Domingo, 'Scenes from the Ring', this is a magnificent way to sample a 'different Wagner', bathing in 'warmer lights from the South'. Wagner could only love it, couldn't he? Anyway, this album - together with its 'Scenes from the Ring' counterpart - is highly recommended, and certainly invaluable for those, like I myself, who love Domingo in Wagner.

    5 out of 5 stars Made me like Wagner.......2006-07-05

    Before I bought this CD, I didn't care much for Wagner. But after listening to these two extraordinary artists sing these entrancing duets, I must say that I have a new found respect and fondness for Wagner's music. Placido Domingo isn't a singer that most people associate with Wagnerian roles, and alot of people scoff at the idea of him singing such roles. But on this CD, his voice is absolutely entrancing, especially in the duet from Tristan und Isolde. Even though he is getting up there in years, his voice is still utterly beautful. His high notes are still strong and powerful and lovely, his interpretations are superb. Deborah Voigt, the up and coming Wagnerian/Strauss Soprano, is very powerful and strong in her singing here, yet she's also very ladylike. Not having an overwhelming, imposing voice that alot of the dramatic sopranos have, but still having the strenght, stamina, and authority in her voice to sing these grand roles. I guess what I'm trying to say is that she's a well-balanced singer. Not to mention that her voice is very very lovely and pretty, having a golden timbre, and a fluttery vibrato, which I love in a singer. The orchestra, in my opinion, is probably one of the Top 5 best orchestras I've ever heard. Absolutely gorgeous playing. An added bonus is the Mezzo-Soprano Violetta Urmano in the role of Brangane. I had never heard of her before I bought this CD, but she has a delicious voice, with a very rich quality to it. Even though she is a Mezzo, I would like to hear her sing the role of Isolde sometime. She has the perfect voice for it. This would be a good CD to give someone to introduce them to Wagner. It is lovely in every way.

    5 out of 5 stars Less Heavy Wagner Pure Soul.......2005-05-07

    Placido Domingo, now in his sixties, is not ready to call it quits. He has added Wagner into his repertoire, and in fact has sung (on stage and record) the Wagner heroes of Tannhauser, Lohengrin and Parsifal. In November this year, he will sing Parsifal at the LA Opera. Now, I personally think that he can sing Tristan, as he does here, in its entirety and it would be heavenly if he sang next to Deborah Voight's Isolde. However, all we have is this "concert version" for now. Domingo's voice has been criticized for not sounding "Wagnerian" in the traditional sense. So what ? He doesnt have that annoying "Bayreuth bark" and he is certainly no Jon Vickers, but he has integrity, discipline and soul. There is no doubt his mellow, flowing, gorgeous voice would make his heroes sound particularily spiritual, even if it lacks the intensity and vigor that other interpretors give to their Wagner characters. Perhaps Wagner didn't intend for his heroes to be too melodramatic. They are all introspective, spiritual seekers, all on quests to find something greater than themselves or searching for redemption. Tristan is without a doubt the most challenging and difficult role for a dramatic tenor, just as Isolde is the most difficult part for a dramatic soprano. This is because it seems that to Wagner, Tristan and Isolde represented the Uberman and the Uberwoman, the heighest and most powerful form of male and female.

    But Voigt and Domingo pull it off, simply out of their artistry and the relaxed vocal spirit that resonates between them. They are both great artists with a lot of admiration for each other and their voices are glorious. Please don't be put off by the fact their voices are "lighter" in the Wagnerian style. This is terrific music. Conductor Pappano makes a wonderful interpretation of Wagner's music, which he suffuses with tone color and sumptuous lyric lines linked together by the mystic "Tristan chord" which dominates the work. The Liebestod, wow. What more can be said ? Is it simply a musical orgasm or is it the transfiguration of Isolde from life to death, a great transformation of soul ? The music is sublime.

    1 out of 5 stars Domingo .......2005-02-19

    I am pretty sure Domingo's fans are over-excited with these reviews.Really, Domingo's voice is not suited for wagnerian drama, is an uneven, cold and boring voice. Indeed, these love duets are far from the "passionate" characters called Tristan and Siegfried.
    The Romantic Handel: Solo Cantatas & Love Duets Composed in Italy
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      The Romantic Handel: Solo Cantatas & Love Duets Composed in Italy

      Manufacturer: Helicon Records
      ProductGroup: Music
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      ASIN: B000005BI9
      Release Date: 1997-10-23

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      3. Spande ancor al mio dispetto: Air: Da balza in balza
      4. Se pari e la tua fe: Air: Se pari e lat ua fe
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      14. Non S'emendera Jamas: Recitative: Si, del quereros
      15. Non S'emendera Jamas: Air: Dicente mis ojos
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      Opera: Great Love Duets of the 20th Century
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        Purcell: Airs & Duets
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          Falling in Love Is Wonderful: Broadway's Greatest Love Duets
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            Falling in Love Is Wonderful: Broadway's Greatest Love Duets
            Various Artists
            Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            Release Date: 2006-05-16

            Tracks:

            1. They Say It's Wonderful - Bruce Yarnell
            2. I've Never Been In Love Before - Peter Gallagher
            3. People Will Say We're In Love - Laurence Guittard
            4. Stranger In Paradise - Lee Venora
            5. Make Believe - Barbara Cook
            6. If I Loved You - John Raitt
            7. Tonight - Larry Kert
            8. We Kiss In A Shadow - Jeanette Scovotti
            9. My Heart Is So Full Of You - Jo Sullivan
            10. It Only Takes A Moment - Charles Nelson Reilly
            11. My Cup Runneth Over - Mary Martin
            12. Do You Love Me? - Zero Mostel
            13. All The Wasted Time - Carolee Carmello
            14. Sailing - Malcolm Gets
            15. Just In Time - Judy Holliday

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            Falling in Love Is Wonderful is a solid hourlong collection of Broadway love duets. The bulk of the selections are from the old RCA catalog, and as is typical with a label-specific compilation, many of the most recognizable songs are from revival-cast recordings--"People Will Say We're in Love" from the 1979 Oklahoma! revival, "If I Loved You" from the 1965 Carousel revival--but performed by such stars as Ethel Merman, John Raitt, and Barbara Cook, that's not necessarily a bad thing. But some are the original cast, such as Fiddler on the Roof, and it's not all RCA: the Sony-BMG merger allows for the inclusion of some authentic gems from the old Columbia catalog such as West Side Story's "Tonight" and Bells Are Ringing's "Just in Time." Last, bonus points are deserved for crediting each singer and recording, and for including terrific recent fare such as Parade's "All the Wasted Time" and A New Brain's "Sailing." --David Horiuchi

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