Customer Reviews
misleading blurb - By: S. Livesey, 22 Sep 2008 
whoever wrote the 'whats on this cd' blurb mislead me to buy this item - I needed the WHOLE of the Messiah AND THE WHOLE of Faure's Requiem & reading this blurb you think you have it - but guess what - there are only extracts - the titles given are just for the whole work - not the individual piece of music - so I cannot learn the pieces for two concerts I am performingin before Christmas off this - very misleading. Sorry - but it is not the only album Ill ever need.
Great Album - By: L. Douglas, 22 Sep 2008 
Happy with CD as it is mainly full of stuff I know & as it says, it is the only Choral Album I'll ever need.
What a brilliant idea! - By: Four Violets, 02 Feb 2008 I've always enjoyed choral music but never really been sure what it was I was listening to, apart from the really well known tunes, some of which, shamefully, I recognised from adverts or films. Many well known ones are included here of course, such as "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana, the "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves", the "March of the Toreadors" from Carmen; "Ode to Joy", "Zadok the Priest" & of course chunks of "The Messiah".
This double CD with well over 2 hours of music & 33 samples is the perfect way to discover (and put a name to!) other beautiful pieces of music. I was particularly pleased to hear Allegri's "Miserere" which has always sent goose bumps up & down my spine, & the "Humming Chorus" from Madame Butterfly.
I think its incredible value for money with some of the tracks being almost ten minutes long. I'm going to use it as a jumping off place to explore further the music of the composers of my favourite tracks.
