 | A Festival of Carols in Brass [Read More ...]
Best Christmas album ever:This is my favorite Christmas album -- familiar Christmas carols played by a brass ensemble. |
 | Sing We Christmas [Read More ...]
Description: Christmas is the season for whipping out those holiday-specific standard recordings. This splendid gift by Chanticleer should top the list, for one will never tire of this a cappella choir's interpretations. With selections spanning the last five centuries of Latin, German, Engli... |
 | Appalachian Journey [Read More ...]
Description: With the help of some friends (James Taylor and Alison Krauss lend some vocal support), the trio of Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O'Connor have created yet another fascinating hybrid of chamber music and bluegrass. This follow-up to 1996's Appalachia Waltz is filled with highly... |
 | Essential Guitar: 33 Guitar Masterpieces [Read More ...]
good buy:Bought this CD set for my 11-year-old son who's been taking classical guitar lessons for 3 years, just for some broader exposure. He likes it, I like it. It's got quite a few pieces that sound challenging to him and that he'd like to try, so it's doing its intended job. |
 | The Joy of Christmas [Read More ...]
Review: Memories from Childhood:Oh Joy! This is a favorite musical memory from my childhood at Christmas time! It has been added to with selections from the Nutcracker (another Fav), but still carries the wonderful sound of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as I remember them back in the 60's ... |
 | The Holly and the Ivy: Carols from Clare College [Read More ...]
Description: Initially released in 1979, this album built on the success of the legendary Carols for Choirs volumes in establishing John Rutter's name with the wider public, and it gave a strong hint that he was more than just a talented composer-arranger. As the many subsequent releases on t... |
 | Words of the Angel [Read More ...]
Description: The 14th century "Tournai" Mass, consisting of a Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and Ite missa est, is the first known complete polyphonic mass to come down to us. Its sections were probably written by different composers, and it's a stunning, fascinating look into ea... |
 | Gloryland [Read More ...]
Description: Having left medieval chant and somewhat later polyphony behind and moved, musically, across the Atlantic with their last CD (American Angels), the women of Anonymous 4 are still exploring. For their move up a few centuries, their impeccable tonal purity remains, but a decidedly A... |
 | The Christmas Album [Read More ...]
Review: Great For Background Music At Christmas Dinner!:This CD is great for Christmas dinner. I discovered that laat year (2007) when I borrowed a copy of it from my library and brought it to my girlfriend's house, where she, her extended family, and I had a Christmas get-together.
It'... |
 | The Mystery Of Santo Domingo De Silos Gregorian Chant From Spain [Read More ...]
Review: Of Interest:I purchased this version of the monks of Santo Dominto De Silos at the same time I bought the 2008 edition of the Gregorian chant by the Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz (Chant: Music for the Soul). While the effort of the Santo Domingo monks was highly prais... |
 | On Yoolis Night: Medieval Carols & Motets [Read More ...]
Description: This follow-up to Anonymous 4's debut "hit," An English Ladymass, is even better. From the choice of repertoire to the proficiency of the singing to the recorded sound, this is a standard-setting production. The 23 works--plainchants, carols, songs, and motets--invoke various ... |
 | Noel: Christmas at King's [Read More ...]
Review: Excellent compilation of traditional carols:Noel---Christmas at King's has become the de facto standard of carols at our house. It really is an excellent collection of Christmas carols. In fact, the only real blemish on this album is that there is discernible noise in some tracks... |
 | The King's Singers Greatest Hits [Read More ...]
Review: King's Singers Greatest Hits a Disappointment:King's Singers Greatest Hits was disappointing. The contemporary music included did not have the smooth feel that one expects, and the classical pieces were all right but not spectacular. I did not feel that some of these pieces were ... |
 | American Angels - Songs of Hope, Redemption, & Glory [Read More ...]
Description: This, Anonymous 4's final recording, is a break from their usual "early music" periods and locations; it presents American music, religious in nature, from the 18th and 19th centuries. And it's absolutely beautiful from start to finish. Their normal, exquisite technique and purit... |
 | Christmas In Vienna: Vienna Boys' Choir [Read More ...]
Heavenly sweet:This is a beautiful recording of many traditional German carols. There is just something so sweet and ethereal about the Vienna Boys Choir sound and this CD does not dissapoint. The Vienna Boys Choir is world reknowned and with good reason. Enjoy and listen to a bit of heaven. |
 | Mistletoe and Wine: A Seasonal Collection [Read More ...]
Beautiful music to set a festive and restful mood:We played this several times this year on Christmas morning (also the Christmas Revels album of Medieval songs) and it was so pretty and sweet. I'll definitely be listening to it throughout the year. |
 | Christmas Album: Original Masters [Read More ...]
Review: Great Music, but slower than I imagined:The CD was great. The quality is wonderful and the songs selected for the album are all the best German classics. However, the songs are very slow so the album does better as background music rather than something you can sing along with ar... |
 | Stella Maris [Read More ...]
beautiful music:among the best of the female vocal recordings i have heard; beautiful harmonies and a capella singing from the medieval era. This is serious, contemplative music that you sink into. |
 | Catholic Latin Classics [Read More ...]
Review: Truly Classic:A truly outstanding CD! This album is graced with inspirational authentic Catholic classics like 'O Sanctissima' and 'Adoramus Te, Christe'. The two versions of 'Tantum Ergo' are absolutely soul stirring especially Track 19. Unlike the Cathedral Singers' other wo... |
 | We Three Kings [Read More ...]
Description: There's a commercial inevitability to holiday song collections that can tempt music fans to mutter "humbug" under their breath. Yet while this collection (released in conjunction with the Tenors' Christmas Spectacular tour of 2003) is no less market savvy, in the end the trio's e... |
