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The Mozart Effect - Music for Babies - Playtime to Sleepytime

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from: Children's Group

Release Date October 13, 1998
Purchased as a gift, but glad to receive it. Haven't listened to it myself, but I like Mozart.

CD-Charts Position 132
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Angel Voices

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from: EMI Classics

Release Date October 25, 2006
The studio disc "Angel Voices" represents a well-crafted cross-section of Libera's work across the majority of its 24 year history; a "greatest hits" disc. If you're brand new to Libera, start right here: this disc has the majority of their most well-known work from performances and albums past. For old hands, there are some new cuts sure to become part of Libera's lasting repertoire. This album's track list is NOT the same as that for the live recording made at Leiden: Angel Voices: Libera In Concert

Purists: Go away. The group actively promotes themselves as a unique style of their own (the boys' own words, not some publicist's blurb), so they won't fit into prefab Genre Boxes. Libera is made up of schoolchildren united by their ... Read More:

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Messiah (George Frederick Handel) London Philharmonic Orchestra

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by: Handel, London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Alldis

Release Date March 12, 2002
Many envision Christmas when they hear Messiah spoken in reference to Handel's classical craftsmanship. I, personally, envision all year round listening rapture.

Handel's composition details various epics of Christ's life--His birth, ministry, crucifixion, resurrection and eventual Messianic millennial rule. You behold through Handel's orchestrated psalms, the Old Testament prophesies concerning Messiah encompassed with the New Testament fulfillments.

Handel's Messiah is remarkable as it is the inspired Scripture set to orchestration. Messiah is absent of Handel's words; only holding his masterful musical scores.

When you insert these CDs, Biblical truths arise in illustrious, serenading ecstasy. You immediately ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 134
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Philip Glass - Songs & Poems for Solo Cello - Wendy Sutter

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from: Orange Mountain Music

Release Date February 12, 2008
This Cd made me a Cello fan. It is relaxing "a lo Glass", (as usual). Before, I considered the violoncello an inferior
entity within the violin family, but now I have great respect for both, the instrument and Phillip. To me: definitely a 5 star.

Manny Fernandez
P.S. I'm not a professional music analyst just in case I may have disappointed any one for not getting into the technical analysis of the CD.

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Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"

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from: Nonesuch

Release Date May 05, 1992
I am not a trained musician and cannot speak in such terms. However, I can speak to the emotion I felt as I listened to this music. I find this work particularly moving from the near silence of the beginning of the first movement to the plaintive prayer to Our Lady in the last. To me this is a piece of quiet power; the gradual crescendo of sound to Dawn Upshaw's first soaring soprano and gradual decrescendo to near silence in the first movement, the soulful prayer to the Holy Mother in the second movement. In the third movement where one might expect anger I heard the despairing lament and final quiet resolution. I do not speak Polish but am familiar with the sounds of the language. Dawn Upshaw sings with such clarity that I was able to follow the Polish ... Read More:

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Trio Mediaeval: Folk Songs

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from: Ecm Records

Release Date October 16, 2007
I haven't been enthusiastic about this ensemble of women singers, Trio Mediaeval, on their previous CDs, singing potpourris of chant and polyphony. Their voices are more individually interesting than those of the better-known Anonymous Four, but they've 'schmalzed' up the reverb and used other little gimmicks to trick themselves out as 'spiritual-sounding.' On this CD, however, they've tapped into their Norwegian roots, utilized the special vocal quality of Norwegian women singers, caught all the trollish mystery of ancient runes and isolated fiords. We Swedes depend on our Samii and Finnish singers for equally "weird" and heathenish vocal effects, but we can't match the Norwegians. I've never heard this music before except when kayaking farm to farm on one of the ... Read More:

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Children's Favorites

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from: Vox (Classical)

Release Date September 05, 2000
This CD mostly delivered what was expected of it. The only critique I have is that some of the tempos could have been cleaner, and that it should be cross-referenced by the other composers besides J. S. Bach.

CD-Charts Position 138
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Appalachia Waltz / Ma, Meyer, O'Connor

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from: Sony

Release Date September 24, 1996
Appalachian Waltz shows the best of American music with premier performers. A delightful experience.

CD-Charts Position 139
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Josh Groban In Concert (with Bonus DVD)

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by: Walter Afanasieff, Albert / Sharron, Marti Hammond, David / Sager, Carole Bayer Foster, John Williams, Don MacLean, Johann Sebastian Bach, Walter / Crokaert, Lara Afanasieff, Adolphe Adam, Daniel Ezralow, Angie Stone, Lili Haydn, David Foster

Release Date December 03, 2002
For those of you unfamiliar with Josh Groban this is a great way to start. It is his first cd - self titled - What a voice. He has several other cd's as well as dvd's (awesome by the way) He changed my life - We call ourselves Grobonites a proud name to bear. Whatever you've heard about the music - if you haven't listened you truly need to. You will not be sorry about the investmant you've made. He has a charitable foundation that helps bring medicine and drinking water to villages in Africa. His foundation also works with AIDS patients. I've actually met him and was able to tell him that he helped me thru Cancer his voice kept me going thru some tough times. Please just listen once. (and it doesn't hurt that he's cute too!)

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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches

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from: RCA

Release Date August 10, 1993
The old LP of this recording was my introduction to the Bartok Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste when I was a kid in the 1950s. What a treat to find it again after all these years! The clarity, precision and musicality are unsurpassed by any I have heard since. It even blows away the live performances I recently enjoyed with Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin as well as Esa-Peka Solonen with the LA Phil. This is a definitive performance. No question about it.