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1.Mary Poppins (2005 Original London Cast) from: Walt Disney Records September 13, 2005
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Its wonderful to listen to all the songs again after you saw the show. Even if you didnt see the show it's a great album. Especially Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, anything can happen, a spoon ful of sugar are lovely songs. When you listento them yo can just see the show again in your head

2.Haydn - The Creation / Piau, Padmore, Davies, Gabrieli Consort & Players, McCreesh from: ARCHIV Produktion February 05, 2008
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The other reviews say it all, although I would add that this is a great album for those just getting into classical or wanting to experience it for the first time. I also recommend this album to all seasoned classical enthusiasts.

3.Schütz: Christmas Vespers / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort and Players by: Gregorian Chant, Heinrich Schutz, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh, Charles Daniels, Neal Davies, Andrew Carwood, Susan Hemington Jones, Charles Pott, Simon Grant, Robert Horn, James Johnstone, Kristian Olesen, Choir of Roskilde Cathedral October 19, 1999
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First of all, I was enthralled by the singing and the organ sound: very rich and musical in every way. The congregational singing, specifically, is superb, and the CD is worth buying for everything that comes before and after the Christmas Historia. The historia, though, is an edition that is disconcerting to me. Perhaps I have heard versions that are less "authentic" than this one, but there are enough differences between the McCreesh and other versions I have heard that I must assume others will be affected the same way.

4.Mendelssohn - Elijah / Terfel, Fleming, Bardon, Ainsley, Fulgoni, Paul Daniel by: Libby Crabtree October 14, 1997
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As other reviewers have noted, it might not be the best total performance of Elijah (although it's still VERY good)....but Terfel gives the best Elijah performance that I've ever heard. If you haven't heard this recording, you are definitely missing out.

5.Handel: Dettingen Te Deum; Zadok the Priest; Organ Concerto No. 14 from: Hyperion UK June 10, 2008
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My first experience of the Dettingen Te Deum was on a Nonesuch LP by the Telemann Society, who were noted for playing very vigorously but only approximately in tune. Their Te Deum was loads of fun, but not something you could take all that seriously. Stephen Layton offers something much more up to date. His chorus sings with beautiful balances, and the orchestral parts are child's play to The Academy of Ancient Music. It was a good idea to pair the Te Deum with Zadok the Priest. Both works are Handel in his ceremonial mode, and they certainly lift the spirits. The performance of the organ concerto is lyrical and lovely. Richard Marlow plays an organ built in 2000 for Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantata series, and it has an appropriately mellow tone. Sound engineering throughout the CD is excellent, if ... Read More

6.Handel - Messiah / Röschmann, Gritton, Fink , C. Daniels, N. Davies; McCreesh by: George Frideric Handel, Paul McCreesh, Dorothea Röschmann, Susan Gritton, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Bernarda Fink, Charles Daniels, Neal Davies August 01, 1997
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Yes, the Hogwood, Pinnock, Christie, and even Parrott Messiahs all have their merits, usually in the virtuosity of one or another of the soloists. Likewise, every performance of the Messiah has moments when the conductor falls asleep or the brass players are too absorbed in their crossword puzzles to drain their spit valves in time. There is no definitive Messiah. The five soloists on the recording are easily separated into the sheep and the goats. (Have you ever spent any time with sheep or goats? Me, I find the goats far better company.) Bass Neal Davies and tenor Charles Daniels are stellar in every way - beautiful tone, agile dodging through the sixteenth note thickets, bang-on intonation, and articulate expression. Soprano Susan Gritton has the agility and the intonation, but lacks a certain edge ... Read More

7.The History of the Clarinet in Words and Music from: Clarinet Classics May 29, 2001
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Yes, the Hogwood, Pinnock, Christie, and even Parrott Messiahs all have their merits, usually in the virtuosity of one or another of the soloists. Likewise, every performance of the Messiah has moments when the conductor falls asleep or the brass players are too absorbed in their crossword puzzles to drain their spit valves in time. There is no definitive Messiah. The five soloists on the recording are easily separated into the sheep and the goats. (Have you ever spent any time with sheep or goats? Me, I find the goats far better company.) Bass Neal Davies and tenor Charles Daniels are stellar in every way - beautiful tone, agile dodging through the sixteenth note thickets, bang-on intonation, and articulate expression. Soprano Susan Gritton has the agility and the intonation, but lacks a certain edge ... Read More

8.Cecilian Vespers from: Avie January 11, 2005
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... but on CD much of this huge performance of Alessandro Scarlatti's "Cecilian Vespers" sounds underrehearsed. Each of the soloists has a few ragged spots and a few bars of suspect tuning. Frankly the soloists' voices don't assemble well, to my ears, into any kind of vocal balance; they are all on their own trajectories. The chorus is solid enough, but not beautiful in sound. Nick McGegan is a masterful conductor of Handel, always bringing out the best from his Philharmonia baroque Orchestra and Chorus, but here, again to my ears, he makes Scarlatti sound far too Handelian, English rather than Italian. The bottom line is that this recording doesn't approach the musical standard set by Concerto Italiano and Il Seminario Musicale. It's worth hearing if you're a voracious Scarlatti fan, but if not, you might consider buying: ... Read More

9.Handel: Messiah [Hybrid SACD] from: Deutsche Grammophon August 10, 2004
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The performance is theatrical. It is bored since "Thy rebuke hath broken His heart"(the second part). "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion"(the first part) by Dorothea Röschmann(soprano) is performed well. The chorus is not bad either. Recorded in 1996.

10.Antonio Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music from: Hyperion UK November 08, 2005
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Test of a little meeting. When Antionio Vivaldi 1741 died in Vienna, he left a stately spiritual work. A large part of these compositions which were not sighted yet or still not authorized for the publication to this day was sighted only approx. 90 years ago in which one knows, the Vivaldi still had set many further spiritual works to music. The spiritual work contains a variety of compositions to Latin Messlyrics, Psalmlyrics, hymns, motets and the received Juditha Triumphanes. Robert King succeeds in an extremely colorful, vigorous and nevertheless deeply hearty religious account of the known works Vivaldis with this Complete Sacred Music . Conductor, choir, orchestra and soloists have taken the excellent sacrale music of the great master almost 13 hour music to the sounds on 11 CDs here, altogether. An absolute one must for ... Read More

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