Czech Sacred Music

On this CD:

1. Mass for vocal soloists, chorus, & orchestra in D major, B.175 (Op. 86)
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
Performed by Marta Benackova, Jan Hora, Miroslav Kopp, Richard Novak, Salome Losova
Conducted by Bohumil Kulinsky

2. Missa Pastoralis in D
Composed by Jan Antonin [AKA Leopold] Kozeluh
Performed by Prague Philharmonic Orchestra with Miroslav Svejda, Salome Losova, Miloslav Podskalsky, Yvona Skvarova
Conducted by Bohumil Kulinsky

Czech Sacred Music, Music, Dvorak, Kozeluh, Kulinsky, Classical, Orchestral & Symphonic
Best Classics 100 Volume 1
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Good compilation- of bits and pieces
  • Good and inexpensive collection
 Best Classics 100 Volume 1

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000GPIPQA
Release Date: 2006-08-29

Tracks:

  1. The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba - Sir Neville Marriner
  2. I. Allegro - Yehudi Menuhin
  3. Toccata In D Minor BWV565 - Wayne Marshall
  4. III. Rondo (Allegro Vivace) - Barry Tuckwell
  5. I. Allegro Con Brio - Philharmonia Orchestra
  6. 1812 Overture - Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
  7. Symphony No.9 In D Minor Choral Op.125 - The Westminster Choir
  8. I. Allegro Molto Moderato - Cecile Ousset
  9. Alla Marcia - Halle Orchestra
  10. Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity - Philharmonia Orchestra
  11. I. Allegro Non Troppo E Molto Maestoso - Horacio Gutierrez
  12. Symphonic Poem, Op.26 - Halle Orchestra
  13. Gloria All'egitto - Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
  14. Montagues And Capulets - The Philadelphia Orchestra
  15. Radetzky March - Willi Boskovsky
  16. Pomp And Circumstance March No.1 - Royal Choral Society
  17. I. Allegro Ma Non Tanto - Mikhail Rudy
  18. Symphony No.3 In C Minor Organ Op.78 - Mathias Eisenberg

Tracks:

  1. Air On The G String - Sir Neville Marriner
  2. Dance Of The Blessed Spirits - New Philharmonia Orchestra
  3. Canon In D - Sir Neville Marriner
  4. II. Adagio - Sabine Meyer
  5. Aria - Julia
  6. Adagio In G Minor - Sir Neville Marriner
  7. I. Adagio Sostenuto - Dame Moura Lympany
  8. II. Andantino - James Galway
  9. II. Andante - Yehudi Menuhin
  10. II. Andante - Stephen Hough
  11. II. Largo - Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
  12. II. Adagio - Yehudi Menuhin
  13. Nimrod - London Symphony Orchestra
  14. II. Adagio - Julian Bream
  15. The Lark Ascending - Migel Kennedy
  16. IV. Adagietto - New Philharmonia Orchestra
  17. Variation 18 - Cecile Ousset

Tracks:

  1. Au Fond Du Temple Saint - Nicolai Gedda
  2. Song To The Moon - Lucia Popp
  3. Dome Epais - Mady Mesple
  4. La Fleur Que Tu M'avais Jetee - Nicolai Gedda
  5. Che Faro Senza Euridice - Agnes Balsta
  6. Casta Diva - Maria Callas
  7. Che Gelida Manina - Roberto Alagna
  8. O Mio Babbino Caro - Angela Gheorghiu
  9. Bailero: Chants D'Auvergne - Victoria De Los Angeles
  10. Vogliatemi Bene - Carlo Bergonzi
  11. Va, Pensiero - Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
  12. Es Lebt' Eine Vilja - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
  13. Ombra Mai Fu - Richard Lewis
  14. Ave Maria - Gerald Moore
  15. Minuit, Chretiens - Roberto Alagna
  16. Nessun Dorma - Jose Carreras

Tracks:

  1. Overture - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  2. Jesus Bleibet Meine Freude - Sir Neville Marriner
  3. I. Allegro - Emil Gilels
  4. Trumpet Voluntary - Maurice Andre
  5. Judex - Halle Orchestra
  6. Overture - Polish Chamber Orchestra
  7. Sarabande - Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields
  8. Waltz Of The Flowers - Andre Previn
  9. Troika - London Philharmonic Orchestra
  10. Fantasia On Greensleeves - Sir John Barbirolli
  11. Clair De Lune - Dame Moura Lympany
  12. Scene Act II, No.10 - Andre Previn
  13. Cavatina - Manuel Barrueco
  14. II. Romance (Larghetto) - Garrick Ohlsson
  15. My Heart Will Go On - Orchestra
  16. Time To Say Goodbye - Orchestra
  17. Walzer, Op.314 - Berliner Philharmoniker

Tracks:

  1. Cavaleria Rusticana - Philharmonia Orchestra
  2. II. Adagio Sostenuto (Opening) - Cecile Ousset
  3. Morning - Sir Neville Marriner
  4. Romance - Piers Lane
  5. Adagio For Strings - Philadelphia Orchestra
  6. The Story Of The Kalender Prince - Philadelphia Orchestra
  7. Meditation - Anne-Sophie Mutter
  8. Prince Igor - Beecham Choral Society
  9. Adagio Of Spartacus And Phrygia - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  10. Fantasy Overture - Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
  11. II. Allegretto - Philharmonia Orchestra
  12. II. Largo Ma Non Tanto - Yehudi Menuhin
  13. Schindler's List Theme - Tasmin Little
  14. Dance Of The Reed Flutes - Andre Previn
  15. V. Allegretto - The Philadelphia Orchestra

Tracks:

  1. Zadok The Priest - Royal Choral Society
  2. Zion Hort Die Wachter - Suddeutscher Madrigalchor
  3. Miserere Mei, Deus - Stephen Cleobury
  4. Sanctus - Chor der St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale
  5. Panis Angelicus - Halle Choir
  6. L'Enfance Du Christ - Choeurs Rene Duclos
  7. Sanctus - Heinz Hoppe
  8. In Paradisum - Peter Barley
  9. Laudate Dominum - Edda Moser
  10. Cantique De Jean Racine - MONKS AND CHOIRBOYS OF DOWNSIDE ABBEY
  11. Ingemisco - Luciano Pavarotti
  12. Ave Verum Corpus K618 - Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
  13. I Know That My Redeemer Liveth - Elizabeth Harwood
  14. The Heavens Are Telling - John Shirley-Quirk
  15. Pie Jesu - Victoria De Los Angeles
  16. Lacrimosa - David Bell
  17. Hallelujah Chorus - Ambrosian Singers

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Good compilation- of bits and pieces.......2007-07-02

I was excited to see such a great collection of classics, but I was really disappointed to listen and discover that many tracks are shortened dramatically. A fraction of Rhapsody in Blue- a ridiculously short fragment of Bethoveen Ninth Symphony- "Ode to Joy" a tiny part of the first movement of Rachmoninov's Piano Concerto no.3.

I'd rather have fewer tracks and the complete movements.

4 out of 5 stars Good and inexpensive collection.......2007-03-17

EMI's Best Classics 100 provides six CDs with seven hours of selected classical music. The cover does a poor job of portraying who does the selecting and who performs the piece -- information inside however does detail the symphonies being recorded. Recordings from the Polish Chamber, Berlin Symphonies, Royal Philharmonic etc are mentioned. The recording quality is good and the price is low, representing a good purchase for a general collection.
The Very Best of Lucia Popp
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Ever-reigning Queen of Sopranos
  • Lucia Popp
  • Lucy: The Reigning Queen of Opera
 The Very Best of Lucia Popp

Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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ASIN: B0000AHEAY
Release Date: 2003-09-02

Tracks:

  1. Song To The Moon
  2. Should I Ever Learn
  3. How Confused I Feel
  4. Solveig's Song
  5. Solveig's Cradle Song
  6. Amor Volat Undique
  7. Stetit Puella
  8. In Trutina
  9. Vier Letzte Lieder
  10. Vier Letzte Lieder
  11. Vier Letzte Lieder
  12. Vier Letzte Lieder
  13. Symphony No. 4 In G
  14. Tatiana's Letter Scene

Tracks:

  1. Un Cenno Leggiadretto
  2. Ho Perduto Il Caro Sposo
  3. O Had I Jubel's Lyre
  4. Laudate Dominum
  5. Welche Wonne, Welche Lust
  6. Porgi, Amor
  7. Voi Che Sapete
  8. Giunse Alfin Il Momento...Deh Vieni, Non Tardar
  9. Crudele?...Non Mi Dir
  10. Come Scoglio
  11. Una Donna A Quindici Anni
  12. Der Holle Rache
  13. Ach, Ich Fuhl's
  14. Crucifixus
  15. Die Forelle
  16. Gretchen Am Spinnrade
  17. An Sylvia
  18. Zueignung
  19. Es Lebt' Eine Vilja
  20. Klange Der Heimat

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Ever-reigning Queen of Sopranos.......2007-05-28

Listening through these two discs, one thought kept leaping up to mind: will ever there be another soprano as versatile and accomplished as Lucia Popp? Died in 1994 at the early age of 54, the operatic world hadn't really mourned her enough.
People are still lingering on Maria Callas, the 'star' soprano with all her glamour and legendary life could offer.
Real listeners, however, could not give up the memory of Lucia Popp's terrific artistry and almost supernatural voice.
Her Rusalka, her Solveig, her Susanna, Zerlina, Despina in the da Ponte/Mozart trio, her terrific Queen of the Night (unsurpassed by ANY subsequent sopranos up till now), and ALSO her Pamina in the same opera. In any language you ask her to sing, and she excelled. I marvel at the Letter Scene in Eugene Onegin - only if Lucia had the chance to perform the whole opera during her short life! The joy, the expectation, the emotional tribulations, so vividly captured in girlish and pure timbre. No one will ever beat her; not even Fleming and Netrebko.
"Weird and wonderful" - that's what Elisabeth Schwarzkopf said of Lucia Popp's singing. We today would modify it to 'wonderful and unsurpassable'.
This 2-CD set is an absolute must have, even if you have never heard of Lucia Popp before.


5 out of 5 stars Lucia Popp.......2006-01-12

This is a wonderful album showcasing the very best of Lucia Popp (as the title suggests). Her voice was absolutely beautiful. She could sing the slavic languages like no one else. Her version of Dvorak's Song to the Moon is unbeatable. I dare anyone to find a better performance! Also, the song from Die Zauberflute -Ah Ich fuls (sp?) is outstanding. I've yet to hear a better version. Her diction was fantastic and while she wasn't the highest soprano around - she knew what worked for her voice. This is album is a keeper!

5 out of 5 stars Lucy: The Reigning Queen of Opera.......2004-07-12

Lucia Popp is one of the best sopranos to ever grace the operatic/classical voice stage. This CD compilation shows her progression through lyric Handel to lyric and dramatic Mozart (her Der Holle Rache from Magic Flute is unrivaled) to tender art song and operetta literature. The first disc also showcases her adeptness with 20th Century literature as well as the ability to step out of the traditional four languages of opera. Any avid music fan MUST have this CD compilation.
La Diva
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • UNA VOZ PRIVILEGIADA CAIDA DEL CIELO
  • a voice with potential really beautiful I love your voice
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  • Sarah Brightman's mini-me!!!!!
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ASIN: B0007RTB88
Release Date: 2005-04-12

Tracks:

  1. Time To Say Goodbye
  2. Caruso
  3. Va Pensiero
  4. House Of No Regret
  5. O Sole Mio
  6. En Aranjez Con Tu Amor
  7. Seguidilla
  8. Song To The Moon
  9. Calon Lan
  10. Hymn To The Fallen
  11. Laudate Dominum
  12. You'll Never Walk Alone

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars UNA VOZ PRIVILEGIADA CAIDA DEL CIELO.......2007-06-23

Si los dioses tuvieran el deseo de cantar sin duda utilizarian una voz como la de Katherine; que disco tan maravilloso y exquisito; uno de los mejores discos clasicos que he escuchado, piezas tan grandiosas como TIME TO SAY GOODBYE (mi favorita del disco), desde excelentes valses como VA PENSIERO (soberbia) y SEGUEDILLA (me transpota a la epoca de los elfos), preciosas baladas como la trascendental EN ARANJUEZ CON TU AMOR (la mas preciosa del disco), la melancolica CARUSO y la tradicional y encantadora O SOLE MIO (la cual Elvis Presley grabara con el nombre IT'S NOW OR NEVER en los 60's, pero la version de Katherine es una muy digna competidora); impresionantemente solemne es HYMN TO THE FALLEN (dedicada a los soldados que dieron su vida en la segunda guerra mundial), brillantes himnos sacros como LAUDATE DOMINUM, muy bonitas melodias suaves en ingles como HOUSE OF NO REGRETS, SONG TO THE MOON (recuerda mucho a Enya) y CALON LAN (puro clasisismo barroco) y para cerrar con broche de oro la popularisima YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE (de la cual Ray conniff hizo una magnifica version en los 60's) que en la voz de Kathy es sencillamente gloriosa; una maravillosa e impactante orquestacion, destacando los conocimientos que la diva tiene del italiano, español e Inglés; un disco IDEAL para todo amante de la musica clasica y una forma excelente en que se pueden iniciar los principiantes de este género.

5 out of 5 stars a voice with potential really beautiful I love your voice.......2007-05-19

I brought your ablums and I listen to them all over again, I love your voice so beautiful charming,and alot of people havent heard of you and dont like you, your a beautiful girl katherine jenkins, and I am sure you are best friends with charlotte church,the rock singer,I hope if you hear about church going back to opera, you might go back with her to do an ablumn,but you have got much more class because I know she went into a alot of bad stuff,but it would be good to meet you, because your voice is just abolsetly beautful,i wish that you could see the pope because he is a wonderful man, thankyou.

1 out of 5 stars disappointed.......2007-02-24

I paid for this item but never received it! A month and a half later I'm still waiting! Can anyone help?

1 out of 5 stars Please look to the excellent mezzos for the best music money can buy........2006-05-31

Over the past ten years, I have been asked to listen to albums of what the public has been misled to believe is classical vocal music (such as this one) because those who have purchased the albums have thought I would appreciate them as I am a singer. This album and the others by this singer are not opera, nor are they classical. This singer is pop. I have held my tongue and waited for this trend of popera to pass, but it isn't and I'm vexed at the comparison of singers such as Ms. Jenkins to legitimate voices.

If you are looking for some truly exceptional music by singers who have actually been on stage in an opera outside of grad school, try Stephanie Blythe, Vivica Genaux, Susan Graham, Jennifer Larmore, Ewa Podles and more I'm certainly forgetting. This CD is misleading many people about what opera really is. Ms. Jenkins would never sing the role of Carmen on stage, and should not be recording it.

1 out of 5 stars Sarah Brightman's mini-me!!!!!.......2005-11-09

What a bad record!
If she chooses to record Sarah Brightman's repertoire over and over again, she should get herself some comparable pipes.
Her embarrassing performance of "Nessun Dorma" on the Live8 DVD are proof of a major lack of talent.

If you want the original rather than the copy cat, buy any Sarah Brightman album.

Officium
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • I Wish I Could be More Positive...
  • Perfect for "Old Souls"
  • Mixed feelings about mixed genres
  • Wow.
  • What Coltrane hears in heaven
 Officium
Anonymous , Czech Anonymous , Guillaume Dufay , Pierre de La Rue , Cristobal de Morales , Perotin , Sarum Chant , Hilliard Ensemble , and Jan Garbarek
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
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ASIN: B000025IL0
Release Date: 1999-11-16

Tracks:

  1. Parce mihi domine
  2. Primo tempore
  3. Sanctus
  4. Regnantem sempiterna
  5. O salutaris hostia
  6. Procedentem sponsum
  7. Pulcherrima rosa
  8. Parce mihi domine
  9. Beata viscera
  10. De spineto nata rosa
  11. Credo
  12. Ave maris stella
  13. Virgo flagellatur
  14. Oratio Ieremiae
  15. Parce mihi domine

Tracks:

  1. Parce mihi domine
  2. Primo tempore
  3. Sanctus
  4. Regnantem sempiterna
  5. O salutaris hostia
  6. Procedentem sponsum
  7. Pulcherrima rosa
  8. Parce mihi domine
  9. Beata viscera
  10. De spineto nata rosa
  11. Credo
  12. Ave maris stella
  13. Virgo flagellatur
  14. Oratio Ieremiae
  15. Parce mihi domine

Amazon.com

What is this music? Fundamentally, it's an exploration of what happens when an improvisatory instrumental voice (saxophone) is placed into the world of early vocal music--which has elements of both improvisation and formal structure. In reality, it's an adventure in which the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble travel the 14th- and 15th-century territory of Morales and Dufay, visit the 12th century of Perotin, and roam even earlier ages of plainchant, accompanied by the always sensitive and tasteful--and often astonishing--saxophone improvisations of jazz master Jan Garbarek. Sometimes, these new melodies simply accompany; sometimes they transform the common--a routine minor chord, for instance--into a sublime, indescribable moment. The answer to the above question is easy--but it's different for each listener. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars I Wish I Could be More Positive..........2007-01-06

...but I really hate the soprano sax played over these beautiful pieces. The singing is superb and the repertoire is rare (only one other recording of the Morales, for instance, and that is done quite differently, anent the sax).

I think I would have liked it better if Garbarak had played a lower horn, like an alto or tenor sax. These pieces are about something, and I don't feel that Gabarak really knew what the texts were about and what the composers were responding to in the texts.

I keep it for the exquisite "Parce mihi Domine" sung withoug the screeching sax.

5 out of 5 stars Perfect for "Old Souls".......2006-12-15

I'll never forget hearing this music for the first time, in 1993 or 1994 at a sampling station at Borders. I have to admit I was intrigued by the cover photograph likely taken at a cemetery, of a spider web-draped angel statute. That was when CDs were still new, and my first thought was "This is the perfect sound for CDs: clear, quiet, ethereal." I bought the handsome 2-CD package then and there, and my interest in this unique musical project has gradually matured in the past decade. Most recently, following a significant family death in 2002, I've started a personal tradition of spending New Year's Eve alone at home, with only candles burning after 7:00 p.m., listing to recordings of great requiems (Mozart, Durufle, Rutter and Verdi) and The Hilliard Ensemble's Officium (translated to sense of duty, respect, service and allegiance). Spending the last day of the year this way is comforting, and allows me to continue to grieve appropriately. Officium transports me to another place and time, quasi-religious, celestial, meditative. The solo saxophone calls out as if speaking, questioning, affirming. It's not for everyone. This recording will never climb the charts, especially in today's shallow world of noise and self-importance. I would say if you're an "old soul," try listening to this gift of creativity and inspiration. It just might become one of the most valuable recordings you own - as it has for me ...

3 out of 5 stars Mixed feelings about mixed genres.......2006-01-18

Although I enjoy listening to these recordings for their serenity and sense of magical wonder, I tend to sympathise with some of the less glowing reviewers. My favourite passages are, without a shadow of a doubt, those in which the eminent Mr Garbarek's sax is 'tacit' or, at least, 'pianissimo'. Indeed, from time to time I struggle with an impulse to shout out: "Oh shut up, Jan, and let me listen to those wonderful singers!" That said, the voices and the sax do sometimes synergise, though I get the distinct impression that Mr Garbarek was simply overdubbing an existing recording by the Hilliard Ensemble: he seems to be reacting to them, but not vice versa. And with more rehearsal, his notes might have been more appropriate. FINAL VERDICT: an interesting oddity, not an unmitigated success.

5 out of 5 stars Wow........2005-10-12

Gregorian chant is one form of music. If you must have it in the pure form, go elsewhere.

Jazz sax is another form of music. If you are offended by restraining the sax to a gentle, wistful, melodious exploration, go elsewhere.

Otherwise, consider a rope: consisting of several smaller strands, a rope is a strong, limber, powerful thing which can achieve a great deal more than the strands from which it is woven. This music is a rope. The saxophone entwines itself inextricably through, above and around the unearthly vocals of the Hilliard ensemble. Neither the highly disciplined music of the singers, nor the restrained music of the saxophone makes a deeply powerful statement in its own right -- but together, they become something above and beyond, something that completely transcends either genre.

This is an astonishing work. If you have the ability to listen, you will be rewarded beyond your hopes.

5 out of 5 stars What Coltrane hears in heaven.......2005-07-16

If you haven't heard any of these tracks before, then almost nothing can prepare you for them. I do feel sorry for those listeners whose sensibilities have been outraged, and who believe that these songs are set in stone, and that no kind of improvisation is legal. The effect must be like seeing (as Prince Charles remarked of a modern building in London) a carbuncle on the face of a loved old friend.

Horrified reactions are, however, in the minority, since this album has sold in immense quantities -- and the reason is the ravishing beauty of the music, which is accessible to anyone with musical ears.

As with several Garbarek recordings, the sax occasionally seems louder than necessary, but then Garbarek must be a difficult performer to record, since his tonal range is so huge.

The natural melodies that flow from Garbarek's three horns have always had an air of belonging half a millennium away from the present; and his genius as a performer enables him to add a fifth voice to these ancient compositions that I am certain the original composers would have found far less shocking than the modern listeners who think them sacrilegious.

This music is heavenly and indescribable, but I urge anyone on this page to listen to the samples (bearing in mind that the sound is ravishing on a proper stereo) and make up your own mind.

Music is nobody's loved old friend, but a great city that needs to keep growing for ever, and this is a wonderful new building to dwell in and perceive beauty.
La Diva
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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ASIN: B0009OJA8U
Release Date: 2005-06-20

Tracks:

  1. Time to Say Goodbye/Con Te Partiro
  2. Caruso
  3. Nabucco/Va Pensiero
  4. Chi Mai/House of No Regrets
  5. O Sole Mio
  6. En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor
  7. Carmen/Seguidilla
  8. Rusalka/Song to the Moon
  9. Vide Cor Meum (As Used in the Film "Hannibal")
  10. Calon Lan
  11. Saving Private Ryan/Hymn to the Fallen
  12. Tales of Hoffman/Barcarolle
  13. Vesperae Solennes, K 339/Laudate Dominum
  14. O Holy Night
  15. You'll Never Walk Alone

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars excellence.......2007-01-10


this c.d. is a superb listen, I am happy to recomend it to those lovers of classical music

E Adams
Carols From Clare College
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Carols From Clare
  • This music makes me wish Christmas season would never end!!!
  • Delicious carol arrangements by Rutter--a holiday MUST HAVE
  • Beautiful, Glorious, Inspiring!!
  • Great Christmas Cheer
 Carols From Clare College

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ASIN: B000002SHT
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

  1. Shepherd's Pipe Carol
  2. Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
  3. Angel Tidings
  4. Quelle est cette odeur agreable
  5. Once In Royal David's City
  6. Il est ne le divin enfant
  7. I Saw Three Ships
  8. In dulci jubilo
  9. Nativity Carol
  10. Quem pastores laudavere
  11. Rocking
  12. The Twelve Days Of Christmas
  13. Here We Come A-Wassailing
  14. The Coming Of Our King
  15. O Come, O Come, Immanuel
  16. The Infant King
  17. Shepherds' Noel
  18. Noel Nouvelet
  19. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
  20. Gabriel's Message
  21. Sans Day Carol
  22. Stille Nacht
  23. Flemish Carol
  24. Past Three A Clock

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Carols From Clare.......2006-12-12

Here again is a Christmas collection from Clare College that will easily find its way to the top of your list. The mixed male and female choir is accompanied by an orchestra whose excellence is manifest in it perfect coordination with the voices throughout. All the arrangements capture your soul and bring you into a dimension of Christmas not found elsewhere. If giving this as a gift, make sure to buy one also for yourself!

5 out of 5 stars This music makes me wish Christmas season would never end!!!.......2001-12-22

This CD is absolutely beautiful. I can't bear to put it away after the holiday season is over! The voices of the Clare College Singers, accompanied by the orchestra blend together to make a heavenly sound. The songs are so gentle and almost mystical. I discovered John Rutter and the Clare College Singers by listening to the local classical music station, and fell in love with their unique sound. "Shepherds Pipe Carol" is one of my favorites, but all of the songs are wonderful on this CD. I also purchased "The Holly and the Ivy" (also with the Clare choir and John Rutter), and it is beautiful too. 5 stars is not enough. If you enjoy gentle, spiritually uplifting Christmas music, buy this CD. You won't regret it.

5 out of 5 stars Delicious carol arrangements by Rutter--a holiday MUST HAVE.......2001-11-29

Delicious Rutter carol arrangements with beautiful pure singing by Clare College Singers of Cambridge, England.

I was delighted to find "Carols from Clare" which includes 11 of the 12 recordings of my Capitol International Series LP recording , "Christmas in Cambridge, " featuring the Clare College Singers and Orchestra, Rutter as arranger.NEVER THOUGHT I'D FIND !!! It has been my FAVORITE Christmas holiday recording for 19 years. Only piece missing is "Of the Father's Love Begotten" which I will be searching for, of course, on another Rutter CD.

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful, Glorious, Inspiring!!.......2001-11-28

I fell in love with John Rutter's music when I heard his "Magnificat" performed locally. I by chance heard the first selection on this cd- one of two he wrote himself- and bought it just based on that one tune. I am of the mind that you can't own enough Christmas music because you'll want variety. This cd, and others from the Clare or Cambridge collection, is not about "Mama kissing Santa" or a red-nosed reindeer. It's about the magic of Christmas and the reason we have celebrate a birth in a manger. Of course like any great sacred music, even athiests will love the beauty of it!

5 out of 5 stars Great Christmas Cheer.......2001-01-27

Great old standards and some new stuff thrown in from jolly ole England. Wonderful selection and performance. Great addition to holiday collection.
Dvorak: Very Best Of
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ASIN: B000I2IURU
Release Date: 2006-10-31

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  1. Carnival Overture, Op.92 - Stephen Gunzenhauser
  2. Humoresques, Op.101: No.7 In G Flat Major - Stefan Veselka
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  9. III. Scherzo: Vivace - Poco Meno Messo - Stephen Gunzenhauser
  10. II. Larghetto - Edmund Battersby
  11. No.2 In E Minor - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
  12. O, Silver Moon, 'Song To The Moon' - Johannes Wildner
  13. The Noon Witch - Stephen Gunzenhauser

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  2. Fac Ut Portem Christi Mortem - John Aler
  3. I. Moderato, Quasi Marcia - Oslo Philharmonic Wind Soloists
  4. II. Adagio Ma Non Troppo - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  5. III. Scherzo (Furiant) - Molto Vivace - Vlach Quartet Prague
  6. II. Polka - Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
  7. No.2 In G Major - Silke-Thora Matthies
  8. II. Largo - Stephen Gunzenhauser
  9. Waltz No.1: Moderato - Vlach Quartet Prague
  10. Romance In F Minor, Op.11 - Edmund Battersby
  11. My Home, Op.62 - Stephen Gunzenhauser

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Melody Unending.......2006-12-04

This 2CD compilation set is being offered at a budget price and includes many of Dvorák's most famous works, or at least excerpts from them. All of them derive from the back-catalog of the Naxos label and although some of the performances are by artists or groups not necessarily world-famous, there is not a weak performance to be found here.

I particularly liked, on CD1, the Vlach Quartet's playing of the third movement of Dvorák's 'American' String Quartet, the lilting third movement of his Symphony No. 8 played by Stephen Gunzenhauser and the Slovak Philharmonic, and the third movement of the 'Dumky' Piano Trio. I melted at Jana Valaskova's performance of 'O Silver Moon' from Dvorak's opera, 'Rusalka.'

On CD2, highlights include Maria Kliegel playing the second movement from the Cello Concerto, the first movement of the Wind Serenade (played by members of the Oslo Philharmonic), the finale of the Piano Quintet with a vastly underrated pianist, Ivan Klánský, and the Vlach Quartet. The Largo from the 'New World' Symphony (the 'Going Home' movement) is given a radiant reading.

Given the budget pricing and the never less than excellent performances, this is a true winner, particularly for those who want to familiarized themselves with the broad range of Dvorák's music.

Scott Morrison
Best Classics 100
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • A gateway drug, nothing more, nothing less.
  • Decent Selection, But...
  • A must-have classical music set!
 Best Classics 100

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ASIN: B0001M65HE
Release Date: 2004-08-10

Tracks:

  1. Handel: The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba
  2. Vivaldi: Spring (The Four Seasons)
  3. J.S. Bach: Toccata in D Minor
  4. Mozart: Horn Concerto No. 4 in E Flat
  5. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
  6. Tchaikovsky: '1812' Overture
  7. Beethoven: Ode To Joy (Symphony #9)
  8. Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor
  9. Sibelius: Alla Marcia (Karelia Suite)
  10. Holst: Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity
  11. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1
  12. Sibelius: Finlandia
  13. Verdi: Gloria All'egitto (Aida)
  14. Prokofiev: Montagues And Capulets (Romeo & Juliet)
  15. J. Strauss I: Radetzky March
  16. Elgar: Pomp And Circumstance March No.1
  17. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3
  18. Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 'Organ'

Tracks:

  1. J. S. Bach: Air 'On The G String'
  2. Gluck: Dance Of The Blessed Spirits
  3. Pachelbel: Canon
  4. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A
  5. J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
  6. Albinoni: Adagio
  7. Beethoven: Piano Sonata 'Moonlight'
  8. Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto in C
  9. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor
  10. Mozart: Piano Concerto 'Elivira Madigan'
  11. Dvorak: Symphony No. 9
  12. Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
  13. Elgar: Nimrod
  14. Rodrigo: Concierto De Aranjuez
  15. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
  16. Mahler: Symphony No. 5
  17. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody On A Theme of Paganini

Tracks:

  1. Bizet: Au fond du temple saint (Les Pjcheurs de perles)
  2. Dvorak: Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
  3. Delibes: Dtme Epais (Lakmi)
  4. Bizet: La Fleur Que Tu M'avais Jetie (Carmen)
  5. Gluck: Che Farr Senza Euridice? (Orfeo & Euridice)
  6. Bellini: Casta Diva (Norma)
  7. Puccini: Che Gelida Manina (La Bohhme)
  8. Puccini: O Mio Babbino Caro (Gianno Schicchi)
  9. Trad: Baolhro
  10. Puccini: Vogliatemi Bene (Madama Butterfly)
  11. Verdi: Va, Pensiero (Nabucco)
  12. Lehar: Es Lebt' Eine Vilja (Die Lustige Witwe)
  13. Handel: Ombra Mai Fy (Serse)
  14. Schubert: Ave Maria
  15. Adam: Minuit, Chritiens (O Holy Night)
  16. Puccini: Nessun Dorma (Turandot)

Tracks:

  1. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
  2. J.S. Bach: Jesus bleibet meine Freud
  3. Beethoven: Piano Concerto 'Emperor'
  4. Clarke: Trumpet Voluntary
  5. Gounod: Judex
  6. Rossini: La scala di Seta
  7. Handel: Sarabande
  8. Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers
  9. Prokofiev: Troika
  10. Williams: Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
  11. Debussy: Clair de lune
  12. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
  13. Myers: Cavatina
  14. Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1
  15. Horner: My Heart Will Go On
  16. Quarantotto: Time to Say Goodbye
  17. J. Strauss II: The Blue Danube

Tracks:

  1. Mascagni: Intermezzo
  2. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2
  3. Grieg: Morning (Peer Gynt)
  4. Shostakovich: Romance
  5. Barber: Adagio For Strings
  6. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
  7. Massenet: Miditation
  8. Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
  9. Khachaturian: Adagio Of Spartacus And Phrygia
  10. Tchaikovsky: Romeo And Juliet Overture
  11. Beethoven: Symphony No.7
  12. J. S. Bach: Double Violin Concerto
  13. Williams: Schindler's List Theme
  14. Tchaikovsky: Dance Of The Reed Flutes
  15. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'

Tracks:

  1. Handel: Zadok The Priest
  2. J. S. Bach: Zion Hvrt Die Wdchter
  3. Allegri: Miserere Mei, Deus
  4. Schubert: German Mass
  5. Franck: Panis Angelicus
  6. Berlioz: L'adieu Des Bergers
  7. Gounod: St Cecilia Mass
  8. Faure: In Paradisum
  9. Mozart: Laudate Dominum
  10. Faure: Cantique De Jean Racine
  11. Verdi: Ingemisco
  12. Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
  13. Handel: I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
  14. Haydn: The Heavens Are Telling
  15. Faure: Pie Jesu
  16. Mozart: Lacrimosa (Requiem)
  17. Handel: Hallelujah Chorus

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars A gateway drug, nothing more, nothing less. .......2007-03-11

To say that this album constitutes a necessity for the classical music enthusiast would be a great big unarguable lie. It has nothing innovative to offer you as a listener, except for maybe the labelling of melodies such as "My Heart Will Go On" (that god-awful Love Theme from the gruesome film Titanic) as a worthy member of "Best Classics 100". But than again, every collection of things that does not naturally belong together, is bound to have at least one outcast where the connection clearly isn't based on anything but cost and sale-ability.

This might sound like the beginning of a CD-slaughter, or a snobbish review where only the Deutche Grammophone's recordings are meting my standards, but although I am fairly picky when it comes to musical collections, best of albums, and such horrifying destructions of the universality of the works and the intentions of the artist behind it, I am willing to give this collection another chance, since classical music is somewhere between Arabic and wine in degree of unmanageability. It also helps that all the tunes are familiar to almost every one of us, and the fact that the artists' intentions probably got killed by the hundreds of different conductors trying to convey their personal interpretation of the works.

What I am saying is that this CD can be to classical music enthusiast what 'absolute rock' can be to a rock enthusiast, or to someone slightly interested, with no conceptual frames of where to start the search for knowledge. "Best Classics 100" offers nothing except a selection of melodies where there's bound to be one for every taste, but where the album feeling, the entirety or completeness intended by the composer, or conductor, or performer is completely lost in a trade-off made with variety.

The collection is attempted organised by giving each CD a different theme, supposedly to describe the mood of the music, and the labeller succeeds only to a limited extent as we move from themes such as 'uplifting' and 'relaxing' towards 'golden'. I wonder what that golden feeling constitutes. It apparently is to be found in, amongst others, "Jesus Bleibet Meine Freunde", and in "My Heart Will Go On"?

But no matter how I try to describe this CD it will sound worse than it actually is. This because to me it works as a great reference to which I can always turn with my classical music questions. Was it Schumann or Schubert who were the sad one? Of all the -inis, which where which again? Who composed "O Mio Babbino Caro"? The starting point for finding out if you belong to the romantic or the renascence wing, lies within this assemblage, if you look with your ears.

If you feel that classical music is something you like, and you'd like to learn more about it, this is a way to get started. If used together with a book on classical music, or wikipedia, it can be a gateway drug, leading you towards the great different experiences to be found within the different genres of classical music, and within the different periods ranging from the 12th century, maybe even earlier, towards yesterdays and tomorrows spectacular compositions of melodies that conveys a feeling, a state of mind with much more precision than any other musical genre. Expect a fairly alright collection of classical prunes, and you won't be disappointed.

3 out of 5 stars Decent Selection, But..........2005-04-21

...The Audio Quality is really not great. I bought this CD because I am new to classical, and the price was great! 100 songs for 25 bucks, thats like 25 cents a song, most songs are 1 dollar or more. Now I know why it's cheaper. The audio quality isn't that good. I imported the entire collection to my computer using Apple Lossless, and it sounded fuzzy, not crisp, with background noise, and sounded like compressed music, cutting off the frequency response.
I then played the CD's through my home stereo, with the same results. I plugged in my SHURE E5c headphones and the sound was soft, uninviting, lacking punch, with significant backgound noise (not just from the headphones), which was especially distracting when the music would get softer. I have heard much of the music before, and it was much more dynamic, entertaining, this recording seems too flat.
The music selection is ok, but I was hoping for some more interesting selections from the vast classical genre.
Overall, not that great of a recording, but many might not notice the difference, so if you are new to classical or aren't like an audiophile, get this album because it's a great overview of pop-culture classical, and it's pretty inexpensive.

5 out of 5 stars A must-have classical music set!.......2005-01-06

Classical music is, by far, my favorite type of music. It can make you happy or sad, it can make you laugh or cry, and it can make you want to fall asleep or get up and dance. This 6-disc set is a must-have for and classical music-lover! It has all the great composers like Handel, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bach, and Pachelbel. Some great songs include: Canon In D(Pachelbel), Morning: Peergynt(Grieg), Adagio For Strings(Barber), Cavatina(Myers), and much, much more. Every classical song you can think of is on here and the sound quality is great. So if you're looking for a good classical music CD, this set is all you need. Be prepared to be blown away!
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