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Brahms: Werke für Chor und Orchester

UPC: 028944965124 Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon

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Krzysztof Penerecki: Polish Requiem

UPC: 028942972025 Manufacturer: Polygram Records

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Giuseppe Verdi: Messa De Requiem/Quattro Pezzi Sacri

Customer Review: Overall, I found this November 1991 Vienna recording of the Verdi Requiem very enjoyable. Jose Carreras sounds quite good four years after his leukemia diagnosis; only an...

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Dvorák: Requiem, Op.89; 6 Chants

Customer Review: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor was composed in 1791.That was Mozart's last brilliant composition, and one of the most superhuman and recondite of his works, not...

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Guiseppe Verdi: Messa Da Requiem; Gioacchino Rossini: Stabat Mater

Customer Review: Fricsay's Verdi requiem surpasses all others in dramatic intensity. Although it was recorded in mono sound in 1960, you quickly get taken along by the excitement of the performance...

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Mad About Angels

UPC: 028944911329 Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon

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Gilles, Vol. 2: Requiem and Motet 'Beatus Quem Elegisti' / Niquet

UPC: 723722328725 Manufacturer: Adda

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All Souls' Vespers

Customer Review: This is a composite requiem. All pieces add up to a reconstruction of Vespers for All Souls' Day (the feast for the dead) as it might have been heard in Cordoba Cathedral around...

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Pavarotti Box Set

UPC: 078736472125 Manufacturer: Eclipse Music Group

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Legendary Tenors: Placido Domingo

UPC: 078736472927 Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse Music

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Choral Masterpieces

Customer Review: Robert Shaw again did an excellent job of bringing out the best of choral music, and he did it on just one cd. The energy from the chorus vibrates throughout all the songs. The...

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Absolute Heaven: Essential Choral Masterpieces

This sampler, which appeared in 1997, features Robert Shaw, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and its associated choruses in selections from some of the choral-orchestral blockbusters they recorded for...

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Mozart: Requiem

Presiding over modern forces, Schreier offers a conventional but stylistically informed interpretation in which the link between the Requiem and the great sacred works of the Baroque can be readily...

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Mozart: Requiem / McNair, Watkinson, Araiza, Lloyd; Marriner

This recording of the Süssmayr completion of Mozart's beloved Requiem remains one of the most interpretively faithful and musically satisfying versions in the catalog. Sir Neville Marriner, whose...

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Luciano Pavarotti: O Holy Night

Customer Review: "O Holy Night" was tenor Luciano Pavarotti's first platinum-selling album. It is a collection of traditional Christmas and Roman Catholic hymns, sung in Italian, French, Latin and...

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Mozart - Requiem / Augér, Bartoli, Cole, Pape, Wiener Phil., Solti

Customer Review: What an event this is. Solti is in top form here conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in a very powerful and fiery performance of this most famous of requiems. While some conductors...

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Agnus Dei: Music of Inner Harmony: The Choir of New College Oxford

Beyond this recording's new age packaging and title is a splendid sampling of some of the world's finest choral music, sung by one of the world's outstanding choirs. This "anthology of sacred choral...

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The Composer-Performer 40th Anniversary

Customer Review: - especially the Walzt-Gavottte is playfull and summes of live and fun - a bit Childrens Corner here. But some of the pieces are very etniclike and can be foreign to listen to....

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The Spirit of Tomorrow

UPC: 709861010004 Manufacturer: Opus 111

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The Musical Book of Hours

The Musical Book of Hours

This is one of the most beautiful early music discs in the catalog--equally attributable to the music and to the perfectly tuned and blended voices, whose timbres couldn't be more appealing to the...

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White: The Greatest Glory Of Our Muses

UPC: 723722268120 Manufacturer: Meridian

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All Star Classic Christmas Album

Customer Review: I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to this CD. The very first track, Handel's "For unto us a Child is born" is pure ambrosia as the English Choir performs to perfection. Other...

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The World's Finest Requiem

UPC: 774204960056 Manufacturer: Analekta

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Hymn for the World 2 / Bartoli, Bocelli, Terfel, Chung

This is the second installment in a recording project originally inspired by Pope John Paul II's visit to Paris in 1997 to celebrate the Worldwide Days of Youth. A surprisingly effective anthology of...

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In Paradisum

Customer Review: Listned part from the Enigma3, think this is a very good chant CD. Yes, excellent. I'll by this... Though it is a little expansive for me (Chinese)... UPC: 723723408020...

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By the Rivers of Babylon

Following on the success of Make His Praise Glorious, Gloriae Dei Cantores now continues a distinguished series of recordings dedicated to psalm settings by American composers. By the Rivers of...

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Antonín Dvorák: Requiem

Customer Review: Dvorak's Requiem is rarely performed though I cant imagine why. It is a moving piece, extremely beautiful with an unbeatable fugue movement. Fischer Deskau is, as always, a joy to...

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Durufle: Requiem, Mass-Con Jubilo, Motets / Plasson, von Otter

This is the 1947, full-orchestra version of Maurice Duruflé's Requiem, one of the 20th century's most beloved choral works. It's the first of three versions the composer made of the piece. Despite...

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Fauré - Requiem · Orchestral Music / Hendricks · van Dam · Plasson

Customer Review: At the low price of $6.98, I purchased this Gabriel Faure collection for the hauntingly beautiful Pavane and Sicilienne works only, and ended up enjoying several other selections...

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Sumi Jo - Prayers / James Conlon

This program seems designed primarily to display soprano Sumi Jo's fabulous singing and famous stylistic eclecticism. However, it also exhibits an admirable religious inclusiveness, encompassing...

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Cardoso: Requiem

Customer Review: --Frei Manuel Cardoso--Cardoso was born about 1566 in Lisbon. Part of the Portuguese renaissance (only recently becoming a topic of major study), his musical influences seem to lag...

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The Radiant Voice of Barbara Bonney

Of all the laudatory epithets applicable to Barbara Bonney, the term "radiant" might not be the one that springs to mind--at least, not insofar as it suggests the warm luxuriance of sunshine....

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Andrew Lloyd Webber: Now & Forever

Disc 1: Selections from Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, and Song and Dance Disc 2: Selections from Starlight Express, Requiem, Phantom of the Opera, and Aspects of Love Disc 3: Selections from...

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The Golden Age of the European Polyphony, 1350-1650

The Golden Age of the European Polyphony, 1350-1650

Customer Review: I love this type of music; complex polyphony and counterpoint, that is. This is beautiful music. This set is also a bargain for the 12 cds that you get. Manufacturer: Cypres

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