Best Folk Songs
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"Great item, price and seller."
"A change of pace from my usual Christmas CDs."
"When I ordered this I was leery as so much music is out there but it was beautiful."
"Beautiful Christmas music."
"It is an excellent choice of Christmas music.. and real anthology of music which I have used over the years to celebrate Christmas."
"Received this CD in perfect new condition - and fast!"
"The music on this CD is gorgeous."
But then, virtually everything here is a highlight: the Schubert part song done to a turn with soft singing projected in rounded tones; the curve of "Wondrous Love"'s melody perfectly traced; and "Amazing Grace" in Shaw's arrangement all the more moving for its calm dignity.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Simply beautiful."
"This is a magnificent choral piece."
"Portions of this magnificent work can be heard in the final scene from Angels and Demons-The movie."
"I bought this tape specifically for the recording of O Magnum Mysterium after hearing the song at a concert, but the other music is fantastic too."
"The recording was of very good quality, and the music is gorgeous, ethereal!!"
"Each song transitions perfectly into the next, until it climaxes at the end."
Some of the songs begin with the women singing "fa, so la" exercises, which was called "shape note" singing because some places taught singing with notes as shapes--circle, rectangle, diamond, triangle. They include two versions of "Amazing Grace," one familiar, one with an unusual melody and a piece called "Blooming Vale" which is as sophisticated as anything on their previous albums.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"You want calm and transcendent music to nourish the soul?"
"Lovely soothing music and a bit different."
"I couldn't visit my sister after her surgery, and she wanted me to come sing for her - I sent her the "American Angels" to take the place of me driving almost 6 hours just to sing her a couple of the old hymns."
"This is a beautiful album, and my first by this group."
"I was listening Pandora one day and heard one song from this album."
"I love the songs here, but I was disappointed sometimes by their presentation."
"I bought this CD after hearing one song from the album that a local radio station played."
"Besides, if a I wanted an exact replica of how these songs sounded 150 years ago, I could have gotten a CD of a performance of by a Baptist choir. But I chose this CD because from the time I first heard this ensemble perform these songs on public radio, I was enchanted. They perform songs that are very meaningful to me, such as "Sweet Hour of Prayer" a hymn that I have treasured in my church for ages. I was very inspired by such songs as "Holy Manna" and "Amazing Grace" because they make me imagine the spiritual pioneer experience."
Best Songs & Lieder
The Most Relaxing Classical Music in The Universe, the 1st 2-CD set in the & Most Relaxing, series features some of the most well known classical pieces of all time, including Canon in D, Clair De Lune, Fur Elise, Ave Marie, Moonlight Sonata, Adagio for Strings, Greensleeves, and More!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This collection of Classical music is superb."
"I love listening to this on the speake's of our travel trailer."
"Very good for relaxing."
"love this collection of classical music."
"Added this to my collection of relaxing music to fall asleep to."
"great music, very soothing."
Best Motets
4 in E Flat; Rondo for Horn and Orchestra in E Flat; Serenade in G "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"; Divertimento in D , and more, conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy, Georg Solti; Neville Marriner, and more.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Wonderful music for seeping and listening."
"I'm not a connoisseur, but this seems like a terrific buy to me."
"This is just what I wanted."
"The set offers exactly what I wanted, a wide range of Mozart pieces."
"Amazing collection; I bought this set to listen to with my baby and he loves it :)."
"Nice collection of music, well performed, at a very reasonable price."
"Meet my expectations."
Best Madrigals
Morten Lauridsen : Lux aeterna.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I can't pronounce the title, I often find churchy choral music quite boring or pompous, but I accidentally stumbled across a PBS broadcast about the composer, and as I watched I thought "This man loves what he's doing, is deeply inspired, and seems unpretentious and cool.""
"This is my go to music when I am experiencing anxiety or turmoil, or when I just need a spiritual boost."
"I'm not a fan of choral music ordinarily but this is a must buy."
"one of the most hauntingly beautiful cds I have ever heard."
"A friend sent me a cd of Lux Aeterna ..I had no idea what to expect.."
"A powerful, haunting CD of superb music by Lauridsen."
"Lux Aeterna is the best album ever..."
"Beautiful music to calm the soul..."
Best Lieder
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Once again I can enjoy the beautiful music of days gone by."
"This CD captures the real Trapp family and their love for good pure music."
"I never actually heard this CD as it was a gift to my granddaughter at the time of her appearance in the stage play, "The Sound of Music" but she loved the CD."
"Many of us were unfamiliar with the Trapp Family Singers until Rodgers and Hammerstein produced "The Sound of Music," first on Broadway in 1959 and then in the beloved motion picture version in 1965. Nevertheless, Maria had a hand in creating a wonderful singing group that still delights us via these vintage recordings."
"The original von Trapp Family's twenty years of touring and performing internationally had finished, and Maria Augusta von Trapp had written their story in three books and begun several decades of missionary work in New Guinea by the time "The Sound of Music" hit Broadway, and Julie Andrews later sang about her favorite things in a top-earning film. I don't know if the original von Trapp Family benefitted from show and film royalties; they certainly deserved to, for they worked very hard perfecting, under their conductor Dr Franz Wasner, their natural ensemble and music-making talents."
"But the final result is very pleasant, excellent to listen in the car while you're driving in the countryside (before lunch, of course)."