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The Very Best of The Irish Tenors

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by: The Irish Tenors

Release Date January 08, 2007
I like any kind of music, but I especially like to hear tenors sing. I was somewhat disappointed, though, because this seems not to be made in the recording studio but at a concert because some of the songs have clapping at the end. I wish I had read that when I looked it up. I prefer studio recordings. I was very disappointed with the recording of my favorite song of all time "Danny Boy", but all in all the CD is not bad. Most likely when I listen to it several more times it will grow on me like it is already starting to do.

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The Irish Tenors / McNamara, McDermott, Kearns, Tynan

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by: John McDermott, Anthony Kearns, Ronan Tynan, Frank McNamara

Release Date March 09, 1999
Yes, my heart is in Ireland, and this CD makes me want to return -- and stay. What a joy this music is.

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Ellis Island

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by: The Irish Tenors, Brendan Graham, Chauncey Olcott, Irish Traditional, Johnny Cash, John Francis Patterson, Dermot MacMurrough, C. Kirkham, Eric Bogle, Burton Lane, Thomas Osbourne Davis, Irving Berlin, Frank McNamara

Release Date March 06, 2001
A glorious concert in a historic setting, with all involved in top notch form. Finbar finds a great old Johnny Cash number, Ronan sings a Glocka
Mora to end all, and Anthony Kearns sings murderously difficult versions
of Macushla and The Croppy Boy like an angel. And their Courtin' and Irish
Medleys, and their "Nation Once Again" trios are simply glorious glees.

With the benefit of a grand theme, this is perhaps the best, and best balanced, of all their programs.

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We Three Kings

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by: Anthony Kearns, Ronan Tynan, Finbar Wright

Release Date October 21, 2003
As an avid fan of the Irish Tenors I thoroughly enjoyed this CD until the last three songs. While I appreciate the Irish Tenors showing their respect for this country and their American fans by recording "God Bless America" etc., I fail to understand what such songs are doing on a Christmas CD. I am especially surprised by the inclusion of "Battle Hymn of the Republic." This song was a marching melody for the Union Army during the civil war and I think it shows a naive misunderstanding of history to include that track on this CD. What has Christmas to do with the Civil War? The tenors need to realize they don't have to include American songs in order to sell to American citizens. Stop catering.

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Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Villa-Lobos: Concerto for guitar; Ponce: Concierto del sur

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from: Warner Classics

Release Date August 16, 2005
The only regret is that in the liner
notes, the names of composers Manuel Ponce
and Heitor Villa-Lobos are misslabeled in their pictures
thought you should know that; otherewise
the recording is great outstanding work
of Isbin and the New Yorkers, Serebrier is
just as great as always...

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Bach - Brandenburg Concertos / Il Giardino armonico

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by: Johann Sebastian Bach, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino armonico, Stefano Barneschi, Paolo Beschi, Marco Bianchi, Marco Cera, Duilio Galfetti, Alberto Grazzi, Paolo Grazzi, Michele Barchi

Release Date September 16, 1997
Like many people, I have a collection of several versions of the Brandenburgs, and have heard many more. While I respect all good, solid performances, this recording really stands above all the others. The dynamics of the room it was recorded in, the microphone placement and engineering are phenomenal. I love the untempered natural horns. There is a bite to them that is exciting.

I must credit Maestro Antonini with breathing life into this performance. The musicianship is fabulous, and the overall sound is truly wonderful.

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Dreams of a World

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from: Teldec

Release Date November 02, 1999
I was introduced to Ms. Isbin's music this winter during a trip when a friend had "Dreams of a World" on for 3 days straight, dawn to dusk. Typically, after listening to the same CD twice, one gets bored or annoyed. Yet, this was not the case; on the contrary "Dreams of a World" warmed us up --it was delicately beautiful. Ms. Isbin employs an astonishing pallet of colors, which she blends with unprecedented technical mastery and imaginative nuances throughout her oeuvre.

Cancion y danza for guitar, Agua E Vinho Mahar and Yerushala'im shel zahav are pieces which can easily be overly sentimental and languorous. Ms. Isbin keeps a pleasant balance between the melancholy in her phrasing, the underlying dynamism of her voice
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Journey to the Amazon

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by: Sharon Isbin, Paul Winter, Thiago de Mello, Laurindo Almeida, Antonio Lauro, Agustin Barrios-Mangore, Gentil Montana, Isaias Savio, Leo Brouwer, Benito Canonico, Pixinguinha

Release Date October 14, 1997
The guitar performance is as good as it gets. Every track could have been recorded as a solo performance and worked very well. The percussion and saxophone enrich the context and move the performance into something more than just music. After listening you feel like you've just enjoyed something wonderful and at the same time you've been educated without realizing it! After listening you understand something about Latin American music that you didn't before.

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Vivaldi - Concerti per Liuto e Mandolino / Il Giardino Armonico

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by: Antonio Vivaldi, Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico, Marco Bianchi, Duilio Galfetti, Joachim Held, Eric Hoeprich, Lisa Klewitt, Giorgio Merati, Leonardo Muzii, Enrico Onofri, Luca Pianca, Massimo Lonardi, Elena Russo, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Paolo Rizzi, Wolfgang Paul, Paolo Beschi

Release Date August 03, 1993
Il Giardino Armonico was made for Baroque music. Along with their rendition of the Brandenbergs (played like a house on fire), this lute and mandolin recording is a gem. Due to its very nature, the mandolin can tend to become cloying. The short double strings, the small body, etc. But on this recording, the artists make the mandolin become lilting and mellow.

I gave up on Vivaldi over twenty years ago, due to the rampant overuse of The Four Seasons. Il Giardino has brought me back into the fold. I highly recommend this CD to anyone who likes Baroque music, and even to people new to music that is more than 50 years old.

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The Irish Tenors Live in Belfast

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by: Irish Traditional, James L. Molloy, Philip Martin, Lynette Johnson, Thomas Moore, Frank Lambert, Raymond Loughborough, Percy French, Richard Farrelly, William Wallace, Tempest Sanderson, Francis McPeake

Release Date January 08, 2007
My wife and I saw these tenors live and on stage and we were truly impressed. Their voices blend beautifully and they present a well rounded variety of songs. We so enjoyed the first CD that we bought this current one.