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classical music:

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

Sony, 1990

A reference!
It's a masterpiece Christmas album, a reference! If you listen to other orchestrated Christmas albuns you will find many of their arrangements are based on this Percy Faith's one.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Allegro" (First Complete Recording)
Audra McDonald, Patrick Wilson

SONY CLASSICS, 2009

New Studio Cast Recording featuring Tony Award-winners Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti, Norbert Leo Butz, Tony Award-nominees Patrick Wilson, Judy Kuhn, Liz Callaway, Danny Burstein and opera sensation baritone Nathan Gunn. Written in 1947, Rodgers & Hammerstein's ALLEGRO was preceded by OKLAHOMA! (1943) and CAROUSEL (1945), and followed by ...

Joy to the World

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Sony, 2002

A Timeless Christmas Classic
I'm a lover of traditional Christmas music and I've acquired about 20 CDs of it. There's nothing my family likes better in December than putting on some good Christmas music and getting in the mood for the season, hearing once again the old favorites you've known ...

Art of Segovia

Andres Segovia

Deutsche Grammophon, 2002

Great Sound Quality; Great Value
The 24-bit remastering of these analog recordings from the 1950s and 60s is outstanding. Both disks are chock-full at almost 80 minutes each, and there are a good many songs you don't hear every day. Forty of the 41 tracks are solos, while a short Rodrigo orchestral ...

Beethoven's Wig: Sing Along Symphonies

Beethoven's Wig

Rounder / Umgd, 2002

Brilliantly done!
We borrowed this CD from the library and have maxed out our renewal limit because my kids don't want to give it back! The lyrics aren't just silly words set to famous orchestral pieces--they contain information about the composers and time periods in which they lived. ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Festival of Carols in Brass

Adolphe Adam, Anonymous, ...

Sony, 1991

Best Christmas album ever
This is my favorite Christmas album -- familiar Christmas carols played by a brass ensemble.

The Little Drummer Boy

Adolphe Adam, Katherine K. Davis, ...

Island / Mercury, 1990

one of the best xmas song
I Got To Listen To This CD I Had Listen To Other Songs From Billboard Xmas Songs And Because I Like Those Songs So Well I Order This CD . The Songs Are Very Good. They Don't Make Xmas Songs Like These Any More.I Like The Xmas Songs Like These Because In Them You Hear ...

A Festival Of Carols / Robert Shaw Chorale

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

RCA, 1990

The quintessential Christmas recording
This recording seems to elicit universal and heartfelt praise. Who am I to dispute that? The performance is terrific, just as described by the other Amazon reviewers, no doubt about it. However, I do have one bone to pick with this recording. There just isn't ...

25 Bach Favorites

Hildegard Rutgers, Erich Wenk, ...

Vox (Classical), 1996

Bach
Surely you don't need me to review the guy. You know who he is, you've heard his music, and I hope you own some. So let me turn the podium over to a cat named Picasso, and you can read into that whatever you wish. She's in a chair, near the CD player. She has entered ...

The Time-Life Treasury of Christmas

Adolphe Adam, Robert Allen, ...

Time Life Records, 2001

Another wonderful Time Life Christmas treasure trove
As with the first Christmas CD that I reviewed, which technically goes hand in hand with this particular Christmas CD (originally they were sold as a set), I must say that this one is just as amazing as the other one. As I said, these are the original songs by the ...

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 ...

Baby Einstein: Baby Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Baby Einstein Music Box Orchestra

Buena Vista, 2002

another great classical cd for babies
I am so glad to add Baby Mozart to my Baby Einstein collection. I listen to this CD and my Baby Bach daily. A must have for your little one.

Christmas with Mario Lanza

Adolphe Adam, Nicholas Brodszky, ...

RCA, 1990

Christmas With Mario Lanza
CD Product I was very pleased with the speed of delivery of my order. The product was inexcellent condition .