classical music: Franz Xaver Gruber

classical music: Franz Xaver Gruber

classical music:

Franz Xaver Gruber

Chad Runyon, Tim Krol, ...

Teldec, 1995

The Geese Are Getting Fat Again
Someone who likes my music reviews has requested a Christmas album. Well, here it is. Imagine a silent darkness with reflections of colored lights twinkling on the snow banks. Suddenly a group of carolers can be heard making their merry way toward your own front porch, ...

Angel Voices

Steven Geraghty, Franz Xaver Gruber, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

Immaculate (as usual)
The studio disc "Angel Voices" represents a well-crafted cross-section of Libera's work across the majority of its 24 year history; a "greatest hits" disc. If you're brand new to Libera, start right here: this disc has the majority of their most well-known work from ...

Baby Einstein: Lullaby Classics, Vol. 2

Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, ...

Buena Vista, 2006

Great CD for baby (and adults shhh)
This is great CD. We love Vol. 1 but it was getting a little over played so we bought Vol. 2. It's THE best thing for a car ride. Especially with a fussy baby who hates cars.

Music of Christmas

Percy Faith and His Orchestra, Adolphe Adam, ...

Sony, 1990

Percy Faith, The Music of Christmas
I've been looking for this album for years, we used to listen to it when I was gorwing during the Christmas season, so finding it has been quite a wonderful surprise. I purchased it first so I could check the sound quality and it was awesome. Then i purchased it for ...

Joy to the World - Eugene Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra

Leroy Anderson, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

RCA, 1990

Joy To The World........a joy indeed!
This wonderful CD has everything to celebrate the great joy of the Christmas season. Recorded in the early 1970's it still sounds as fresh and timeless as it did way back then. The orchestrations are majestic and imaginative without being mushy or too symphonic in ...

Andrea Bocelli - Sacred Arias / Myung-Whun Chung

George Frideric Handel, Giulio Caccini, ...

Philips, 1999

Beautiful music
This is my second copy of this CD, I burned the first one out!! Andrea Bocelli has a very gorgeous voice that is a gift from above. His voice is not affected or braggadoccio but naturally magnificent. I could and do start my day listening to this spiritually uplifting ...

Baby Einstein: Baby Santa

Laura Keopke, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Walt Disney Records, 2005

Wonderful
I gave it as a gift to a relative who has a 8 month old and it is a big hit...

The Three Tenors Christmas

Adolphe Adam, Fermin Maria Alvarez, ...

Sony, 2000

First Christmas Album I bought for myself
Album is great. For any other holiday music, just listen to your local radio station that plays it during December.

A Festival of Carols in Brass

Adolphe Adam, Anonymous, ...

Sony, 1991

A True Classic
This CD is all instrumental of well known traditional christmas carols. One of the pieces is a brass version of "Twelve Days of Christmas" is my absolute, all time favorite version. We have enjoyed ours for years and bought two more to give to family members so that ...

The John Rutter Christmas Album

Cambridge Singers, Rutter, ...

Collegium, 2002

John Rutter Christmas album
excellent! Inever heard a Rutter that I didn't like. This cd reinforces my enjoyment of his music.

The Glorious Sound of Christmas

Adolphe Adam, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

Sony, 1991

Both great instrumentals and vocals
This was another album we always listened to when I was a child. It's kind of Mormon Tabernacleish sounding, with all the religious songs of the holidays right there. Not a secular one in the batch. But for that lush Sixties Christmas sound, with loads of strings and ...

Christmas with Chanticleer (Featuring Dawn Upshaw)

David Alan Marshall, Thomas Bold, ...

Teldec, 2001

a voice teacher and early music fan
CHANTICLEER INSPIRES ME TO REMEMBER 'THE REASON FOR THE SEASON'! For nearly 25 years Chanticleer has performed a large and wide variety of music, from Gregorian Chant to the most modern fare. With its seamless blend of 12 male voices,ranging from counter-tenor to ...

Dream a Dream

Adolphe Adam, Felix Bernard, ...

Sony, 2000

Great Christmas music!
This is one of my fave Christmas cds and I listen to it every year. Charlotte Church was only about 14 and her voice is amazing.

John Rutter: Music for Christmas

Polyphony, Stephen Layton, ...

Hyperion UK, 2001

At the Top of My Christmas Playing List!
This is just an outstanding collection of choral, Christian selections. The majority are composed by Rutter, who it turns out was led into this field for which he is so well known and loved when in school, he was motivated by a fellow student who was composing a ...

Spirit of The Season: Christmas with Sissel and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Franz Xaver Gruber, Gustav Holst, ...

Mormon Tabernacle Choir, 2007

choral work with COSMIC class guest artist
the mormon tabernacle choir and orchestra perform weel and sing xmas songs you won-t hears elsewhere but the addition of sissel as solist in some classic and typic nordic xmas carols make the product an absolue MUST try hearing "mitt hjærte alltid vanker" or the ...