classical music: songs by roger

classical music: songs by roger

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Ronan Tynan, Mitchell Leigh, ...

Jive, 2002

Ronan is superb
Even though this CD is older, it is well worth listening to again and again and again. It brought pure delight before I had the privilege of seeing Ronan perform in person and that delight is only heightened by the love and power he brings to all his music.

Consider the Lilies

John Rutter, Mack Wilberg

Mormon Tabernacle, 2003

Absolutely the BEST !
Our church choir sang a few of these songs which I loved, so I decided to order it. It is a very sweet, gentle, inspiring collection of music. Many times when you get a CD, you are fortunate to find 2-4 on there that you really like enough to play regularly. But on ...

Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series)

George M. Cohan, George Gershwin, ...

Sony, 2004

Fabulous for any Broadway-lover
Packs into 5 CD's a sampling of Broadway tunes from the 20's thru (almost) today, mostly from original cast recordings. Includes not just well-known hits, but also some lesser-known gems. Sound quality is first rate, booklet is informative too. Have given this as a ...

The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever!

John Shirley-Quirk, James Morris, ...

EMI Classics, 2005

I love it and I give it as a gift
This is the first collection of choral music that I've purchased and I love it. I own copies of operas and requiems and masses, but if you attend choral concerts, as I have been recently, you learn there is a huge colletion of choral music appart from the forms I've ...

Susan Graham - La Belle Époque (The Songs of Reynaldo Hahn)

Reynaldo Hahn, Susan Graham, ...

Sony, 1998

An Hour of Pure Rapture
I hadn't heard of Reynaldo Hahn until I happened to hear a broadcast of Graham's 2009 Ravinia recital of French art songs. She sang only A Chloris as an encore, but at the intermission interview had talked about how she was first introduced to Hahn's songs. Hearing A ...

Songs by Mahler, Handel & Peter Lieberson

Johannes Brahms, George Frederick Handel, ...

Wigmore Hall Live, 2007

Of course she's WONDERFUL
This is a truly lovely album, and I frequently get goosebumps listening to it, and have to repeat a track just to savor it. However, I got these as mp3s and my Bose Series II (pretty good desktop speakers) cannot handle the high notes, nor can my pretty darn good ...

The Classical Nana

Franz [Vienna] Schubert, Vincenzo Bellini, ...

Philips, 1989

Surprised
I am an opera fan and normally detest the sound of non-opera singers trying out their pipes on Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, etc. I bought this disc years ago and it's been collecting dust. But since breaking it out, I can't stop listening. Nana's voice doesn't ...

The Time-Life Treasury of Christmas

Robert Allen, Irving Berlin, ...

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 Piano Album

Edward MacDowell, Frederic Chopin, ...

EMI Classics, 1998

Incredible!
I am a pianophile and longtime record collector, and this is one of the most awe-inspiring recordings I have ever heard. Stephen Hough's pianism - and I don't mean to be hyperbolic - simply exhausts all adjectives one might try to use to describe it. This is the kind ...

Vaughan Williams: The Nine Symphonies; Job (Box Set)

William Shimell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, ...

Class. for Pleas. Us, 2002

RESTORES ONE'S FAITH IN HONEST MUSIC MAKING
Thank God for Tod Handley. I vividly recall a year or two back, feeling particularly jaundiced after a succession of glitzy, superficial concerts by conductors far starrier and younger, having my faith in real music making restored by a Handley concert which included ...

Christmas Album

Nana Mouskouri

Philips, 2003

Nanna /Christmas
I have always enjoyed the voice of Nanna Mouskouri for many years. She has a voice of a nightingale. This cd is full of beautiful international Christmas music. If you enjoy music in multi languages then you totally agree with my rating of this cd...

Russian Songs
Modest Mussorgsky, Sergey Prokofiev, ...

Hyperion UK, 2004

My Name is Barbara

Roger Quilter, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, ...

Onyx Classics UK, 2005

A different-sounding Barbara Bonney, but I like it!
As the others have noted, those accustomed to Bonney's slender, silvery voice from her previous recordings might be in for a shock here. On this most recent recording of hers, she sounds much darker, richer, and creamier than in anything she's done before--practically ...

Vaughan Williams: Partita For Double String Orchestra/Concerto For Oboe & Strings/Fantasia On A Theme By ...

Timothy Walden, Ralph Vaughan Williams, ...

Angel Records, 1991

Excellent!!
This is probably one of my favorite CD's. Vaughan Williams is an exceptional composer, and this album takes his pieces to divine heights. The Partita is a wonderfully expansive piece, although hard to listen to at first if you're not acquainted with VW's style ...

I Was Glad: Cathedral Music By Parry

Bruce Russell, Paul Rickard, ...

Hyperion UK, 1993

God must be an Englishman!
Parry was very similar to Elgar in style--although he was of an earlier generation. One cannot get more English in style than Parry: solid, majestic, and noble, at times a little pompous, but that's part of the music's charm. There is however nothing particularly ...