Advantages: A great diversity of famous works Disadvantages: Not everything is perfect
...SAINT-SAËNS: Finale from Symphony no.3 in Cminor, op.78 "Organ"
This collection therefore represent some of the best known pieces of music from the Baroque era to the 20th Century, all predominately orchestral. Most of the recordings are very good, although there are a few rather poor ones as well. The slowing down in the "Ride of the Valkyries" takes much power away from the piece, Beethoven's Fifth is painfully slow and measured instead of being faster and more powerful, the "1812 Overture" lacks punch (with the cannons probably digitally added) and the "Ode to Joy" is nothing but a 30 second snippet. However the choral pieces are mostly fantastic (the Dies Irae from Verdi's Requiem is nothing short but mind-blowing, as is the Mozart alternative, Holst's "Mars" is one of the best I've heard, the performance of Placido Domingo in "Nessun...
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Advantages: Everything you could ever want from a classical CD Disadvantages: none
...by Giuseppe Verdi
32. Les pêcheurs de perles
Composed by Georges Bizet
33. (Il) trovatore
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
34. Turandot
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
35. Carmina Burana
Composed by Carl Orff
36. Messa da Requiem
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
37. Messiah
Composed by George Frideric Handel
38. Also sprach Zarathustra, 'Thus spake Zarathustra'
Composed by Richard Strauss
39. (The) Planets
Composed by Gustav Holst
40. Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
41. Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
42. Symphony No. 5 in Cminor
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
43. Romeo and Juliet
Composed by Sergey Prokofiev
44. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor
Composed by Edvard Grieg
45. Boléro
Composed by Maurice Ravel
46. Fanfare for the Common Man
Composed...
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Advantages: Interesting, beautifull, well written Disadvantages: Bad choice of soloists
...The Requiem, written shotly after his fathers death, is the only piece in this genre that Andrew Lloyd Webber has written. It is a relatively short piece, only 45 minutes long (NOT as the CD discription says, 1h 45min!!), written for chamber orchestra, organ, SATB choir and tenor, soprano and treble soloists. It uses the well known texts of the Requiemmass. I find the music beautifull in a haunting way.
The music os mainly classical, but bears a modern touch, which is refreshing. The music is reasonably easy to sing for a choral singer, which makes it an attractive piece for choirs.
This recording uses a boy choir and the soloist Placido Domingo (tenor), Sarah Brightman (soprano) and Paul Miles-Kingston. To me, the soloist are the weakest part of the recording. Placido Domingos voice is to heavy to manage the fast Hosanna, Sara...
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