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DiscountDelight - Agnus Dei: Music of Inner Harmony
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List Price: $16.98
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Manufacturer: Erato
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0706301463420
Label: Erato
Manufacturer: Erato
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Erato
Release Date: 1997-02-18
Studio: Erato
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Summary: Profound sublimity
Comment: This album offers music that is profoundly moving and sumbline. It takes the listener onto an inner journal of extraordinary emotional depths and heights
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Summary: Beautiful music
Comment: 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.
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Summary: Beautiful beyond words.
Comment: Agnus Dei is the most incredible choral CD I have yet heard. It is other worldly and unspeakably beautiful.
As soon as you hear the first piece, Barber's "Agnus Dei", you will know this CD is a world apart. The atmosphere is so ethereal without overproduction (although the production is clearly excellent). Individual voices are very clear while perfectly fitting together. And the 12 pieces, while from different ages and composers, are also made to fit together very well, making the CD almost seamless.
I'm at a loss to describe it further. Such music as this makes words inadequate. This is a wonderful CD to either listen to carefully, or to use as background or go-to-sleep music.
I can't recommend Agnus Dei strongly enough, even for those who aren't (yet) fans of English choral music.
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Summary: Agnus Dei - Music of Inner Harmony
Comment: I love this CD so much that I have bought 3 of them. This is because twice, when friends have come to dinner and heard the gorgeous choral music, they have wanted to get it for themselves. I have given them my copy twice. I am on my third copy now, and am not going to give this one away. Instead, I will refer them to AMAZON, and suggest that they buy their own. If you love sacred, choral music, you will love this.
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Summary: Extremely Beautiful Music
Comment: First of all, I am not a classical critic, and second of all, I have heard a lot of music in my time and this set takes the cake for the best of class. This music of Samuel Barber preformed by the New Choir of Oxford College exemplifies the title of this CD, Having not purchased the CD and just listening to the sample tracks available, I am sure I have not experienced it all. But, I urge you to buy this CD and to listen to it in it's fullest extent.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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