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Pride of Wales: Best of the Welsh Guards

by: Welsh Guards Band

Release Date May 22, 2006

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Land of My Fathers

by: Welsh Guards Band

Release Date July 04, 1995

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The Music of the Welsh Guards

by: Band of the Welsh Guards

Release Date December 05, 2008

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Y Caneuon Cynnar: the Early Recordings 1940-1941

from: Sain

Release Date October 17, 1995

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Sing The Songs Of Our Homeland

by: The London Welsh Male Voice Choir, The Band Of The Welsh Guards

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German Welsh Rhapsody

by: Band Of The Welsh Guards

Release Date April 30, 2007

CD-Charts Position 7
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Music from the Changing of the Guards

by: The Band Of The Welsh Guards

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This cd has a well balanced selection of tracks, featuring both well known, and obscure marches, with also some slower pieces. All given excellent interpretation by the Band of the Welsh Guards. Another good disc from 'bandleader'.

CD-Charts Position 8
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The World of Stokowski

by: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Release Date February 26, 2001
This collection focuses on his work for Decca in the 1960's & 70's, when the emphasis was on show-pieces, hence the rowdy 1812 with extra effects, including a choir! Some pieces (Pictures & Firebird Suite) are only represented by excerpts, and some of the louder passages suffer from slight distortion. However, as an intro to this legendary conductor, an indespensible collection.

CD-Charts Position 9
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Stokowski - The Russian Concert

by: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Release Date July 09, 2001
Like Bernstein, Celibidache or Svetlanov, Stokowski can be either a nightmare (Mahler 2nd RCA for example) or awe-inspiring experience (Mahler 2nd BBC Legend). These stereo live recordings, made in 1969 at Albert Hall shortly before the famous DECCA Phase 4 studio recording of the similar program, certainly belong to the latter. I bought this cd immediately after listening to the most impressive performance of Polovtsian Dance with Choir on BBC Radio 3, but it came with even more impressive recording of Poem of Ecstasy and 1812 Overture, plus absolutely magnificent performance of Stokowski's own arrangement of Night on bare mousntain and gorgeous string playing of Lyadov's Russian Falk Songs.

Both 1812 and Ecstacy are played as ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 10
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The Band of the Welsh Guards: Directed By Captain Andrew Harris [CASSETTE]

by: Welsh Guards Band

Release Date February 01, 1992
Like Bernstein, Celibidache or Svetlanov, Stokowski can be either a nightmare (Mahler 2nd RCA for example) or awe-inspiring experience (Mahler 2nd BBC Legend). These stereo live recordings, made in 1969 at Albert Hall shortly before the famous DECCA Phase 4 studio recording of the similar program, certainly belong to the latter. I bought this cd immediately after listening to the most impressive performance of Polovtsian Dance with Choir on BBC Radio 3, but it came with even more impressive recording of Poem of Ecstasy and 1812 Overture, plus absolutely magnificent performance of Stokowski's own arrangement of Night on bare mousntain and gorgeous string playing of Lyadov's Russian Falk Songs.

Both 1812 and Ecstacy are played as ... Read More: