Mozart: Requiem

Advantages: Uplifting, original, rarely heard top quality dance music.
Disadvantages: If you like dance music, none.

..." and "club classic" series, but the roots of the company have always been in "happy hardcore" - "uplifting house" - "progressive house" - call it what you want - and it is here that they return to with this double CD. Released in 1990 it's getting on a bit now, but that isn't really the point. With fantazia, if you haven't heard the CD itself and aren't a regular at Londons dance clubs most of the music is going to be new-to-you anyway. As usual, there is a selection of genuinely good dance music, a blend of big names and acts that I have never heard of, often working as producer/remixer to either give a new slant to an old favourite or add some quality to a previously unheard cut. (One of the tracks samples Mozart's Requiem…) The music is uplifting dance music, fast-paced with baselines that are up at trance music rates, together with house... Read review

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Advantages: Different, unique, amazing vocals
Disadvantages: 'All That I'm Living For'

...just want to play it again and again and sing at the top of my lungs like a mad-woman. With this song, Amy Lee has reinvented Mozart's 'Requiem' by changing into a powerful and almost chilling rock track. I love it; it's just so creative and unique 10/10 Like You If someone asked me to describe this song in one word I would have to say: harrowing. Amy wrote it for her deceased younger sister and it's the only song, along with 'My Immortal' that she will not perform at the band's concerts. It's a beautiful and yet sad song, full of emotional lyrics. 8/10 Lose Control I don't think you'll ever hear a song like this one. It's just bizarre. It's brilliant though… powerful and brilliant to be exact. The lyrics will leave you wondering, 'What the heck?' especially when Amy begins to sing twisted lyrics from 'Mary had a lamb'. It's strange... Read review

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Advantages: A great diversity of famous works
Disadvantages: Not everything is perfect

...of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet, op.65 (exc.) MOZART: Dies Irae from Requiem, K.626 TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture, Op.49 (exc.) GRIEG: 1st mvt from Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16 (exc.) VIVALDI: Allegro from Spring of The Four Seasons, op.8 HÄNDEL: Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah HÄNDEL: La Rejouissance from Fireworks Music RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Flight of the Bumble Bee BERLIOZ: March to the Scaffold from Symphonie fantastique, op.14 (exc.) BIZET: Overture from Carmen MOZART: 1st mvt. from Eine Kleine Nachtmusic, K.525 PARRY: Jerusalem HOLST: Jupiter from The Planets, op.32 (exc.) BEETHOVEN: Ode to Joy from Symphony no.9 in D minor, Op.125 TCHAIKOVSKY: Scene from Swan Lake, Op.20 ELGAR: Nimrod from Enigma Variations, op.36 RACHMANINOV: 18th Variation from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.43 MUSSORGSKY: Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition... Read review

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Advantages: You could become a genius
Disadvantages: But then again you might not

...of TV ads. The only “mystery” bit for some of you will be the titles. The music I’m recommending on the disc under review goes by the name of Divertimento. This means nothing more (or less) than a piece to entertain (or divert the attention). The strange numbers K131 and K247 are also easily explained. After Mozart’s death a helpful fellow by the name of Ludwig von Köchel spent ten years of his life tracing and cataloguing Mozart’s works, assembling them as nearly as possible in chronological order and giving each one a number to indicate where it stands in relation to all the others: so K1 (a short piano piece) was Mozart’s first known work in Köchel’s catalogue and K626, the Requiem, was his last. OK so far? Good. The titles of the individual movements shouldn’t cause any problems if you speak Italian, the unofficial “language... Read review

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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... Read review

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Advantages: Every sacred music by Mozart in 1 boxset
Disadvantages: Not the best available

...at the time like the rest of the orchestra does. Quite a few of the smaller works (the misas for example) have the traditional, but no often heard plainsong or Gregorian chant at the begining of a piece of music. It would have been preferable to have these as single tracks (as most other record labels do), as they are not central to the main piece of music, and it can be a pain fast-forwarding to the main piece if you do not want to listen to it. The whole box set seems to be a mixed bag of played well and not so well, too fast and too slow, to loud and too quiet. Overall, there is nothing for me to recommend this above any other CD or boxset except that it is a complete set. A couple of Mozart's religious works have been recorded to death (I specifically refer to the Requiem!), but quite a few don't get a look in, and recordings can... Read review

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