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Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite

by: Maxwell

Release Date April 02, 1996
great album by maxwell. one of my favorites to listen to when i just want to mellow out.

CD-Charts Position 2
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Now

by: Maxwell

Release Date August 21, 2001
Maxwell will make you fall in love.(with him):-) He is very open to expressing the feelings men go through, not hiding anything. The best music out today, closest artist we'll ever get to Marvin Gaye.

CD-Charts Position 3
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Embrya

by: Maxwell

Release Date June 30, 1998
I don't even get what some of these songs are about. The single stood out most and there were maybe 2 other tolerable songs but the others left me lost.

I've been meaning to write this review forever but never got around to it. Forgot about it even. But then I started listening to Maxwell's "Til The Cops Come Knocking", came here to see the actual name for the CD it was on (couldn't remember) and kinda saw this CD right after his debut..

I was like, "OK. Time to speak my mind."

The sounds are very different and it will take you forever to understand what he's talking about on some of these songs.

I bought it for less than 7 bucks used but hey, that's cause I'm a fan of some of the songs he's ... Read More:

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Maxwell Unplugged

by: Maxwell

Release Date July 15, 1997
Everything that a live album should be. Don't sleep on this album, it's worth every minute of your time.

CD-Charts Position 5
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Brigadoon (1991 London Studio Cast)

by: John McGlinn, Alan Jay Lerner, Brent Barrett, John Mark Ainsley, Rebecca Luker, Donald Maxwell, Judy Kaye, Frederick Loewe

Release Date October 20, 1992
This studio recording of the Lerner and Loewe classic is quite good. In fact, until the Jack Cassidy/Shirley Jones version was finally released on CD, this was by far the best CD available of the score. The singing is very good, the sound quality is excellent, and all the songs are here intact. So is the dance music--all of it. Which brings up one of the problems with McGlinn's studio recreations. He is a fanatic for completeness. He goes overboard with it. At least in this recording he hasn't resurrected songs that were cut out of town as he did for other recordings such as "Show Boat" and "Anything Goes." There's usually a very good reason songs get cut out of town: they don't fit, or they just aren't very good. But I digress. We're talking ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 6
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Wolcum Yule: Celtic and British Songs and Carols - Anonymous 4 with Andrew Lawrence-King

by: John Tavener, Richard Rodney Bennett, Peter Maxwell Davies, Geoffrey Burgon, Henry VIII, Benjamin Britten, Anonymous 4, Andrew Lawrence-King

Release Date October 14, 2003
Very pretty with vocals and insturmentals. However, if you're looking for something that's actually Pagan and has Yule carols keep looking.

CD-Charts Position 7
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Amahl and the Night Visitors

by: Lorna Haywood, James Rainbird, David Syrus, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House - Covent Garden

Release Date September 15, 1998
The music is beautiful, and this is the definitive Christmas opera, but the original recording is much better. This is an almost too polished version. Every sylable is just so, and each part is so perfect it is almost boring. The child in the original is much better because he is not so polished that it seems affected.

CD-Charts Position 8
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Pachelbel: In the Garden (Dan Gibson's Solitudes)

from: Somerset Entertainment - Solitudes

Release Date March 04, 2003
This CD is calming and relaxing. Listening to it generates a state of mind which is similar to meditation. The combination of nature sounds with the music is a beautiful experience. I cannot recommend it highly enough!

CD-Charts Position 9
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Lost In The Stars (1949 Original Broadway Cast)

by: Maxwell Anderson, Alan Paton

Release Date May 15, 2001
Normally, I do not care much for Kurt Weill's music. But "Lost in the Stars" is an exception. Billed as a "musical tragedy," the play did not attract audience enthusiasm, and closed after only 28 performances. A 1972 revival fared little better, with only 39.
I have never seen the show, and I have not read "Cry, the Beloved Country." But I find the story line clearly delivered through the music, even to someone who lacks familiarity. Maxwell Anderson has crafted a series of lyrics that move the listener through the narrative. Weill's music draws out the intensity of emotion the characters must have been feeling.
Perhaps now, with racial understandings somewhat better, a revival would elicit the popularity this score deserves. Until then, this ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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The Great War: Classical And Popular Selections From The Time Of World War I (National Public Radio Milestones Of The Millennium)

from: Sony

Release Date January 12, 1999
A very enjoyable CD of the disastrous close of an era.

The accompanying literature in as enjoyable to read as the CD is to listen to.