Spirited Away (2001) Â Spirited Away Buy New: $19.99 Plot Outline: In the middle of her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by witches and monsters, where humans are changed into animals. Plot Synopsis: Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in […]
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Princess Mononoke – The fight in man against nature, makes this Myazaki’s first true action epic. Princess Mononoke Buy New: $18.96 Â Plot Outline: On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami’s curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest and Tataraba, a mining colony. In this quest […]
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Bach Buy New: $13.99 Â No other performance or recording of the Unaccompanied Sonatas and Partitas for violin has pleased me more than this recording by Szeryng. The playing is effortless, the lines are intact, and every idea is presented in a compelling and developed way. This is Bach that has been eaten for breakfast, […]
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 Strauss Buy New: $11.98  This recording of Strauss’s Four Last Songs is superb – for the most part. This is a gem of a disc. The Four Last Songs are among the most beautiful things Strauss ever wrote, and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf gives a heartfelt and poignant rendition of these apopemtic lieder. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf […]
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Wagner Buy New: $16.98 Karajan’s appearance with Jessye Norman and the Vienna Philharmonic at the 1987 Salzburg Festival produced one of the great Wagner discs of all time, capped by a seething, compelling, white hot realization of the “Liebestod.” Karajan knew he had something here, and listening to the performance is likely to leave you […]
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