CD-Charts Position 1

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Ying Huang - Opera Recital

by: London Symphony Orchestra

Release Date January 06, 1997

CD-Charts Position 2
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Blackford: Mirror of Perfection

from: Sony Classical

Release Date March 15, 1999
Richard Blackford's sensitivity in setting St Francis's words to music is possibly unparalleled. This is music so well crafted that you don't hear it, you feel it. None of the six Canticles is long but each is intensely beautiful and this is a piece that deserves to be better known. Mirror of Perfection seems both modern and ancient and is full of lilting melodies that echo St Francis's feelings. Or, to put it another way, this is one of the greatest pieces of choral music of the 20th Century.

CD-Charts Position 3
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Haydn - L'Isola Disabitata; Arianna a Naxos

from: Arabesque

Release Date February 01, 1999
Richard Blackford's sensitivity in setting St Francis's words to music is possibly unparalleled. This is music so well crafted that you don't hear it, you feel it. None of the six Canticles is long but each is intensely beautiful and this is a piece that deserves to be better known. Mirror of Perfection seems both modern and ancient and is full of lilting melodies that echo St Francis's feelings. Or, to put it another way, this is one of the greatest pieces of choral music of the 20th Century.

CD-Charts Position 4
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Merry Christmas from Vienna

by: Michael Bolton, Placido Domingo, Ying Huang

Release Date June 05, 2007
Richard Blackford's sensitivity in setting St Francis's words to music is possibly unparalleled. This is music so well crafted that you don't hear it, you feel it. None of the six Canticles is long but each is intensely beautiful and this is a piece that deserves to be better known. Mirror of Perfection seems both modern and ancient and is full of lilting melodies that echo St Francis's feelings. Or, to put it another way, this is one of the greatest pieces of choral music of the 20th Century.

CD-Charts Position 5
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Bitter Love

by: Tan Dun, Ying Huang

Release Date August 17, 1999
Richard Blackford's sensitivity in setting St Francis's words to music is possibly unparalleled. This is music so well crafted that you don't hear it, you feel it. None of the six Canticles is long but each is intensely beautiful and this is a piece that deserves to be better known. Mirror of Perfection seems both modern and ancient and is full of lilting melodies that echo St Francis's feelings. Or, to put it another way, this is one of the greatest pieces of choral music of the 20th Century.

CD-Charts Position 6
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Merry Christmas from Vienna [CASSETTE]

by: Placido Domingo, Ying Huang, Michael Bolton

Release Date September 09, 1997
Richard Blackford's sensitivity in setting St Francis's words to music is possibly unparalleled. This is music so well crafted that you don't hear it, you feel it. None of the six Canticles is long but each is intensely beautiful and this is a piece that deserves to be better known. Mirror of Perfection seems both modern and ancient and is full of lilting melodies that echo St Francis's feelings. Or, to put it another way, this is one of the greatest pieces of choral music of the 20th Century.

CD-Charts Position 7
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Danielpour - Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus

by: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Perspectives Ensemble

Release Date June 11, 2001
Richard Blackford's sensitivity in setting St Francis's words to music is possibly unparalleled. This is music so well crafted that you don't hear it, you feel it. None of the six Canticles is long but each is intensely beautiful and this is a piece that deserves to be better known. Mirror of Perfection seems both modern and ancient and is full of lilting melodies that echo St Francis's feelings. Or, to put it another way, this is one of the greatest pieces of choral music of the 20th Century.

CD-Charts Position 8
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly

from: Sony Classical

Release Date February 01, 1997
Richard Blackford's sensitivity in setting St Francis's words to music is possibly unparalleled. This is music so well crafted that you don't hear it, you feel it. None of the six Canticles is long but each is intensely beautiful and this is a piece that deserves to be better known. Mirror of Perfection seems both modern and ancient and is full of lilting melodies that echo St Francis's feelings. Or, to put it another way, this is one of the greatest pieces of choral music of the 20th Century.

CD-Charts Position 9
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Marcelo Alvarez - Bel Canto

from: Unknown Label

Release Date November 02, 1998
Marcelo Alvarez is the Placido Domingo of this generation. Anyone who considers themselves an opera lover (and anyone who wants to get into opera) should own this album. It is a classic.

CD-Charts Position 10
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Tasting Loneliness for the First Time

by: Huang Hong-Ying

Release Date March 04, 2003
Marcelo Alvarez is the Placido Domingo of this generation. Anyone who considers themselves an opera lover (and anyone who wants to get into opera) should own this album. It is a classic.