Advantages: A large selection of great tracks Disadvantages: Just a couple of bad ones thrown in, but it all really depends on your taste
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20. Star Wars - Star Wars Main Theme (John Williams)
Disc 2
1. Four Weddings And A Funeral - The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba (Solomon/Handel)
2. The Aviator - Fugue/Toccata & Fugue In D Minor Bwv 565 (J. S. Bach Arr. Stokowski)
3. Saving Private Ryan - Hymn To The Fallen (Williams)
4. The Bridges Of Madison County - Casta Diva (Norma/Bellini) (Angela Gheorghiu Soprano)
5. The Deer Hunter - Cavatina (Stanley Myers)
6. Shine - Piano Concerto No.3 In D Minor (Rachmaninov) / I. Allegro Ma Non Tanto (Opening)
7. Lemony Snickert's A Series Of Unfortunate Events - The Letter That Never Came (Thomas Newman)
8. Minorty Report - Unfinished Symphony (Schubert) / I. Allegro Moderato (Opening)
9. Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World - Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams) (Opening)
10. What...
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Main Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano); David Wilson-Johnson (Bass); Mark Padmore (Tenor); Sarah Connolly (Contralto (Female alto)); Susan Gritton (Soprano)
Orchestra / Ensemble(s): Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Label / Distributor: Harmonia Mundi / Harmonia Mundi
Pieces in Set: 2
Running Time: 3 hours 35 minutes
Genre(s): Vocal and choral
Stereo: Stereo
SPAR Code: DDD
EAN: 794881848423
Work 1
Work Title: Solomon, HWV67
Excerpt(s): 1. Overture; Your harps and cymbals sound 2. Almighty power; With pious heart and holy tongue 3. Imperial Solomon, thy prayers are heard; Sacred raptures cheer my breast 4. Blest be the Lord; What tho' I trace each herb and flower 5. Blest the day 6. Thou fair inhabitant of Nile; Welcome as the dawn 7. When thou art absent from my heart; With thee th' unsheltered moor 8. My blooming fair come; May no rash intruder; Sinfonia (Arrival of Queen of Sheba) 9. From Arabia's spicy shores; Every sight these eyes 10. Sweep, sweep the string; Music, spread thy voice 11. Now a different measure try 12. Then at once from rage 13. Next the tortured soul release; Thus rolling surges 14. Thy harmony's divine; From the censer curling rise 15. From the East unto the West 16. Thrice happy king; Golden columns bright and fair 17. Beneath the vine 18. Gold now is common; How green our fertile pastures 19. Swell the full chorus 20. May peace in Salem ever dwell; Will the sun forget to streak 21. Adieu, fair Queen; Praise the Lord.; Ev'ry joy that wisdom knows
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
Genre: Vocal & Choral
Date Written: 1749
Conductor: Daniel Reuss
Orchestra / Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Chamber Choir
Orchestra / Ensemble: Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Main Performer: Carolyn Sampson (Soprano), David Wilson-Johnson (Bass), Mark Padmore (Tenor), Sarah Connolly (Contralto (Female alto)), Susan Gritton (Soprano)
Opera Part(s): Carolyn Sampson, David Wilson-Johnson, Mark Padmore, Sarah Connolly, Susan Gritton
Advantages: Rich, creamy vocal; enveloping warmth; text, character alive; facile Baroque ornamentation; impeccable diction; fine Symphony. Disadvantages: Only over an hour of music here; wanted more!
...If you’ll kindly pardon the gushing tone of this review, the blame for which you can lay wholly on the phenomenal British mezzo-soprano, Sarah Connolly (whom I hereby unofficially dub the operatic Anjelica Huston). Her riveting portrayal of the title character in Glyndebourne’s 2005 staging by David McVicar of Georg Frideric Händel’s ‘Giulio Cesare’ first made this writer into a very interested listener [reviewed here: http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/GiulioCesareHandelThreeDiscsReview5644748]. With this disc, she’s become a full-fledged Connolly fan.
This 2004 CD comprises airs (arias) and orchestral sinfonias from four works by Händel, and any Händel/Baroque music or opera/vocal music lover will not regret its acquisition. This disc also heralds Ms Connolly’s superb turn as the aforementioned Giulio Cesare the very next year...
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Advantages: Awe inspiring memorable music. Disadvantages: Long - 2 hrs 20 mins
...Composed by George Frideric Handel
Lyrics compiled from the bible by Charles Jennens
Performed by Cambridge King's College Choir Academy of St Martin in the Fields directed by Sir Neville Marriner with James Bowman (Countertenor), Robert Tear (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (Bass)
Conducted by Sir David Willcocks
Label EMI
Price £15.99
Available in most good music stores
Handel is a German born English composer. He was born in Halle, Germany on 23rs February 1685. He first moved to London in 1710 settling there in 1712. He was eventually nationized English in 1726.
In 1741 Handel was invited to visit Dublin and give concerts in aid of charities there. In the same year Jennens sent Handel a religious text and Handel duly composed the music to Messiah (not The Messiah). It debutted in Dublin in 1742.
Messiah is the most famous and most loved...
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Advantages: A large selection of great tracks Disadvantages: Just a couple of bad ones thrown in, but it all really depends on your taste
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20. Star Wars - Star Wars Main Theme (John Williams)
Disc 2
1. Four Weddings And A Funeral - The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba (Solomon/Handel)
2. The Aviator - Fugue/Toccata & Fugue In D Minor Bwv 565 (J. S. Bach Arr. Stokowski)
3. Saving Private Ryan - Hymn To The Fallen (Williams)
4. The Bridges Of Madison County - Casta Diva (Norma/Bellini) (Angela Gheorghiu Soprano)
5. The Deer Hunter - Cavatina (Stanley Myers)
6. Shine - Piano Concerto No.3 In D Minor (Rachmaninov) / I. Allegro Ma Non Tanto (Opening)
7. Lemony Snickert's A Series Of Unfortunate Events - The Letter That Never Came (Thomas Newman)
8. Minorty Report - Unfinished Symphony (Schubert) / I. Allegro Moderato (Opening)
9. Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World - Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams) (Opening)
10. What...
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