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Buy Now	Chicago (more) »rank: 1970 by: Various Artists : :The movie version of Kander and Ebb's Chicago was long in the making, but it's well worth the wait. Director Rob Marshall's main change was to turn the classic musical numbers into fantasy sequences, but of course this isn't obvious on CD. Most importantly, the arrangements are bursting with life while being true to the show's spirit, and the casting is simply inspired. Catherine Zeta-Jones actually started her career on the British boards (she was in The Pajama Game and 42nd Street), so her turn as slinky Velma Kelly isn't that surprising; Renée Zellweger as Roxie Hart is more of a ...	Buy Now	American Angels (more) »rank: 5229 from: Harmonia Mundi Fr. : :This, Anonymous 4's final recording, is a break from their usual 'early music' periods and locations; it presents American music, religious in nature, from the 18th and 19th centuries. And it's absolutely beautiful from start to finish. Their normal, exquisite technique and purity here blend to sound the way we imagined the ladies' choir in church meetings in America past might have sounded: sweet, sincere, and with harmonies recognizable yet somehow fresh. Some of the songs begin with the women singing 'fa, so la' exercises, which was called 'shape note' singing because some places taught singing with notes as shapes--circle, rectangle, ...
Buy Now	Pride and Prejudice: The Original Soundtrack from the A&E Special Presentation (more) »rank: 8955 by: Carl Davis, Melvyn Tan, Nicholas Bucknall, Jonathan Barritt, Timothy Brown, Levine Andrade, Nicolas Busch, Joseph Frohlich, Martin Gatt, Rusen Gunes, Michael Harris, Keith Harvey, David Juritz, Peter Lale, Pauline Lowbury : :This, Anonymous 4's final recording, is a break from their usual 'early music' periods and locations; it presents American music, religious in nature, from the 18th and 19th centuries. And it's absolutely beautiful from start to finish. Their normal, exquisite technique and purity here blend to sound the way we imagined the ladies' choir in church meetings in America past might have sounded: sweet, sincere, and with harmonies recognizable yet somehow fresh. Some of the songs begin with the women singing 'fa, so la' exercises, which was called 'shape note' singing because some places taught singing with notes as shapes--circle, rectangle, ...	Buy Now	The Baroque Christmas Album (more) »rank: 6143 from: Archiv Produktion : : This compilation of re-issues, originally recorded in the 1990s and 2001 features music, by Bach, Charpentier, Gabrieli, Schütz, Corelli (the famous beloved 'Pastorale') and Praetorius, all of it beautiful and just right for celebrating a festival of light, hope, worshipful praise, and jubilation. It is performed to perfection by several period vocal and instrumental groups, the latter tuned to various 'authentic' pitches. Some of the pieces are excerpts from longer works, some are arrangements, such as four lovely French Christmas carols in an instrumental version by Charpentier, whose harmonic and contrapuntal complexity makes the simplicity of the melodies all the ...
Buy Now	The Most Relaxing Classical Album In the World Ever, Volume II (more) »rank: 4544 by: Gabriel Faure, Frederic Chopin, Antonio Vivaldi, Gustav Mahler, Claude Debussy, Sir Neville Marriner, Maris Jansons, Lorin Maazel, Sir Adrian Boult, Miklos Rozsa, Riccardo Muti, Stephen Cleobury, Sir John Barbirolli, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Berlin Philharmonic : : This compilation of re-issues, originally recorded in the 1990s and 2001 features music, by Bach, Charpentier, Gabrieli, Schütz, Corelli (the famous beloved 'Pastorale') and Praetorius, all of it beautiful and just right for celebrating a festival of light, hope, worshipful praise, and jubilation. It is performed to perfection by several period vocal and instrumental groups, the latter tuned to various 'authentic' pitches. Some of the pieces are excerpts from longer works, some are arrangements, such as four lovely French Christmas carols in an instrumental version by Charpentier, whose harmonic and contrapuntal complexity makes the simplicity of the melodies all the ...	Buy Now	Broadway, My Way (more) »rank: 7345 by: Linda Eder :Album Description:On the eagerly awaited Broadway My Way, Atlantic recording artist and acclaimed Broadway sensation Linda Eder performs classics including 'On the Street Where You Live' (from My Fair Lady), 'Edelweiss' (from The Sound of Music), 'Don't Rain On My Parade' (from Funny Girl) and 10 other great broadway songs performed in a whole new voice. 2003. :The people who felt betrayed when Linda Eder covered several pop songs on 2002's Gold will be relieved that her follow-up, Broadway My Way, is a return to the Great White Way. As if to prove that she isn't limited to either the songs ...
Buy Now	The Island (more) »rank: 24963 from: Milan Records : :After supplying something known as 'additional music' to many films since the late 1990s, Steve Jablonsky seems to have become the go-to composer for director-producer Michael Bay. Jablonsky's score for Bay's sci-fi thriller The Island shows the influence of its producer, Hans Zimmer. 'The Island Awaits You' sets up the mood, which is oddly muted for a movie directed by explosion-master Bay. Even a track titled 'Mass Vehicular Carnage' is merely ominously low-key, oddly sounding like something by dank trip-hopper Tricky. Elsewhere, the electronic number 'Starkweather' successfully creates a feeling of oppressive tension before integrating elements of the main theme. Unfortunately, ...	Buy Now	Under the Tuscan Sun (more) »rank: 44077 by: Christophe Beck : :After supplying something known as 'additional music' to many films since the late 1990s, Steve Jablonsky seems to have become the go-to composer for director-producer Michael Bay. Jablonsky's score for Bay's sci-fi thriller The Island shows the influence of its producer, Hans Zimmer. 'The Island Awaits You' sets up the mood, which is oddly muted for a movie directed by explosion-master Bay. Even a track titled 'Mass Vehicular Carnage' is merely ominously low-key, oddly sounding like something by dank trip-hopper Tricky. Elsewhere, the electronic number 'Starkweather' successfully creates a feeling of oppressive tension before integrating elements of the main theme. Unfortunately, ...
Buy Now	The Music of St. Paul's Cathedral (more) »rank: 43115 from: Hyperion UK : :After supplying something known as 'additional music' to many films since the late 1990s, Steve Jablonsky seems to have become the go-to composer for director-producer Michael Bay. Jablonsky's score for Bay's sci-fi thriller The Island shows the influence of its producer, Hans Zimmer. 'The Island Awaits You' sets up the mood, which is oddly muted for a movie directed by explosion-master Bay. Even a track titled 'Mass Vehicular Carnage' is merely ominously low-key, oddly sounding like something by dank trip-hopper Tricky. Elsewhere, the electronic number 'Starkweather' successfully creates a feeling of oppressive tension before integrating elements of the main theme. Unfortunately, ...	Buy Now	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (more) »rank: 44017 from: Sony : :The characters of Daniel Handler's popular children's book series spring to life in this playfully macabre screen adaptation from director Brad Silberling. Contemporary scoring master Thomas Newman may launch the musical proceedings with the brief, Disney-esque flourish of 'The Bad Beginning,' but the sound of a needle being brusquely dragged across that record brings us to the composer's true intent: a teasing romp through occasionally dark, rhythmically charged musical corners. Employing his patent take on post-modern impressionism to a greater degree than he did in Finding Nemo, Newman gives a decidedly contemporary spin to the oft-cliched concept of children's music. His ...