Classic FM Carols From Buckingham Palace - Various Artists

Classical voices to relax and uplift

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 ...

JoannaPiano 01.06.2008 (11.06.2008) · Read full review
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Review of Classic FM Voices 2008 - Various Artists

classic fm at the movies

Advantages: enjoyable
Disadvantages: nothing new

This is a gorgeously packaged 3 disc set called 'Classic fm at the Movies. It looks wonderful, from the digi-pack cover and slick black iconic silhouettes adorning each side. A look at the track-listing shows that there are some enjoyable tracks here Star Wars, The Mission, The English Patient, Witness, Out of Africa these are all classic, no pun intended, tracks. A few titles jumped out though, titles that I felt were worthy additions to a compilation album; titles like Stage Beauty, Arsène Lupin and Rachel Portman's Oliver Twist. Some thought has clearly been put into this, making it a good collection of very fine film music. Although some track such as gladiator (suite) are poor imitations. However it is a decent introduction, to the novice, for decent classical music. Disc: 1 1. Superman 2. Back To The Future 3 ...

Maximus-Qualitus 26.01.2008 (27.01.2008) · Read full review
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Review of Classic FM At The Movies Vol.1 - Various Artists

The VERY Best Cinema Classics!!!

Advantages: A large selection of great tracks
Disadvantages: Just a couple of bad ones thrown in, but it all really depends on your taste

underscored by music written many years earlier. The pieces of this album are pieces that you can enjoy again and again. They are the best examples of pieces written for films in recent years, as well as some of the great pieces that were wrote by classical masters. So the pieces themselves. Well first I will give you a list of all the pieces there are on each CD, and after that I will tell you which pieces I think are the best. Disc 1 1. Gladiator - Gladiator Suite (Zimmer/Gerrard/Badelt) 2. The Girl With The Pearl Earring - Griet's Theme (Alexandre Desplat) 3. American Beauty - Any Other Name (Thomas Newman) 4. The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring - The Fellowship (Howard Shore) 5. Closer - Soave Sia Il Vento (Così Fan Tutte) (Mozart) Carol Vaness (Soprano) 6. William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet ...

kingchris 14.09.2006 (25.09.2006) · Read full review
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Review of Best Cinema Classics... Ever, The (Epic Themes From Classic Movies) - Various Artists