classical music: Susan Williams     classical music:     Susan Williams      Essential Purcell Henry Purcell, New College Choir Oxford, ... Hyperion UK, 1995 The beauty of the songs brings tears to my eyes Absolutely beautiful baroque music! The arrangament, singing and instrumentation is superb. It is too bad that Henry Purcell is not as widely known as Bach, because he should be recognized equally well."The Sparrow and the Gentle dove" is alone worth the price of the ...             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 ...             Vaughan Williams, The Complete Symphonies John Carol Case, Christopher Keyte, ... EMI Classics, 2000 Consider Supplementing This Core Set My first exposure to V W's symphonies happened back in the 1970's courtesy of Boult's earlier recordings (#1-8 on London and Decca LPs, and #9 on an Everest LP). Later I acquired all of Boult's stereo recordings on Angel LPs. Here we have the latter recordings in ...             Handel - Alcina / Fleming, Graham, Dessay, Kuhlmann, Robinson, Naouri, Lascarro, Les Arts Florissants, ... George Frideric Handel, William Christie, ... Erato, 2000 Four Powerful Female Voices Dominate Superb Handel Recording Four magnificent singers are put on starry-eyed display in this energetic recording of a live performance of the 1999 Paris Opéra production of Handel's "Alcina". Each delivers their individual stamp in some of Handel's most powerful and beautiful arias. The irony is ...             Renaissance: Music For Inner Peace The Sixteen Decca, 2005 Great Music, Fine Performances First off, the title of this album is misleading. Only one of the tracks stems from the high Renaisance. The rest span from the Reformation period to contemporary. All of them are liturgical, all of a certain calm and meditative style--which could be inferred from ...             The Great Thanksgiving Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, ... Sony, 1995 do it you will not regret it. if you have never heard the M.T.C. you will be blown away by them AND the poignant selection of pieces on this CD.             Bach: Brandenburg Concertos / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Johann Sebastian Bach, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, ... Virgin Veritas, 1999 One of the best recordings of Branderburg concertos I own quite a few recordings of the Branderburg concertos (Suzuki, Saval, Boston Baroque...) this one is one of the best. There is an evident feel of musical joy coming out of this recording. I can't find other ways to describe it. The musicians are enthusiastic ...             Vaughan Williams, Holst: Choral Folksong Arrangements Christopher Keyte, Geoffrey Shaw, ... EMI Classics, 2008 From the series of British Composers, Vaughan Williams & Holst with the Choral Folksong Arrangements of London Madrigal Singers with Christopher Bishop and the Baccholian Singers of London.             Story of Christmas Michael McCarthy, Robert Goodhew, ... Polygram Records, 1998 Beatiful choir The Monteverdi choir sounds very well and all the melodies are sweet. Listen the third theme or ONCE AS I REMEMBER.             Mozart - The Da Ponte Operas / Cosi fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro - Peter Sellars, Wiener ... Susan Larson, Janice Felty Decca, 2005 Mozart-Da Ponte-Sellars--a superb collaboration When I first saw these operas on public television in 1990, I was struck immediately by the way in which Sellars updated them, setting them in New York City and its environs with contemporary costumes, but adhering carefully to the plots so delicately constructed by Da ...             Constant Lambert: Summer's Last Will and Testament / Shimell, Burgess, Lloyd-Jones Constant Lambert, Opera North Chorus, ... Hyperion UK, 1993 Who would've thunk? Mr Lambert, I took a gamble on your "Last Will and Testament" looking for some new choral music, you did not dissapoint. The title work remains a solid listen throughout. It is works like this that make classical music so much fun, to find a great hidden gem ...             Marlboro Music Festival 40th Anniversary - Barber: Summer Music; Nielsen: Woodwind Quintet: Hindemith: Octet ... Patricia Rogers, Stefanie Przybylska, ... Sony, 1991             Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 Gerald Corey, Milan Turkovic, ... Sony, 1990 Beethoven for the first time Listening to this recording is like discovering well-known music again. The only competetive version of the 7th symhony is Toscanini's old one with the New York Philharmonic (better than the later NBC version) - but the sound is mediocre. Karajan's 7th with the Vienna ...             Complete Wind Concertos Mozart, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Deutsche Grammophon, 2002 Excellent - Worth Every Penny! I have heard all these pieces and even played some myself over the years and thought that this was an excellent collection of Mozart's wind concerti. You really get to see the development of this prodigy from his teens (bassoon concerto) to his late 30s, the clarinet ...             Babbitt: Soli e Duettini Milton Babbitt, Marshall Taylor, ... Naxos American, 2006 one of USA's greatest living composers.Bubbling over with invention. Babbitt wears a benign,gently humorous expression on his face for the front cover of the CD and this is amply expressed in some of the music on this collection-basically a reissue of a Koch classics release. My personal favourites are: 1. 'Around the Horn'which ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music anniversary, arrangements, brandenburg, enlightenment, lloyd-jones, thanksgiving      toavi.com    web we recommend Beatiful choir randomly chosen book: X-Men: The Complete Onslaught Epic, Book 3