Once again this is a helpful Classic FM 2CD release, aimed this time at those who hear a piece of TV advert music and like it, but haven't a clue who wrote it.
The tracks generally expand on the shorter pieces heard during the advert, and although some are not by the same artist as the TV version, they are by no means inferior and the difference will often be unnoticeable.
Whether the version of music is the 'best one' is largely irrelevant, for these are all good performances and recordings of some of classical music's finest and most popular masterpieces.
This is a great chance for those unfamiliar to classical music to get to know a little bit more, even if it's just the composers name and title ... Read More:
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Classic FM wasted no time in releasing this 2008 compilation - just 3 weeks into the year and the first of undoubtedly many classical compilations is on the shelves.
Voices 2008 is effectively a sequel to its 2007 predecessor and will appeal to both general and occasional classical music listeners as well as existing Classic FM fans. Just like last years compilation this one offers a wide range of vocally orientated orchestral music (it's not a collection of Gregorian chants) from many of the big names currently dominating the `popular' classical music world, as well as a few lesser known performers.
There is one disc of `relaxing' and one of `uplifting' music, boasting names like Pavarotti, All Angels, Katherine Jenkins, ... Read More:
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Classic FM wasted no time in releasing this 2008 compilation - just 3 weeks into the year and the first of undoubtedly many classical compilations is on the shelves.
Voices 2008 is effectively a sequel to its 2007 predecessor and will appeal to both general and occasional classical music listeners as well as existing Classic FM fans. Just like last years compilation this one offers a wide range of vocally orientated orchestral music (it's not a collection of Gregorian chants) from many of the big names currently dominating the `popular' classical music world, as well as a few lesser known performers.
There is one disc of `relaxing' and one of `uplifting' music, boasting names like Pavarotti, All Angels, Katherine Jenkins, ... Read More:
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Classic FM has attempted to provide the classical music version of `rock anthems' to shake your head and punch the air to, an equivalent of Rainbow's `Long Live Rock 'n' Roll' anthem of the 1970's. Does it work? Yes of course it does because the Classic FM marketing team are in touch with the needs of today's classical music listeners.
The track list is comfortably predictable - Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner), Carmina Burana (Orff), Jupiter (from Holst's Planets), Pomp & Circumstance (Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory), A Night on a Bare Mountain (Mussorgsky) and many, many more.
Those `many more' include three outstanding performances - Alfie Boe's version of Nessun Dorma, David Garrett's virtuoso (and breathtakingly fast) ... Read More:
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Classic FM has attempted to provide the classical music version of `rock anthems' to shake your head and punch the air to, an equivalent of Rainbow's `Long Live Rock 'n' Roll' anthem of the 1970's. Does it work? Yes of course it does because the Classic FM marketing team are in touch with the needs of today's classical music listeners.
The track list is comfortably predictable - Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner), Carmina Burana (Orff), Jupiter (from Holst's Planets), Pomp & Circumstance (Elgar's Land of Hope and Glory), A Night on a Bare Mountain (Mussorgsky) and many, many more.
Those `many more' include three outstanding performances - Alfie Boe's version of Nessun Dorma, David Garrett's virtuoso (and breathtakingly fast) ... Read More:
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I have just bought this cd for the second time having worn out the first one ! It has travelled around the globe with me, at work, in the car, on holiday and at home. It is truly a recording worth collecting, perfect in recording and conducted by the best.
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I have just bought this cd for the second time having worn out the first one ! It has travelled around the globe with me, at work, in the car, on holiday and at home. It is truly a recording worth collecting, perfect in recording and conducted by the best.
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