Best Hymns
No Description Available. No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: PHILADELPHIA BRASS ENSEMBLE Title: FESTIVAL OF CAROLS IN BRASS Street Release Date: 09/29/1986. Domestic Genre: CLASSICAL ARTISTS.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"No bellowing opera baritones, no screeching sopranoes, no "pop" or "country performers who can't sing, just quietly flowing, joyful, peaceful y reverent Christmas favorites."
"Especially love brass Christmas music."
"In case it's not obvious: This is a recording of instrumental Christmas music arranged for brass instruments and played by a fantastic ensemble."
"This album has always been in my Christmas music rotation and I"m just thankful that I found a replacement CD for one that I lost in my last move for some strange reason so I can continue on with this tradition..."
"I had been thinking about purchasing one copy of this CD for my car, but when the price dropped so low, I just went ahead about bought 4 copies, one for me and 3 extras for friends and family."
"This was an LP that my family played long ago."
"This is my favorite Christmas CD."
"The cd is basic Christmas brass , I was hoping for more variations on the melodies but could not listen to samples before I bought it."
No Description Available. No Track Information Available Media Type: CD Artist: ORMANDY,EUGENE Title: GLORIOUS SOUND OF CHRISTMAS Street Release Date: 07/18/1986. Domestic Genre: XMAS CLASSICAL VOCAL.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This recording, 'The Glorious Sound of Christmas' is a great example of the maestro's work with this wonderful orchestra."
"I bought this cd around 30 years ago."
"I love Christmas music."
"Christmas gift."
"Bought this last year based on customer reviews."
"Not what I expected but nice music."
"I remember having this album when I was a young girl (I'm 63)."
"Great great just what i wanted."
In 1997, this recording became the most successful first-year release in Collegium history.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I absolutely love the arrangements of these familiar Christmas songs."
"I am hoping for recordings for Rudder's Christmas music."
"Absolutely beautiful Christmas album."
"At last, an album of Christmas music that includes nearly all the great old carols, beautifully arranged for choir, organ and orchestra, plus a few less well known but charming tunes."
"Beautiful traditional Christmas carols!"
Best Anthems
This description might also say that the program contains some of the best and best-loved Christmas choral pieces of all time, presented in a pleasing mix of familiar carols and lesser-known original works. Other notable highlights are Peter Cornelius's "The three kings" and the lively Willcocks arrangement of "Tomorrow shall be my dancing day."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Classic recording by the Cambridge Singers men and boys choir."
"You can tell how much I love this recording by the fact that this is the third copy I've purchased!"
"This was to replace a very much loved CD that I left in the car when .I sold it!"
"Beautiful, ancient sounding Christmas carols."
"Lovely for any time of the year."
"You can't beat the polished ensemble sound of the Cambridge Singers and John Rutter has devoted his life to celebrating the joys of Anglican Christmas music."
Best Partsongs
A Robert Shaw Christmas: Angels on High.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"So so good; a must for your collections; peaceful soothing spiritual music."
"Five stars for the music; 0 stars for the degree of difficulty in the Amazon Music app about how to re-upload downloaded music back into the Amazon Cloud."
"I grew up listening to Robert Shaw Christmas on the huge console stereo that took up half the living room!"
"As a Christmas music and classical music lover, I'm delighted by the inspired creativity and imagination shown by selecting these particular pieces. This is pretty much the very best Christmas CD I've ever heard."
"I have been forfunate to have sung with Robert during my college years-it was a truly wonderful experience to have him pop in on our rehearsals once in a while."
"The arrangements are simple, tasteful, and transparent; if you like BCM (Bombastic Christmas Music) this is not for you."
"This is some of the most beautiful Christmas music I own."
"A cappella music is difficult to sing and the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers do an amazing job of it."
Best Odes
This 2-CD compilation captures the quintessentially English sound of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge set in the singular acoustics of their magnificent chapel.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Others know more about music than I and a week or so ago, after reading the reviews I bought it."
"I love it, very enjoyable."
"This is great listening for anglophiles on this side of the "pond" as well as those fortunate to hear it at home!"
"Although English, the CD is for everyone and of everyone, a true classic."
"Exactly what I wanted for the holidays and other religious seasons of the year."
"A lot of repeats on this disk...but a wonderful selection none the less."
"excellent transaction.Fast shipping."
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 Cantatas
Aside from the technical mastery and beautiful tone that are absolutes in all of his playing, one is dazzled by his curiosity and ability to adapt to so many forms and types of music. His Bach and Vivaldi are pellucid and played with non-sentimental crispness, his tango music gritty and rhythmically pungent, his jazz seemingly spontaneous, the "Meditation" from Thais simply ravishing, "Anything Goes" a romp, and the Appalachian music performed with both respect and a great twang, while the traditional Chinese music is fascinating.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Excellent recording of this master of the cello."
"A very good value as it is two CDs with something for every taste, from classical to folk to "show tunes" to world music, and of course all impeccably performed."
"I bought this album primarily for Alison Krauss singing "Simple Gifts," one of the finest (and hard to find) renditions of that wonderful song that is often badly covered, both instrumentally or vocally."
"What a fabulous and diverse collection: Classical, American traditional, Chinese traditional, Appalachian, Brazilian, baroque, and jazz."
Best Requiems
Tuscan tenor Andrea Bocelli was already an international superstar (for Romanza, Aria, and Sogno) when he made his first album of arias and sacred music. "I have known these pieces since childhood," he explains, and it's clear that he loves them all.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I first saw Bocelli in the DVD version of this same CD at a local shopping mall at Christmastime a few years ago, and just thought he looked cool standing there singing well. Saw Bocelli live at the 15,000 capacity MCI Center in Washington in December 05 where he performed some of the same material; it was great; next day was dismayed to read snide newspaper review of "the man from Tuscany." But Bocelli has a more conversation tone in his singing (think Frank Sinatra versus Caruso) and has a straight-up noblility rather than continuous breathless desperation that I just like to listen to better."
"This collection of sacred arias is truly inspired!"
"So thankful that God gave us Andrea and his fantastic voice."
"He has such a beautiful voice."
"Inspirational and beautiful."
"CD didn't work write."
Best Russian Music
Words cannot describe poignantly enough the exquisite, angelic voices that permeate the heart and exalt the soul on Sacred Treasures .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The sound quality is very clear, as is often NOT the case with religious music recordings, unfortunately, but here it is good."
"Some pieces are perfectly rendered and some are, as other reviewers have noted, covered with high-frequency tape hiss."
"Good for going to sleep by."
"item received in good condition."
"The music on this CD is absolutely ethereal."
"I'm listenign to this one and another one of sacred treasures that had received many great reviews."
"Absolutely beautiful."
"The CD just arrived today and I'm listening through my trusty Sennheiser 280HD cans."