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Christmas with the Cambridge Singers
from: Collegium
:Album Description:Features John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music, famous from Volvo’s popular 'Lives Saved' commercials, plus 20 other carols, seasonal motets and choruses. 'Delightfully arranged, magnificently performed and recorded… a winner all the way.' -Gramophone
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Christmas in the Morning: Celebration in Brass
from: Decca
:Album Description:Features John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music, famous from Volvo’s popular 'Lives Saved' commercials, plus 20 other carols, seasonal motets and choruses. 'Delightfully arranged, magnificently performed and recorded… a winner all the way.' -Gramophone
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Haydn: The Creation / Herbert von Karajan
: essential recording:This classic performance of Haydn's greatest choral masterpiece was beloved tenor Fritz Wunderlich's last recording. He sings all of the arias, but he died before finishing the recitatives, which are here taken by Werner Krenn. The recording is, in addition, one of Herbert von Karajan's finest, vastly better than his later digital remake. His interpretation is straightforward and impressively large in scale, but never pompous or sanctimonious (which was Karajan's big problem in music of a religious character). The truth is, Haydn's consistently fresh and unpretentious invention acts as a positive ...
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Pachelbel Canon and Other Baroque Hits
from: RCA
: essential recording:This classic performance of Haydn's greatest choral masterpiece was beloved tenor Fritz Wunderlich's last recording. He sings all of the arias, but he died before finishing the recitatives, which are here taken by Werner Krenn. The recording is, in addition, one of Herbert von Karajan's finest, vastly better than his later digital remake. His interpretation is straightforward and impressively large in scale, but never pompous or sanctimonious (which was Karajan's big problem in music of a religious character). The truth is, Haydn's consistently fresh and unpretentious invention acts as a positive ...
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Four of a Kind, Music for Trombone Quartet
from: Summit(Classical)
: essential recording:This classic performance of Haydn's greatest choral masterpiece was beloved tenor Fritz Wunderlich's last recording. He sings all of the arias, but he died before finishing the recitatives, which are here taken by Werner Krenn. The recording is, in addition, one of Herbert von Karajan's finest, vastly better than his later digital remake. His interpretation is straightforward and impressively large in scale, but never pompous or sanctimonious (which was Karajan's big problem in music of a religious character). The truth is, Haydn's consistently fresh and unpretentious invention acts as a positive ...
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Rossini - Petit Messe Solonnelle ~ Stabat Mater / Pavarotti, Freni, Lohrenger, Minton, Valentini-Terrani, LSO, Gandolfi, Kertesz
: essential recording:This classic performance of Haydn's greatest choral masterpiece was beloved tenor Fritz Wunderlich's last recording. He sings all of the arias, but he died before finishing the recitatives, which are here taken by Werner Krenn. The recording is, in addition, one of Herbert von Karajan's finest, vastly better than his later digital remake. His interpretation is straightforward and impressively large in scale, but never pompous or sanctimonious (which was Karajan's big problem in music of a religious character). The truth is, Haydn's consistently fresh and unpretentious invention acts as a positive ...
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Oedipus Tex & Other Choral Calamities
from: Telarc
: essential recording:This classic performance of Haydn's greatest choral masterpiece was beloved tenor Fritz Wunderlich's last recording. He sings all of the arias, but he died before finishing the recitatives, which are here taken by Werner Krenn. The recording is, in addition, one of Herbert von Karajan's finest, vastly better than his later digital remake. His interpretation is straightforward and impressively large in scale, but never pompous or sanctimonious (which was Karajan's big problem in music of a religious character). The truth is, Haydn's consistently fresh and unpretentious invention acts as a positive ...
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Holiday Instrumentals
: essential recording:This classic performance of Haydn's greatest choral masterpiece was beloved tenor Fritz Wunderlich's last recording. He sings all of the arias, but he died before finishing the recitatives, which are here taken by Werner Krenn. The recording is, in addition, one of Herbert von Karajan's finest, vastly better than his later digital remake. His interpretation is straightforward and impressively large in scale, but never pompous or sanctimonious (which was Karajan's big problem in music of a religious character). The truth is, Haydn's consistently fresh and unpretentious invention acts as a positive ...
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Elgar: The Collector's Edition (30 CDs)
from: Emi Classics
:Album Details:Elgar is the Quintessential English Composer. He is Loved as Our Shakespeare of Music, and We Turn to Him at Times of Solemn Remembrance and National Rejoicing. This Edition, Released to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Composer's Birth, Presents all the Major Orchestral, Choral, Chamber and Stage Works, as Well as Many Lesser Pieces and Rarities, in Interpretations by the 20th Century's Finest Elgarians. All Your Favourite Elgar is Here, in Over 32 Hours of Music on 30 Cds.
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Christmas with Kiri Te Kanawa
from: Teldec
: :Track Listing: 1. Beautiful People 2. Return To The Two Headed King 3. Fly Like An Eagle 4. Rockin In The Free World (Live)
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