 | 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... |
 | Mission Road (w/DVD) [Read More ...]
Description: Music on this CD/DVD package delves into the musical frontiers heard in California missions and Mexican cathedrals 200 years ago. One third of the repertoire deals with processional pieces: parades and pageantry. Another third is devoted to the Misa en sol, and the remaining thir... |
 | Christmas with Chanticleer (Featuring Dawn Upshaw) [Read More ...]
Review: A must-have for Christmas, and not just for ambience:Chanticleer is an incredibly musical and blended clear-tone vocal group that performs each piece on the album with perfection and insightful musicianship. Overall, the album is very peaceful and perfect for getting your head a... |
 | Chanticleer: Magnificat (A Capella Works by Josquin, Palestrina, Titov, Victoria, and Others) [Read More ...]
Description: In the wake of its previous, Grammy-winning disc of contemporary madrigals (Colors of Love), the all-male a cappella ensemble that calls itself Chanticleer--in homage to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales --comes home to roost in this theme album of early music. After all, this is th... |
 | Wondrous Love: A World Folk Song Collection [Read More ...]
Review: six Stars!!! Six! Ha ha ha ha! Six little tiny stars!:4. Oy, Polná, Polná Koróbushka
This is the folk song from which that annoying little tune comes in the game Tetris. It is just gorgeous in its original form, though.
5. Brigg Fair
My favorite track in this CD! Just lov... |
 | How Sweet the Sound: Spirituals & Traditional Gospel Music [Read More ...]
Description: Chanticleer's repertoire ranges through many centuries. On this recording, the group again proves its infinite versatility in a program of gospel music and spirituals. The singing is so authentic that one feels like a participant in a gospel meeting, swaying to the rhythm with th... |
![]() | Our Heart's Joy: A Chanticleer Christmas [Read More ...]
Description: The all-male, all-professional, full-time choir Chanticleer has developed a phenomenal following during the past couple of decades, and this Christmas disc contains some of the group's best-loved repertoire. Topping the list is Chanticleer's most-requested concert piece, Franz Bi... |
 | Chanticleer: A Portrait [Read More ...]
Description: With this disc, Chanticleer, the internationally renowned, all-male 12-voice chamber choir, celebrates its 25th anniversary. Presenting songs from earlier albums plus one not previously recorded, the selection displays the group's remarkable stylistic and linguistic versatility, ... |
 | Mexican Baroque [Read More ...]
Review: Music of Ignacio de Jerusalem and Manuel de Zumaya :Chanticleer is a Capella ensemble doing interpretations of vocal literature from Renaissance to Jazz and from gospel to new music since its debut in 1978 over The Mission Dolores of San Francisco. In this album the Chanticleer e... |
 | Our American Journey [Read More ...]
Description: This is Chanticleer's 25th recording and also marks its 25th anniversary season. The title refers to the group's wide-ranging repertoire; this disc includes Mexican baroque, traditional American songs in various styles and music commissioned by Chanticleer itself. A program that ... |
 | Mysteria [Read More ...]
Description: From the first notes of the Lenten antiphon "Immutemur," you feel a soothing, reassuring calm from Chanticleer's sensuous, lyrical legato style and perfect unison expression and phrasing. This is first class singing, no matter what the repertoire. But this just happens to be c... |
 | Simply the Best Christmas Album [Read More ...]
Description: A rather presumptive holiday title, Simply the Best Christmas Album is an unqualified best--if you like classical, choral, and symphonic music. Marquee talent such as Placido Domingo, Natalie Cole, and Jose Carreras anchor the mix, abetted by the redoubtable London Brass, St. Pau... |
 | Where the Sun Will Never Go Down [Read More ...]
Review: "You Sang Far Better Than You Knew":In the notes that accompany this glorious CD of African-American a capella sacred music, The poet James Weldon Johnson is quoted on black slave singers, "You sang far better than you knew," a perfect epigraph for this abundantly rich offering. ... |
 | Colors of Love [Read More ...]
Description: This compilation of modern-day madrigals, the latest in a fascinating series of discs from the San Francisco-based all-male vocal group Chanticleer, won the Grammy for Best Small Ensemble Performance of 1999. The selections range over a variety of styles and aesthetics, from the ... |
 | Matins for the Virgin of Guadeloupe [Read More ...]
Review: a voice teacher and early music fan:THE BEST OF 'EASY LISTENING' PRESENTED BY CHANTICLEER.
"On December 9, 1531, the indian neophyte Juan Diego was lured to mount tepeyas by the sound of stunning music. He made his way to the top, where the Virgin of guadalupe appeared to him i... |
 | Lost in the Stars [Read More ...]
Review: I'm Lost In Chanticleer's Voices:Like "A Music Fan", I too had problems with thisalbum on first hearing, in fact on the first severalhearings. Something about the arrangements seemedjust a little "off" to me. I wasn't used to hearingthese great American classics done Chanticlee... |
 | Evening Prayer [Read More ...]
Review: a voice teacher and early music fan:THE JOLLY GOOD FELLOW AND CHAUCER'S SINGING ROOSTERS SEEM VERY COMPATIBLE!
"Henry Purcell looked like a Florentine prince, was hail-fellow-well-met in taven and taproom, wrote for the Church and also the stage and salon, was in fact, a most li... |
 | Tavener: Lamentations & Praises [Read More ...]
Description: The composer calls this work "a liturgical drama," but there is nothing dramatic about it; it is more aptly described by the title of its three main sections, "Stasis." Set to texts from the Greek and Russian Orthodox Easter service sung in English interspersed with ancient Greek... |
 | Mass: The Most Powerful, Uplifting & Passionate Music You Will Ever Hear [Read More ...]
Review: It delivers!:Naturally, one must posess a predisposition for this music appreciation. That said, when played to restore your inner-energy...it works. The specific selection and sequence provide that balance best meant to reenergize. Normally, I'm not 'that' into this music-pre... |
![]() | Josquin des Prez: Missa Mater Patris; Alexander Agricola: Magnificat and motets [Read More ...]
Review: Speak, Memory, Even If Too Late:I see that only one copy of this CD is availabale, used for $50.00. Bummer! A review at this point isn't worth much to Chanticleer. I've refrained from reviewing the performances of Chanticleer because of a conflict of interest. Louis Botto, the fo... |
