Silent Wings

The Musicians Exchange
"Four Stars, Hip Swaying"

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"...the kind of performer who gives you a lyric you'll catch yourself singing softly on the train home."

Silent Wings

Silent Wings,William Brooks,William Brooks,This Kerrville Folk Finalist is a rootsy folk blend of early Van Morrison, Tumbleweed Connection Elton John, Lyle Lovett and Bob Dylan. This CD has been aired in over 125 countries.... "Entrancing, Ruggedly Individualistic"--The New Review of Record

Average customer rating: It is a great CD Found it to lack real depth John P. Cutler

Angelic Voices: The Best of the Vienna Boys' Choir Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vienna Boys Choir | ( V ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: The Best of the Vienna Boys' Choir (Box Set) Exsultate, Jubilate / Wiener Sängerknaben (Vienna Boy's Choir) Vienna Boys Choir Goes Pop Little Drummer Boy: Christmas Favorites by the World Renowed Vienna Boys's Choir Bach: Voices Of Angels ASIN: B00000HY8N Release Date: 1999-01-12

Tracks:

1. Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring
2. Ave verum corpus - K. 618
3. Hear My Prayer: O, For The Wings Of A Dove
4. Messiah: Hallelujah
5. Requiem: Pie Jesu
6. Exsultate, jubilate - K. 165 (Excerpt)
7. Silent Night, Holy Night
8. Samson: Let The Bright Seraphim
9. Rinaldo: Lascia ch'io pianga
10. Zadok The Priest
11. Fruhlingsstimmen - Op. 410
12. The Keeper Would A-Hunting Go
13. Scarborough Fair
14. Loch Lomond
15. Shenandoah
16. Now Is The Hour
17. The Girl From Ipanema
18. El condor pasa
19. La Guantanamera
20. Cielito lindo
21. Heidenroslein
22. Kuckuck, Kuckuck, ruft's aus dem Wald

Customer Reviews:

It is a great CD.......2001-03-22

I get this item and I can say is great, if you really want to get an idea about the vienna boys choir's work, you have to get this, you can admire the soloist voice, Emanuel Cencic, he has an outstanding voice, principally the track "let the bright querubin" but in general is a great compilation, you can stop listening.

Found it to lack real depth.......2000-01-12

The songs are nice and the music pleasant to listen to, but the titles are fairly short and there is something missing. I just didn't find it to be very moving, perhaps it's just the recording.

John P. Cutler.......1999-12-29

This CD covers a wide range of music.The Vienna Boys Choir have done another great job. I believe this CD is a great choice, one that You will be happy with.

Average customer rating: Wonderful!

Amy Beach: Songs Manufacturer: Naxos American ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Beach | Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Amy Beach: "Gaelic" Symphony; Piano Concerto Amy Beach: Violin Sonata, etc. Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944 Amy Beach: Canticle of the Sun Amy Beach : Piano Quintet ETC ASIN: B0002BXOFK Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

1. The Rainy Day
2. Ariette
3. When Far From Her
4. Empress Of Night
5. The Secret
6. Ecstasy
7. Within Thy Heart
8. Sleep, Little Darling
9. Night
10. Forgotten
11. Dearie
12. Far Awa'
13. The Year's At The Spring
14. Ah, Love, But A Day!
15. I Send My Heart Up To Thee!
16. Come, Ah Come
17. Canzonetta
18. I Did Not Say
19. We Three
20. June
21. I Ask The Bird
22. Go Not Too Far
23. Shena Van
24. Baby
25. Hush, Baby Dear
26. A Prelude
27. O Sweet Content
28. An Old Prayer
29. The Funeral Wreath
30. The Candy Lion
31. A Thanksgiving Fable
32. In The Twilight
33. The Host
34. May Flowers
35. I Sought The Lord
36. Though I Take The Wings Of Morning

Album Description

One of America's most prolific and successful composers, Mrs H. H. A. ("Amy") Beach was one of the first women composers whose works were as highly regarded as those produced by men. Best known during her lifetime for her well-crafted songs and short piano pieces, she was also the first American woman to compose in the larger forms. Beach's 117 art songs span the whole of her compositional career. By incorporating musical ideas from many cultures and musical traditions within a late-Romantic framework, Beach's songs show her skillful craftsmanship and profound understanding of text.

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful!.......2004-11-11

I take private voice lessons from Kathie Kelton and she is amazing! She brings Amy Beach's music to life! I strongly recommend this CD to anyone who enjoys listening to classical and operatic music. The music is so beautiful it will give you chills! Fantastic!

Average customer rating: Musically interesting Christmas alternative Koppangen Jesus is born again! Something different -- provacative, but very enjoyable Great Christmas album

Home for Christmas Adolphe-Charles Adam , Alice-Charlotte Tegner , Goran Danielsson , Svante Henryson , Jakob Lindberg , Jan Bengston , Ulf Farsberg , Torbjorn Helander , Ulrika Jansson , Mats Rondin , and Jansson, Bengan Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Reger, Max | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Reger, Max | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: Anne Sofie von Otter - Wings in the Night (Swedish Songs) Noël Watercolors: Swedish Songs Anne Sofie von Otter - Speak Low ~ Songs by Kurt Weill / Gardiner I Let the Music Speak ASIN: B00000JPCA Release Date: 1999-10-12

Tracks:

1. Koppangen (English)
2. The Christmas Song
3. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
4. Stille Nacht
5. O Jesuslein Sus
6. il es ne, le devin enfant
7. Noel
8. Sankta Lucia
9. Staffansvisa & for redeliga man
10. Bred Dina vida vingar
11. Have yourself a merry little christmas
12. I wonder as I wander
13. Cantique de noel
14. White Christmas
15. Deck the Hall / Utterns polska
16. O come, All ye faithful
17. Maria wiegenlied
18. Bethlehems Stjarna
19. Corpus Christi Carol
20. Sweet was the song
21. Koppagen (Swedish)

Amazon.com

Christmas albums by opera divas hardly make an exalted genre. Usually they involve overblown arrangements, hackneyed material, and singers sight-reading music they don't particularly like and making lame attempts at singing in English. With all her integrity, Anne Sofie von Otter would never do such a thing, and she hasn't here. This disc is a personal, eclectic mix, with the mezzo-soprano sounding sincere and approachable by sticking to the lower end of her range using small-ensemble arrangements you might hear in an evening sitting around the fire. In fact, rarely has Otter sung with such warmth as in Pereic Moraeus's "Koppangen," accompanied by accordion, guitar, violin, and mandolin. Not only is her English good but she seems to connect with the language emotionally. Amid the cozy, jazzy renditions of "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)" and "Silent Night," there are a few lapses into eccentricity, such as an atonal string ensemble arrangement of "White Christmas" that easily could've been done by Alban Berg, and some Nordic-language forays in which Otter seems to be getting in touch with her primitivistic Viking roots. With good taste displayed elsewhere, she's allowed. --David Patrick Stearns

Customer Reviews:

Musically interesting Christmas alternative.......2004-12-09

I've been in charge of holiday music for the extended family for the last decade or so, and I generally buy a half-dozen or so CDs every year from a wide range of genres. This is perhaps my favorite of them all. It manages the almost impossible feat of engaging an audiophile like me who's looking for something different while simultaneously enthralling more tradition-minded family members. The CD stands out in most of the critical areas in the holiday field. First, the selection of songs is brilliant--a few English-language standards with some foreign-language songs people may know (Il est ne, le divine enfant) and a handful of really engaging Swedish tunes. Second, the spare but warm instrumentation conveys the coziness van Otter is seeking. Last, and most important, van Otter's low mezzo is put to incredibly expressive use. For those who are turned off by overly operatic recordings that sound completely alien from the renditions of carols that we know and love, this is a much more low-key, accessible form of art music.

This disc is worth buying for the first and last tracks alone, a haunting Swedish number that is now so much part of my Christmas that I can't believe I'd never heard of the song until a few years ago (one track is the Swedish version, the other an English translation). Much as I love holiday music, I have to say that this is one of the only holiday discs I'll listen to throughout the year.

Koppangen.......2004-10-18

Like another reviewer, I bought the CD solely for one song, Koppangen, which I had heard on a flight, and listened to over and over and over throughout the flight. It's a song that greatly moves me: the melody and interpretation. And yes I'd say for having a different sort of Christmas album to play during the holidays, this would be a good choice.

Jesus is born again!.......2004-01-10

I did never take my time to write a review but for the cd time is worth it.

This cd is superb. I also saw her concert with his cd life.
It gives you a old fasioned feeling of a warm /close Christmas.

Christmas with a heart.

With her voice Anne Soie does do magic.

She is classical singer number 1 !
It's my best Christmas cd!

Yopu will have a lot of good feelings with this cd,

It is really, really by far worth it's money.
What is money in this case...

Good Luck,
Peacefull Christmas,

Alfons Bosch
The Netherlands

Something different -- provacative, but very enjoyable.......2002-12-16

Home for Christmas is not your run-of-the-mill "listen to me, I'm an opera singer lavishing my gorgeous voice on these pretty Christmas songs" recording.

Anne Sofie von Otter's fans have long-since learned to expect the unexpected from this exceptional singer and, on this recording, now several years old, that's what she offers - the unexpected. With only a couple of exceptions, the songs are traditional Christmas fare, though usually with an added twist: the distorted rhythm that makes "Tomorrow will be my dancing day" really dance, or the jazz blue notes that take "Have yourself a merry little Christmas" to the cocktail lounge. (In this, as well as White Christmas, Ms. von Otter bears more than a passing resemblance to another great cross-over artist, the late Eileen Farrell.) In this free rhythmic treatment, Deck the Halls, arranged for accordion and violin accompaniment, is much less a fa-la-la madrigal than an introspective folk-song that builds on its own momentum. In contrast, the simple hymn, Beautiful tone Star of Bethlehem, which Ingvar Wixell recorded many years ago on his Christmas offering, shows Ms. von Otter's lush voice to full effect.

Her subtle use of vibrato in "I wonder as I wander" (along with a provocative arrangement) captures the Scotch-Irish influence on the folk music of Appalachians without being a condescending parody while the marimba accompaniment and fiddle obbligato to the French "Il est le divin enfant" evoke an unidentifiable folk music - is it Spanish or French countryside? Or, is the point that it is universal?

True, a couple of the arrangements stretch beyond my endurance: Although Ms. von Otter does lavish some beautiful tone on Cantique de Noel (O, Holy Night) I found the over-echoed, new-wave arrangement irritating and White Christmas, rather than being nostalgic verges on surreal.

In total, there are twenty songs, each a little gem of interpretation. As I mentioned above, sometimes I don't really like the interpretations or arrangement; however, I never doubt for a moment, that Ms. von Otter believes what she is singing; her commitment to communicating through music is never in doubt. By the way, her English diction is exemplary - a lesson for many singers for whom English is first language.

Great Christmas album.......2001-11-27

I have never been one to buy much Christmas music -- why bother when for the month of December I can hear the stuff everywhere I go whether I want to or not. So, it's a real treat to find a disc like this one that I just want to listen to over and over again. I bought it last year and it was kind of depressing when the season was over and I had to stop listening to it until next Christmas. Anyway, the other raves for "Koppangen" are spot on: it really is a very warm and moving song and I'm glad it appears twice on this disc. There are several carols that are unfamiliar to most English listeners (me included) but they soon become favourites. And even the weird arrangement of "White Christmas" with its minimalist and almost slithering string accompaniment grows on you after a while if only for its ability to amuse. Definitely a must-have for fans of Anne Sofie von Otter or those looking for something a little different.

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The World of Henry Purcell Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Odes | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music ASIN: B000025GLU Release Date: 1994-10-05

Average customer rating: I wish I was Swedish A feeling of discovery

Anne Sofie von Otter - Wings in the Night (Swedish Songs) Wilhelm Peterson-Berger , Sigurd von Koch , Wilhelm Stenhammar , Ture Rangstrom , Emil Sjogren , Anne Sofie von Otter , and Bengt Forsberg Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Stenhammar | Stenhammar, Wilhelm | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Otter, Anne Sophie von | Divas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Watercolors: Swedish Songs Home for Christmas Anne Sofie von Otter - Grieg Songs Mots D'Amour: Songs By Cecile Chaminade Anne Sofie von Otter - Folksongs (Dvorak, Kodaly, Britten, Grainger, Larsson, Hahn) ASIN: B000001GRT Release Date: 1996-03-26

Tracks:

1. Nothing Is Like The Time Of Waiting
2. When I Walk By Myself
3. Like The Stars In The Sky
4. In The Month Of Tjaitra
5. Of Lotus Scent And Moonlight
6. The Wanderer
7. A Ship Is Sailing
8. Maiden Blond And Maiden Brunette
9. A Seaside Song
10. Wings In The Night
11. The Farewell
12. Pan
13. Come Little Buck To The Boy
14. The Sun Shines Prettily In The Evening
15. If You Love Me
16. Spring Night's Rain
17. Mankind's Lot
18. The Wild Swans
19. The Forest Is Asleep
20. I Kiss Your White Hand
21. In The Maple's Shade
22. Jutta Comes to the Volkungs
23. Old Swedish
24. Melody
25. Supplication to Night
26. Boljeby Waltz
27. Return
28. You Look At Me With Silent Questions
29. I Broke Off A Little Rose For You
30. I Should Like to Hover over Valley and Hill
31. Aspaker's Polka

Customer Reviews:

I wish I was Swedish.......2006-06-10

This is simply my favorite disc of song out there. As a recreational singer, it's wonderful to come across a disc like this and be given an entire new world of song that you can't even find music for. The songs by Sigurd von Koch, who spent some time in Asia, are beautiful enough to dissolve your brain! In The Month Of Tjaitra and Of Lotus Scent And Moonlight are so full of beautiful imagery and wonderful music I can't see why people sing anything else. And the folk-inspired Pertersen-Berger songs are loads of fun too, although of course not as moving.

A feeling of discovery.......2000-09-23

The songs on this wonderful Swedish anthology may not be familiar to most listeners but they occupy an idiom not so dissimilar to the world of Grieg. (Otter and Forsberg's Grieg recital from a few years earlier is also indispensible.). The nostalgia-tinged melancholy (or is it wistful joy?) of Wilhelm Peterson-Berger's folk-inspired songs, for example, convey a hint of Grieg's art yet are distinctively Swedish. There are nine selections by Peterson-Berger, out of 31 total, and they all exemplify this composer in full melodic flower. The other composers offer something closer to what we think of as art songs: somewhat rarefied, reserved, melodically rich and often evocative. The piano accompaniments are always first rate. This treasury provides a rich and varied 74-minute overview of Swedish song.

If the quality of the Swedish literature as a whole is half as good as what's presented here, let's hope that this is only an introduction from Otter and Forsberg, who would seem to have this repertoire to themselves although one could not hope for more understanding interpreters. After all, they are Swedish! All of imagination of their earlier Grieg interpretations is present here as well. There is all the necessary depth of characterization without affected artsiness.

If that's not enough, this disc also won the coveted Gramophone Award.

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Annie's Songs Manufacturer: Turtle Creek Chorale ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Rodgers, Richard | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Sondheim, Stephen | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Musical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music ASIN: B0006SSSYG Release Date: 2004-12-14

Tracks:

1. Family
2. Secret Love
3. My Romance/What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
4. Trust the Wind
5. Wind Beneath My Wings
6. You'll Never Walk Alone
7. Everything Possible
8. Dream on, Little Angel
9. Let Me Be the Music
10. Prideful Mary
11. God Loves a Woman
12. When October Goes
13. Last Day
14. For All We Know/I'll Be Seeing You
15. Empty Chairs Medley: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables/No One Is ...
16. I Shall Miss Loving You
17. I Have Loved

Tracks:

1. Psalm 92
2. Ave Maria
3. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
4. White Christmas
5. O Holy Night
6. Cup of Christmas Tea
7. Silent Night
8. Auld Lang Syne
9. How to Handle a Woman/Some Enchanted Evening
10. Ain't No Mountain
11. Donna's Song
12. Not While I'm Around
13. I'll Be Here With You
14. All Is Well
15. God Bless America
16. Cup of Christmas Tea [CD-ROM Track]

Average customer rating: The best Christmas Bells yet! A nice departure In my opinion A smooth, relaxing Christmas album

Christmas with Sonos Handbell Ensemble Manufacturer: Well-Tempered Produc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Franck, César | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Prokofiev | Prokofiev, Sergei | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical Instrumental | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Classical Instrumental | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: Christmas Bells Meredith Sonos Handbell Ensemble A Very Classical Christmas Carol of the Bells Impressions of the Season ASIN: B000003Y2Y Release Date: 1995-08-24

Tracks:

1. Dance Of The Red Flutes
2. Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
3. Sleigh Ride
4. West Indies Carol
5. Christmas Tidings
6. Shepherd's Air
7. Fantasy On Carol Of The Bells
8. Austrian Carol
9. Veni Emmanuel
10. We Three Kings
11. Coventry Carol
12. Troika, Op. 60
13. Christmas Song
14. Two French Carols: 'Twas In The Moon Of Wintertime/Whence Comes This R ush Of Wings Afar!
15. Catalonian Carol
16. Silent Night
17. Panis Angelicus
18. White Christmas
19. Joseph Dear, Joseph Mine
20. Christmas Postcard

Album Description

This best-selling title recreates all of your fondest memories of Christmas with the glorious sound of handbells. This seasonal favorite includes "Silent Night," "Sleigh Ride" and more - twenty selections of carols and Christmas favorites.

Customer Reviews:

The best Christmas Bells yet!.......2001-06-09

I am so glad I have this wonderful CD of Christmas songs with bells. The bells are truly played as one instrument and you can really get into the Christmas spirit. It's so hard to record bells well, but they did it! I always tell my friends to BUY this CD to add to their Christmas music collection. In fact, I give the CDs away as gifts! A GREAT RECORDING!

A nice departure.......2001-06-08

While we all associate bells with Christmas, we think more of bells ringing wildly in their towers. And when we think of Christmas music, we think schmaltz. This album features a different kind of bells -- handbells -- and music that is anything but schmaltzy. As I listen to this beautiful, seamless music, I am in awe of the skills required to make it sound that way: a dozen people handling dozens of bells, sounding as one instrument. The musical selections are varied, the performance top-notch, and the experience of listening is marvelous. I do not hesitate to recommend this CD to any listener.

In my opinion.......2001-06-08

Sonos is very accomplished, yes, and they play what they do very well, but nothing really appealed to me as "exciting" bell music. I have nothing against classical music, but they need perhaps faster songs or something of that sort. Other than that, it was great!

A smooth, relaxing Christmas album.......2000-02-01

"Christmas with Sonos Handbell Ensemble" continues the tradition of excellent playing and fine engineering pioneered on Sonos' first disc. The repertoire runs the gamut, but leans toward the quiet, mellow carols and tunes, and the other instruments featured (flute & clarinet) are perfectly balanced and blended with the overall sound. The acoustic is marvelous, greatly benefitting from the superb room at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch and audiophile-quality production.

Of special interest is the bluesy/gospel "Christmas Tidings" (Mary Had a Baby Boy/Go Tell It On the Mountain) with clarinet, the lovely "Panis Angelicus" with flute, and a quirky arrangement of "Carol of the Bells," which does not do what you expect! There's the ever-popular nutcracker, along with the Leroy Anderson's hit "Sleigh Ride." A moody "Veni Emmanuel" is paired with a mediaeval-sounding "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen." There's even a little Prokofiev: the "Troika" (another kind of sleigh ride), from Lt. Kije.

This CD is great for parties and background music but can also be brought up and appreciated for its detail and finer qualities. A rare combination.

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Little Bit Of Heaven Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Franck, César | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mascagni | Mascagni, Pietro | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sullivan | Sullivan, Arthur | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000C6VVM Release Date: 2003-11-11

Tracks:

1. The Holy City - Dame Clara Butt
2. The Lost Chord - Dame Clara Butt
3. Panis Angelicus - Beniamino Gigli
4. My Lord, What A Morning - Paul Robeson
5. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Paul Robeson
6. Hear My Prayer....O For The Wings Of A Dove - Ernrst Lough
7. Adeste Fideles - The Venia Boys Choir
8. I'll Walk Beside You - Dame Vera Lynn
9. Christopher Robin - Ann Stephens
10. Little Drummer Boy - Phyllis Robins
11. Deck Of Cards - Phil Harris
12. Amazing Grace - Mahalia Jackson
13. Nearer My God To Thee - John McCormack
14. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - John McCormack
15. Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht - The Vienna Boys Choir
16. The Rosary - Richard Crooks
17. Easter Hymn - Emmy Betterdorf
18. Nazareth - Norman Allin
19. Laudate Dominum - Ursula Van Dieman
20. Oh What A Beautiful City - Marian Anderson
21. Heaven, Heaven - Maria Anderson
22. Ave Maria - Beniamino Gigli

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Silent Wings William Brooks Manufacturer: William Brooks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005MOGQ Release Date: 2001-02-06

Tracks:

1. Silent Wings
2. Hideaway
3. Land of Lincoln
4. I Have a Mind
5. You Barely See Me
6. Maybe Meagan
7. Justified
8. I Will Stop With You
9. Thicker Than Thieves
10. Whose Moon
11. That Skin
12. Between There and Here

Average customer rating: A must for modern music lovers

Southwest Chamber Music: Cage, Carter, Harrison, Partch, etc. John Cage , Elliott Carter , Lou Harrison , and William Kraft Manufacturer: Cambria Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Carter | Carter, Elliott | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Harrison | Harrison, Lou | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Krenek, Ernst | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: Kaikhosru Sorabji: 100 Transcendental Studies, Nos. 1-25 ASIN: B00004ZE27 Release Date: 2000-10-24

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A must for modern music lovers.......2000-10-20

A monumental collection of some of the most important chamber works of the late 20th century, impeccably performed and recorded.

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1. Simplest Plans
2. Sing Great Country Hits
3. Sing The Hits Of Patsy Cline Revisited (Karaoke)
4. Sings & Plays Dobro
5. Sings The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers
6. Snakey
7. Somebody Like That
8. Story of Coutry Music- Sweet Am [Import]
9. Take the Long Way Home
10. Talk to Your Heart

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