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Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) / Auger, Stilwell, Atlanta SO, Robert Shaw

21 reviews
Johannes Brahms, Robert Shaw, ...

Telarc, 1990

Another Excellent Shaw Recording
It becomes hard after awhile for me to comment on maestro Shaw's work, because I love all of it! Obviously, he definitely does not fall short with this CD. His talent of conducting was matched only by his love of music itself. The chorus and soloists are excellent. The sopranos seem to float over the rest of the chorus, and a sound of pure heaven is produced. I can just see both Shaw and ...

A Festival Of Carols / Robert Shaw Chorale

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

RCA, 1990

A Top List Christmas CD
I bought this cd long ago, and have enjoyed it immensely each year. It is the perfect blend of celebration and meditation. Orchestra and choir combine in four distinct groupings, and a capella arrangements complete the masterful collection. The orchestral arrangements will make the hairs on your neck stand up, and your stomach quiver with all the excitement you ever felt as a child at ...

Songs of Angels - Christmas Hymns and Carols

20 reviews
Robert Shaw Chamber Singers

Telarc, 1994

Much Anticipated
I have been looking for this CD for years!! Our family had a Shaw Chorale LP which contained almost all the songs on this CD. We had a number of excellent holiday albums and played all of them often, but we wore the Shaw Chorale album out! Not only are the musical renditions excellent and very similar to earlier Shaw recordings, the nostalgia evoked for this listener is incomparable!

Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses

11 reviews
Paul Plishka, Giuseppe Verdi, ...

Telarc, 1990

Great version
There are version of Verdi's Requiems in that market. I consider this to be onre the best ones I have heard. What adds to this perfomance is the quality of the manufacturer's transfer.

25 Vivaldi Favorites

9 reviews
Virginio Bianchi, Nicolas Chedeville, ...

Vox (Classical), 1999

terrific
Vivaldi 25 favourites is marvelous ,it has been digitally enhanced and is certainly a keeper.Really am pleased with anything i have purchased from Amazon

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

17 reviews
Håkan Hagegård, Carl Orff, ...

Telarc, 1990

Superb sound
To counter some of the other reviewer's comments here, I have both the Slatkin/St Louis Symphony version and the Robert Shaw version and there's no comparison. The Slatkin version is ponderous and the audio is pure mud. The chorus and orchestra are mixed together in a mess of sound that makes hearing the words impossible. In addition, the orchestral bass notes are just a bunch of mush. By ...

Choral Masterpieces

9 reviews
Wayne Baughman, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Telarc, 1990

Uncle Abe rattles the house with this thing
I came home from work one day when my uncle was visiting my wife and myself. He was recently retired from the ministry. He had heard a lot of choral music in his life. My aunt said he had the stereo ( power end of my stereo at the time was an Adcomm 555 amp. conservatively rated at 200 watts RMS per channel) up so loud it was rattling the whole house. I too have come to love this music. I ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vespers (Mass for Unaccompanied Chorus)

50 reviews
Sergey Rachmaninov, Robert Shaw Festival Singers, ...

Telarc, 1990

This is a GREAT recording!
I like this recording very much... as does everyone I know that owns it. I would not hesitate to purchase it again should the need arise.

Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition

4 reviews
Benjamin Luxon, Brian Etheridge, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Great Value, Fine Performances
For lovers of Ralph Vaughan Williams' music, the prospect of obtaining most of his works on 30 CDs for $50 or less should be irresistible. It's a great way to fill in the gaps in your collection, or to become acquainted with RVW's less familiar works. Among the highlights of this box are the Serenade to Music and the Pilgrim's Progress (both conducted by Adrian Boult), Partita for Double String ...

Faure Requiem Op.48 / Durufle Requiem Op.9

24 reviews
Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

Telarc, 1990

French Choral Classics
This disk has set the standard for performing the settings of the Requiem mass by two great French masters, Gabriel Faure and Maurice Durufle. The Faure setting is an intimate one with occasional moments of tempestuousness. This particular recording features the more heavily orchestrated edition (for an excellent chamber version see the Cambridge Singers under John Rutter). Put in seven parts, ...

A Robert Shaw Christmas - Angels on High

20 reviews
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 treble voices also get play in the Ceremony of Carols.

Sea Shanties

22 reviews
The Men of the Robert Shaw Chorale

RCA, 1999

Much better than "authentic"
I'm perplexed by the grousing that this CD doesn't represent "authentic" sea shanties. Do other reviewers have access to the singing styles of the 18th and 19th century aboard ship? Do they think the raucous versions on various Irish recordings, which sound like they came from pubs well past happy hour, are authentic? As with Christmas carols, the styles of folk singing adapt themselves to time ...

Broadway, My Way

154 reviews
Linda Eder

Atlantic / Wea, 2003

the best female singer of the great american standards.
i am turning 60 years old this year. i went to my 1st.broadway musical in 1960. over the years i have had the honor to see almost all of the giants of american song, garland, streisand, patti lupone, lena horne, betty buckley, barbaracook etc. in "broadway, my way" linda eder cements her place as the best of the best. from an anthem like "i am what i am" to the lovely "on the street where ...

Mendelssohn: Elijah / Shaw, Bonney, Quivar, Hadley, Hampson, Atlanta Symphony (Sung in English)

7 reviews
Thomas Hampson, Thomas Paul, ...

Telarc, 1995

Very excellent, especially the choral work
Having sung in this oratorio many times (both the contralto, and the soprano solo parts) I was very familiar with the work. What hit me first in this recording was the WORDS were not the same as those I had sung so many times. It was sort of a jolt. Instantly, that made me wonder what was going on, after all, didn't Mendelssohn write this oratorio in English. Well, he did, but it was an English ...

O Magnum Mysterium

18 reviews
Thomas Tallis, Tomas Luis de Victoria, ...

Telarc, 2000

This is an amazing, amazing product
The only part of the CD I would quibble with is the selection from Rachmaninov's Vespers, but I'm really lucky and have heard that performed live several times and heard multiple recordings, and decided on one that I liked best early on. If you aren't blown away by the performance of the Tallis, you'll probably still cry when you hear the Lauridsen later in the CD. One thing about this CD is ...

Bach: Mass in B minor / McNair, Ziegler, Simpson, Aler, Stone, Paul; Shaw

9 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, ...

Telarc, 1990

Indescribably Beautiful and Ingenious
This remains the best recording of the B minor mass that I have ever heard. Each and every phrase soars to new levels. This recording, and of course, this mass, uplift the listener spiritually and intellectually. I own two other recordings of this mass, another by Robert Shaw with his own chorale and another with Herbert von Karajan. This second Robert Shaw recording, although wonderful, ...

Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation

12 reviews
Franz Joseph Haydn, Donna Carter, ...

Telarc, 1992

Mensa... whatever
This recording has been regarded as "required listening" for choral musicians and directors. I doubt we will find better choral singing of this piece in our lifetimes. You should have heard it LIVE! To "Mensa Girl," why did you need a recording to help you learn this piece? You are "Mensa," after all.

Vivaldi: Gloria; Bach: Magnificat

9 reviews
William Stone, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Telarc, 1989

Great Baroque Choral Music
This is the difinitive recording of Vivaldi's Gloria and Bach's Magnificat on modern instruments. Not but 50 years ago (when period performances were nearly non-existent) choirs like the Roger Wagner Chorale were butchering these works. Robert Shaw comes along and performs Handel's Messiah like nobody's ever heard, with lively tempos and light articulation; finally scholarship and performance ...

The Power & The Majesty: Essential Choral Classics

5 reviews
Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Choruses

Telarc, 1995

Best of American Choral Singing!
This CD could be the cornerstone of your choral music library! Wonderful performances of all of the essential choral pieces give a wonderful introduction to choral music for someone new to it, and also give a nice sampler of the best pieces for someone already familiar with the music. Listening to each excerpt may inspire you to purchase the entire work! As you would expect of performances by ...

The Best Of Wagner

8 reviews
Richard Wagner, Eugene Ormandy, ...

RCA, 1991

A hidden diamond
This unassuming budget classic reissue is among the finest of its genre: The Wagner orchestral highlight album, and features the contents of 1973 LP recital the farthest thing from run-of-the-mill, spaciously recorded with the palpable feeling of the presence of the musicians, not merely an amorphously gorgeous orchestral sonority. The music unfolds without self-indulgent pointing, in a ...

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