Blow the Wind Southerly

Product Description:
Few, If Any, Would Dispute the Description of Kathleen Ferrier as the Greatest Lyric Contralto England Has Ever Produced. To Update the Words of her Friend and Singing Colleague, Soprano Isobel Baillie, 'fifty Years after her Death on Eight October 1953, the Very Inflection in the Mention of her Name is Invariably Tinged with a Deep and Genuine Affection and More Than a Hint of Sadness'. She Began to Make a Name for Herself in 1942 When She Moved Down to London from Carlisle. Not Only Did She Continue her Busy Schedule of Wartime Recital Tours for Cema (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts), but also to Broaden her Repertoire to Include Handel's Messiah, the Bach Passions and B Minor Mass, Elgar's Oratorios.

Blow the Wind Southerly,Ferrier,Proper Introduction,Classical,Classical Artists,Classical Vocals

Average customer rating: Very Enjoyable for all music fans Absolutely Amazing! Two CDs packed with the world's most beautiful classical music...

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Customer Reviews:

Very Enjoyable for all music fans.......2006-03-02

This is very good collection of music that brings to life a wide variety of music that is both old and contemporary. The selections vary from composers, historical and famous such as Pavarotti and Puccini to today's James Horner (Titanic, A Beauituful Mind) and John Williams (Star Wars, Sabrina, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan).

If you enjoy the sounds of Sarah Brightman, Charlotte Church, Enya, Kate Bush, Andrea Bocelli, and various theatre music (Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats), then you will find this collection worthy of your appreciation.

I have often wondered why classical music radio channels do not play modern composers (i.e., Horner, Willams), and am glad that this album gives them credit that they deserve. There is so many good compositions being created every day that only appear to have a voice on the big screen, which is unfortunate.

Track 11, composed by The Doors, and is a nice version, indeed. I also enjoy the Bond players giving a new twist to some old favourites.

Ciao,
Neil

Absolutely Amazing! Two CDs packed with the world's most beautiful classical music..........2005-11-08

First, let me begin by saying that I am by no means an expert in classical music, but have grown to appreciate it immensely in the past year. I can say wholeheartedly that this is the most beautiful compilation of music I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. It's simple irresistible. There are few words to describe how emotional it is to hear Pavarotti sing "II Canto", or Placido Domingo belt out "Questa o quella". You just get numb with joy!! I have NO idea what they are saying but a translation not necessary. The entire collection (TWo jammed-packed CDs) is phenomenal (excluding the selections from "Bond" which I found to be particularly annoying and not at all "classical" in the true sense of the word). There is something here for everyone, regardless of your personal musical tastes or tolerances.

A guaranteed hit -- Don't miss this one.

CD One

Andrea Bocelli "En Aranjuez con tu amor"
Bryn Terfel - "Granada"
Bond - "Viva" ( not my favorite, sounds almost disco-ish)
Hayley Westenra - "Pokarekare Ana"
Luciano Pavarotti - "Una Mattina"
Katherine jenkins - "Time To Say Goodbye" (a heart stopper - so beautiful!)
Duel - "Canon" (lovely!)
Janine Jansen - "Allegro from 'Spring'"
Andreas Scholl - "Ombra mai fu"
Nigel Kennedy - "The Unknown Soldier"
Kiri Te Kanawa - "Nuns' Chorus"
Nelson Freire - "Chopin Etude No. 1 op. 25
Julian Lloyd Webber - "Flight of the Bumble-bee"
James Horner - "For the Love of a Princess
Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard "Now We Are Free"
Renee Fleming - "Mesicku na nebi hlubokem"
Russell Watson - "Amore e Musica"

CD TWO

Luciano Pavarotti - "II Canto" (I MUST see him sing this in person!!)
Placido Domingo - "Questa o quello" (I never tire of hearing this)
Andrea Bocelli & Bryn Terfel - "the Pearl Fisher's Duet"
Jose Carreras - "Funiculi, funicula
Dominc Miller & Kaori Muraji - "Fragile"
Tavener - "Song for Athene"
Josep Calleja - "La donna e mobile"
Jean-Yves Thibaudet - "Gymopedie No. 1"
Juan Diego Florez - "Una furtiva lagrima"
Kathleen Ferrier - "Blow the Wind Southerly"
Angela Gheorghiu - "Ave Maria"
Janine Jansen - "Schindler's List Main Theme"
Bond - "explosive"
Secret Garden - "You Raise Me Up"
Hayley Westenra - "Never Say Goodbye"
The Three Tenors - "Nessun Dorma"

Enjoy!

Cris Cunningham for Amazon.com

Average customer rating: Gift Simple, Sublime

Edition V8 / Blow the Wind Southerly Kathleen Ferrier Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Kathleen Ferrier - Mahler ~ Kindertotenlieder & Gluck ~ Greene ~ Handel ~ Mendelssohn ~ Purcell / Baillie, Moore, B. Walter A Tribute Debussy: La Mer; Elgar: Enigma Variations Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / James, Lewis, Baker, Herincx The History Boys ASIN: B00000E4XK Release Date: 1992-04-01

Tracks:

1. Ma Bonny Lad
2. The Keel Row
3. Blow The Wind Southerly
4. I Have A Bonnet Trimmed With Blue
5. My Boy Willie
6. I Know Where I'm Goin'
7. The Fidgety Bairn - Kathleen Ferrier/John Newmark
8. I Will Walk With My Love
9. Ca' The Yowes - Kathleen Ferrier/John Newmark
10. O Waly, Waly
11. Willow, Willow
12. The Stuttering Lovers
13. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
14. The Fair House Of Joy
15. The Daisies
16. Over The Mountains
17. Have You Seen The But A Whyte Lillie Grow?
18. Ye Banks And Braes
19. Drink To Me Only
20. Down By The Salley Gardens
21. The Lover's Curse

Customer Reviews:

Gift.......2006-11-07

Item received in ample time for presenting, and the receiver of the present seems to be very satisfied with it!

Simple, Sublime.......2005-01-11

I first bought this recording 20 years ago, and it has never lost it's appeal for me. The singing is simple - as suits these simple yet eloquent songs - unmannered, lovely, with that incredible warmth that was intrinsic to everything this great singer recorded. When I am overwrought - as I am from time to time - nothing is as soothing to me as Ferrier singing "O Waly, Waly" or "Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal".

Average customer rating: Awesome voice, exquisite performances It may take you a little time to love her voice

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Tracks:

1. What Is Life To Me Without Thee?
2. Che Puro Ciel
3. Art Thou Troubled?
4. Ombra Mai Fu
5. An Die Musik
6. Der Musensohn
7. Gretchen Am Spinnrade
8. Die Junge Nonne
9. Woe Unto Them
10. O Rest In The Lord
11. Er, Der Herrlichste Von Allen
12. Geistliches Wiegenlied
13. Sapphische Ode
14. Botschaft
15. Like As The Love-Torn Turtle
16. A Soft Day
17. Go Not Happy Day
18. Come You Not From Newcastle
19. The Keel Row
20. Ma Bonny Lad
21. Kitty My Love
22. Blow The Wind Southernly

Tracks:

1. Ye Banks And Braes
2. I Have A Bonnet Trimmed With Blue
3. Down By The Salley Gardens
4. The Stuttering Lovers
5. Drink To Me Only
6. Hark! The Echoing Air
7. Father Of Heaven
8. O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion
9. He Was Despised
10. Have Mercy, Lord On Me
11. Agnus Dei
12. All Is Fulfilled
13. Du Bist Die Ruh' - Bruno Walter
14. Romance - Bruno Walter
15. Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen
16. Ich Atmet' Einen Linden Duft
17. Um Mitternacht

Customer Reviews:

Awesome voice, exquisite performances.......2006-08-27

These two CDs contain a great selection of classical, operatic and folk songs in English, German and Italian by the famous contralto (1912 - 1953). Highlights on the first CD include What Is Life from Orfeo et Euridice, Art Thou Troubled from Rodelina, Woe Unto Them and O Rest In The Lord from Elijah and the traditional song Blow The Wind Southerly.

My personal favorites appear on the second CD. The first is the divine Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes, the Ben Jonson poem, which is a most mystical and transcending listening experience. The buoyant Stuttering Lovers is most catchy and appealing. Both of the aforementioned are sung to the piano accompaniment of pianist Phyllis Spurr.

Backed by the London Philharmonic, Ferrier renders splendid versions of Father Of Heaven from Judas Maccabaeus and O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings To Zion from The Messiah. These are truly awesome, the first one slow and somber, the second joyous and triumphant. Other highlights on this second CD include He Was Despised from The Messiah and All Is Fulfilled from St John Passion by Bach.

The informative CD booklet contains black and white photographs, a short biography in English, French and German, plus complete information on the recording of the tracks: composers, dates, venues, conductors and musicians. Kathleen Ferrier was a unique vocalist who made a magnficent contribution to classical and folk music.

It may take you a little time to love her voice.......2004-08-19

Kathleen Ferrier has one of the most instantly recognizable voices in music. And it's a voice that might take you time to love. As an eight year old I heard her version of Blow the Wind Southerly many times on British radio and intensely disliked it. I wasn't sure if it was a man or a woman, adult or child, such is the nature of her contralto. But over the years, especially hearing Ferrier sing Handel and Mahler, I've come to treasure her recordings alongside Callas, Sutherland, Flagstad and Baker. This two disc set contains performances which are about 45-55 years old. Many favourites are here especially the folk songs and selections from Bach, Handel and Mahler. The sound quality is excellent. The sleeve notes mention that Ferrier's vocal delivery may sound old fashioned to our ears. But her remarkable voice which stirs one's deepest emotions, transcends any thought of quaintness or mannerism. She is, quite simply, the greatest contralto ever. This selection will have you seeking out her other recordings on Amazon.com. And it might also lead you to Virginia Rodrigues, a Brazilian contralto with a superb voice who, like Ferrier, makes everything she sings, her own.

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Average customer rating: Beauty Wonderful. Wayfaring Stranger: Folksongs Surprisingly good Brilliant

Wayfaring Stranger: Folksongs Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Scholl, Andreas | ( S ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Andreas Scholl - English Folksongs & Lute Songs (17th Century) The Best of Andreas Scholl The Voice Andreas Scholl - Kantate Andreas Scholl - Ombra mai fu ~ Handel Arias from Giulio Cesare, Admeto, Radamisto, Rodelinda, Serse, Alcina ASIN: B00005OC0C Release Date: 2001-11-13

Tracks:

1. Wayfaring stranger
2. Down by the Salley Gardens
3. My love is like a red red rose
4. Wild mountain thyme
5. Henry Martin
6. Charming beauty bright
7. I will give my love an apple
8. She moved through the fair
9. Blow the wind southerly
10. Wife of Usher's well
11. I loved a lass
12. Pretty Saro
13. Down in yon forest
14. Barbara Allen
15. Raggle taggle gypsies o
16. Annie Laurie
17. Black is the color of my true love's hair

Amazon.com

The German countertenor Andreas Scholl takes risks on his latest CD, Wayfaring Stranger, and not all of them pay off. It is a recording of 17 English-language folksongs, some of them very well known, such as "Down by the Salley Gardens" and "My love is like a red, red rose." This is not usually a repertory tackled by classically trained singers, who can sound prissy, but Scholl's clear, plaintive alto, with its rich low notes and gentle top range, is a quite plausible vehicle. "Wild Mountain Thyme" evokes real sadness, while "Barbara Allen" aches with unhappy love. A surprise awaits in the ballad "Henry Martin," as Scholl uses his rough, nondescript baritone to identify the hero. It is rather a jolt. At least, it is good to know his voice has actually broken. In this song, too-feminine endings in the lyric fall clumsily on stressed beats. Scholl does nothing to counter the infelicity; English, of course, is not his mother tongue. In the beautiful title track, which opens the disc, he sings endearingly of a "why-farring straincher." The accompaniments for various combinations of chamber orchestra, lute, dulcimer, and harp tend to be slushy, sentimental, and over-fussy. The bass uncomfortably parallels the tune in "Salley Gardens" and would have won a big red line through it in old-fashioned harmony classes. Still, on the whole, this is a worthwhile disc. Scholl clearly loves the songs he sings with great tenderness, and he deserves credit for his courage even where the experiment fails. --Rick Jones

Customer Reviews:

Beauty.......2006-05-12

This is one of the most beautiful CDs I know: so pure in tone, so haunting in its harmonies. The reservations of some other listeners seem to make this quality a sort of fault, and perhaps it is if you like your ballads gritty; but I find the selections, the arrangements, and Scholl's singing so ravishing that I felt I had to write this review just to urge everyone to try it. Listen to "I Will Give My Love ..." You might feel your heart stop.

Wonderful. .......2006-03-14

This is the perfect CD to listen to one a cold winter's afternoon with a warm cup of tea and a good book. Scholl's voice is so pure and smoothing. The orchestral arrangements are very creative and lush - sort of an English version of Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne. The one down note I would have is eventhough Scholl's voice is very expressive his phrasing can be a little square. I would have liked him to take a bit more liberties with the sentences. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra musical fluidity more than makes up for any of Scholl's rigidity however.
A recommended buy.

Wayfaring Stranger: Folksongs.......2005-10-26

This is a fantastic CD. The countertenor voice of Andreas Scholl gives an entirley new
meaning to traditional folk music. The orchestration is just enough to give a haunting sound to each selection. ' Wayfaring stranger' and 'Wild mountain thyme' are two selections that make the purchasing of the CD worth the pice.

Surprisingly good.......2005-03-05

At first I was suspicious due to the album's sleek marketing and desing. But right from the start I was delighted to hear the lush arrangements of these peculiar songs.

Granted, we do hear quite a lot of strings and even some sound effects that make the music sound dangerously "romantic", or worse, "exotic"...

And yes, the arrangements become very similar to those used by Sarah Brightman, Bocelli and other musical aberrations.... but Scholl's scholarly perfection of voice and delivery save the day. Not only that, but his (limited) potential to characterize the music is in full capacity... especially in the songs where he actually sings in his baritone in a self-contained duet.

Yes, the strings are too warm. And yes, there are parts that could even fit as background music for Disneyworld rides... And yes, it can at times sound cheap and "postcard-ish".........

But, truth be told, sometimes a Coke tastes better than Bordeaux, and sometimes a "Little Debbie" cake hits the spot better than the Sachertorte.

So, if you want to listen to songs that are warm and glowing -albeit effectist-, sung by a first class musician... this album will do the trick.

For those who are new to Scholl, I strongly reccomend his earlier CD's --namely those containing the Handel Arias, the English Lute Songs, and the German Baroque lieder.

As for "Wayfaring Stranger", play close attention to "My Love is a Red Red Rose"... If you've ever felt true love, this is the song to make you cry.

Brilliant.......2005-01-11

Putting this wonderful voice together with an easy-listening style of ochestration was simply a brilliant idea.

This compilation will surely bring this wondrous voice to the attention of a wholly different public to the one which presently adores Andreas, and secondly, it will introduce these folk treasures to an audience at present virtually ignorant of them.

Add this one to your Scholl collection

Average customer rating: Encourage your brooders to set Consummate Artistry!

Down By the Salley Gardens Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Folk | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005MOC9 Release Date: 2001-08-28

Tracks:

1. The Jolly Miller
2. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
3. The Foggy, Foggy Dew
4. The Isle Of Cloy
5. The Trees They Grow So High
6. Died For Love
7. Lovely Mollie
8. I Love My Love
9. the Shooting Of His Dear
10. Down By The Salley Gardens
11. The Old Turn Fire
12. Ye Banks And Braes
13. Barb'ra Ellen
14. Barbara Allen
15. She Moved Thro' The Fair
16. The star Of The County Down
17. Sweet Nightengale
18. Blow The Wind Southerly
19. The British Waterside
20. The Pressgang
21. Little Sir William
22. Six Dukes Went A-Fishin'
23. Sweet Polly Oliver
24. Bold William Taylor
25. Charlie Is My Darling
26. O Waly, Waly

Customer Reviews:

Encourage your brooders to set.......2003-03-08

This album falls gracelessly between two stools: art song and folk song. Listening to it was like being stuck in an endless after-dinner recital when all I really wanted to do was drape the concert notes over my eyes and snooze.

I wanted to be polite. After all, I really loved the albums Benjamin Luxon cut with Bill Crofut, where many of this album's songs also appear, only sung in a very tuneful and endearing manner. I highly recommend their "Dance to Your Daddy," "Two Gentlemen Folk," and "Simple Gifts."

For that matter, I'd recommend this baritone's classical CDs to anyone. He sings a mean Bach.

This album? Well, I'm glad Amazon's two-star rating means 'not for me' instead of 'this recording is so incredibly one-dimensional and boring that I'm going to pipe it into my hen house to encourage the brooders to set.'

I know some people will love listening to Benjamin Luxon sing twenty-six English folk songs in what my untrained ear seemed to think was exactly the same manner, tempo, and volume, accompanied by what sounded like the same tune on the piano for all twenty-six tracks (maybe the pianist got sick after the first track and the album's producers thought no one would notice if they recycled his accompaniment twenty-five times). After all, the previous reviewer gave this album five stars and a very respectful evaluation.

I'm saying if you want to hear Benjamin Luxon sing 'Down by the Salley Gardens,' you will be better off with "Dance to Your Daddy" rather than this CD.

Consummate Artistry!.......2002-02-22

In the mid 1990's, Benjamin Luxon was forced to give up
a major international presence singing opera/oratorio/songs because
of his growing deafness. This wonderful reissue gives us a taste
of what we lost yet is a reminder of his consummate artistry.
Luxon and his accompanist, David Willison, give loving
and sometimes spirited interpretations of a wide crossection
of British Isle traditional and folk songs. Thank you, Chandos,
for this reminder of the excellent gifts that Benjamin Luxon shared with us.

Average customer rating: sounds to make you sleep

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Tracks:

1. Skye Boat Song
2. Early One Morning
3. Blow The Wind Southerly
4. Scarboro' Fair
5. Londonderry Air
6. Trotting To The Fair
7. Drink To Me Only
8. Kathleen Mavoureen
9. Morning Has Broken
10. The Lark In The Clear Air - Skaila Kanga
11. Cherry Ripe
12. Ash Grove
13. David Of The White Rock
14. The Keel Row
15. Ye Banks And Braes
16. Endearing Young Charms
17. Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron
18. My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
19. She Moved Thro' The Fair - Tommy Reilly
20. The Rising Of The Lark

Customer Reviews:

sounds to make you sleep.......2007-05-22

Beautiful relaxing harmonica and harp music. You've got to be a harmonica lover(which I Am) to enjoy this CD. I'm a chromatic harmonica student so this is right up my alley. Tommy Reilly displays wonderful technique and phrasing. If you are having trouble getting to sleep throw this baby on and you'll be having 40 winks in no time.

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Tracks:

1. Ma Belle Marguerite (From Bless The Bride)
2. The Donkey Serenade (From Firefly)
3. I Gave My Love A Cherry
4. Phil The Fluter's Ball
5. Down In The Valley
6. What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?
7. The Hippopotamus Song
8. Muss Ich Den
9. There Is Nothing Like A Dame (From South Pacific)
10. I Will Give My Love An Apple
11. The Ghost's High Noon (From Ruddigore)
12. Yesterday
13. Mad Dogs And Englishmen (From His Excellency)
14. Cease Thy Affections
15. The Keeper Of The Eddystone Light
16. Blow The Wind Southerly
17. The Old Superb (From Songs Of The Sea)

Average customer rating:

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Tracks:

1. Blow The Wind Southerly
2. Down By The Salley Gardens
3. The Keel Row
4. Ma Bonny Lad
5. Ye Banks And Braes
6. I Have A Bonnet Trimmed With Blue
7. The Stuttering Lovers
8. Drink To Me Only
9. Go Not Happy Day
10. Come You Not From Newcastle
11. Kitty My Love
12. An Die Musik Op. 88 No.1
13. Gretchen An Spinnrade
14. Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op.91. No.2
15. Sapphische Ode
16. Botschaft
17. Er, Der Herrlichste Van Allen (Frauenliebe Und Leben)
18. Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen
19. Un Mitternacht
20. What Is Life Without Thee (Orfeo And Euridice)
21. Ombra Mai Fu (Serse)
22. Have Mercy, Lord On Me (St. Matthew Passion)
23. He Was Despised (Messiah)

Album Details

Few, If Any, Would Dispute the Description of Kathleen Ferrier as the Greatest Lyric Contralto England Has Ever Produced. To Update the Words of her Friend and Singing Colleague, Soprano Isobel Baillie, 'fifty Years after her Death on Eight October 1953, the Very Inflection in the Mention of her Name is Invariably Tinged with a Deep and Genuine Affection and More Than a Hint of Sadness'. She Began to Make a Name for Herself in 1942 When She Moved Down to London from Carlisle. Not Only Did She Continue her Busy Schedule of Wartime Recital Tours for Cema (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts), but also to Broaden her Repertoire to Include Handel's Messiah, the Bach Passions and B Minor Mass, Elgar's Oratorios.

Average customer rating: Mélange The most sublime album ever recorded. Ageless Wonder Astounding Truly a Classic

Classic Nana Mouskouri Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Imports | Stores | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Pop | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: At Her Very Best Christmas Album The Classical Nana Nana Mouskouri - Gold: Greatest Hits Ode To Joy ASIN: B00003Q570 Release Date: 1999-11-23

Tracks:

1. L'Amour Gipsy
2. To Foss Afto
3. Sanctus
4. Blow The Wind Southerly
5. Panis Angelicus
6. Schlafe Mein Prinzchen
7. Clair De Lune
8. Barcarolle
9. Ti Ipermako
10. Hymne A La Joie
11. Ou Va La Jeunesse
12. Kyrie
13. Kamia Fora
14. Les Amours D'Automne
15. La Fiancee D'Ecosse
16. Ave Maria
17. Choeur De Murmures
18. La Vergine Degli Angeli

Customer Reviews:

Mélange.......2003-03-08

This CD is a mixture of songs that are "classic" only in a wide sense of that word. Admirer of Nana though I am, and happy though I am to add it to my vast treasure of her songs, I do wonder what prompted the issuance of this strange collection. Many of the selections are religious. Some of them are connected with the Roman Catholic liturgy: two in Spanish from the Missa Criolla, but in reverse order; one Latin "Panis Angelicus" appropriate to the Communion, but again in a strange position (and sung too rapidly). Then there is Beethoven's Ode to Joy from the Ninth Symphony, sung not in the expected German but in French and English. The CD opens with "L'Amour Gypsy" from "La Traviata," sung in French against a chorus from which it is difficult to distinguish Nana's voice. Strangest of all, perhaps, is a charming Scottish love song "Blow the Wind Southerly," attributed to a source called "The Episcopal(ian?) Anthology." Nana's great proficiency in languages is evident throughout this CD, and her singing is fine. However, the collection strikes me as "mix without match" or "mixtum gatherum." Hence the four stars rather than my usual five for anything Nana does.

The most sublime album ever recorded........2002-12-06

I have been collecting Nana Mouskouri CD's for years and have recently discovered many fabulous albums by her on LP (through ebay) which have never been released on CD (but which should be). Nana has, what in my opinion is, the most beautiful voice mankind has ever known. She is also very unique in that she can sing in many different languages perfectly (regardless of how fast or slow the rhythm of the song is). Even though she is Greek, she can sing in English, French, and German with no foreign accent at all. She also sings very beautifully in Spanish and Italian (but these languages are phonetically easy for a Greek, while English, French, and German are not). There are, of course, other wonderful singers who can sing spectacularly well in Spanish and Italian but whose pronunciation of English, French, and German is horrifyingly awful (I won't name them).

In this album, Nana has chosen a wonderful array of arias and sacred songs which she interprets amazingly well. Her voice is just as spectacular as ever. It's amazing how she goes from one language to another so gracefully and flawlessly. This is something very few artists can do. There ARE other artists who can do nice interpretations of SOME of these songs but no one who can do so with ALL of these songs. Most Greek, Italian, and Spanish vocalists cannot sing in French, German, or English (at least not very well). Likewise, most English, French, and German vocalists do very well in their respective languages but poorly with other languages. Nana seems to have no language barriers.

This CD is truly amazing.

Ageless Wonder.......2000-08-03

I have been a fan of Nana's for a long time and I never cease to be amazed by this woman's talent. I never expected that "Classic" would be this wonderful at this stage of her long career. The clarity and strength of her voice continues to shine through. With every passing year I have said to myself "Okay, I'm sure the next album will not be as good" because surely, age will catch up. Nana fans everywhere can delight in knowing that this is not the album in which age catches up to her voice. It is a wonderful Nana album, equal to other Nana albums. I absolutely adore it! Vive Nana!

Astounding.......2000-03-12

Once again, the Diva amazes me! This CD has been on my player since last Thanksgiving. Amazing performances, elegant arrangements. La Mouskouri's voice and interpretations are in "classic" form! This is my 128th Mouskouri album, and the quality of her work just gets better. I highly recommend this to people who've been enjoying her work for years, and it's an ideal introduction to the Classical side of this amazing woman.

Truly a Classic.......2000-02-19

I have nearly 60 Nana Mouskouri CDs in around 10 languages, but I must say that this new release has left me astounded! To have recorded such a credible album at this point in her career will assure old and new fans that Nana Mouskouri is still in top form and should stay that way for some time. On Classic, an album of mostly arias and sacred works, Mouskouri gracefully makes the transition through Greek, French, German, Italian, English, Latin and Spanish all on the same album. Usually her albums are in the same language and marketed to the corresponding countries. Classic is a refreshing change from that. Not that I can think of any significant weak points in Mouskouri's career, but this album should remain as a highlight. (Although I would compare it favorably to the recent Concert For Peace.)

Track Listings:

1. Boccherini: Quintets
2. Brahms: Piano Trio in B No1, Op8; Dvorak: Trio No4
3. Brahms: The 21 Hungarian Dances/The 16 Waltzes
4. Bruckner: Symphonies 7 & 8
5. Celebrated Italian Singers Perform Italian Songs
6. Classical Daydreams
7. Classical Offering
8. Claudia Muzio
9. Complete Aksel Schiøtz Recordings, Vol. 5: Romances by C.E.F. Weyse
10. Complete Aksel Schiotz Recordings, Vol. 4: Hidden Treasure Records

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