Charpentier: Te Deum; Messe de Minuit de Noël

Advantages: Colourful and always exciting
Disadvantages: absolutely none

...works for the state, the Requiem or "Grande messe des morts" and "Te Deum" feature enormous orchestras and choruses (the Requiem's Dies Irae alone featuring batteries of trumpets in all four corners of the church blasting away at each other and are then succeeded by the simultaneous drumming of eight pairs of timpani, creating an unforgettable wave of sound). As an opera composer he had less of a success. His first opera, "Les Francs-Juges" only exists in fragments; Benvenuto Cellini was a total failure; the four hour "Les Troyens" after Virgil's Aeneas, was so huge that it was forced to be separated into two parts, and was even then performed only in part at the wholly unsuitable Opéra Comique, only receiving its first complete performance in the 1950's, a hundred years later; and the Shakespeare-based "Béatrice et Benedict" came so late... Read review

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Advantages: Bachata music
Disadvantages: Nothing

...This album is one of the best album of the Dominican Musician Juan Luis Guerra and his group 4:40 for the people who likes Bachata, Salsa and another Caribean dancers. This album is recorded in 1998. Some the songs that we have is Areito, Costo de la Vida, Señales de Humo, Frio Frio, etc all of them in the Bachata style. About his lyric it is good and telling us some social problems for example. About his compositions are all of them are good with good messages social and loves songs. ----------- This album contains this songs: 1-Areito 2-Costo de la vida 3-Señales de humo 4-Ayer 5-Frio Frio 6-Rompiendo fuentes 7-Mal de amor 8-Si saliera petroleo 9-Coronita de flores 10-Si te beso 11-Bonus track ----------- Only "Areito" and "Costo de la vida" sounded in a radio ranking in Lima ------------- About his productions is few because of his... Read review

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Advantages: A decent collection of varied music
Disadvantages: Several 'sections' of music

...Pleasure First/The Promise {The Piano} 10. Symphony, No. 7 in A, Op. 92 II Allegretto (Opening) - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 11. Lacrimosa (Requiem) 12. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Opening) - London Philharmonic Orchestra 13. Te Deum - Ambrosian Singers Of London, The Philharmonia Orchestra 14. Adagio in G Minor (Extract) - Academy of St. Martin in the Fields 15. Song of Our Homeland (Prince Igor) 16. Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana) - The Philharmonia Orchestra 17. Nessun Dorma (Turandot) 18. Celebration - London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra Disc: 2 1. Fanfare for the Common Man 2. Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre) 3. Piano Concerto, No. 3 in D Minor I: Allegro Ma Non Tanto (Opening) - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra 4. O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) 5. Casta Diva (Norma) - La Scala Orchestra... Read review

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