Bolero - Orchestral Fireworks

Advantages: More good adiemus music
Disadvantages: A few not so good tracks

...(Courante) - This is an amazing piece of music and a great opening to the CD. Right from the start it is able to catch your interest, even though it is being sung A Capella (without musical accompaniment) and the interest still holds throughout the first section, and into the second section where there is a great accompaniment to the words. This is definitely one of my favourite tracks on the CD and is just amazing to listen to. 2. Un Bolero Azul (Blue Bolero) - This is another good song, that in my opinion sounds similar to Ravel's Bolero - the one that the skaters danced to and got the perfect score - it has a similar sort of sound to it, but then I suppose that would be expected seeing as the both have the word Bolero, and that is a type of Spanish dance (and probably why the track has a Spanish title). But even though it sounds similar... Read review

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Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: nothing

...and Juliet, Op. 64) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso (Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op.23) 1812 - Festival Overture, Op.49 Richard Wagner Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkure - Der Ring des Nibelungen: Part 2) Maurice Ravel Bolero (conclusion) (Bolero, Poeme choregraphique) Giuseppe Verdi Va pensiero, sull'ali dorate (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) (Nabucco (1853)) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rondo (Allegro vivace) (Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat Major, K.495) Thomas Hampson Baritone Ernest Blanc Baritone James Morris Bass Gerald Finley Cantor Sabine Meyer Clarinet Dennis Brain Horn Anne Sofie von Otter Mezzosoprano Daniele Millet Mezzosoprano Dame Moura Lympany Piano Horacio Gutierrez Piano Cecile Ousset Piano Stephen Hough Piano Maksim Mrvica Piano Maria Tipo Piano Wayne... Read review

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Advantages: Great performances of popular favourites and some rare gems
Disadvantages: Barely none, with perhaps slight issues with sound.

...Compilation albums of classical music are often a somewhat hit and miss affair. Great for the beginner, not so much for a seasoned collector. Therefore finding compilations that step outside of the norm in offering something else from the evergreens like Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, or Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and include some rarer gems is a thing that is ever so more interesting. Such was the sensation when I chanced upon this album, entitled "Colours of the Orchestra", a collection of orchestral treats that in various ways showcase the versatility and richness of a symphony orchestra. There is a number of composers included, all sequenced alphabetically, this set containing people from A to G. This album was then followed by a second collection that continued from where the first one ended, but personally I haven... Read review

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