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Biggest Bundle of Them All + Zigzag

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by: Original Soundtrack

Release Date March 20, 2001

CD-Charts Position 2

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Hogwood conducts Handel Oratorios

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by: The Academy of Ancient Music Christopher Hogwood

Release Date June 13, 2005

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Handel: Athalia

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by: Christopher Hogwood, Joan Sutherland, Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Aled Jones, George Frideric Handel

Release Date September 22, 2003
It won the Gramophone choral award in 1987 but the star of this recording is the sublime and truly heavenly singing of Emma Kirby. The recording is a well balanced whole of exquiste moments. Sutherland's slightly deep toned color (a touch of mezzo-soprano color) and her slight vibrato technique make a wonderful counterpart of the evil queen contrasted to the group of the righteous. The choral singing is sublime, clear, direct and vibrant. This is must have for any ,not only for Handelians.

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Music for a Civil Wedding

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by: Various Composers

Release Date October 01, 1999
This is a wonderful album, musically. The sound is clear, the choices superb.
BUT - and it is a big but - if you are planning to use tracks from this album for your wedding there is a potential for gross confusion because the digital index is for a Maria Callas album. So be warned, and make sure that whoever is in charge of ensuring that the right track is played at the right time has their wits about them.

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Handel: Jeptha

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by: Lynne Dawson Ruth Holton Anne Sofie Otter Michael Chance Nigel Robson Stephen Varcoe The Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner

Release Date June 16, 2008
This is a wonderful album, musically. The sound is clear, the choices superb.
BUT - and it is a big but - if you are planning to use tracks from this album for your wedding there is a potential for gross confusion because the digital index is for a Maria Callas album. So be warned, and make sure that whoever is in charge of ensuring that the right track is played at the right time has their wits about them.

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Handel: Oratorios

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by: John Eliot Gardiner

Release Date September 19, 2005
This is a wonderful album, musically. The sound is clear, the choices superb.
BUT - and it is a big but - if you are planning to use tracks from this album for your wedding there is a potential for gross confusion because the digital index is for a Maria Callas album. So be warned, and make sure that whoever is in charge of ensuring that the right track is played at the right time has their wits about them.

CD-Charts Position 7
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The Jazz Album

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by: Thomas Quasthoff Till Brönner

Release Date May 14, 2007
Normally I don't have much time for classification of music beyond good/bad or interesting/dull but since DGG have chose to promote this as "The Jazz Album" it beomes an issue.

If only they had called it "The Ballad Album" they would have had an unqualified success on their hands. Thomas Quasthoff is well-known and highly regarded in the classical field for his innate musicality and beautiful baritone voice. With subtle and understated singing he adapts effortlessly to songs described as popular but which in many cases are as much works of art as classical songs. It's all but impossible to detect that English isn't his first language and he sounds utterly at home here, especially the slower numbers, but is less successful in up-tempo ... Read More:

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Madness of King George

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by: George Fenton

Release Date January 24, 1995
Normally I don't have much time for classification of music beyond good/bad or interesting/dull but since DGG have chose to promote this as "The Jazz Album" it beomes an issue.

If only they had called it "The Ballad Album" they would have had an unqualified success on their hands. Thomas Quasthoff is well-known and highly regarded in the classical field for his innate musicality and beautiful baritone voice. With subtle and understated singing he adapts effortlessly to songs described as popular but which in many cases are as much works of art as classical songs. It's all but impossible to detect that English isn't his first language and he sounds utterly at home here, especially the slower numbers, but is less successful in up-tempo ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 9
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Madness of King George [CASSETTE]

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by: George Fenton

Release Date January 24, 1995
Normally I don't have much time for classification of music beyond good/bad or interesting/dull but since DGG have chose to promote this as "The Jazz Album" it beomes an issue.

If only they had called it "The Ballad Album" they would have had an unqualified success on their hands. Thomas Quasthoff is well-known and highly regarded in the classical field for his innate musicality and beautiful baritone voice. With subtle and understated singing he adapts effortlessly to songs described as popular but which in many cases are as much works of art as classical songs. It's all but impossible to detect that English isn't his first language and he sounds utterly at home here, especially the slower numbers, but is less successful in up-tempo ... Read More:

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Words to Say

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by: Shirk Circus

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Normally I don't have much time for classification of music beyond good/bad or interesting/dull but since DGG have chose to promote this as "The Jazz Album" it beomes an issue.

If only they had called it "The Ballad Album" they would have had an unqualified success on their hands. Thomas Quasthoff is well-known and highly regarded in the classical field for his innate musicality and beautiful baritone voice. With subtle and understated singing he adapts effortlessly to songs described as popular but which in many cases are as much works of art as classical songs. It's all but impossible to detect that English isn't his first language and he sounds utterly at home here, especially the slower numbers, but is less successful in up-tempo ... Read More: