classical music: Robert Shaw

classical music: Robert Shaw

classical music:

Robert Shaw

A Festival Of Carols / Robert Shaw Chorale

Robert Shaw, John Henry, Jr. Hopkins, ...

RCA, 1990

A Top List Christmas CD
I bought this cd long ago, and have enjoyed it immensely each year. It is the perfect blend of celebration and meditation. Orchestra and choir combine in four distinct groupings, and a capella arrangements complete the masterful collection. The orchestral ...

Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition

Benjamin Luxon, Brian Etheridge, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Great Value, Fine Performances
For lovers of Ralph Vaughan Williams' music, the prospect of obtaining most of his works on 30 CDs for $50 or less should be irresistible. It's a great way to fill in the gaps in your collection, or to become acquainted with RVW's less familiar works. Among the ...

25 Vivaldi Favorites

Virginio Bianchi, Nicolas Chedeville, ...

Vox (Classical), 1999

terrific
Vivaldi 25 favourites is marvelous ,it has been digitally enhanced and is certainly a keeper.Really am pleased with anything i have purchased from Amazon

Songs of Angels - Christmas Hymns and Carols

Robert Shaw Chamber Singers

Telarc, 1994

Much Anticipated
I have been looking for this CD for years!! Our family had a Shaw Chorale LP which contained almost all the songs on this CD. We had a number of excellent holiday albums and played all of them often, but we wore the Shaw Chorale album out! Not only are the musical ...

The Power & The Majesty: Essential Choral Classics

Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Choruses

Telarc, 1995

Best of American Choral Singing!
This CD could be the cornerstone of your choral music library! Wonderful performances of all of the essential choral pieces give a wonderful introduction to choral music for someone new to it, and also give a nice sampler of the best pieces for someone already familiar ...

Handel: Messiah

Thomas Paul, George Frederick Handel, ...

RCA, 2004

Inspired
For a work so frequently recorded, one might think, oh, whee, another reissue from the vaults. But among all the many excellent to splendid recordings of Handel's great oratorio, this has always been the one that spoke to me in the most immediate, humane, and ...

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" ...

Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses

Paul Plishka, Giuseppe Verdi, ...

Telarc, 1990

Great version
There are version of Verdi's Requiems in that market. I consider this to be onre the best ones I have heard. What adds to this perfomance is the quality of the manufacturer's transfer.

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers (Mass for Unaccompanied Chorus)

Sergey Rachmaninoff, Robert Shaw Festival Singers, ...

Telarc, 1990

This is a GREAT recording!
I like this recording very much... as does everyone I know that owns it. I would not hesitate to purchase it again should the need arise.

Faure Requiem Op.48 / Durufle Requiem Op.9

Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Telarc, 1990

French Choral Classics
This disk has set the standard for performing the settings of the Requiem mass by two great French masters, Gabriel Faure and Maurice Durufle. The Faure setting is an intimate one with occasional moments of tempestuousness. This particular recording features the more ...

The Many Moods of Christmas

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robert Russell Bennett

Telarc, 1990

Many Moods - A Christmas Classic
This classic Christmas recording contains well beloved carols in superb arrangements and flawless choral and orchestral performance under the great Robert Shaw. The sonics on this recording are far superior to the version by the US Air Force. Shaw has whip crack ...

Choral Masterpieces

Wayne Baughman, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Telarc, 1990

Uncle Abe rattles the house with this thing
I came home from work one day when my uncle was visiting my wife and myself. He was recently retired from the ministry. He had heard a lot of choral music in his life. My aunt said he had the stereo ( power end of my stereo at the time was an Adcomm 555 amp. ...

A Robert Shaw Christmas - Angels on High

Charles Sprawls, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Telarc, 1997

Inspiring!
You simply cannot go wrong with this wonderful collection from a disciplined and masterfully-led chorus. If you want to hear Christmas choral standards in all their glory, no disappointment here - beautiful men's chorus version (original) of Beibl's Ave Maria, and the ...

Poulenc: Gloria; Concerto for Organ; Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky, ...

Telarc, 2004

Celebratory Music for All Seasons!
Holiday season and the stores are filled with carols and pop tunes that seem further removed from Christmas every year. At the same time all the choral ensembles around the country are scheduling the Messiah and festivals of carols and it is refreshing to turn to less ...

Mozart: Requiem / Auger, Ziegler, Hadley, Krause, Shaw

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, ...

Telarc, 1990

Shaw is the best
This performance of the Requiem is meticulous and rhythmically brilliant, which is one of Shaw's legacies. I have noticed, over the last thirty years, that conductors often miss the juxtaposition of rhythm in the Rex Tremendae. The strings have double dotted rhythm; ...