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A wonderul creation! Advantages: Excellent recording and product Disadvantages: Pricey - but very much worth every penny! I am the proud owner of this recording and it has pride of place in my collection. There's a lot to say about this, so I will hopefully cover as much as I can! HAYDN Franz Joseph Haydn is the father of classical music in its true sense. He lived in Austria between 1732 and 1809, and invented the symphony and the string quartet. during his life, he composed over 100 symphonies, and dozens of other works, including concertos, string quartets, quintets, ... ...person, and it may be because of this that his greatest works include masses and oratorios (religious themes set to music). There is so much to say about him, but more information can be found on various websites and books. THE ORCHESTRA AND PERIOD MUSIC The work is performed by the Academy of Ancient Music, a leading orchestra which performs music as it would have been heard at the time it was written. The Academy is over 40 years old, and is ... rwjkelly 27.05.2006 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Haydn: The Creation	Originality Lyrics Quality and consistency... Value for Money
Ode to Joy Advantages: Catchy Tune Disadvantages: None Ode to joy was written by one of the worlds most renounced composers - Beethoven. This is in my opinion the best of beethoven's symphonies. This song is the easy to play and the tune is very catchy. The music is E E F G G F E D C C D E E D D E E F G G F E D C C D E D C C. The easy tune is very catchy and quite easy to remember. If you are learning to play the piano or keyboard I would suggest that you start by learning this one. I would recommend ... TerryMan123 06.05.2006 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Ode to Joy	Originality Lyrics Quality and consistency... Value for Money
A Bonney wee lassy! Advantages: Bonney's gorgeous voice; intelligent singing; great selection of songs Disadvantages: No translations included When you think of female opera singers, chances are you get an image in your head of a 20 stone monster wearing a Viking helmet and shattering glass as she screeches a note only audible to the neighbourhood cats. But luckily this stereotype is becoming very outdated as singers like Barbara Bonney bring a fresh sound to classical singing. Bonney has a refreshing lightness and silvery tone to her soprano voice, but unlike singers like Emma Kirkby who ... ...For anyone unfamiliar with Classical vocal music, Bonney’s voice provides the perfect introduction, with her light and clear tone, simplicity and absence of wide vibrato making her easily accessible to those unfamiliar with the genre, as well as being incredibly pleasing to classical lovers. There are few singers who can sound equally as comfortable singing a quirky 20th Century song as they do singing early music, but Bonney has this tremendous ... bubblegum_princess 22.11.2003 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of (The) Radiant Voice of Barbara Bonney	Originality Lyrics Quality and consistency... Value for Money
Sumptuous works by a little-known composer Advantages: Good recordings of unfamiliar, but rewarding works Disadvantages: None Karlowicz is a relatively unknown composer whose chief claim to fame was his untimely death in a skiing accident just before the First World War. He left a small collection of works, the later of which (figured in this disc) show a talent that was tragically snuffed out before he could achieve greatness. The Symphonic Poems featured here reveal a composer adept at interesting orchestral effects (try the sad theme at the start of the Lithuanian Rhapsody, ... ...writing for the lower-toned instruments of the orchestra. Karlowicz has clearly learnt a lot from Richard Strauss, whose shadow fell across much pre-1914 music, but it often lacks the extrovert quality of the Gernman composer's tone poems; as the inlay notes say, there is a 'brooding' quality to much of this music, particularly evident in the middle sections of these works. Another feature of Karlowicz's writing is his tendency to pick himself up ... chivhu 15.09.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Karlowicz: Symphonic Poems Vol 1	Originality Lyrics Quality and consistency... Value for Money
Music for Meditation Advantages: A good introduction to sacred music Disadvantages: A rather niche album on which those into the genre will find nothing new ...the same. Requiem is subtitled "music for Reflection and Meditation". It takes various well known settings of the requiem mass, together with a couple of other fitting pieces and puts them together in one place. If one is so minded, one should note that this album is NOT a requiem mass. The pieces don't follow in the right order but, having said that, to the knowledgeable, the whole album stands on its own as a good religious set. One of the other ... ...who are less well-known. When one says "requiem" one might think of Verdi or Mozart but here we also have offerings from Spanish composer Lobo (a motet) and the Italian Pergolesi (an extract from his Sabat Mater). I feel that Naxos have really got it right with this compilation. The perfect balance between the known and the unknown is struck with excerpts from the more well known Requiems by Mozart and Verdi featuring more than once meaning ... CareBear 15.09.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Requiem - Classical Music for Reflection & Meditation	Originality Lyrics Quality and consistency... Value for Money