classical music: M.I.A.

classical music: M.I.A.

classical music:

M.I.A.

Anonymous, American Anonymous, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2004

Can't walk away from it!
My only "complaint" about the CD is that I absolutely HAVE to sit and listen to the entire thing whenever I start it up! I usually have music playing in the background while doing other things, but not this one! There are no tracks that I find myself wanting to skip ...

Bella Tuscany: Music Inspired by Tuscany

Tomaso Albinoni, Giovanni Gabrieli, ...

Telarc, 2004

Bella Bellisimo
A wonderful compellation of Italian classical music. I love to hear it while I'm driving; it makes road rage disappear.

An Organ Blaster Sampler

Johann Sebastian Bach, Andre Campra, ...

Telarc, 1991

Pure Majestic Power!
Corey is right - this is an outstanding organ CD, one of the best I've heard. Murray plays some of the largest and most powerful organs on Earth, and uses the reed stops more than the usual organist to produce great effects and a wall of sound that are majestic in the ...

Let Yourself Go

Kristin Chenoweth, Jule Styne, ...

Sony, 2001

One of the best ever!
Do I mean the best album or the best singer? You are correct if you said both! I saw Kristin Chenoweth on a PBS show "Broadway's Best at the Pops," (though it was not the first time I had heard her) and decided to check out the offerings here. This is a collection ...

The Legendary Enrico Caruso: 21 Favorite Arias

Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, ...

RCA, 1990

A childhood memory
I do not really know Opera. I am writing this review because I remember hearing Caruso's voice coming from a seventy- eight on an old Victor gramophone in my paternal grandparents house. The power and lyric quality of the voice struck me so strongly especially in ...

Broadway, My Way

Linda Eder

Atlantic / Wea, 2003

the best female singer of the great american standards.
i am turning 60 years old this year. i went to my 1st.broadway musical in 1960. over the years i have had the honor to see almost all of the giants of american song, garland, streisand, patti lupone, lena horne, betty buckley, barbaracook etc. in "broadway, my way" ...

Pieces of Africa

Dumisani Maraire, Hassan Hakmoun, ...

Nonesuch, 1992

Buy this CD!
I largely consider myself an alternative rock fan and to describe my knowledge of classical music as "limited" would be kind. I first got to know Kronos when they covered Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" and had a video (which I saw once) on either VH1 or MTV. I was ...

Glorious Pipes: Organ Music Through the Ages

Johannes Brahms, Dietrich Buxtehude, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2004

Glorious pipes
New as an organ fan ? No mistake with this double Cd set. Registration is amazing and sounds like pure cristal. A simple joy. B.A.C.H. from Liszt is great, and more great moments. Organists play perfectly.

How Sweet the Sound: Spirituals & Traditional Gospel Music

Chanticleer

Teldec, 2004

Best Chanticleer CD Yet
This is the Best Chanticleer CD yet. I have listened to it dozens of times. Money well spent. I have even given copies to several of my friends.

Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Original Broadway Cast)

Jeanine Tesori, Dick Scanlan, ...

RCA Victor Broadway, 2002

Great music well performed
This is a great recording of music in the classic style of the grand musicals. The voices are spot on and the instrumentation is alive, especially with the horns adding excitement.

City of Angels (1990 Original Broadway Cast)

Cy Coleman, David Zippel, ...

Sony, 1990

Cleverness personified
A duet between an author and the character he created, each claiming "you're nothing without me," is just one example of how sharp, witty and clever show is, with an unusual score, jazzy and bluesy and very 1940s, and some of the best lyrics I know.

Love Is Spoken Here

Craig Jessop, Mack Wilberg, ...

Mormon Tabernacle, 2005

A serene peaceful album of children's songs and lullabies
"Love is Spoken Here" is the newest released by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square. Featuring children's primary songs, well-known lullabies, and popular favorites, this is a unique entry in the Choir's repetoire, and the albums breathes ...

Gilbert & Sullivan - Highlights from The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Yeomen of the ...

Nicholas Folwell, Arthur Sullivan, ...

Telarc, 1996

Pure delight
--Gilbert & Sullivan-- William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were a match made in heaven, yet on earth their pairing seems even with hindsight a most unlikely coupling. Both were destined for other things, Gilbert in fact for decidedly non-musical careers. Introduced ...

Our American Journey

William Billings, Alfred Marcus Cagle, ...

Teldec, 2002

Warning: This CD Is Addictive
I purchased this CD after hearing this magnificent choral group sing "Calling My Children Home" in a recent concert. Written by Doyle Lawson (from the group "Quicksilver"), Charlie Waller and Robert Yates, the song is a standard bluegrass number I had known for years ...

Consider the Lilies

John Rutter, Jonathan Willcocks, ...

Mormon Tabernacle, 2003

The Sweetest Music
I love this CD. My family and I listened to it over and over and over again, during the last few weeks of my mother's life. It has been a comfort to me in time of sorrow. Now it brings tears every time I listen to it. This music is like loving arms around me. It ...