Advantages: Good background listening Disadvantages: Odd mixture of music on the Uplifting disc
I will say from the start that I am certainly no expert on classical music. I do often have Classic FM on the radio at home and recently bought their 2 CD set, Voices 2008. This is a compilation containing a selection of vocal pieces from the worlds of choral music and opera. There are pieces in this collection which you would immediately recognise on hearing them, even if their names are not familiar. In the set is a CD of relaxing pieces and a CD of uplifting pieces, so you have the choice of which best suits your mood. The notes which accompany the set are very brief, so here I am adding my own impressions along with information I have found from other sources.
Track Listing
Relaxing CD
1 Elgar - 'Lux Aeterna'. This is a vocal arrangement of the piece titled Nimrod from the Enigma Variations. Elgar wrote ...
Advantages: Lots of big tunes Disadvantages: One average tune
of things (but in a more complete way than Kurtis Blow's 1980 recoridng ?Christmas Rappin'?
**Five Stars**
2.?Let The Jingle Bells Rock? - Sweet Tee
Known for her 'Love Rap' ?Why Did It Have To Be Me? (in LL Cool J's ?I Need Love? style), New York's Sweet Tee comes to thrown down a tune that acts as the complete oppostie to that rack Hip Hop ballad as we see that she rides the 'Amen' break and comes out with some fly rhymes that concentrate everything around warming imaginery that you tend to connect with Christmas time.
**Four Stars**
3.?Dana Dane Is Coming To Town? - Dana Dane
Here we get a funky jam that I really can't see any rooms for complaints in as we find that Dana Dane comes in with some storytelling rhymes that seem to take on all that Slick Rick was known for (even though he didn't debut as a solo artist until the year after ...
Advantages: Reminds you of christmas as a child and helps recreate a family christmas atmosphere Disadvantages: Absoultely none
I bough this CD a few years ago now for my daughter and must admit it is a really festive CD. The songs are all ones that you will recongnise and love and so will your children over the years.
To me Christmas is all about children and the songs odnthis CD bring that home to you. It's true christmas Carols and not these hyped up pop versions.
We play this every christmas now and it is one of the highlights for my daughter. She knows christmas is just aroung the corner when we start playing the CD and she even knows the words to some of the songs.
Guaranteed to get you in the spirit of things and will be the best thing you could spen your money on this year. CD's are vailable from £3-£5 from e-bay etc.
The following songs are on the CD which you will most definately recongise with a few of them some of your favourites I ...
