Advantages: Great vocals, mellow music Disadvantages: lack of divserity
...My wife is from South America and we both like Spanish/South America music, so we thought we'd try this CD out.
The voices are beautiful. Well polished and they harmonise together very well, moving through their ranges with a sublime smoothness.
This CD is great as background music. It doesn't ask your ear to give it full attention, but drifts mellow, relaxing sounds to you across an evenly paced albumn which has loads of quality but little diversity. You would be forgiven for not realising that one track has given way to the next at times.
It's more smooth Spanish than sexy South America and more ballad than salsa. Overall it's a new sound and one your ears will thank for listening to....
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Advantages: sublime music Disadvantages: the hour it lasts is far too short!
...This budget album captures some of the most sublime pieces of Monteverdi's religious music. It consists of excerpts from works written over a period of 40 years, from the famous Vespers of 1610 to the Mass, Psalms and Litany to the Virgin published posthumously in 1650.
The settings are for two sopranos and alto, soprano and alto, soprano solo and alto solo, accompanied by various combinations of organ, cello, violins, harpsichord and theorbo. The alto part is taken by the outstanding male alto Rene Jacobs, who also directs the ensemble. Judith Nielson is the principal soprano, and is joined in one piece by soprano Birgit Grenat.
The sound of the music is something quite extraordinary. Melodies are interwoven, one against the other, sometimes colliding into unexpected dissonances which then resolve into perfect harmonies. The rhythms...
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Advantages: Everything you could ever want from a classical CD Disadvantages: none
.... The Nutcracker - Suite
Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
17. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E minor
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
18. Cavalleria rusticana
Composed by Pietro Mascagni
19. Gloria in D
Composed by Antonio Vivaldi
20. Coronation Anthems
Composed by George Frideric Handel
21. Cantata No. 147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben'
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
22. Requiem in D minor
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
23. Ave Maria
Composed by Charles Gounod
24. Miserere mei
Composed by Gregorio Allegri
25. Requiem
Composed by Gabriel Fauré
26. Lakmé
Composed by Léo Delibes
27. Les contes d'Hoffmann
Composed by Jacques Offenbach
28. Pavane
Composed by Gabriel Fauré
29. Gianni Schicchi
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
30. Madama Butterfly
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
31. Nabucco
Composed...
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