Inner Voices

1. Groovinonymous

2. Angel's Kiss

3. Walk in the Park

4. Lights of the City

5. Time in Times Square

6. Always With You

7. Inner Voices

8. What About Blue

9. Tears of Mercy

10. Selah

11. Last Goodbye

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Average customer rating: Amazing! NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE FOR MODERN MUSIC YOUR FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE ALBUM Beautiful and haunting melodies Hauntingly Beautiful!

Inner Voices R. Carlos Nakai Manufacturer: Canyon Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Native American | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Canyon Trilogy: Native American Flute Music Mythic Dreamer: Music For Native American Flute Sanctuary In Beauty, We Return Ancestral Voices ASIN: B00000JNKI Release Date: 1999-08-03

Tracks:

1. Inner Voices
2. Canyon Reverie
3. Winter Solstice
4. 12/20/82 Song
5. Amazing Grace
6. Daybreak Vision
7. Kokopelli Wind
8. Songs For The Morning Star
9. Catfish Muse
10. Woodsong

Product Description

1. Inner Voices
2. Canyon Reverie
3. Winter Solstice
4. 12/20/82 Song
5. Amazing Grace
6. Daybreak Vision
7. Kokopelli Wind
8. Songs For The Morning Star
9. Catfish Muse
10. Woodsong

Format: CD

Amazon.com

With Inner Voices, R. Carlos Nakai revisits some familiar ground with new renditions of previously recorded material. Here the Native American flautist-composer's deeply resonant tones are countered and buoyed by Billy Williams's gently majestic arrangements consisting of violin, viola, cello, and bass. The title cut comes from 1998's Mythic Dreamer yet here takes on a more classic feel. The orchestra employs restrained and thoughtful strings, which in turn echo the melody line, play opposite Nakai for a grounded effect, and embolden the composition with gorgeously understated flourishes such as a low cello rumble or a slightly dissonant violin fill. On other standouts such as "12/20/82 Song" and "Winter Solstice," both on Changes, the artist's debut recording, Nakai's cedar flute beckons a return to balance, growth, and healing. The traditional hymn "Amazing Grace," having earlier appeared on Emergence, here becomes an aural blessing, as Williams's sweeping arrangements recall America's great Western plains and Nakai's melody floats above as an eagle on strong wind. --Paige La Grone

Customer Reviews:

Amazing!.......2005-03-18

I absolutely love this album! Great job Carlos and ensemble! The album is full of relaxing sounds and emotion evoking melodies. It just gets ya, right there *patting heart*. I recommended it to all my friends and family. It is the best harmony of smooth native american flute and sweet strings I have ever heard. It's great for a massage or winding down from a long day. I often let it play me to sleep. It gives me mental pictures of the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and Lake Tahoe. If you liked music from the motion picture "Legends of the Fall," you will love this! It's the best CD I've bought in quite some time. AMAZING!

NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE FOR MODERN MUSIC.......2004-02-14

R. Carlos Nakai, the preeminent Native American flutist, offers traditional music performed on Native American flute and the result is nothing short of spectacular. And you thought Amazing Grace was a classic only when performed on bagpipe? Nakai will change your mind with his rendition of the classic.

For the listener who isn't quite ready for more traditional Native American flute music, INNER VOICES will become a favorite among your other easy listening CD's.

THE HORSEMAN

YOUR FIRST NATIVE AMERICAN FLUTE ALBUM.......2003-09-05

Native American flute is a medium that, I have found, is either loved or hated. Proponents love the mellow woody voice of the flute and it nostalgic appeal. But I have found that those with whom I have shared my classic Nakai renditions and who don't find Native American flute appealing complain that there is no "accompaniment" in the form of strings and other conventional instruments. Frankly I love the sound of the flute for its own sake but recognize that we are acclimated to a more predictable musical presentation.

Inner Voices is the perfect compromise for those who want to enjoy Native American flute in a more conventional musical presentation. It is the perfect initial Native American flute album purchase. This album is wonderful! I find it the perfect companion for a placid meditation or for the drive home to wind down from a stressful day.

Once you make Inner Voices a part of your collection you will likely be ready for one of Nakai's many other beautiful recordings.

Beautiful and haunting melodies.......2003-04-27

This recording always sends me into a different - and higher - state of mind. Only one selection was familiar - Amazing Grace - which doesn't seem to fit - yet does, as it is as deeply spiritual as the Nakai original compositions. A sublime, almost hypnotic, experience.

Hauntingly Beautiful!.......2002-07-13

I discovered this CD at the library, and halfway through listening to it, decided I had to order it for myself. What all the other reviewers said is true... I can only add that it is hauntingly beautiful, and gives one a definite sense of calmness and inner peace. We have been blessed!

Average customer rating: Agnus Dei music of Inner Harmony Simply The Best Wow! Profound sublimity Beautiful music

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Tracks:

1. Agnus Dei, op.11 - Barber
2. Cantique de Jean Racine, op.11 - Faure
3. Kyrie - Palestrina
4. Ave Verum Corpus K 618 - Mozart
5. Jesus bleibet meine Freude - Bach
6. Ave Maria, op.37 No.6 - Choir Of New College Oxford
7. Lux Aeterna - Choir Of New College Oxford
8. Totus Tuus - Choir Of New College Oxford
9. Hear my prayer - Mendelssohn
10. The Lamb - Tavener
11. In paradisum - Faure
12. Miserere mei, Deus - Choir Of New College Oxford

Amazon.com

Beyond this recording's new age packaging and title is a splendid sampling of some of the world's finest choral music, sung by one of the world's outstanding choirs. This "anthology of sacred choral music" spans 400 years and includes such masterpieces as Allegri's Miserere, Bach's "Jesu, joy of man's desiring," and Barber's exquisite Agnus Dei, which is the composer's choral setting of his famous Adagio for Strings. Along the way we also hear Mozart's sublime "Ave verum corpus," Elgar's "Lux aeterna," and the Kyrie from Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli. There has been a choir at England's New College, Oxford, since the year 1379, and this impressive line of experience shows in the intelligent, unfaltering, and finely polished performances by today's ensemble of 16 boys and 12 adults. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

Agnus Dei music of Inner Harmony.......2007-05-14

Not really my thing but mother in law loved it.

Simply The Best.......2007-02-23

You'll love this music. This is music for all moments of your life

Wow!.......2006-07-08

I'm a long-time listener of all things rock-'n-roll, from Classic rock, to Alternative, and even a little Metal. I first heard this CD while having dinner at a friends house a long time ago, and I loved it. I've always been enchanted with choir music, so I bought this CD. Well, after years of listening to it to help me to unwind in the evening, I somehow misplaced it. So I came to Amazon to order both I and II. Of the two CD's, the first one is still the best, and it still helps me to relax after a long day. The choir show tremendous range in their singing, the assorted instruments are well-played, and I can almost imagine myself sitting in a centuries-old cathedral, enjoying the music and how it rings throughout the cathedral.

Buy it. You won't be disappointed.

Profound sublimity.......2006-02-27

This album offers music that is profoundly moving and sumbline. It takes the listener onto an inner journal of extraordinary emotional depths and heights

Beautiful music.......2006-01-18

The first song I've heard on this CD is "Miserere Mei..." and I loved it the first minute. I've heard it from a friend who likes classical, and I would've never bought this on my own.

All other versions of these songs I've heard since don't compare to the versions on this CD. Maybe because it was my first listen, maybe they're just good.

Average customer rating: Ethereal Album Great Music, Fine Performances Music for Inner Peace Indeed! Too much choral can tire, but it's still good. Very relaxing!

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Tracks:

1. Miserere
2. Agnus Dei Opus 11
3. Crucifixus (8-Part)
4. The Lamb
5. Christe adoramus te
6. Kyrie
7. If Ye Love Me
8. Totus Tuus, Op.60
9. Locus Iste
10. When David heard - (Anthem)
11. Iustorum animae, 5vv
12. Salvator mundi (Cantiones sacrae 1575)
13. Agnus Dei
14. Ave Maria - (4vv)
15. Salve Regina
16. Libera nos, salva nos 1 - antiphon:7vv

Amazon.com

This new release is somewhat mistitled: while most of the pieces are, in fact, from the Renaissance (or early Baroque), there are works here also by Samuel Barber, Poulenc, John Tavener, Bruckne,r and Gorecki. What they all have in common is their beauty and serenity. Perhaps the CDs subtitle, "Music for Inner Peace," also refers to a type of renaissance, i.e., spiritual re-birth: in which case, they're right on the money. The Sixteen, led by Harry Christophers, is one of the greatest proponents of this sort of choral music in the world, and they don't disappoint here: The Allegri "Miserere," with its wickedly beautiful ascent to high C by soprano soloist, is ravishing; Barber's own arrangement of his "Adagio for strings" for chorus (1967) is polyphony at its most "renaissance" without actually being so, and Gorecki's "Totos Tuus" is otherworldly in it mysticism. The selections by Byrd, Tomkins, et al., are, like the others, impeccably performed. Even an early piece by contemporary composer John Tavener, normally the master of excruciatingly pretentiousness, is lovely. This recording is a gem. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

Ethereal Album.......2005-11-09

I heard this album played on my local PBS station one morning and was in immediate love. It's worth every cent you'll pay for it.

Great Music, Fine Performances.......2005-11-02

First off, the title of this album is misleading. Only one of the tracks stems from the high Renaisance. The rest span from the Reformation period to contemporary. All of them are liturgical, all of a certain calm and meditative style--which could be inferred from the subtitle: "Music for Inner Peace."

But those are quibbles. The voices are excellent. The direction impeccable. The recording technique outstanding. And the program--given its self-immposed limitations of peaceful liturgical pieces--is very good. It was a stroke of programming genius to put the "miserere" of Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652) back to back with the "agnus dei" of Samuel Barber (1910-1981). The untrained ear might think the two pieces contemporary, even from the same composer, but for one trained in this genre of music, the differences of nuance are delightful and exhilirating.

I tend to prefer complete works, and listening through this album I sometimes wished for some livelier moments, but those quibbles aside, I am happy to assign a full five stars to this excellent recording. One of the advantages of a potpourri album such as this is that one gets to hear works from composers who might otherwise escape notice.

Music for Inner Peace Indeed!.......2005-08-29

Though there is somewhat of a sameness to the mood of this beautifully performed and recorded album of choral works that span centuries, that uniformity of message is the creative force for this survey of music by various and varied composers. The works were selected to provide a parcel of time away from the noise outside the spirit, a place for meditation and solace so desperately needed today.

Harry Christophers conducts the inordinately talented Sixteen singers with support where indicated from early instruments ensemble, The Symphony of Harmony And Invention, in an organic, crystalline, seamless range of songs from the Renaissance to the present. Works include Monteverdi, Tallis, Byrd, Palestrina, Allegri and travel through time to Bruckner, Poulenc, Taverner, Gorecki, and Barber. Each work is lovingly rendered in perfect intonation and control, setting aside the 'individual' for the sonorous, anonymous, other-worldly sound only found in the great choral works through the ages. Christophers' tempi tend toward the languorous - the 'Agnus Dei' Samuel Barber set to his famous 'Adagio for Strings' has to be the slowest on record! - but this tendency further creates a sense of spaciousness found in the great old cathedrals of Europe.

For quality of sound and polish of performance this recording has already won awards. For the food for the soul that it provides there can be no greater 'award' than successfully fulfilling its promise as being Music for Inner Peace. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, August 05

Too much choral can tire, but it's still good........2005-05-05

If you enjoy choral music this offering of 16 choral arrangements, conducted by Harry Christophers for DECCA won't offend. Indeed, you might find it rather enjoyable. The selections from various composers capture the essence of the Renaissance-Baroque sound as well as any recording I have head. However, it can, like any steady diet of choral, overwhelm and drag one down as much as inspire. That's not a comment on the quality or selection of songs of this CD as much as an observation about the genre itself. So, this CD has its positives and negatives. One minus is the orchestral accompaniment. When used, "The Symphony of Harmony and Invention" tends to be weaker than I would have preferred when listening to this style of music. Sometimes a nice contrast can actually elevate the tone and texture of the human voice -- and when it's missing, its absence is noticed. You will note for example in Monteverdi's "Christie, Adoramus Te" the orchestration is underplayed - subtle, almost not perceptible. This becomes problematic throughout the recording. Some listeners will like it, some won't. One of the features of this CD that I did enjoy was the synopsis of each song that explains its origin and focus. The notations are brief and to the point, but helpful in guiding the listener along from selection to selection. As for mood, well it's hard to pinpoint exactly: these are hymnals meant for a specific place - not necessarily one's automobile or living room, and hence, a listener may find it difficult finding a place or right time in one's home. If, however, you are in the mood for choral music, and you close your eyes and let your senses flow freely while listening, you might just get carried to that proper place and find "Music for Inner Peace" your cup of tea. The selections are thematic and even in moodiness. I recommend it with the reminder that it is a steady diet of solemn choral. It can be both tedious as elevating.

Very relaxing!.......2005-04-27

I downloaded this album from iTunes, and I'm very glad I did. I was looking for some soothing music to play in the background while I try to grade papers, and this one did the trick. My favorite tracks are #2 and #5 -- both are beautiful songs.

If you like vocal music, particularly chamber-type music, then this CD is for you.

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Inner Voices Denny Jiosa Manufacturer: Blue Orchid ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Jazzberry Pie Among Friends Moving Pictures Body 2 Body ASIN: B0000046HG Release Date: 1996-08-20

Tracks:

1. Groovinonymous
2. Angel's Kiss
3. A Walk In The Park
4. Lights Of The City
5. Time In Times Square
6. Always With You
7. Inner Voices
8. What About Blue
9. Tears Of Mercy
10. Selah
11. The Last Goodbye

Average customer rating: Note to Deborah and Valerie: Leave the singing to the bowls! The best Meditation/Mantra CD I've ever encountered! MY FAVORITE CHAKRA MEDITATION! Only one song without "Voice Chants" Crystal Bowls - I feel great!

CRYSTAL VOICES: The Harmonic Vibrations of Crystal Singing Bowls Deborah Van Dyke , and Crystal Voices Manufacturer: Crystal Voices ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Healing | New Age | Styles | Music Relaxation | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: SOUNDS OF LIGHT: The Pure Tones of Crystal Singing Bowls Travelling the Sacred Sound Current: Divine Chants & Sacred Tones for Healing & Meditation Journey To Wholeness - Singing Crystal Bowls for Healing and Wholeness Seven Metals Singing Bowls of Tibet Chords of the Cosmos: Harmonies of the Zodiac with Crystal Bowls for Chakra Balancing, Meditation & The Healing Arts ASIN: B00000G1SN Release Date: 1996-10-01

Tracks:

1. Echos of Angels
2. The Sound Harmonics of Crystal Singing Bowls
3. Chakra Meditation
4. Sanctuary
5. Earth Chant
6. Angel Mantrum

Album Description

The top-selling, original, definitive Crystal Bowl CD by Crystal Bowl pioneers CRYSTAL VOICES (Deborah Van Dyke & Valerie Farnsworth) DR. WAYNE DYER calls it "A beautiful, soul-full CD".

It includes a sixteen minute "GUIDED CHAKRA MEDITATION" - A powerful healing tool which provides a vibrational "tune-up" to balance the chakras, and "SANCTUARY" - A deeply relaxing, soft symphony of crystal bowls and windchimes to the background of a gentle mountain brook. This harmony of singing bowls and voice toning creates a sanctuary of sound for deep relaxation and meditation....the sound waves produced by these pure quartz crystal bowls provide an inner body sound massage....releasing tension and stree held in the physical body, calming the mind and centering one's focus. These sacred sounds have a profound effect on the body, mind and spirit....their alphawave tones are an effective vehicle for shifting our awareness, accessing our creative imagination and restoring inner harmony.

If you like CRYSTAL VOICES, you may also be interested in checking out the newest sound healing tools offered by Deborah Van Dyke in her new book and companion CD "TRAVELLING THE SACRED SOUND CURRENT" (also available through Amazon.com) The book provides an extensive gathering of spiritual wisdom that explores the use of sound as a vibrational tool for self healing, sacred creation and higher consciousness. Includes sound exercises for inner attunement through voice & breath, toning of vowels, mantras & chants, harmonic overtones, a guide for the use of crystal singing bowls and ancient Peruvian Whistling Vessels as instruments for expanding awareness, healing and transformation. An energy-shifting, soul-enriching experience. The CD is a treasure of timeless, sacred chants and mantras, along with crystal bowls, drums, didjeridoo & nature sounds for a deep journey with sacred sound. For detailed information search Amazon.com for 'TRAVELLING THE SACRED SOUND CURRENT'under "! BOOKS" and "MUSIC".

Customer Reviews:

Note to Deborah and Valerie: Leave the singing to the bowls!.......2006-11-22

The worst thing about this cd is that the women who play the bowls, decided they could write music and sing. So what we end up with are half the tracks ruined by this annoying repetitive "melody" - pretty much the same one, over and over - and vocalizations taht are more annoying than relaxing or uplifting.

There are two good tracks here, track 4, which is almost 16 minutes, and is pure bowls with a running stream sound which is very relaxing. Then there is track 1, which is pure bowls. But Track 2 is not music at all but rather one of the women talking about the bowls. Then, track 3 is a guided meditation. Way too much talking and not enough singing bowls. As a meditation it's okay, I guess, but there are better cd's for guided meditations if that's what you're after. The rest of the tracks are marred by the crappy vocalizations.

On a positive note, I have one of the Crystal Voices other cd's, "Sounds of Light", which is excellent - all bowls, no singing, and no talking.

WARNING: If you are expecting nice bell or chime sounds, like wind chimes, you may not like this. The crystal bowls create a deep resonating sound, sort of a cross between a buzz and a hum with overtones of the sound going on for a long time, where you may see it as a background "noise". Some people are not going to like this. For me it can be annoying at times, but most of the time I find it relaxing. I do believe there is something scientifically relaxing and spiritual about these sounds and I would like to see some research being done on the effects of these sounds, and Tibetan Bowls sounds as well.

Bottom line: Buy "Sounds of Light" instead.

The best Meditation/Mantra CD I've ever encountered!.......2005-08-20

I would give it a 10 starts if I can! I suffered from tremendous anxiety and insomnia for months and when I listen to this CD for the first time, it helped me quiet down the noises in my head to tranquility. I'm glad that a Reverend in my Church of Religeous Science played this CD at a mid-week service meditation. A gem!

MY FAVORITE CHAKRA MEDITATION!.......2004-08-06

OK I am writing to set the record straight here. The reviewer who wrote saying this CD does not focus on crystal bowls is leading you astray. This Crystal Voices CD is entirely composed of crystal bowl tones - every track has them. There is an incredible Chakra Meditation that guides the listener from the root chakra up to the crown while playing the chakra-tuned crystal bowl appropriate to each energy center. A lovely, soothing voice offers minimal prompts at the beginning of each chakra so that you know when to shift your focus to the next centre. It is not distracting in the least, very helpful and the voice has a clarity to it that really helps me stay focused. Then you are left to work with the solo sounds of the crystal bowl for that chakra before preceeding to the next one. This meditation is about 16 minutes and there are no voice chants on it! It provides an extremely effective tune-up for your energy system and I like it because it doesn't take too long - who can't find 16 minutes? Next there is Sanctuary, another 16 minute track with absolutely nothing but beautiful, melodic crystal bowls, windchimes and the gentle sounds of a mountain brook in the background. Between those two tracks you have over 30 minutes without any voice chants. There are three other tracks on the CD totalling about 15 minutes that are a combination of crystal bowls with soft, vocal toning in the background. Not chants as in words, just melodic tones which I find very angelic.

Everyone I have ever played this CD loves it, so if you are looking for a crystal healing CD with an excellent guided meditation, calm your mind, you HAVE found it! If you are looking for a crystal bowl CD that has only crystal bowl sounds and no meditation, then try Chords of the Cosmos or Sounds of Light, both most highly recommended.

Only one song without "Voice Chants".......2004-02-09

I had thought I was buying a CD focusing on Crystal Singing Bowls. Not true. This is mostly a cd of voice chants. The Sanctuary song, which is the ONLY song without voice on the whole CD is truly wonderful. And I may be glad I bought this CD if only for that song. The others could be good, if there were some break or variation in the chanting from time to time. But I started feeling like I was subject to a new type of Chinese water torture. The longer the songs went on, the more aggravated and stressed out I got. I will listen to Sanctuary over and over, but once more than was enough for Angel Mantrum.

Crystal Bowls - I feel great!.......2003-12-31

As someone who is very new to meditation, I first started doing some research on the internet. It led me to this CD of the Crystal Bowls. At first when I listened to the meditation and guided meditation I was not sure anything was working right (I sort of expected to float out of my chair or something like that). But I stuck with it and started to notice my body was in fact responding and giving me clues along the way. After the third time I did the guided mediataion, at the end I felt my body melt together, a feeling of being just one entity with deep relaxation. I moved on to the chant and stream tracs and found myself enchanted and floating along. It was great, but if your new like me give it a little time. You dont know what to expect or how you will respond. I feel terrific and use this CD almost every day now.

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Voices of the Heart: Choral Chants of Devotion Manufacturer: Inner Harmony Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000HFVPAM

Product Description

Tracks: Heart of the Mother Allelujah We Praise Our Father Shores of Forever Peace Be To You Song Universal Prayer of the Heart

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Inner Voices: Soothing Music for the Soul Manufacturer: Spj Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Allegri | Allegri, Gregorio | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Holst | Holst, Gustav | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mahler | Mahler, Gustav | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rachmaninov | Rachmaninov, Sergei | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sacred & Religious | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | ( S ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Easy Listening | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Opera & Vocal | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: If...: Music of Inspiration and Aspiration Work Out: Music of Energy and Power Into Great Silence (Two-Disc Set) ASIN: B00005Y9WQ Release Date: 1998-07-28

Average customer rating: I can listen to this one year-round The peace, the joy, the fun of Christmas This is an irresistable collection of great vocal harmony! Angelic, Festive, Fun Christmas Music One of my 3 favorite Christmas albums of all time...

Christmas Harmony Inner Voices Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Pop Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1990-1999 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Pop Vocal | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music ASIN: B0000032LV Release Date: 1990-08-15

Tracks:

1. Sleep In Heavenly Peace (Silent Night)
2. Caroling Caroling
3. Merry Christmas Baby
4. White Christmas
5. Cherry Tree Carol
6. Once Upon A Christmastime
7. Fum Fum Fum
8. I Wonder As I Wander
9. Some Children See Him
10. The Angels Sang
11. Ave Maria
12. Balulalow
13. Child Medley: A. What You Gonna Call your Pretty Little Baby/B. A Child Is Born
14. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
15. Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
16. Sweet Little Baby

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I can listen to this one year-round.......2004-11-25

This is, without a doubt, the best Christmas CD in my collection. I listen to it over and over at Christmastime, always hearing some new interesting harmony. I even pull it out periodically for a fix during the year! Some of the songs - "White Christmas" and "Some Children See Him" come to mind - have even brought tears to my eyes, because they are so beautifully done. I can't say enough good things about this CD!

The peace, the joy, the fun of Christmas.......2004-11-14

You must understand that I love Christmas; I love music; and I really love Christmas music. This is my favorite Christmas cd of all time. It takes you from the contemplative mood of I Wonder as I Wander to the smooth, jazzy and sexy sounds of Merry Christmas Baby, to the poignant reminder that no one race, color or type of person has the exclusive love of God as they sing of children all over the world seeing the Christ child in their image. This is all done with flawless and tight harmonies. As I hear people of much lesser talent achieve fortune and fame, I wonder, "why don't these women make a bizillion dollars?"

This is an irresistable collection of great vocal harmony!.......1998-12-10

Christmas Harmony is a wonderful CD, with a great range of pieces, from traditional carols to jazz arrangements. The quality of the vocal work by these four women (with a little help from Al Jarreau on the incredible "Cherry Tree Carol") is outstanding and will impress the experienced vocalist; but it is also a collection of pieces that are great fun for the average listener. Morgan Ames' arrangements are so tight and the singing is so clean-- you can't help but stop what you are doing and listen to the entire CD.

Angelic, Festive, Fun Christmas Music.......1998-12-04

I purchased this album a few years ago as a cassette. I am a lover of Christmas music and this is my favorite. I have literally worn out my first copy and came to Amazon to buy it in CD format. This album rocks, sooths and inspires. If you love to hear beautiful voices, this album is put together with surprising combinations of arrangements that will keep you humming throughout the season.

One of my 3 favorite Christmas albums of all time..........1998-12-02

This is a phenomenal recording, especially for fans of sophisticated vocal harmonies. If you like NY Voices or Manhattan Transfer, give these ladies a try -- you won't regret it. The selections are broad-ranging, the arrangements are wonderful, and the voices simply superb. I picked this CD up as an impulse purchase, and I continue to search for other titles by the group, but in vain! Too bad, because this album leaves me wanting more.

Average customer rating: Fine reissue of a classic set

Purcell: Theatre Music Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Hogwood, Christopher | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Purcell, Henry | M to P | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Odes | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Cantatas for Solo Countertenor Purcell: The Fairy Queen Purcell: Songs & Airs / Argenta, North, Boothby, Nicholson, Toll Monteverdi - Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi / Concerto Köln, Jacobs Lute Music, Vol. 2 ASIN: B0001Y4JHA Release Date: 2004-10-12

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Fine reissue of a classic set.......2006-05-24

Think about the stupidest, most formulaic Hollywood movies you can think of: cheesy action pictures, fluffy, unfunny comedies, big but stiff epics. Now imagine that one of the greatest living composers was working in Hollywood, turning out astonishing, hauntingly beautiful and stirring musical scores for these throwaway movies. That's what you get with this set: music Henry Purcell composed for some two dozen often utterly forgettable plays (trust me--I've read a number of them!) Occasionally, when he teams up with a playwright worthy of his stature, such as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, or William Congreve, the results are even better, but for the most part you can enjoy the music here without knowing anything about the original plays.

This set originally appeared as separate LPs in the 70s and 80s, and has been long out of print. That's a pity, since Purcell spent a good deal of his short professional life in the theatre, either writing the incidental music contained on these CDs, or the music for his larger works, the semi-operas (King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and the like). Almost all of these works are enjoyable gems; certainly, they represent a pinnacle of English 17th century music. Purcell had a genius for spinning musical gold out of the most leaden lyrics (check out his Odes and Welcome Songs on Hyperion if you don't believe me), and he does the same with the song texts in these plays.

Hogwood and the AAM offer clean, listenable performances, and the sound on these old analog discs has been cleaned up and brightened--although they were pretty good, even in the late 70s. As with most Hogwood, emotional extremes are kept to a minimum, so the "otherworldly" nature of late 17th century music, so often emphasised in more recent Baroque performances, doesn't come across here. It would be interesting to see what a group like The King's Consort would do with this music, but this set fills the major gap in the Purcell canon quite nicely.

My only beef with the reissue, as with many reissues, is that the liner notes are rather thin for a 6-cd set--the lyrics to the songs, for example, are especially missed. Still, it's a worthwhile set, and a must for fans of Purcell, English Baroque music, or anyone who just wants to experience a taste of the last days of the Restoration stage.

Average customer rating: A Brilliant New Symphonist? Lush String Sound of Warsaw Phil Showcased Highly recommended! Virtuoso showpiece Warsaw Phil soars

The World Famous Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra James Forger , John Carbon , John Anthony Lennon , William Thomas McKinley , Robert Black , and Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra Manufacturer: Master Musicians Col ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Saxophone | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000009JZL Release Date: 1995-12-13

Customer Reviews:

A Brilliant New Symphonist?.......2004-02-27

I'm addressing the Carbon Symphony on this CD: Inner Voices, a three-movement tone poem in the mold of early Lutoslawski (but still speaking with an original voice). Those not aquainted with the late conductor/pianist Robert Black's work need to hear this recording. The sax piece is enjoyable as well. McKinley a bit too hackneyed for my taste, but well executed. Warsaw Phil rocks!

Lush String Sound of Warsaw Phil Showcased.......2003-07-29

The most rewarding thing about this recording is the amazing sound of the Warsaw Phil. They are just about the best string players alive, and the entire orchestra is a marvel. I bought the CD because I got turned on to John Carbon's music by purchasing the "Music of John Carbon" CD (also on MMC) and wanted to hear more. The "Inner Voices" symphony on this recording is a moving and exciting work that all lovers of new music should hear. The sound is excellent.

Highly recommended!.......2002-09-15

This is a great cd by a wonderful orchestra. The string section is unbelievable. John Carbon's symphonic writing is awesome and McKinley's Symphony is one of his finest pieces. Well worth owning. A keeper.

Virtuoso showpiece.......2002-05-01

The Carbon Inner voices is a virtuoso showpiece for orchestra. This is a wonderful posthumous example of the work of the late conductor Robert Black. Carbon is known for his orchestration and this piece is exceptional. The Lennon work is also worth hearing--McKinley's Symphony is fun in a Vaughan Williamsesque kind of way.

Warsaw Phil soars.......2002-03-01

I wish everyone could hear this extraordinary orchestra. They are not only a legend, but a treasure of Poland. These compositions are all good and fun to listen to.

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