classical music: sacred     classical music:       The Priests126 reviews The Priests RCA, 2008 Great Listening I really enjoy listening to this CD. The harmonies of the Priests is beautiful and the songs are inspirational. I have given a couple of these away as gifts and they are appreciated.             Eternal The Best of Libera12 reviews Libera EMI Classics, 2009 Bless yourself . . Give yourself a blessing and listen to these young boys lift your spirit with their amazing voices, blended beautifully in this great selection of songs.I find the best way to listen is to sit down and close my eyes because it is like listening to prayer in music. Be Still My Soul is a favorite of mine and We Are The Lost will certainly bring a tear to the eye; just two of many that will move ...             Christmas Adagios12 reviews Gerald Finley, Adolphe Adam, ... Decca, 2001 Christmas Adagios This is the BEST Christmas collection that I have ever heard. I would like to purchase 15 more to give as gifts this year; however, it appears that Decca is out of stock or no longer releasing it. HELP!!             A Feast of Songs: Holiday Music from the Middle Ages12 reviews Barry and Beth Hall Hallistic, 2002 If you buy only one Christmas Selection of music, consider strongly this one! A Feast of Songs is a gorgeous journey through a millennia of different cultural takes on the Christmas theme. The first and last tracks are oddly strong and powerful - though they did take a few listenings to appreciate. But the renditions of Patapan and others are stunning, and flow beautifully from one into the next. Gorgeous music. Buy it. Listen to it every day from the first of ...             Andrea Bocelli - Sacred Arias / Myung-Whun Chung133 reviews George Frideric Handel, Giulio Caccini, ... Philips, 1999 Positively Magnificant Just purchased the CD today and absolutely love it. Not so sure about the "Jingle Bells" , but The Lord's Prayer is BREATHTAKING and brought me to tears. Andrea is I believe the most gifted tenor of today and I look forward to hearing more from him and seeing him again in concert. Bravo Andrea!             Classic Christmas Carols2 reviews King's College Choir Emi Classics, 2008 Beautiful Choral Christmas Music This is, basically what it says, classic Christmas music done by a good choir and a wonderful organist. The sound is great, the choir is dead on, and the music is beautiful and traditional.....no surprises here.....good or bad. Plus, it's eight bucks for essentially what is a two disc set.....fifty three songs. If you are looking for a nice traditional Christmas album, you could do a whole ...             Songs of Angels - Christmas Hymns and Carols28 reviews Robert Shaw Chamber Singers Telarc, 1994 All-Time Christmas Best! This is easily my all-time favorite Christmas collection. There are other excellent choir albums, of course, but the Robert Shaw Chorale is the finest in every way, and inclusion of the (rarely performed) Boar's Head song puts this one at the top. EVERYONE who likes traditional Christmas music should own this album.             Sing We Christmas18 reviews Chad Runyon, Tim Krol, ... Teldec, 1995 The Geese Are Getting Fat Again Someone who likes my music reviews has requested a Christmas album. Well, here it is. Imagine a silent darkness with reflections of colored lights twinkling on the snow banks. Suddenly a group of carolers can be heard making their merry way toward your own front porch, where you await them with a punchbowl of wassail. That group is Chanticleer, and this is the best musical evocation of the spirit ...             Essential Mozart: 32 Of His Greatest Masterpieces23 reviews Fritz Dolezal, Franklin Cohen, ... Decca, 2001 Good times I just cant say enough about this collection. It used to be that you had to spend a fortune to get Mozart's best hits; a few on each album. Now, you can buy them all at once and dirt cheap! very nice             Sacred21 reviews Alma Bazel Androzzo, Anonymous, ... Razor & Tie, 2005 The three best members The best musical thing about this album is that the three best singers who have been part of the Irish tenors are together, John McDermott, Finbar Wright, and (the stunningly magnificent voice of) Anthony Kearns. In addition, persons of faith will find this album very prayerful and inspiring. I love listening to this CD doing nothing else but sitting quietly and listening. When it finishes I ...             John Rutter Collection11 reviews Rutter, Cambridge Singers, ... Decca, 2002 John Rutter Collection Absolutely beautiful selections performed perfectly!! I play it almost daily and repeatedly. I am familiar with several pieces from a performance perspective and enjoy the entire collection immensely.             Medieval Christmas9 reviews Joel Cohen, Boston Camarata Nonesuch, 1991 Deeply Endearing I was 7 years old and excited as all get out for Christmas when my stepfather brought this album into our family, and it immediately became a classic. This is by far my favorite music to listen to during christmas time. While carols become slightly stale as you grow older, the melodies and performance from this album are timeless, enchanting, historic and carry deep meaning. Now that I'm 33, I ...             Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterworks From Russia32 reviews Anonymous, Dimitry Bortnyansky, ... Hearts of Space, 1998 Inner beauty The sense of beauty emerge within us as these chorals fill the space of our head and heart. A music written by real masters and interpreted by voices rarely heard. Beautiful.             On Yoolis Night: Medieval Carols & Motets12 reviews Anonymous 4, Marsha Genensky, ... Harmonia Mundi France., 1993 Great alternatives to 'Silent Night'! Buy It! `On Yoolis Night' performed by the quartet, Anonymous 4 is another collection of works dedicated to the worship of the Virgin Mary from medieval England. Unlike `An English Ladymass' and `a Lammas Ladymass', these are more like `incidental' music for the Christmas season or, as the subtitle states, `medieval carols & motets'. Thus, these do not comprise a complete mass and there is very little ...             Essential Carols: The Very Best of King's College Choir, Cambridge Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Cornelius, ... Decca, 2005             Cambridge Singers Christmas Album7 reviews Stephen Orton, Adolphe Adam, ... Collegium, 2003 Glittering Chrismas Music I own virtually all of the CD's of John Rutter (whom I greatly admire) and the Cambridge Singers, and I am a fan of English Choral music in general. If I were asked to recommend only one of the many Cambridge Singers Christmas albums, or indeed one of any English Christmas album, a hard choice, this would be it. As others have noted, this CD is a compilation of songs from previous cds with four ...             The Baroque Christmas Album1 review Johann Sebastian Bach, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, ... Archiv Produktion, 2005 5-PLUS Stars There are not many things in life that I would describe as just Gorgeous -- but this album is definitely one of them. The selections, the arrangements, the production quality, all are clean, yet lush -- simultaneously light and rich. The effect is wonderful. This may not appeal to hardest-core periodists, but for beautiful music lovingly performed, the album is very hard to beat. Not only ...             Noël: Carols & Chants for Christmas - Anonymous 4 (4 CD Set)6 reviews Codex Las Huelgas Anonymous, English Anonymous, ... Harmonia Mundi, 2005 The CD set to get for Christmas I will just reiterate that this is a compilation of 4 existing CDs- Legends of St. Nicholas, Wolcum Yule, On Yoolis Night, and A Star in the East. If you don't own any of them, or even if you just own one of them, I would strongly suggest buying this set, since you'll save a lot of money from buying each disc individually. Anonymous 4 performs all the music flawlessly. If you're looking for ...             Noel: Christmas at King's7 reviews Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Cornelius, ... Decca, 1995 The Best Christmas CD Ever If you are seeking a CD of traditional Christmas music to help you 1) focus on the true meaning of the holiday and 2)draw near to God, this is it. The choral arrangements are alternately beautiful and powerful, delicate and majestic. There is a rich heritage of European carols which 99% of Americans know nothing of. Broaden your horizons with this disc. You won't regret it.             Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the Horizon18 reviews Fikret Amirov, Sandeep Das, ... Sony, 2005 What Can I say??? This CD is anyone who longs to travel to far away, exotic places but cannot afford to get there in "real time". I was, and am so impressed with this CD from the moment I heard it on WQXR one beautiful spring morning, I knew "I had to own it" and I have not regretted listening to it over and over again. If you want to enter the heart of the mysterious, exotic world of Middle and Far East; if you ...              search for classical music adagios, angels, anonymous, baroque, bocelli, cambridge, christmas, classic, collection, college, essential, eternal, greatest, holiday, horizon, journeys, libera, masterpieces, masterworks, medieval, middle, motets, mozart, myung-whun, priests, russia, rutter, sacred, singers, treasures classical music:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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