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Chant: Music For The Soul

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Vocal and Song
from: Decca

July 01, 2008
I listen to this in my car between stops and I love how the songs soothe my spirit, especially when hectic schedules stress me out!

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Pavarotti's Greatest Hits

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Vocal and Song
from: Decca

September 18, 2007
I checked this cd many times at my local Library that I decided to buy it, it is great! I like that the lyrics are included. beautiful songs.
Love it.

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Chant

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Vocal and Song
by: Gregorian Chant, The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos

March 15, 1994
CHANT arrived in good condition ahead of the promised delivery date and for a bargain price. The singing is well done. However, I never recognized one selection of the ultra long list of chants that are a radical departure from Kyrie Eleison and Magnificat anima mea. I played it while in bed and drifted off to sleep even after being kinda disappointed in the selections. This is not saying YOU won't be transfixed and inspired by the rhythm, melodies, and selections chosen by the totally-dedicated monks.

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Andrea Bocelli - Sacred Arias / Myung-Whun Chung

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Vocal and Song
by: George Frideric Handel, Giulio Caccini, Charles Gounod, Franz Schubert, Cesar Franck, Gioachino Rossini, Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, Pietro Mascagni, Louis Niedermeyer, Franz Xaver Gruber, John Francis Wade, Jean-Paul Lecot, Myung-Whun Chung, Andrea Bocelli

November 09, 1999
from start to finish a wonderfuly dismal and solemn collection of religious arias. Best suited at a funeral or during a serious session of misanthropy and introflection. A definate must have for serious opera fans!!!!!

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O Holy Night / Luciano Pavarotti / Special Deluxe Edition (Decca)

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Vocal and Song
from: Decca

October 11, 2005
Pavarotti is in his prime for this one and the selections are both touching and grand. Mille Cherubini, a tender lullaby, is my favorite but his Agnus Dei is rich and grand. The choral backgrounds are also very good. I bought the cassette when it came out in the 70's and I am thrilled that they reissued it as CD to grace my 2007 Christmas .

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The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Vocal and Song
from: Decca Broadway

June 01, 1999
Great starter album in the series of Andrew Lloyd Webebr Collections. There are atleast 4 currently.

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Mozart - Requiem / Augér, Bartoli, Cole, Pape, Wiener Phil., Solti

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Vocal and Song
from: Decca

March 10, 1992
To my great surprise, in the last two decades of his life Solti turned into a marvelous Mozart interpreter. His '80's Figaro, and '90's Magic Flute and Cosi fan Tutte are among my favorite versions, Sir Georg's sometimes abrasive nervous energy (and scholarly use of reduced orchestral forces) makes for fantastically dramatic, anti-romantic readings. This requiem, recorded on the 200th anniversary of Mozart's death in St Stephen's cathedral in Vienna benefits from an awesome reverberant acoustic, a quartet of fabluous operatic singers (and let's face it, this is an opera manque, religiose, not religious, "the sickly sweets of operatic sin" as Stravinsky called it, and a good thing too I say). Excerpts of the actual Mass ceremony are interspersed, and ... Read More:

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Chant II

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Vocal and Song
by: Gregorian Chant, Ismael Fernandez de la Cuesta, Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos

October 17, 1995
If you like this type of modern music presented in a unique style with some excellent voices give this a try. the style is not to everyones tast, I'm hooked and my usual preference for music is more like linkin park and evanescence. But i love this in heavy traffic on the way home, it keeps down the road rage without having to listen to archaic religious latin verse.

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La Luna

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Vocal and Song
by: Sarah Brightman

August 29, 2000
I've never been paying attention to her, but after I borrowed her La Luna CD from public library, and listened to one of her songs from this album This Love becomes one of my greatest songs all times. Now, surely I like her, and I cannot wait for her Christmas album. Her Scarborough Fair..........is so wonderful.

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American Angels

Childrens Toy Shop > Music > Vocal and Song
from: Harmonia Mundi Fr.

February 10, 2004
I admit it: this is less a review and more of a compulsion to weigh in on the debate, as both a performer of early music and a longtime shapenote singer.

First of all, this is Anonymous 4, and these women are much to polished and professional to do anything less than magnificent. That being said, this is Anonymous 4, and they worked for years on perfecting their sound and in particular the blend of their four voices. They cannot be expected to sound like four random singers at a Sacred Harp convention, where anyone and everyone is welcome. Those who have said that this sacred music is for everyone are right: it is for everyone, back porch singers and trained professional alike. Anonymous 4 just happens to fall into the latter group. ... Read More: